Screenshot culture
The habit of taking screenshots of posts, messages, and stories to save, prove, or spread them — often outside their original platform and beyond the sender's control. The internet's memory: "nothing is really deleted".
Phenomenon: even with deletable posts, disappearing messages, and private accounts, anything can be captured in a screenshot and spread onward. "Receipts" (screenshots as evidence) are used to expose contradictions, document harassment, or start drama; a deleted tweet lives on as an image. Effects: it creates accountability (you can't quietly delete something away) but also privacy problems (private DMs leaked), context that gets lost, and forgeries (screenshots are easy to fake). That's why disappearing/view-once features are never watertight. A fundamental force in how information actually moves socially online. Related to disappearing messages and view once.