51 Internet Moments So Bizarre, Screenshots Were Basically Mandatory (New Pics)

Screenshots and screen grabs seem like common-sense functions. It’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t widely accessible.

And yet, the iPhone was the very first mobile phone to integrate this function, back in 2007. It took Android 4 years to follow suit, Vice reports.

Originally, screenshots were very simple and involved using a camera to take a photo of a screen. They were popular not just in the programming and science world, but were later also a way for video gamers to share their scores and achievements.

Eventually, the ‘print screen’ command appeared on computers in the 1990s, doing away with the need for a physical camera.

The internet and social media are essential parts of modern life. And their use is spreading.

Statista stresses that social media “consistently expands, advances and grows around the world.”

For instance, in 2024, social media reached a whopping 62% in terms of global reach, with most users in Northern and Western Europe, followed by Eastern Asia and Southern Europe.

By 2028, the world is expected to be home to a jaw-dropping 6.05 billion social media users.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, reported a whopping $133 billion in annual revenue, almost double that in 2018. In early 2024, Facebook reported more than 3 billion monthly active users.

Across various platforms, short-form videos have allowed some influencers and content creators to get billions of views. And yet, the competition is fierce. The majority of creators are nowhere near as successful as a super-minority of influencers.

For example, Statista reports that as of 2022, more than two-thirds of TikTok creators had between 1k and 10k followers, and fewer than 1% had over 1 million followers.

According to Statista, online video and entertainment are hugely popular among all generations. However, young people consume digital content much more widely than older generations.

Based on data from 2023, the average person worldwide spent more than 28 hours per month engaging with the YouTube mobile app. In South Korea, this number stood at 44.5 hours per month.

Music videos are an incredibly popular niche. They were the type of content that viewers spent the most time on back in 2023. Other popular video content includes news, sports, and video game live streams.

By the end of that year, online videos reached a whopping 92% of the global digital population.