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Proof demanded by a culture that trusts nothing it can't screenshot.
means A photograph — usually a quick, casual one, shared rather than framed.
from Simply a clipped form of 'picture,' which traces back through Old French to the Latin 'pictura' (a painting), from 'pingere,' to paint. The clipping 'pic' shows up in print in the 20th century, first favored by newspaper and film-industry slang ('pics' for movies or photos) before camera phones and texting gave it a second life as the lazy, speedy word for an image you fire off rather than frame.
- origin
- Clipped from picture, lazy by design since the 1880s
- internet law
- pics or it didn't happen
- irony
- easiest thing to fake, hardest thing to doubt
- usage tell
- one syllable, zero patience