Fuck Hacker News.
The comment system here sucks camel's ass.
After 5 comments I couldn't post for -1.5- 3 hours.
That's fucking retarded.
And your fucking emotional downvote shit.
Worst fucking site for discussion ever.
I thought I could come back but after being involved in more free communities this site feels like a fucking prison where you get beaten and put in a quarantine cell for saying nigger or jew or fucking anything that might offend someone's fucking ass.
Most of text is 2D.
What is usually regarded as text is just a collection of simplified and arranged 2D symbols.
What is usually regarded as a picture is collection of unarranged non-simplified 2D symbols.
1D text would be more like morse code.
That's because pictures are a form of text.
If you didn't know what the hay, a starving black child or a vulture looked like it would just be modern art to you.
I think the person you are replying to meant symbols when he said "pictures".
People aren't copying the text but the symbols.
Even if the symbols were more picture-esque there wouldn't be information loss unless the symbols were too complex.
Alphabets are just symbols that have some sort of meaning to you. Alphabets in a row are text.
There are symbols that have no meaning to you but still are te xt such as Kanji or Korean alphabet for some people yet you consider them text.
Unicode has nothing to do with what is considered text. Humans have for millenia used pictures as symbols that are used for text, in egypt for example.