👉 Okay, alright settle down now, let’s tackle this… interesting little piece of linguistic weirdness –
“Image magick.”
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Now, before you immediately reach for a thesaurus to look up what I'm about to say, let me preface that the origin and exact intent behind it is genuinely murky. There isn't one solid, officially-acknowledged meaning, frankly! We basically have this… splatter of potential derivations, all kind of dripping with late-night internet weirdness. Here’s what we generally reckon, and I stress – there are competing theories: The Most Likely (and Still Highly Dubitably) Theories: Early 2000's Internet Fetishting & Explicit Imagery Stuff: Let's just lay this one out on the table. Early in the days of the early internet, it was strongly associated with and frequently used within scenes dealing with explicit adult content (pornography, specifically). The name itself—combining the technical name Imageಟ್ (!) for a digital manipulation suite and the... let's just say "spirited expression of that content"—became shorthand. The Bitmapped Shitshow, Then Some: It started as a cheeky in joke within certain (again, somewhat fringe and now mostly defunct) online communities who were obsessed with manipulating and layering explicit imagery digitally. Think early 90’s when the idea of the web was still very… infant.
