A long long LOOOONG time ago I tried to screenshot a video in windows media player and the screenshot still changed when I moved or played the video. I often wonder if that was a fever dream or just some weird shit that was happening with really early tech. I remember being so mad because I just wanted a screenshot of a scene in the video and it wouldn't work lol
Not a fever dream, I remember this, too. You basically got a "transparent" image through which you could see the rendered live (or game, as it happened with those, too). As soon as you closed the video player/game, or saved and reloaded the image, the effect was gone and you were stuck with a... I think it was just a black image?
IIRC media players used to do something like a green screen where they draw a rectangle of a certain color and then a separate process would decode the video and display it over the colored rectangle. So taking a screenshot of the media player would capture the colored rectangle and it'd also be targeted by the video renderer.
This is real. I first was mad too, but than I copied it into paint, made some kind of clipart TV around it, and made it my desktop background. After that I could open VLC, move the window into the right spot and minimize it. This was soo cool.
It's crazy to think that oled indeed is paper thin, literally. I'm still wowed every time I disassemble an old screen from a device. It's like, "that's it? that thin piece of what looks like aluminium foil is the display? It's crazy thin even together with the front glass. And I still have that reaction even though I know how the technology works.
I have started feeling a bit empathetic with age towards these people, even if this was probably a troll but to the people who don't know how tech works it might as well be magic. Ignorance is bliss can also be applied here I guess.
Given that the tech they need to understand here is paper, empathy is hard and it's just frustrating. Computers, complicated. Paper, extremely uncomplicated. This is just refusal to use the noodle.