(Click on the pictures to see larger versions)
So this was a silly game that developed around the function of message (plurk) deletion. After a plurk was deleted, it would take a few minutes before it would leave the timeline (the field where all plurk messages appear) or until it could no longer be found or viewed. Until that time, a viewer could still click on it, but the message would read "this plurk seems to have been deleted." Any comments made on the plurk are replaced by this statement--however, the opening post can still be read for several minutes after the deletion (or until the page is refreshed, sometimes). This turned into a game of "catch-what-the-poster-said-first," as after the plurk fully disappeared from the timeline, the original poster would entirely deny its existing in the first place.
So how do you catch what isn't there? How do you prove the existence of something that no longer remains and leaves no proof of its existence behind?
You screen capture it.
One person deleted a plurk; another person took a screen capture of it, posted the picture in their own plurk, and then, soon after, deleted that plurk; then, if someone was wise enough to catch on, they'd have taken a screen capture of that plurk, and so the game would continue on, like a leapfrog of shadows, leaving no evidence (with the exception of these pictures) of it having ever happened, and even the pictures really, don't quite seem to capture the entirety of it.
