i think this is the concept of focused UI at play, mixed with a little NLP.

by removing images, it makes people focus on textual communication.

thus-

you are playing a familiar game by rote, text messaging. but .. with a lot of people on the internet.

so as thus it's semi ever so sort of kind of the feeling of being in a busy irc channel.

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is that part of the deisign ethos?

top of the morning to you both.