Why wouldn't it work?

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?
- I think it just remapped the memory of the video process, but I could be way off...
- Omg it wasn't a fever dream! 🥹
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.
- You've activated my hyperanalytical brain. I have to know exactly how that worked

You need to use OLED paper.

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.

For the youngins who weren't around back then Yahoo answers was just trolls trolling trolls.

It was closed down in the beginning of the Biden administration.
- Does Biden hate America so much we aren't even allowed to ASK QUESTIONS?!
  -Fox News.
It was memetastic!
- Lol I wont deny I had an account too.
I was slightly sad when they did away with it

I miss yahoo answers. I was using it so much during the end.

You need a 4D printer for that.

It prints strange doughnuts
- Try looking backwards at it, not forwards.

I feel it would be funny if it was a normal billard 8-ball.

Found an easy way to identify muggles.

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.
- You ever tried making these advanced origami? Paper can be complicated.

Obviously you're not a golfer.

I love that their username was "hello"

I think my earliest handle was "here2help"; I must have been like 13-14. Although, I was wicked tech savvy for a kid in the late 90's.