Not only are image posts less accessible, they’re much lower effort. This community was much better when it was just structured jokes as text posts. Now it’s getting posts with the less than pointless “rule” crap and it’s slowly becoming yet another s#%$post community and losing what made it special.
Then upvote the quality stuff and downvote the crappy stuff. The assumption that images are automatically low quality is specious to begin with - plenty of other commentors here have shown examples of good image posts.
And I, in another comment, showed how image posts could be rendered in text. I also wrote a much expanded opinion about the role of moderators vs. the community, too, but whatever. Because upvotes/downvotes don’t have much to do with the community or fitness. Surely you’ve noticed that things get upvoted that are in the wrong community all the time, in which case why even have communities?
Yes, but that doesn’t really address the assumption that text is better than images by default. IMO your example loses much of the punch that makes the image funny.