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It is because text can be copy-pasted and composed easily since browsers mostly allow selecting any text (this is more difficult in win apps).
Whereas images cannot be copy pasted as simple (mostly you have to find the URL and copy paste that) and images cannot be composed easily at all (you at least need some pic editor which often doesn't allow simple copy-paste).
This is the old problem that there is no graphical language. A problem that has evadad GUI designers since the beginning.
Um. In Firefox, right-click on the image, select Copy Image. Looks pretty simple to me. Pretty sure it works the same way in Chrome as well.
I think you're missing the point of images. Their advantage is precisely that they are holistic, a gestalt -- you're supposed to take them in whole and not decompose them into elements.
Sure, if you want to construct a sequential narrative out of symbols, images are the wrong medium.
And how do you insert it into a comment?
That may be true of some images but not all.