is an animated gif an image?

why is an animated gif an image?

is an animated GIF, where each frame is a page of text, an image?

ok, well, is a JPEG of a page of text an image?

ok well, if you print out a JPEG of a page of text, surely that is still an image then?

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what if i take a Polaroid photograph of a page of text? is that an image?

ok, so. a photocopy of a page of text. surely that is an image?

neat, so if i scan a page of text and then print it out, surely that is an image too, right?

yall