I don't know if there's a named maxim for this phenomenon, but something I learned on Twitter is that everything you say can be interpreted in bad faith.

This can be done on purpose, or it just happens because there's not enough shared context to connect how you read something to what the other person was trying to say.

(Also, while a picture still says 1000 words, I've never had less faith in the veracity of those words.)

I've tried to be earnest on social media, for reasons like this. You see a photo of a guy with a typewriter, try to paint it in a good light for yourself.

I'm not sure how I would have reacted, but I had a short phase in college where I dredged up an old typewriter from a friend's garage and used it to type love letters to girls. So maybe I could have related a bit better!