How do Facebook text images even end up like this?

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root of all eval: Dec 28, 2002

I've worked with image software for years and no amount of compression, cropping, saving and recompression has ever produced anything even remotely similar. It looks like someone scanned in an old fax that had been refaxed a billion times. It just defies everything I think I know about image compression algorithms. I see text based images like this 10 times a day and I'm at my wits end trying to figure it out.

Someone please explain to me, this bullshit right here:

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Woof Blitzer: Dec 29, 2012; [-]

I did it. All me.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 21:44

Thin Privilege: Jul 8, 2009; IM A STUPID MORON WITH AN UGLY FACE AND A BIG BUTT AND MY BUTT SMELLS AND I LIKE TO KISS MY OWN BUTT; Gravy Boat 2k

You'd need a few different layers, lovely emboss, masks, sharpen a poo poo ton, save, enlarge/make smaller a few times, resave as 0 quality a few times... Maybe throw in a IRL crappy photocopy layer for that final touch. :shrug:

# ? Feb 15, 2016 22:49

Darth Freddy: Feb 6, 2007; An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage.

I have seen people take screen shots off of phones also people use phones or cameras to take a picture of the screen.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 23:59

FilthyImp: Sep 30, 2002; Anime Deviant

BossRighteous posted:

. It looks like someone scanned in an old fax that had been refaxed a billion times.

If it's what I think it is (digital degradation/cyber rot/whatever term they're using), then the image is pretty much exactly a result of what you said there.

See a post you like, screenshot it, upload it, someone else screenshots/saves and uploads to somewhere, etc etc.

Eventually the cycle of Save > Upload > Save magnifies whatever imperfections are in the image.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 06:21

Doghouse: Oct 22, 2004; I was playing Harvest Moon 64 with this kid who lived on my street and my cows were not doing well and I got so raged up and frustrated that my eyes welled up with tears and my friend was like are you crying dude. Are you crying because of the cows. I didn't understand the feeding mechanic.

Yeah taco bell is pretty good

# ? Feb 16, 2016 14:55

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

when text looks like that it means that there is a secondary message just for reptilians.

in this case, for example, the secondary message is a subtle alteration to the initial message indicating that the reader, if they are located within a particular geographic area, is to go to a specific taco bell at a particular time in order to receive further instructions from Roy Wood Jr, who is a local section leader.

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Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

sponsored content loving sucks

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peanut: Sep 9, 2007

Phone picture of computer screen saved to a haunted sd card.

# ? Feb 17, 2016 14:02

Doghouse: Oct 22, 2004; I was playing Harvest Moon 64 with this kid who lived on my street and my cows were not doing well and I got so raged up and frustrated that my eyes welled up with tears and my friend was like are you crying dude. Are you crying because of the cows. I didn't understand the feeding mechanic.

Op why do you care about some scan of some guy talking about taco bell on Facebook

# ? Feb 17, 2016 14:54

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

that guy is right.

# ? Feb 19, 2016 01:38

logical phalluses: Mar 18, 2009; The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks
curiously on the corpse.

read this: http://www.theawl.com/2014/12/the-triumphant-rise-of-the-shitpic

# ? Feb 19, 2016 02:35

Stinky_Pete: Aug 16, 2015; Stinkier than your average bear; Lipstick Apathy

I think Facebook just always runs a low-pass filter whenever you upload, whereas saving to jpg format is essentially a nilpotent operation (e.g. if it's already jpg compressed then saving as jpg with the same compression causes no change), which explains why you can't reproduce the effect.

# ? Feb 19, 2016 18:04

Antifreeze Head: Jun 6, 2005; It begins; Pillbug

It's like a digital age Mimeograph copy.

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root of all eval: Dec 28, 2002

logical phalluses posted:

read this: http://www.theawl.com/2014/12/the-triumphant-rise-of-the-shitpic

Stinky_Pete posted:

I think Facebook just always runs a low-pass filter whenever you upload, whereas saving to jpg format is essentially a nilpotent operation (e.g. if it's already jpg compressed then saving as jpg with the same compression causes no change), which explains why you can't reproduce the effect.

These are good, thank you.

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