I used to practice this art actively.
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Oh I love the JPEG effect they’ve applied to the image, really makes it look like it’s been re-saved 10,000 times since 2003.
Are jpg’s still used today for most things? Or did they quietly die like mp3 did
It is, but it probably shouldn’t be any more. WebP has good support everywhere now and is slightly better than JPEG and PNG combined. (Better lossy compression than JPEG, plus transparency support, and better lossless compression than PNG). But even WebP is considered lame these days compared to the new crop.
E.g., JXL (JPEG XL) is much better WebP and is supported by everyone except Google (which is ironic since Google helped create it). Google seems to want AVIF to be the winner for the new image format, but not many others do.
Anyway, until the Google JXL AVIF hissy fit is dealt with, at least we’ve still got WebP. It’s not super great, but it’s at least better than JPEG and PNG. A lot of web developers are stuck in their old JPEG PNG mindset and are being slow to adapt, so JPEG is still hanging around.
The other results had iFunny and 9GAG watermarks on them and/or were even more deepfried with compression.
But somehow, the JPEG artifacts give this one a nice cozy feel. Seeing this ancient meme again was like meeting an old friend.
Hello JPEG, my old friend
I’ve come to post you again
Because a vision softly blurring
Left its compression while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains within the artifacts of JPEG
In restless dreams I browsed alone
Narrow memes of low quality
'Neath the halo of a monitor
I turned my eyes to the blurry screen
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a pixel light
That split the night
And touched the artifacts of JPEG
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand memes, maybe more
People reposting without sharing
People uploading without caring
People posting things that eyes once saw
And no one dared
Disturb the artifacts of JPEG
“Fools”, said I, “You do not know
JPEG like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my files that I might reach you”
But my words, like silent raindrops, fell
And echoed in the blur of JPEG
And the people bowed and prayed
To the JPEG god they made
And the website flashed out its repost
In the words that it was compressing
And the website said, “The answer to your query
Is lost in the data
And it’s all in the artifacts of JPEG”
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This is older than Internet Explorer
90s Uncle Goliath? 🤣
That’s pretty good for a week of practice. Almost too good.
Aside from the giant one. If you kept the camera on a tripod it’s just a case of taking pictures in all the different places. Then in photoshop nothing more complex than loading each image as it’s own layer and then masking them to keep yourself but not too much off the background. The background would be the bottom layer with nothing in shot.
All the pictures can be taken in a single afternoon. Overlaying all the pictures and then removing the appropriate parts with an erasor tool takes less than an hour. The most challenging part is the big giant one I the background, as that requires time to make a neat cut-out with a selection tool.
Overall, this would still take… Less than a day to do, if you got a decent tripod.
