• Samsy
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    1 year ago

    I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.

    • LemmyFeed@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s because people keep taking screenshots of the image and sharing the screenshot instead of the original image file. It’s like making a copy of a copy of a copy until it looks like garbage.

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        1 year ago

        Stop right there criminal scum, you are not allow to publish original copyrighted works, you are stealing from the artist’s mouth by squandering his market value !

        So that’s why normal people screenshot.

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      because they get downloaded from say reddit and then reuploaded again a year later or so which since most sites/services compress files uploaded they get worse and worse quality