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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

I've never seen compression make an image look like that. I have seen lots of garbage upscaling/"enhancing" do exactly that. The blurry smoothing effect and full-on alterations are dead giveaways. Notice how his eyes fully go from blue to brown?