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What the hell did she do to her stearing wheel?
Why do we even need the background photo at all?
In 2026 people can't read 4 lines of text unless there's a nice distracting border around it to give their drifting attention spans something to ingest as a break partway through.
I'm sure this is a pithy joke (and carry on if so) but for anyone who wants the real answer...its an old algorithm thing.
Way back when, Facebook didnt like the influx of tumblr/reddit screenshots (aka The Federation Mom Says We Have At Home), nor did they like the spreading of information via digital flyers.
They suppressed images that were over a certain percentage text, and one way to get around it was to present the text as part of another image. Designers could get around this with art and such, but scrapers and many screenshotters kinda just use whatever.
Edit: in this case, it seems the creator went with the strategy of "smiling young white woman in car" which most algos smile favorably upon as opposed to say, a photo of the people the tweet is actually about.
Probably sun damage and hand sanitizer.
A mercedes takes that much sun damage in that short of a time? I live in northern Europe so I don't have much experience with sun damage. But that looks like a lack of cleaning to me
Excessive hand sanitizer, I'm guessing.
I was wondering the same thing. Some hand cream perhaps.
That piece on the back is a paddle shifter. You press it in with your fingertips to switch gears. (Sort of. It's not like a true manual.)
If you don't mean that, then idk what you're referring to.
I am aware that is a paddle shifter, I was talking about all that grime on the steering wheel.
It doesnt look lile grime to me, it looks like the topmost layer of leather (or the coating on it) has worn away with time, no doubt accellerated by hand sanitizer
That would be steering wheel. Staring at the steering wheel is not recommended while driving.