Problem-based person

I’ve seen this GIF thousands of time on 4chan since it was used to bump a thread. Years later I watched Trailer Park Boys and my mind exploded when I saw this scene; never connected the dots until then. It’s just a silly throwaway gag with a supporting character and yet I have it ingrained in my mind as a attention-calling device for a specific internet subculture.

As a rule of thumb, yes. Then you have purists who only listen to ripped vinyl records in 24 bits, 192kHz WAV format or people who don’t give a fuck about quality and live happily with millions of 128kbps MP3s.

Relevant XKCD

The JPEG compression helps to hide it, but there’s a clear inconsistency in pixel size and some gradient shading on the frog’s neck and the flowers. You would never see that stuff in handmade pixel art.

Pixel art AI slop, the worst of all AI slops.