one of the worst things about tiktok
is that people don't take "pictures" any more
to represent themselves
it's all video, and then
when people want to represent themselves
as a static image
in the form of a moment,
single frames are extracted
from the compressed video.
but these p-frames are missing
all sorts of detail, plus on
top of the AI filters that eliminate
any semblance of texture,
you end up with a very artificial looking
representation of reality.
look at this specimens face,
there's no detail,
nothing.
people joke about "1999 webcam"
quality images of the past yet seem
utterly oblivious to how camera
quality nowadays is worse in many ways.

one of the worst things about tiktok
is that people don't take "pictures" any more
to represent themselves
it's all video, and then
when people want to represent themselves
as a static image
in the form of a moment,
single frames are extracted
from the compressed video.
but these p-frames are missing
all sorts of detail, plus on
top of the AI filters that eliminate
any semblance of texture,
you end up with a very artificial looking
representation of reality.
look at this specimens face,
there's no detail,
nothing.
people joke about "1999 webcam"
quality images of the past yet seem
utterly oblivious to how camera
quality nowadays is worse in many ways.