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>What does fake grain or “fake colors” have to do with phone pictures?
In both cases, fake grain is (preferentially) applied by the user/JPG engine to hide the ugly mushy details of X-Trans and smartphone sensors alike (you'll recall that VSCO for smartphones was massively popular until the advent of the digicam trend).
By "fake colors" I mean colors that are very obviously doctored to achieve a currently trendy, kitschy "look" that is based on some nebulous faux-nostalgic concept of what film (especially Kodachrome) supposedly used to look like. It's spiritually identical to being in 2014 and posting a picture with pic rel IG filter.
Please develop a transparent editing style that does not scream "I downloaded a shitfluencer recipe".