The tone will shift 180 if the video next to it is a video about hitler with the thumbnail doing that salute π
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Our first gold of the games is in a brand new Olympic event! ππ
Looking at this, all I can hear is "WAZZAAAAP!" like in the Budweiser commercial.
I wonder if at this point a AI decides that the gesture is helping to get views and chooses the thumbnails accordingly
Are those AI generated? How do they both look so bad?
It's a photo of their TV screen, phone cameras like to denoise images and sharpen edges and a picture of a noisy TV screen is the perfect candidate for smearing the shit out of an image.
Plus, most TVs now by default enable horrific postprocessing like sharpening and motion interpolation, which makes everything look like total shit even in still frames.