this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Mildly Interesting

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The tone will shift 180 if the video next to it is a video about hitler with the thumbnail doing that salute πŸ’€

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Our first gold of the games is in a brand new Olympic event! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

[–] Deadful@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Looking at this, all I can hear is "WAZZAAAAP!" like in the Budweiser commercial.

[–] officerdwn@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I wonder if at this point a AI decides that the gesture is helping to get views and chooses the thumbnails accordingly

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are those AI generated? How do they both look so bad?

[–] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

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.