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Lying motherfuckers (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago

Why is this even a thing? Are people taking screenshots and making them .png out of malice?

[-] JenIsBringingTheDrugs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My guess is image hosts that don't support transparency and uploaders not realizing (until after) and/or not bothering to delete it if they find out

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Google image search at least used to do this, it scrapes a PNG and turns in to a JPG to show in the search

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Insidious shit. That makes sense based on all the checkered jpgs I've downloaded from there

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