ok ignore the image, my brother calls me a foid as a joke and I said we're gonna get these matching shirts 😭

BUT how is the text on the shirt on the image I downloaded (this) but NOT on the thumbnail when I go to send it to my brother?

I haven't seen this happen to any other photo I've ever downloaded and I've uploaded a lot of shitposts on my phone (I have over 300 posts just on Lemmy)
the file said it was just a standard .jpg

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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

this is actually an original feature of jpeg.

back in the day of dialup internet you could embed a smaller thumbnail in the exif data of the jpeg that would load first, faster.

this would allow your website to be "populated" with content but at a lower quality while the full image continued to load in the background.

in the early internet these were even used sometimes to create single play "gifs" that were of a superior quality that gif just couldn't render.

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