JPEG artifact humor

B3ta user Limpfish's "Lossie" graphic is great JPEG artifact humor -- and other B3tans took up the challenge with similarly altered movie posters.

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http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

Dead link sorry guys.
Warren_Terra

As Itsumishi noted, the link is messed up; this is apparently the correct one.

While I’m picking nits, there’s a word missing after “similarly”.
- dagfooyo
  
  I noticed that too. Cory accidentally a whole word.
justaddh3o

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Mark Dow

You say there’s someone fallen in the minecraft Lossie?
dagfooyo

I’d love to see a video verson of this. I imagine Lossie’s bark would sound like an 11 kbps mp3.
Cornan_KotW

This is glorious. Thanks for the laugh.
http://twitter.com/CrnDffy CiaranD uffy

haha, I love ‘Alias’
jeris manning

I made one for this comment section!
Tony

I’m sorry, but I don’t get it. What/who is Lossie? Why is this funny?
- http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
  
  I’m sorry, but I don’t get it. What/who is Lossie? Why is this funny?
  
  Lassie is a well-known canine hero of films and TV.
  
  JPEG is a lossy (ie, some data is sacrificed for smaller size) image-compression method.
  
  The image of Lassie has been isolated and modified using a lossy-compression technique, hence, “Lossie.”
  
  What a degrading experience.
  - Tony
    
    Ah, I see. I know who/what Lassie is, I was just confused on the Lossie-thing. Thank you for the identification and explanation of the lossy-compression technique.
http://illustratorhints.com/ Jesseham

This one’s for the people who spell loser “looser”. I dub thee “losser”.