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
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.