This image is so old I had it on my mp3 player, when I was a kid. (Don’t ask why, we’ll both just cringe) He just has very thick legs, so he can do all the cool parkouring, I imagined him doing, while sitting in the backseat of my parents car, listening to Nightwish and Subway To Sally.
Judging by the amount of crustiness on this image I’m more tempted to say it’s a compression artifact. AI models don’t generally apply this much JPEG and I can’t think of a reason why someone would do so after the fact
That image is decades old, I recall it from my middle school years (right around 2000). When I saw it I recognised it immediately and another user also noted they recognise it so I don’t think we’re mistaken.
Maybe ai generated?
This image is so old I had it on my mp3 player, when I was a kid. (Don’t ask why, we’ll both just cringe) He just has very thick legs, so he can do all the cool parkouring, I imagined him doing, while sitting in the backseat of my parents car, listening to Nightwish and Subway To Sally.
…man, this post is bringing back some memories.
Here’s a source from 2004: https://www.deviantart.com/nimrais/art/Watching-You-7066378
Judging by the amount of crustiness on this image I’m more tempted to say it’s a compression artifact. AI models don’t generally apply this much JPEG and I can’t think of a reason why someone would do so after the fact
the text is compressed too.
i believe the base image is ai generated, then text is added on top, then it is lightly fried in jpeg for a nice crispy texture.
That image is decades old, I recall it from my middle school years (right around 2000). When I saw it I recognised it immediately and another user also noted they recognise it so I don’t think we’re mistaken.
Isn’t it funny how collectively we have become so used to ai pics already that we are seeing ai where ai could not be?
Late 90’s/early 2000’s were some crazy times! Wish I could do back and experience it all again!
nvm you might be right