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[–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I think the answer is that slop tends to make everything look well lit and soft like a portrait. So by association, portraits now look like slop.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah I guess that is actually what is happening... combined with... 99% of pictures people see these days are taken with phones or webcams, with different methods of doing color balancing, and different standards for lighting and color grading.

    Whereas it used to be, in the before days, in the last century... you'd probably most often see a person pictured in either a school photo, a mugshot, a portrait done for some other occasion, or basically a polaroid, which would be recognizabley differently exposed/styled (basically) from the rest.

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