@structuregeek@mastodon.social
2026-04-01 08:41 UTC
It's actually even more pronounced with the English-language posters (or at least the Web-first "textless" ones TMDb forces as default). They are even more matched with the same photo dimensions and logotype placement, so the lack of cyan-magenta-yellow primaries is jarring in precisely the setting where TMDb-style posters are supposed to work best.
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@structuregeek@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 08:56
I've thought a lot about the ways TMDb-edited posters impact the way we perceive them ever since I randomly went mildly viral almost exactly seven years ago on Twitter with a screenshot of the two Blu-ray rips I'd just added to my Kodi server. (Something like 14 thousand people "liked" this after I posted it on my 24-follower Twitter account, and the algorithmic knock-on effects of Engagement ruined that platform for me.)