Someone went through and uploaded versions of pics with just a photo of a pacifier added... The same pacifier lol

https://e621.net/posts/1550236
https://e621.net/posts/1550239
https://e621.net/posts/1550242

I wonder if they've edited more. This low effort edit using a photo surely is against some rule?

kaskae said:
Someone went through and uploaded versions of pics with just a photo of a pacifier added... The same pacifier lol

https://e621.net/posts/1550236
https://e621.net/posts/1550239
https://e621.net/posts/1550242

I wonder if they've edited more. This low effort edit using a photo surely is against some rule?

Normally it would be considered low quality edit, but in this case, it seems to be part of a meme event (according to comments in post #1550242)?

thegreatwolfgang said:
Normally it would be considered low quality edit, but in this case, it seems to be part of a meme event (according to comments in post #1550242)?

Is calling something a meme sufficient to overcome edit quality standards?

watsit said:
Is calling something a meme sufficient to overcome edit quality standards?

Reminds me of the old thing where people did a lazy copy and paste on top of SFW stuff to lewd it.
There was that funny thing with the table and food to hide what's going on underneath it. Table censorship. :facepalm:

watsit said:
Is calling something a meme sufficient to overcome edit quality standards?

Maybe? I can't think of a copy-paste meme off the top of my head, but stuff like googly_eyes edit or post #586200 seemed to be approved.

In addition, I would think that an artist's own official edit in response to a meme (judging by the sources) would have a higher standing over a random third-party edit made out of nowhere.

thegreatwolfgang said:
Maybe? I can't think of a copy-paste meme off the top of my head, but stuff like googly_eyes edit or post #586200 seemed to be approved.

In addition, I would think that an artist's own official edit in response to a meme (judging by the sources) would have a higher standing over a random third-party edit made out of nowhere.

Idk, all of the images where it applies are fairly old (7+ years). Opinions and standards change over time so I wouldn't necessarily say those are representative of current uploads.

thegreatwolfgang said:
In addition, I would think that an artist's own official edit in response to a meme (judging by the sources) would have a higher standing over a random third-party edit made out of nowhere.

I could understand a little leeway if it's the artist's own official alt (though the posts in question are tagged third-party_edit). The googly_eyes edits at least add a bit of comedy to a post, being a bit more transformative to make a result that's somewhat different in tone and style from the original, whereas these pacifier edits are just overlaying the same premade pacifier image on top of a character's mouth, without really changing anything beyond that.

regsmutt said:
Idk, all of the images where it applies are fairly old (7+ years). Opinions and standards change over time so I wouldn't necessarily say those are representative of current uploads.

And they could get at least a little creative with food choices and working it into the image, making it look like it's in the scene (though yes, many of them would still be of questionable quality). For the examples here, it's just the same pacifier image overlayed on the character's mouth with next to no effort.

regsmutt said:
Idk, all of the images where it applies are fairly old (7+ years). Opinions and standards change over time so I wouldn't necessarily say those are representative of current uploads.

And yet, the images that the OP is complaining about is also around 6 years old.

watsit said:
I could understand a little leeway if it's the artist's own official alt (though the posts in question are tagged third-party_edit). The googly_eyes edits at least add a bit of comedy to a post, being a bit more transformative to make a result that's somewhat different in tone and style from the original, whereas these pacifier edits are just overlaying the same premade pacifier image on top of a character's mouth, without really changing anything beyond that.

Probably mistags by the OP if they just added edit into the posts, which automatically gets changed to third-party_edit.
The original tagging does not mention any third-party edits and they all are sourced to the artist's twitter, so it is more like a (poorly-made) alt than an edit.

I'm not going to comment further on the quality controls of edits and the possible factors that play since there are more qualified staff that have more of a say in that matter.