To claim it as their own
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lime@feddit.nu 10 months agowhy would they trim it like that and then re-add the text???
underwire212@lemm.ee 10 months ago
lime@feddit.nu 10 months ago
but there’s no watermark and the text is obviously added afterwards
raod_guitar@feddit.org 10 months ago
They didn’t even care to remove the old speech bubble 💀
kamen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Someone probably wanted to post it somewhere where you can’t see the image in its full height (e.g. Instagram), but cropping it like that required the bubble to be redone.
Not excusable, of course, and disrespectful to the artist - I’m just trying to think of the reasoning.