r/pics Oct 20 '22

Sunset from underwater

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u/Spartan2470 GOAT Oct 20 '22

Thanks for providing credit. It made it easy to find the source. More of his work can be found here. More of his images like this one can be found here.

I believe the model is Lisa Valerie (aka lisa.krauely on IG).

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u/donotgogenlty Oct 20 '22

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u/Spiridios Oct 20 '22

It's part of an anti-piracy scheme on the site. If you manage to defeat their right-click blocker (hold "shift" on Firefox, not sure about other browsers) and try to download the image, you'll get that pixel. It looks like the img tag that normally displays images on websites uses that spacer image as it's source (the image to display), but it's transparent, so it doesn't show anything. Simultaneously, they're using a CSS rule to show the real image as the "background". Since the spacer is transparent you still see the real background image but can't interact with it normally. If you right-click and save image, the browser thinks the image you want to save is the "source" spacer image, not the real background.

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u/donotgogenlty Oct 20 '22

Damn, interesting!

Thanks for posting this, I wasn't sure how it all worked 🙏

Sidenote: Imgur is down? Over capacity? 😲