{"id":1621,"date":"2016-01-30T04:57:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/30\/facebook-and-instagram-are-creating-hidden-ascii-art-of-your-photos\/"},"modified":"2016-01-30T04:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:57:23","slug":"facebook-and-instagram-are-creating-hidden-ascii-art-of-your-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/30\/facebook-and-instagram-are-creating-hidden-ascii-art-of-your-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram are creating hidden ASCII art of your photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve ever uploaded a photo to Facebook or Instagram, chances are there are secret ASCII renderings of them out there, if you know where to look.<\/p>\n

Facebook has been creating ASCII art \u2014 that is, recreating your images out of text characters \u2014 out of your photos and anyone can find it. The feature was first spotted by Twitter user Mathias Bynens and has been confirmed by Mashable<\/em> and others<\/p>\n

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See also: This picture of Mark Zuckerberg’s wardrobe is hard to believe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The photo above, taken from Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram account, shows the original version<\/a> of the image he posted with Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom and the hidden ASCII version. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Facebook<\/a>, Social Media<\/a>, Tech<\/a>, Easter Egg<\/a>, and Apps Software<\/a>
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If you’ve ever uploaded a photo to Facebook or Instagram, chances are there are secret ASCII renderings of them out there, if you know where to look. Facebook has been creating ASCII art \u2014 that is, recreating your images out … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}