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Buffer

The blurry cyan webcam of 2002

A photograph processed by the Buffer machine. The blurry cyan webcam of 2002.

A USB webcam from 2002, plugged into a beige tower, pointed at whoever you were talking to at night. Everything goes cyan, the blacks turn milky, and the image is genuinely recompressed down to visible blocks — not a texture pretending to be compression.

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Early digital
Availability
Included in Poptone Pro and in Founders Lifetime
What it does
  • Real JPEG recompression
  • Cyan cast, milky blacks
  • Blur then over-sharpen

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August 2026, on iPhone. Nothing to sign up for.