Imperfect Bliss - JPEG quality experiment

Shot from a series of experiments on digital compression and glitches, involving the "Most-Viewed Photo of All Time", the well-known Windows XP desktop picture "Bliss" by Charles O'Rear.
In this particular experiment, I repeatedly saved the picture as lowest-quality JPEG, decreasing its pixel size every time. The resulting artifacts are evident.

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