Mistakes captured in low resolution are permanent. That awkward moment at a protest, the wrong turn into a private driveway, the misidentified package thief—all preserved in a grainy, lossy format. Because it’s low-res, it’s cheap to keep on a server forever. You can’t delete 720p; you just compress it again and pass it along.
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