@creamqueen @pwm I don't rice cars or do shit like that but I don't think comparing people who just compress their images differently is the same as doing shit that can actually damage your equipment. There's enough nuance to how people actually take a photo, as in what body and lens they use, what type of film or what gay filters they put on in photoshop, and you can say trends in how new people to the hobby approach things are ruining the experience for you, but I don't think webp is harming you in any way

Unless your photo editor still can't open them for some reason...

I there's way better examples of gatekeeping being good to stop shit other than... webp.

i do understand not liking shit because you can't use it, i do it with av1, I would love to have everything in av1 if i had hardware to encode it with and if the majority of devices could play it *looks at apple*