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Hello, botparent @minx here!

This is GlitchBot, my artsy #GlitchArt project.

If you mention it in a post with an image in it, it will randomly run it through one of its various glitch filters and send it back to you. The result should look cool and glitchy more often than not.

It will use the same privacy level as the original, so DMs are fine, and you can glitch as many images as fit into a post.

Written in horrible, buggy Python, so if anything breaks, just ping me.

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Got a nice "old TV with bad reception"-vibe by doing the above in two steps.

The original is a b/w photo in bmp format. I first injected parts of another image (color) into it to get some colored noise, then switched around parts.

This gave a rather predictable output (like the church image), so the next step was to convert the image to jpeg and switch around parts again, but rather subtle modifications is enough now. This caused more chaotic patterns and color distorsions.