Creepy Kinja glitch

"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv) 03/04/2020 at 23:58 • Filed to: None

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So... A while ago, I was pasting a photo into a post for Oppo. Normally, when I do this, I see two of that photo appear. But this time, only the first of the two photos that appeared was the photo I was actually trying to paste. The second and larger of the two was, I kid you not, a picture of Pennywise the clown sticking his head out of a tunnel. I have never seen “It”. I have never searched for anything relating to “It”. I don’t even like horror movies. I have no idea where this creepy photo came from, and it freaked me the heck out. I deleted both photos and attempted to paste it a second time, and the second time it worked properly with no scary clowns in sight. So far, this creepy glitch has only happened to me once. Is this an unusual occur rence? Does Kinja often do this if it has a problem with a photo? Should I be concerned? What happened?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:15

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Jim Spanfeller giving you “the sign”

Chariotoflove > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:16

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Oh shit. You got the clown? But it’s too soon. You haven’t been here that long.

I’m so  sorry. It was really starting to like you. 

PS9 > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:21

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R. I. P. 

CB > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:23

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I warned you to stay out of the basement.

son of a motherless goat (PSA: wash your hooves) > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:23

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I haven’t gotten the clown yet . For me it’s always Willem Dafoe. Shocking at first, yes, but oddly pleasant now.

facw > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:24

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I’m guessing it’s not kinja. It’s probably a defense against hot linking from the site you were loading the image from. Basically to keep people from “stealing” their bandwidth, they replace the desired image with the creepy clown when the site loading the image isn’t theirs, which presumably keeps people from doing that .

The double image thing happens (to me anyway), when I try to paste an image by copying the image. Apparently the clipboard stores the URL as well, and so when kinja pastes, it tries to put in both the copied image (which appears normally), and the image from the URL (which is probably where your clown came from).

To fix this and only get a single image, you can copy the image URL rather than the image (though this would probably still trigger the hot linking stuff), or you can copy the image into another app, like paint, and then copy from there and paste into kinja.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:25

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If you’re hurr y you have just enough time to call 2 people and tell them you love them.

I’m sorry it had to happen. Fortunately for you, you wont feel pain for very long. 

Chariotoflove > facw 03/05/2020 at 00:29

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Interesting. On my iPhone I always have to save the image to my photos and then upload to Kinja. Pasting the URL seldom works. 

facw > Chariotoflove 03/05/2020 at 00:33

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I’m basically only posting from Windows, and definitely on Windows+Chrome, doing Copy Image Address + Paste generally works the best, except for sites that don’t serve the image with an extension, as kinja doesn’t seem to know what to make of those.

Jim Spanfeller > facw 03/05/2020 at 00:36

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Hmm. That would make sense, but it’s weird that it pasted properly the second time.

Jim Spanfeller > Chariotoflove 03/05/2020 at 00:40

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I’ll keep this around just in case:

Chariotoflove > facw 03/05/2020 at 00:43

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See, I try that on mine, but just a string of HTML. Maybe I’ll figure it out someday. 

Jim Spanfeller > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 03/05/2020 at 00:45

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Jim Spanfeller > CB 03/05/2020 at 00:46

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Chariotoflove > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 00:50

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I do like your bravery. Reminds me of a sad story in the papers here a while back.

We had this serial mugger dressed as a clown. There was this guy that thought the clown was following him one night in a bad part of town. So he jumped the nearest fence into a yard that turned out to be where city animal control was keeping the pack of feral dogs they captured. They found his body there in the morning. The dogs had made a mess of him  

Cops said he’d been pennywise but pound foolish.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 01:53

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never struck it myself

AdverseMartyr > Chariotoflove 03/05/2020 at 06:48

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I...   I don’t know if I’m impressed by that or let down after the build up. Take the damn star at any rate.

facw > Jim Spanfeller 03/05/2020 at 06:55

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That’s because one of the images is copied from the correct image you see.

TheRealBicycleBuck > facw 03/05/2020 at 08:04

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This is why I usually use the Snipping Tool to grab the image I want to post. It avoids all of the URL nonsense and it also strips all personal information - name, GPS data, etc. - from the image. 

Chariotoflove > AdverseMartyr 03/05/2020 at 08:45

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Granted it’s not on the level of The Story of Nate. I do what I can. 

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Chariotoflove 03/05/2020 at 10:02

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