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nth_color said:

There are no issues with this comic art quality-wise, as far as I can see. Tapnek probably only first stumbled upon it shortly before uploading. Do pray tell, how are you realistically supposed to upload everything before it gets deleted?

This is the one of two copies I found on the internet. The other copy is another iFunny watermarked image with an additional subtitle on the bottom. As far as I can tell, the original Japanese version has been lost.

Fhtagn said:

Hello, I'm the one who flagged this post. No, I didn't expect the uploader to do that, and I figured waaay before I even flagged this that the artist has removed most of their works and that's very likely the reason why the uploader posted this last remaining, surviving version of this comic.

That being said, I still made the call to flag it for the reasons I stated above, as unfortunate as it is, and because I want to uphold this site's reputation of being a repository of high-quality anime-style art. I've heard Gelbooru is more lax about this kind of thing, so I figured that site would've been more suitable for hosting this kind of post (well chances are this post will get mirrored onto there anyway, so it doesn't really matter that much).

There are way better places to start with that than nigh-lost media.

And secondly, I hope to anyone who stumbles upon this post (and this comment of mine) that it motivates them to quickly upload content like this (the original version that is, one that hasn't been poorly typeset, compressed to hell and back, and slapped with some third-party watermark) onto Danbooru, for archival purposes, and to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

As nth color says, "just upload faster" isn't how any of this works. Why didn't you upload it before it got deleted?

FWIW, here is the list of all thus000's tweets that have been archived by the Waybackmachine.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/9c_10c/status*

The Fandom post was made on the 20th of May 2019, so by sorting the URLs by name, you can easily narrow down the time of a tweet.
In this case tweet 1129448051364335616 and anything before it. Only 9 Tweets fall in that period and they unfortunately do not have the original.

But there still are other Tweets that contain comic pages and some nice art like
https://web.archive.org/web/20211004080830/https://twitter.com/9c_10c/status/1003720411723362304
https://web.archive.org/web/20210824091847/https://twitter.com/9c_10c/status/1163290546791522304

I think in situations like this you could just edit out the watermark and ugly SOURCE text on the top. It's a degraded copy of a degraded copy anyway and the original has seemingly been lost, why not clean it up a little?

Gotta love how when you try to preserve lost content on here all you get is people spitting on your efforts.

Hereinafter said:

I think in situations like this you could just edit out the watermark and ugly SOURCE text on the top. It's a degraded copy of a degraded copy anyway and the original has seemingly been lost, why not clean it up a little?

Yeah sure just one more level of degradation won't hurt right