@ED-SKaR  
’90s kid or not, JPG artifacts and VHS recording artifacts look completely different.  
Someone entirely unfamiliar with the latter should still be able to differentiate them.

@ED-SKaR  
VHS records directly from the source TV scan line signal (which is overscanned, like a photo that’s partly hidden behind the frame), softening and other errors would show up as the magnetic tape slowly corrupted itself (digital uses certain levels to signify 0/1 [on/off] or patterns like 00/01/10/11 [off/mid-low/mid-high/high], etc, while analog directly translates the strength to a value [no set number=color], so over time the particles on the tape would start affecting each other and be affected by the environment). The scan lines themselves are a continuous stream, which your TV cuts into the actual image (which is basically a series of those scan lines being sprayed out by the electron guns), which is why you sometimes had to sync the VCR’s output to the TV, or you’d get screen tearing. The edges of tube tv’s looked darker due to the screen curvature, as well as the light hitting those areas at an angle (think of it as being like having a light bulb behind the screen, of course directly looking at the light would be the strongest, while the edges wouldn’t be as bright).
 
I spent a lot of time in the 90’s setting up our family VHS to record shows when I’d have to sleep or go to school or work after school.

NEEDS MORE DIRTY VIDEO HEADS.

@FloydPinkerton  
Those soft edges are pretty much why I decided better not to crop perfectly close to the colors, I just reduced the screencap width to 4:3 instead.  
Allowed me to capture longer clip length despite all the background changes in the music video) without resorting to cropping the image itself or shrinking the resolution.  
Same deal that usually goes with my (newer) G1 pony clip uploads. :)

@FloydPinkerton
 
OH THAT
 
Yea, that’s because of the VHS medium, the edges of each screen-shot on the tape is exactly the same size as the sensor in the VHS player, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to have them line up perfectly.

@ED-SKaR  
That’s not what I mean. There are soft-edged black bars on the side of a 4:3 video image if you watch it on a 4:3 monitor with no overscan. Sometimes there are ones at the top and bottom too.

@FloydPinkerton
 
Well, your turtle one isn’t the same numbers, I was talking about Pinkierap(tm).
 
Your turtle one looks like it * might * be a 4:3 image on a 5:4 screen, but I could easily be wrong.

@FloydPinkerton
 
That’s just the 4:3 screen aspect ratio being used on a 16:9 screen.  
Pretty much everything uses 16:9 these days.

 
Here’s an example of what I described.

@ED-SKaR  
I like that there are soft black edges on either side in Pinkie’s video. I never noticed those things before I started making screen captures for my blog, but they’re in everything made more than about a dozen years ago.

The beautiful thing about the rap video:  
the quality was already so bad, it’s pretty hard to notice any gif or jpg specific quality issues! :D

VHS quality  
tagged jpeg
 
ONLY 90s KIDS REMEMBER THE 90s!
 
Y’all youngsters and yer fancy I-droids and why-tooth-fry
 
 
(Yes I know VHS predates the 90s)

@Mg127  
Thank you! Thought I was the only one.

Eh, more like VHS tape artifacts. Can’t really see it as JPEG artifacts.
 
…that probably makes me look like more of a nerd than I actually am.

This is not JPEG-isch, this is VHS/analog-TV style

@TheAntiCat  
And the video version.

Y’all forgot to post this.  

Now all we need is some Windows power point graphics for that authentic 1998 experience

JPG GIF BABY!

Jpg is an art that should be cherished and immortalized. :I
 
Also needs more comic sans…