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So here’s the photo that was removed by mods today. This is Mel at the top of her cat tower that has a climb through bottom and she is holding on through the bottom and the top this photo was taken with an iPhone 16 Pro. It’s too bad. The mods do not recognize a real photo compared to AI #caturday
The left whiskers are there, the portrait mode filter thought they were part of the cat tree and applied massive levels of bokeh to blur them out