The top-placed entry showed that Twitter’s cropping algorithm favors faces that are “slim, young, of light or warm skin color and smooth skin texture, and with stereotypically feminine facial traits.”
Sorry but what cropping algorithm?
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2021
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The cropping algorithm used for thumbnail generation. If there is a face in the image it would/should have centered faces so that they are visible.