# Compression Crunch: motion graphics style

> A compression-artifact text effect: as quality drops, the word collapses into 8×8 blocks, ringing halos, smeared color and posterized gradients, then recovers. Captures the deep-fried web-image look for memes, internet culture and lo-fi edits.

- Category: [Analog Video & Glitch](https://aimotions.art/category/analog-video-glitch/)
- Also known as: compression artifacts, block artifacts, deep fried text, lossy compression glitch, low quality image effect, bitrate crunch, macroblocking
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Lively · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/compression-crunch/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/compression-crunch/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Show [TEXT] being crushed by heavy lossy image compression. Start with a crisp, glossy image: [TEXT] in a chunky rounded display face, white with a thick black outline and a hot pink drop shadow, over a smooth royal-blue to cyan gradient with a soft magenta glow, a pale yellow sun and thin white rings. A small dark quality slider at the bottom slides from 92 down to 3 in quick steps while a file-size readout shrinks; at each step the image re-compresses: an 8×8 block grid appears, letter edges ring with noisy halos, color smears into coarse blocks and gradients posterize into bands. Hold the crunchy look, then step the slider back up until the image is clean. Slow push-in throughout; loop every 8 seconds.
```

## Visual DNA

- Visible 8×8 block grid with flat or striped block interiors
- Ringing and mosquito noise around the hard letter edges
- Color smeared into coarse blocks while brightness stays sharper
- Smooth gradients collapsing into posterized bands
- Quality slider stepping down and back up with a file-size readout

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Compression Crunch, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/compression-crunch/