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🍗 Cooked in oil 🖼️ Heavily edited
deep-fried

deep-fried

8.2
A picture or video edited to make colours and contrast look too strong
  • adjective
  • /dip-fraɪd/
  • Slang
translation icon : sobreprocesado
  • Many internet users love posting deep-fried memes for their over-the-top editing style.

Examples

  • Where are you now, my deep-fried princess?

    Fiction book (1999)

  • It was ugly but give me that deep fried Sprite.

  • It was ugly but give me that deep fried Sprite.

  • Was your deep-fried "boulder" of ice cream the size of a standard scoop?

    Blog text (15)

  • The meme featured a deep-fried image of a cat with exaggerated colors and distortion.

  • She shared a deep-fried video that made the characters look comically warped and garish.

Antonyms

natural
∞ 1.0

Not made or changed by people, coming from nature like sunlight

unfiltered
3 4.3

Not cleaned or changed and kept in a natural state

How Distorted

deep-fried
  • Slang
8.2
overdeveloped
  • Specialized
5.7
edited
1.6
original
∞ 2.8

Surface Forms

deep-fried positive

Morphology

deep-fried = deep-fry (semi-transparent) = deep + fry + ed

Built from 'deep-fry' + '-ed' but used metaphorically for image processing; the connection to cooking is analogical rather than literal.

Etymology

Deep-fried in internet slang borrows the cooking picture: the parts deep 'very fully' and fried 'cooked in hot oil' suggest something that has been 'overcooked'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a photo or meme that has been overcooked—too bright, noisy, and harsh—so 'deep-fried' means heavily and crudely edited.