🍗 To cook in oil 🖼️ To distort an image

to deep-fry

8.9

Change an image a lot by making its colours too bright and adding grainy noise

verb
/dip-fraɪ/

Slang

: editar en exceso

He deep-fried the photo until the colors and noise looked completely ridiculous.

Examples

Internet users often deep-fry memes to heighten their absurd, surreal humor.
During the livestream she started deep-frying audience screenshots for comedic effect.
Did you see that deep-fried meme?
She loves to deep-fry her photos for fun.
Many Instagram users deep-fry their pictures to create funny and distorted images that go viral.
He enjoys deep-frying memes, making them more vibrant and comically exaggerated.
After deep-frying the image, it became a hilarious depiction that everyone shared online.

Synonyms

to overegg the pudding

vsto deep-fry

9.9

To add too many details and ruin something

is a heavy image edit that exaggerates colors and artifacts to create distortion

Antonyms

natural

∞ 1.0

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

unfiltered

10 4.8

Shown or said openly without hiding anything

How Edited

to deep-fry

Slang

8.9

to overdevelop

Specialized

7.4

to photoshop

5 4.8

to edit

337 1.5

Surface Forms

deep-fry infinitive

deep-fried past

deep-fried past participle

deep-frying present participle

deep-fries third person singular

Morphology

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

A metaphorical compounding extending the cooking sense to intensive image processing; components hint at meaning but cultural knowledge is needed.

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the slang deep-fry is to think of an image being 'cooked' too much: deep ('very') and fry ('to cook') give the idea of editing a picture until the colors and brightness are exaggerated and the result looks extreme and funny.