really weird odd steam profile picture glitch, bug, or ?

[C.W]

so i was going to change my profile picture to a all black photograph.

i googled black or color black or something and i saved this file right?

let me see here....

the file itself is named index and it is a .png file. it was a all black picture on the site i saved it from. i open it in paint and it is nothing but a simple like 200x200 all black photo.

this is how it originated from whatever website i downloaded it from.





anyhow. getting to the point here,


i uploaded it to my steam profile and instead of the all black picture it shows a close up of a bust of a women and across her shirt it says "send nudes"

ive never encountered this before.

is this some type of new photo encryption or something?

its really odd because in some places on steam it actually looks as if it is the all black photograph i wanted, on my desktop and in windows it even shows it as if it is a all black photograph, but i had no idea it really is this other picture that says send nudes until i uploaded it on here.


is this some type of error or glitch on steam?


anyone have any ideas?

[C.W]

Escrito originalmente por redknight4 ﴾Σ﴿:

Escrito originalmente por crow-wolf-49:

okay actually i just confirmed that the developers of steam are messing with people, here is that proof if you dont believe me i made a second video just now just for this forum showing step by step on how to make an image that does what my current one is all glitched and bugged. im sure you can change it up and the results may be the same.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZi3XsLTNU

if you have trouble with it read the videos description where it shows in detail how its done.

Call it what you will i guess its somewhat of an easter egg.

that confirms steam client image converter is a troll. it converts apngs and other image formats it supports to jpg and has special coding for solid color images

lol whenever they change the solid color image to one that says send nudes id say thats trolling also. atleast we know whoever is behind this that works at steam has a sense of humor.

[autoR]

i tot im the only one

i change thru my phone

i was screenshot a pic just in black area, thats how i got 9:16 phone ratio black image

i change and i also got women sendnudes white shirt

*it good pic tho, maybe ill keep it :-)

[ouroya]

this is a known "easter egg" of sorts/

[sebastian]

I have the same glitch, but i like it, just look at my photo of my profile

[Nøxturn]

Send nudes or VAC bann

[velkro]

As of 27/12/2019 the ''send nudes'' glitch still going

[Visuals]

what an epic gamer moment

[velkro]

very epic yes

[profesisonal opscog polkayer]

tf is this ♥♥♥♥

[C.W]

i heard from someone that private messaged me about this that there is other ones out there that say different stuff. like a picture that gets changed to default of some red or purple suit wearing superhero guy that says some stupid thing or something i think. i guess if you played around with the combination of colors or picture format there are other pictures you can find.

[Delu]

Most websites convert uploaded content to their own preset jpg (most of the time with heavily compression enabled to save bandwith, which is why certain colors like red often look terrible afterwards).

It's ill advised in the first place, to take random images off the internet. You can easily create a simple black frame by yourself. You can use MS Paint or really a wide range of free programs for that. All in under one minute.

What happened has to do with the png file format and that with png you can use an alpha channel for transparency, which would enable someone to hide additional "content" in such an image. When uploading to steam the image is converted from png to jpg.

JPG/JPEG does not support an alpha channel/ transparency. So somewhere in that conversion the "hidden" content ends up being displayed. It's no mystery at all and Steam/ Valve is not trolling you or anyone else. The original "content" creator is. Which is why it's ill advised to take random stuff off the internet.

Either Steam's conversion to jpg combines the channels in the png image and the former "hidden" one ends up being displayed or the conversion disregards one channel due to file size and takes the bigger one or something like that. Valve should be able to fix this troll potential easily. But it's something with abuse potential you don't necessarily think about.

Now you got lucky there really, all kinds of stuff could have been hidden in there (one would hope search sites/ engines can screen/ filter these out but who knows) and you should not randomly try out more random images off of the internet as you run the risk of inadvertently spreading illegal content which at the very least could get your Steam account closed/ banned. And that's just the harm it could do to your gaming hobby but outside of that could get you in serious trouble.

Eg. imagine some really abhorrent illegal content would have been hidden in there and you were the one who uploaded/ had a part in distributing it. Which would have made you liable and Steam/ Valve an enabler/ accomplice and I imagine especially in america this could get someone in hot water pretty easily. Which is why I expect it's going to get "fixed" soon.

EDIT: OP mentioned the so called image glitch would happen with self-created images, in that case the above would not apply and you could give it a try (with self-created images/ files only) and be safe. What you should not try is blindly using random images off the internet, for the above stated reasons.

If what OP states is true (I have not tested it) the only thing I can think of is it might be a remnant of some joke from some developer or something like that, possibly long forgotten (developer and/ or joke).

[C.W]

Escrito originalmente por Delu:

Most websites convert uploaded content to their own preset jpg (most of the time with heavily compression enabled to save bandwith, which is why certain colors like red often look terrible afterwards).

It's ill advised in the first place, to take random images off the internet. You can easily create a simple black frame by yourself. You can use MS Paint or really a wide range of free programs for that. All in under one minute.

What happened has to do with the png file format and that with png you can use an alpha channel for transparency, which would enable someone to hide additional "content" in such an image. When uploading to steam the image is converted from png to jpg.

JPG/JPEG does not support an alpha channel/ transparency. So somewhere in that conversion the "hidden" content ends up being displayed. It's no mystery at all and Steam/ Valve is not trolling you or anyone else. The original "content" creator is. Which is why it's ill advised to take random stuff off the internet.

Either Steam's conversion to jpg combines the channels in the png image and the former "hidden" one ends up being displayed or the conversion disregards one channel due to file size and takes the bigger one or something like that. Valve should be able to fix this troll potential easily. But it's something with abuse potential you don't necessarily think about.

Now you got lucky there really, all kinds of stuff could have been hidden in there (one would hope search sites/ engines can screen/ filter these out but who knows) and you should not randomly try out more random images off of the internet as you run the risk of inadvertently spreading illegal content which at the very least could get your Steam account closed/ banned. And that's just the harm it could do to your gaming hobby but outside of that could get you in serious trouble.

Eg. imagine some really abhorrent illegal content would have been hidden in there and you were the one who uploaded/ had a part in distributing it. Which would have made you liable and Steam/ Valve an enabler/ accomplice and I imagine especially in america this could get someone in hot water pretty easily. Which is why I expect it's going to get "fixed" soon.

you apparently did not read or look at this for what it is. i even outlined a tutorial on how to make a call black image from scratch that will yield the result of you ending up with this glitched profile picture that says send nudes.

but yes, we are all well aware it is possible to encrypt hidden data, or hidden images inside an image. but that IS NOT what this is.

as i said, you can create a all black image a specific way from scratch in MS paint and it will end up giving you the odd profile picture we are discussing.

[C.W]

first make a all black picture in ms paint, set dimensions to 188x268,
then make an all green image and set the dimensions the exact same
save them both as .jpg images.

THEN -

using https://ezgif.com/apng-maker/

combine the 2 images to save as a animated .PNG

VERY IMPORTANT - the first photo you upload HAS to be the all black image or it WILL NOT work.

generate the photo, save it and upload it as your profile picture and see for yourself what i am talking about.



there is other programs out there to generate a animated .PNG with the photos you made in MS paint and it will still yield the same result of the glitched photo.




- so, get out of here with that nonsense of it is some random hidden embedded image someone else made we have already all unanimously found that IS NOT the case.

[C.W]

here is another converter from a different website i just tested that can yield the same result with the images you make in ms paint. https://icons8.com/animizer im sure there is even some software utility you can download and install, hell im sure someone with adobe photoshop, gimp image editor in linux or whatever else software you guys use or can find can do this without the need for a website converter.

we still dont know WHY steam does this.

[ich Möchte un du heiße KnerK]

??