Facebook is Making ASCII Art Out Of Your Photos
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Yes, that's right, Instagram and Facebook. The two Facebook owned companies seem to have an inbuilt code that means if you put .html or .txt after the .jpg of an image url then you'll see the ASCII version. There is some specifics you have to remember for this trick though which can make it kind of difficult. For one thing the url has to end in the .jpg tag. This means that the Instagram images work perfectly but Facebook not always. Personally I've tried them both and I cannot for the life of me get the Facebook images to work. I've tried every trick I can find from using a wide image, to making sure the image is public, to opening the image full screen and then copying the url and none of it has worked as they've all had extra code after the .jpg.
The other thing is that while you can easily find the image links on Facebook, even if they then don't work, it's not so easy on Instagram. To grab the actual image you may have to right click and click view page source or something along those lines. Then if you search .jpg you can scroll through the code until you find the actual image url.
If you add .html onto the image's url then you'll get a colour image like in this one from a celebrity's Instagram:
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Facebook is Making ASCII Art Out Of Your Photos
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