Quality may not survive. Enthusiasm will.

Generation loss

Someone wished you a sweet day.
Save it and reupload it. Again.

THE ORIGINAL · untouched
Glittery pancakes. Goodmorning! HAVE A SWEET DAY.
YOUR COPY · enlarged for inspection
Glittery pancakes. Goodmorning! HAVE A SWEET DAY.

0 reuploads. Still pristine.

A bad resize. A worse JPEG. Repeat. Each copy inherits the damage of the last. All destruction happens here; nothing is uploaded.