Potato-quality answer
The standard term in contemporary internet vernacular to describe low-quality images is:
Potato
Potato
It sounds absurd, and it is, intentionally (we live in a very sarcastic age🥔age), but this is the standard term on the web.
No, I'm not kidding
Per the Internet-slang dictionary:
potato quality
adjective
of a photo, poor quality. From a photo looking like it was taken with a potato.
Sorry for the potato quality photos of the birthday party.
See more words with the same meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing.
From the internet-trend documenting site KnowYourMeme's entry on the meme potato:
"Recorded with a Potato” is a phrase commonly found in YouTube comments criticizing the resolution of a video that appears heavily pixelated or blurry.
From Reddit, the gazed-navel of the internet, on the same subject:
It's ... a joke that their camera is so low tech, it's equivalent to a non technological item like a potato.
See also the B3ta website, where "potatoshop" or "potatochop" was often used for low quality image manipulations, often followed by someone exclaiming "Seamless!".
This was happening in at least 2003.
Google searches show it happening in like 2002.
The story behind it is that potatoes don't take very good photos.
Lifestyles of the rich and shameless
The usage is so widespread that this high-quality image of a potato🥔:
Credit to @Lawrence for finding this article
was bought by an Silicon-Valley internet-tech millionaire for over a million dollars. Ironically.
Welcome to the internet.
Welcome to the internet.
🥔🥔 Sorry for the potato-quality answer.Credit to @Lawrence for finding this article