this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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You can't see it because this is a photo from a book that was released back in like 2013 with a ton of various images that more better utilized the colors.
Example:

OP's image must have been stolen and reuploaded again and again and again to get us where we are today.
Not just that, there is a neat quiz that tries to predict where you are from, based on how you pronounce various words!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html
(I see that it is now behind a paywall... ๐)