@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
@celestiallavendar@icedoatmilk.coffee hm. they actually seem okay to me. I can't obviously tell a difference. but this is maybe because they are already fairly noisy, so a little bit of added noise is less noticeable?
what if you $[rainbow ] them? does that maybe make it way more obvious, in the same way mine is obvious when rainbowed?
also, the middle has a lot of detail. let's compare that. do something like $[scale.x=5,y=5 $[crop.top=40,bottom=40,left=40,right=40 : Dahlia-rainbow:]], and maybe x4 and rainbow it as well. let's compare just the middle. here's that transform on my emoji: 
@celestiallavendar@icedoatmilk.coffee
@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud Calling my emojis noisy smh 
Your clipout looks fine on my instance, I don't see any compression or noise on it at all at that scale.