No, I'm saying the Youtube encoder and decoder applies vaseline all over the image and you have no way of telling how much vaseline it has applied to what parts of the image.
But let me quote myself:
"But then, again, if you all want to discuss this based on Youtube footage, then I don't have a problem with this. I just agree with the criticisms that now an initial investigation has been done with Youtube footage, someone should get looking at lossless pictures."
Let's also quote TheRyuu again:
"Except it isn't, at least in the example of a side by side comparison such as the videos posted. I'd agree with that statement if it was two separate videos uploaded with the same content but the only difference was the video card used where the user was left to tab between them but even then this could only be used to suggest the possibility of an issue (which I'm fine with). With a side by side by side comparison you really don't have any idea what the encoder or rate control is going to do. There are also psychovisual behaviors in the encoder which make it not as predictable as it otherwise would be with similar but not identical content."
Also the merits of comparing Youtube encodes and JPEG images are completely different too are you going to tell me they're not?