Here's the thing about red in photos and the internet. The way JPEG compression works is particularly brutal with the color red. I'm honestly not sure why that is technically speaking, some people say it has to do with the method of chroma sub sampling, and some people insist it's not the compression but the way the human eye is perceiving it. Either way red object compress like shit. Can be a real pain in the ass sometimes.

The higher the compression (and thus the smaller the file) the worse that's gonna look.

For understandable reasons Robin keeps the compression on Pinside turned up on the high side, keeps the bandwidth of the images served from here down. It's particularly bad on the smaller previews embedded in posts, you'll generally see improvement from clicking an image to view it larger.

So as much as it's amusing to watch phishrace put his foot in his mouth again he's probably just reacting to the compression artifacts in the red, making the color look badly retouched. Particularly if he was relying on the embedded previews.

So word the the wise, when viewing BSD cabs online, watch out for that, red is just a bitch of a color that way.