What about the happy accidents that redefine a style? Sure they started as flaws, but so did film grain and vinyl crackle. The value isn't in the original mistake, it's in how a generation borrowed that look to signal a specific warmth and nostalgia. Technical perfection is one goal, but the character of an era often comes from its imperfections. Calling them just errors misses how they've been deliberately reclaimed as an aesthetic language.

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