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Checkmate said:
I think I heard you said in the channel: "the file is inferior to the original version of the file as it's been stripped of EXIF"

I won't go as far as saying it is inferior unless you give me a reason beside color profiling.
Stripping off the EXIF changes the MD5, which makes it harder to detect duplicates. There can also be useful stuff in the EXIF like the program the artist used to create the work, which some people may be interested in (and this isn't currently preserved in any form on Yande.re).

Personally, I consider it inferior mostly because it differs from the original for no good reason. If stripping the EXIF was beneficial in some way, for example making the file considerably smaller, I'd consider it an alternative to the original. A tradeoff makes sense to me. As it stands though, information is being irreversibly destroyed for no (remaining) apparent reason. The original has something the Yande.re version does not. No matter how small that thing is, it's missing.

Anyhow, colour profiling is a pretty good reason on its own.