@kechmeifyoucan (i know that mentioning people doesnt work but i do it for the love of the game okay)
Im saying that the avatars ive uploaded here seem unusually compressed.
I upscaled it natively in aseprite. Id get the original upscaled file if i didnt already save over it to make the version with the gradient background but it is not the upscaling software (the image has no compression issues in the original file.)