[eli_oat]

Noting that a myth can be enjoyed in and of itself, while a compressed file is really rather boring until it is uncompressed, I think you've hit on something I didn't think of at all. Thank you.

I'm wondering now if a more apt word would have been "encoding," rather than compression?

[coldtea]

Yes, encoding sounds more apt on this regard. Perhaps "lossy crowd-sourced encoding" would convey all aspects!