Looks like some weird artifact. The original author deleted all his original tweets back in October, so I can't find the original; but he did retweet Stephen King's quote tweet of someone else's tweet of a screenshot of his original tweet (wow I hate that sentence) and that screenshot doesn't have this artifact in it.

[–] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

This was in an old folder, no idea where it originated!

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It looks like a weird kerning issue between the e & the d, but it’s really odd that it’s only happening with those two letters.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've overlaid what I think is the original onto the image from this post: https://i.imgur.com/3WE6emI.png

They match up so exactly that I'm pretty convinced this has to have originally been the same image, just mangled by some sort of an uploader or something.

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for this. Super weird!