Their dumb counter argument was AVIF, for the same reason as webp which is reduced total size since they're a massive cloud provider and want to penny pinch costs wherever possible.
JPEG-XL also has a progressive loading algorithm that increases the quality as you download instead of classic vertical scan loading, which is sick but I don't think any browser actually bothered to implement it yet after the Google hit job.
Hopefully will see it in action soon.
Dawg Pakistan wasn't even able to arrest that many people in the past 2 years worth of protests against an army with actual firepower that has been working overtime to get people killed.
It even took Gaza a solid month to reach those numbers under constant bombing campaigns and a wall of IFVs.
Iran's internet has only been complete blackout for 4 days, so unless they decided to unload several war days worth of ammunition in a purge killing spree, this isn't possible. AP is reporting 2.7k.