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For the why, I was just speculating. But for the what, it's instantly obvious to everyone. When ALCOHOL gets cropped to )L, it's abundantly clear the image has been heavily edited.
Oooor someone took a picture of the physical sign in the real world and focused on the images in the middle without including all of the text. Because other wise the images would be to small to see.
I have no reason to believe anything was croped to deliberately remove anything.
I genuinely think there's no other reason to do it. Like, if I show you a picture of my grandmother, but I cropped half of her face off, how would that not be your first comment!?
If i knew you cropped it I would ask you why you cropped out half your grandma. If you showed me a picture of half your grandma I would ask you why you are so bad at taking pictures. If you showed me a picture of a giant sign and pointed to a funny thing that is to tiny to see and you have to zoom in really far to see it, I would also ask you why you didn't take a better picture.
You have no indication anything was cropped. You just assume it was.
Have you seen people take pictures of documents? 90% of people take it at an angle instead of straight down. People are bad at taking pictures! The person who took the picture in the meme probably didnt even read the text on the left. They saw a picture of a hockey stick, thought "lol", pulled out their phone, pointed it at the hockey stick and pressed the shutter button. That's it. End of the story. Nobody cropped anything, nobody chose to omit anything.
Occam's razor. Why would you take a screenshot or picture of something, but crop part of the thing you want to post about out? It makes no sense...