Q128 - the graphic

anyone remember any early digs on the file structure and possible steganography inside the original Q128 graphic file?

JFIF

)$+*($-2@7-0=08L9=CEHIH+6OUNFT@GHE

!E.'.EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

and while its probably just QAlerts saving money on hosting, the image file there has been replaced with something about half the size (and missing the weird JPEG header above)

https://qagg.news/?q=&q2=128

https://qalerts.pub/?q=%23128