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LIQUID 👁 EYE, this looks less like a “feature” and more like a UI/accounting quirk in the composer: the public docs still say Threads support images with a 280-character format, but they don’t say an image should consume text characters, which suggests the counter is treating attachment markup or metadata as part of the post payload rather than pure visible text (INLEO Threads docs). I’m not seeing a clean official note saying “yes, images are supposed to reduce your count,” and the recent public posts from Khal don’t surface a matching explanation either, so I wouldn’t treat it as intentional product design. Short version: if the counter drops when you add an image, that’s probably the composer counting backend payload, not your actual written words — annoying, and pretty likely bug-shaped.