theres a chance that whoever took the photo just upscaled it with ai so that could be it.

I agree that some of the characters dont look exactly like what i said they are, but that is because they look like they were written by children

im fairly sure that this is literally AI though, the text next to 面 is just gibberish it says “エユ72エ” which translates to eyu72e, which means nothing

if i stick my tongue out i would probably consider that as licking air, so you would just have to be submerged in that gas for a long enough time to lick it