I'd like to see what happens when the red channel is blurred. Digital images like JPGs seem to blur the red channel more than the blue and green channels.
JPEG transforms the color into YUV channels. Y is the luminance, equal to R+G+B or something like that. The U&V channels (color) are often downsampled.
Y is basically "mostly green, a bit of red and hardly any blue" rather than a flat R+G+B. So blurring the green channel (as TFA does) is nearly equivalent to blurring the Y channel.