I have a piece I want to upload to the Pixpet gallery, however, it's been blocking me on the grounds that "Image Description must not exceed 500 characters". This much is clear, so I've tried to shave some characters off in favor of putting the rest I want to write in the replies of the gallery post. However even when my description comes out to be under 500 characters its still not letting me upload for the same reason (that my description is some how over 500 characters).

The specifics: When thrown into a word counter, my desired image description evaluates to be 493 characters, unless I or the word counter have got something wrong.

If it helps, here's the description I wanted to put on my post:


(Edit: I am following this thread, so no need to ping me if someone has a solution.)