Misordered Image Relay Grid

Based on the attached image, arrange {argument name="Grid" default="3×4"} versions in a {argument name="Number of Versions" default="12 versions"} grid. Depict this as if the image were passed in sequence to 12 different people, each of whom, seeing only what the previous person made, mistakenly assumed "this is probably this kind of thing" or "it's probably used for this purpose," and remade it into a different form. Have the first panel start out fairly close to the original in mood. From there, as the panels progress, gradually have the original image's shape, color, expression, pose, composition, motif, and mood be misunderstood, simplified, converted to a different purpose, and drift further and further from its original meaning and form. Make each panel look as if it were remade by a different person who saw only the previous panel and judged "this was probably meant to be this kind of request." Let it change naturally depending on the content of the original image — a person or character, a pet, food, a landscape, a building, a profile picture, etc. Don't fix the direction of change too precisely along the way. It's fine if one panel becomes an illustration, the next becomes a mascot, the next becomes a product, and further ones get misunderstood into other uses such as a signboard, a flyer, a stuffed toy, food packaging, a souvenir, a warning sign, a game character, a mysterious toy, a reference icon, or a handmade craft object. The direction of change should be something that naturally follows from the look of the original image and the previous panel. As the panels progress, make it feel like "you can tell someone was seriously trying to make this, but they're gradually getting more wrong about what the request actually was." Let the shape, proportions, eyes, mouth, outline, color placement, material feel, purpose, decoration, and composition drift bit by bit, becoming more unexpected and humorous the further along it goes. What matters is that this isn't simple image degradation or noise — it should look like the result of someone seeing the previous output, misinterpreting it, and remaking it for a different purpose, so that it keeps collapsing further and further. In the later panels, rather than erasing the original image's features completely, leave just one or two of the following unnaturally intact: color, outline, expression, hairstyle, clothing, accessories, pose, composition, or motif — while the other elements can be boldly omitted, distorted, misunderstood, or turned into something else entirely. For the 12th panel, make it just barely recognizable as the original to someone who already knows the source image, but bold enough that to someone seeing it for the first time it looks like a completely different mysterious entity, mysterious product, mysterious character, mysterious craft object, mysterious icon, or mysterious mascot. Make the ending land somewhere unexpected and a little funny, the kind of thing that makes you think "how did it end up like this?!" Make each panel look different from the others. Keep the background plain white, and arrange it as a 3×4 grid so the 12 stages of change are easy to see. Don't make the later panels too neatly tidy — instead, have each subsequent person's misunderstanding drift even further in a different direction from the last person's misunderstanding. For the 12th panel, change it boldly enough that only one feature of the original image remains strangely intact, while everything else has become almost a completely different thing.