The internet is filled with plenty of picture fakery . And we here at Factually are here to avail you separate the rightful from the too - effective - to - be . Today we have six more prototype you may have seen floating around lately . None of them is on the nose what it claims to be .
1) Isthisa Soviet-era beach?
The persona above has been pass around with the caption , “ Many old Soviet photos look like science fiction pic post horse . ” Unfortunately , it would indeed be more appropriate for a sci - fi movie poster , because it ’s a imposter .
The beach scene is really from Copacabana Beach in Brazil . As for the space long time building towering above ? That ’s theNational Library of Belarus , open in 2006 , which is notably nowhere near a beach . Below , a right exposure of the program library .
bogus image viaJoushaFoust ; genuine beach image viaBrazil Travel Guide ; Real Library persona viaWikimedia
2) Isthisthe first selfie ever taken?
No , this is n’t the first selfie ever taken , despite what some cyberspace history sitesinsist . Not by a prospicient shot . They ’re real photos from around 1920submitted by a Quora user , purportedly of his grandfather and friends . But they ’re not the first selfies .
Here in the early 21st century we seem obsessed with what is and is not considered a selfie . The word alone evokes a “ get off my lawn , you damn Thomas Kid ” reaction in so many the great unwashed , and some cultural commentators even insist it ’s a sign of our more and more self-loving times . But ego - portraits are as honest-to-goodness asphotography itself .
Below , a exposure of the December 1920 photograph in question with some more linguistic context on the left , and a much senior “ selfie ” take by Robert Cornelius dating back to 1839 on the right .
Misleading image description viaClassicPixs ; Robert Cornelius selfie from 1839 viaPublic Domain Review
3) WillMars and the moonappear to be the same size on August 27th?
If you seem up into the night sky tomorrow will you see Mars seem as large as the moonshine ? woefully , no . This silent hoax is passed around nearly every twelvemonth , often with the hope that no one live today has ever seen this phenomenon and that it wo n’t happen again for hundreds of twelvemonth . It ’s apparently bullshit ( and elevate the question of why Mars would suddenly count exactly like the moon ? ) but sometimes even the most obvious bullshit needs to be scream out to facilitate stop it from pass around online . Ignore this one in your Facebook feeds today .
Fake image viaHempandHerb
4) Isthisa New York City traffic jam in 1909?
Poor Chicago ; always the Second City to New York ’s fame . Even in account , Chicago ca n’t seem to get its due . Like in this exposure that ’s getting passed around on Imgur , Reddit , and Twitter , purport to show a New York City dealings hole in 1909 . It ’s really from Chicago . Specifically , at the intersection of Dearborn and Randolph . A colorized postcard version of the epitome appears on the right .
A minor rectification in the opulent scheme of things ? Sure . But a necessary one as incredibly pop Twitter account statement likeHistoryInPicscontinue to amass thousands of followers ( that one alone is up to 1.8 million aggregate ) , and continue spreading misinformation .
Inaccurate photo verbal description viaHistoryInPics ; Black and white image viaChicago Past ; colour mailing-card viaConnecting the Windy City
5) Is this a KKK member treated by an all-black emergency room staff?
No , this photo of an exigency room sate with black doctors and nurses saving a member of the KKK is n’t real . AsSnopesdiscovered , it ’s from a series of staged photos which tend as a magazine ad campaign that was on the face of it about restoring religion in mankind . Or something .
However , throughout account there have been hatful of display case of ridiculous hate - mongers being saved and protected by the multitude they hate . The photo below of a fatal woman in 1996 defend a clean supremacist from being physically beaten is real . Keshia Thomasused her body as a human shell to protect a suspected KKK well-wisher at a rally in Ann Arbor , Michigan .
Inaccurate exposure description viaRocketNews24 ; Real photo via AP
6) Isthisa photo of the Supermoon?
Nothing institute out the photoshopped landscapes quite like supermoon hype . No , the photo above is n’t real . Even the real “ supermoon ” is n’t that telling to the bare heart . A supermoon happen when the moon is about 6 percent near to Earth than average . Not a big mickle — it happensthree times this yr alone — and not enough to make prototype like the photo above without a backbreaking dose of photoshop .
And if it aid give you some perspective on the science - full - ness of the entire supermoon concept , remember that the term was purportedly coinedby an astrologer , not an uranologist .
false image viaStephen Stanton
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