Today ’s forecast calls for viral with a 100 percentage chance of fake . And scattered nudeness by twelve noon .
Is that a real cellphone explode in the microwave oven ? Is that really JFK consist lifeless after being assassinated ? Is that a womanhood thumb naked at Woodstock ? No , no , and no . Today we have a mildly not - safe - for - employment version of our regular repudiation series .
You may have understand these images floating around Facebook , Twitter or Pinterest lately . But do n’t be fooled . They ’re all lying to you .
1) Isthisa hitchhiker from Woodstock in 1969?
grant toHistoryInPicsand your aunt ’s Pinterest board of hippie nostalgia , the photograph on the left shows a woman at Woodstock hitchhiking . Except that it ’s not . The photo was staged for an ad military campaign in 1971 .
The naked hitchhiker ad was one of many in a campaign for Landlubber Clothing Company featuring people get into nothing but their natal day suits . More advertizing featuring a womanhood on a bike and a man at a desk seem below . seemingly the thought was that if these people could n’t find Landlubber clothes , they did n’t desire to break anything at all .
Inaccurate photo description viaHistoryInPics ; Ad in the November 1971 issue of National Lampoon magazine viaFlickr ; Ad with womanhood on bike viaImgur
2) Isthisa photo of JFK after he’d been shot?
Nope . It ’s areenactmentthat was filmed for the 1977 TV movieThe Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald . There was no photographer vacillate over the railway car immediately after JFK was shot . think me , Oliver Stone would ’ve been all over those photos .
bogus exposure verbal description viaHistoricalPics
3) IsthisBarack Obama in 2009 and 2014?
The presidency sure enough ages most people . But this photo from the HistoricalPics Twitter accounting is n’t quite dependable . The photo on the left which purports to be from 2009 is actuallyfrom 2005 . That means that the difference between the two flick is closer to nine years , rather than five . I can tell you I look a slew different in photos from nine years ago , and I do n’t even start the country .
The weird thing : If you practice a exposure that ’s in reality from 2009 it has a similar effect , if slightly less drastic . Below on the left hand , a pic of Obama shortly before becoming president in January 2009 . On the right , the President last workweek . The downcast face on his brass certainly does n’t facilitate him look any young .
imitation picture verbal description fromHistoricalPics ; Bottom photos via Getty
4) Isthisthe Christmas Truce of WWI with German and British troops playing football together?
AsPicPedantpoints out , the picture actually just showsBritish military personnel in Salonika , Greece in 1915playing football game — make out by Americans as “ racquetball ” if I ’m not misguided . There are no Germans in view .
And it ’s in spades not the Christmas truce of 1914 where a handful of British and German troops emerged from their trenches to meet , exchange present , and yes , evenplay a little association football .
Inaccurate image description viaHistoryInPics
5) Isthisreally what happens when you put a cell phone in the microwave?
Nope . This is in reality anold viral video from 2008that just wo n’t go . It was created by a prepaid wireless companionship calledNet 10 .
Their viral campaign was hosted onNo-Evil.netand was meant to illustrate how terrible the competing phone troupe were by forcing you to stick with contract . Notice how the bubbling cellphone turns into what bet like a demon ? That ’s no accident . It ’s all computing machine generated imagination .
simulated gif viaLearn_Things
6) Arethesetwo happy owls?
deplorably those are n’t two happy owlets . They ’re brooches , as mark by the bird of Jove - eyedPicPedant . They were made by aRussian crafterout of wool , plastic , and field glass .
Adorable , sure . But not real bird of night . Unless the clench below are simply an owl trait that I ’m unfamiliar with . You never know .
Fake photo viaEARTHPlCS
7) Isthisa Woodstock poster from 1969?
We begin with some Woodstock fakery so we may as well end with some Woodstock fakery . Is that Woodstock card you ’ve learn circulating the Real McCoy ? lamentably , no . It ’s a modern mean solar day fake .
The fonts on the poster on the left are simply too mod . And they ’ve even spell Joan Baez ’s name incorrectly ! If you ’re going to do a fake at least make an attempt to use face that forego the 1980s .
Fake image viaClassicPixs
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