Let's get this straight, the Internet is a f**ked up place. You never know what's real, or what's fake. Well, most of the time. Here we are posting 10 really popular photos that went viral almost instantly on the World Wide Web and yet they after being researched proved to be fake.
1) Hurricane over New York
This photo is utter shit. Weather patterns are one of the most favorite tools used by Photoshoppers because they can be applied to almost any photo. Well, lets talk about the size of those trees behin the Statue of Liberty? From where they have appeared in this photo? Huh?
2) The Hands of God
This picture claimed that a supernatural cloud formation appeared in the sky after a bad storm. The original image was actually pretty interesting, showing a round opening in the clouds, but the hands were added in later as a joke. It references an early gross-out Internet meme that shall not be named.
Moreover, this photo is really easy to make. You just have to darken the places in sky using a simple darken tool in any photo editor, to make ojects.
3) The Lost Temple of Lysistrata
First of all, Lysistrata wouldn't even have a temple. She was a character in a Greek comedy in which women withhold sex from their husbands because they're sick of the ongoing Peloponnesian War. Second of all, this photo is a mash-up of the Pantheon in Rome and Algar Seco in Portugal.
4) The Northern Lights
Well, we know that Northern Lights does exist but this image, as awesome as this is, you know this isn't what the northern lights look like. The image on the left is a composite of the Orion Nebula placed behind an image of mountains.
5) Fairy Pools, Scotland
Fair Pools, my ass. This image went really viral on the Web, and you can see why. I mean who has seen this big purple vegetation along a beautiful river. But this images is actually shot in Shotover River, New Zealand and is badly Photoshopped if you look closely at it, some of the purple color is also spread over stones.
6) The Bhutan Monastery
Here's another place that looks too amazing to be real...because it is. The rock formation is real, and is located in the Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve in China. The sculpture was added later.
7) Bad News For Stoners
After both Washington and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana last year, news spread far and wide on social media that the makers of Marlboro wanted to become the nation's first major weed brand. Do Big Tobacco companies like Philip Morris actually want to become Big Weed? No. No they don't.
The source for this particular fake image is a website called Abril Uno, one of those terribly unfunny Onion-wannabes with stories that ultimately gets passed around not because they're funny, but because they're somewhat plausible.
But the Marlboro-marijuana association is an extremely old meme. Similar images have been mocked up on everything from t-shirts to phone cases over the years, even though the cheery cancer-peddlers behind Marlboro have no intention of getting in on the wacky tobacky game.
1) Hurricane over New York
This photo is utter shit. Weather patterns are one of the most favorite tools used by Photoshoppers because they can be applied to almost any photo. Well, lets talk about the size of those trees behin the Statue of Liberty? From where they have appeared in this photo? Huh?
2) The Hands of God
This picture claimed that a supernatural cloud formation appeared in the sky after a bad storm. The original image was actually pretty interesting, showing a round opening in the clouds, but the hands were added in later as a joke. It references an early gross-out Internet meme that shall not be named.
Moreover, this photo is really easy to make. You just have to darken the places in sky using a simple darken tool in any photo editor, to make ojects.
3) The Lost Temple of Lysistrata
First of all, Lysistrata wouldn't even have a temple. She was a character in a Greek comedy in which women withhold sex from their husbands because they're sick of the ongoing Peloponnesian War. Second of all, this photo is a mash-up of the Pantheon in Rome and Algar Seco in Portugal.
4) The Northern Lights
Well, we know that Northern Lights does exist but this image, as awesome as this is, you know this isn't what the northern lights look like. The image on the left is a composite of the Orion Nebula placed behind an image of mountains.
5) Fairy Pools, Scotland
Fair Pools, my ass. This image went really viral on the Web, and you can see why. I mean who has seen this big purple vegetation along a beautiful river. But this images is actually shot in Shotover River, New Zealand and is badly Photoshopped if you look closely at it, some of the purple color is also spread over stones.
6) The Bhutan Monastery
Here's another place that looks too amazing to be real...because it is. The rock formation is real, and is located in the Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve in China. The sculpture was added later.
7) Bad News For Stoners
After both Washington and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana last year, news spread far and wide on social media that the makers of Marlboro wanted to become the nation's first major weed brand. Do Big Tobacco companies like Philip Morris actually want to become Big Weed? No. No they don't.
The source for this particular fake image is a website called Abril Uno, one of those terribly unfunny Onion-wannabes with stories that ultimately gets passed around not because they're funny, but because they're somewhat plausible.
But the Marlboro-marijuana association is an extremely old meme. Similar images have been mocked up on everything from t-shirts to phone cases over the years, even though the cheery cancer-peddlers behind Marlboro have no intention of getting in on the wacky tobacky game.
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