06-05-2011, 06:30 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:CNN: "Widely Distributed Death Photo of Osama Bin Laden is Fake"
3rd May 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05...ake.photo/
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"I have seen a great number of poorly Photoshopped images in my time as a photographer and I can tell by the pixels that it is a fake," said Kenna Lindsay, a New York-based photographer who works with composite images.
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This is a paraphrase of a 4chan meme. It is too close to be accidental or coincidental, it's a shout-out to Anonymous. The actual phrase, I don't remember verbatim, is more like "I have seen a great number of poorly photoshopped images in my time, and I can tell by the pixels that this is a fake." This meme was current years ago, probably sometime between 2003 and 2007. It could be from Something Awful or Encyclopedia Dramatica originally, but it was picked up and propagated on 4chan, although I don't know the backstory or full significance or what it referenced specifically and originally.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-looks-shopped