The photo you see above was taken during the Republican National Convention and went viral yesterday because haha, it's ironic that Republicans would put that banner under a national debt clock. However, it's not quite real. BuzzFeed has the scoop, but essentially, you're looking a picture that's gone through some serious Photoshopping. In other words, it's too good to be true. This isn't the first time a fake photo has gone viral on the Internet, and it certainly won't be the last. Let's take a look at some other classic examples, both old and new.
Not a mid-flight photo taken while Air France Flight 447 was crashing; it's a still from Lost. (Via)
Not a shark that's about to own that helicopter.
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Even though I’ve always known it was fake, for some reason that picture of the dude on the WTC with the plane photoshopped in always gives me chills.
People actually thought some of these were real?
The tsunami, dog, and fairy ones were laughably bad shoops, and I usually think nothing is a photoshop. lol