20 People Caught Faking It On The Internet

The internet is a blessing and a curse. It's fun because it allows us to have access to information like never before, and staying in touch has never been easier. But, it is also bad for our self-esteem as a collective whole.

It seems that all we see are people who look better than we do, have nicer skin, are more fit, and wear clothes that always fit them perfectly. But that just isn't always the case. There is a lot of work and editing that goes into making people look perfect, and sometimes it backfires.

What A Pretty Sim Character

a girl who looks like she is from the SIMs
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Photo Credit: Reddit / evmolpia

She literally looks like she cut out a picture of a character from a video game and plopped it onto a street picture that she found by googling "pictures of New York."

This one didn't get by anyone.

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Is That Jacket Huge, Or Is His Head Just Small?

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a guy wearing a red jacket with a small head
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It could honestly be a bit of both.

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But what we have going on here is someone who tried to make those tassels look way more majestic than they are.

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The Perfect Blonde Has Been A Lie

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a picture of a girl with blonde hair has a filter on it
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I knew it! How many people do you see in the real world just walking around with that perfect gray blonde that everyone wants as their hair goals?

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We've been victims of a con!

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He Looks Like An Anime Character

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a guy posted a picture of himself from 2009 and a fake one for 2019
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Honestly, this is almost lazy. The arm doesn't even look like it's on the right way.

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He's like some evil Ken doll that got put together backward in the factory.

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It Could Have Been A Beautiful Picture

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a woman on the beach
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People who photoshop themselves seem to forget that when they try to take in their waist, the rest of the background moves with it.

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Therefore, you end up looking like you're getting sucked into a weird void.

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Shadows Never Lie

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a girl photoshopped the size of her body
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The shadows and her weirdly proportioned left foot. People, just try to embrace the body you have!

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Obviously, everyone else on the internet is faking it, too, so nothing is realistic!

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Because There Apparently Isn't Such A Thing As A Pregnant Model

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a woman photoshopped to look pregnant
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Oh, you need to take a picture of a woman in maternity swimwear?

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Better find a model and poorly photoshop her body instead of just hiring a woman who is pregnant.

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They Aren't Even Centered!

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a guy on the beach
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He looks like he just cut those out of a magazine and off-centeredly pasted them onto his body.

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Plus, does anyone else find that Champagne glass weirdly small in his hands?

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Basically Two Balloons Under Tights

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a girl photoshopped her butt
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Her butt doesn't even look like it's real. Like, how did she look at that and think, "Yeah, that looks totally plump and natural"?

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I'm sure she's got a great butt without the editing.

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Oh Yeah, That's Totally Natural

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a girl who heavily photoshops her pictures
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It doesn't even look like the same person. If you saw this picture on the internet and then met them in real life.

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There is no way you could convince me they are the same.

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Hotdog Fingers For The Win

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someone photoshopped their fingers
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Is this where we're at? We don't even want to have wrinkles on our knuckles anymore?

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That just means that they work and they move! Where is the shame in that?

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Surprise! Everyone Has Skin Texture

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someone photoshopping their skin
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No amount of skincare is ever going to change the fact that you have pores and that you sometimes get pimples.

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Skin has texture! It always has, and it always will.

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Is This Guy A Cartoon?

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a guy wearing a suit that looks like a cartoon
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That suit looks like it came off of the villain in a Nickelodeon movie, and he secretly hates kids and has probably got really greasy hair.

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Don't trust this guy for a second.

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She Looks Like Gollum

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someone with their eyes super photoshopped
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Apparently, if you were to call this woman out on her clearly photoshopped picture, she would tell you that you were wrong and block you on her Facebook.

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That is definitely what an innocent person would do.

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It's Not Just Women, Either

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a guy photoshopped his muscles
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Men have some equally frustrating and terrible beauty standards to try and live up to.

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They are not realistic and it's a bummer they feel they have to do this to their pics.

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Is This A Horror Film?

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two girls in a bar with super photoshopped skin
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They look like they would steal away your soul while you kiss them on the dance floor.

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Look at that tattoo! She is on Team Voldemort, there is no question about it.

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Those Are Some WHITE Teeth!

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a girl over whitened her teeth
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Everyone goes way too far with those whitening apps.

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Doesn't anyone know that this makes you look radioactive and there isn't anything attractive about looking fake at all? In any way?

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So It Isn't Just Me

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someone with clips on their clothes
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Of course, even the way people wear clothes on Instagram is fake.

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It makes me feel better about the fact that literally nothing seems to fit my body in any way.

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What Was The Point Of This?

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someone with very photoshopped earrings
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This is why you can't trust all the reviews you read for products online. You never know who may be faking it.

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Gotta hand it to this girl, though. She really went the extra mile.

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The Reflection Doesn't Lie

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woman really edited her body smaller but forgot to edit the reflection in the window behind her
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This woman's reflection really exposed just how much she changed her body for Instagram.

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Literally nobody ever needs to change their appearance this much, I hope she realized this and stops doing it.

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Just Cooking Up Some Water I See

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a woman photoshopped herself cooking
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Boiling water is an important skill to have, no doubt, but maybe not as important as learning how to photoshop something properly, which is something she must still be learning.

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Hint: check out the cabinets.

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What A Beautiful View

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someone photoshopped themselves into a hotel in Paris
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Why do people think that it's so easy to photoshop themselves in Paris?

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We all keep trying it and coming up looking we're standing in front of a green screen.

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Did She Think This Looks Natural?

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someone made their body look weird on a tennis court
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She kind of looks like a child's unflattering picture of herself.

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Like, if she was a mean babysitter and the children were trying to get their revenge on her so she never comes back.

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That Is One Pointy Chin

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a woman posing with her cat
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What is with this whole making your chin super pointy look that some girls seem to be going for?

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She looks like the bad guy in a children's movie that has some adult themes.

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Weird Flex, But Ok

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someone super photoshopped his muscles
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Sir, where did your neck go? Explaining this away with camera angles and whatever else people usually use as excuses is not going to fly this time.

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Be happy with the progress you're making on your own!

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They Don't Even Really Look Like People Anymore

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girls used filters that make themselves look like cartoons
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If they were trying to look like cartoons drawn on a teenager's notebook then they succeeded.

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But if they wanted to look sun-kissed and not frightening, they have some work to do.

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Bringing Back Those '90s Glamor Portraits

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someone used a filter that has little angles around it
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Why do people insist on giving themselves a fake tan so deep that they kind of look like burnt toast?

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It's not a good look for anyone, let alone someone surrounded by angels.

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Anyone Else Feel Like Crying Right Now?

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someone over photoshopped their eyes
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Girl, those eyes are WAY too big. And whatever is going on with her mouth isn't great either.

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She looks very scary and if she wanted to never have friends this is a good route.

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Legs For Days

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someone photoshopped their legs to be too long
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Photo Credit: Reddit / waymondwomano63
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At what point do you have to see that you're buying into something that isn't normal or healthy?

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Like, does anyone have legs that long? It just doesn't look right.

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Are Thigh Gaps Still In?

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a girl has a poorly photoshopped thigh gap
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It looks like she just took the eraser tool and erased right up the middle.

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This shouldn't be something that women are worried about! You're beautiful even if you don't have a thigh gap.

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Do You Really Look Like This Any Day?

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someone made photoshopped pictures of themselves with too many muscles
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Attractive is a lot of different things to different people.

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But I'm pretty sure that no one is into someone who looks like they're wearing someone else's body as a suit.

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Is He Holding That Right?

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someone photoshopped their muscles to look big while holding a violin
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Playing the violin is already impressive enough, why does he have to add one specific muscle that is also supposed to be impressive?

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Word to the wise, go big or go home doesn't apply to photoshopping your arms.

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That Totally Looks Real

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someone says they made puzzle pieces on their face
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This guy claims that he greyed out his face and then did the rest of it with makeup. However, there is no way that's true.

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Look at his hair and his blurry ear! There is a filter at work here, and maybe some photoshop.

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That Is One Tiny Head

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a person photoshopped their face on another person's body
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If you want to photoshop your head onto someone else's body, maybe make sure that the two are proportionate to one another?

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Just a thought to take with you on your journey.

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This Is What She Called A Carb Face

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someone made their face look totally wrinkle free
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And then after doing keto for 7 months and spending time in the sun, she miraculously looked like a whole different person.

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I'm not saying it isn't possible, I'm just suggesting it's not.

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Is That Zac Efron?

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someone trying to look like Zac Efron
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No, it's not, but I'm sure they certainly wish that they were.

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Or at least that's the kind of vibe I'm getting from this terrible photoshop job we have going on here.

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What A Lovely Tan

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someone with a terrible tan
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It might have been a bit nicer if it was a more natural and real looking tan that wasn't totally fake.

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But who are we to judge about this sort of thing?

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She's Really Sucking It In

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someone who photoshopped their stomach
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It's totally normal to have some stomach fat! Don't go thinking that you have to change the way you look to be attractive.

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We gotta try and be better than this, for everyone.

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She Looked Lovely Before

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someone forgot to photoshop their boobs equally
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Ilikeualottt
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We shouldn't worry so much about the ways our bodies look as long as we are healthy.

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If this has taught us anything, it's that nothing is as it seems on the internet!

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Girl, You're Beautiful Without The Photoshop

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someone overly photoshopped their stomach
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This woman has obviously photoshopped the bottom half of her body which looks ridiculous, more so than whatever it is she was trying to hide.

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She is beautiful without having to edit her body.

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She Looks Like A Character From The Sims

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woman looks completely different in tagged pictures than posted pictures
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To be fair, it sort of looks like her. However, it does look like the simulation version of herself if she was building her dream life on The Sims.

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Who remembers that game?

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I Can't Tell What's Real And What's Photoshopped

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jacked woman taking a selfie but has edited her face to look like a baby
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There's no question there's some trickery going on, but it's hard to tell exactly what she's photoshopped.

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Is it her face or is it her body? I'm at a loss.

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Background Characters Stealing The Show

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background character is all warped because of editing done to the photo
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She might have gotten away with it if it wasn't for the warped face of the person standing behind her.

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She looks like she knows she's going to be made a fool of.

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What Is Going On With Those Fingers

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hands look like Grinch fingers
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This girl has some Grinch fingers going on here. Did she think this looked normal or do you think that she just thought that we wouldn't notice?

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It's the internet, we notice everything.

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Who Needs A Nose Anyway?

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woman looks like she has no nose
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First off, she has like no skin texture which makes her look like she isn't real.

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But what really steals the show is the fact that in one picture she has a nose and in the other, it's almost completely gone.

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Those Highlights Are Something Else

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hair looks totally fake in a filter
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I always wonder when people post pictures like this if they know it looks like everything about it looks fake.

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Did she really think that blond was believable? It looks like she is glowing.

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What Is It About This Picture?

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couple sitting on a bench but it is totally fake
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It's hard to say what in this picture is photoshopped.

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Was the whole couple photoshopped onto this bench or did she photoshop her face onto someone else? Or, is it a mix of both?

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Look At That Sunset

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someone photoshopped a picture with the sun in front and behind
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The thing about the sun setting is...

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If you're going to fake a picture of yourself watching the sunset, make sure that it isn't in front of and behind you.

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Those Legs Are Longer Than Her Torso

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someone looks like they are standing on stilts
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She looks like she is walking on stilts! In fact, her whole body is kind of out of proportion like she's made of taffy or something like that.

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Cool picture otherwise, though.

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Jeepers Creepers, Those Peepers

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eyeballs looks totally fake
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Again, how can she look at this and think that this looks real?

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No one has eyes that take up that much of their face with that little skin texture.