People Before Photoshop Fake Photo Meme

This is a two-panel sarcastic humor meme. The top text contains a typo, reading 'phtoshop was invented in 1987 people before photoshop:'. The upper panel appears to show a person in the stands of a crowded sports stadium holding up a smartphone to take a photo of the event, with the word 'sarcasm' overlaid on the hand holding the phone. The lower panel reveals the joke: the people are actually indoors in a room, holding their phones up to a computer monitor that displays the stadium footage. One person holds a small desk lamp up near the screen to mimic bright stadium lighting, to make the photos they take look like they were actually taken in-person at the stadium. The joke pokes fun at the misconception that fake or edited photos only existed after digital editing tools like Photoshop were invented, showing that people used low-tech, physical methods to create misleading photos before digital editing was common.

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phtoshop was invented in 1987
people before photoshop:

Overview

This is a two-panel sarcastic humor meme. The top text contains a typo, reading 'phtoshop was invented in 1987 people before photoshop:'. The upper panel appears to show a person in the stands of a crowded sports stadium holding up a smartphone to take a photo of the event, with the word 'sarcasm' overlaid on the hand holding the phone. The lower panel reveals the joke: the people are actually indoors in a room, holding their phones up to a computer monitor that displays the stadium footage. One person holds a small desk lamp up near the screen to mimic bright stadium lighting, to make the photos they take look like they were actually taken in-person at the stadium. The joke pokes fun at the misconception that fake or edited photos only existed after digital editing tools like Photoshop were invented, showing that people used low-tech, physical methods to create misleading photos before digital editing was common.

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This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit per the provided RSS source information. It is a widely circulated relatable humor meme that plays on common jokes about faking life experiences for social media posts, and jokes about pre-digital photo manipulation methods.