Topic: was there ever an ID on the source of the picture of the uncanny valley "funny face guy"?

boof started this discussion 1 month ago #131,637

The eyes don't even look real

DiversityHireKamikazePilot joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 20 minutes later[^] [v] #1,407,679

He looks like a Korean that got left in the tanning booth for too long.

DiversityHireKamikazePilot double-posted this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,681

Dark skin but the bone structure doesn’t look African at all.

boof (OP) replied with this 1 month ago, 11 minutes later, 37 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,684

more about the eyes -- human irises are larger than what the fuck we got there.

DiversityHireKamikazePilot replied with this 1 month ago, 6 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,686

So I did some digging, the oldest sources I can find are both broken links from February 5th, 2007.

http://www.brejk.cz/index.php?p=info_tym&manazer=17165

http://vein.ru/2007/11/27/print:page,1,podborka_prikolov_na_den.html

.cz is the top level domain for the Czech Republic and .ru is for Russia.

The oldest links I can find that actually work are from 2008, and they’re mostly all from Russian websites.

https://korzik.net/2007/11/20/foto_prikoly_dnja.html

DiversityHireKamikazePilot double-posted this 1 month ago, 4 minutes later, 49 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,687

The nose is throwing me off, because the nose doesn’t look African, but it also doesn’t really look European.

There are some people who live in far eastern Russia of Asian descent that have long skinny noses like that though.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/14/2d/91/142d912f4ea5050dcd86bcfaecd70bc5.jpg

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boof (OP) replied with this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later, 54 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,688

there are peculiar vertical zones on either side of the nose, in their texture

when I lean back, I can make out a slanted number nine like a faded tattoo or some shit

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DiversityHireKamikazePilot joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later, 59 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,690

@previous (boof)
The eyelids also look very strange. Far East Asians have monolids. Some African tribes have monolids but it’s very very rare and from white I’ve seen they’re more light skinned black, sort of brown. It could be somebody wearing fake eyes.

boof (OP) replied with this 1 month ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,691

the eyebrow zones look a little redder, 'shopped out?

DiversityHireKamikazePilot replied with this 1 month ago, 21 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,692

The only kind of black people I can think of that sort of look like that would be Somalians, they have noses sort of like that, but they have a lot more depth to their eye sockets, they don’t have flat faces like that.

DiversityHireKamikazePilot joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,694

I looked into the metadata, the oldest version of the image I could find has a date that’s newer than the oldest date from a broken link to the image. So I think the original version of the image with the original metadata doesn’t exist anymore.

DiversityHireKamikazePilot double-posted this 1 month ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,695

The oldest link is form February 2007, but the metadata says November 2007.

2007-11-19 09:28:08 +0100

But the timestamp has a UTC offset that indicates a Central European time zone. Which makes the image originating in the Czech Republic more likely.

boof (OP) replied with this 1 month ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,696

hmmm

boof (OP) double-posted this 1 month ago, 21 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,407,822

I was thinking, if an AI can be fed the picture and identify any features that are evidence of alteration, that is, having been 'shopped.

Minichan