Honestly it’s the fact that the paper was there that sells me for it. Like whoever took or doctored or made that photo was like “no we have to include the paper, nobody is going to believe us if we don’t” but if they really wanted us to believe them they’d make a statement. Which means that it wasn’t a good faith photo, they deliberately did their best to trick us by making it “as believable as we can”
That’s why it’s so funny. It’s like a parody of what these out of touch assholes think a proof of life photo would be, in 2026. When everyone has a video recording device in their hand at all times. It’s comically not credible (even if real.)
Honestly it’s the fact that the paper was there that sells me for it. Like whoever took or doctored or made that photo was like “no we have to include the paper, nobody is going to believe us if we don’t” but if they really wanted us to believe them they’d make a statement. Which means that it wasn’t a good faith photo, they deliberately did their best to trick us by making it “as believable as we can”
I like how everyone stopped to argue whether or not it was todays paper, but no one stopped to ask, why the fuck would they do that?
That’s why it’s so funny. It’s like a parody of what these out of touch assholes think a proof of life photo would be, in 2026. When everyone has a video recording device in their hand at all times. It’s comically not credible (even if real.)