Please tell me this is photo shopped

[cthulu2016]

42. Part of my problem is that I do this for real.

You hand me an image and say, "Is this shopped" and I look right at the problem areas and look for what I would do in those areas.

But with a picture with this resolution and this level of compression artifacts one is likely to find something wrong in all the problem areas... and the non-problem areas.

There is stuff so wrong with the edges of the baby that if it was a picture of a UFO we could say, "This is almost certainly faked."

But the reason I changed my mind (as explained in the post toward the end of the thread) is that it isn't a UFO picture.

It's a type of posed (sick) joke picture we would expect to exist somewhere.

The picture has a low burden of proof because it isn't extraordinary. It doesn't require any exceptional explanation.

So having a lot of problems doesn't mean the same thing as it would with a UFO photo. In this case the burden of proof is on the P'shop argument, not on the picture.

So I think it's real.