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Faust76 · 46-50, M
Your pic is obviously real. It depends what you mean by "real" though. Many browsers now have the ability to just click a picture and do a Google reverse-search on where it comes from. Of course, there's always the chance that the dude posting about buttsecks on SW is REALLY a rich millionaire actor, or the woman being so bored they want people to message them online is actually a famous porn star. In which case, your snooping ways are missing a perfect opportunity!
Conversely, a small crop (ever wonder why all the "real" photos on SW are cropped and rotated into weird positions on SW?) makes it no longer match the original source of the image; I'm just hoping that most people making fake profiles don't know about that or just don't bother because there's enough people who don't know and possibly don't care how to back-search images. Beyond that, there's some tell-tale signs of professional pictures that an SW user is unlikely to have, such as diffuse lighting and backdrops and the focal length when you can tell:![]()
Conversely, a small crop (ever wonder why all the "real" photos on SW are cropped and rotated into weird positions on SW?) makes it no longer match the original source of the image; I'm just hoping that most people making fake profiles don't know about that or just don't bother because there's enough people who don't know and possibly don't care how to back-search images. Beyond that, there's some tell-tale signs of professional pictures that an SW user is unlikely to have, such as diffuse lighting and backdrops and the focal length when you can tell:
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exactly thats why some of the fake profiles the pics cant be searched because they have been altered.
[c=#BF0080]That's not true.. I've found PLENTY of cropped pics by Google.. most without a face.. even one today that was just hair in her avatar.. Googled it and it was Taylor Swifts.[/c]
How will google tell me it's fake tho? I just tried it and computer languages came up
Faust76 · 46-50, M
Obviously cropping & rotating doesn't always work, it depends how much you do it by, but it works often enough.
And I'm not sure what's meant with "computer languages came up". I'm thinking you didn't use image search. But either way like I said, it can't even tell if it's fake or not, it can just tell if sufficiently similar picture appears somewhere on the web. However you can usually guess, because normally you find matches on adult sites etc. and it's unlikely even if they were the person in question, they'd be using a profile pic that's been plastered all over the web on adult sites.
And I'm not sure what's meant with "computer languages came up". I'm thinking you didn't use image search. But either way like I said, it can't even tell if it's fake or not, it can just tell if sufficiently similar picture appears somewhere on the web. However you can usually guess, because normally you find matches on adult sites etc. and it's unlikely even if they were the person in question, they'd be using a profile pic that's been plastered all over the web on adult sites.