Looks that way to me too. The shadows were less convincing though.

"slav squat, known territorial stance" (from part 2). current topic aside, found it quite interesting that there's such a thing as a "territorial stance"

part two is worth watching.

What is the provenance of these photos? I mean, what is the chain of custody? Who first presented them to the world?

Weak. The flagpole being hex value 255 across the board was interesting and it does look fake, and the power cable in cutting off is interesting, but nothing else in this video really stood out as weird to me. I think the creators of this video are TRYING to find something fake about this image.

Wow, yeah some of that stuff looks obviously fake. Good video.

Just some notes: The laptop appears to be laying with the screen down. That would explain why the cord is coming out of the panel pointing up. I do this all of the time with my laptop. No clue why the cord disappears though. Of all things, seems to be a dumb item to photoshop. Same with his right hand. Why photoshop that?

Re: Time of day. Cameras like to forget what time it is all of the time. After a couple of times of setting the time I just forget about it and give up.

Overall the photo looks really bright. Like some kind of contrast correction has happened. Typically pictures with flash like to really highlight the center of the image and leave everything else dark. This flash highlight could possibly explain the flagpole, but without some photoediting the background would look awful and lack detail. The flash is also usually located on the upper left of the camera lens, so if any shadows are cast by the flash they should be pointing to the right, while in this image they're pointed to the left.

This is ludicrous. A camera flash on a white object will make it appear totally white, and it's straight because it's a piece of plastic. Why would anybody create a flagpole and a flag to be placed in his hand in two seperate pictures? The rest is just the poor quality of a little point and shoot camera.

Its comical how stupid they assume the general public is.

I was thinking that most of that could be explained by the flash of the camera, but that power cable on the laptop just looks really fake, and the reflection of the Budweiser sign on the other wall doesn't make sense in the 2nd picture.

Also, the "flagpole" extends in to his hand, but it seems like the angle is a few degrees off of the "flagpole".

Is part 2 worth watching? Maybe I'll check that out, too.

Now this is what I have been missing, good old fashioned questions. No strawman or shills, its so quiet and thoughtful round here.

Btw I am from the same hometown as him and lived in Charleston for 4 years. I am now in California but this shit is weird.