Brique

While extremely sympathetic to the tragedy of innocent people being killed, I couldn't help but notice that the first pic released from his twitter acct was manipulated.

But too many stooges around here, best to keep observations to myself.

LOLATU

I've done a lot of work with Photoshop and there is nothing weird about that flagpole. It's just over the white point of the camera. Plenty of pictures have all white areas in the brightest spots. Nothing in this video pointed out anything strange at all.

The better hoax video I've seen is the interview with children of a victim. Their reaction does seem very bizarre.

Spiral_Out

The hexcode of the flagpole is a very unnatural - to my knowledge, you don't have that scale found in pictures (even with a flash hitting a white surface). He does also look like he's holding a beer (that is removed).

killbotgamma

That thing he's taking about at about 5 minutes is not a computer board of any variety. It looks like the bottom panel from a laptop or something. What he is calling 'buses' are vent holes.

Edit: also, apparently this guy has no idea how camera flashes work. if the flash went off, it explains the shadows of him and the flag, as well as the reflection of light off the Budweiser mirror.

Edit 2: It's entirely possible that the time was never set on the camera, which would account for any discrepancies. If you don't set the time on the camera, then the meta-data can't very well be accurate.

songofrebellion

"Oooh, photo evidence!"

360p

:/

M0wgli

The guy discredits himself when he starts pointing to the calendar being turned to the wrong month in one of the pictures, and to the way the kid is supposedly squatting like a Russian, or that he has a mole on his hand in one photo and not the other which could be anything from a burn to a scratch to whatever. (Most of this is in part 2 of the video)

As for the first part, that isn't even a motherboard on his bed, and as other people have said there is nothing strange about the flagpole or shadows if you're experienced with analyzing pictures in photoshop.

I hate guys like this that pretend to be an expert in so many areas at once, yet with some basic knowledge you can disprove everything they are saying.

songofrebellion

Did we watch the same video?

M0wgli

There's a part 2 of the video.

songofrebellion

Oooooh, ok. I herped the derp. :P

Devildetails

The things I fail to comprehend about theories like these is the why of it all.

farmer-

to get the confederate flag taken down and to push the whole race victim narrative

toobaditworks

Here's an interesting theory. This part here is fact: His friend was a black guy. He told his friend he wanted to do a school shooting like at a college. His friend took his gun from him. After a while he gave the gun back.

Now this part I'm making up. Theory time... So why would a racist who hates black people have black friends? Perhaps he wasn't racist at all. Maybe he did want to start a war but a war on what? A war against the southern rednecks who like the confederate flag. They've been wanting that flag down for a long time. This gives them a good reason to. So the theory is he was a troubled democrat liberal on the far left and went Weather Underground ala Bill Ayers on those people. This is a known way of doing things where people pretend to be something they are not to instigate a war or violent situation so the other side looks like the aggressor.

Quark

Taking the lives of innocent black people so he could stop a flag from being flown because he believes it to be racist against black people. That's definitely a strange hypothesis.

I think the far more obvious answer is that the kid is just mentally ill.

toobaditworks

Let me clear up what I said since you misunderstood. One side has been fighting to take that flag down, the other side has been fighting to keep it up. They thought they could use it to get both sides upset which they have and possibly start a race war. So it wasn't just to take the flag down but in the process piss off the southern people with guns enough to start a war. Which they still are trying to do by digging up peoples graves and discriminating against white people on public property, saying "whites aren't allowed here", which by the way are all Soros funded #blacklivesmatter people, etc... If you know anything about Soros he has funded things like this in other countries where they ended up starting a war. So it's not that far from reality.

That kid probably was mentally ill but it still doesn't explain all the Photoshopped images with confederate flags in them or why he had a best friend that was black but he was supposedly a hardcore racist.

Quark

Yeah, I have no doubt that there are multiple parties involved with generating outrage for their own purposes, most likely money or distraction from important issues. I don't think he was his best friend based on what I've read. It's entirely possible that Dylan either thought the guy was "one of the good blacks" or maybe Dylan was just a sociopath and acted as if he wasn't racist when he was around black people.

Say_What

Wag the dog. Divide and conquer.

Not that I believe it was a false flag. But there are plenty of reasons.