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  • 2021-02-14 (xsd:date)
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  • The Truth Behind the 'Day at the Beach Gone Wrong' Photo (en)
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  • A picture of a huge tsunami or large ocean wave about to hit a crowded beach has appeared for years in various spots on the internet. It has been primarily featured in countless clickbait thumbnails for videos, articles, and advertisements. For example, the person who posted this Facebook video chose the tsunami picture for the video thumbnail: Viewers discussed the clickbait image in the comments: Another example comes from this misleading online advertisement that read: A Day at the Beach Gone Wrong. Readers who clicked the ad were led to a long slideshow article with lots of pages. The story never ended up addressing the picture: The picture was a fake. It did not show a massive ocean wave or a tsunami about to hit a crowded beach. However, this is not a simple case of one person doing some alterations in Adobe Photoshop. This appeared to be a fake of a fake. We weren't able to find out who created the picture in question with the crowded beach. However, whoever made it used some of photographer Sean Davey's impressive work. Davey's experience in surf photography spans around 40 years. In 2009, Davey explained on his website that he decided to come up with a Photoshop of a big wave headed for tall buildings in Honolulu, Hawaii: We created a GIF to show the comparison of Davey's Photoshop work with the picture in question that was later created by an unknown person. Both of these images have been altered: Some parts of the tall buildings were not completely removed for the picture of the crowded beach, as can be seen below: The wave Davey used for his artistic creation was much smaller than it appeared in the two Photoshopped pictures. As for actual huge tsunami and tidal waves, we turned to the U.S. Geological Survey to learn the difference: In sum, the pictures of the huge tsunami hitting a crowded beach or Honolulu were both doctored. If such photographs were ever really captured, they would be published well outside the bounds of clickbait thumbnails. (en)
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