47 Viral Images People Didn’t Really Question When They Definitely Should Have

Claim: Moon melon, known for its strange blue colour, grows in some parts of Japan and is worth ¥ 16,000 or about $ 200.
Truth: It’s just a picture of a slice of watermelon with its colour digitally altered to blue.

This one.

Often represented as a horrible plane crash caught at the moment of impact, it is much less terrifying when one knows that it is the result of a nosewheel collapsing on landing. It must still have been terrifying for the occupants of the plane, but aside from some bumps and bruises both occupants walked away.

This is a picture of an iceberg that appeared in the last century. It's very beautiful, isn't it? However, normal exposure can not achieve such an effect. It is composed of 4 photos, sky, background, Antarctic iceberg (above water), Alaska iceberg (below water). This photo earned photographer Ralph a. Clevenger more than $900000 in royalties.

This picture that purportedly shows Israelis laughing at a Palestinian woman gets posted to reddit a lot. Sometimes with that comparison of them and German soldiers.

What the picture actually shows is the Israelis singing as it was one of their holidays. The Palestinian woman came out banging on a pot lid (that you can see in her hand) to try and interrupt their celebration, so they started singing louder and louder.

The first time I saw it without the proper context it made my blood boil. Now that I know its proper origins it makes my blood boil that people try to spin it so heavily.

Diwali is the festival of lights and is celebrated with great grandeur in India. Every year this image is circulated widely on social media that this is an image taken by NASA of India on Diwali night, but that’s totally fictitious. Moreover lights used in Diwali look scattered and diffused when looked from space and in these image colors are pretty sharp and lambent. Thus it’s a hoax and a mere make-believe image.

Infact this is not even a single image but its a mixture of 2–3 images taken over years by US Defense Meteorological department to show the population growth in 20th–21st century.

Claim: A young Syrian boy sleeping between the graves of his parents.
Truth: The boy is the photographer's nephew and is not Syrian. The mounds on either side are not grave but, just piles of stones made to look like graves.

This "poodle moth" image.

It's a model. The actual moth it's based on is tiny.

Bear Chasing National Geographic Photographers

A photo showing a bear chasing a group of National Geographic photographers would send shivers down anyone's spine. Just imagining being in such a dangerous situation is terrifying. But since we have already proved there's no point in believing everything you see online, you can stop feeling bad about these photographers since the bear in the photo is actually captured in a stock photo that can be easily found online.

This one. Heath ledger skateboarding as the joker over Christian bale as batman on the set of dark knight. It's a photoshop as a simple google search will show, and everyone thinks it's real.

I've seen the panda hugging the leg of a "soldier" posted on here a bunch. Usually the title is something along the lines of "Frightened panda hugging soldier's leg after the earthquake in Japan".

The picture was taken in China, I think, and the panda wasn't upset.

A photograph of the Pope in a discreet puffer jacket, after eating his Cornetto at the Trevi Fountain he strolled back to the Vatican, and was pleased to get his steps in. He then took a vow to do it again, sometime after easter.

The Russian Sleep Experiment.

I'm pretty sure it was a halloween decoration.

Unique Black Lion

If we could make a list of the internet's most beloved topics, weird animals would definitely have their place in the top 10. It seems that finding weird and unique species is something everyone thrives in, and although it is a cool thing to come across a unique animal, there is no need to create one with photoshop, or if you're doing so, please do not try to trick people into thinking it actually exists.

Picture Of A Dwarf Giraffe
A photo of a giraffe with dwarfism has been used online multiple times, although giraffes, like other animals, can have dwarfism, this photo is actually fake.

In 1958 Elvis Presley joined the US military and was given a crew cut. Wives of America were furious and refused to kiss their husbands until Elvis grew his hair back. The birth rate in America in 1958 went critical. The Army was forced to say, “It was a joke. His hair is fine”.

With a little photoshop. Ok a lot of photoshop.

That's actually Earl Sweatshirt, a dope af rapper and a member of Odd Future. Really smart dude actually; his dad is a famous African poet.

The Cottingley Fairies photographs, taken between 1917 and 1920, depicted young cousins Elsie and Frances at the bottom of the garden in the Cottingley area of Bradford, surrounded by what appeared to be magical creatures; there were no fairies, just a bit of imagination and a camera.

"Anti-Zionist" (wink, wink) websites are fond of this picture showing former President Bush pledging allegiance to the Israeli flag.

In fact, he was at an event with several international flags, and a photo was deliberately cropped to make it look like proof that teh Jooz control America.

The ‘zombie’ Angelina Jolie lookalike ‘after 50 surgeries

Nineteen-year-old Sahar Tabar’s pictures splashed all over the Internet with the claim that she underwent 59 surgeries to look like her Hollywood idol Angelina Jolie and sent shock-waves across social media. Later, it came to light after an interview with Sputnik, that the claims of Tabar undergoing plastic surgery to look like Jolie was actually wrong, and the results were thanks to, well, “technology”. Remember, in today’s age, seeing is not believing.