"The internet consists of two major ingredients: Porn, and adorable animals. Everything else is pretty much a churning sea of virulence and racism. But what if we told you that those animal pics actually ain't so pretty? As it turns out, there's a chance many of them could be faked—and in some pretty cruel ways at that.
And it's not just amateur pics cropping up on Tumblr that might potentially be guilty of coercion; a few professional and even award-winning photographs have been accused of being "obvious" fakes. For instance, the photo below taken by Indonesian photographer Shikhei Goh was featured in The Telegraph, and was supposedly possible thanks to geckos' tendencies to enter a "trance-like state" when placed on glass. The analysis, however, believes that the position clearly implies a carefully placed string is to blame for the gecko's bizarre contortions."
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