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This Looks Shopped of the Day: A few days ago, a frequenter of China’s immensely popular Tianya Club Internet forum visited the official government website of Huili County, where they spotted a poorly shopped photo of three county leaders supposedly inspecting a freshly paved road.
The club member quickly posted the photo to Tianya under the headline “Too fake: the propaganda photo for our county,” excoriating the county for having “the nerve to put this on the home page” when “[e]ven a rank amateur like myself can tell that this was a PhotoShop job.”
Other users latched on to the post, and soon transformed “The Three Levitating Government Officials” into a full-fledged meme (see a few examples below).
According to the county’s publicity department director Zhang Yongzhi, the leaders did actually visit the road in question, but a government employee thought the background “did not look very good” and decided to superimpose the officials onto a more flattering one. EastSouthWestNorth reports that the local government removed the shopped photo along with “all relevant information,” and “reprimanded the worker” who handled it.
[eswn / boingboing.]
Be sure to expand the meme.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnkvau1k2g1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
This Looks Shopped of the Day: A few days ago, a frequenter of China’s immensely popular Tianya Club Internet forum visited the official government website of Huili County, where they spotted a poorly shopped photo of three county leaders supposedly inspecting a freshly paved road.
The club member quickly posted the photo to Tianya under the headline “Too fake: the propaganda photo for our county,” excoriating the county for having “the nerve to put this on the home page” when “[e]ven a rank amateur like myself can tell that this was a PhotoShop job.”
Other users latched on to the post, and soon transformed “The Three Levitating Government Officials” into a full-fledged meme (see a few examples below).
According to the county’s publicity department director Zhang Yongzhi, the leaders did actually visit the road in question, but a government employee thought the background “did not look very good” and decided to superimpose the officials onto a more flattering one. EastSouthWestNorth reports that the local government removed the shopped photo along with “all relevant information,” and “reprimanded the worker” who handled it.
[eswn / boingboing.]
Be sure to expand the meme.
