discoursedrome:

There was an early 2000s meme of unknown provenance where people would dispute the authenticity of images by saying “This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.” And I’m not saying we should revive this for the deepfake boom, but what I am saying is that as lengthy debates about image authenticity come back in style, the keys to the kingdom await whoever can express skepticism in the dumbest-sounding way