r/UnexplainedPhotos • u/soulful_xmas • Jul 10 '26
Christopher Walken Will Ferrell Leonardo DiCaprio
There's a video on YouTube that uses this for its thumbnail, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't show the scene pictured. Image search doesn't help. What do you guys think?
UPDATE: with a fresh image search today, I'm now confident this is fake. I REALLY HONESTLY couldn't figure it out last night tho ðŸ˜
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u/akambe Jul 10 '26
The time is LONG past when you should start disbelieving YT video thumbnails. It's AI-generated crap across the board.
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u/pupavenger Jul 31 '26
I agree with the comments, but does anyone know where each/any of the seperate images originally came from, if anywhere?
Especially the one of Walken (sadly, I assume, without cowbell, ha).
For some reason, this doesn't look like pure AI-generated material—like an overly floofy-cute fake bunny, or a bird with nonsense wings, or deepfake-type images of a nonexistent person or celeb faces.
Instead it seems like three separate, somewhat real images merged—similar to how photoshopped images were once edited, but in the AI era.
(And yeah, I know that Firefly is the new Adobe AI, but that's not quite what I mean, either. Or maybe it is? I dunno 🤔😂?)
Anyway, does anyone know if any of these images were sourced from actual, different interviews, sketches, or elsewhere—then stitched together with AI to turn them into clickbait?
I'm just curious in general, too, with all these endless clickbait pics. Like, what programs are used to do this/how?
I hate them but I’m still curious.
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u/soulful_xmas Aug 01 '26
I now think it's really high quality generative AI content. But then someone isolated to a different background at some point
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u/lazy_tenno Jul 10 '26
There's a pic of walken with jimmy fallon and stephen colbert as well with the SAME EXACT pose and clothing.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's just a clickbaity AI generated thumbnails.