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Trump's driving the boat (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 hours ago by Karmanopoly@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

After some research I found the source of the image. It is Iliannet Abella with her sister, posing on a beached ship near Miami.

On May 29, 2019, Cuban model Iliannet Abella posted a snapshot that went viral.

It shows her and her sister in bikinis on a yacht off the coast of Miami. So far, so good. But the yacht is sinking. The image has been copied, shared, and altered thousands of times, as a meme or a political message.

Source: French-German TV channel arte.tv made some documentation a few years ago. https://educ.arte.tv/program/le-dessous-des-images-le-yacht-coule-un-meme-insubmersible

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile a dude in a maga hat is in the cabin streaming to his YouTube channel explaining how it’s the left’s fault his boat is sinking after he drilled speed holes in it because regulations and expert advice are for brainwashed sheep

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

If we want to start adding details to this, the Americans really shouldn't be smiling (arc)

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Chester Colenut?

[+] corvi@lemmy.zip -8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Shitty ai meme. Make something new

[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If I remember this is a pretty old meme format? Like pre 2020?

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yes I found this from 7 years ago:

This has been posted before the boat was wrecked awhile before this picture and people would go out and hang around and pose with the boat. I can’t remember if it’s still out there. I think it was when it was last posted but they said it was scheduled to be removed or something like that.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/e2k9g2/comment/f8wbmrm/

Edit: Found it, see my comment https://lemmy.world/comment/24239803

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is there some hint that this is AI?

There are boats that have sunk in shallow water which look like this. It's not an actively sinking boat, so people will go take a picture on it.

[–] corvi@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Look at the left woman’s chest. There’s also something weird in the water at the front right.

Happy to be proven wrong, but it looks off to me

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

That is a strange-looking bikini top.

For me, the degradation of the edge of the boat being concentrated at the waterline where floating stuff might strike it is sort of hinting that at least the boat is real. I just don't imagine AI having that many examples of what relatively new-looking partially sunk boats look like. Maybe I'm wrong about that, though.

I had figured that you thought it was AI because these ladies seem so calm and are posing for a photo on a boat that is actively sinking. But like I said, I don't think the boat is actively sinking. If it's about the bikini top, then I'll have to defer, as my knowledge about ladies' swimwear is not particularly comprehensive.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This is the oldest I could find with tineye: https://imgur.com/gallery/instagram-vs-reality-s-finest-bfvIc4g

May 2019

Edit: Found it, see my comment https://lemmy.world/comment/24239803