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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Another flickr faker?

My misguided one-tranny crusade to rid Flickr of fakers who post pictures of real girls and pretend that they're trannies continues.

I've found a corker. It's so good that I'm tempted to describe it as "new media" work of tranny fiction rather than an out-and-out fake.

Her name is "Josephemme", the most interesting pics are the ones she shows only to people on her "friends" list, the ones with the Photoshopped-in "masculine bulge" in her knickers. It's well done, but anyone with a modicum of experience of photo modification can see the tampering. It sticks out like... er... a sore thumb. ;-)

Anyway, this is all just my opinion. Decide for yourself. The profile is worth a read on it's own. :-)

Would be particularly interested in Isobel and Lisa's opinions on the "bulge" pics, as I spotted them on her friends list :-)

Anonymous Laura Lenley  For goodness sake, just the photoshopped adam's apple is a giveaway!

But, I must say, it was fun reading the profile. 
Blogger Becky EnVérité  Oh, well spotted Laura. That is rather obvious, but I hadn't noticed! :-O 
Blogger Jessica  I dont think it's a faker, I think it's actually a consortium of guerilla artists making a statement about gender identification in the digital world. It's very subtle 
Blogger Becky  Doh, you can't fool me Jess!

Gorillas can't draw! 
Blogger Joanna  Kinda Enverite-Baiting Jess?

But yes Becky, some interesting photoshopping there. 
Blogger Joggerblogger  "Gorillas can't draw!" - but we can use Mac's ;-) 
Blogger Jessica  and they can trace 
Blogger hannaviolane  well spotted bex! the photoshoped adams looks very dodgy indeed! ( the only part of him ( sorry her) thats not tanned! also whats philo-sophy i wonder? all that malarky in the 3rd paragraph makes her sound like an pretentious art student working at the cafe at the Tate Modern! needs to get out more i think!

(Love, trust, beauty, sincerity, truthfulness, authenticity -- these are all feminine qualities, and they are far greater than any qualities that men have. But the whole past has been dominated by men and their qualities) no deary these arnt femenine or male qualities...just human ones!

i see mandyTgirl took the bait to! tsk tsk! 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  > "pretentious art student working at the cafe at the Tate Modern!"

Crap. Rumbled.

I love how you put a question mark in the title of this BTW 
Anonymous Stephanie Delacey  What's philo-sophy, Hannaviolane wondered? I believe it is a kind of thought so vacuous that words themselves start to fall apart. 
Anonymous Anonymous  The cases of xxy males that I know about don't in anyway look like that. Caroline Cossey was xxy, but underwent years of HT, and had breast augmentation.

It looks like someone has googled xxy adolescents and quoted, verbatim, the first entry they came across. 
Anonymous Charlee  http://www.flickr.com/photos/12405835@N00/253374664/ Tell me, I have a breast plate at the top of my ribs. I've also got a fair bit covering it, so I can't quite tell whether the ripples on her chest are ribs or breast plate. But I agree, that's not a boy. That's a girl.

If I saw her in the street, I wouldn't wonder, and that's my test. 
Anonymous Clair  What I'm curious to know is whether the person posting the photos is a woman posting pictures of herself as a man, of whether it's a man, posting pictures of a woman. 
Anonymous Anonymous  My guess Clair is that it's a bloke posting pictures of a woman who is either his girlfriend or a close family member. Just doesn't strike me as the sort of fakery that a woman would indudge in, we'ld do something different. 
Anonymous Isobel  Curiouser and curiouser....

I found a Flickr group called effeminate where I was able to compare and contrast Josephemme's mature literary style with that of Jonni Phillips. Remarkably similar, wouldn't you say? 
Blogger Becky  Hmm yes, and jonni philip's only flickr picture is a modified version of a picture on jospehemme's stream. 

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