This one got me too, took me ages to figure out. You might need to find a higher res version that isn’t a screenshot of a screenshot, but look at the Tsingtao logo on the jacket compared to a real one. The English letters are almost perfect, only slightly off, but the Chinese characters underneath, specifically the second and fourth one, are pretty mangled. I bet some of the Chinese in the background is garbage too.
Gonna have to learn Mandarin to start spotting this shit.
This looks like an AI alteration maybe? Like the original photo was the guy wearing a regular Tsingtao jacket and it was painted out with like Adobe content aware fill or something.
Other people have pointed out issues like disappearing arm and straw inconsistencies. The blue Tsingtao logo is jank (anyone using adobe should have masked that out, surely) and the zipper is also busted but I can see that just happening on a jacket like that.
If I could read Mandarin I bet it’d be an easy spot based on the signs in the background. Either way tho, it’s fake as fuck.
EDIT: also just noticed the guy in the background off Beer Jacket’s right shoulder. Looks like he’s wearing a sling bag that just disappears halfway up his back.
He doesn’t have a right arm. Or seemingly a left shoulder to joining where his left arm would be. Also, assuming the jacket was filled at one point it should be deflating as he drinks it, not staying puffy.
Basically the whole jacket defies physics, if you think about it for just a moment. Like, drinking from a sealed bag wouldn’t allow for it to be all puffed up like that, imagine one of those little koolaid juice pouches.
On top of that, the guy’s body becomes transparent inside the jacket. Which is kinda necessary when you want the beer to look as if it’s in a beer glas, ofc.
Oh yeah, his arm on the right of the frame disappears just above the foam line, which also looks fake, to even and if youre sloshing all that beer around in a jacket its gonna be flat
That’s a tell that the obviously fake joke is fake, but could just as easily be the result of a photoshop or a gag with a prop made to look like that where someone just strikes a funny pose with a straw tucked into the collar.
If the letters are fucked up that’s more a tell that AI is garbling stuff up, although that still doesn’t rule out a photoshop using an AI step at the end to try to smooth the bits together. If the background characters are fucked up, however, that would be a tell that the whole thing was summoned from nothing.
Looking closely at the original, I think this was either someone with a transparent jacket (potentially dyed in places) and the graphic of this (or something similar) printed on the inside lining as just a silly design, or it was a photoshop working off someone in a transparent plastic jacket that at some point may been hit with a low-denoise AI inpaint to try to merge the edits in. The logo in particular shows artifacting around it that suggests it was pasted into the image. The full image resolution doesn’t line up with the raw output of any generator I know of (it’s too short and a weird aspect ratio, so this was cropped from something bigger), which suggests that if AI was used it was done piecemeal with inpainting on an edited photo someone took or found.
What’s the tell? It looks real to me
This one got me too, took me ages to figure out. You might need to find a higher res version that isn’t a screenshot of a screenshot, but look at the Tsingtao logo on the jacket compared to a real one. The English letters are almost perfect, only slightly off, but the Chinese characters underneath, specifically the second and fourth one, are pretty mangled. I bet some of the Chinese in the background is garbage too.
Gonna have to learn Mandarin to start spotting this shit.
EDIT: I went and found it.
This looks like an AI alteration maybe? Like the original photo was the guy wearing a regular Tsingtao jacket and it was painted out with like Adobe content aware fill or something.
Other people have pointed out issues like disappearing arm and straw inconsistencies. The blue Tsingtao logo is jank (anyone using adobe should have masked that out, surely) and the zipper is also busted but I can see that just happening on a jacket like that.
If I could read Mandarin I bet it’d be an easy spot based on the signs in the background. Either way tho, it’s fake as fuck.
EDIT: also just noticed the guy in the background off Beer Jacket’s right shoulder. Looks like he’s wearing a sling bag that just disappears halfway up his back.
He doesn’t have a right arm. Or seemingly a left shoulder to joining where his left arm would be. Also, assuming the jacket was filled at one point it should be deflating as he drinks it, not staying puffy.
For me it was the straw. You can’t see it inside the jacket. It cuts off where the jacket starts.
Basically the whole jacket defies physics, if you think about it for just a moment. Like, drinking from a sealed bag wouldn’t allow for it to be all puffed up like that, imagine one of those little koolaid juice pouches.
Maybe he blew the air back im with the straw
On top of that, the guy’s body becomes transparent inside the jacket. Which is kinda necessary when you want the beer to look as if it’s in a beer glas, ofc.
Oh yeah, his arm on the right of the frame disappears just above the foam line, which also looks fake, to even and if youre sloshing all that beer around in a jacket its gonna be flat
That’s a tell that the obviously fake joke is fake, but could just as easily be the result of a photoshop or a gag with a prop made to look like that where someone just strikes a funny pose with a straw tucked into the collar.
If the letters are fucked up that’s more a tell that AI is garbling stuff up, although that still doesn’t rule out a photoshop using an AI step at the end to try to smooth the bits together. If the background characters are fucked up, however, that would be a tell that the whole thing was summoned from nothing.
Looking closely at the original, I think this was either someone with a transparent jacket (potentially dyed in places) and the graphic of this (or something similar) printed on the inside lining as just a silly design, or it was a photoshop working off someone in a transparent plastic jacket that at some point may been hit with a low-denoise AI inpaint to try to merge the edits in. The logo in particular shows artifacting around it that suggests it was pasted into the image. The full image resolution doesn’t line up with the raw output of any generator I know of (it’s too short and a weird aspect ratio, so this was cropped from something bigger), which suggests that if AI was used it was done piecemeal with inpainting on an edited photo someone took or found.
I’ll just say fake next time. Sorry