So yesterday on my way back to Duke East Campus from the airport, my friend who split an Uber with me asked me how I liked my Writing 101 class, as he needs to choose a topic for his writing class next semester. This was a big mistake on his part because for the rest of the 20 minute ride I lectured him about how Disney is secretive and evil and puts stereotypes out into the world and minds of children. I even had him hold my phone's flashlight up while I whipped out my Disney book,
Team Rodent by Carl Hiassen. I went through every chapter summarizing the malicious and secretive ways of Disney, but by the end of the car ride, I still don't think he was too convinced, which is why I was overjoyed to get this text at 8:43 a.m. today:
He saw this post on Reddit and when he understood this Disney being evil theory was more than just a topic at school, but an actual conversation out there in the world, he finally believed me.
The post is a picture of Walt Disney with his two fingers out almost, as if he were holding an invisible cigarette. And invisible it is to us but it wasn't to him! The caption reads: "At Disneyland all photos of Walt Disney have his cigarettes photoshopped out."
The photo shopped picture is on top, and the original (bad quality but the only they could find) is on bottom:
This is a zoomed in picture I took of the original to more clearly see the cigarette:
Now I understand photoshop works both ways and the "original photo" could in fact be the photoshopped one; however, with his awkward hand positioning and after all I now know about Disney secrecy, I believe the Reddit post.
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