Bobby. wrote on May 20
th, 2017 at 11:07pm:
It's fake.
Do a simple fact check...
Original,
The real image is of an actual Roman medallion in the famous collection of the Cabinet de Médailles in Paris. The hoax was uncovered by computer scientist Ralf Bülow.
The very rare original medallion depicts Dionysus, god of wine and abandon. The other side bears an idealized portrait of Antinous, the beloved young companion of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Antinous, about 18 years of age, drowned in the Nile River in 130 CE. Hadrian was distraught, and had the youth declared a god, raising temples in his honour throughout the Roman East, notably in his birthplace, Claudiopolis or Bithynion in the province of Bithynia (now Bolu, Turkey). This is where the medallion was struck.
The digital trail led to a Brazilian UFO site, which then pointed to the hoax image caming from DesignCrowd, an Australian graphic design crowdsourcing web site.
In April 2011, DesignCrowd conducted a “Coin of the Realm” contest, challenging graphic designers to create images of celebrities on coins.
A user with the handle “Kryptomaniacle” submitted a previously created image just 20 minutes before the contest closed, identifying the portrait as “The historically obscure Grapnok; largely responsible for three of the Seven Wonders of the World.” The submission won third place. Technically “Grapnok” was not a “celebrity” and bent the contest rules, as Kryptomaniacle admitted in a subsequent message.
It was not a hoax; it was a playful, creative joke. The hoax developed when the tabloids took the image and turned it into a clickbait UFO story.
You can see the submission here,
https://www.designcrowd.com/community/contest.aspx?id=1673157TLDR: "Explain this", it's fake, you didn't fact check, you're part of the problem.
You may want to believe, but every time you post something that isn't true, you only feed the paranoia and insanity of those like Light. He doesn't need any help there...
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