The Internet Laughs at the Stock Photograph of a Man Using His Headphones as a VR Headset
Several days ago, American journalist Elizabeth Spiers published a tweet where where she said that many photo banks have strange stock photographs with people who use headphones as VR headsets.
Her post with one of such photographs attached became viral and had 20,000 likes and reposts.
The photograph that she poste inspired many users for a mini-flashmob: in the comments to the entry they started posting their covers of the viral photograph.
@espiers, they haven't seen my AR headset yet! pic.twitter.com/u43KTks4wR
— Simon Wüthrich (@siwue) December 2, 2016
@espiers @SwiftOnSecurity our designer has the same headset! pic.twitter.com/pFZuQ5ORHh
— Mike Street (@mikestreety) December 2, 2016
.@espiers Am I doing this right? pic.twitter.com/DAXRH5LqvI
— theBonsai?-house❄️ (@BonsaiTreehouse) December 1, 2016
Such mistakes in stock photographs are frequent and they are often mocked on the Internet. This last happened to a photograph that the users found on Shutterstock: the photograph called Beautiful woman Repair Soldering a Printed Circuit Board depicts a woman holding a heated metal element on the soldering iron, which can be as hot as several hundred degrees.
