Submission 20,082

PROTECT THE WILDLIFE COOK METH NOT ENDANGERED BIRDS

"source":https://twitter.com/Tristan_Brtloot/status/663717828105781248

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#Slipgate is a photoshop meme featuring a cutout image of a man wearing a T-shirt and briefs while aggressively wielding a shovel. The photograph widely circulated on the French web after being tweeted by the Agence France-Presse in November 2015.

Origin

On November 9th, 2015, the French Agence France-Presse (AFP) tweeted several photos of a man in his underwear attacking activists from the Bird Protection League at a cornfield in Audon, France (shown below).^[1]^[2]^[3] According to the AFP,^[6] a man came out of his house and began beating reporters and activists with a large shovel after seeing them destroy traps set for finches.

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That day, Twitter user @Tristan_Brtloot^[4] tweeted a photoshopped image of the man with the shovel on a beach with a sandcastle (shown below, left). Shortly after, Twitter user @Imrage^[5] posted a photoshop of the man wielding a lightsaber weapon from the Starwars franchise (shown below, right).

Meanwhile, Gawker^[8] published an article about the incident titled "Don't Fuck With These Finch Traps Unless You Want to Fight a Shovel-Wielding Underwear Man." Also on November 9th, BuzzFeed^[9] published a compilation of notable slipgate photoshops, referring to the man as the "French Shovel Guy." On the following day, the IBI Times^[7] published an article about the photoshop meme.

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"source":https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/663714726447349760

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External References

^[1] Twitter – afpfr

^[2] Twitter – afpfr

^[3] Twitter – afpfr

^[4] Twitter – @Tristan_Britloot

^[5] Twitter – @Imrage

^[6] Liberation – Landes des militants de la LPA et des journalistes

^[7] IBI Times – Frenchman in underpants is internet sensation for spade attack on activists

^[8] Gawker – Dont Fuck With These Finch Traps Unless You Want to Fight a Shovel-Wielding Underwear Man

^[9] BuzzFeed – People Cant Stop Photoshopping This Guy Who Attacked Journalists With A Shovel

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Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/Josydelacompta/status/741970027331637248">Josydelacompta on Twitter</a>.

The original photo depicts fights in the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille (France) during the Euro2016 soccer competition, on June 11, 2016.

Josydelacompta added the shovel man.

Olivier Mazerolle, a famous journalist and editorialist, was interviewing Stéphane Le Foll, the French government's spokeperson, live on the most listened-to radio station in France, RTL, on June 14, 2016.

Mazerolle addressed Le Foll about the security measures at the entrance of the stadiums and about how they were not sufficient, and anyway loose enough to let a man enter the stadium with a shovel, having based his address on the photoshopped version of the photo.

Le Foll replied that he saw no shovel on the images <i>he</i> had seen.

Soon after that, many Twitter users started to mock Olivier Mazerolle for not having recognized that this photo was the instance of a famous meme originating from a highly publicized photo and a not less well-known news affair (i.e. the fights between some hunters and some members of the Bird Protection League in early November 2015).

See also: <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2016/06/15/hooligans-a-l-euro-olivier-mazerolle-abuse-par-un-photomontage-de-pelle-dans-un-stade_4951043_4355770.html">an article in French published on <i>Le Monde</i>'s website</a>.

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