Vanity Fair's "Hollywood Portfolio" Cover
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Vanity Fair's "Hollywood Portfolio" Cover refers to a photo series by the celebrity magazine Vanity Fair featuring twelve famous actors. After the pictures were posted online, Twitter users noticed a photoshopping error in the cover photo which appeared to give actress Reese Witherspoon three legs. Another photo in the set gave Oprah three hands. The cover was parodied by GQ magazine in their comedy issue several months later.
Origin
On January 25th, 2018, Vanity Fair tweeted[1] out their Hollywood Portfolio article, with an image that featured twelve famous actors and actresses (shown below).
Spread
After the image was posted, Twitter users noticed that a photoshopping error had made it appear as though actress Reese Witherspoon had three legs. Twitter user @leiascaptain pointed out something amiss with her legs, gaining over 8,100 retweets (shown below, left). User @TNWhiskeyWoman circled each of Reese's legs in the image, gaining over 580 retweets (shown below, right).
Additionally, in the photos contained within the article, Twitter users noticed a picture of Oprah holding Witherspoon that also had a photoshopping error which appeared to give Oprah a third hand (shown below).
Winfrey and Witherspoon ended up joking about the matter on Twitter the day the cover was posted (shown below). Reactions to the errors were covered by Twitter Moments.[2]
GQ Women in Comedy Cover
On May 17th, 2018, GQ parodied the Vanity Fair cover for their comedy issue by having actresses Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, and Sarah Silverman pose in a similar fashion to the Vanity Fair cover while photoshopping in numerous extra arms and hands (shown below). Additionally, they wrote a satirical article in which they apologized for the photoshopping errors.[3]
Twitter users quickly caught on to the trolling GQ was engaging in (shown below, left). Vanity Fair took the troll in good humor, tweeting a pun-filled response to the cover (shown below, right). Reactions to the cover were covered by Twitter Moments[4] and Mashable.[5]
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External References
[1] Twitter – @VanityFair
[2] Twitter Moments – Does Reese Witherspoon have three legs on the Vanity Fair cover?
[3] GQ – Mistakes were made.
[4] Twitter Moments – GQ's latest comedy issue has an 'arm-azing' reference to a photoshoot fail
[5] Mashable – 'GQ's comedy issue gloriously pokes fun at 'Vanity Fair's Photoshop fail
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