This is Ralph,
and he's the real deal.
He's not just another replication, he's an original!
But Ralph is surrounded by stone-cold clones.
He's screaming for another genuine soul to see him.
But people are too busy with themselves and their own struggles.
Those screams echo in silence and fade off unnoticed.
He's left to the ignorance of those that need him as a stepping stone.
And so he's drowning in the noise that's surrounding him.
Eventually he'll understand.
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It's all just a mirage!
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Alright, one more thing: the guys with the bike are the same (along with his friend with the yellow bag), the girls in black are the same...
But I'm not seeing the significance...
#somethingisntrighthere :P
Edit: I get it, they're the clones, haha! :D
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BINGO! This was the "glitch" I was originally hinting at. And you even spotted both instances of #duplicity there. Kudos!
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Woo-hoo fistpumps! :D
Weird how easy it is to glance over it, and then suddenly it's just so obvious :P
Well, let the discussion begin!
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Ahaha staring you right in the face :D meduim, Steem platform clones are everywhere as well as dapps too. Golos, busy.org and others etc know what I'm saying :D decentralised clones of other well known web services too dtube, dlive, dmania. Clone it baby one more time.
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Oh well, I must be blind lol.
Hmm, @fraenk could you mean these tons of multi-accounts which post the same shit post over and over again with just different accounts? It's a real problem, and nobody needs this rubbish anyway. I hate it!
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BINGO! bonus-prize unlocked! Now what kind of issues could this cause?! I am looking for a few more aspect to this problem that I've hinted at in the original post.
The hints are vague and quite abstract and you've gained your prize Hazel, but maybe others will expand on your observation?!
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Allrighty then, more power to the little people hehehe, especially here on steemit! Let's win this...! Am I still on the right track?
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You've already completed your track and qualify for the total 1 SBD max payout per player ;)
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But wait, are there duplicate platforms or duplicate people in the image?!
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Duplicate people in the images.... but is that related to duplicate people on steem using multiple aliases...but they are one and the same...
Duplicates of people, users, platforms and dapps. I see duplicates and clones everywhere.
Question is are the people in this image who are digital duplicates of people posting and commenting right here and right now?
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@hazel420 is on track!
and those people that exist multiple times and crowd the space in the image signify the "multi-accounts" she mentioned. There's a few more aspects to this problem I have in mind and the original post hints at them in philosophical abstraction.
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Haha @hazel420 posted the same thing 1 min before me π
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@niko3d and @marty-art have been able to spot a lot of glitches, all of those are due to myself working sloppily. Sometimes you just have too look a bit closer to spot a fake!
We know now... the busy scene is just a composite, and not a perfect one by far! I think @niko3d and @marty-art both deserve half their secret prize already, but it actually wasn't my mistakes that I wanted to talk about.
Maybe we should stop looking for the differences and start searching for some similarities? And read the post again, there are hints inside the story, too!!
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hmmm.... I need to go to bed now, let's hope tomorrow brings a different point of view :)
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Outright the most fun posts on steemit and related steem apps :D where's the glitch.... I'm still looking haha
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I'm looking for that glitch as well... Seek the seven differences in the two photo's? Apart from the obvious differences of course :P
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That does look very glitchy, nice! I don't think the people are 'shopped though, that would be some serious work, with shadows, size, perspective, and all...
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And also... How much of these images are real :D @fraenk has some photo editing skills ;) even the ramp and the roof thing don't like right...or maybe I'm just paranoid now. It's all a mirage haha
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Well, found something, this part is 'shopped alright, it glitches if you put the two photo's in new tabs. And does that lighting pole move just a bit to hide behind the 'taxi'-post?
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wow, you guys are operating on some private investigator levels... nice! maybe it's a glitch in the matrix, and @fraenk know's something we don't... I am concerned, there is a cop car involved lol, are they onto something? I'm curious now...
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Thanks :D
Aaah, it's a copper, I didn't spot that :P
Of course, I have nothing to hide... Nothing I tell ya!
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hehe... yeah... these guys... looking at the image under a magnifying glass... awesome... I'm stoked to see them getting so engaged.
But really, they might want to take a step back and look for things that are more easily noticed when looking at the whole picture ;)
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I spotted that and thought he shifted the camera a bit but nothing is what it seems haha
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You're right, that green door/gate is glitching as well, nice one!
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I'm wondering if all the people and the police car are stock images :D the shadows looks suspect. 7 differences you say? I see a soft something odd ahaha found it.
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What do you think of this: why hasn't this car been 'shopped out? Or is this the only real car? Is this @fraenk's car, perhaps?
Wait a minute! It's all coming together! @fraenk got busted by that copper for making a #googlyeyes! This is his way of telling us he's been in prison for the last 14 hours (haven't seen his upvote on any comment since he posted this photo!)
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Haha you cracked it :D poor @fraenk
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Hehe :P
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hahahahaha just the thought of it has me in bits, but it seems @fraenk is alive and well. hmm, guess I will look into this tomorrow, or later to be precise.
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Hahaha... yeah... no... the pigs are too slow to catch me :P
But I've posted a hint on this little riddle in a separate top-level-comment... you guys are looking too close and you're missing the (slightly-more-)obvious improbability!
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Holy cannoli! I didn't realize you post posts like this. Looks π like I have to start following you closely...
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well... my posts are not always as multilayered as this one... but you should still follow me closely... you absolutely should... heh
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Alright, I'll lower my expectations ;)
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My suspicion would be that this place is not in Wiesbaden.
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Wow... you're carrying quite the flag-trail there... the fate of the righteous! Seems like you've attracted the attention of a few of those "duplicates" yourself!
And indeed, this is not in Wiesbaden... but I don't know what's suspicious about that?!
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Yes, they are my new fans and groupies, they follow me everywhere.
Well it was suspicious to me because the police car is from Wiesbaden.
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Good Luck with your groupies, but I see you've already enlisted prominent support!
Yeah... Wiesbaden is the state capital, so all the coppers here have that license plate... but I assume you're German yourself and probably know that?!
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Oh, I actually didn't know that. Here in Schleswig-Holstein, all cop cars have "SH" as their license plate and not "KI" for Kiel. I learn something new every day.
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Interesting... we both learned something today. I thought it would be the state capital code everywhere... hmm... looks like we both don't get out enough... LOL
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Wait a sec what's this tag reprography I justed spotted this with fresh eyes suspiciously glitchy @fraenk
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I've posted a hint in a top-level comment... you're on the right track and the #reprography tag could be a hint indeed!
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Hmm could it be the use of replication instead of replica?
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But the tag has now changed to #duplicity - a double city, perhaps?
And steemitabuse has been added as a tag (don't know if it already was that tag). Hmm hmm...
I've been looking all over, haven't found anything more :-/
EDIT, is this significant:
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heh... yeah... i changed the tags to add some hints... well noticed!
those dots have no significance... they were just a distraction... though I guess symbolically you could appropriate them to fit the theme... ?!?
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I mean it's a real word, unless of course it's a custom tag for your new posts.
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Some public art here :) Nice))
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good kitty :D
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Ralph is a mirage, he's not in the other photos and I see proof of photo manipulations in the close ups ! Specially around the mouth π my missus was asking what the mouth was as her screen brightness was down , she thought it was a leaf. So had a look again :D
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Nope... Ralph is original... and he's really there... (well was, those eyes on the ground don't last very long)
Here's an unedited full resolution JPG of an alternative angle, my images usually only get color graded and corrected for highlighting certain areas of an image - #GooglyEyes are usually contrast-compressed to make them more "glaring" - and that's everything that has been done in the case of Ralph's close-up portrait as well.
But Maarten is spot on with his observation!
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Darn it, strangely looked edited haha paranoia set in. I spotted the tag change before I drove off. But what does it mean in context hmmm
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