12 Viral Photographs That Took the World by Storm but Tuned Out Fake

9 George Bush reading a book upside down

This turned out to be a hilarious photo at the time which showed George Bush Jr reading a book upside down. It immediately went viral and the media poked fun at the intelligence level of the then president. But! The hullaballoo was for nothing because in the original photo, Bush was holding the book correctly.

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10 Seconds before

This was a big fake which appeared a few weeks after 9/11. There were several illogical inconsistencies surrounding the photo such as the biggest fact that the tourist doesn’t even seem perturbed in the least at the plane approaching him. How did they survive to process the photo? Obviously, it was a fake riding high on the wave of the tragedy which helped make the photo viral. It was proved to be a fake and the tourist was also found. The original photo carried a date stamp of four years before 9/11 and was taken on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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11 Batman and Joker

This twitter image went viral with the caption that said Heath Ledger was having fun on the sets of The Dark Knight”. The photo is still doing the rounds on the internet but it was a well-edited fake.

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12 Airborne selfie

This was one clever trick photo and one of the best among fake viral images. It actually gave rise to several copycats which ended in thousands of likes. Although it looks great, it is still a fake. But if you see the real photo you’ll see that it too is not a bad photograph and is worth the attention.

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