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[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Back then they allowed masks

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

In Kindergarten, I was a BLT sandwich. First grade, I was a dollar bill. Second grade, I was a mad scientist. Third grade, I was a vampire archeologist. In fourth grade, my mom died. In fifth and sixth grade, I went in the same Scream mask my dad bought me for $7.99.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm sorry for your loss, that's a crazy burden for anybody let alone a child.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

Nah. It's been around since at most 2021 (post deleted on second link, but thumbnail matches exactly). Someone's color-corrected it at some point.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

What makes to say that? Sorry, I'm desperately trying to learn and I'm terrible at telling them apart.

[–] Juniper@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

One of the kids is missing a head, one child has two left hands, some children don't have legs. The Darth Vader mask and shirt don't make sense visually, and you can see the same shirt repeated on the child with no head.

The desks and chairs are inconsistent, looks like there are a few different styles but they also have bits that don't connect to anything. I don't know what it was like in the late 70s but generally classroom furniture is very consistent.

Then there's something really strange going on with the shadows, like the smurf and clown have dark cutouts attached to them that could be shadow but aren't.

I can't figure out what is happening with the Disney princess mask, it looks just pasted in

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 1 points 45 minutes ago

I see, thank you so much for sharing! I just need to spend more time studying them I think.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

first, look at how homogeneous it is. all the costumes consist of a mask and a shirt. every desk has an empty paper on it. everyone is looking at the camera. almost every costume appears twice. this is an all-black classroom in the early-to-mid-80's, where someone is standing at the front of the classroom with their back to the windows (no light from any wall), taking a photo with flash of kids just sitting at their (all left-handed) desks in full costume.

second, think of the context. bluntly, this photograph should not exist in a world of film cameras, because even without all the visual oddities this is the sort of thing you'd do a photoshoot for. you'd ask all the kids to line up against a wall so you could get all their wonderful costumes. this is a spur-of-the-moment shot, like you'd do with a phone today, and unless you're the teacher you wouldn't be in the spot the photo is taken from.

Edit: more interesting details:

  • count the table legs. they're all different.
  • also the tables are completely misaligned. like they've been placed for the photo.
  • why would a smurf costume include a picture of a smurf?
  • one of the evil knievel costumes has "dukes of hazzard" sewn on.
  • that one kid without a mask looks like he's melting.
  • back to the smurf costume, what are those pants?
  • why is there a piece of cheese on one of the tables?
  • the darth vader costume includes a shirt with orange fur and a picture of darth vader on it? and the kid who has presumably left for the bathroom behind the front clown left their shirt?
  • *points to darth vader mask* "what's wrong with your faAaAaAace?!"
[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 minutes ago

Lol, so many of those points can be answered with: 80s.

Masks with a plastic cover shirt were a common thing. And yes they often had a picture of the character on it, and made no sense. People did take casual photos, that's not out of place.

But there do seem to be oddities, eg the table legs, so hard to say overall

[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

And they all smelled like cigarettes

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Who's the face mask modeled after with those kids wearing Confederate flags? David Duke?

[–] Juniper@piefed.zip 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/728954426/reserved-for-darlene-vintage-1979-ben?show_sold_out_detail=1

This was the Bo Duke costume in 1979

I do agree with the others that this must be a generated image though

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 51 minutes ago

Yeah, Dukes of Hazzard - it's stitched onto the shirt.

[–] finley@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think it might be Evel Knievel

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It's evel Knievel but you're right the face is the same for the dukes of hazard around 1980.

Bo and duke had a costume in 77 but the outfit didn't look like that.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

they are two different masks, because this image isn't real

[–] MrFappy@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 1 minute ago) (3 children)

This image is 100% real, and the masks are the same, just from different angle. Edit: that’s right, feed me your downvotes, even though I’ve been proven correct by the guy down below.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Exactly correct, it predates any half-decent AI image generation. I think you're right about the masks being identical, too.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Headless child in the 4th row?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 6 hours ago

the hair has a completely different shape. also check out the darth vader mask, tell me how that's real.