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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1286801, member: 27043&quot;]Sorry.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This just happens to be the only forum I hang out on that doesn&#039;t use this meme regularly, apparently.&nbsp; I&#039;ve used it 2-3 times and each time someone&#039;s said &quot;Yes, we know it&#039;s shopped!&quot; or something along those lines, as though I was &quot;assessing&quot; the image and rendering a guess or judgement that it had been manipulated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;This looks shopped, I can tell by some of the pixels&quot; meme started in the early 2000&#039;s, and is a &quot;smart remark&quot; about an obviously and/or poorly manipulated image.&nbsp; It&#039;s basically sarcasm, poking fun at the idea that anyone might need to look carefully or have seen lots of photoshopped images, the idea being that the image in question is SO poorly done, that it&#039;s obvious to even a casual observer.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some who suggest, though no actual citations can be provided, that it originated in a Fark.com photoshop contest thread, when a new user tried to &quot;bust&quot; someone&#039;s obviously manipulated image by pointing out its flaws, not realizing that the point of the thread was to post manipulated images. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; It&#039;s said that the user called out several examples with the faked &quot;credibility&quot; of being able to tell by some of the pixels, and having seen quite a few shops in his time. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, probably much like that apocryphal newbie, I was just being a sarcastic troll. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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