A photograph appeared on social networks that depicts a smiling man with two cups of ice cream in his hands. Internet users claim that it is made in Afghanistan, and it is captured on it one of the militants of the Taliban, which rejoices at the coming of the group to power. We checked whether the militant of a terrorist organization really in the photo is really in the photo.
The photograph began to spread after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. Part of the content, social networks have already been banned, but with such signatures the photograph went a couple of weeks ago:
“Ha ha, one of the fighters of the Taliban in honor of the capture of Afghanistan gives her friends ice cream,”- wrote One of Twitter users.
“The peaceful Talib fights for the Ice Cream revolution in Afghanistan,” - ironically I answered another.
"Talib" with great joy tries ice cream " - signed The third photo.
Now there are not many posts left on social networks with a photograph of Afghan, with a smile holding ice cream glasses in his hands. This is probably due to the fact that social networks began to actively block content related to the Taliban: such a policy has already adhere to, for example, Facebook and Instagram (officially Twitter has not yet occupied such a position). Nevertheless, some publications in social networks remained: users claimed that the photo was taken in Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power. The fact of this story Made Even some Picabu users.
In fact, we are talking about photography, which was shot in 2002 by the famous photojournalist Steve McCari. The most popular was the work of the Afghan Girl, placed on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985.
June 28 McKari Published On Twitter, a post with his old photo of 2002, also taken in Afghanistan. It captured the same man with two cups of ice cream. McCari signed the photo like this: “A man buys ice cream to his children in Puli-Khumri, Afghanistan, 2002.” The photograph was taken after the city during the United States and UK military operation "Invincent Freedom" Freed out From the Taliban.
The same photo was Published In 2016, on the online download and storage of images IMGUR. It was signed correctly. Later photography appeared And on other sites on the Internet.
The day after the Taliban announced the full control of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, on August 16, along with compliments of the photographer among the reflexes to tweet appeared Another: "It is mainly used in memes."
Apparently, the photograph fell into the overall stream of publications about the Taliban after the capture of the authorities: various English -language publications wrote about the ironic posts of militants, and in social networks appeared The videos where they ride on attractions in entertainment parks.
A day later, on August 17, a new, this time a real photograph of the Taliban militants with ice cream in their hands appeared on Twitter. Her Published Journalist of the Afghan publication Tolo Abdul Omeri.
It is not known whether this was a reference to the already existing photograph of Afghan with ice cream made by Steve McCari. Some English -speaking media countedthat the photo was ironically taken in response to the American President Joe Biden, who once when asked about the capture of the Capitol declaredthat I came to eat ice cream. Reporters tried to ask him questions about the events in the Capitol, but Biden simply Left From the answer, hiding behind ice cream, for which he was awarded ridicule in the media.
One way or another, in the photograph that interests the Internet users, not the Taliban militant is captured, but the Afghan, who bought ice cream to his children after the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban in 2002.
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