In December 2022, Internet users reported that an advertising poster with the image of the President of Ukraine inside the contraceptive appeared in Brazil. We checked the reliability of such publications.
On December 7 and 8, more than 300 channels in Telegram shared a picture in which the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky is depicted inside the condom. “Some people should never have been born,” says the English -language signature for the drawing. The authors of such posts also claim that this image is used in condom advertising in Brazil. Among the largest channels, in which there were posts about Zelensky, which became the face of an unusual advertising campaign, - Voblya (1.31 million subscribers at the time of writing this analysis), "Russia now"(1.24 million)," "Observer🇷🇺🇺🇦"(1.13 million)," "🔥 Army 🅉 18+ 🔥"(1.02 million)," "Bullet"(838 000),"The first folk"(796 000),"Federation"(789 000),"What happened?"(590 000),"Special operation z"(467 000),"Type40k goblina (Oper.ru)"(462 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(388 000),"Ostashko! Important"(338 000) and Putin TG Team (314,000). The news was also divided into Facebook*, Twitter, "VKontakte"And other social networks.
Three years ago, Internet users are actively Published Very similar posts: supposedly in Brazil they released an advertisement with exactly the same slogan and concept, only inside the condoms were placed by US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the DPRK Kim Jong -un. All three images are genuine, they were placed on social networks for Behance designers, and Trump and Kim - in May 2017. Authors of pictures - project designers Platinum FMD, which is based in Brazilian Rio de Janeiro and is engaged in computer graphics.
At the same time, the Platinum FMD publications on Behance does not indicate the condom manufacturing company, which acted as the customer of such an advertisement. No brands are mentioned either in the pictures themselves or in the description of the project. At the end of the presentation of its first part (pictures with Trump and Kim) it is indicated that this is a “private project” - therefore, apparently, the designer published not only the final image, but also the numerous sketches and screenshots of the intermediate stages of work on the pictures.
When at the end of 2019 the images of world leaders (and especially Putin) inside condoms became viral, Platinum FMD decided to clarify the situation on its Facebook page. “We discovered that our author’s series“ Some people should never have been born ”appeared on a humorous page on 9GAG and became popular, haha. Thanks, guys, and just for clarity: this is not an advertisement for condoms, this is just our creative fantasy for a personal project, ” - Reported Designers.
Neither on the website of the Brazilian agency, nor in its social networks we found confirmation that the series “Some people should never have been born” had a continuation with the participation of the President of Ukraine. Moreover, if you carefully look at the picture with Vladimir Zelensky, you can see that this is just a poster processed in the photo editor with the image of Donald Trump, which appeared five years ago. The image mirrors along the vertical axis, the “hostage” became slimmer, the color of the tie was changed from red to blue, and the face of the ex-president of the United States, carefully drawn by the Brazilian designers, was replaced by a simple picture of the President of Ukraine.
The earliest post using this “advertising” that we were able to detect was published on VKontakte. December 6 at 15:13 Moscow time, the image placed public "Bru, sir!"(2.1 million subscribers). “The community has been created with an entertaining goal and publishes humorous content,” the description says. At the same time, "Bru, sir!" tells About how the "PMC pilots" Wagner repeated the feat Nikolai Gastello»Under the bahmut, POST memes about Zelensky-narcomaniac ("verified" earlier Disassembled Similar statements) and Publishing A photo of a nuclear missile with a signature: “Here the guys suggest not refusing Uranus to supply to the USA, but simply change the delivery method ... support?”
Thus, recent reports on social networks are sent to publications of three years ago, when Internet users incorrectly interpreted the work of designers from Brazil, accepting their drawings for real advertising. An image with the participation of the President of Ukraine is not just an incorrect interpretation of a real image, but the result of work in a photo editor, created far beyond the borders of Brazil.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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