In June 2023, a photo of a 3D-rusuk, allegedly taken in the Dutch city, was distributed on social networks. It is reported that the author portrayed the President of Ukraine in the form of an octopus, taking the money of Europe and America. We checked whether this work is real.
In early June 2023, two photographs of graffiti, allegedly applied on the street in The Hague, were dispersed over the network, and the drawing is not yet completed in one of the pictures. Both photos also show the author (his face is hidden) of the alleged street art, on which Vladimir Zelensky is represented in the form of a green octopus with a human face and coat of arms of Ukraine on the forehead. At the same time, in the tentacles of the thug, bags with money in the colors of the flags of the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Finland and Poland are visible.
Numerous publications report that the authors of this humiliating Work - Polish artists. “The greedy octopus of the potion” - Give Some posts. Part of users They remembered About the allegedly appeared in Madrid graffiti with Zelensky in the form of locusts, calling these drawings "folk art." Similar publications appeared in Telegram channels "Zlaya Pruf"(143,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"What happened?"(109,000),"Russia 2.0"(70 000), Russia 🇷🇺 Live (60,000), "DPR 🅉 info 🇷🇺"(58 000),"Mriya"(52,000),"Nikita Mikhalkov in Telegram"(50,000),"Notes of Zhirinovsky"(45,000),"Patriot Z🇷🇺"(38 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(22,000),"Russia"(19,000),"True and cats"(15,000),"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(13,000),"Hardcore News"(11,000) and others. The news of the Hague Graffiti became popular in VKontakte, where hundreds and thousands of likes collected posts (examples here, here, here And here). Also, pictures are found in Twitter, "Odnoklassniki" (here And here) and on some entertainment and news sites, among which 9GAG And "Mriya".
The primary source of the photographs of interest to us is the resources of the Typical Optical team, calling yourself a Polish art group. Viral pictures on June 7, 2023 appeared in their Telegram-canale (1600 views) and in Instagram*-Acount, where both images were posted in the form of nine separate publications. The English -language signature for the posts reads: “Damn Kraken! He still eats our money. ” In geota and hashtags indicatedthat the drawing was made in the Hague.
Not the first time, “verified” the Typical Optical work, which Russian media and Telegram channels regularly talk about. For the first time we wrote about the photographs published by this team in November 2022, when there were reports of graffiti in Warsaw with the image of Zelensky in the image of a black hole that sucks money. Then It turned outthat the picture was falsified, and such a drawing on the sidewalk in the capital of Poland did not exist. Subsequently, “Polish artists” shared a photo of seven more drawings allegedly from New York, Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, London and Paris, where the president of Ukraine was presented in the form of locusts (here And here), acne and feces And again a black hole (here And here). New publication from the rest is fundamentally Differs Only the presence of two photographs at once: one of them is captured by the not yet finished graffiti. In all previous cases, it was “verified” to the conclusion that the photo is fake, since there were never such 3D arts on the streets. Moreover, more than once the authors indicated incorrect locations.
As for the photo of the "Hague" graffiti, it was not made in the Hague and not in the Netherlands at all. In the background of both pictures, the logo of the network of gas stations is noticeable Avia, a store with a SEEMATT-SHOP sign and a sign with a phrase DA amici (all this is best seen in separate fragments, published On Instagram). With the help of Google cards, we found location captured location - photo is taken in the Swiss city Bulala, located in the canton of Zurich. At the same time, the authors of Typical Optical are not the first time to give out the surroundings of Zurich for other European cities (for example, London and Berlin).
It turned out to be somewhat more difficult to answer the question of whether such graffiti appeared in Bulah. “Verified” could not find the references to this drawing in the Swiss media or its pictures from other users of social networks, but in this case it is not the most significant argument. The fact is that Bulala is not such a densely populated city as London, Berlin or Zurich himself: according to site The local administration, as of May 2023, a little more than 24,000 people lived there. “Verified” sent requests with a request to comment on the alleged appearance of graffiti at the Bulah City Hall, as well as in several establishments located near the place where the picture was taken, but by the time of publication of this text we did not receive answers.
In confirmation of the version that the photo was edited, we can cite the argument of the street art specialists who commented on other pictures of Typical Optical. In their earlier publications, in addition to multi -colored crayons, in the photo you could see the cans, which, by words Professional artists are used to apply paint on vertical surfaces and are not suitable for such horizontal graffiti. Soon after, the spray cans stopped appearing in the pictures of Polish artists, and only crayons remained. At the same time, As in previous cases, the clothes of the alleged author of graffiti are incredibly clean that According to experts, it would be extremely unlikely taking into account the complexity of work and the large time costs of its creation.
Thus, in the Hague Graffiti with Zelensky in the form of a flatter did not appear, and viral photographs published by the authors were actually taken in Switzerland. At the same time, the Polish Artists have been issuing the surroundings of Zurich for other cities for other cities, where, according to local authorities and residents, Typical Optical street arts did not previously appear. However, with 100 percent confidence to argue that this time there was no 3D-risun in the suburbs of Zurich. Nevertheless, based on the previous eight cases, the likelihood that graffiti is real is extremely small.
At the time of the publication of this analysis on Typical Optical Instagram, in addition to fragments of the photo from the Hague, only fake A picture from Madridpublished in March. Earlier at all remote posts of this account stood A special note about false information.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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