For several months, outraged Internet users publish posts in which they claim that Europeans allegedly began to make tables from the dead. We checked whether this method of burial of the deceased is really practicing in Europe.
Publications about "cannibalous morals"Residents of Europe in relation to deceased relatives began to disperse in the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet yet in summer 2023, but new posts on this subject appeared in February 2024. It is reported that in unnamed countries in recent years An unusual way of burial of the dead is gaining popularity: instead of burial or cremation, corpses are filled with transparent resin, and the resulting cubes are used as coffee tables. At the same time, a family photo is given in the records, which thus allegedly acted with the body of her deceased grandmother. “They have no reverence even to their ancestors, who are not allowed to rest normally,” Commented News authors of such posts. This method also found supporters - they They thinkthat this is how it is better to preserve the memory of a deceased person and have some physical connection with him.
For example, Telegram channels "wrote about the unusual way of burial, allegedly gaining popularity in Europe"Contact hunter"(36,000 views at the time of writing this analysis)," Dawn "(twice: 29,000 And 20,000), "Awing to the world"(20,000)," Chronicles of the past "(twice: 12 000 And 7000), "Secret plan"(12,000) and others (examples here, here And here). Hundreds of thousands of views in public in VKontakte were gaining records on this subject (here, here, here, here And here), they also meet in "Classmates" And Instagram*, on the sites of some Media And on entertaining resources. In Runet, the news about the new form of the funeral rite came from the English -language segment of the network, where such publications collected tens of millions of views and thousands of likes in Facebook*, Instagram, X And Tiktok.
In most of the above publications, the viral picture of the body of the old woman inside a transparent cube is not an independent photo, but a blogger tweet screenshot Chris Ray Gun (944,000 views), but the author of the photograph is not him. With the help of the opposite Search According to the image, you can find out that for the first time the photo was published on June 19, 2023 by another user of social network X under the nickname Free Willie UrQS. “The coverage of loved ones with acrylic resin was perfect for a grandmother,” said Twita. That post scored less than 5,000 views, and the viral became almost the same that the author laid out a few minutes later - he received Already 387,000 views.
Free Willie UrQS tweets were written as comments on the Kelly Port post - a visual effect specialist, working Above Hollywood blockbusters, among which the Avengers: Final and Spider-Man: There is no way home. ” June 18 port Published A similar picture in which in Cuba there was a huge dog instead of the old woman. The image was accompanied by the signature: "The coating of beloved acrylic resin is a great gift for the Father's Day!" Tweet gained 12.5 million views. The version sent in the comments with the old port Commented So: "The grandmother turned out to be a great coffee table!"
That is, it can already be concluded that the initial picture was edited - instead of the dog freee urqs, an old woman took a picture. Moreover, after some time, the blogger published two new pictures on which were changed Regulations women and fingers of a woman and Added puppy.
The image created using a photo editor became popular and went beyond the social network X, having lost its original context, so foreign facts became interested in it. So, the journalist Snopes contacted Free Willie UrQS and I asked It is described by the process of creating a picture. “I can answer for myself, but I can’t say that Kelly used the port to create an original image. My changes were made in the new Beta versions Photoshop with generative AI ” - Explained The author and as evidence brought a screenshot from the program.
Snopes factor is additionally Checked Picture using different services to detect images generated by artificial intelligence: Hive Ai Detector, Illuminarty.ai And Fake Image Detector - All of them with a high degree of probability confirmed that the picture was created by a neural network. Indirect evidence, like this It often happens In such cases, you can find it independently - for example, the grandmother’s “buried” in acrylic seems to have extra fingers, which are also unnaturally curved (although in this case the image defects can be explained by distortion of reflection).
And although the photo that was dispersed in the 2023–2024s, the idea of maintaining the dead in transparent cubes is not new. Back in December 1903, a similar method for preserving the bodies of the dead Patented Joseph Karvovsky, who lived in the United States, “subject of the Tsar of Russia”. “The goal of [the invention] is the creation of means by which the corpse can be hermetically imprisoned in a piece of transparent glass, which allows you to exclude air access to the corpse and save it for an indefinite time in ideal and similar to life, so that it does not decompose and always have a living look,” - It was said In the application. At the same time, Karvovsky did not provide a patent bureau of samples.
As for the recently appeared and so far that have not yet become widespread in Europe, methods of handling the body of the deceased, there is water cremation (it is also resemration). How Explains BBC, to destroy human remains using this technology, a mixture of potassium and water hydroxide is used, which is considered a more environmentally friendly alternative to burning. Four hours later, only the bones remain from the body, they are crushed into powder, and then returned to relatives in the urn. Resomination is used in Canada, South Africa and many US states; In the summer of 2023, it was reported that it will become available in the UK.
Thus, the creation of magazine tables from dead people is not gaining popularity in Europe. A viral picture of an old woman in a transparent cube was created using a neural network as a parody of the work of a specialist in visual effects. Over time, the picture began to be distributed without context, as a result of which the story that caused mass indignation was born about the gaining popularity method of burial.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: @Urquwill (X)
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