History Main / WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'', the protagonist notes that teenage FashionModel Junko Enoshima looks different than she does on her cover photos, which she explains is because they are all Photoshopped. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a lie; the real reason she looks different is because the "Junko" you meet at the beginning and is killed just before the first trial [[TwinSwitch is actually her non-identical twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba]].]]

* The ''Transformers'' episode "Megatron's Master Plan" has Megatron frame the Autobots for crimes via faked video footage. In a bit of a subversion, he didn't fake the footage digitally; he actually disguised ths Decepticons as Autobots and got a human stooge to videotape them in action.

** Other episodes feature villains impersonating Kirk's voice over the comm (in "A Taste of Armageddon" and "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" where it is done via computer or robot, and in "Whom Gods Destroy" where it was the voice of a shapeshifter) and in two out of those three, Scotty is savvy enough to see through the ruse.

* The 'Transformers' episode "Megatron's Master Plan" has Megatron frame the Autobots for crimes via faked video footage. In a bit of a subversion, he didn't fake the footage digitally; he actually disguised ths Decepticons as Autobots and got a human stooge to videotape them in action.

** One episode was ahead of its time in this matter, sort of. Kirk was facing court martial for the death of a crewman when video footage from the bridge shows him pushing the wrong button on his captain's chair. Spock discovered that the computer had been, in fact, tampered with, and the not-so-dead crewman had altered the footage. It's never explained why ''no one else'' (including Kirk's attorney) bothers to mention the possibility before the story's climax, however.
** Another episode had Spock using a computer to convincingly create commands in Kirk's voice.

!!Since the trope is so prevalent, only exceptions or particularly egregious examples are worth mention:

In reality, it's very difficult to fake these things digitally or otherwise. Not a year goes by without some [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up5jmbSjWkw fake UFO video]] appearing and subsequently being torn to pieces by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLRbTtd8IKM over analyzers]]. Any competent effects artist or Photoshop user will tell the difference quite easily.

* Hilariously subverted in an episode of ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', when a vampire records Tom and George transforming into werewolves and uploads it to YouTube, hoping to cause chaos in the human world by revealing the existence of werewolves. It utterly fails, as everyone who sees the video just assumes it's done via special effects (with one commenter even criticizing the production quality).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': In "Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius", Carl convinced his PenPal that he was a genius by sending her pictures from Jimmy's past exploits with his face taped over Jimmy's.

* There was an episode of ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' in which it was discovered and discussed that digital media, including images stored in digital form, are subject to new and insidious forms of manipulation, distortion, and outright fakery.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls2013'': To make Twilight Sparkle look bad, the villains took a picture of her when she was playing soccer, ''cut her out of the picture'' and glued her into another picture to make it look like she was destroying the decorations in the cafeteria. ''No one'', not even a well-seasoned teacher, bats an eye at this until Flash Sentry shows up and ''shows the obvious''. They're not using Photoshop in the future because they just went ''backwards''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': To make Twilight Sparkle look bad, the villains took a picture of her when she was playing soccer, ''cut her out of the picture'' and glued her into another picture to make it look like she was destroying the decorations in the cafeteria. ''No one'', not even a well-seasoned teacher, bats an eye at this until Flash Sentry shows up and ''shows the obvious''. They're not using Photoshop in the future because they just went ''backwards''.

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Command and Conquer|TiberianDawn}}'', a journalist is covering a attack on civilians by The Good Guys - we then cut to a scene with that very same reporter in front of a green screen in a small studio. The BigBad comes walking in, starts discussing how to spread the lie - then notices that the camera is still on and shoots it, ending the scene. Also of note is that the game takes place in 1995 or so, so its ''not'' the future, and green screens are the best we've got.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Played with in "Insta-Gran". The Loud kids do use photoshop to make a fake photo of Seymour and Myrtle apparently kissing. However, Pop-Pop never considers that the photo might be fake, and immediatly confronts Seymour about it, even telling him that “pictures don’t lie”.

* Sometimes, all that new-fangled CGI technology can still trip people up. One [[JustForFun/{{egregious}} egregious]] case was where the ITV news program ''Exposure'' aired some footage of the IRA shooting down a British helicopter; Except the footage was actually from someone playing the video game ''[[Videogame/{{ARMA}} ARMA II]]''.

* Sometimes, all that new-fangled CGI technology can still trip people up. One [[JustForFun/{{egregious}} egregious]] case was where the ITV news program ''Exposure'' aired some footage of the IRA shooting down a British helicopter; Except the footage was actually from someone playing the video game ''Arma2''.

** Played for laughs in a ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' episode when Captain Gideon runs across some Pak'ma'ra-on-human porn. Dr. Chambers walks in on this and comments that there's no way the relevant parts would even fit together properly. Gideon replies, "It's amazing what they can do with technology these days."

* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked''. As part of Dreadzone's smear campaign against him, newscasters Dallas and Juanita blatantly doctor photos to make it look like Ratchet is taking part in various misdeeds, such as being a gangster or onto a muscleman to make it look like he used banned performance enhancing drugs. In one of their photos, you can plainly see the tape attaching the cutout of Ratchet's head onto it, and one is just a picture of Clank with devil horns and a goatee scribbled onto it.

[[caption-width-right:350:An [[BlatantLies in-depth Vox News investigation]] reveals that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ratchet skipped leg day.]][[note]]Btw, this game takes place in the year 5357.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:An [[BlatantLies in-depth Vox News investigation]] reveals that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ratchet skipped leg day.[[note]]Btw, this game takes place in the year 5357.[[/note]]]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:An [[BlatantLies in-depth Vox News investigation]] reveals that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ratchet skipped leg day.]]]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LoudHouse'': Played with in "Insta-Gran". The Loud kids do use photoshop to make a fake photo of Seymour and Myrtle apparently kissing. However, Pop-Pop never considers that the photo might be fake, and immediatly confronts Seymour about it, even telling him that “pictures don’t lie”.

* SouthPark had an episode centered on Japanese whaling operations, and it turns out in the episode that the Japanese were given an edited photo from the US government that implicates dolphins and whales as the culprits behind the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they were seeking revenge.