Social media users shared an image online showing a group of cheerleaders throwing a fellow cheerleader in the air and what diarrhea of the cheerleader looks like on the other. This photo has been digitally processed and circulated since 2014.
Examples can be seen here and here.
The fact-checker Snopes uncovered the farce here in 2014. The creation indeed originated from a Reddit photoshop contest in 2014, as it appears in a subreddit called / photoshopbattles. The first example of the modified image can be seen here (first link titled “Where will you be if diarrhea strikes?”). The unedited photo can be seen here.
The cheerleader seen in the air in the photo then appears with her mother on The Steve Wilkos Show to talk about being teased, bullied and not wanting to cheerlead after the manipulated photo went viral.
A woman claiming to be the cheerleader’s aunt also posted a tweet here and explain that the photo is fake.
VERDICT
Alter. This image showing a group of cheerleaders has been altered and emerges from a “Photoshop Challenge” in 2014.
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