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lucasseliott · 5 years

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Okay, so better late than never and I don’t know if anyone cares enough to read all this but I wanted all the cool things that happened to me and @saphy-supernova at EIL3 written down in one place so, here it goes.

- We arrived in Paris the day before the con and once we had checked into the hotel we met up with our Tumblr Mecs GC ( @jebentnietalleen, @chelouelou, @chelou-mecs-in-love, @aspewofnonsense, @isakvaltrsen ) and we visited ‘Le Petite Ceinture’ ( after a few minutes of struggling to try and find the gate, but we won’t dwell on that ) it’s so pretty and all the art and things people have written on the pillars are so cool to look at. One of my fave things I spotted:

- Then Saphron and I went back to the hotel and I spotted this at the correct moment on the clock #sickskamreference

- Then it was convention time!

- We met @srodvlv and talked about our mutual love of Bastille!!

- Our first photoshoot was with the boy squad and when Robin, Paul and Leo saw our shirts they freaked out and said to Saphron that we '...have to show them to Axel!'

- We then had our photo duos with Axel and Maxence and they also freaked out over our shirts and Maxence was like let me take a photo so on his phone there is currently a picture of Saphron with Axel, and me looking derp in the background of the pic, and this moment was then immortalised by skamfrance.live on their instastory!

- Our final photoshoots were with Rocco and Maxence and urghh, Rocco is so sweet and kind, we love.

- Saphron posted a couple of instastories of our shirts and stickers and DAVID SAW THEM AND SHARED THEM, which we then freaked out about!

- The Skam France panel was a whole different experience all together, we got to see Axel being chaotic and getting the cast to sing Happy Birthday to David, as is the norm nowadays... Also, Axel being amazing and making sure everyone had their questions answered even though they were running overtime.

- Seeing Axel and Maxence interacting on the panel was also a sight to behold #friendshipgoals, I also got this rare occurrence on camera, the exchange of the chaotic energy braincell from Axel to Maxence:

- We then met some of the Skam Italia cast and they were all sweet and cute af and Beatrice literally gushed over Saphron's name, and Saphron was slightly nervous when meeting Rocco and he told her not to be and pulled her into their selfie like the King™ he is, and then Rocco stared into my soul and said thank you so sincerely like four times I died.

- At some point during the day we were sat on the floor and Thomas Hayes walked past us and Saphron got a crisp high five!

- Also got to see Ulrikke Falch in person at her panel and she's beautiful and amazing and I love her, her reactions when listening to the host translate her answers to French were priceless!

- After a veryyyy long wait in a queue we finally got to the signing lines, props too all the cast that stayed for over four more hours to see everyone, they really do the most for us. We got to meet Laïs!, Assa!, Phillipine!, Paul!, Robin!, Axel! and Maxence!

- Assa saw my shirt and took a video of me with her freaking out about in the background and sent it straight to David while I watched on shook af 😂

- Paul and Robin recognised me from my shirt and I got compliments and an approving nod from both of them, also the both freaked out over the stickers I gave them and stuck them on the backs of their phones immediately.

- Oh. My. Gosh. talking to Axel one-on-one is An Experience™. What a legend, he was literally stood up behind the signing table the whole time I was in the area, like how did his legs not hurt? Calves of steel I say Calves. Of. Steel. I got the best selfies with him, he also freaked out over the stickers when I gave him a sheet and took a photo of them and texted it to David and was like look I texted him!! Urgh King. He also wrote a really nice message on the pic I had him sign 🥰.

- Maxence was also sweet af, but are we surprised? He was sitting cross legged on the signing table, and also got mega excited when I gave him a sticker sheet and was like 'oh wow, thank you! Wait, these STICKERS! Then proceeded to shout over to Axel across the signing line like ‘AXEL AXEL LOOK STICKERS! *some more excited French* and then thanked me again, definitely didn't think he had that much energy left in him at 10pm. I LOVE HIM! 😍

- Also, quick sidenote, a miracle occurred and I didn't have my eyes shut in any of my selfies, which I’m shook about, cause it's normally a common occurrence with me and pictures 😂

- THEN, on the way back from McDonald's after the con we were walking along the pavement back to the hotel and there was a group of girls heading towards us and they saw our David shirts and started singing happy birthday, it was amazing and we loled v hard!

- Heading into the hotel we saw Robin, Paul and Axel just chilling by the entrance talking to a couple of the convention organisers, and Paul legit recognised us with our shirts and gave us a smile!

- The next morning I woke up early and had a quick look through some instastories from the con and saw that skamfrance.live had posted that pic and then over breakfast they had seen that I had posted their story onto mine and they messaged me, and I nearly choked on my pain au chocolat not gonna lie, they told us how they thought the shirts were 'so damn cool!' and I told them they were amazing and a god send, we love wholesome interaction! Saphron was also messaged by them and they got Maxence to send the pics he took on!!! his!!! phone!!! over to her and we silently freaked out some more over our breakfasts.

- And finally ( if you've made it this far you are the true troopers in this fandom ), today Saphron posted our selfie with our t-shirts on her Instagram feed and David liked! and commented! twice! More acknowledgement from the king himself 😍.

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- Finally finally, just wanted to say thanks to everyone I met and thanks to all the actors for being even more cool and amazing than I already knew them to be, and thanks to Saphron for making it the best trip, I’m looking forward to EIL4 with you already!

#eil #skam #skam france #skam italia #axel auriant #maxence danet fauvel #robin migne #paul scarfoglio #rocco fasano #ulrikke falch #assa sylla #legit the best time ever

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discourseprincesalies · 7 years

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I’m really sorry for all the backlash you’ve been getting. Thank you so much for doing this.

I have some stuff to submit that doesn’t count as proof and is certainly not going to convince anyone who is on our side and still making excuses for her. I wouldn’t post it if I were you, to be honest, because it’s not enough (unfortunately). Just thought I would let you know, though, because maybe it’ll help. Combined with all the stuff about her that doesn’t add up, it definitely seems a little… fishy at best. It’s embarrassing but I used to be a “catfish” about six or seven years ago. I know the tricks. That’s probably why she’s ringing my alarm bells. So when she posted a picture earlier today - again, weird picture size that isn’t possible on an iPhone, weird black and white filter, face cropped out in a way that doesn’t make sense - I decided to look into it more.

This is kind of long. Apologies.

On the left, you can see the properties of Princesa’s picture. On the right, the properties of a random picture I took with my iPhone a while back. I didn’t edit it - at least not that I remember; I might have changed the lighting a little. When you crop a picture on your iPhone, it will stay cropped even when you upload it somewhere but will change back to its original size once you transfer it from your phone to your computer. But even

you crop your picture and even

you edit it in any way (using Apple’s picture editing tools, not a third-party tool), you cannot erase the meta data. My picture properties give information about my old phone, whether I used flash or not, the exposure time, etc. If you scrolled down (I haven’t taken a screenshot of that part because I figured you’d get the gist), you’d even be able to see some stuff about my lens. No such thing can be found on Princesa’s picture.

[Sidenote: I know it says “Remove Properties or Personal Information” but this only deletes some information, like ISO Speed or your Camera maker and model, and it won’t keep websites like FotoForensics from getting to your data anyhow. I will talk about this in depth later.]

Well, maybe I’m too hard on her, I thought. Maybe it’s different when a picture is uploaded on mobile and/or the app.

Wrong.

Someone I follow is a mobile blogger most of the time. I scrolled through their blog and saved one of the pictures they shared. Again, the comparison gives the same results as the one prior. I used a picture I took with my old phone for the comparison earlier but the person I follow has a newer phone, presumably the same one Princesa is showing in her picture. As you can see, it’s the same damn thing. The meta data didn’t get lost after they uploaded it to their blog. But it did for Princesa. For some reason.

I wanted to give her the benefit of doubt. I really did. I don’t like blindly accusing people (or blindly believing people) without having a sufficient amount of proof. So I took to Tumblr again, this time a different blog, and saved one of the pictures this person had posted. This blogger had uploaded a picture of themselves with various Instagram filters - a full-size picture so I guess they uploaded the picture Instagram saved on their phone. Here’s another comparison:

These seem similar enough. Instagram - or any third-party editing software app for your phone - seems to erase any trace of your picture’s meta data. However what struck me as a little odd is Princesa’s picture keeping the “Comments” and “Date taken” data while my mutual’s picture (also mainly a mobile blogger, by the way) didn’t.

It is important to note that you can edit the “Date taken” part. If my picture doesn’t have any meta data regarding the date (because I ran it through a third-party program like Instagram, I saved it as a .PNG first and then converted it to a .JPG file or I took a screenshot of someone else’s picture on Snapchat, Facebook and/or Instagram, etc.), I can fake the date it was allegedly taken. I can take any of my already existing pictures and edit the “Date taken” so that it looks like I took it just now, a few minutes ago. The parts about the camera, lens, etc., however, I can’t change.

I considered that she might have cropped and edited the picture and then taken a screenshot of it rather than saving the picture to avoid accidentally exposing her face (a valid reason, nobody has to post selfies if they don’t want to). The “Comments: Screenshot” part also confused me. So I checked my own iPhone screenshots and looked at the properties again to compare.

This is what mine look like:

iPhone screenshots are .PNG files. Not .JPEG or .JPG files, like her picture.

Finally, I took to FotoForensics.

http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=c270ba9dad68cbf1681bd2354c6786089c2906fc.86822

http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=df29339ebb221df4dac6020e15cba1be2aaa7ec4.53640

I ran both her pictures through it. If the links don’t work anymore by the time you see this, here are the relevant parts:

These pictures were opened (and presumably edited) in Photoshop at least once. Now let’s give her the benefit of doubt again. She is allowed to edit in Photoshop. She isn’t the first nor the last person to use Photoshop.

But then:

(This is the non-edited picture one of the people I follow posted. To protect their privacy, I won’t link you to the page but you can repeat this process with your own picture(s) or with one of your mutuals or followers. It should give the same or similar results.)

As you can see, all the meta data is still there. It’s actually more meta data than Windows lets you look at. Little to no meta data found on Princesa’s picture. And yes, those two screenshots are the combined meta data of one picture. Princesa’s pictures don’t provide nearly as much.

And since I wanted to be completely sure, I edited a picture of my dog in Photoshop (resized it, cropped it, added a bunch of lousy effects, desaturated it, you name it) and then did the same thing.

I won’t bore you with the FotoForensics results but it’s basically the same - the picture keeps all its meta data related to the camera, loses some about the lens (since the picture was severely edited by me) and has the additional lines about Photoshop. If you look back at Princesa’s picture’s properties on Windows, though, you’ll see that the Photoshop part isn’t there. According to FotoForensics, however, she definitely opened it in Photoshop at least once.

I’m not saying she’s a catfish or a fake. But what’s for certain is that she edits her pictures, doesn’t post them from mobile as she claims (the sizes she keeps using are unusual for an iPhone model anyway) and she knows what she’s doing. See that part about the “Program name” in my last picture? I couldn’t delete it but there are ways to get rid of it - if you know how. She hid the fact that she used Photoshop for both her pictures. Why? It’s not unusual for people to edit their pictures with a picture editing software nor is it a crime. People do it all the time. So why go out of your way to hide it and make sure nobody finds out? Why go out of the way to manually add the date of when your picture was allegedly taken so that the meta data looks more convincing? If she had left it blank, I would’ve just assumed she edited it in the Instagram app first, like my mutual. It just seems super fishy.

[Another thing is that FotoForensics checks if your picture was altered in any way. I’m not 100% skilled with FotoForensics analyses regarding picture editing but the bathroom selfie looks edited to me, especially if you compare the original picture to the analysis provided by the website. But since I’m not too good with that I chose to not comment on it. Maybe you’re better at it than me or you know someone who is.]

Sorry this is so long. I don’t know if this helps at all.

#discourseprincesa #ace discourse #catfishing #submission #receipts

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