The claim
In an apparent PR ad for The Craft, a woman holds a soldering iron painfully incorrectly.
Our conclusion
The photo of the lady and the soldering iron went viral in 2016, and a prankster used it to make a fake PR ad.
Already in 2016, an apparent PR ad from “Das Handwerk” was circulating that contradicts itself: The slogan is “We can do it,” but the lady in the photo doesn’t seem to be able to do it at all: she wears safety glasses while soldering (rather unusual , nothing splashes when soldering), solders on the wrong side of the board and also holds the soldering iron in such a way that she would definitely burn her fingers.
But it is an old stock photo that has never been used in a PR ad.
The wrong PR ad
The image of the false PR ad has been circulating for several years and is currently causing a lot of laughter on Twitter :
“ We are craftsmen. We can do it. ”, but the image used would prove the absolute opposite – if it had ever been used.
Bizarre stock photos – not uncommon
When photographers want to make a little money on the side, they take so-called stock photos, which can then be purchased for commercial use Shutterstock unintentionally funny depictions of various professions can often be found on the platforms
“Hey space astronomer, where is space?”
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 4, 2018
[Space astronomer puts on his lab coat and adjusts his space safety goggles] “According to my latest science, there is space.” pic.twitter.com/ndeVJCsPXP
And the photo of the lady soldering was also a stock photo years ago , but (understandably) it no longer online . Memes about the photo are still floating around the internet.
The site “ PetaPixel ” also reported on the photo in March 2016, which went viral at the time. But the photo was never used Das Handwerk
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“ The soldering iron, little smiley this week. But fake. First question what you see. on Twitter in December 2016 and showed one of the real PR advertisements.
Conclusion
Back in 2016, someone made a joke, took the photo that had gone viral and added the slogan and logo of “Das Handwerk” to it. However, this PR ad never existed.
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