First of all, I don't give two shits about the royals. I do care when people are trying to be shady as hell though.
So does anyone here with a lukewarm IQ or higher have thoughts on Kate Middleton's recent reappearance after claiming she would be stepping away from her royal duties due to cancer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6AkLWerpw
- It looks like her, not a double like whoever was "out shopping" earlier this year(see link below)
- She looks fine, although a little skinnier
- All shots of her are pretty far away with no audio. They did, however, selectively release "private footage" filmed at different time or day at a time it was more sunny out.
It's just so weird to me. She's clearly alive and a functional human being, why maintain this aire of secrecy and just be normal for once?
For the record, I previously thought she was dead and royal family had been trying to cover it up. This appearance just leaves me scratching my head.
News article from earlier this year about a Princess Kate public appearance: https://www.news18.com/viral/kate-middletons-new-pic-shopping-with-prince-william-has-everyone-saying-thats-not-her-8820609.html
No, she's still dead. If you've seen some of the latest DeepFakes, they're nearly flawless. I am reliably informed that you can look up some celebrity DeepFakes on porn sites to see some of the recent efforts. Quite... uh... sufficient to purpose.
It's becoming commonplace these days for dead people to still be "alive", at least as far as the public is concerned. Hunter and Joe have been dead since before "Biden" was inaugurated. Gavin Newsom has been dead since late 2021. RBG and QE2 were both dead for about a year before it was ever announced. Hillary was executed just before the 2016 election. Putin has had a body double since way back in 2013 (although I do not believe he is dead).
The state of the information war is that you aren't supposed to believe any of this is possible. Shill posts can be easily identified as simply denying the possibility outright without addressing any evidence, or by diverting to another direction of inquiry. In conspiracy circles, such instances rise and fade, but the pattern is that even most conspiracists go back to generally accepting the people as alive.
So it isn't who might have died and when, or if it's even possible to fake their continued existence and how, but the goal now is to gaslight you into rejecting the plausibility entirely. No need for any complicated and troublesome hand-waving in that mode.
Are they always deep fakes or do they use masks? There's a Biden interview video with very clear two-toned skin on the neck. I'm thinking they'll use an actor for the debate, but I don't know how they do the voice. Who is QE2? Hint please
Easy one first: QE2 = Queen Elizabeth II.
As for simulating the continuing existence of a person, they use a wide variety of methods, as convenient, to keep the psyop going. We're familiar with the overt ones--masks, body doubles, DeepFakes, Photoshop, etc--but some of them are very subtle indeed.
Take the example of the least effort, most convincing: you'll see an article about an appearance a subject made somewhere, including a picture. Well, that proves it, right?
It would be easy enough to take an old photo, Shop it a bit to make it look like the place they were supposed to have been, and give it a phony caption, but the really funny thing is that I've never seen that. They just use an old stock photo and label it "Stock photo", or they don't label it at all, or they put in a photo without the subject in question, or they do not include a photo at all.
All these things serve to convince the reader the subject is still alive. Of course they are! Their death was never announced, was it? The absolute key is that no one is actually looking, but their subconscious absorbs the "evidence" all the same. I'm not special, I'm just looking.
There are endless variations on this theme, such as someone mentioning their encounter with the subject. The latest iteration on this--and it is absolutely effective--is that the news will "leak" that the subject has done something bad or embarrassing. Conspiracy theorists jump on it like a duck on a junebug, just as they are meant to.
Finally, as much talk as there has been about DeepFake, the voice aspect has been around even longer but somehow, strangely, never gets any play even in conspiracy circles:
After 20 Minutes of Listening, New Adobe Tool Can Make You Say Anything (Vice 11/5/2016)
There's sort of a funny coincidence about the date of the article. That's right at the time of a big election, and a huge controversy at that time and continuing until present is that one of the candidates had "said something on a hot mic" about "grabbing women by the pussy". Yet you will never hear a conspiracy theorist (who isn't me) question the authenticity of that clip.
That really should tell you something about how the human mind works and the state of "conspiracy theory".
EDIT: I take back what I said. There was one time I saw them Photoshop a recent event, and that was Gavin Newsom's 2022 re-election. There used to be a set of these, but they've black-holed them all. The remaining Shopped pic of his "victory speech" is here:
Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis victory speeches pushed wildly different views of ‘freedom’ (San Francisco Chronicle 11/9/2022)
The other major paper just went with some kooky random pic, who even knows if it's real:
California voters elect Gov. Gavin Newsom to a second term (Los Angeles Times 11/8/2022)
Bizarre when you actually look, isn't it?
Thanks for the detailed response. I didn't think they'd use AI for voices, because that means the TV crews and interviewers are in on it, too. I would think there would be whistleblowers by now, but I suppose people have disappeared for less. You have a good eye to see through that Newsome Photoshop. You're right that most conspiracy theorists would not question at the level you are.
Just show us the evidece of these deaths.