Trust me, I am a tranny

What is it with some people? They sit down one day and think: ''I know, what the Internet really needs to make it better is some photographs of me with my arse in the air, and maybe a selection of vegetables up there."

It's a strange situation that any tranny Flickr group has to cope with pictures of trannies poking things up there arse, or photos of peoples willies. And so the admins have to continually fight to delete these images. Although some of these girls have now set up their own groups... which in one way is good as they can look at each other I guess.

I know I've written about this before, and was chatting about it again with Becky on MSN last night. I love Flickr. I am almost addicted to Flickr. I can't go too long without checking to see if anyone has commented on my photos - although I don't get too stroppy if people don't comment, nor do I start counting my comments, that's one step away from counting birthday cards to see how much I am loved ;-)

But there's a growing problem with flickr. The first is the photo stealers. Flickr began as a way of sharing your photographs - ones you have taken of yourself. But now a lot of people just use it as an image dump for all their favourite pics. Ones they have lifted off the internet or scanned in from magazines.

I suppose in some ways this is not a major problem. But they don't really attribute the original sources or say its a scan etc. Which is confusing the hell out of the admirers who frequent flickr :-) You get situations where an obvious (to me) famous model has a picture posted by a hairy old man.. but the comments you get are things like ''You look gr8'' ''I would luv 2 meet U'' etc...

It's almost a pavlovian response - see pretty girl, post lecherous comment, without wondering if its a members photo or not.

The other problem is the photoshop trannies. Now I know we all do a little photoshopping of our pics from time to time... tweak the levels, airbrush out a breast form etc. That's not the problem. My most viewed picture has my head on a body with a rather large pair of boobs. But I have always made it clear that thats not me. That the image was done in photoshop and that you shouldnt always believe what you see. And there are enough shots of the ''real'' me so that you can tell what I usually look like.

But you are getting photos where girls are pasting their faces onto other bodies and not being up front about it. Or they are pasting eyes and a mouth.. badly.

This all came about over a specific girl on Flickr. There is something just not right about her photos. Take this one: My Britney Impression. And girls are commenting saying - Wow you look just like Britney.

That's because it is fucking Britney!

You've just pasted a different mouth onto the pic. I couldn't find the exact same pic, it may even have been rotated, but there are too many similarities that show it was from the same photo session at least. ((Update - I've now found it!))

And the others are even worse...

And other people are starting to notice and complain when those pics are posted to a stream like AngelFlickr which tries to keep a modicum of reality - and does not allow headless shots or shots where the face is obscured or modified. Take this shot, I can't quite put my finger exactly on what is wrong with it, but it's just not quite right. It may be that the eyes and mouth have been enhanced, but it may also be that they belong to another face altogether.

And don't get me started on masks.....

If you are going to photoshop your face - then say so. At least tag it as Photoshopped. And say, this is not really me.

I know the whole thing about tranvestism is passing yourself off as someone you are not. But when it reaches the point that you just don't trust any photo that a person puts up as being genuinely them then its a bad thing.

It's just dishonest.

(update - some of these pics have been taken down now, apologies for the broken links)