Fake Old West photos, fake teachers and other lying clickbait

Just because a photo is sepia-toned doesn’t mean it’s old. Clickbait purveyors often try to pass off modern photos as old by making them look antique.
A recent Taboola article titled “Wild West photos showing what life was really like” used a sepia-toned still from the 2010 movie “Jonah Hex,” starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox. If only all the women in the Old West were as hot as Fox.

Other fake Wild West photos I’ve seen used to promote supposedly historical images were from cosplay sessions, the 1966 movie “The Professionals,” the Canadian TV series “Strange Empire” and the Spanish TV series “Tierra de Lobos.”
Another article, promoted by Outbrain, titled “Actual Wild West photos you can’t unsee” used a modern photo done in an old-timey style by Russian photographer Dmitry Rubinshteyn.

Another clickbait article titled “She had no idea why her students were staring” used a still photo from a Naughty America porn movie starring Sophia Lomeli.
Last year, I noted a clickbait article titled “What you thought teachers do during class is true.” That article used another Naughty America porn photo.

Finally, a Taboola article titled “Trophy wives of older billionaires” featured a picture of a man who might be just a millionaire and a woman who is not his wife.
The man is flamboyant NBA superfan Jimmy Goldstein. (See article by SportsNet and Wikipedia entry.) The woman, Danish supermodel Amalie Wichmann, was likely just his date for a game.