Tokyo Giant Cat
A viral social media post showing a cat the size of Godzilla resting on a Shinjuku skyscraper.
Impact Analysis
Funny fakes are dangerous because we lower our guard. We share them to laugh, but they still train the algorithms to push more fake content into our feeds.
Case Background
Okay, nobody actually believed this was real... I hope. It's a cat the size of a skyscraper in Tokyo. But images like this go viral for the "lol factor." The real test here is lighting. Even if a cat *was* 500 feet tall, it would cast a shadow that covers three city blocks. Does this one? Nope. It's just a big cutout pasted on top of the city.
Evidence Log
Fur Contact
The fur where the cat touches the building does not flatten or interact with the hard edge of the roof; it just clips through.
Scale Lighting
The cat is lit as if it were in a living room (soft, diffuse), while the city is lit by harsh sunlight. The "atmospheric perspective" is missing on the cat.
Reaction Consistency
The crowd on the street is not looking up or reacting to the massive kaiju-cat, indicating the background and foreground are disconnected concepts.