George Floyd, Hair Then No Hair.

[flobadob]

I've seen a meme doing the rounds a few times now that purports to show two images of George Floyd during his arrest. The first image shows him standing with a policeman behind him, in which he looks to have a shaven head of black hair. In the second image he is lying on the ground behind a vehicle with a policeman on top of him, and in this image it appears his head is completely bald. I don't want to sound like a conspiracy but but I'm just wondering what the explanation for this is? Is it perhaps the lighting difference or maybe blatant photoshop?

[ToraToraTora]

can you provide us links to the pictures concerned.

[bednobs]

how is this news - it's a meme!

[Jackdaw33]

As the Dowager Countess of Grantham would say, "What is a meme?"

[dannyk13]

His hair is so short that it would be easy to think that he was bald.
https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=george+floyd+arrest+photo&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZy6HgxYjqAhVBQhUIHVBtCmoQ7Al6BAgIECs&biw=1360&bih

[ummmm]

Can you not use Google, Jack?

[douglas9401]

Is this not a question and answer site, ummmm?

[jim360]

I'd have thought a world-renowned sociology expert would know what a meme is.

[jno]

I think jackdaw was making a little joke, along the lines of the judge who is said to have asked “What is a Beatle?”

[Jackdaw33]

No doubt some kind person will explain to me. I did google it but couldn't understand it. Thanks for your reply, ummm. Glad to see you've lost none of your snottiness.

[dannyk13]

Explained here Jack:-
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme

[Jackdaw33]

My question was genuine. I really don't understand the term.

[Bobbisox1]

JD, love ‘ snottiness’ hehe

[dannyk13]

Look up Jack.

[jim360]

It was a cheap shot on my part.

A meme is any sort of idea -- image, short video, witty text -- that spreads through a community rapidly. It's meant to behave similarly to a gene, ie the "good" memes last and the not-so-good ones die out.

These days it's often used to mean just a funny image (often with some caption), but in order to be a meme it also has to be shared fairly widely.

[jno]

Think of it as a visual version of a catchphrase.

[Jackdaw33]

Thank you, Danny, but I'm not much the wiser.

[Gromit]

The widely distributed picture Floyd was taken at a different time to the one when he was arrested.

The one against the wall he has some hair.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/13278/production/_112565487_floyd.png

The one at his death has a different cut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NINTCHDBPICT000585935376-e1591094191733.jpg

As a conspiracy theory, this one is very lame.

[ummmm]

Yes, danny, but this isn't Jack's Q!

Bobbi - what a surprise!

[dannyk13]

ummmm//Yes, danny, but this isn't Jack's Q!//
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[Bazile]

That picture is so disturbing