I’m probably the only person who remembers this, but in 2013 someone at U of Maryland leaked a sorority group email to Gawker and it remains to this day one of the most evil but also rhetorically impressive (in a Ryan Murphy way) things I’ve ever read (here are some excerpts):
This might very be my single favorite cityscape of LA so I’ll share it by itself. Taken at 600mm from across the pacific in PV at golden hour with a clearing storm the conditions were immaculate. The extremely clear air and the fresh snow at lower elevations on the San Gabriels were extremely rare. This is the one photo that gets called out the most for being fake, being shopped and now being AI when in reality it’s using photographic lens compression to take advantage of maybe once in a lifetime conditions.