Some similar thing happened to be once: years ago I made a fun fake image, photoshopping some text into a place in a very realistic manner, and posted to Facebo

Some similar thing happened to be once: years ago I made a fun fake image, photoshopping some text into a place in a very realistic manner, and posted to Facebook (which was popular those times). It was in one of my albums, me and a few friends had a laugh, then we've forgotten about it, as usual. Then a few years later I started seeing the image I created as "real" in various forums to legitimate publishers and major newspaper websites. Everyone believed in the image, taking it as a fact (which is fair as it looked legitimate and was posted from a "reputable" source), commented under it with various levels of confusion. I still Google that time to time to giggle a bit, but it also shows how Internet people tend to copy stuff from random places (e.g. My Facebook album) and post in various places and things go viral exponentially without almost anyone questioning it.