It’s probably because we are in the context of purposely evaluating these things. It’s easy to look at this picture, have someone ask you “is this a real pictur

It’s probably because we are in the context of purposely evaluating these things. It’s easy to look at this picture, have someone ask you “is this a real picture or not?”, and decide it’s a fake picture. Now imagine you are walking through Times Square. There’s 1000 pictures. 2 of them are fake. Do you know which ones? Even if it doesn’t happen to you personally, a certain % of ppl will just subconsciously accept “oh yeah [Johnny deep] ad with [Nike]” and then move on. In other words, your guard is not up 24/7