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The old one is dead btw.
So is the young one, that picture is really old. In the picture, they're both obviously alive
By now, yes
Plot twist, that was a picture taken yesterday on a really old camera.
Got a source for that claim?
A quick reverse image search and reading through of different places where this was posted; noone else seems to be suggesting that it's a dead body
Not to mention the eyes move between the top left and other photos and she's pushing the kids hand down in the top right photo...
That's a relief
Really morbid to take pictures of a kid messing around with a dead body
Except it's not a kid messing with a dead body, the Victorians were morbid, not deranged.
I don't know why the person you responded to claimed it was...
This actually was a thing that happened sometimes (trigger warning - dead bodies) but assuming that there's a corpse in every Victorian portrait is not reasonable.
Oh God are you kidding???
I was. I tried to reference the picture from a few days ago, in which one of the persons were dead, because back in the day that was a normal thing to do.
Unfortunately nobody got my joke...
I got it. Jesus, people around here are literal.
To be fair, without knowing the referenced picture, I wouldn't have gotten my own joke. The post removal is what shocks me most. Whatever, you lose some you win some
Haha it was clever