Hardware Gore
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Are we supposed to believe the mushrooms were growing in the graphics card while the PC sat unused somewhere?
The fan and shroud of the card look suspiciously clean, and aside from that the GPU is the wrong way up. If you put it in the slot the mushrooms would be dangling downwards.
Do mushrooms grow like that? They might, I'm not a mushroom expert.
But either way, I'd be very surprised if this wasn't intentionally staged.
Hi, mushroom expert here.
It's staged in the sense that someone probably took the fan or face off and packed the insides of it with substrate and colonized grain. They then likely replaced the fan and covered the substrate either with a plastic bag or a tote of some kind to function as a humidity tent.
The mushrooms appear to have grown there. But it's a novelty grow of cultivated mushrooms. Rather than mushroom spores landing there and somehow finding enough nutrients and the right conditions to fruit.
Mushrooms grow up. And some towards the light.
I see some strings inside the GPU that may be the mycelium. Also the bottom of the shrooms seem adapted to the space between the fan blades. The question would be what were the mushroom feeding off.