She’s become a social media favourite for her travel photos.
Pretty Little Liars’ Shay Mitchell has been accused of faking some of her Instagram photos during her vacation to Hong Kong.
The 30-year-old actress regularly shares pictures from her holidays, which she calls #Shaycations, on social media.
But after one recent photo sparked fans’ curiosity, people think that they have found the original photos of the ones she has posted.
Stylecaster note that she first shared a picture of the Monster Building in Hong Kong to her Instagram story, captioning it: “Night views”.
The publication was quick to wonder if the photo was actually pulled from the internet, as there was a huge clue directly on it.
While the picture looked like just about any other one you would see on a travel Instagram feed, there was actually a mouse cursor in the bottom left corner.
After digging into the origins of the photo, they found what appears to be the original one on a travel blog from the camera company, Canon – the biggest differences between them being that she cropped and filtered her photo.
It appears as if that wasn’t the only photo that was taken from the internet.
She posted a photo of the Jing’an Temple, a 780-year-old Buddhist shrine in Shanghai, which showed a crowd of tourists surrounding it and taking pictures.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg5lSGRB3Ld/?utm_source=ig_embed
But an Instagram photo posted to @shanghainowandthen in 2016 has the exact same view, with the tourists standing in the exact same position – including the woman in the noticeable yellow coat.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHmfHE9jT8F/?utm_source=ig_embed
Some of the original photos which had been speculated to have been faked have had their comments updated.
One of the pictures showed a red wooden door and the entryway of the Yu Garden in Shanghai – which a zoomed-out version can be seen on the websites for Pullman Hotels and Isangoo!.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg8VPa1B2f7/?utm_source=ig_embed
The caption has been updated to say that the photo was found on Pinterest.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhF5ofOhURY/?utm_source=ig_embed
Another one, which was of the Terracotta Warriors in the ancient city of Xi’An, could be seen on the My Little Adventure tour-promotion website.
The caption has been updated to say that the photo as taken from tumblr.
The actress also recently shared a photo of a pastel-coloured building, which she originally said was from her trip to Hong Kong.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhBesUShBH7/?utm_source=ig_embed
She updated the caption, removing #ShaycationHongKong, so it read:
“When buildings inspire your next nail polish change #pastels”
The original photo, however, appears to have been taken by photographer Jan Vranovsky in 2014 – and was taken in Japan.
Even with the confusion surrounding some of her photos, it looks like Shay definitely had an amazing-looking vacation in China.
And was keen to have the last word about the whole thing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhP8OH7DY7q/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_profile_upsell_control
Over the weekend, she shared a photo of her looking over the Shanghai skyline, which she captioned:
“View so nice it almost looks… fake.”
