Think Tobey planned this?

Makes me think of Tom Scott, you could probably make a movie out of him and that red shirt (or grey jacket)

All you need is a red shirt, a grey hoodie, a windswept location, and some nearby transportation project. Preferrably a defunct or about-to-be-closed transportation project.

That said, there's a Tom-shaped hole in my youtube recommendations these days.
This looks AI generated.
- "I am inside of a Generative AI algorithm"

Can't say for Tobey, but apparently Daniel Radcliffe did deliberately do something very similar to stymie paparazzi.

edit: Spelling.

It was three or four months. Because I was doing a play in London and every night there was paparazzi outside. And I suddenly realized after like after I just had just been lazy and not changed my clothes for a few days, that they were not there. And I realized it’s probably because I’m wearing the same thing so it all looks like photos from the same day. So I was like ‘I’ll just continue wearing this.’ And they never came back because it all looks like the same picture in front of the same door.

It was pretty genius. No one wants to see 50 pics of the same person looking exactly the same.
- Ricky Gervais was the first person I heard of who did that. Always wearing a black t shirt.
- I love it how you made the whole quote into a link.

What, these are generated pics and its not a very convincing Toby?

They're not generated, it's just jpeg compression
- There's some uncannyness in face element position and orientations.
- This is definitely AI. And kinda old AI at that. The backgrounds are nondescript, the facial hair is ambiguous, the face looks like one of those "upload a photo to see it realistically move with the magic of AI", the shirt looks airbrushed and ambiguous, he has dark eyes instead of very blue eyes like in real life, and if you try to look up pictures of any interviews of him in those particular years, he usually has facial hair and a button down, sometimes with a jacket.
  
  Compare the upper right and lower left picture on this post with this similar meme. Film grain is missing (possibly due to AI "beauty filters"?) and how the upper right image, his eyes are way more blue. I think the original meme creator probably wanted to make it look like all 4 pictures were the same gray shirt rather than 4 different gray shirts since the bottom left shirt in the picture I posted is heathered gray instead of flat gray.
- Bro this is 100% AI lol.
Yep definitely AI. I'm both surprised and horrified that only like 1 other person here realized it's AI. We're so fucked...

A lot of people talk about decision fatigue in their jobs. So it's a gift of self care to buy 10 of the same shirt, eat the same lunch every day, etc

Hey! I do this. It wasn't a conscious decision, but that is what ended up happening.
I bought twelve navy t-shirts a few years ago, it's working out well so far.

It's his lucky interview shirt!

In highschool, I just had 7 sets of the same exact outfit. Literally dressed like a cartoon character so that I would always be recognized, because you'd only ever see me in the same thing every day.

Byron? Is that you???
Some real relatable high school insecurity right there. I definitely had a few months as "funny tshirt guy" and a few months as "no logo dark color shirt guy."

The fact that barely anyone here realized that this is AI is extremely concerning. We are so fucked..

I saw one person comment about it, but I still couldn't tell... It just looks like a few pictures taken at different times, with different angles and lighting.

What's the tell for you?

(I'm also on mobile, so maybe I should check on a bigger screen)
- Skin is too clean. Just looks "off." It was like the first thing i literally immediately noticed. The faces look extremely odd. Like CGI almost.

You just find something that works and you stick with it.

Someone has never talked to an actual girl.

Strange way to call yourself out, but you do you.
- You know, it's pretty hard to be a girl without ever meeting a girl.