Over the past couple of days, I've been reading articles that include personal photos of the thirteen service members when they were alive. I've copied a number of them and run them through tineye.com. Tineye.com allows you to sort them from the oldest to the newest time they were found on the internet.
So far, I haven't found a single photo that is older than the last week and a half or so. Not one.
Surely some of these photos would have been posted online by family or shared by the service member themselves before the end of August 2021.
Can anyone find a photo posted before this month? I'm still looking...
I don’t think that’s odd. I haven’t ever had my photo or any on my children’s photos posted on line.
Past that every media company tries to post images that they can take credit for.
That’s why they use bullshit stock images half the time. Liability waiver + Intellectual Property Expansion truth be damned
@OP excellent use of TinEye.
But in today's era of technology, that's more the exception than the rule. Most of these fallen Marines were in their early twenties. They would have had FB and other social media accounts...not to mention things that could have been posted online by high school sports teams and other clubs via media releases.
Except one of the first things taught to new recruits and reinforced annually is basic OPSEC. Including not posting your picture on social media, but especially announcing where you were going or what your unit was doing.
Not saying a few don't slip through the cracks, I had to refer a few to their commanders for Article 15s back in the day.
Understood.
I think that is odd. I haven't been able to use my FB account in over a decade, but plenty of people take my picture at various gatherings and they end up online.
Yeah, but tineye isn't going to find and match those.
If those people have private accounts then the web isn't going to crawl those pics.
I know lots of people who have no photos online. Privacy thing.
I guarentee you that out of 13 families one would share that exact pic proudly of their son in uniform on facebook so family members could see.
To say otherwise is being deliberately obtuse.
Not even in your local newspaper? I've seen plenty of service members' photos in ours.
Nope. I searched every one on my kids and myself and get no photos. I’m willing to bet it’s the same for most people.