Social media users fooled by a photo of Ben Stiller…

ByCraig Haley

A photograph depicting the cast of Hollywood comedy “Tropic Thunder” has managed to fool many social media users into thinking it was a photograph showing genuine Vietnam soldiers.

The photo, which included actors Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black, has been circulated on both Twitter and Facebook with the caption –

Sadly less than 2% of you will like and share this picture of brave Vietnam soldiers. So lets see how many likes and shares they can get.

Likely started as a joke by many Facebook pages and users, it seems many have taken the image at face value and failed to recognise any of the cast members. One reader wrote –

So proud of our Vets who fought, and many died, for us in Vietnam. One of the worst wars for the USA!!

Many instances of the photo – which have “photoshopped” fellow actor Steve Coogan out – have managed to accumulate thousands of shares.

And many have taken to parodying the joke, taking it to more extreme measures…

stormtroopers

Hopefully no one fell for that one.

Remember people, don’t believe everything you see on the Internet.

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