@benroyce@mastodon.social @hadeny@mastodon.social @In_Otter_News@mastodon.social People used to do that with computer photo editing. Then before that with physical images, cutting, spray brush and re-photograph. From 1880s to 1980s. See Stalin (war photos and earlier) and the girls with fairies in the the garden. Of course the photo hoaxes and disinformation was bad rather than amusing.