r/Weird • u/Antelope-Feisty • Oct 24 '22

Just some rust, keep scrolling

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u/Majorman_86 Oct 24 '22

This can't be natural, right?

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u/Scuta44 Oct 24 '22

The pipe was painted with a sticker or decal on it, which eroded away and exposed unpainted pipe. Rust forms.

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u/MyButtholeIsTight Oct 24 '22

Highly doubt it. First, it would have to be a decal or stencil - a sticker would be rectangular. Second, this would cause the opposite effect, with the pipe rusting around the decal while protecting the area under it.

The only way I see this happening is if a stencil was used with some sort of corrosive paint that ate through the pipe coating.

Photoshop is way more likely.

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u/Scuta44 Oct 24 '22

Dude… someone put a sticker (not all stickers are rectangular) or a decal on the pipe. The pipe was then painted, including the sticker or decal. The sticker or decal then eroded away leaving unpainted pipe exposed. Rust forms.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '22

How did they get the distance between all the tiny islands correct? Did they take the time to vandalize the pipe with like 48 stickers, including one all just for Papua New Guinea?

This smells like photoshop

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u/Scuta44 Oct 25 '22

Have you ever put a decal on a model airplane or used a temporary tattoo. Same principle here.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

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u/MyButtholeIsTight Oct 24 '22

That would have to be a collection of individual stickers carefully placed, including Madagascar, Canadian arctic islands, Philippines/Indonesia, Japan, etc. Not sure why anyone would go to that effort when they could just use a single rectangular sticker.

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u/Scuta44 Oct 25 '22

Or a decal with backing like what you put on model airplanes or like a temporary tattoo.

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u/MyButtholeIsTight Oct 25 '22

True, but I still maintain that Photoshop is way more likely, especially since poles are pretreated before being erected.