Aussie influencer Cartia Mallan has been called out by Instagram watchdog Celeb Spellcheck for an awkward photoshop fail in her latest post.
The Queensland YouTuber – who recently moved from Sydney to London – raised eyebrows on Wednesday when she uploaded a photo of herself posing on the steps outside her new home.
But the post exposed a huge editing gaffe, resulting in the 23-year-old’s legs and the stairs she was standing on being warped out of shape.
After her followers pointed out the error, she was quick to take the photos down, reuploading an undoctored version later.
Mallan wasn’t fast enough though – with Celeb Spellcheck reposting both versions of the edited image, along with a screenshot of her misspelled caption: “This is my offical [sic] ‘I live here now post’.”
“C**ked up the apples and pears,” the anonymous “snark” account captioned their own post, a nod to the Cockney rhyming slang for “stairs”.
Celeb Spellcheck’s followers were quick to mock the influencer for the error.
“Alice about to go down into wonderland if those stairs warp anymore,” one wrote.
“Woah got dizzy with this one,” commented another.
“Spelling mistake and edit fail. Love a double whammy,” wrote a third.
“I was too busy staring at the ‘official’ spelling mistake to even notice the stairs at first,” commented another.
Others questioned why Mallan had bothered to photoshop the image in the first place.
“My question is WTF was she trying to achieve? Her body doesn’t look any different …” one said.
“I don’t even know why she warped it in the first place?!?” commented a second.
“Was she trying to thin out her legs? I’m so confused,” said another.
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Mallan responded to her faux pas good-naturedly, writing on the Celeb Spellcheck post that she’d “been a fan of the page for a while now” so was “weirdly honoured to have made my first appearance”.
“I genuinely wish I could explain,” she added, asked why she edited the photos. “I truthfully wasn’t editing my body or anything. I think I’ve just bumped the key and swiped up.
“My eyes didn’t pick up on it, hence why I’ve uploaded it. I am laughing at how stupid it is that I didn’t see it.”
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