Cottingley Fairies Exposed Again by AI Slop

Hot off the wings of disappointment: newly “discovered” video footage of the infamous Cottingley Fairies case has surfaced—and it’s somehow worse than the cardboard cutouts from 1917.

Yes, dear readers, in an era where AI can allegedly conjure photorealistic dragons and photogenic pizza, the fairies in this footage look like they were slapped together in Microsoft Paint by a hungover raccoon. The wings? Flat PNG transparency jobs. The faces? Imagine Bratz dolls after three rounds in a microwave. The motion? Less “ethereal woodland sprites,” more “broken GIF from 2003.”

Historians once debated whether two schoolgirls fooled Arthur Conan Doyle. Today, we debate whether MidJourney just fooled itself. Spoiler: it did. If the original fairies were laughably fake, these new ones are the uncanny valley’s rotting basement. Technology marched bravely forward for a century just to make something shitter.

So, for anyone still clinging to the dream that the Cottingley Fairies were real—bad news. The only magic here is how embarrassingly low-effort digital fakery can still go viral.

This has been a Sarcgasm Original Scoop™. Remember: we take fairy-tale bullshit seriously so you don’t have to.