Olo, Who made this?

HHunter1

I added this image on Shrunken women board but couldn’t name the creator. But then I thought of you and your encyclopedia knowledge of sw lore. I think I got it off The Minimizer page back in the day. So Olo, who made this image?

HH1

Olo

@HHunter1 I’m afraid I don’t recognize it. I did a basic reverse-image search (more on this below) and couldn’t find the collage. If I wanted to know who assembled this collage I’d ask the person who posted it. I understand, however, that Minimizer’s site no longer exists. Someone might have archived it, however, so you might start there. Other than that, I have no idea.

Let’s talk about image-sourcing.

I use four different image-searching sites when trying to hunt down the creator. They all have different datasets in their index, so it’s very common that one will turn up zero hits and another will have hundreds. Even when one site seems to have identified the source, I usually run the search on the others for confirmation.

SauceNAO https://www.saucenao.com
This site is best for illustrations and 3D renders, having all the kinky sites and boorus in its index, including DeviantArt. I also usually start here because they have links that automatically submit your search image to a bunch of other search sites, including the three below.

Google Images https://images.google.com/
This is the one everyone is probably the most familiar with. It gives the same results as the mobile app Google Lens. Make sure Safe Search is off.

TinEye https://tineye.com/
Very large dataset in its index, including a lot of porn sites (which rarely have source attributions). It has the extremely useful utility of being able to sort by date indexed, so if you’re looking for the original creator, you’ll want to sort by Oldest. You can also sort by size, if you want the highest resolution (I often do this when I only have a crappy small version and I just want the biggest).

Yandex Images https://yandex.com/images/
Another large index with lots of porn sites and the useful sorting functionality. Yandex is Russia’s equivalent to Google, so if you’re boycotting Russian companies over the war in Ukraine, you’ll have to skip this one.

Here’s how each of these sites responded to searches on the collage HHunter1 is interested in.

SauceNAO: Zero hits

Google Images: Zero hits

TinEye: Zero exact hits on the collage, but 200+ “similar image” hits on the background photo, confirming my suspicion that it’s a publicity photo for the movie The Indian in the Cupboard.

Yandex Images: Zero exact hits on the collage, about a dozen suggestions for The Indian in the Cupboard, but a bunch of “similar image” hits on the woman that the creator put in the foreground of the collage. This is how I learned that the woman is model Karen Mulder photographed at a 1996 Victoria’s Secret fashion show.

This is typical for any reverse-image search on photocollages. Note that sizey illustrations can also be collages assembled from different original illustrations that might show up in search results. I never cease to be amazed what people will mash together to indulge their size kinks.

HHunter1

@Olo Thanks.
I had downloaded so long ago so I don’t know who posted it. I just knew you seem to have a good memory for such things. I was feeling bad I couldn’t credit the creator, guess I should do a little searching.

HH1

Olo

@HHunter1 I’ve posted my share of those as “Needs source” or “Source needed.”

HHunter1

Well I guess it wasn’t on the old Minimizer site. Or at least I couldn’t find it looking on Wayback Machine. Man I miss that site.

HH1

HHunter1

A friend thinks it might have came from a website called Mr. Carl. I can’t find the site on wayback, but that could be a lot of reasons. I’ve been downloading images so long I couldn’t even guess the year I found it.

HH1
Feeling Old.

Olo

@HHunter1 I’ve never heard of “Mr. Carl.” Makes me think of “Mr. Skin,” but of course the latter has nothing to do with size.

HHunter1

@Olo My friend found it on wayback. Its from the old Little Ladies site. Remember that? Man, I’m ancient.

HH1

Oh, wayback link:
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Olo

@HHunter1 said:

Its from the old Little Ladies site. Remember that?

In fact, I don’t. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be any attributions (unless the site owner claimed to have made them all).

HHunter1

@Olo Yeah I noticed that. I haven’t read anywhere if he claims them as his works but I also wasn’t looking too hard. But mystery of where I found that image is solved. Cheers!

HH1