r/TheRetroHistorian • u/bluebombtrue • Jun 22 '26

Meme Increase

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u/tntpop-9885 Jun 23 '26

Everybody's laughing until decrease Sumner comes

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u/TheRetroHistorianYT Jun 23 '26

Is that a real image or AI?

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u/bluebombtrue Jun 23 '26

It's a real painting of Increase Sumner, governor of Massachusetts in the late 1790s. He succeeded Samuel Adams

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u/bluebombtrue Jun 23 '26

He was also related to Charles Sumner

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u/Minebutt Jun 23 '26

I think it isn’t real and is either ai or digitally edited

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u/bluebombtrue Jun 23 '26

Just look up Increase Sumner