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Altered Image

Does an authentic photo of Shiloh Hendrix show her holding a handwritten card that reads: "$250K You Niggers"? No, that's not true: The photo, of the Minnesota woman who was videotaped shouting the n-word at a child, is predated by a version of the same photo in which the card she holds reads: "@AngloSaxonGirl". An AI detection tool found there was a 99.7% likelihood the "$250k" version of the photo included AI-generated material.

The "$250k" photo appeared in a May 3, 2025 X post (archived here) on the @GarbageHuman24" account with no titling.

At the time this fact check was written, the X post looked like this:

(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories.)

Chronology

The image of the woman holding the "@anglosaxongirl" card appeared in a May 1 X post on @_anglosaxongirl (archived here) that was still active as of the time of writing this fact check. The webpage capture service Archive.today shows it was first archived May 2.

In the May 1 post, @_anglosaxongirl wrote that before she would promote Hendrix's crowd-funding appeal, she asked her to post an image showing the user name of the account.

On May 3, the @GarbageHumans24 account posted a version of the left-side photo, but with the card under Hendrix' chin altered to read: "$250K You Niggers".

The @GarbageHumans24 account used the image in a post that reacted to another X account's video talking about comments posted by contributors to Hendrix's crowd-funding campaign.

Lead Stories submitted the May 3 @GarbageHumans24 image of Hendrix with the "250K You Niggers" card to specialized ai-detection tools at HIVE Moderation, which found evidence the image included AI-generated material:

(Source: Hivemoderation.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)

Lead Stories also submitted the photo from the May 1 post by _anglosaxongirl to HIVE, which rated it unlikely to have been altered by AI tools:

(Source: Hivemoderation.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)

Loss of visual detail suggests the "$250k" version is a copy of the "@anglosaxongirl" version

Close examination of the two images shows the earlier image is sharper than the other, which suggests the later "$250k" version was copied and altered. Below, Lead Stories zoomed in on the two images to show changes between the earlier and later versions:

(Source: X.com screenshots, zoomed-in on and placed in comparison graphic by Lead Stories.)

For more sophisticated analysis, Lead Stories submitted the two images to the InVID photo fact checking service, whose "Double Quantization" tool detected less detail in the "$250K" image than the earlier "@anglosaxongirl" image, suggesting the former was a copy of the latter.

(InVID&WeVerify screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)

(InVID&WeVerify screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)

Rochester, MN police have confirmed they investigated the confrontation between Hendrix and a child, which was videotaped (archived here).

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