Trying to do a reverse search for the image on Google didn’t help at all, as most of the search results I was getting was from twitter, with no credible account.

One of the things that was notable, a twitter account for the Italian embassy in Sudan @ItalyInSudan — Yes the official website was linking to that account — has tweeted this images before, with a better quality of it, with the caption “ Only in #Naples!”, and upon asking them to mention the source or confirm the location, I got no answer from them.

I went back to google image search, and I was looking to see if I can spot some images that has a bigger dimension that others, because usually this might, and not always, be an indicator of a more “original” photo, that could lead to the first version of the image.

The one that was massively being circulated was one with a dimension of (600 × 564), but one of the images was (600 × 800), in other term, that dimension is usually a dimension of a photo taken with a camera, phone camera.

The link sent me to a photo shared on twitter, posted on 23 May 2016, with the caption (In English) “Sunbathing 2.0”.

But the interesting part was the logo, that most of the images cropped it out, “Welcome to favelas”.

Favela, according to Wikipedia, is a slum in Brazil. But searching the term “Welcome to favelas”, it took me to a facebook page with the same name.

Scrolling down the photo section, I found the image, supposedly one of the first images that went online.