How to verify any image published by Douglas Dietrich using Google Image Search

Douglas Dietrich has a long history of plagiarizing images created by others and claiming them as his own.

This is how I have exposed him.  I even called it - "Dietrich fake cosplay photo of the day".

You can visit this to see examples: https://ellgab.com/index.php?topic=1027.7515#lastPost

Dietrich in about 1985

Example of Dietrich's images now

Dietrich will usually publish the images on Facebook. These are the steps I have used.

1. Isolate the image: Click on the image itself. 

2. Right-click on the image and select "Copy image address"

3, Open Google in a separate window and click on the camera icon to "search by image"

4. Paste the selected image into the Google search box and click "search by image"

5. Review the results. (You may need to use Google Translate)

In most cases, the search will result in a series of websites related to Asian cosplay.

Dietrich has become more "crafty" about this in the last few years. What he posts on his public FB fan page "promotion"  is usually different from the images he uses for his actual YouTube live stream. 

Dietrich will also avoid, or actually save and crop these images in order to avoid showing any watermark. I have caught him doing these hundreds of times.

It is also possible to create a screen capture of the live stream image by cropping it carefully and saving it as a .Jpeg file.  If you have a separate URL to post it to, you can then conduct the same search I describe above.

Sometimes a search will result (as in the case of this image I published) in a link back to Dietrich as the publisher.  But this is rare.  

It also proves that Dietrich knows people are checking the origins of these images, and is specifically choosing them from more obscure sources in order to deter people from identifying them.

But, his bullshit gig is up.

Have fun.