Whoops! Fake "MasterChef" Crowd Scene Goes Viral
By: Marissa Brassfield
Published: June 23, 2011

This fake MasterChef crowd scene made its rounds on Reddit after user Benuwine posted it with the title "Television Sorcery." Although the voiceover that accompanies this clip of the show mentions the thousands of show applicants, the red, yellow and blue ellipses reveal that the footage was digitally doctored to inflate the true number of applicants.
Redditor Thiev even made a GIF of the fake MasterChef crowd scene, which proves the clip's enhancement beyond a shadow of a doubt:

Television producers regularly have footage altered to alter the feel of a scene, but does this fake crowd detract from the show's allure?