I am really confused too but no I don’t think it is. If I was given to see the picture only, I’d have no doubt that it is. But the with the source looking legit like it does, I don’t think it is. Yet, I’ve submitted the picture to one of the graphiste we have at my job. She’s totally neutral and barely knows Gillian that she named Scully.
She laughed at me when I showed it to her, she said it was such a bad manip. Then she looked at it more seriously, zoomed in, did some stuff with the pixelation and other things I don’t know anything about and said she has zero doubt and that it’s a manip.
I asked for more explanations, she said the guy on the front row is trimmed, but too much and poorly. That his head doesn’t belong to his body. The guy sitting on the chair doesn’t belong to the picture because he doesn’t have the same pixelation as the trimmed guy.
She said Gillian is too small, and PM’s head doesn’t belong to his body either. The sunglasses were added, but there’s a missing branch. Of course the arms are missing. And the light isn’t right. She said the two women on the left side belong to the same picture, and could have been there, but everyone else was added and photoshopped. If the four of the background are standing up on something, PM must be standing on something too, but it’s not possible as Gillian seem to be on the floor, such as the guy sitting because the chair and Gillian are on the same level. But the guy standing in the front row, with the perspective, must be smaller than Gillian, and yet, his head is twice bigger.
Then she asked if it was Mulder standing next to Scully and that he aged badly.
So it only got me more confused than I already was. I told her the source is legit, and it couldn’t be a manip. She told me to shut it because I know nothing and to let her do her job!
So yes, I’m confused too. But still, if it’s a manip it doesn’t make any sense.
In other words: I DO NOT KNOW!