#link click errors

[miyamiwu]

HOLD UP, the Bahati fire was 10 years ago. The current year is 2019, so the fire was in 2009

Somebody took a picture of the fire with a smartphone that had a wide screen-to-body ratio and uploaded it to something like Instagram in 2009???

No wait, Instagram came out in 2010, so maybe it was on Facebook, which was launched in 2004. (Or maybe the photographer just uploaded the photo at a much later date as a throwback or something lol)

What I’m more concerned about is the smartphone used by the photographer:

Smartphones already existed in 2009, but not like this. The screen-to-body ratio were much lower then, with the bottom part of the phone being wider and having more space for buttons (there may be exceptions, but the high ratio was definitely not that common before). Phones also tended to be short and fat, not tall and slim.

Moreover, the camera notch design came out in 2017. The HDR feature came out in 2010. (Both features were introduced by Apple)

Was the fire actually 10 years ago? (Or did the animators just didn’t pay that much attention to the smartphone’s detail?)

goddammit, Link Click. I don’t know how much more I can keep forgiving them for errors like this

[miyamiwu]

There are a couple explanations i can think of for the phone cameras used earlier than they should be in link click.

Explanation One: since it’s a fictionalized version of the world (bridon instead of london, they’re in a fictional city in china, people have powers etc) they might have just decided smart phones existed already because they just wanted them to.

Explanation Two: a similar type of full screen phone did exist in 2009, and the marriage by contesting episode was supposed to be like a special episode to honor a real couple so they may have just.. not bothered with the real world continuity for that one.

Explication three (not a serious explanation): due to time travel, the smart phone was invented way earlier because cxs went back into the past as himself at one point and just him having a smart phone changed the past asfjldjshdzvmkls

Anyways ur post has caused me to go on a deep dive down a rabbit hole of the development of smart phones in china lol

[OP is responding to this post]

ajdgjhgsdjf just doing my part to keep the fandom discussions alive 🫡

but re: #1: I guess the world of Link Click is fictional to some extent…but it’s also very real in ways it doesn’t have to be.

Like, in s2e2 (or 3, not sure), they had Liu Jing mention the metaverse with some business partners. Season 2 is set in 2021, and that’s the year “metaverse” became a buzzword because of Facebook renaming itself to Meta.

And apparently, COVID also exists in the linkclickverse…

So, if Link Click can incorporate such timely real-life events in the show, I don’t see why they’d just hand-wave the details on the smartphones

Explanation 2 seems more plausible, but can somebody with a copy of S1E5.5 give me a screenshot of the scene where the couple allegedly took a photo with their phone. I remember my brother also commenting how it was odd because the phone was too modern. However, the one I have in my copy is this:

They took a photo with a Polaroid camera.

My season 1 copy is something I recently redownloaded, though, because my original copy got corrupted for some reason. Maybe the team also realized the mistake and fixed it by replacing the phone with a camera?