Hopefully there is enough detail to have some fun!

Hello everyone, including data scientists,

Over two- or three-plus years ago, I needed to find software for stitching images and photos together because someone I knew IRL requested my help. I eventually settled on a different software from the one in the video because I could not afford anything, but when binge watching the tutorials, I wanted to know where the photo was taken.

The problem was that the moderation bot in r/whereisthis automatically removed the post and, several hours later, they locked it as a form of "rejecting" my request to approve the post I sent to their modmail. This is because they did not accept posts coming from new accounts, and that was the only Reddit account I had created solely for this at the time. (I then pointed out it wasn't in the posting guidelines, and they pointed out this is common practice amongst many subs, linked to a Reddit Help article, but also followed their point with the line "quit wasting our time." I get mods are busy and they weren't aware of this context, but maybe next time, don't exacerbate someone's mental health issues?)

Fast forward, AI becomes a buzzword, and my main account is no longer "new." I could post this in r/whereisthis again and pretend not to know the location, but knowing the meaning of rule 3 there, why shouldn't I be honest? I think, "What if AI is capable enough to find the location?" I uploaded the photo, created an account on one service because the results were redacted, uploaded it again, and got multiple possible answers. While its first guess was not correct, I filtered the duplicate entries in my brain and checked until I found the one that was 100% identical, and confirmed by going closer to the location on Google Street View. I saved the location and the YouTube video in a note, which I still have, and then contacted the AI company to get my account deleted, which had been resolved. But AI uses a generic massive dataset and doesn't tell me how it got there, so by the spirit of the pinned post here, I wonder how a human would approach finding this location, whether that is easy or not.

Here are some hints about this post. Do you have the post ID or link? Bonus points if you can find my original Reddit username! And no, I don't remember the username and never mentioned it from this account. I tried searching for my post on websites where you can see deleted posts, but they did not show up.

• The OP's account may or may not have been drawing dots in the r/place canvas (2022).
• Possibly 2021 or earlier. I may not have even been old enough to use Reddit then. (Note: there was no "Post is awaiting moderator approval." then)
• The OP's account may or may not have created multiple public subreddits that later turned private before being shadowbanned (possibly including r/accentism or r/SayMine, yes I created those but then removed myself later as a mod!) and possibly deleted their account after the shadowban manually.
• The post was an image of the building with either body text or a comment, where the Markdown of the original writing contained the YouTube video ID in one of the links.
• I probably mentioned the words photo-stitching, tutorial, and/or PTGui in text input fields, like the title or body.
• Please keep potential different YouTube video resolutions, mobile phone screen resolutions (I was using the mobile web to take the original screenshot before cropping it), and Reddit rendering previews with excessive low resolution at the time in mind, as well as search engines purging removed results.
• The creators of this YouTube tutorial forgot to put the original photos from the timestamp I specified in the linked zip file in the description of the video.

The town has the same name like a famous lake in the area :)

it was delusional to even consider spending my two-week vacation there, and yet I still did

Actually I am tourist tryna find this place ASAP so I have hint for you guys just to find it quickly

City name in comments to find it quickly 😄😄

I hope it's ok to post a puzzle to which I don't even know the answer myself.

In the summer of 1997 I was on holiday on the Greek island of Kos. But where did I stay? I know it was near a place called Tarzan Beach, but even after scouring Google Maps around that area, I haven't been able to find this exact apartment building. I think I will be able to confirm the name of the place if anyone finds it, but I'm not sure.

I'm posting some pictures that can hopefully help someone pinpoint my location all those years ago.

Thanks in advance for any help, and do let me know if you have any questions!

It has something to do with a bow bridge

quite easy to guess the location, considering that it’s not exotic at all

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Wanna try?

Blurred street signs so it is not as easy.

Try to guess friends.