Update on forum #264223 above, I think the comment section isn't a good place for this.
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GreyOmega4K said:
Will note that I would think the balloons would have also cast a shadow. Where is that shadow that crosses the street coming from also and what is the corner mirror reflecting, since nothing in the foreground matches creating that shadow? Is that a fence post or some sort of prop in the low trees, because if it's a fence it doesn't go anywhere and the tree is growing through it. Is that telephone pole at the end of the street have an arm for a light fixture around where it is over the house window or is that a weird branch jutting out of it? The position I would think light, but it is awfully small.
Here's the original photo and its original source. GreyOmega4K brought two good points that I missed, the mirror reflection is completely wrong and the lack of shadows for the balloons is weird since the artist made shadows for the characters. I don't have a good argument for why they didn't trace the mirror reflections correctly, but the characters were clearly pasted over the background and both situations could be indicative of human error. I don't think they started using AI, we know for a fact they can trace photos almost 1:1 and they're consistent since way before AI became a thing.