This blog has occasionally highlighted pop culture chess imagery fouls, which are annoying to encounter, but sometimes are amusing, especially when sourced to creators who probably don't even play chess.
Something relatively new as a phenomenon in chess publishing (mostly online) is the posting of incorrect, sometimes even howlingly bad, chess imagery from chess professionals who are content creators (and should know better). The new-ish normal is that every blog post on the interwebs is expected to have an image at the top, regardless of whether it adds anything to the meaning of the content. I'll put up an image when it makes sense and adds to the post, for example showing a book cover or a chess diagram or a (real) person mentioned in the text.
Generative AI of course is increasingly used to provide images, but it is notoriously bad at chess (and apparently chess imagery as well). Professionals should at the very least do a quick blunder check on the images they are posting. One recent example is pasted below - count the different number of files for White (9) and Black (11) on the impossible chessboard.
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| Source: https://www.chess.com/blog/attilaturzo/why-life-imitates-chess (as posted June 22, 2026) |
More amusing is the following, which was intended as entertainment content in the first place, from https://www.instagram.com/summer_star____/reels/ (screen grab source)
At least this board setup, even if illegal, is physically possible, with the colors and the king/queen positions having been reversed. It's perhaps natural to have a bit of sympathy for an oops by an 1100-rated internet chess influencer that is willing to put herself out there at the National Open, compared with an IM who should really know better.
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