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“Oh, it’s just from an online slots game”

BUT THATS THE THING!!! IM NOT SURE ABOUT THAT!!! CAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK CLOSER:

THE BACKGROUND AND COLORS ARE DIFFERENT. Noticeably so, too, the first one has more muted colors and a realistic background while the second is incredibly saturated with an obviously drawn background. This would make genuinely no sense to have two pieces of advertising for the game be so different if this was made for the slots game.

My proposed theory: white pharaoh is a piece of stock artwork / imagery, explaining the artistic differences between the two pictures.

But this can only be solved by either

A. Finding the origin of picture 1

B. Finding the source of the stock artwork

You can also notice the 'American Textbooks' variation, which is the most popular variation, in my opinion, has different saturation.

A third background has hit the white pharaoh.

And this one seems to have the highest quality of all, so I suspect this is the original image. (Found it on knowyourmeme, so, no source, but working on that)

Update:

The Third Background also seems to be from Pharaoh's Fire, I'm strongly convinced that is the actual origin of the image.

And one of the oldest videos I can find on the Pharaoh's Fire game is from 2015, which is when the game was released according to metacritic, and it has the White Pharaoh on its thumbnail

This was sent May 27th, and today is June 6th, a week with no answer and my anxiety still whispering in my ear, I decide to continue my search.

I decide to do some research on some other Pharaoh's Fire art, well, it is our best lead, and surprisingly enough, I found an ArtStation, named Michael Gruber, or mxgart.

On the bottom right we can see an icon, this is, as I call it, the post-white pharaoh icon used for Pharaoh's fire. A website shows a timeline of different versions of the app, and the first instance of the White Pharaoh is (DD/MM/YYYY) 15/7/2015 , it gets changed to the pyramid we see in 12/11/2015 (Source for chronology.).

Those with a keen eye may have noticed something: Copyright. That's right, copyright! Specifically Cervo Media Copyright. Luckily enough, Michael Gruber's profile has a link to Cervo Media's website and-

There he is! The White Pharaoh- I can barely believe it myself! So that's pretty much it, for now! Cervo Media owns the right to White Pharaoh- and most certainly Michael Gruber drew it! So, unless we have a Tommy Tallarico situation in our hands, this is it! We found the White Pharaoh!

Thank you for your attention, thank you for your time, and sorry for the long post!

Edit: Hey, I didn't expect this addition to gain so much traction! But I wasn't the first person to discover Michael Gruber's artstation or the Cervo Media website. That was @hareofhrair . Thank you for your research if you are reading this, by the way! Go read their post here. Cervo Media seems to have shut down sometime in 2018, as one of Michael Gruber's blogposts indicates. So any attempts to contact the company itself will, well, fail. One thing I slightly disagree with Hareofhrair is the use of CGI pyramids indicating this is some edutainment game! I analyzed the backgrounds in my thread, but one of the backgrounds was, yes, a 3D model, but painted over by Michael Gruber (He says so in his artstation). We can also see one of the ads in an addition and it's a gif of that same background, discovery by @themainspoon (Here!).

As an example, a lot of groups claim to be “pro-women”, when in reality they are actually anti-trans. Their goal is not to uplift women, it’s to harass and criminalize trans people.