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"Random" (and misrepresented) images in Photos collection for Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

This is something I've never seen before. I'm not sure what to make of it.

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures was a largely forgettable late-1990s TV series in the "UPN Saturday afternoon" vein. It ran for just a single 22-episode season and starred Joe Lara, who died in 2021.

But the odd thing is the IMDb photos collection for the title:

  •  All of the first twenty-five title photos (of 62 total) are images of actors from the series cast list.
  • Each one is labeled the same way, "$NAME at an event for Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)".
  • All of them are clearly just random headshots of those actors, not taken at any event whatsoever (much less one for this particular series).
  • All 25 images have no relationship whatsoever to the title, other than the fact that the actors pictured were part of the cast.

Here's what the thumbnail grid looks like for the first few (of, again, TWENTY-FIVE):   

Why are those images there, attached to that title? Are they valid title images that belong there under IMDb policy? And who is putting in the effort to submit all these photos, falsely claiming that they were taken "at an event for $OBSCURE_1990S_SHOW", when it's far more likely they were taken from the Google Images search results for each actor's name?

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18 hours ago

(...And, changing gears, why is my question set Private?)

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@FeRDNYC​ Ah, all posts containing images are automatically set to Private by the Sprinklr software to protect against spam posts; any such posts which are not spam will be manually set to public the next time an IMDb team member sees the thread (as is the case here :-). 

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6 hours ago

Hi FeRDNYC-

Thank you for reporting! Further reviewing, this has been corrected and the changes will be live on the site shortly.

Cheers!

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It is interesting that the title was untagged from the images, but (at least some of) the images are still listed and can be seen in the title's cast list since they are headshots for several of the cast members. My guess is that this was the main purpose of these image uploads, which must have been made by someone with special access. I have seen the same pattern on other titles in the past. As a user I can't really have a problem with names having headshots, but I'm a little surprised that IMDb allows it.