Lady Saiyuki Copying Dolls?

One of the major inconsistencies in Lady Saiyuki’s story since she’s started to produce “progress photos” of the sculpting in progress (as of January 7, 2010) is the fact that the EXIF data on the photos either does not match the date the photos were supposedly taken, or have other major inconsistencies.

A Den of Demons user noted that in the EXIF data for one of the supposed in-progress sculpt photos the date was listed as January 7, 2010, the day the photo was posted — not mid-2009 when Lady Saiyuki claimed to have been working on the sculpting. As the date indicates when the photo was taken, this indicates that the photo was not in fact taken until January 7, 2010. This was true of all the progress photos posted, with the exceptions of photos of the original sketch. Unfortunately I only have screencaps for one image.

Screenshot of EXIF data. Another Den of Demons user managed to save a few of the photos, and screen captures of the news post on ladysaiyuki.com.

I posted on Lady Saiyuki’s forum asking why the EXIF data on the progress photos indicated that they were taken that day. My post was deleted, my account was banned, and LadySaiyuki pulled down all the photos and reuploaded them with the EXIF data stripped.

Lady Saiyuki later replaced these with photos with EXIF data showing that they were taken May 28, 2009. However, the EXIF data for these photos also indicates that they were taken with an iPhone running version 3.1.2 of the iPhone OS. This version of the iPhone OS was not released until October 8, 2009, over four months AFTER the photos claim to be taken.

Screencaps of conflicting EXIF data in these photos: [1] [2]

After this was revealed the photos once again vanished temporarily, and are once again uploaded with their EXIF data stripped as of this posting.