Wayspot(s) with third-party photos

Title of the Wayspot: Scenic Viewpoint Gazebo, "Cove55 Resort"

Location: Somewhere around 1.7196914,110.3498336 (I can't get exact coordinates due to Niantic not fixing Intel access bug)

City: Kuching

Country: Malaysia

Screenshot of the Rejection Email: N/A (I reported this through the Wayfarer form and nobody responds to those)

Image of currently live wayspot:

Image of Google search showing a larger, uncropped version of the same image (the same image doesn't always show up on the front page, this screenshot is from a week ago when I first reported it):

The same uncropped version was used as a supporting photo in their submission before, and the submission photo is just a cropped and edited version of that:

Larger version of the Google photo:

For easier comparison, I put it side-by-side and also marked out some strange circles that look like some kind of cursor or editing mark:

The submission photo is just a lightened version of a photo that's on the hotel's page on Google, with some weird border effect on only the right side of the image and a strange circle on the walkway.

A different submission from the same area, probably from the same person:

I've found the supporting photo on Google (right side, second from the top):

And there's the submission photo, looks like they flipped the original horizontally before cropping it and colour-filtering it (left side of the screenshot below):

There are probably a lot more of these that were approved already in other areas, as I really only noticed this by coincidence since the original Google photo showed up on top the first time I checked the resort name.

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