Here's a live feed from the ISS:
So the question of the existence of the ISS is answered. It exists. I don't think blue-screen technology can replicate what we are witnessing on live stream.
Next question is, how much of the interior is genuine? We already know manned spacecraft can exist in low Earth orbit indefinitely ... so it wouldn't surprise me in the least if a few individuals lived in the ISS at all times.
What raises my concern is stuff like this (from @55 to @2:25 minutes):
Forget that the video is produced by a (deluded) flat Earth buff. I'm interested in the blue-screen technology and implications therein.
Tim Peake may indeed have been inside the ISS at the time (or he may have been in a warehouse on Earth, who really knows?), but the blue-screen tech suggests only as part of a skeleton crew to keep the station operational. After all, MIR had to have a skeleton crew in relatively cramped quarters when it was operational. I think a lot of the other stuff is made up. Especially the stuff where you have astronauts apparently gliding around in wide open spaces inside the ISS on observable strings, doing all kinds of entertainment things and what not (not science things), and generally making it seem like indefinite outer space manned existence beyond simple spacecraft and skeleton crews is a reality. IOW, more circus than a commitment to outer space exploration potential. More subterfuge than a scale befitting the initial promise of a space station in the fashion of say, Space Odyssey 2001, that lured billions of public monies from different countries into the coffers of select chosen companies. That sorta thing.
My main issue is this: how much of the ISS is real, not is the ISS real? I accept that it is real. I also now understand that some of it is fabricated. How much is fabricated? And why?
Pax