Easily, neither picture has anything in it to give the viewer an idea of the snake's overall size. Putting the two snakes side by side in the same picture would tell a very different story, but that's not sensational and it doesn't sell.
Sadly, to most people a snake is a snake is a snake, and they don't have a clue with the differences between the boids, colubrids, and venomous species, never mind the difference between a rock python and a ball python.