Staged Promotional Video Falsely Shared as Boy Stuck Inside Slide in Water Park
This is a staged promotional video and is being shared with a false claim.
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A video is going viral online to claim that a boy was stuck inside a water park slide for over 20 minutes.
How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on some of the keyframes of the viral video and this led us to an Instagram post shared by an account 'Himanshu Shadi Card'.
This was shared on 20 March and it shows a man saying, “He is inside, he is inside. It’s been over 15 minutes.”
The man continues, “Then he must still be inside. It’s been over 15 minutes and the boy hasn’t come out yet.” And a few seconds later, a person emerges from the slide, holding a wedding invitation card. The invitation says ‘Amit weds Mamata’.
The man then takes the card and hands the camera to someone else as he speaks, “This wedding card, we ordered it through a water ride.”
The text on the video reads, ‘Himanshu shadi card, Chawri Bazaar, Delhi’.
This Instagram page has shared several similar attention-grabbing videos, including one where a man asks a girl about what she is hiding, and another where two supposed former lovers meet to celebrate a last Holi together.
Such videos end with one of the person handling a wedding invitation card and promoting their store.
Conclusion: A staged promotional video is going viral on social media to claim that it shows a boy stuck inside a water park slide.
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