Fact-Check: Old Video From China Viral as RCB Celebrations Post IPL 2025 Win

This video is from China in January, not celebrations for RCB's IPL win.

A video showing a huge crowd has gone viral to claim that it shows celebrations for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) after their win in the eighteenth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Those sharing wrote, "Power of King Kohli."

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false. This video dates back to January and is from China.

What we found: At first, we divided he video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We were led to an Instagram page called Shanghai.explore which featured the same viral clip. It was uploaded on 2 January.

• The date stamp made it clear that the clip was unrelated to the this IPL season which ended on 3 June where the RCB were winners.

• The post noted that the clip was from Nanchang in China.

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• We also found the same video uploaded on news outlet Shanghai Eye's YouTube page on 1 January.

• The news outlet noted that it showed a gathering at Nanchang city centre to release balloons in celebration of the New Year.

Conclusion: An old and unrelated video has gone viral to falsely claim that it shows a public celebration for RCB's maiden IPL trophy.

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