Top 10 Viral Videos that proved to be fake
It is the dream of many vloggers: making a video go viral on the web. The most diverse and spectacular subjects are good to record a video and post it on the web. In some cases, a video travels around the world and attracts the attention of millions of people. But are they always real events that one films? Below is a list of ten videos that went viral, but turned out to be false.
10. A dancing girl is on fire
A video of a twerkend girl on fire attracted the attention of more than 19 million viewers. The twerkend girl performs a handstand against a door that suddenly opens. The girl falls over and touches a burning candle, which sets her legs on fire. The video went around the world, but it turned out to be false. Marketing specialists from the talk show of Jimmy Kimmel posted a short version of the video on a fake YouTube account. The video was shared thousands of times. In reality it turned out to be an acted scene and the fire was immediately extinguished by an employee.
9. Diver attacked by white shark
You have to dare to dive into water where sharks swim. Someone filmed a dive in the fresh water of the Sydney harbor with his GoPro. Almost immediately, a large white shark appears, attacking the diver. Spectacular images that were viewed more than 35 million times. The Woolshed Company production house cleverly processed the individual images of a diver and a white shark in one and the same video.
8. Golden Eagle catches a child
A golden eagle that dives down and attacks a child? According to a viral video, this happened in a park in Montreal. A golden eagle flies down and tries to take a playing child as prey. The filmer rushes to help the child. Impressive, but not true. The video was a film project of a group of students in Montreal, who undoubtedly got good grades with this viral video.
7. Snowboarder chased by a bear
The film of the snowboarder who is being chased by a bear was shared millions of times on social media. But no matter how frightening these images are, they are not real. Again it was the Woolshed Company that placed individual images of a snowboarder and a polar bear in one video. They showed that they had mastered the art of viral videos very well.
6. A joke goes wrong
Millions of viewers saw the viral video in which the friend of a girl dresses up as a burglar in jest and waits for his girlfriend to come home. The girlfriend is so frightened of him that she walks to the street and gets under a car. These very realistic images shocked millions of people around the world. Fortunately the video was played: it was a short film written and directed by a famous director.
5. Almost struck by lightning
The Woolshed Company knows how to make (false) videos go viral. This time we see a couple exploring the rock coast of Tamarama near Sydney. When the girl approaches the water, the lightning strikes only a few meters away. ln a fictitious video, pieced together, which was viewed by more than three million viewers.
4. A public relations party is going wrong
The video shows a party in which the start of the oil exploitation of Shell in the Arctic is celebrated. A model of a drilling platform must serve to provide guests with a rich wine. However, this goes wrong: an important guest is being sprayed with wine through the malfunctioning drilling platform. This video went viral, but was in fact a directed video of an action group that denounces the exploitation of oil in the Arctic.
3. Charging an iPod with an onion
It seems too good to be true, charging an iPod with an out that was soaked in a sports drink. And so is it, because in reality this is simply impossible. This viral video has been seen more than ten million times, but nobody has succeeded so far in charging his iPod with onions. Even a presenter of Mythbusters (a popular series on the Discovery Channel) was involved. He showed irrevocably that one can not make a battery with an onion and sports drinks.
2. Satanic rituals at CERN
CERN, the European Institute for Nuclear Research, is brimming with highly educated scientists and researchers. Satanic rituals at CERN normally do not take place. Or right? This viral video seems to prove the opposite. A group of men with cloaks accompany a woman to a courtyard, where the woman lies down on the floor and is 'sacrificed'. According to CERN, the video comes from employees who went beyond their book. The incident is currently under investigation.
1. Lion takes revenge on a hunter
A suddenly appearing lion takes revenge on hunters who pose triumphantly in a shot lion. This viral video was viewed more than 12 million times. Months later, the Australian Woolshed Company announced that the video was again the result of smart film editing and therefore contained no true images. The Woolshed Company produced a whole series of 'false' viral videos, which were viewed more than 205 million times by internet users all over the world.
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