If you’ve ever made fun of your Boomer parents for falling for an AI-generated video, you might be eating your words now.
That is because a video of a kangaroo holding a boarding pass, seemingly waiting to get on a plane, recently went viral.
Viewers were clamoring about how adorable and funny the video was – but now, the clip has sparked even wider ripples after people realized it was never real in the first place.
The kangaroo video was actually created by AI – and the internet is panicking in response to finding out that they were successfully tricked.
The original video was posted on Instagram by the account @infiniteunreality which posts odd and entertaining AI-generated videos.
Some of their other videos include a two-headed baby in a shopping cart, a dolphin sitting in an office chair watching TV, and the cast of Shrek in a hot tub as Donkey vomits green slime.
But by the time the kangaroo video found its way onto other platforms, social media users were unaware that it was fake or where it originally came from.
‘Omg he’s holding the boarding pass with his little kangaroo hands. That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen,’ one X (formerly Twitter) user wrote.
An AI video of a kangaroo holding a boarding pass at the airport has gone viral
Internet users panicked when they realized the kangaroo video was AI-generated
‘I need to know this Kangaroos name!!’ another said.
However, thanks to Grok – X’s built-in AI search engine – people soon discovered the truth.
But when users did find out that the kangaroo had no name because it was in fact AI-generated, it sent them into a spin.
‘I fell for the kangaroo AI video,’ one user wrote, followed by a GIF of Bridgit Mendler transforming from a young woman into a senior citizen.
‘THE KANGAROO HOLDING THE BOARDING PASS IS AI????’ another user panicked, followed by a meme of Breaking Bad’s Walter White falling to the ground.
Some users asserted that their inability to recognize that the video was AI was some sort of marker that they were getting older.
‘The kangaroo plane video was f**king AI – I thought it was a skit but this is so much worse,’ one user shared.
‘I’m cooked as soon as I hit 30. They f**king got me’
The original video came from an Instagram account that posts odd AI-generated entertainment
People likened themselves to Boomers for falling for the video
‘I fell for the airport kangaroo AI video, I am just as bad as a Boomer, if not worse! I will be publicly executed on TikTok live at 3pm PT today, please tune in,’ another dramatically shared.
Others came down on themselves hard, asking themselves ‘what was I thinking?’
Some were concerned about how quickly AI has progressed – and the potential dangers that could come from it being so advanced.
One user astutely pointed out: ‘We’ve gotten to a point where people genuinely can’t tell what is AI and what is not.’
But the overall, general consensus was that people might owe the Boomers in their lives an apology.
‘With this video, the whole internet has become Boomers on Facebook,’ an X user said.
