AI Video Goes Viral and People Realize They Can’t Tell Real From Fake Anymore

Would you have fallen for the emotional support kangaroo?

As a wise man once told me, the trouble with AI won’t come from the impossible, but from the almost-true, always lingering on the fringes of reality.

The first high-quality AI video has gone viral, in the proper sense of the word: It has reached and fooled millions of people. It features a cute “emotional support” kangaroo being denied access to a plane. As it ends, the video zooms in on the kangaroo and shows him holding the boarding pass.

This short clip is the perfect mix of cute and hilarious — and, if you fall for it without realizing it’s AI-generated, also infuriating and heartbreaking. That’s the perfect recipe for virality: enrage the gullible; delight the astute.

Originally published on Instagram as a reel, the video was later shared on X by a yellow tick tabloid account with nearly 800,000 followers under the caption “Emotional support kangaroo rejected entry to plane.” It has since been taken down and flagged with a community note, but not before amassing 70 million views just from that tweet.