Since Sunday, multiple users on various social media platforms have been sharing a video showing a woman opening fire after a man on a motorcycle allegedly tried to approach her. However, the video is generated by AI.
how it started
On Sunday, a social media user shared an X-rated video showing a man on a motorcycle approaching a woman walking down the street. He approaches with a 180-degree turn, after which the woman, dressed in a burqa, pulls out a gun and shoots in the direction of the man, forcing him to flee the scene.
The post attracted 333,000 views.
An Indian account shared the same video on Instagram in a similar context. The post garnered around 171,000 likes.
Another Instagram user shared the same video in a similar context, obtaining 34,300 likes.
Another Indian user shared the viral clip with the caption: “When the hero of Karan Johar’s film meets the heroine of Anurag Kashyap’s film.” The post got 170,000 views on X.
Similarly, the video was shared by several other users on social media platforms. Facebook, YouTube, instagram, LinkedInand X, as you can see here, here, here, here, here and here; collectively earning 10,000 views.
Methodology
A fact check was initiated to determine the veracity of the claim due to its high virality and great public interest in the video.
Frame-by-frame analysis of the video to identify visual discrepancies showed that the man appears to stop the motorcycle in a 180-degree turn that is unusually smooth, while no skid marks were seen on the road.
Secondly, at the 1 second mark, the gun suddenly appears in the woman’s hand, as if transforming in the video.
After 4 seconds, the dust cloud produced after the woman shot onto the road appears unusually large and thick, even though the road is made of asphalt. A paved road normally wouldn’t produce that much dust from a single shot.
Similarly, when the man flees on the motorcycle, the rear wheel appears to produce an equally large amount of dust on an otherwise clean paved road.
The video was further analyzed using AI detection tools with Hive Moderation labeling the video as 94.2 percent AI generated, while Deepfake Detection labeled it 97 percent AI generated.
X also marked the video as AI-generated content in a post that had shared the clip.
Additionally, a reverse image search revealed that the same video was originally aware by an Instagram account that repeatedly shares similar AI-generated videos, as seen in its previous posts. The video was shared on June 27, 2026 and was the oldest found on the Internet.
Fact Check Status: False
The claim that a viral video shows a woman shooting a stalker on a motorcycle is FAKE.
The video is generated by AI.
This fact check was originally published by iVerify Pakistan, a project of CEJ-IBA and UNDP.
