Are videos with calls for gamers and gays to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine?

In the fall of 2023, two videos were encouraged in social networks, in which the army of Ukraine allegedly urges to enter into their ranks of heimer teenagers and representatives of the LGBT community. We checked whether it is real propaganda video.

Gamers

At the end of September 2023, the 33-second video gained popularity, which in numerous Telegram channels most often Signed As follows: “Women in the Armed Forces are already recruited, the queue of adolescents has come. We are waiting for the elderly. " Sometimes at the end Added The phrase "to the last Ukrainian." In the channel "Skabeeva"(70,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) specified that the mobilization of e -sportsmen is also being prepared in Ukraine, and in" "Special operations z"(77,000) reported that the reason for the recruitment of gamers is high losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because of which Kyiv allegedly went to extreme measures. Similar publications appeared in the channels "Live broadcast"(691,000 views),"Truthfulness"(209 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(125,000),"Bullet"(124,000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(109,000),"Federation"(86 000),"I am in the know"(74,000),"Cartridge"(68 000),"Yakov Kedmi"(67 000),"True Russia"(65 000),"Ax | Policy"(55,000),"Mriya"(48 000) and TG Team Russia (44,000), as well as in publics in VKontakte (examples here, here And here), V "Zen"And on some newssites. In addition, viral video demonstrated On the air of the Big Game program on the First Channel: the host said that in Ukraine the video became “perhaps the most serious news” and that he was “actively twisted” on Ukrainian television.

The viral video shows young men who seem to play computer games. Moreover, the video is demonstrated as cutting real records from the combat zone, many of which were used in musical clip For the song “Dopoki B'T Cherce” from Marietta, and shots from different video games - among them, for example, Call of Duty: Warzone (at the mark 00:04), Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (00:22) and Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire (00:25). At the end of the video (at the 00:26 mark) a text appears, some of which is voiced by a sunbeam: “You are no longer a child. The games are over. Enter the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zsu.team. "

Zsu.team - This is the official website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine with information on how to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, “verified” could not find either the video that interests us or its mention on any resources related to the Ukrainian military department. We also searched for publications about gaming advertising in the Ukrainian media, but found only refutations - several publications at once, including the agency "Ukrinform", Called the video a fake. Ukrainian factor from the GWARA Media project found outthat the viral video is based on an advertisement for a wireless computer mouse from Logitech G, where three professional e -sportsmen from France were removed (Shox) and Denmark (Bjergsen And Zven). The initial video was Layd On YouTube back in August 2018.

Your refutation released and the Ukrainian fact of the "without buckle", for which then Referred Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security of Ukraine. The analysis, however, argues that Russian propagandists only distorted the meaning of the supposedly real video - “one of the series of similar ones developed as part of the“ mobilization ”information campaign”. In an interview with the “verified” the editor -in -chief “Without Brekhnі”, Alexander Gorokhovsky, said that he also considers a video about fake gamers, although the opposite is approved in the text. According to him, the analysis is focused on how Russian pro -government media manipulates real motivational videos from the program of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The tested video about gamers among them was “verified” to detect, the corresponding link in the material of the project “Without Brechni” was also not given.

It was “verified” to find a possible source of “campaign” video, and, according to the TGSTAT service, the earliest post with the video and keywords appeared on September 20 at 13:22 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Bladsiker 2.0"(76,000 views). Moreover, after a couple of hours in the channel U_G_M (22,000 views) The same video was posted with a note “from the subscriber”, and the signature said: “Such an advertisement falls on Ukrainian gaming sites.” However, no nor links, no screenshots were given.

It turns out that there is no evidence on the network demonstration of this campaign roller about gamers as advertising on Ukrainian resources. The mounted record that originally appeared in the Russian -language segment of social networks consists of various videos that are lined in the public domain.

We add that in the summer of 2023, Telegram distributed a similar fake. Then in Russian channels, among which "Rita Ebzeeva"(111,000 views),"Alexander Semchenko"(91 000),"Karnaukhov"(26 000), PEACHBLOSSOM (14,000) and Gury__MOOD (10,000), it was reported that at the end of the Ukrainian version of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, the Modern Warfare III game is supposedly called to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. FACECHERS from the project "VOKS Ukrainian" found outthat in fact the distributed video was mounted by unknown persons and issued for the Ukrainian trailer.

Gay

At the end of October, another supposedly Ukrainian campaign roller, this time calling for representatives of the LGBT community, has gained popularity. Often it accompanied The following description: “APU advertising for gays. Apparently, women and old people are not enough. ” Also reportedthat this advertisement for the contract was removed by order of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Similar video posts are published in Telegram channels, among which "Live broadcast"(697,000 views),"Sanya in Florida"(382 000),"KB"(248,000),"Uncle Glory"(212 000),"Truthfulness"(196 000),"Putin in Telegram"(166 000), Voblya (150,000), "Bottle"(137 000),"Rhymes and Panchi 18+"(101 000),"Tin of the day"(91 000),"Bladsiker 2.0"(85,000),"Alexander Semchenko"(84,000),"Petya the first"(83,000),"Federation"(81 000),"Special operation z"(81 000),"Fox News Russia"(69,000),"Mishovets Yegor"(67 000),"Cartridge"(66 000),"True Russia"(62 000),"Sexton"(51 000),"Russia 2.0"(50,000),"What happened?"(40,000),"Info DPR"(37,000),"Denazifier"(35,000),"Eye of the war 18+"(28,000),"Shark"(23,000), U_G_M (18,000) and "Pavel Onishchenko"(15,000), as well as in VKontakte (examples here, here, here And here), "Classmates" And "Zen". Among the media and news sites about advertising they wrote "Arguments and facts","Tsargrad","Podolyaka","Morning South" Live24 And other resources.

In the first half of the 10-second video, two kissing pairs of young people are shown, and in the second shots with military personnel are demonstrated. Against the background, a male voice sounds: “It doesn’t matter at all whether you love women or men. It is important that you love Ukraine. Enter the Armed Forces of Ukraine. ” At the end of the video, the name of the site zsu.team again appears, but this time in rainbow colors. Moreover, the letters are painted with seven different colors, and the classic flag of the LGBT community is traditionally consists of Of the six lanes. As in previous cases, this advertising could not be found on any resources related to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, as well as in the Ukrainian media.

“Verified” the return on screenshots of the viral video and found out that the basis of its first half with kissing pairs is the video of the YouTube channel I-D, published October 27, 2020. The starting record lasts almost 10 minutes and is called “LGBT+ youth, struggling for the Polish Stonell”-this is a report from Warsaw, dedicated to local LGBT activists. Earlier, August 7, 2020, Warsaw Police Arrested The non -bureau activist Margot placed her into custody before the trial. In response to the actions of the authorities on the streets Out Protesters were detained by almost fifty people. Some publications called the action "Polish Stonewol" by analogy with Stonewell uprising -A series of riots and demonstrations against the police raid in the American gay bar “Stonewoll-Inn” in 1969, from which the active phase of the struggle for LGBT rights in the United States began.

In the second half of the video used Personnel From a real campaign video called “Ballad of Infantry” - this is a social advertising Ground forces of Ukraine, published Back in October 2016. The project was implemented Together in the consulting company to the Group and the creative agency Tabasco, according to the creators, completely on a volunteer basis without state funding.

The earliest post with the alleged advertising about gays, which was able to find "verified", appeared on October 31 at 14:22 in the Telegram channel "Ne. Sahar"(267,000 views), which mentioned In our analysis dozens of times. At the same time, after two minutes, the same video was posted in the channel "Shaman Rahu"(3600) with the post" From the subscriber from Kyiv. " This channel is already many times He became The primary source of various kinds of fakes, some of which allegedly sent anonymous subscribers.

Thus, “verified” failed to find any connections of the video of interest to us with the Ukrainian authorities. The video, as in the case of advertising about gamers, consists of different videos, several years ago posted in the public domain. At the same time, we cannot confidently say that both viral advertisements have never been demonstrated on any Ukrainian sites. However, in no publication we have found, no evidence was given this.

Photo on the cover: social networks / collage "Checked"

Most likely not true

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