At the beginning of 2024, reports about the experiment appeared in Runet, which was conducted by a blogger from Kazakhstan: he laid Russian and Ukrainian flags on the floor in a crowded place and photographed the reaction of passers -by. It is reported that, unlike a tricolor, not a single person lifted the yellow-blue banner. We checked whether this is so.
The dissemination of information about this experiment took place in two stages. On February 29, a 27-second video appeared on social networks, which in the Telegram channel "Ukraine.ru”(151,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) was presented as follows:“ In Kazakhstan, a local blogger decided to conduct a social experiment on respect for the Ukrainian flag-is there at least anyone who will raise it from the floor? There were no such fools, and the couple also wiped their legs on the Bandera rag. Residents of Kazakhstan respect! " Similar posts then appeared in the channels "Evil journalist"(54,000 views),"Russia 2.0"(52,000),"Scout"(26 000) and Avia.pro (20,000), however, the video did not gain wide distribution, gaining a total of only a few hundred thousand views in Telegram.
Two weeks later, March 13, the story was continued. “Recently there was a video of how the Kazakh blogger conducted an experiment with the Ukrainian flag. No one lifted him, and even walked along it. He did a new experiment in the same place today. With the flag of Russia! ” -says in the Telegram channel "The whisper of the front"(47,000 views). The newspaper "Arguments and Facts", recalling that the flag of Ukraine did not raise and trampled, so Described Video about Tricolor: “In 25 seconds, while the video lasts, the flag rushed to raise eight people. Among them are both men and women. One of the men leaned to raise the flag, despite the fact that in his arms he held a child. ” “Bravo, Kazakhstan! Ordinary people understand that the truth is with Russia, ”added the Telegram channel“Russia now"(232,000 views).
The posts with the story of the difference in relation to Kazakhstanis to the Russian and Ukrainian flags have collected millions of views in Telegram. In mid -March, channels told about the rollers of the Kazakhstan blogger "The world today with "Yuri Podolyak""(1.7 million views),"Uncle Glory"(184 000), Voblya (153,000), Rus_criminal (134,000), "The first folk"(113,000),"Denazification of Ukraine"(72 000),"Evil journalist"(54,000) and others. The television channel" Tsargrad "also wrote about social experiment in his social networks (Telegram, "Zen","VKontakte") And his units"Tsargrad.yug" And "Tsargradd Kazakhstan". Viral video was published in public in VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and in "Zen", On YouTube and some news sites.
Both viral videos were shot in the same place, but judging by the differing blogger clothes, on different days. On the recording with the Ukrainian flag distributed on the rune shows how the author puts his printed image on the floor, and then about 20 people pass by. Moreover, one woman kicked the flag aside, and a few more people, apparently, accidentally walked along it. Another situation is captured on a video with a tricolor: the Russian flag really raised eight people, while less than a dozen passed by, and not looking at it, only one stepped on it.
None of the resources mentioned above has a link to original publications. Moreover, even a blogger nicker or a platform on which he places his content is not indicated anywhere. With the help of the opposite Search By the image “verified” it found that the author is called Baurzhan, and he uploads his video to Tiktok under the nickname Baurzhan. S..
On the Baurzhan page several videos with similar social experiments were published: he checked whether Kazakhstanis would raise the flag of Kazakhstan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Russia. Video about the experiment with the Ukrainian flag was published February 27 2024, and with Russian - March 4, they gained 6.3 and 2.7 million views, respectively. The descriptions of the rollers do not indicate exactly where they were shot, but, most likely, the shooting took place in the city of Stepnogorsk in the north of Kazakhstan. This is indicated by the corresponding tags in previous videos (here And here), as well as local shopping centers (here - shopping center "Kazakhstan" here - TC Happy Mall).
However, the video dispersed on the rune turned out to be much shorter than the originals published in Tiktok. So, the video about the flag of the Russian Federation is 61 seconds, and not 25. In its first half, it is only shown how people pass by the flag lying on the floor, and starting from the 30th second, it is demonstrated how passers-by stop and raise it-“tested” counted 15 such cases.
A similar situation with a video about the Ukrainian flag: it also lasts a little more than a minute, and not 27 seconds. In the first half of the video, people pass by, the second shows a selection with those who still raised the yellow-blue banner-we counted 17 people who acted so.
In communication with “verified”, Baurzhan said that he had already been sent by cut versions of his videos, which were dispersed along social networks. “I am simply outraged that there are such bad people who are misleading and inciting interethnic discord. This social experiment carries only a patriotic and social meaning: that Kazakhstanis for peace and a clear sky above their heads. We treat everyone with respect, regardless of the country and the flag, ”the blogger shared.
Thus, Russian pro-government media and authors of large Telegram channels distributed only fragments of source videos on the network. In fact, the original rollers showed how the inhabitants of Kazakhstan have repeatedly raised the flag of Ukraine. Moreover, according to two videos, indifferent people in the case of the Ukrainian flag in absolute numbers were slightly larger than raising the flag of the Russian Federation - 17 versus 15. However, it is not known which part of the material shot by the blogger fell into the final installation.
Photo on the cover: collage "Checked" / @baurzhan_89 (Tiktok)
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