Is it true that the rapper Potap ridiculed the death of Anastasia Zavorotnyuk?

Soon after the news about the death of the leading role performer in the series “My Beautiful Nanny” on the network, reports that a Ukrainian artist published an insulting post about the actress in his social networks. We checked whether the musician made the statements attributed to him.

On the morning of May 30, 2024, it became known that actress Anastasia Zavorotnyuk died at the 54th year of her life after a long illness. Messages about this appeared In official accounts of the artist in social networks. A few hours later, a screenshot was encouraged on the Internet, which allegedly shows Instagram-storosis of the Ukrainian rapper Alexei Potapenko, known under the pseudonym Potap. The post of the musician supposedly consisted of the frame of the series “My Beautiful Nanny”, the role in which Zavorotnyuk became famous, and a mocking signature in Ukrainian: “Well, Nastya, it was fun to play in an image that puts all the Ukrainians stupidly? It’s good that you won’t play 👏👏👏 ”.

Publications with this image became incredibly viral in both the Russian -speaking and Ukrainian -language segment of the network. According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis of Telegram, more than 1000 posts appeared with the mention of Potap and Zavorotnyuk, which had gained more than 7 million views. Among the most viral - notes in the channels "Ax 18+"(1.1 million views),"Anatoly Shariy"(596 000), BAZA (361 000), "Pozdnyakov 3.0"(286 000), Readovka (253,000), Shot (241,000) and "Solovyov"(150 000). The media and the media lit up this news: RT, "RIA Novosti", UNIAN, "TSN" URA.RU, "Tsargrad","Russian newspaper","Arguments and facts" Life.ru, Lenta.ru, "Gazeta.ru","News","Moscow Komsomolets","Komsomolskaya Truth","Reginum","Focus" Eadaily, "Ren-TV"And many others. Similar publications are found in "VKontakte" And "Zen".

Photo: Viral screenshot

"My beautiful nanny"-a comedy television series, based on the American show" published on the Russian television channel of STS in the 2000s, "Nanny". In adaptation, Zavorotnyuk played the main character Vika Prutkovskaya, who, in the plot, lived in Mariupol until 15 years old, and then moved with her parents to Moscow. After the start of a full -scale Russian invasion among Ukrainians, the point of view became a relatively popular that the creators of the series ridiculed natives and residents of Ukraine. For example, in October 2022, the YakTytam Instagram account Published The viral post with the scenes that the authors of the publication considered insulting in relation to Mariupol. The Ukrainian media also told about the selection. For example, "Channel 24"Released a note under the heading" How the nanny Vika disgraced Ukrainians and Mariupol ", and UNIAN He wrote that the actors of the sitcom "humiliated Ukraine." Even in the publication of the death of Zavorotnyuk, the Telegram channel "Truha⚡️"(719,000 views) was made by a reminder:" In the series "My Beautiful Nanny" Ukrainians were depicted stupid and nearby. "

The editors of “Verified” first saw the publication of Potap’s statement addressed to Zavorotnyuk on May 30 at 14:58 Moscow time. At that time, there was no such story on Instagram as a musician. However, in most publications about this post Potap, it is stated that the artist allegedly quickly deleted him after a flurry of criticism in his address. It should be noted that the viral image presents the Ukrainian -speaking Instagram interface and it is indicated that the story appeared 5 minutes. back.

Next, we decided to find the first post in which a viral screenshot appeared. According to the TGSTAT service, the earliest publication with keywords was published at 11:21 in the pro-Kremlin Russian-speaking Telegram channel "🇺🇦 Open Ukraine | Open Ukraine", However, she did not receive widespread (only 43,000 views in seven hours). Already at 12:35, that is, in more than an hour, the same screenshot posted the channel "Heaven is"(83,000 views), and after a few more minutes -"Petya the first"(60 000). All three These The Telegram channel has been mentioned many times in the analysis of “tested” in connection with the spread of anti-Ukrainian fakes. Moreover, among the fake materials that published these resources, fake instagram storosis of celebrities often appeared (for example, The widows of Elvis Presley, musician System of a Down, Madonna, Elijah Wood, Dina Norris And Moby). Some of these fake storiz were also associated with tragic events in Russia - for example, in August 2023 distributed The news that the night club in Kyiv announced the Fiery Makhachkala party after the gas station explosion in Dagestan.

“Verified” drew attention to another oddity related to the time of publication and creation of a screenshot. If you believe in the authenticity of the viral image, then the screen of the screen was taken at 09:27 (the time is indicated in the upper left corner). In the original post, it is not mentioned in what time zone a person lives in a screenshot, but if you assume that the author was in Ukraine, where time is now coinciding with Moscow, then almost two hours have passed between the creation of the screen and its publication in the Open UKRANE channel.

It is also significant that the same screenshot, allegedly made after 5 minutes, spreads on the network. After the appearance of the story. It seems unlikely that among the audience of Potap (on Instagram on it Signed 1.8 million people) did not find at least another person who captured a resonance publication. In addition, in none of the news we found, a reference to the initial story was given, that is, to check the presence of its sunken copies, if they were, it is not possible.

On the same day, at about 16:20, Potap reacted to the publications in the media and Telegram channels. He published Two Storiz And duplicate them fast In Ukrainian, in which he stated that he did not make fun of the death of Zavorotnyuk. The musician called the viral screenshot for a fake.

At first they buried me, and then I resurrected and ridicule the death of others ...

Russian IPSO (information and psychological special operation.-Approx. Ed.) In action, but I propose not to be conducted on such provocations. Another misinformation, the purpose of which is to expose Ukrainians in a negative light. They often write about me that when our media already picked up the news generated in the Russian information space and which first appeared in their news, I want to say: do not trust the foal screenshots so that there are no news that is aimed at discrediting Ukrainians in our media space. This is an example of how they are trying to expose us with monsters. You and I are a reasonable society that can analyze and check what we see, hear and read.

Therefore, do not believe everything you read.
More - in the story.

The Time 15:20 is indicated in the Storyz Potap. Judging by his last postsHe is in Barcelona, ​​and this is, respectively, Spanish time. Photo: collage "Checked" / @realpotap (IG)

Soon Potap Published Minute video softer (the video also Duplicated In a separate post - in the signature, the artist called Zavorotnyuk “a beautiful actress” and “wonderful man”), where he spoke out again, this time in Russian.

I understand that it is necessary to put Ukrainians in the most unpleasant light, but I want to answer all the fake-innovations that I just read about myself-that I allegedly ridiculed the death of Anastasia Zavorotnyuk. This, of course, is blasphemy, because, firstly, I learned about this today only because of these fake-nomos and bring the deepest condolences to the family. And I ask the fans to support the family - Anastasia and I were friends, we worked together more than once. I loved Nastya, and her bright memory to her. And all of you - more critical thinking. Think of the news that comes out about bright characters, because they are trying to distract you from something. You are trying to direct you to something ... to some conclusion. But yes, God is with them, with these people ... and the bright memory of Nastya.

Video: @realpotap

Shortly after the statements of Potap, some media and Telegram channels issued at the beginning of this analysis issued their earlier news notes. For example, this did "Moscow Komsomolets" And "Gazeta.ru". However, judging by the comments under the post of a musician with a refutation, not everyone believed his words. Thus, some users said that they personally saw the storiz of Potap, although “verified” could not be found in their profiles of a different screenshot, except that he originally appeared in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel. Publications RT And Readovka, in turn, they stated that Potap decided to justify himself for mocking the deceased actress with his new posts. I did not believe the artist and Anatoly Shariy, Writingthat "tens of thousands of people saw his record of the death of Zavorotnyuk." Why, of these allegedly tens of thousands, the screenshot was able to make only one user, the blogger did not explain.

Thus, “verified” with a high degree of confidence may argue that the screenshot with the Storiz Potap is fake. This is indicated not only by a refutation from the rapper itself, but also by the origin of the viral image, the absence of other screenshots and an implausible chronology of distribution.

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