Is this video truthful about a kangaroo, which was not allowed into the plane?

At the end of May 2025, a video with a woman who tried to land at the Australian airport, accompanied by a kangaroo, was hilled on the Web. We decided to check whether anything like this happened in reality.

In a 10-second video, the passenger argues with an employee of the airline at the exit. Next to them is a small kangaroo, which holds a boarding card in its paws and which, as approved in the signature, is not allowed to go aboard. However, what women say is difficult to make out. Video video users of social networks (Facebook, X, Telegram, "VKontakte») Condemned the airline employee for discrimination against a passenger with sad eyes who modestly squeezes his ticket.

Despite the fact that for the Russian-speaking Internet user a kangaroo is an exotic, in Australia they can really be found even at airports. True, not quite as shown in the video. For example, in 2013 several marsupials at once invaded At different Australian airports: one burst into the terminal and resisted while trying to catch it, the other was found in the parking lot (the beast was wounded, so the volunteers could easily take him to a safe place and help him). However, the Kangaroo-passenger is an unusual phenomenon even for Australia, therefore it is not surprising that a video with a beast modestly squeezing a landing card in its paws caused a lot of noise. This is from the ordinary situation even taking into account the fact that the kangaroo was accompanied by a person, because to maintain them as pets forbidden. All these facts immediately made many Internet users to the idea that the video is either staged or generated by AI. 

At first glance, no signs of generation by neuralities in the video are visible. Unlike numerous AI Rolics-for example, with giant anacondas, floating on the Amazon, everything (with the exception of the situation itself) looks quite natural and realistic. Passenger hands with active gestures are lubricated, but this can be attributed to a low quality video. However, if you stop the video and take a closer look, it is clear that there is no information about the flight on the ticket that squeezes the animal, and unreadable symbols are the right sign of AI, which has not yet been very well generating the text in the image. It is also impossible to make out what the heroines of the video say, although some Internet users who do not speak English can write off this on a strong Australian accent. Analysis c HIVE MODERATION- - the service to identify content generated by neuralities - showed that with a probability of 99% the video was created using AI.

The original video was published On Instagram on May 25, 2025, the user with the nickname Infinite Unrealy. There are no mentions of AI in the text of the post, only a comment: "No kangaroo on board." In Instagram there is a function with which content can be marked as created AI. The author added such a mark to the video, but it is easy not to notice it - the inscription alternates with the audio source, and when viewed in a browser on a computer or in full -screen mode in an application for smartphones, is not displayed at all. So it is not surprising that one of the spectators did not notice the mark and took the video for the shot on camera. On the Infinite Unremy page there are other similar generated videos - for example, with Hippo, sitting in the airplane chair (obviously, he came across more accommodating flight attendants). Each video contains a kind of signature of the author - an infinity sign, he is in a video with a kangaroo.

Thus, a cute video with a kangaroo at the airport, which flooded social networks, is a very realistic and high-quality one, but still the work of AI. The user who published the video did not hide that the video was created by a neural network, and put on Instagram the corresponding label. Apparently, due to the features of the interface of the social network, many users did not notice it and distributed the video as the present.

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