Overview

• The AI-generated video, posted on May 26 by Infinite Unreality, shows a kangaroo clutching a boarding pass and waiting at an airport gate.
• Original captions included the label “(AI),” but many users still reacted with amusement and sympathy as if the scene were real.
• Across Instagram, X and other platforms, the clip has amassed over 11 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes within two days of posting.
• Viewers and fact-checkers pointed out telltale signs of fabrication, such as garbled text on the boarding pass and unintelligible background speech.
• The viral surge has reignited conversations about how easily ultra-realistic AI content can blur the line between fiction and reality.