Audio Evidence Brief

Multiple users on social media platform X were sharing a video since May 10, 2026, claiming it shows Muslim women getting offended by an Asian cosplayer at what appears to be a New York subway station. However, the video is AI-generated.

CLAIM

Viral video of Muslim women getting offended by Asian cosplayer

RATING JUSTIFICATION

The iVerify Pakistan team investigated this content and determined that it is false.

To reach this conclusion, iVerify Pakistan conducted a visual forensic analysis and a keyword search to trace the authenticity of the clip.

HOW IT STARTED

On May 10, a social media user shared a video on X, showing two women in headscarves passing by an Asian cosplayer at a subway station with the following caption: “The ‘side-eye’ is cranked up to maximum level. POV: When your style rubs people the wrong way but you still shine anyway.”

The post gained 12.5 million views.

Another user shared the same clip with the following caption: “Two Muslim beasts without any human identity, they not only do not feel ashamed but take pride in it, even daring to bare their ugly, contemptuous faces toward human civilisation. Islam makes people both foolish and evil; they have no idea that they are garbage detached from humanity, that they are waste polluting the Earth.”

The post gained 873,500 views.

The video was also shared by a Chinese user on X with a similar claim. His post accumulated 4.1m views.

The same video was shared by another user with a similar claim, gaining 212,500 views.

Subsequently, other X users also shared the same video with similar claims, as can be seen here, here, here, and here; collectively gaining 1m views.

METHODOLOGY

A fact-check was initiated to determine the veracity of the claim due to the content’s high virality and its Islamophobic framing, which could be used to spread hatred against Muslim communities abroad.

Analysing the video for physical discrepancies showed that the subjects in the video did not cast realistic shadows, which would be expected in a real-world setting with visible lighting. This anomaly indicated that the scene was likely synthetic.

A reverse image search conducted using keyframes from the viral video yielded an Instagram post dated May 7, 2026, wherein the same clip was shared. Several users in the comments section had questioned the authenticity of the content and described it as AI-generated.

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Moreover, a keyword search yielded a Reddit post discussing the same account. The post included images from the Instagram account.

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A visual review of one image found anatomical inconsistencies, including unnatural body proportions, with one leg appearing longer than the other. These findings further indicated that the content was AI-generated.

The results also led to the same user’s TikTok account where the video was marked with the following label: “Creator labelled as AI-generated.”

TikTok applies this label when a creator discloses that the content was generated or significantly edited using artificial intelligence.

Other videos on the account also carried the same label, indicating that the account regularly posts AI-generated or AI-edited content rather than real footage.

The viral video was also analysed through AI-forensic analysis tool Hive Moderation, which flagged the content as 99 per cent AI-generated.