Indian street‑food clip goes viral
A viral video of an unconventional Indian street dish sparked debate on March 28 — the post pulled 789 likes and 661 replies as people argued whether to try it or run. (x.com)
The March 28 clip landed amid a pattern of sensational Indian street‑food videos that fact‑checkers flagged as potentially AI‑generated in October 2025. A DFRAc fact‑check dated October 14, 2025 concluded a widely circulated video showing a vendor handling food with his feet was not authentic, identified a visible “SORA AI” watermark, and traced the clip to a TikTok account named “indianstreetfoodonly.” MalwareTips’ security blog (updated October 16, 2025) analysed the same trend, naming the Sora text‑to‑video engine as a common tool used to produce hyperreal but fabricated street‑food footage and listing visual clues to spot generated frames. Not all viral oddities were labelled fake: ABP Live reported a Delhi vendor’s “litchi gravy momos” clip that amassed over 1 million views on Instagram (published June 18, 2025), and Hindustan Times covered a Kolkata “Oreo omelette” stunt published March 9, 2025 — showing real, staged and AI‑made clips all find audiences online. Security writers note a commercial motive behind the uploads: creators post these hyperreal or shocking clips to short‑video platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts to chase millions of views and ad or affiliate revenue, a pattern MalwareTips documented in its October 2025 analysis.
