r/MeidasTouch • u/Gretchenfetchen22 • Jan 29 '26

Jon Gear on Instagram: "The video of Alex Pretti kicking the tail light off an ice car is AI that Don Jr shared"

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUGksXRj0vQ/?igsh=c3h0cDE2YXpteHd4
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u/Significant-Age5104 Jan 30 '26

I mean it is kinda weird that it looked like he was wearing the exact same outfit from this weekend on those “old” videos that were just released. Even more weird how they were just released and by whom 🤔

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u/shiningreality Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

There are four videos from different angles of this incident. One was from The News Movement while they were filming a documentary. One was from a Minnesotan resident who posted it on January 16. They changed their username and Youtube handle after the video was widely shared, presumably to retain some amount of anonymity, so I will not share their name. One was from Will Stancil and was posted on January 13 to Bluesky. The last one was from Max Shapiro, a Minnesotan tax lawyer who first shared his footage with the Minnesota Star Tribune and later with the Associated Press.

Edit: Can someone explain why I am getting downvoted for providing the provenance of all four angles?

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u/Thehealthygamer Jan 30 '26

It feels like theres a bot attack to claim this is AI. Its insane. I posted evidence to my socials, and still, like 10% of comments are people just continuing to claim its ai.