CGI Video of Cars Floating in a Flooded City Goes Viral as Real Clip From Dubai

A video showing several luxurious cars floating around in a flooded city on inflatable pool floats is going viral on social media as recent video from Dubai.

Background: Sharjah in United Arab Emirates witnessed heavy rainfall and flood-like situation on 16 April.

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What's the truth?: This video is not real but has been created by VFX.

• It is being falsely shared as a recent visual from Dubai floods.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on Google which led us to an Instagram post shared by an account named Megazettes on 18 April 2024.

• The video matched with the viral video and the credits were given to an account named 'Vertex.cgi'.

• The account's bio reads, "Viral Content Campaigns, VFX" and the name itself mentions computer-generated imagery.

• At the time of writing this story, the video had garnered 97.5 millions views with 1.5 million likes.

• The account also carried several other CGI videos of brand advertisements in public spaces.

• We checked their website which specified that this company creates innovative and animated advertisements for brands.

• We have also reached out to the company to get more clarification about the video and the story will be updated when we receive a response.

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