- Movies of a 109-year-old man hold going
viral onTikTok . - The clips have been reuploaded with claims he’s truly 163, or a 399-year-old girl.
Footage of an aged man in an orange gown has been flooding TikTok customers’ feeds as movies of him mendacity down and interacting with household members hold going viral. However because the movies unfold, they’ve been reposted throughout the web together with inaccurate data and unfounded rumors concerning the man.
The unique account that posted the movies is known as @auyary13. It seems to be run by a girl named Auyary, who has a million followers and till not too long ago sometimes posted meals movies.
In October 2021, she started importing movies of the person and now posts about him virtually solely. The account has obtained as many as 100 million views on a single video posted in February 2022 which reveals him inserting his palms on a younger woman, and viewers flooded the feedback asking about his age and backstory, with many speculating he’s a monk.
@auyary13 เมื่อเหลนน้อยมาเรียกหา หลวงตาสัมผัสได้ถึงความรักและห่วงใย เรียกมาเคาะหัวให้พรเหลนเลย สาธุๆๆ
The movies have sparked large quantities of on-line dialog, and have recirculated throughout completely different platforms and accounts. However they’ve additionally unfold contradictory rumors and misinformation, resulting in confusion across the fact behind the viral footage.
@auyary13 หลวงตาพูดเป็นภาษาอีสานเบาๆว่า “กูอยากแล่นแล้วเนี่ย” โอ้ยยย!! ใจเย็นๆเด้อหลวงตา นั่งได้เท่านี้ก็โอเครแล้ว
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The unique movies purportedly present a 109-year-old man residing in Thailand
The movies which have gone probably the most viral on @auyary13‘s account have tens of millions of views and present the person being cared for and looking out frail in a wheelchair or mendacity in mattress.
@auyary13 พาหลวงตามานั่งดูลูกหลานและชาวบ้านเตรียมงานประจำปีวัดบ้านเรา ดูเหมือนเหนื่อยๆ แต่ใจสู้จัง (คนคิดต่างขอให้หยุดดราม่าสักทีฉันเหนื่อย)
The account proprietor additionally has an Instagram profile, the place she posts footage of the person, who she says is called Luang Pho Yai. In a TikTok caption from January 2022, which was written in Thai, she mentioned she deliberate to verify him into Dan Khun Thot hospital in Western Thailand.
When her TikTok movies began to go viral, many commenters requested how outdated the person was. She responded to one of many feedback in English on March 2, saying “Based on his tales he mentioned he was 109 years outdated.”
@auyary13 didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.
Movies of the person recirculated on social media, alongside claims he was far older
On February 20, a video from auyary13’s TikTok account was reposted by a YouTube channel known as ZyKai media. It added completely different music over the unique clip, and the video was titled, “Man claims to be the oldest particular person on the planet at 163 years outdated!” The video now has 36,000 views.
Based on Guinness World Information, the oldest particular person alive is Kane Tanake, a 119-year-old girl in Japan. Guinness lists the oldest particular person to have ever lived as dying at 122 years outdated in 1997. Claims that the person within the video is 163 years outdated would make him the oldest particular person in historical past.
On TikTok, an account known as @briar_cares has additionally reshared the clips, gaining 30 million views on a single video that claimed the person is a 399-year-old girl. The account posts varied clips of individuals it claims are the oldest on the planet.
The account has 437,000 followers, and its bio says, “I put up about aged individuals and sweetness hacks.” The account doesn’t look like affiliated with a British home-care firm known as Briarcare, and neither the proprietor of the account nor the corporate instantly responded to Insider’s request for remark.
@briar_cares SHE IS 399 YEARS. OLDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD
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The movies have changed into a meme which can have contributed to its virality
A part of the rationale why @auyary13’s TikToks have circulated so extensively could also be as a consequence of a excessive quantity of feedback — in line with TikTok, the extra likes and feedback a video receives, the extra probably it’s to look on different customers’ feeds.
The account’s most-watched video has 239,000 feedback, lots of which comply with comparable joke and meme codecs, referring to the person as “bro” and referencing historic occasions to touch upon his age.
Prime feedback with 30,000 likes every mentioned, “Bro has Jesus in his telephone contacts” and “Bro completed studying the phrases and situations.” Comparable feedback seem on the @briar_cares TikTok web page.
Some feedback have continued to take a position and exaggerate concerning the man’s age, saying he appears like he is “919” or “100,000” years outdated.
The unique consumer continues to be posting photographs and movies concerning the man
On Instagram and TikTok, @auyary13 continues to share photographs and clips of the person, as individuals go to him within the hospital.
Many commenters have referred to the person as a monk. From Instagram photographs, there look like Buddhist statues in his hospital room, and a number of the captions and photographs on Instagram reference monks caring for him, although it is unclear if the person is a monk himself, or if the hospital supplied the statues.
On TikTok, @auyary13’s most up-to-date movies are nonetheless receiving tens of millions of views. One put up from March 12, which reveals the person consuming a bit of fruit, has been considered greater than 9 million instances.
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