It looks like Pakistan is providing fodder to the troll community with its regular goof ups. A few days ago a video of a Pakistani anchor confusing ¡®Apple Inc¡¯ with the fruit, when viral.?Before that,?Imran Khan quoted Rabindranath Tagore and credited the quote to Khalil Gibran,?and then a regional Facebook page Tehreek-e-Insaf carried out a live press conference with the cat filter on.
The internet has been having a gala time as a result of these regular goof ups. Adding to the legacy, is the tweet of Pakistan Awami Tehreek Secretary General, Khurram Nawaz, who shared the video of a game assuming it to be real.?
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An ex-Omani cricketer, Khurram Nawaz , shared a video on Twitter in which an airplane can be seen descending very close to an oil tank and miraculously avoiding a collision with it, while descending on the runway. Grand Theft Auto players would know that the video is from the game and not real. In fact, you do not really have to be a master gamer to notice that the graphics in the video are computer generated.
Khurram Nawaz clearly could not make out that the video was not from real life. He tweeted it with the caption 'Narrow escape of an aircraft which could have ended in a great disaster. Miraculous save by the pilot's presence of mind'. The tweet was deleted after some time, but the damage was done. The screenshots of the tweet and the video have since been doing rounds on Twitter.?
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While Khurram got fooled by the video the, twitterati was quick to point out the problem with it.?
However, it turns out that Khurram Nawaz was not the only one to believe that the video was real. A longer video of the one he shared on Twitter exists on YouTube and from the comments on the video it looks like a lot of people seem to be falling for the gimmick. Which is very weird, because it is very easy to get from the longer video that it is not real.?
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Whatever be the case, Twitter seems to have extracted its fun out of Khurram Nawaz¡¯s tweet. Apparently this video is circulating on other social media channels like Facebook and WhatsApp as well, and more and more number of people are actually believing it to be real.?
The original video is part of a gaming channel with the username UiGamer and it was published almost 20 days ago.?