According to the Telegraph, Mr Wong said: “I’m from China and my uncle was visiting so we had a barbecue to show him the Australian ways”.
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Speaking to SmartCompany, Christison says since revealing the video is for Hawthorn’s finals campaign, views across all platforms have doubled, going from 5 million to 10 million views overnight.
“The debate over its authenticity has been had by various media outlets across both Australia and the globe. I think it was just trying to get back to the tall grass, not really chasing my uncle”. The very people who pride themselves on seeking out news get hypnotized like a moth to flame by a student level VFX video. “Scary!” the uploader, who has only a single video on the site, wrote in the description.
On Wednesday Sean Dooley, the editor of Australian Birdlife magazine, told The Age he believed the video was not real. “There is no way a gull wouldn’t react to a huge predator swooping in like that”.
The 22-year-old Wong, a student at RMIT University in Melbourne, refused to fess up, however.
What about all the skepticism? A family eating a riverside lunch in Melbourne, Australia, experienced that on behalf of all of us this week, but thanks to the wonders of modern technology, all of us can taste the sheer terror.
But, while Douglas insists the clip is real, a host of people are writing it off as a fake.
Like the public, none of the experts are buying it either. The bird soars over a river, lands briefly to pick something up, takes off again, circles and then dives right at the camera, flinging the snake like a toddler pushing a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios off his high chair.
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The Woolshed Company has been responsible for a number of viral videos in the past, with this recent one being the company’s ninth clip to successfully dupe media outlets worldwide. But even if the video is fake, the scenario in the video is a real possibility, he said. Need we even ask?
