This Is Not a Real Incident.  Video Shows a Waterworld Stunt Show Performance

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Social media literacy includes not only understanding social media content, critically viewing it, understanding the message, and evaluating it, but also responsibly creating and sharing relevant social media content.

There are many social media users who post and share valuable things,  and many other who create misleading content, sometimes even religious content, with the sole aim of gaining more attention for their Facebook account or page. Here is an investigation we did on such a video.   

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According to the video, which was posted with the caption, “You can’t predict what will happen…Life is a fast-changing thing, so don’t delay and accumulate merit” (“සිදුවන දේ හිතාගන්න බෑ…ජීවිතය කියන්නේ ඉක්මනින් වෙනස් වන දෙයක් නොපමා කුසල් රැස් කරගන්න”), two people are fighting at a high place. There one person kicks the other person who is hanging in a certain place and tries to attack with somekind of a weapon. At the same time, the person trying to attack is falling down while burning. This seems to be an attempt to socialize the idea of how Karma works. This is further confirmed by the fact that it was posted with the song “Budu bana padayak sawana wakewa…budu guna pamanak sithata nagewa..” (“බුදු බණ පදයක් සවන වැකේවා… බුදු ගුණ පමණක් සිතට නැගේවා…”). 

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This video was shared by many people and many have expressed their opinions regarding the video, claiming that it is fake. We took steps to investigate the credibility of it.

Fact Check :

We investigated whether it is actually a fight between two people. It is also clear that the footage was recorded on a mobile phone.

To find the credibility of the video we entered it into a Reverse Image Search. Accordingly, it turned out that the video was a part of a Waterworld stunt show, a popular show that is displayed at several Universal Studios theme parks. 

This is confirmed through the full video of the show, and the circulates video clip can be clearly seen in that.

This show is based on the 1995 action film Waterworld, directed by Kevin Reynolds.  The Waterworld show is presented at Universal Studios Hollywood, Japan, and Singapore. Universal Studios Hollywood opened in 1995, while Universal Studios Japan and Universal Studios Singapore opened in 2001.

Videos posted by other viewers of the Waterworld stunt show are here and here.

Here are some photos from the Waterworld stunt show.

Here are more information regarding the Universal Studios Hollywood.

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Conclusion: 

Our investigation shows that this video, taken on a mobile phine and posted with the slogan “Gather merits without delay”, is not based on a real incident. It is a part of the famous Universal Studios show.