A video authentically confirmed rabbits bouncing on a yard trampoline.
In July 2025, a video (archived) circulated on-line claiming to indicate a colony of rabbits bouncing on a yard trampoline.
TikTok consumer @rachelthecatlovers posted the video on July 27, 2025, with the caption “Simply checked the house safety cam and… I feel we have got visitor performers out again! @Ring #bunny #ringdoorbell #ring #bunnies #trampoline.”
@rachelthecatlovers Simply checked the house safety cam and… I feel we have got visitor performers out again! @Ring #bunny #ringdoorbell #ring #bunnies #trampoline ♬ Bounce When She Walk – Ohboyprince
The consumer tagged Ring, an organization that makes video doorbells, showing to recommend that the footage was recorded by one in every of that firm’s units.
The video was wildly well-liked throughout Facebook (archived), X (archived), Threads (archived) and Bluesky (archived). The viral video company Barstool Sports activities shared (archived) the video on its TikTok web page with none indication that it was not genuine. Snopes readers additionally wrote in asking whether or not the footage was actual.
The endearing clip is, as identified by commenters and neighborhood notes, pretend — generated by synthetic intelligence. Two moments within the video give this away: In a single, a rabbit abruptly disappeared off the trampoline. In one other, a rabbit abruptly modified form and colour. The account that posted the video beforehand shared not less than one video (archived) generated by Google’s synthetic video generator Veo, as evidenced by a watermark on the footage.
We reached out to @rachelthecatlovers to find out how and why they created the clip and await a reply.
Although the video of the rabbits on the trampoline didn’t carry the watermark of an AI video generator, it did present different indicators of being made with AI.
Round time code 0:05, three rabbits may very well be seen on the left hand aspect of the trampoline. One rabbit jumped and, whereas in midair, the rabbit behind it abruptly disappeared.
(TikTok consumer @rachelthecatlovers)
Then, at time code 0:07, a rabbit towards the again of the trampoline jumped. Because it did, the animal first modified form, then colour, and landed a few second later as a shapeless, grey blob.
(TikTok consumer @rachelthecatlovers)
Snopes has beforehand reported on pretend, AI-generated viral movies about subjects starting from the 2025 Kerrville floods to large anacondas within the Amazon.
