Recently, reports on TikTok and other sites suggesting that the famous Nike Tech fleece Kid is dead was proven to be fake, find out all the details below.
Many TikTok users were fooled after being convinced by the news that the Nike Tech Fleece meme kid was dead.
Know Is Nike Tech Fleece Meme Kid Alive Or Dead After Rumor Goes Viral On TikTok
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The Nike Tech Fleece kid was a kid who modeled for the product. The kid went viral after he was turned into a meme when people joked about how he was present in almost all Nike ads.
Rumours Suggesting Nike Tech Kid Is Dead Proven Fake
On December 20, several rumors suggesting that the Nike Tech kid had been reported dead went viral on TikTok. It all started when a TikTok video showed an alleged news report, which noted how the kid died via suicide.
The original description read:
At 20:34 the infamous “Nike Tech kid” sadly passed away because of suicide, investigators concluded that this was because the parents has had a violent divorce which corresponded to the situation.
Although the news was fake, many people quickly fell for the fake news and it spread online. On further investigations, neither the headline nor author of the alleged news report came up in the search results. Moreover, the user who originally posted the video also purposefully cut off the name of the supposed news website from the video.
How To Verify Social Media Posts
At present, social media has become the go to source for people looking to find a story. However, in many cases, social media posts can be unreliable and baseless, so it is important to first verify them before considering the information or sharing it.
Users need to always check the source of the information before sharing it with others. One such trick of verifying it is to wait and see if any another news outlet or reliable source posts a similar report a few hours later or the next day. Most of the time, news posts are not true if other outlets especially reliable ones do not reflect them as well.
In cases where users share ‘screenshots’ or ‘screen recordings’ of alleged stories, users can always try Googling it under the headline or the journalist name. If in case nothing comes up, then the particular content is fake and doesn’t exist.
Lastly, users need to watch out for satire sites. Satire and humor-led stories posts over-the-top articles and headlines which often do not mean things in a literal tone.