Does Gorilla Clubbing Crocodile real video release baby gorillas in its mouth?

Claim:

A video circulating online at the end of the summer of 2025 genuinely showed that adult gorillas were clubbing the crocodile's head to release the baby gorilla from its mouth.

evaluation:

In September 2025, millions of people saw the video, which appeared to show adult gorillas slap their faces and slap their baby gorillas from their crocodile jaws in the faces, which were seen across social media. A single X-post (archive) with captions, “I'm a 94 Second Cuckring” was viewed over 5 million times more than a day and a half after it was uploaded.

Video edits shared with Tiktok (Archives) have been viewed over 7 million times. This video was also popular on Instagram and Reddit.

I've been cucking for 94 seconds pic.twitter.com/p0solynfx9

– ✨lovely✨ (@itslovelylaveau) September 3, 2025

However, this was not a real video of a gorilla protecting a baby gorilla from a crocodile. The video was generated with artificial intelligence (AI).

The oldest version of Video Snop was this YouTube short (archive) posted on emoSet on August 28, 2025. The video description used the hashtag #AI, and the YouTube disclaimer warned that “sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated.”

OneMoSet's YouTube channel description was “AI like you've never seen it!” The channel has posted AI creation videos primarily related to bodybuilding. However, many of those shorts (archives) were AI-generated videos featuring gorillas. In fact, the Crocodile video entitled “Gorilla Saves!” was the first of five videos to win the title “Gorilla Saves.” Four of these five videos featured gorillas using clubs or bats to attack predators attacking people or other animals.

The video itself has signs of AI. When the gorilla hit the crocodile on the video, the baby gorilla was not affected by the club that hit the crocodile, even if the adult gorilla hit the crocodile. Additionally, the baby gorilla passed through the crocodile's mouth when the latter was attacked. Pausing the video immediately after the impact indicates that the crocodile's face has collapsed to itself or partially disappeared shortly after it was hit. Finally, the baby gorillas had no shadows in the video despite the shadows clearly visible beneath the other animalss.

Africa's largest Nile Crocodile is usually an opportunistic hunter who is hoping to feed in the water or approach its edge, according to the land trusts around the world. Therefore, the crocodile can ambush a baby gorilla trying to eat it and be kicked out by an adult gorilla, as shown in the video generated by the AI. However, the two interactions seen in AI-generated videos are unlikely. Nile crocodiles usually grab their prey quickly and drag them into the water in an attempt to get them to own. In other words, adult gorillas will have little time to intervene and strike moving targets. Furthermore, there is little overlap in the range of the two animals.

It's much easier to find fictional footage of crocodiles and gorillas fighting this way than to find the real video. Crocodiles and gorillas are popular enemies in online debates about which animals win in battle, and there are otherwise fake videos generated by many AIs of crocodiles and gorillas fighting for some reason on Google (archives).