Watch: Russian streamer loses it over misinterpreted food advert [video]

The viral video has since sparked a fake news parade in Russia where publications claim South Africans are cannibals who love 'Russian' meat.

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An unidentified Russian streamer has gone viral on social media after he grossly misinterpreted an advert that loosely played with a dialogue about sausage meat.

The streamer was on Facebook Live to announce to his Russian followers that the world had supposedly overlooked what he terms a serious human rights injustice.

In the video clip that’s since gone viral, the streamer was seen turning red in the face in reaction to a local advert showing South African actors in conversation about ‘russians’.

Except, what the poor streamer didn’t realise was that in Mzansi, ‘Russians’ are a colloquial reference to a certain type of smoked sausage meat.

Watch: Streamer goes viral for claiming SA people eat Russians

In his misguided interpretation, the streamer was watching a manifesto unfold where a group of South Africans were bragging about how much they enjoy eating Russians.

Here’s the clip that since gone viral on social media:

Russian media launches fake news claims about SA cannibalism

The video clip was also viral in Russia and this publication, Inside Russia News, wrote up a story about the streamer, perpetuating the misinformed opinion that South Africans are cannibals who openly brag about enjoying Russian ‘human’ meat as a delicacy.

The publication went as far as tying this false cannibalism claim to the mysterious disappearance of Vladik Rebrov, a man who supposedly went missing during a hike in Kruger National Park in 2016.

A couple odd things about the Rebrov story:

  1. No official sources were found in a moderate search online; and
  2. Kruger National Park offers guided walks along the Lonely Bull Trail. This is a supervised group activity where for about three-to-four days, trail walkers are taken across the wilderness under the supervision of skilled officials.

While the story fo Rebrov could not be verified, we can confidently confirm that South Africans are not cannibals with a fetish for Russian human meat.

Instead, the sausage meat type reference in the advert is colloquially termed a ‘russian’ for reasons that remain unknown to us and, perhaps, the rest of society.

These were some of the reactions to the viral clip.