The video has been viewed more than 20,000 times after it was posted on October 27 on Chinese video site Bilibili.
It appears to show a person on top of a spinning helicopter rotor. The person kneels down and is flung up into the air as the rotor spins faster.
Text superimposed on the clip reads, "#ROTOR CHALLENGE", while the Chinese-language caption on the post reads "Spiral to the sky".
The same video was also viewed more than 60,000 times in similar posts here and here.
While some online users doubted the video showed a real incident, others appeared to believe it was genuine.
"The person is definitely gonna die", one person commented, while another said that their "brain will be a mess".
However, the video shows computer-generated imagery.
At the video's 11-second mark, text overlay reading "MBG CORE" is visible.
A keyword search on Google found this longer version of the video posted on a YouTube channel called MBG CORE on October 25.
Below are screenshot comparisons between the video in the misleading posts (left) and the YouTube video (right).
The YouTube video is titled: "ROTOR CHALLENGE BY MBG CORE".
MBG CORE posted the same video on Instagram. The account's bio reads "CGI 3D Generalist".
The visual artist behind the MBG CORE accounts Marc Aurélien said the video was computer-generated.
"It's a full 3D render, also the character, everything," he told AFP.
Aurélien uploaded a video showing the animation breakdown here on YouTube on November 16.
Aurélien's Instagram channel features various computer-generated videos, including here and here.
AFP has previously debunked computer-generated videos passed off as real here, here and here.