Digital Creation Revived As Real Footage Of Moon Eclipsing The Sun

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BOOM had debunked the video when it was doing rounds on social media in 2021 with a similar false claim. We found that the video is a computer-generated imagery or CGI creation. An animation artist uploaded the video on TikTok. HoaxEye, a Twitter handle, pointed out that the artist Aleksey___nx, created the video. We noticed that the same artist uploaded the video on May 17, 2021, more than a week before the supermoon, which was observed on May 26, 2021. The post can be viewed here. Furthermore, we found that the artist also has an Instagram account clearly mentioning it to be a CGI artist account. Aleksey had also posted other CGI videos on the Instagram account, such as one showing the moon shattering into pieces.