Gamers love to push the limits of their imaginations when playing games. But one girl from Iran took creativity to a whole new level by blending the hyper-realistic graphics of Red Dead Redemption 2 with her sense of humor. What started as just having some fun sharing her screenshots online turned into an epic prank that spread across the country.
This gamer girl has a talent for transforming scenes from RDR2 into convincing historical photos. By adding aged filters and funny captions, she shares her masterpieces on Twitter where they always get a big reaction. But her latest post was about to cause an internet storm. Posing as an excerpt from the memoirs of King Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, it described a silly hunting trip where the King rode a donkey as a joke.
The tweet in question, written in Farsi, claimed to be an excerpt from the memoirs of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, one of the Qajar dynasty’s kings. Here’s a translated version of her hilarious creation:
“Yesterday, we went hunting for rams. There was a shepherd, and for fun, we rode his donkey. The royal photographer took a picture. It was a good laugh. The Atabak whispered something to the shepherd, and the shepherd gifted us the donkey. We had him flogged for gifting a donkey to the Shah. We gave the donkey to the palace lion to eat.”
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar’s Memoirs – Spring 1889
That’s when things got really wild. Several major Telegram channels in Iran mistook her screenshot for an actual historic find. Without even checking if it was real, they spread it to all their followers. Before long, the fake story had reached massive audiences.
Even famous news sites like ILNA published it, along with the big TV network Manoto on their Instagram page with millions of follwers, all thinking it was a real discovery! Even a historian tweeted the “find” without realizing it wasn’t true.
While lots of people laughed at the clever prank, not everyone was amused. Some who saw it on news sites genuinely believed the rude story about the King from long ago. This shows how quickly misinformation can spread on social media sites without verification. The graphics in Red Dead Redemption 2 were so lifelike that seasoned historians and journalists didn’t catch that it was just a gag from a video game.
This hilarious incident serves as a prime example of the incredible realism achieved in RDR2. it just goes to show you never know when your virtual antics might accidentally turn into a widespread phenomenon!
For this clever gamer girl, messing around with screenshots led to sparking an internet sensation that even ended up tricking professionals. Her masterful prank is a reminder that the virtual world can certainly spill over into reality in unexpected ways.
