Fact Checkers Assure Viewers That Joe Biden Is Not Clipping Through Reality In Viral Clip

Memers love making jokes that Joe Biden is a character in a Bethesda game, but that's usually because of his stilted speech patterns, not because of poor collision detection.

On Tuesday, a video of Biden speaking to reporters threw the President's existence in reality into doubt when it appeared as though he clipped in front of a microphone being held by reporter Steve Herman.

12 Second Mark in the bottom of the screen… watch https://t.co/Mozs7WXYOR

— P.J. (@czarkar) March 17, 2021

The clip is admittedly bizarre and was picked up by conspiracy theorists quickly.

@JoeBiden taking questions in front of the green screen. Notice the hand going right through the microphone. It’s all a big production…..and so many of you are falling for it. Wake up! https://t.co/4cN3VaWBtY

— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) March 17, 2021

However, thoughts of a green-screened Biden were quickly dashed when fact-checkers jumped in to explain the strange "clipping" effect. First, Herman clarified he was the one holding the microphone and he was very much in front of Joe Biden.

I was the one holding the lighter-colored fuzzy microphone and thus literally in front of @POTUS on the South Lawn. It's all real. Who actually believes this 'faked moon landing' type nonsense and more importantly who is spreading it? https://t.co/9V3t0oqDz6

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) March 17, 2021

Others pointed to other angles from Biden's brief meeting with reporters that confirm he was indeed there and the microphones are all in their expected places.

That large, grey microphone is actually further to the right of Biden's hands, not in front of them.

There are multiple videos of the exchange taken from other angles as well as images.

Obviously, there's no green screen or CGI at play.

And, yes, Biden is alive and real… pic.twitter.com/9pF3C9RF8d

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) March 17, 2021

So what happened? Turns out the strange video is a trick of perspective. A video posted by @Aesthetic_Degen shows the same clip from a different angle, demonstrating how the microphones' distance from each other causes the bizarre phenomenon of Biden clipping in front of the other from the original video.

for all the people saying this is green screen or CGI, it's just an illusion because of the camera distortion here's a side by side of an alternate angle where you can see how far apart the mics are and one is clearly behind the other pic.twitter.com/U7orOX42MA

— Aesthetic Degen (@Aesthetic_Degen) March 17, 2021

Yeah I was wrong in my Inital estimate, all kinds of wonky depth things going on, here is a better angle to see what exactly is going on pic.twitter.com/BWdy3As5iw

— Aesthetic Degen (@Aesthetic_Degen) March 17, 2021

So no, Biden is not dead or being green-screened into conversations with reporters, and he did speak to reporters on Tuesday. If indeed the White House were using CGI to make it appear as though Joe Biden was a real person, you'd at least hope they'd hire some better people.