If you've been on TikTok or Twitter recently, you may have stumbled across an absolutely wild video in which an ornery airline passenger is revealed to be "breastfeeding" a fake lynx. The video, which was divided into four parts, shows another passenger complaining to a member of the flight's crew about the woman breastfeeding next to him, at which point a crew member intervenes. After some back and forth, the blanket covering the woman's breast is removed, revealing a cat, or rather a lynx, as she points out.

Y’all I have been screaming for at least 3 minutes !!

This is the most chaotic thing I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/v360NXnJEN

— (they/them) (@ChubbyGoddess) December 21, 2021

It's natural that the video would go viral, as it combines multiple hot topics: an unruly airline passenger, public breastfeeding and a massive Karen. If it seems that the video was practically designed for viral success, that's because it was … the video is staged.

Internet sleuth Ryan Broderick dug into the video's origins and discovered that it was commissioned by a Facebook page called The Gooch, the same organization behind those bananas food life hacks videos. Broderick traced the video back to the TikTok page where it was originally posted and found that the account was rather bare. Upon viewing the page source, he was able to discover the video's true origin. There, The Gooch makes clear that the video is "for entertainment purposes only," aka not real.

The way the cat on the plane video went viral is weirder than you think. I found the source. (Spoiler: It's from Facebook, not Tiktok). Thread… pic.twitter.com/iDBcaa4NtO

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) December 21, 2021

Meet… The Gooch. He does a lot of videos about women on planes. pic.twitter.com/Uq0oByLAN4

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) December 21, 2021

The viral video now circulating on Twitter, thanks to it going viral on TikTok, after being posted by an account run by a Belgian dog groomer, was uploaded to The Gooch's page on December 16. pic.twitter.com/SsPqzL963H

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) December 21, 2021

As with the gross-out food "life hack" Gooch videos, once their disclaimer of the video's true intention was removed in reposts, many people took the video at face value and believed it was a real situation. It's highly likely we'll see this scenario again unless Gooch starts embedding the disclaimer into their videos. But then, they probably wouldn't go as viral.