In October 2025, a rumor that circulated online claimed a video showed a drag queen wearing revealing clothing while dancing in front of a preschooler.

The clip featured adults sitting and standing in a restaurant with mimosas, resembling a drag brunch-themed gathering. In the video, the purported drag queen — wearing shorts revealing part of her rear end — dances and crawls slowly on her hands and knees to a young girl wearing a dress, who is sitting in a chair that someone moved to face the performer. The drag queen then shakes her butt, gently hugs the child and gives her a kiss on the side of her head. The adults respond positively with smiles, clapping, phones recording and some cheering.

Some users discussing the video asked about or referenced the possibility someone created the clip with an AI tool and one user also mentioned both Brittany M. Hughes, the managing editor of Media Research Center (MRC) organization’s MRCTV, and the MRC Culture Facebook page. (For readers unfamiliar with Media Research Center, its website features an “About” page promising to fight back against “Big Tech companies that aim to suppress conservative voices.”)

On Oct. 22, a user managing Hughes’ popular Facebook page posted the video in a visibly low quality, concluding with her own commentary. The clip displayed the onscreen caption, “Scantily-clad drag queen performs for preschooler.” The post’s text caption also read, “A half-nude man dressed as a woman gyrated for a preschooler while grown adults laughed and clapped. How is this legal???” A user managing the MRC Culture Facebook page then reposted Hughes’ post, receiving over 1 million views. At least one X user reposted the video, as well.

In short, the video authentically showed a drag performer wearing revealing clothing while dancing in front of a young child. We did not locate any information to confirm the age of the child as aligning with that of a preschooler.

The video first appeared online in February 2020, back in a time when drag queens faced political backlash from conservative commentators and voters regarding “Drag Queen Story Hour” library events organized for children. Also, regarding users mention of artificial-intelligence (AI), the clip originated years before the public availability of AI tools like OpenAI’s newly released video generation model Sora 2.

A reverse-image search located a YouTube video (embedded above, earlier in this article) from The Daily Caller, a news outlet co-founded by political commentator and former Fox News TV host Tucker Carlson. That Feb. 28, 2020, version of the clip featured a slightly higher picture quality. The video displayed onscreen captions reading “Wait till the end” and “This sweet little girl asked her mom to get a better view.” The clip also showed a TikTok watermark with a user’s handle. A search for that user’s account found the message, “Couldn’t find this account.”

Also on Feb. 28, 2020, The Daily Caller reported on its website it had confirmed the performer’s name as Canadian drag queen Tynomi Banks, who identifies herself with the pronouns she/her. The reporting said the TikTok user who originally published the video wrote in the text caption, “The friendship we didn’t know we needed, but now can’t live without.” The article did not feature any information about exactly when or where the video was recorded, only referencing the occasion as a drag brunch.

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*(Only the Death Certificate Remains*)

A retired Police Commissioner had recently moved out of his official residence into his own house, nestled in a quiet colony. He took great pride in his accomplishments and his former stature.

Each evening, he would go for a walk in the neighborhood park. Yet, he neither greeted nor acknowledged anyone. He believed the others in the colony weren’t of his status — not worth his time or attention.

One day, while he was sitting on a park bench, an elderly man came and sat beside him. The man began a friendly conversation, but the Commissioner wasn’t interested in listening. Instead, he talked only about himself — his rank, his authority, his achievements. He often reminded others that he lived here not by necessity, but because he owned the property.

This routine continued for several days. The elderly man listened quietly each time, never interrupting.

Then, one evening, the old man finally spoke.

“Commissioner Saheb,” he said gently, “an electric bulb has value only while it shines. Once it burns out, it doesn’t matter whether it was a 10-watt or a 100-watt bulb. All burnt-out bulbs are the same — silent, lifeless, forgotten. I’ve been living in this colony for five years, and not once have I told anyone that I served as a Member of Parliament — twice.”

The Commissioner’s expression shifted.

The old man continued, his voice calm.

“You see the man sitting to your far right? That’s Mr. Verma. He retired as a General Manager from Indian Railways. The man he’s chatting with — Rao — is a retired Lieutenant General from the Army. And the one quietly walking in white, that’s Mr. Shiva. He was once the Chairman of ISRO. None of them speak of their past titles. They don’t feel the need to.”

“I’m only telling you what I know,” the man said, pausing before he added,

“Because, at the end of the day, we are all burnt-out bulbs. Whether we were zero-watt, 40, 60, or 100-watt — whether we were LED, CFL, halogen, or decorative; once the power is gone, we’re all the same.”

“After retirement, whether you were a Police Commissioner or a Police Constable, it no longer matters.”

He looked at the Commissioner thoughtfully and said,

“The rising sun and the setting sun are both beautiful. But the world bows only to the rising one. That’s just human nature. We must accept that reality.”

“Our titles, our positions are all temporary. If we let them define us, we’re bound to be lost when they leave us.”

“In chess, every piece — the king, the queen, the bishop, the pawn — has its value only while the game is in play. When it’s over, they’re all returned to the same box and the lid is shut.”

He smiled softly, looking around at the people in the park. “So be happy in the moment. Hope for happiness in the future. But never cling to what is no longer yours. No matter how many medals or certificates we collect in life, in the end, everyone receives just one. *The Death Certificate*.”

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In mid-September 2025, an image circulated online purportedly showing an Ancestral Puebloan mural that a hiker discovered in New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park in October 2009.

The image appeared in a Facebook post alongside text claiming a woman named Sarah Johnson discovered “a rare Ancestral Puebloan kiva mural and pottery sherds dating to around 1100 AD” while hiking in the park. According to the post, archaeologists determined the mural to be “priceless” and Johnson received a “citizen’s commendation” for her find.

Another Facebook page also posted the photo and story on Sept. 14.

However, several details about the image and the accompanying copy indicated that the photo was fake and the story was false. Sightengine and Hive Moderation, two online artificial intelligence detectors, found the image highly likely to have been generated using AI. In addition, search engine results produced no credible reports about Johnson and the alleged mural discovery in October 2009, which would have been newsworthy if true, given Johnson’s reported “citizen’s commendation.”

According to Colin Purdy, an interpretive park ranger at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the mural in the image did not “look a whole lot” like existing imagery at the park. Additionally, Purdy pointed out that the cactus in the upper left corner of the image, that appeared to be of the Saguaro species, did not grow in the New Mexico park. Saguaro cacti grow only in “a specific area within” the Sonoran Desert that stretches across the Mexican state of Sonora and parts of California and Arizona, according to the U.S. National Park Service.

Purdy also questioned how the mural could have survived repeated flooding if it were actually located on the side of a canyon with water flowing through.

Similarly, Steve Carr, director of communications at the University of New Mexico, which the Facebook posts claimed valued the “priceless” mural, said via email that the chair of the university’s department that studied the Chaco Canyon “indicated that the story and photos are fake.”

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is the site of “a thriving regional center for the ancestral Pueblo people from 850 to 1250 CE,” according to the NPS. Visitors can see authentic Chacoan houses and artifacts on a variety of hiking trails through the park.

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