Does an authentic photo of Shiloh Hendrix show her holding a handwritten card that reads: "$250K You Niggers"? No, that's not true: The photo of the Minnesota woman videotaped shouting the n-word at a child is predated by a version of the same photo in which the card she holds reads: "@AngloSaxonGirl". That photo was described as part of a vetting process she went through to prove her identity to the person who operates the white power X account referred to as "Anglo-Saxon Girl", who sent her fund-raising appeal to the account's followers.
The "$250k" photo appeared in a May 3, 2025 X post (archived here) on the @GarbageHuman24" account with no titling.
At the time this fact-check was written, the X post looked like this:
(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Here's a side-by-side comparison of the image as it appeared on the two accounts, one May 1, the other on May 3:
(Source: X screenshots taken by Lead Stories and added to a side-by-side comparison graphic.)
With the May 1 photo, @anglosaxongirl posted: "This White Woman is definitely legit and the Woman in the video, she messaged me because she felt I was trustworthy and she was right, I told her to post my username & say the word Nig & do a voice message saying my username and explaining what happened.."
When the image was posted by @garbagehumans24 on May 3, added to it was a video of a woman in a headscarf who was mocked by readers of the account for her reactions to comments that had been posted on the Christian-oriented crowdfunding site where Shiloh Hendrix raised money from supporters. In that later version of the image of Hendrix, the racial slur had replaced the original note.
Rochester, MN police have confirmed they investigated the confrontation between Hendrix and a child, which was videotaped.
Lead Stories submitted the May 3 image to specialized ai-detection tools at HIVE Moderation, which found evidence the image included AI-generated material:
(Source: Hivemoderation.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
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