Does a viral video labeled "Texas - 13.07.2025" show the 2025 Texas floods swallowing entire cities in a matter of seconds? No, that's not true: The video originated from a TikTok account whose contents were labeled as AI generated. A frame-by-frame examination confirmed that the clip contained inconsistencies pointing to AI.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on July 16, 2025. It opened: "Damn this is crazy."
The caption across the shared video continued:
Texas - 13.07.2025.
No sirens. No alerts. Just
silence... then chaos.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: screenshot of the x.com/White_Ghost187 account)
The format of the date in the purported footage, where the day precedes the month, suggested that the video originated from an account outside the U.S.
In the full-screen expanded mode, the first frame contained a watermark: spoookkyydoo.
(Source: screenshot of the x.com/White_Ghost187 account)
The watermark matched the name of an account on TikTok (archived here) that publishes videos of catastrophes. As of this writing, it was labeled as an AI creator and contained another similar video (archived here) that purported to show Texas floods in 2025:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of the tiktok.com/@spoookyydoo account)
As of this writing, the video reviewed in this fact check appears to have been deleted from the creator's page. However, earlier shares (archived here) containing the embedded preview of the clip confirmed that the video came from this specific account on TikTok:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of the x.com/Elene472535 account)
If the video is played at a reduced speed, it reveals apparent inconsistencies pointing to generative AI.
For example, in the composite image below, we see that two white cars (circled in pink) are parked in the middle of the road and somehow do not interfere with the surrounding traffic. Other - moving - cars (circled in green) demonstrate the magic of shape-shifting, turning into obscure shadows as they drive.
(Source: Lead Stories screenshots of the x.com/White_Ghost187 account; composite image by Lead Stories)
On a different occasion, a car emerges out of the water and makes it on top of a sloped roof, which is not a realistic motion pattern:
(Sources: Lead Stories screenshots of the x.com/White_Ghost187 account; composite image by Lead Stories.)
People's movements don't appear authentic, either. For example, around the 00:20 mark of the video, the lower right hand corner of this excerpt shows two people walk toward the camera, unnaturally glued to each other:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of the x.com/Elene472535 account video, cropped and marked for emphasis by Lead Stories.)
As they pass the intersection, the two people in the lower right corner morph into one, as seen in the screenshot below:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of the x.com/Elene472535 account video, cropped and marked for emphasis by Lead Stories.)
The disappearance is more clearly seen by watching the fragment found here:Two_people_fragment.mp4
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Lead Stories fact-checked other claims about the 2025 Texas floods. Those articles can be found here.
