Does a video shared on social platforms show Greta Thunberg dancing to Madonna's "La Isla Bonita"? No, that's not true: A reverse image search revealed the video was created by a group of Ukrainian video makers known as Cucumber Mafia. The dancing woman does not look like Thunberg and appears to be much older than twenty-two, which was Thunberg's age at the time the video was published.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published by the @JDunlap1974 account on X on July 8, 2025. The caption read:
Greta Thunberg tries her luck at dancing and being cool....
Is it working?
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: screenshot of X.com by Lead Stories)
A close look at the woman featured in the dancing video revealed significant differences, including age, from climate activist Greta Thunberg. A reverse image search confirmed the suspicion. The same video (archived here) was uploaded to TikTok on the @cucumber_mafia account on July 3, 2025 -- five days before the X post was shared.
@cucumber_mafia ♬ som original - kabanamaster.ai
Cucumber Mafia's TikTok account, which has 677,000 followers at the time of writing, features comedic skits and dances using the same dancers in the purported Thunberg video.
