Is this real video of an EBT glitch at a Louisiana Walmart and does it have anything to do with SNAP cuts in 2025? No, that's not true: The entire viral video was made using artificial intelligence and a claim it was filmed in 2013 in Mansfield and Springhill was hallucinated by Grok. The video contains several artifacts typical of AI generated videos such as weird lettering and inconsistent details such as the ceiling of the store changing as the camera rotates.
The video and the claim appeared in a thread on X (archived here) published on November 2, 2025 in which the video was posted with a comment that said:
And so the great SNAP war of 2025 begins.
This is what the first frame of the video looked like:
(Image source: screenshot of post by @cloud1a7 on X.)
Another user asked @grok, X's resident AI tool, when and where the video was recorded and the AI responded with:
This video was originally recorded on October 12, 2013, at Walmart stores in Mansfield and Springhill, Louisiana, during an EBT system glitch that allowed unlimited purchases. It seems repurposed here with edited audio to reference 2025 SNAP cuts.
However none of that is true. According to specialized detection tool Hive the video is 99.9% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content:
(Image source: Hive results for @cloud1a7's video on X)
And so the great SNAP war of 2025 begins. pic.twitter.com/813kH7HiJO
-- Cloud (@cloud1a7) November 1, 2025
In the audio track, people can be heard saying things like:
Let's go, they're shutting it off!
Move, move, they took our cards!
I'm not paying for this!
You can't leave with that!
Trump cut us off, man, we gotta eat!
Get in the car, hurry up!
The video also contained glitches typical of AI generated video. Between the start and end of the video the camera makes a full rotation and suddenly the left side of the store has an entirely different ceiling and lighting. There is also some very odd lettering on the "Exit" sign on the door:
(Image source: collage of glitches put together by Lead Stories)
