Did George Floyd make the pictured social media post about trans people on Aug. 3, 2011, years before he died? No, that's not true: The screenshot showing a post from @Bigfloyd73 is fake. The Twitter account with that handle was not created until 2022, after George Floyd's death on May 25, 2020.
The fake screenshot resurfaced in a post (archived here) published by @channel6ixnews on X on June 3, 2026. It was captioned:
Even George Floyd?
This is the composite image appearing with the post:
(Image source: @channel6ixnews post on X.)
In the lower left corner of the image is an inset of a fake screenshot of a Twitter post. Twitter rebranded to X on July 24, 2023. The screenshot is fake in two ways: the account bearing the @Bigfloyd73 handle was not created until July 2022 (archived here), more than two years after Floyd's death (archived here), and the post is dated Aug. 3, 2011 -- nearly 11 years before the account even existed. The text in the fake screenshot reads:
George Floyd
@Bigfloyd73
These trans folk straight up fuked in they head
9:22 PM Aug 3, 2011
1 Retweet 5 Quote Tweets 63 Likes
The main image in the post contains a photo of George Floyd which served as the profile photo of his real Facebook account (archived here). The account was originally made in 2016 and is now memorialized (pictured below).
(Image source: @george.floyd.7106 account on Facebook.)
Other fact checks
This fake screenshot has circulated on social media for years. In April 2023 it was investigated by both AP News and Snopes.com.
