Does a real video show officials at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new asphalt road in Mukhosransk, Russia -- a road which was really just a fake roll-up prop? No, that's not true: This video is AI-generated. It is not just the asphalt road that's fake -- the whole scene is. Mukhosransk is not a real town in Russia, but is a commonly understood nickname for a small remote town, similar to how "Nowheresville" is used in English. The video originated from a TikTok meme account which posts AI-generated content with disclaimers.
The video appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by @JenevaFMRadio on June 21, 2026. It was captioned:
Huge scandal in Mukhosransk, Russia.
Who took money for asphalt that didnt [sic] exist?
This is a screenshot from the video:
(Image source: post by @JenevaFMRadio on X.)
The fictional Russian language town name, Mukhosransk, means "Fly Shit City". A Russian-language Wikipedia entry for Мухосранск describes the origin of the name and includes a graphic of the fictional city's unofficial coat of arms (archived here).
The tagline of this parody account @JenevaFMRadio is written with homoglyphs, characters that look similar to standard Latin letters but are from a different alphabet. For example, the Cyrillic 'т' in the tagline resembles the Latin 't' but is a different character entirely. It says:
Radio Geneva.
Olny true truth in your house.
Parody. Mayбe but our тrue is alvays more тrue than your тrue тhaт is noт тrue.
The @JenevaFMRadio video has a watermark from the TikTok account @sokolandr92 as well as an "AI-generated" label in the lower left corner (pictured above). The video was uploaded to TikTok June 16, 2026 (archived here). Google Translate rendered the Russian caption as:
Discount asphalt: rolled out and rolled back up
The TikTok video also had a disclaimer "Creator labeled as AI-generated".
The name of the account, "Мемыч", is a slang nickname with a meaning similar to "meme lord" in English. The Russian language tag line says:
Short, funny 18+ memes
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New memes every day. 👇
