November 2, 2024
A video recently posted to the social media platform X appeared to show a tree gushing water ... but there's more to the story. You can, if you wish, cheat by scrolling down, and learn the secret behind the video right away. Of you can watch the first video below,...

A video recently posted to the social media platform X appeared to show a tree gushing water … but there’s more to the story.

You can, if you wish, cheat by scrolling down, and learn the secret behind the video right away. Of you can watch the first video below, without explanation, and see if you can figure it out for yourself.

First, the video. This is NOT, however, the post that’s received over 6 million views. That’s another version of it, but we’ll get to that in a moment.

First, see if you can spot what’s really going on in this video.

Here’s a hint: The commentary provided on the video and in the post itself is just not even close.

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“This is a kind of tree that stores water up for the dry season,” the post from The Regrowth Project claimed.

I’m no botanist — clearly, neither is whoever wrote this post, as he referred to the tree’s trunk as a “stem” — but I think it’s safe to say that just about any large plant growing in an area with an annual “dry season” either stores up water for itself or somehow goes dormant until the rains return. However, while some of them store the water in a form accessible to humans, I don’t think any of them turn into organic fire hydrants when cut open.

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About the only thing this poster got correct was when he wrote that “[s]omehow the tree was gashed open and now it’s essentially bleeding out it’s [sic] water supply.”

That’s true, so far as it goes — and the secret behind the incident recorded here depends on correctly identifying that “somehow.”

“Praying for my boy as he attempts to last through the dry season,” he added. I hate to break it to him, but that tree is firewood by now, as is clear if you understand what was really happening in this video.

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As the community note on that X post makes clear, this stream of water is not a natural event at all. However, like a magician practicing misdirection, the video’s attention on the water — rather than on the gash that’s obviously running through most of the tree trunk, which I missed completely until my second viewing.

Once you’ve seen that, the explanation for the video — and that was the one with more than 6  million views now — becomes clear.

Which just goes to show you that Elon Musk’s X is doing a much better job of highlighting “disinformation” on social media than Meta’s Instagram is.


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George Upper is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Western Journal and was a weekly co-host of “WJ Live,” powered by The Western Journal. He is currently a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. A former U.S. Army special operator, teacher and consultant, he is a lifetime member of the NRA and an active volunteer leader in his church. Born in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he has lived most of his life in central North Carolina.

George Upper, is the former editor-in-chief of The Western Journal and is now a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. He currently serves as the connections pastor at Awestruck Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a former U.S. Army special operator, teacher, manager and consultant. Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Foxborough High School before joining the Army and spending most of the next three years at Fort Bragg. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English as well as a Master’s in Business Administration, all from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He and his wife life only a short drive from his three children, their spouses and his grandchildren. He is a lifetime member of the NRA and in his spare time he shoots, reads a lot of Lawrence Block and John D. MacDonald, and watches Bruce Campbell movies. He is a fan of individual freedom, Tommy Bahama, fine-point G-2 pens and the Oxford comma.

Birthplace

Foxborough, Massachusetts

Nationality

American

Honors/Awards

Beta Gamma Sigma

Education

B.A., English, UNCG; M.A., English, UNCG; MBA, UNCG

Location

North Carolina

Languages Spoken

English

Topics of Expertise

Faith, Business, Leadership and Management, Military, Politics