The claim
Another video is being distributed on TikTok that is supposed to show a heartbeat after 24 cans of Red Bull.
Our conclusion
The video does not show a heartbeat after 24 cans of Red Bull, but rather a man whose ribs are broken on the left side, meaning the chest is no longer stable and the lungs are expanding freely with every breath. He died shortly afterwards.
A video has been circulating since 2015 that shows the bare torso of a man lying on a stretcher and apparently being treated by a doctor. It is also repeatedly claimed that it shows the heartbeat of someone who has drunk 24 Red Bulls at once. However, the truth is harsher: the man was a well-known singer who was in a car accident and died from those injuries.
The distributed video
We will only publish a screenshot of the video at this point so that it is clear which video it is. It's up to you if you want to follow the links to see it. However, due to geoblocking, the TikTok video is not available in Germany.

In bad taste, the video on TikTok was also tagged with the hashtags #haha, #comedy and #funny, but there's really nothing funny about it. The video has also been on YouTube for years and surprisingly has not yet been deleted there (see HERE ).
Can Red Bull trigger this?
24 Red Bulls in a row... that's a lot. In 2015, when we first reported on the video , an employee at the time told us that he was able to top this with 42 (!) Red Bull:
“I lay in bed and bawled. Yelled because my head was pounding and I just wanted to fall asleep. I felt so bad. Plus all the alcohol... But my heart/chest wasn't bubbling like that. But it was hell. Brain freeze after too much ice cream sucks.”
This should be a warning to everyone not to try to imitate this. So please don't turn it into a stupid TikTok or Facebook challenge! In England, a mother of four even drank 24 cans of Red Bull every day for five years, as the Mirror reported , although she is not known to have had such a violent heartbeat.
What the video really shows
A logo in the 2015 video led us to a site that posted the video at the time, but also pointed out what was really being seen: it was the last recordings of Brazilian Sertaneja singer Cristiano Araújo , who died on March 24th. Died in June 2015 as a result of a car accident.
As several media outlets reported at the time (see HERE and HERE ), the singer was on his way back from a concert in Itumbiara (Goiânia state). A friend was driving the car, Araújo was unbelted with his girlfriend in the back seat and had his head in her lap to sleep.
At a very high speed (179 km/h with a 110 km/h speed limit), the car left the road and Araújo and his girlfriend were thrown out of the car. The driver and passenger, his manager, survived, his 19-year-old girlfriend Allana Moraes died instantly, and Araújo died later in hospital.
What can be seen in the video is a so-called serial rib fracture with paradoxical or inverted breathing and unstable left half of the thorax , the red skin is explained by a strong impact.
To put it more simply: Several ribs are broken on the left side, which means the chest is no longer stabilized, and the lungs expand as they want with every breath, so the chest inflates or contracts again when breathing .
Conclusion
The video does not show a heartbeat after 24 cans of Red Bull, but rather a man whose ribs are broken on the left side, meaning the chest is no longer stable and the lungs are expanding freely with every breath.
He died shortly afterwards. Is the video still funny?
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