The claim

In a TikTok video you can see the sausage of a hot dog under the microscope, apparently it contains crushed insects and still alive worms.

Our conclusion

The creator himself admits that the video is fake to show how easy it is to deceive people.

Sometimes it's better not to know what some things look like under a microscope, but it's still interesting. A very successful Ukrainian TikTok channel satisfies this curiosity by having the channel's operator, Roman Kamburov, show various things under the microscope in his videos.
The most popular video shows the sausage of a hot dog under the microscope - but only apparently, because Roman himself admits that the video is fake!

The video

was even shared on Facebook by verified channels such as LADbible and UNILAD

@mir_glazami_microscopa

ПОДДЕРЖАТЬ АВТОРА ДОНАТОМ ПО ССЛКЕ В ШАПКЕ ПРОФИЛЯ 👽👍

♬ Main Titles – Charlie Clouser

Delicious, right?

Rub the sausage!

No, that wasn't a request, but a description of what Roman Kamburov did in a previous video showing what the surface of a sausage looks like when rubbed against various surfaces:

@mir_glazami_microscopa #розумнакраїна ♬ Bomb Surprise – Alan Silvestri

The similarity is striking: tiny hairs can also be seen in this video with the “contaminated” sausage. But that's not real proof of a fake, more of an indication.

The creator admits the fake

In fairness, Roman Kamburov himself admits to USA Today that the video is not real:

  • He applied the pieces of string, dust and other contaminants to the slice of sausage himself before placing it under the microscope
  • The worms and parasites were not on the sausage slice, but in a Petri dish

Unfortunately, most of the videos are fake, as Kamburov admits. The reason he gives is to “ protest how easy it is to deceive people ” and “ to show that scientific and useful information is not as interesting as fake (videos) ”.

Unfortunately, the success proves Kamurov right: While the video in which he clearly contaminates the sausage only has 3.2 million views, the fake video climbed to 244 million views.

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