“Are you here because someone claim it’s from Tokyo Olympic 2020?” one commenter wrote. YouTube users commenting on the video admitted they’d believed the false posts and pointed out the lack of smoke in the air in the computer-generated display. Lukas Trötzmüller, the Austrian software developer who created FWsim, confirmed to The Associated Press in an email that the video was made with his software. The YouTube user who posted the video has posted several other simulated fireworks videos in recent years, according to the user’s profile. But it doesn’t show an Olympic fireworks display, nor a real one, for that matter.Īn internet search for the video reveals it previously appeared on YouTube in 2015, under the title “FWsim Mount Fuji Synchronized Fireworks Show2.”įWsim is a digital fireworks simulation software, according to its website. The video was shared globally on Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and other social media. Please enjoy the Olympic fireworks under the beautiful Mount Fuji. “The Olympics cannot be opened because of the Pandemic, but these fireworks cannot be stored until 2021, so the Olympic fireworks are displayed at this time. “Prepared by Tokyo for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games,” wrote one Facebook user. Social media users claimed the clip captured a recent fireworks display which was prepared for the 2020 Summer Games, but still occurred on schedule despite the Olympics’ postponement.
