With all the horrific news that is coming out of Syria from the devastating war, a new video has gone viral, where a person can be seen cutting a cake shaped like a kid, with a caption that read “Russian woman eats a cake shaped like the drowned Syrian child!”.

The video caught my attention first on twitter, then I started to see people sharing it and re-uploading it on facebook, and some news corporations went further, as usual, and wrote reported the video while uploading it as if it was their by adding their logo on it, for example the Egyptian “Dostor” news website.

Before really getting my hands dirty with this video to verify it, I noticed the same phrase in Arabic being shared on social media. Yes it is catchy. So I took it as it is and did a search on Youtube. Why Youtube, because it is one of the most used platform to share videos.

And yes, I found several of videos with, more or less, the same title, one of it was uploaded on May 13, 2016, entitled “امرأة روسية تصنع كيكة على شكل الطفل السوري الغريق” — “ Russian woman makes a cake shaped like the drowned Syrian child”.

Between the end of November, and mid May more than 5 months. hmmmm.

I tried to take some screenshots of the video footage, but nothing really interesting came up in the search result page. So i used some keywords in English — as a small test — and did a Youtube search.

searching “Cake kid shape”

I tried first to use three words: “cake kid shape”, but I got results that tackle the matter of kids baking a cake.

Aha.. kids are bigger than babies.

So I did another search for “cake baby shape” — baby instead of kid, and I got a whole different search result page.

searching for “cake baby shape”

As you may have noticed, the first video on the top, which has almost 9 million views, uploaded 7 years ago, was something similar to the original case, at least from what the thumbnail shows.

A capture of the Youtube video.

This video was uploaded by a user called “Dan Gentle” on September 11, 2009. And in the caption I could read “Another video of me cutting/slicing the baby cake I made for Colleen.”

So this guy was making baby shaped cakes, and this is another video, so let me check what other kind of videos does he have on his channel.