Justice. Served .

Sadly, it's fake.

It's fake, but people that do this deserve it

No motherly instincts at all smh

Good job lion

Is this cheating? 🤔

I hate all the carbon given off by these trophy hunters traveling the world for their hunts. That’s why I do all my trophy hunting in local zoos. Plus it’s way safer when the animals are in cages.

I think if it was real there would be the sound of tearing flesh and crunching bones. Kind of disappointing

Context/Details: A video claiming to show a lion attacking a trophy hunter while posing with a kill has been debunked as a hoax. Published on June 7, 2016, by YouTube user Jayden Tanner, the video purportedly shows a hunter in South Africa being attacked by a lion. Accompanied by the hashtag #stoptrophyhunting, the video aims to raise awareness about the negative impact of trophy hunting on wildlife. It was widely shared with a message condemning the practice and highlighting the annual toll on exotic animals. However, this video does not depict a real event. Several discrepancies, such as the unnatural speed and silence of the approaching lion, cast doubt on its authenticity. Additionally, the lion featured in the video was actually killed in 2013, not 2016, as the video claims. Images of this lion, originally posted on the Hunting Grounds website in April 2013, were used in the video. The accompanying story detailed a lion hunt but did not mention any attack on the hunters. "Wow. I do not really know where to begin in this story of how I got the massive Lion. Let us back up to January of 2013 to when it all started... The next encounter was the same but he walked out of the thicks and saw him at about 100 yards. This lion was HUGE! larger than what everyone thought when they took the original photo. I got him in my scope but he was trotting away from us and I didn't shoot. Then the lion ran like hell knowing he was being hunted. We spent another hour tracking him down and didn't see him. I felt discouraged. We kept on going on the tracks. The bushmen were amazing trackers, nothing like you would see anywhere. Well, not expecting anything to happen as it was getting really hot and only a couple hours left until sunset the bushmen stopped and the whole team stopped very quickly. Ahead of us was the lion in the bushes...about 7 yards in front of us. We could see that he was pissed and crouched down. He was moving his body around and either he was going to run away or run at us. So, I got him in my sites and BOOM! Nailed him in the spine and got one lung. Lucky shot it was. If I would have missed or even got a true lung/vital shot he would have ran at us or ran away while dying and the other PH's would have shot him for our protection because I would not have had time to reload. The lion was down and was not moving. He was dying slowly from the shot. So to end his life quicker I finished him off with another shot." The creators of the video appear to have staged a scene where a lion exacts revenge on trophy hunters, using a photo of the 2013 lion hunt and generic footage of South Africa. The true origin of the video remains unclear, but it is likely part of an anti-hunting campaign. I provide context and detailed explanations under posts. Please follow if you enjoy the insights and want to keep receiving them. Your support means everything to me!

"This video is fake. However, I hope all Trophy Hunters suffer a fate like this. There is no place in the world for this unnecessary killing of such beautiful creatures."