On Nov. 13, 2026, the X account TUPACABRA posted a clip titled "NUREMBERG - Official Trailer"1. The two words were the only credit the post gave itself.
By Nov. 14, the post had drawn 75,509 favorites and 2,409 replies1. Viewers argued in the replies about whether what they saw was real.
The clip was an invention. In the trade, this is called a concept trailer: a preview built for a movie that exists only as an idea. Its creator used Venice AI, a video generation service, and Meta's own AI account later confirmed as much on Threads12.
TUPACABRA@tupacabraNUREMBERG - Official Trailer pic.twitter.com/M7GjP0wfk9
A Concept Trailer Built With Venice AI
Venice AI sells access to outside video models under one login: Kling, Runway, Veo and Seedance7. Erik Voorhees founded the company in 2024, after building the crypto exchange ShapeShift6.
"When we launched, we were very far away from what ChatGPT could do, but people would use us because it was private," Voorhees told TechCrunch6.
A text-to-video tool like Venice's turns a written prompt into moving footage within minutes. One laptop replaces the camera, the actors and the studio, which is what let a single creator build a convincing trailer alone7.
Investors valued Venice AI at $1 billion in July 2026. The round itself bought 6.5 percent of the company for $65 million, led by the venture firm Dragonfly6. Venice counted 3 million active users that same month.
The title "NUREMBERG" already belonged to someone else. Sony Pictures Classics released a real film by that name on Nov. 7, 20259. Russell Crowe played Hermann Göring in it.
Rami Malek played the Army psychiatrist who questioned him9. That film earned $14.5 million at the domestic box office8. TUPACABRA's clip and that film share only the word in their titles.
Replies Split Between Awe and Alarm
Trey Crosby runs a YouTube channel called Crosby Critic, where he reviews trailers4. He has watched the fake-trailer genre grow for years, and the AI additions bother him.
"I absolutely hate them. It's not their work. They're just taking what other people have made and turning it into their own and trying to pose it as their own," Crosby said4.
Crosby's complaint targets theft, a separate question from realism. His warning about viewers still applies here, though. A lot of people, he said, "may not recognize that it's mostly AI"4.
Ben Geskin watched the same clip and read it differently. He posts tech commentary to a large following on X3.
"AI or not, this looks incredible. At the end of the day, it's about creativity, taste, vision, and the ability to bring an idea to life," Geskin wrote3.
Geskin's point cuts against the idea that fooling anyone is the news. For him, the craft is the story, whatever made it.
Drew Basile read it as a warning aimed at studios more than at viewers. "As studios continue to decay, AI could be the only way high-concept genre work like this gets made anymore," he wrote on X10.
A Bot Had to Deny It Was Real
TUPACABRA's fake trailer draws 431 times the favorites of its top reply
Favorites on two X posts about the NUREMBERG clip, counted Nov. 14, 2026
Each bar is one post's favorite count: the first bar is TUPACABRA's own trailer post, the second is Ben Geskin's reply calling it incredible.
Sources: TUPACABRA on X [1]; Ben Geskin on X [3]. Chart by Ryan Elliott Dennis.
The numbers behind this chart
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| TUPACABRA's trailer post | 75,509 |
| Ben Geskin's reply | 175 |
Confusion still spread fast enough that a platform stepped in. On Threads, the account run by Meta's AI assistant replied to the clip directly2.
"It's 100% AI, not a real theatrical movie. It's a concept trailer called NUREMBERG made by the creator @tupacabra with Venice AI," the Meta AI account wrote2.
The correction mattered because the post gave viewers so little to go on. Its caption held two words: "Official Trailer." A fast scroll left just those two words to judge the clip by1.
Siwei Lyu directs the Media Forensic Lab at the University at Buffalo. He had already flagged this exact gap two months earlier, writing in Fortune5.
"For many everyday scenarios — especially low-resolution video calls and media shared on social media platforms — their realism is now high enough to reliably fool nonexpert viewers," Lyu wrote5.
Lyu's own piece cited the security firm DeepStrike, which counted roughly 500,000 deepfakes online in 2023. That count reached about 8 million by 2025, a measure of deepfakes generally, separate from TUPACABRA's trailer specifically5.
Venice AI's new investors bought 6.5 percent of a $1 billion company
Share of Venice AI's July 2026 valuation purchased in its $65 million round
Source: TechCrunch [6]. Chart by Ryan Elliott Dennis.
The numbers behind this chart
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| New investors' stake | 6.5% |
| Whole | 100.0% |
What to do
If your team posts AI-made video to a public account, label it in the caption, before anyone has to ask. A correction that lands after the favorites pile up has already lost the argument.
Check a viral clip's creator before you share it. TUPACABRA's own posts would tell a careful viewer this was concept work, within minutes, long before any bot stepped in.
Name the tool you used, too. Typing "Made with Venice AI" takes seconds and settles the question before a viewer has to guess.
By the numbers
- 75,509: favorites on TUPACABRA's trailer post, counted Nov. 14, 20261.
- 2,409 replies piled up under that same post within a day1.
- Ben Geskin's reply calling the clip "incredible" had drawn 175 favorites by Nov. 143.
- $1 billion is what investors valued Venice AI at in July 20266.
- Three million active users were using Venice AI that same month6.
- $14.5 million is the real "Nuremberg" film's total at the domestic box office8.
- Two years passed between Erik Voorhees founding Venice AI and TUPACABRA's post6.
- About 8 million deepfakes circulated online in 2025, DeepStrike estimates, up from roughly 500,000 in 20235.
What to watch
Watch whether X or Threads adds a label for AI video before the next clip like this one goes viral. A platform note that posts within minutes would settle most of this argument on its own.
Venice AI's own growth is worth watching too. The company sells video tools to millions of users. That business has an incentive to let its best clip keep climbing before anyone adds a label.
Lyu's own forecast named this exact gap months before TUPACABRA's post arrived to prove it. The next test comes from whichever creator posts the next convincing fake5.
Sources
- TUPACABRA (@tupacabra), "NUREMBERG - Official Trailer," X, Nov. 13, 2026, https://x.com/tupacabra/status/2121357879341166683
- Meta AI (@meta.ai), "It's 100% AI, not a real theatrical movie. It's a concept trailer called NUREMBERG made by the creator @tupacabra with Venice AI," Threads, Nov. 14, 2026, https://www.threads.com/@meta.ai/post/DfuIrC6inB0/its-ai-not-a-real-theatrical-movie-its-a-concept-trailer-called-nuremberg-made/
- Ben Geskin (@BenGeskin), "AI or not, this looks incredible," X, Nov. 14, 2026, https://x.com/BenGeskin/status/2121571136773198110
- Herb Scribner, "Fake movie trailers were an art form. Then came the AI slop.," The Washington Post, April 29, 2025, https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/fake-movie-trailers-were-art-154122140.html
- Siwei Lyu, "2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says," Fortune, Dec. 27, 2025, https://fortune.com/2025/12/27/2026-deepfakes-outlook-forecast/
- Ram Iyer, "Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off," TechCrunch, July 1, 2026, https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice-ai-becomes-a-unicorn-with-65m-series-a-as-its-privacy-first-ai-platform-takes-off/
- Venice AI, "Venice AI," Venice AI, accessed Nov. 14, 2026, https://venice.ai/
- Box Office Mojo, "Nuremberg (2025)," Box Office Mojo, accessed Nov. 14, 2026, https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1139048449/
- Sony Pictures Classics, "Nuremberg," Sony Pictures Classics, accessed Nov. 14, 2026, https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/nuremberg/
- Drew Basile (@DrewBasile45), "As studios continue to decay, AI could be the only way high-concept genre work like this gets made anymore," X, Nov. 14, 2026, https://x.com/DrewBasile45/status/2121471532568654170
