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Freddie Mercury saw a little girl crying in the crowd. What he did next left 80,000 fans speechless. This text begins a video that is currently circulating on the internet. It shows the Queen singer in touching contact with a girl in the front row at a concert.
The clip was published on the YouTube channel, among others “Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story”. As is well known, there is also a documentary about Mercury from the year 2000. But here and elsewhere there is never any mention of this supposed goosebump-inducing event.
What looks deceptively real is just an AI story. Cleverly staged, but just made up. An Emma Martinez, who is said to have just turned seven, is crying on her birthday and holding a sign: “Freddy, My Mommy Loves You.” Just for them, we are led to believe, Mercury stopped his band’s performance.
Lots of made up AI stories about Freddie Mercury
Anyone who searches for the video on the Internet will find several things. The Queen frontman kneels in front of a girl in the audience and then in front of a boy in a wheelchair on stage. In another video it is again a girl in a wheelchair. Sometimes the child is seriously ill, other times just a big fan of the singer.
The artificial intelligence did not take the details too seriously, as is usual in other cases. While the story is told differently, but always highly dramatized. It is once said that the spontaneous moment occurred in Madison Square Garden. Then we talk about Wembley Stadium again.
A video mentions September 19, 1982 in New York. In 1982, Queen were actually in the US in September as part of their “Hot Space” tour, but they did not play Madison Square Garden on September 19th. Their final gig of the North American tour was September 15th at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Then we went on to Japan in October.
While the melodramatic staging of the AI video with a gentle male voice quickly makes you skeptical, the depth of detail of the sentimental story around it is still impressive. In the case of “Emma Martinez,” for example, it is said that her mother played Queen songs to her from the day she was born. Later, her deep emotional connection to Mercury’s voice was even scientifically proven, according to the clip.
The ominous YouTube channel with its AI videos also has other made-up stories about Freddie Mercury. Magical moments are reported. For example, he lost his voice and then suddenly pulled all the fans out of their seats. He once fell at a concert and made it part of the show. He even rewrote an entire Queen album after a child told him a secret.
What is just another example of the suggestive effect of AI products, with its modern adaptation of fairy tales in fan fiction style, also shows that such “alternative history” attempts could become more common in the next few years. It may even be appealing as entertainment, but it’s still trying to fool people.