Footage of a 109-year-old man in Thailand went viral. Now TikTok is flooded with hoaxes, memes, and misinformation about him.

• Videos of a 109-year-old man keep going viral on TikTok.
• The clips have been reuploaded with claims he is actually 163, or a 399-year-old woman.

Footage of an elderly man in an orange robe has been flooding TikTok users’ feeds as videos of him lying down and interacting with family members keep going viral. But as the videos spread, they have been reposted across the internet along with inaccurate information and unfounded rumors about the man.

The original account that posted the videos is called @auyary13. It appears to be run by a woman named Auyary, who has one million followers and until recently typically posted food videos.

In October 2021, she began uploading videos of the man and now posts about him almost exclusively. The account has received as many as 100 million views on a single video posted in February 2022 which shows him placing his hands on a young girl, and…