Fact Check: Viral clip of ‘BeerBiceps’ Allahbadia is from 2021, not related to India’s Got Latent row

In the original video uploaded by the influencer, he discusses how contracting Covid halted his work and expresses guilt over exposing his team to it.

New Delhi: A 15-second video circulating on X shows influencer Ranveer Allahbadia, known as “BeerBiceps”, visibly emotional and speaking in Hindi, which translates to, “I feel bad. Because of me all the work has stopped, I feel damn guilty. I exposed the entire team, and the work stopped.”

The caption of these posts claims that the video clip shows him talking about the impact of his recent comments on the internet show, India’s Got Latent and criticising him for the same. Archived links to the posts can be found here, here, here, and here.

Screenshots of posts on X sharing a video of influencer Ranveer Allahbadia in tears speaking about how his comment on India’s Got Latent has stopped work. (Source: X/Modified by Logically Facts)

During an India’s Got Latent show, Allahbadia asked a contestant a controversial question that led to widespread criticism of the podcaster and influencer. Additionally, the Assam and Maharashtra Police have filed FIRs against him and the show’s co-host, Samay Raina.

However, we found that he was not addressing the recent incident in the viral clip. It has been clipped from a video he uploaded in 2021 when he contracted coronavirus.

What did we find?

A reverse image search using keyframes from the viral video clip led us to a YouTube video (archived here) uploaded by the influencer on 7 April, 2021. The video is titled “This Is NOT Clickbait—My COVID-19 Experience | Vlog 24”. In this YouTube video, Allahbadia shares how he contracted coronavirus, with the viral clip starting 30 seconds into the video.

Here, he discusses how contracting the virus halted his work and expresses guilt over exposing his team to it. This confirms that the viral clip is unrelated to his comments on the India’s Got Latent show in February 2025.

We also found that the influencer recently uploaded an apology video on X (archived here) on 10 February, 2025, in which he said that his comments on the show were “inappropriate” and “unfunny” before apologising. He did not speak about feeling bad for his “work being stopped” in this apology video.

This story was originally published by Logically Facts as part of the Shakti Collective. Apart from the headline, excerpt and introduction, this story has not been edited by ThePrint staff.