Internet users on Twitter / X are concerned about a string of random attacks on glass bridges by women holding giant rocks. One woman, seen in a pink T-shirt, is the main culprit.

However, despite them totally looking real, these random attacks of terror did not actually happen. The viral clips, which were first posted on Facebook, are all AI-generated videos.

For many, the odd subject matter poses an absurd scenario, one that only a machine could come up with and one that only machines would enjoy and press "like" on. The alleged bot-on-bot interactions are akin to the "Dead Internet Theory," and that's what netizens are hypothesizing here.

But still, why is the "AI Lady With Rock Breaking Glass Bridge" video resonating with people and becoming a meme? How is it spreading, and where did it even come from? Let's explain.

Where Did The 'AI Lady With Rock Breaking Glass Bridge' Video Come From?

The video in question shows a heavyset older woman in a pink shirt holding a boulder over her head and jumping backward on a glass bridge. There are other people on the bridge, but the woman clearly doesn't care about their safety. She smashes the fragile structure as she launches back, causing everyone to fall into the river below.

The video continues by showing a golden retriever rescuing a little girl and bringing her back to her mother. It's an odd story with an even odder villain: the woman with no clear motive except chaos.

The first known upload of the original video that we could find was shared as a Reel by the Facebook account James Mason in August 2025.

The rabbit hole goes a little bit deeper, though, as the original video has a faint watermark on the bottom-left reading the URL "magicgroup.ai." The link directs to the website for the company Magic Group, founded by viral Instagram magician Julius Dein.

Dein is most known for doing magic tricks for celebrities and athletes. For instance, he recently card-tricked Lionel Messi in a video that received over 15 million views on his own page.

His company, Magic Group, is all about helping brands go viral, but its offshoot venture, School 404, has a similar, less-human goal. It's an online course that Magic Group operates to teach people how to use AI video tools to farm engagement and revenue on short-form video platforms.

The James Mason Facebook account, which posted the original video, has School 404 listed in its About section, and other Reels on its page have "school404.com" and "earnmoney.ai" (which redirects to school404.com) watermarked on top.

James Mason is not alone either. Other Facebook pages, like one called Robert Hawthorn, focus on other AI-generated "explorer" characters posting almost identical "AI stories" with School 404 mentioned in their About sections.

This added context is objectively weird, considering that most people assume that so-called "Facebook AI Slop" comes from third-world posters who aim to game Meta's monetization so that they can hack the USD exchange rate in their home countries.

Instead, in this case, it's the project of a social media magician who seems to be pulling his most absurd trick yet — making Boomers afraid of glass bridges.




How Did The 'AI Lady With Rock Breaking Glass Bridge' Become A Twitter Meme?

Earlier this week, X user @F530Josh reposted the video, claiming that he saw it on his Facebook Reels feed with over 57,000 likes and 12,000 comments. "Comments were overwhelmingly impressed old people praising a dog… Facebook is dead," he wrote in the post.

Opened Facebook and Reels autoplayed. First reel had 57k likes and 12,000 comments.

Comments were overwhelmingly impressed old people praising a dog.

This is the reel. I’m not joking.

Facebook is dead. pic.twitter.com/EUFBr9M1KM

— Josh Brooks (@F530Josh) September 26, 2025

Users on the app immediately focused on the villainous woman, whose senseless violence caused the tragedy. Soon, people were joking about her being on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list and calling for Director Kash Patel to take action.

Others, such as X user @Noontide108, were surprised to learn that there was a whole genre of AI videos showing women breaking glass bridges with rocks.

As more of them were leaked on X / Twitter, more women were introduced to the meta, becoming their own memetic characters in the "Rock Lady Alliance."

"This Chinese auntie did it too but without half the pure-hearted joie de vivre of the original," wrote X user @delillostan in a viral post, sharing one of the other examples making the rounds online.

This Chinese auntie did it too but without half the pure hearted joie de vivre of the original https://t.co/ILqW9H1WYf pic.twitter.com/zEuhmkV6cj

— jon (@delillostan) September 29, 2025

What Is The 'Dead Internet Theory?'

Some internet users, like X user @Yung_Wooloo, have likened the "AI Lady With Rock Breaking Glass Bridge" video to the Dead Internet Theory.

For those unfamiliar with the conspiracy theory, it hypothesizes that most of the internet has been taken over by artificial intelligence, and that much of the content on the web is fake and not produced by real humans.

It was coined on 4chan's /x/ (paranormal) board back in September 2019, and many on the internet believe that it's only grown stronger as a theory in the modern day, particularly alongside the rise of AI.

What Are Some More 'AI Lady With Rock Breaking Glass Bridge' Memes?

just did this👍 pic.twitter.com/8jWUu9NGfR

— elena lucia francesca (@mentalt_sjuk) September 5, 2025

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