Peter Dinklage, the actor famously known for portraying the irreverent imp, Tyrion of House Lannister in the HBO smash hit tv series Game of Thrones, has become the subject of a viral death hoax alleging he passed in an accident at Disneyland Orlando.
Dinklage, in a viral TikTok with over 3M views, was claimed to have ‘died’ after an ‘accident’ on a roller-coaster ride after he was thrown off.
He ‘allegedly’ died at the scene. Disneyland Orlando was said to have released a statement, the death hoax said. The full post will be linked below for readers to check out the hoax first-hand.
The information in that viral TikTok are all unequivocally false, starting from the fact that the video uses an image of Jason Momoa, who played Karl Drogo in Thrones, to represent Dinklage. Neither Dinklage nor Momoa have been credibly reported to have even visited Disneyland Orlando, not to talk of getting into an accident there.
Despite the obvious falsehoods in the video, it has gained approximately 3.2m views (and counting). Commenters on the video were furious at TikTok for allowing such trash to go viral yet giving them violations for the softest of ‘infringements’.
“I get a violation for one word and they keep this ?” one exasperated creator wrote.
Another comment completely demolished the creator behind the post, writing: “What is wrong with you? First, that is not Peter Dinklage, second, he is NOT dead. I’m assuming you know this, yet you still put stupid sh*t out there for whatever stupid reason in your simple mind.”
Other commenters also took things lightly, with one person writing: “Never realized how much Peter Dinklage looks like Jason Mamoa!”
A check on the profile of the hoax originator reveals they constantly share such false death news with no consequences from TikTok. Other famous people dead according to the page are Jason Statham, Jim Carrey and Jason Momoa, for whom the page hilariously used a photo of Peter Dinklage.
TikTok has seen an influx of such fake news on the deaths of famous people, with the platform doing little to combat it. Currently, the entire world is debating whether streamers the X2 Twins are alive or dead based on similar information from a TikTok page. Sometimes, real death news are broken on the platform but the proliferation of such fake news makes it a challenge to parse the information in every such post to decipher the likelihood of it being true or false.
Click here to check out the full death hoax for yourself.