The 2024 election rumors began with a false claim that he wrote about having sex with a couch.
Nur Ibrahim
Published July 29, 2024
Image courtesy of X user @JDVance
In July 2024, Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance was the subject of numerous bizarre rumors, starting with the claim that he had sex with a couch to a more recent rumor that he was looking up "dolphin porn" based on a screenshot he reposted on X.
A number of fishy posts claimed the screenshot showed Vance had been looking up dolphin porn because he searched the words "dolphin" and "woman." Those two words were bolded in the caption of the image Vance posted, which stated, "Woman gets violated by a dolphin and enjoys it."
While Vance did indeed repost a screenshot in February 2024 with a cropped image featuring the caption, "Woman gets violated by a dolphin and enjoys it," this is not necessarily evidence he was searching for dolphin porn. Above the screenshot, he wrote on X, "Maybe the internet was a mistake."
On Feb. 17, 2024, Vance's verified X account shared a screenshot of another X post (archived here) featuring a cropped image of a woman and the top of a dolphin's head from an account called @crazyclipsonly. His own post is still available on X. It is not clear what is happening in the image, which appears to take place next to water and shows a number of people, including a seated woman, facing a dolphin. One man in the corner of the image is capturing the moment with his phone.
In July 2024, Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance was the subject of numerous bizarre rumors, starting with the claim that he had sex with a couch to a more recent rumor that he was looking up "dolphin porn" based on a screenshot he reposted on X.
A number of fishy posts claimed the screenshot showed Vance had been looking up dolphin porn because he searched the words "dolphin" and "woman." Those two words were bolded in the caption of the image Vance posted, which stated, "Woman gets violated by a dolphin and enjoys it."
While Vance did indeed repost a screenshot in February 2024 with a cropped image featuring the caption, "Woman gets violated by a dolphin and enjoys it," this is not necessarily evidence he was searching for dolphin porn. Above the screenshot, he wrote on X, "Maybe the internet was a mistake."
On Feb. 17, 2024, Vance's verified X account shared a screenshot of another X post (archived here) featuring a cropped image of a woman and the top of a dolphin's head from an account called @crazyclipsonly. His own post is still available on X. It is not clear what is happening in the image, which appears to take place next to water and shows a number of people, including a seated woman, facing a dolphin. One man in the corner of the image is capturing the moment with his phone.
(X user @JDVance)
The bolded words "dolphin" and woman" on the post does indeed indicate that Vance was searching for posts with those words. When typing in a word on the search bar in X, the results always show that word in bold in post captions that come up.
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By Nur Ibrahim
Nur Nasreen Ibrahim is a reporter with experience working in television, international news coverage, fact checking, and creative writing.
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