News Show Airs Pair Of Testicles Instead Of Moon During Solar Eclipse Coverage; Hosts Mortified
A Mexican news outlet accidentally aired a man's testicles while covering Monday's solar eclipse, triggering mockery and jokes on social media.
The viral blunder occurred while anchors for RCG Media's "24/7" news program were showing footage submitted by fans of the solar eclipse during its live broadcast Monday.
The male news anchor was listing the cities where the eclipse could be viewed when the program suddenly played a video of a pair of testicles moving across the screen to block a light instead of the moon blocking Earth's view of sun, as seen in the clip shared by TMZ.
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One of the two female anchors gasped in shock before glancing at the male anchor.
The male anchor calmly carried on delivering the information as the video was quickly stopped and removed from the screen.
He then explained that the video was submitted by a viewer as the hosts appeared mortified.
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The on-air accident has since gone viral, with users on X, formerly Twitter, and Reddit clowning the network and sharing puns and jokes.
"That's nuts," one Reddit user joked.
"Not the eclipse we expected," another Reddit user commented, to which another added, "But the eclipse we deserved."
"Cloudy with a chance of meatballs," a fourth comment read, while another claimed, "The solar flare needs to be trimmed."
(Photo : RCG Media)
One user on X quipped, "They had a lot of balls to do that."
"Well it was an eclipse....just not the one they were looking for," another commenter said.
Another X user described the moment as "the bagged eclipse."
RCG Media owned up to the blunder on its account on X.
Alongside a clip of the moment the testicles video was played during the broadcast, the network wrote, "How did you see #eclipse? Ours was [egg emojis]," according to a translation via Google Translate.
A user on X with the handle @Rhevolver claimed they were behind the prank and mocked the network for not checking its fan submissions carefully before airing them.
A tweet from the user written in Spanish and translated to English read: "Good afternoon, @rcg_media. I appreciate that you took my video about the eclipse, but I would have loved to have been credited. Greetings."
"Greetings to all my people from Saltillo who had to watch my eggs on television because those at @rcg_media forgot to review the video of the eclipse carefully," @Rhevolver also wrote, according to the Daily Mail. "I love you."
Un saludo a toda mi gente de Saltillo que tuvieron que ver mis huevos en televisión porque a los de @rcg_media se les pasó revisar bien el video del eclipse. Los amo.
— Rhevolver (@Rhevolver) April 8, 2024
Enstarz could not independently verify if the video belonged to @Rhevolver.
According to the Daily Mail, local media reported that the footage has been on the internet since 2017.
Meanwhile, some X users speculated that the testicles in the video may belong to musician Tommy Lee.
Lee allegedly shared and then deleted a similar video on his account in the past.
But unnamed sources told TMZ that while the Motley Crue drummer did post the video on his social media at one point, the footage was only sent to him and did not show his own testicles.
The "testicular eclipse" prank is nothing new. During the 2019 solar eclipse in Chile, some users also posted such images on social media.
