Apparently, doctored pictures that appear to show star-shaped grapes have circulated online for months. This has caused some netizens to believe they are a genuine fruit from Japan. However, viticulture experts said there was no such thing as star-shaped grapes and AFP found various videos demonstrating how to create the pictures using editing software.
The doctored photos were shared in a Facebook post saying they showed "a new type of grape" launched in Japan. However, they WERE doctored.
The post, shared by a page with more than 170,000 followers on March 27, appears to show pictures of star-shaped grapes, alongside a screenshot of a Japanese tweet that says: "Star-shaped grape. This is cute."
The images have circulated online since at least September 2022 in posts in various languages, including English, French and Japanese, and resurfaced in March 2023.
Source: factcheck.afp.com