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Lasse Jonas Lund, a Norwegian who spent his teenage years in India, is going viral
Lasse Jonas Lund, a 33-year-old Norwegian who claims to have been raised on the streets of Mumbai after getting stuck in India, has been going massively viral on social media. Lund’s story and the contradiction of his appearance and his accent has led to accusations that he’s a fake.
A post of Lund detailing his life story went viral on social media in late May and has since racked up over 21 million views on X/Twitter.
They got a white Indian now pic.twitter.com/X7UaBbmdMA
— Dalton Pruitt (@daltonleepruitt) May 25, 2026
Lasse Jonas Lund, a Norwegian who spent his teen years living in Mumbai, is going massively viral on social media
According to Lund, he was “lost between borders” after his father moved back to Norway and his mother was imprisoned overstaying her visa, forcing him to live on the streets of Mumbai between the ages of 11 and 17.
Lund claims that government authorities and officials failed to support him with his return to Norway, which resulted in him doing manual labor in factories to survive. The 33-year-old has now returned to India to film a documentary about his story.
“I was lost between borders. Norwegian citizen, born in Norway, stuck in India living on the streets, surviving, being a tourist guide, smoking on the f—— roads. Don’t you think I wanna get some kind of justice from the government?” Lund explained in the original viral clip.
“When I’m 33 years old, have zero schooling? They haven’t done s— that they were supposed to do. The Finnish Embassy, when they helped me out of the country, they were supposed to report me to the children services because I was under 18. Did they do their job? No, they didn’t do their job. Thanks to them I don’t have f—— nothing,” he continued.
“I even told the Norwegian government once they came back to Norway, I have no school. Then they should have done some kind of research, find out why don’t I have school? What’s the reason? No European… one of the richest countries in the world don’t have schooling. There must be a reason to it. Why they don’t do their f—— background check? Because they know they are in the wrong.”
Subsequent videos of Lund have been clipped and turned into meme reaction videos on social media, with the idiosyncrasy of his accent and mannerisms propelling much of the online attention.
my boy said “do you still need hotspot?” in front of the girls pic.twitter.com/sPQqRojdnl
— 🇳🇴 (@tsukkiyomiii) June 21, 2026
went to a family gathering and they all told me i’ve gained weight pic.twitter.com/ItpoFpZx6l
— 🌻🏴 (@ONLYTANGS_) June 21, 2026
Guy I haven’t seen since middle school found me working in McDonald’s pic.twitter.com/GchyQgwoWd
— slink (@slinkout) June 20, 2026
Is Lasse Jonas Lund’s story about being abandoned in India legitimate or made up?
Accused of faking the accent and creating his backstory for attention, Lund told followers during an Instagram Live video that “There’s nothing fake about my story, my life has been f’d up.”
In an interview with Vice, Lund described his upbringing as being “brutal” and said he got by with “tourist guiding” and “hustling on the streets.”
“Whoever the trolls are, I don’t care what they say. It’s my life. I know how I f—— lived. I have people that don’t want me out there telling my story. I’ve had messages from my own family members. I don’t even know who they are or which part of the family they’re from. While I was in Mumbai, after I put out the first videos, they were like, ‘Please, can you take down the post because it’s affecting our family and our name?’ I sent just one message back: ‘F— your name.’ This is my story, and it’s out there.”
Lund’s YouTube page, Unexpected Paths, has since racked up over 20,000 subscribers, and the first chapter of his documentary has almost one million views. His Instagram has over 71,000 followers.
“We never felt there was an European with us. We took care of him as our child,” a man in the video says of Lund.