Recently a collage picture has been circulated on internet claiming that the left boy in the picture is drinking water, it’s his recent condition of right boy in the picture.

Checkout some of Facebook post here (archive), here (archive), here (archive).

Checkout Tiktok post here (archive).
Fact Check
According to Rumor Scanner’s investigation, two boys in the viral collage image are not same person rather it they are different person and has been circulated on social media as they are same person.
Through the reverse image search, a similar image was found on a instagram post which was published on March 31 in an account named ‘Anja Ringgren Lovén’ and this picture is very similar to first picture.

According to the caption of this post, the name of the boy is Hope. He was born in Nigeria in 2013 and now he is 10 years old.

With further investigation we have found another instagram post in ‘Anja Ringgren Lovén’ account on 8 april. The photo of this post was similar to the second picture of collage image.

According to the caption of this post, the name of the boy is Prince. Ten years ago Anja Ringgren Lovén bought him a school bag. That day she was admitted Prince in University. That means, after ten years, he grew up like this.

Basically, recently a collage picture has been circulated on internet claiming that two boys are same in this picture. But, investigation says, this claim is not true. They are not same person. Attaching two photo of different persons claiming that they are same in different ages.
In addition, previously Rumor Scanner has published so many fact-check reports identifying false pictures on the internet. Read some of them here, here and here.
So, a collage image from two separate persons’ pictures claiming that they are same person in different age has been circulated on internet; is totally false.
References
- Anja Ringgren Lovén – Instagram Post
- Anja Ringgren Lovén – Instagram Post
- Rumor Scanner’s own analysis