“She literally thought she was Jesus and could walk on water?”

A Polish vacationer’s try and poke enjoyable at Google Maps’ notoriously dangerous navigation in Venice went viral after the bit ended together with her plunging straight right into a canal.

Featured Video

The traveler, Wika Guzenda, was filming a tongue-in-cheek clip about how the app retains telling customers to “go straight” in a metropolis filled with water. But after lacking her footing on a slimy stone step, she grew to become the punchline herself, resulting in hundreds of thousands of views and a flood of Instagram and TikTok feedback joking about trusting Google in Italy’s most complicated metropolis.

Watch your step on the canals

Polish couple and avid vacationers Wika and Kamil went viral in late September after their try and make a foolish video mocking Google Maps’ points with Venice went awry. The temporary clip reveals Wika beginning to stroll down a brief flight of stone stairs that lead into one among Venice’s well-known canals.

“When Google Maps says ‘go straight’ but you’re in Venice,” the caption on Instagram reads.

On the ultimate step earlier than the water began, she slipped and plunged straight into the murky depths.

Thankfully, it’s not that deep. She did, nonetheless, present herself wiping off grime and presumably blood from her legs afterward.

The Instagram video gained over 250,000 likes, whereas the TikTok model that omits the after shot and freezes mid-fall grabbed over seven million views.

“Bad day? I had worse,” the TikTok caption says.

“The plan for this TikTok was completely different,” the video description provides.

@para.we.wroclawiu Ig: wika.we.wroclawiu ✨ Welcome in my life. Plan na tego tiktoka był zupełnie inny… #venice #humorous #fy ♬ authentic sound – Blake Floyd 🦆

Don’t use Google Maps in Venice

Google Maps screwing with vacationers in Italy’s most waterlogged metropolis is nothing new. Licensed Venice tour information Igor Scomparin wrote about this for 2025, explaining that this previous metropolis doesn’t work like some other.

“Instead of ‘123 Main Street,’ Venice uses a complex system called sestieri (districts) with sequential numbering that can jump from building to building unpredictably,” he wrote. “For example, you might find Castello 1234 next to Castello 5678, making GPS navigation nearly impossible for standard mapping systems.”

Other challenges for any GPS embrace quite a few useless ends, rising waters that periodically make some routes inaccessible, and intensely slim passages that Google Maps will mark as regular streets.

Scomparin’s favourite various to GPS is, after all, tour guides. However, there are additionally particular apps only for navigating Venice, reminiscent of Venezia Unica and Venice Offline Map.

“Venice has one rule regarding steps”

Many of the feedback on this self-deprecating video additional chided Wika for making an attempt to stroll on slippery steps or usually telling her she received what she deserved. A shocking quantity couldn’t appear to determine that she meant to cease on the final step.

“Why would she go straight into the water? Is she blind?” contemplated @ereinii0n on Instagram.

“She literally thought she was Jesus and could walk on water?” requested @teaguguli.

Finally, some understanding people offered an evidence for why that final step despatched her toppling.

“Venice has one rule regarding steps. if you see green sludge on the surface, don’t step on it,” wrote TikToker @purple_army_d.

“I thought it was a known fact that rock, wood covered with water is slippery,” stated @sakuralove13. “These lessons are learnt during childhood. Do we not go outside anymore?”

The Daily Dot has reached out to @para.we.wroclawiu for remark by way of TikTok.

The web is chaotic—however we’ll break it down for you in a single day by day electronic mail. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s e-newsletter right here.