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Only look-alikes and not the real YouTuber Cong TV and Facebook personality Xian Gaza were caught in a selfie taken during the UniTeam rally in Cagayan de Oro City on April 26.

Ian Niel Sacuan Ortega first posted the photo on Facebook on April 26, asking if those were Xian Gaza (real name: Christian Albert Garcia) and Cong TV (real name: Lincoln Cortez Velasquez) . The following day, Facebook page We are One Pilipinas reposted the selfie with the caption:

On the day of the rally, Gaza was in Lisbon, Portugal as seen in his Instagram and Facebook accounts.

Gaza has over 1.1 million and 19.6 thousand followers on Facebook and Instagram respectively.

Meanwhile, Cong TV did not post his whereabouts that day.

He, however, refuted on March 18 an earlier claim that he would join the UniTeam sortie as a performer alongside other Filipino artists.

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