WATCH: Russian 'Documentary' Claims Americans Love Showing Gay Porn to Kids

Russia's state-owned Rossiya 1 television last month aired a 90-minute "documentary" about what it calls American perversity, which either willfully or negligently portrayed an obviously farcical video, presenting it as news footage of a gay couple presenting to their 11-year-old son his bedroom freshly decorated with gay porn on the walls, Vox is reporting.

In actuality, the footage is a humor video created by users of 4Chan, a media-sharing online bulletin board, that went viral. An over-the-top re-edit of a Fathead sports graphic commercial that Vox says has spawned many a spoof, the video replaces a two-second frame that originally showed a massive monster truck graphic on the child's wall with a shot of a wall collaged with naked men.

A dramatic soundtrack drives home the "documentary" narrator's weighty question: "Is it appropriate for a child's bedroom to look this way?"

Russian critics of Western culture and state-run media wonks frequently refer to something they call "gender fascism" as a tool in the supposed American and European war against traditional family values, doing so again in the poorly vetted Rossiya 1 documentary.

Putin's Media Machine: 'Backward' to the Future
Russian society has long sought to shake off its image as the backward, clueless cousin of allegedly more sophisticated Europe. But the Rossiya 1 program's producers have done little to help quash that stereotype, epecially if they did not intentionally misrepresent the satirical 4Chan video but were simply oblivious to the satire.

On the other hand, if the "documentary expose" intentionally manipulated its audience, directors have played into another stereotype from Russia's more recent past that has a familiar and arguably darker connotation: one of Soviet-style state propaganda aimed at isolating Russians from a "decadent and deviant" West.

While Soviet Union leaders and propagandists looked to promote and spread communism through coercive media, present-day Russia, under the rule of President Vladimir Putin, looks to silence dissent by promoting hard-core Russian nationalism and the myth of ethnic "purity" through state-run media.

Watch a clip from the Russian "documentary" below.