r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FullmetalPlatypus • 20h ago
Video They lied...
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 20h ago
never seen the video but not surprised that the truth of a viral social media video was manipulated and shifted to get a bigger reaction from folks.
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u/pm_your_nudie_booby 20h ago
Came here to say this. The internet and people are fucked up. Combining the two makes for a shit outcome.
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u/big_guyforyou 19h ago
if you combine the internet and people in the right way you get porn
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u/ifyoulovesatan 18h ago
And if you combine the internet and you in the right way people get porn.
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u/dasbtaewntawneta 18h ago
Yeh the gods not dead movies are hilarious how they’re all just up against pure straw men with no basis in reality
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 18h ago
oh well i never seen it so i didnt know about all that. regardless, religion aside, what i originally said still stands. be safe, have a good weekend buddy.
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 18h ago
yeah that’s even crazier bc then whoever made the video went out their way to create a fake scenario.. and for what?? bc of the fact that the bs gets spread like a virus.
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u/mr-english 18h ago
Unfortunately ragebait is more popular/valuable than just "huh, that's kinda cool".
...and people fall for it time and time again.
Not necessarily manipulated videos like OP's, but just straight-up fake/staged ragebait videos literally designed to rile people up and start spitting bile in the comments. There are entire viral video marketing companies based on that whole concept. UK based ItsGoneViral being one of the worst.
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 18h ago
man that’s so shameful. im not surprised. tbh, NOTHING i see or hear about these days surprises me. im just like… oh. we’re all desensitized to the bullshit. i learned to just take what i see or hear about these days w/ a grain of salt and i use my own discernment to sift through the fuckery.
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u/Thurn_bis 18h ago
What if the original video never existed and is just a part of the narrative to make this one viral
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u/rabid_spidermonkey 20h ago
Social media misrepresented someone? What?
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 20h ago
shocking huh.
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u/Soul_King92 20h ago
people shocked, video creator rocked
unfortunately people only care about things going viral, the way they push sensitive content whether political or non political to get more screentime is crazy
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 20h ago
it’s all sad if you think about it. the way that negativity and bullshit gets spread faster than the truth, and positivity.
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u/mrteas_nz 20h ago
If there's one thing the internet has taught me, it's that the internet lies.
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u/yeetman426 19h ago
Happy cake day, it’s always good to remember that nobody is to be trusted here
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u/Special_KC 19h ago
I really wish for these sort of "setting the record straight" type posts to become more dominant. So much shit on SM patforms, there really is no distinction between reality and entertainment.
But I know that even these posts would be copied and just be more lies
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u/Deviantdefective 20h ago
All that matters nowadays is engagement no matter what, sad state of affairs honestly.
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 20h ago
so sad. fake is the new ‘reality’.
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u/Adventurous-Ask6448 20h ago
who else would people get entertained if you didn’t use the most bullshit misinformation and lies in the human existence and let it explain with a AI bot? Or bothering other people in public as a “prank“ with toxic losers in the chat supporting that trash and make you feel important?
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u/Difficult_Figure9052 20h ago
man idk, it’s almost as if there arent so many ppl in the world, w/ so many different niches out there that even the TRUTH would be supported just as much as what you described lol.
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u/lalat_1881 20h ago
never believe viral videos ever
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u/smileedude 20h ago
But was there actually an original viral video that had any traction? I've seen this a few times, I've never seen the original.
I'm not sure what not to believe. This could easily also be manufactured outrage.
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u/Direct-Fix-2097 19h ago
I’ve seen the original, and yes they did paint it as a disrespectful guy vs a heroic disabled guy as this video says.
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u/Smoke_Santa 18h ago
Oh yeah, the original video did numbers on here and yt/insta. I'm active in this particular sphere too so I instantly caught on and remember being mad about the ragebait original video.
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u/kompootor 20h ago
Maybe we can all just stop getting off to edited video rageporn. And maybe start with not getting off to rageporn of an edited video telling us that our last rageporn video was fake so we should rage.
Honestly rageporn should be behind more filters (technological and legal) than regular sexporn. At least (vanilla) porn is, at the end of the day, about taking pleasure in the idea of people having pleasure.
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u/ThePlasticHero 20h ago
This actually came out a few days after the vid went viral thankfully so a lot of people already knew it was faked.
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u/Crystal_Voiden 20h ago
I like to think that in the future, people will look at social media the same way we look at smoking now.
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u/Vegetable-Tell-8266 18h ago
Now a days people believe in Roasting , bring souls down , raping emotions also for some cheap views .... Social media is just a creepy side of nonhuman syndrome
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u/SolidCartographer976 20h ago
As soon as i read that there are disabled people in the video i knew that song would come up. Creativity is dead and it wasnt ai who killed it.
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u/Abdulbarr 19h ago
I actually do remember that video and it definitely had me.
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u/AnotherRightDoc 18h ago
I remember getting downvoted for pointing out what this video summarised. People choose what they want to believe.
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u/notinmyham 19h ago
It's the internet. There is nothing new with altering the context of something that has been filmed and posted online. That's why they say don't believe in everything you see, especially if its been posted online.
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u/DiscountCondom 19h ago
this is why the internet fucking sucks now.
everything is recut for maximum eyeballs and engagement.
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u/CyroCryptic 18h ago
2k up votes and only a few comments. Reddit has been weird lately are the upvotes even real anymore.
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u/jdehjdeh 18h ago
I can't wait for the next video exposing this one as being the result of headlights on the freeway reflecting off of swamp gasses.
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u/VectorJones 18h ago
Get used to this shit. The world we see online is just the product of an algorithm looking to keep you engaged for as long as possible.
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u/forneuss 18h ago
The guy is probably from Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan, they are all decent people with good manners, especially good sportsmanship
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u/Damnthatsinteresting-ModTeam 17h ago
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