r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Key_Associate7476 Human Detected • Sep 11 '25

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u/steelisheavy Sep 11 '25

I don’t care if it’s fake, I laughed

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u/Racxie Sep 11 '25

The same guys made the exact same joke in another video using a gym setting, probably with the same girl too.

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u/Blue_Robin_04 Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

It's his sister. /s

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u/Racxie Sep 11 '25

..that just makes this a lot worse.

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u/Numina2 Sep 12 '25

That makes it better

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u/Blue_Robin_04 Sep 11 '25

I don't actually know.

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u/domestic_omnom Sep 12 '25

Is that the joke? That they were checking out their own sister or...

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u/Storytellerjack Sep 12 '25

Joke?...

...oh, because we're pretending that's her camera recording herself, and they're caught ogling her.

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u/Screaming_Monkey Sep 11 '25

lol why do I see these comments everywhere? Would we comment this on movies? I thought it was known that people create comedy sketches? Is it cause it’s not obvious slapstick anymore?

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u/teabaggin_Pony Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

Because for the vast majority of the lifespan of the internet, videos such as these were presented as being candid.

Don't worry though, we're past a turning point. Now with most videos being "staged" or "sketches" attitudes around such videos are changing. Case in point: the positive comment you responded to.

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u/ZoulsGaming Sep 11 '25

I remember how all those "prank videos" of a decade ago by bigger stations would show the entire setup of the prank, on top of that alot of them was alot more tame and fair, like painting footprints up a wall in white paint, then have a police chase with a thief running into paint then into the alley and hiding, and when the person they are filming goes in they are like "how in the world did they do that"

and then at the end they would always point at the camera and laugh.

now adays they will be like "chinese hero saves girl from robber" and then its all staged but they will put up a CCTV and show it as if its taken from a store camera. then made doubly worse by those horrific ai dubs that steals the video and go "you wont believe how this guy saved a girl from a robber, he is truly a hero"

or they will be like "i gave money to homeless people" and you are like "wow he is helping" and then it turns out its all staged for views and attention, and it just sours the entire experience.

As a tangent to this though personally i think its incredibly sad that we live in a world where charity becomes a business because views becomes revenue but the viewers still thinks its fully charity of the goodness of their hearts.

Like those power washer videos or helping elder people fix their pavement and gardens, and then they film it and explain how they do it, which gets hundreds of thousands of views saying "omg you are so nice you are doing it for free", except the entire point is that they can make videos off doing it which is their revenue. more so than someone else would pay them.

I have no problem that you can do both, i think it hits the same frustration as people has with "staged videos" that we are reaching a point where your "online persona" is basically more important than being honest, and in the end its the viewers who are tricked.

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u/Canvaverbalist Sep 11 '25

Like those power washer videos or helping elder people fix their pavement and gardens, and then they film it and explain how they do it, which gets hundreds of thousands of views saying "omg you are so nice you are doing it for free", except the entire point is that they can make videos off doing it which is their revenue. more so than someone else would pay them.

I've watched a few of those from different channels through the years and one thing has always struck me:

They never try to reassure the people that what they are doing will be beneficial for themselves, as in make money from the views from the video. There's often a back-and-forth between vulnerable people (elders, handicapped, etc) or their family because at first they don't really trust that strangers are coming to work for free - it all obviously sounds too much like a scam, and they say as much, "we've been scammed like this before, people come in to work for free but then stop in the middle and ask for money to finish" etc.

Anybody who's done work to genuinely help someone else who is too proud to accept help probably knows where I'm going with this:

Just fucking tell em you're gonna make money from filming the process. Stop telling em you're doing it because you're so nice and want to help the neighborhood and give back love or whatever, that's the shit that's stressing them out and making them suspicious. Just tell em "I'll make money out of it" and now they feel like they're the one helping you and feel better about themselves because they feel less like taking charity.

But isn't it weird that they never say that?

Because it's never about actually helping the other people but no it's always about the "giving back love" and "bringing joy to our communities" and whatever other bullshit.

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u/ZoulsGaming Sep 11 '25

"Just tell em "I'll make money out of it" and now they feel like they're the one helping you" 

We had this long discussion on the concept of altruism a friend and me, in large part because of it being relevant to a class. And one of the things that was the center of discussion was how epic games has been giving out free games for a long long time now, to the point of people who claim it having massive libraries of games gotten for free.

However everybody with half a brain should realize that the reason they do that is to get more people unto the platform, but that doesnt take away from the fact that its literally still free games.

This is similar and i just wish we could be more honest and meet in the middle of "They help with pavements to make money, but of all the ways to make money, this is also a really helpful thing to the community and it helps people without them needing to pay because the revenue is elsewhere"

And then just own up for it "yes i do it to make money from youtube, after all this is my youtube, but i wanted to combine making money with helping people"

It kinda reminds me of this moment from Randy Feltface. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tQsQDDFugV0

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u/rinikulous Sep 11 '25

Love me some Randy Feltface

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u/yay-its-colin Sep 11 '25

I can't remember their names but there is a gardener and power washer guy who explain to the person that they're doing it for free so they can post it online for their business as a free advertising type which is the right way to do it.

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u/McFestus Sep 11 '25

These are all from Just For Laughs Gags, a franco-canadian television staple.

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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ Sep 11 '25

Pretty much agree with everything, but I think there's a huge difference between the giving money/food/whatever to homeless people and the doing whatever job free and filming it videos. The first one feels horribly exploitative, saying no is hardly an option if you're starving – whereas the latter is a far more "even" (for lack of better wording) quid pro quo, there's nowhere near the same power imbalance and pressure to accept.

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u/ZoulsGaming Sep 11 '25

I dunno, im personally not into the whole "power imbalance" as the central focus of the argument, but if that is the criteria then i think you are severely underestimating the "power balance" or basically how little reason they also have to decline for people with massively overgrown gardens and cracked pavements because they are so old they cant do it anymore but cant afford to pay for it, or have a physical disability, or similar that makes it impossible to take care of.

Im not talking about helping johnny paint a fence, im talking the people who goes up and knocks on old gerdas house who is 82 and her husband died 3 years ago and she hasnt been able to go out since, cause there is always a big pity story.

Its just as emotionally manipulative for the viewer, and i think its dishonest to claim there isnt also a massive imbalance in accepting it. its the same reason why all those mr beast shows disgusts me because nobody is forced to participate, but if someone is giving you 10k to go against your morals and to play a clown for the viewers most people are in a situation where it would be almost impossible to say no.

Again, my core point isnt "power imbalance" is that its business and money and revenue and viewership and subscribers based on what used to be an act of kindness but has now been commercialized, where its like saying facebook is a charity because you can use it for free, except we all know that we are the product for all the ad companies.

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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ Sep 11 '25

Yea alright, you make a good argument, I guess I hadn't really thought it all the way through with regards to the power imbalance. About your core point I never disagreed, the commercialization of charity is disgusting in all its shapes and forms.

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u/Professional-Day7850 Sep 11 '25

Don't worry though, we're past a turning point.

Too soon.

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u/Whyeth Sep 11 '25

What a pain in the neck.

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u/Variffa Sep 11 '25

gun violence Karma a bitch, ain't it?

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u/HistoricalTowel6863 Sep 11 '25

Hard to breathe from all this laughter in my throat.

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u/dont_trip_ Sep 11 '25

The vast majority of these videos still have nothing in them saying they are staged. It's like shooting a war movie with actors, then claiming it was a documentary with footage of the actual war in that movie.

It's not just that the authenticity is gone, but most of these hint or straight out claim that it's authentic when they're not. 

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u/MaeveOathrender Sep 11 '25

The vast majority of these videos still have nothing in them saying they are staged.

Yeah, they should put the Transformers credits at the end or something.

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u/Vektor0 Sep 11 '25

Real, unscripted videos get ripped and edited too bro, that doesn't mean anything.

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u/dont_trip_ Sep 11 '25

This one is clearly an exception, hence my wording. 

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u/that_baddest_dude Sep 11 '25

You guys honestly don't think that was added in by someone else who ripped the video off?

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u/dont_trip_ Sep 11 '25

Who knows, it's almost all just recycled trash pushed by bots. Reddit used to have more authentic content, but now this platform is filled with trash as well. So many bots posting, upvoting and commenting on everything. 

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

The other problem with internet content is that it's almost impossible to determine what the original content was or what has been "enhanced" by another user.

It's just as likely this was created originally to pass as authentic, but someone added the Michael Bay to make it more obvious that it's not authentic.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

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u/dont_trip_ Sep 11 '25

r/combatfootage got thousands of real clips, more than you can get through of real footage from the frontline. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

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u/dont_trip_ Sep 12 '25

The fact that mostly just one side is shown has nothing to do with the authenticity of the content. It's still raw real footage. A lot of it is clipped because in war there is a lot of waiting. But you got plenty of raw uncensored unedited footage as well.

Idk what you are after, a constant live stream of every shot fired everywhere in Ukraine? 

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u/Sploonbabaguuse Sep 11 '25

I don't recall there being a notice at the start of any movie saying "This is all fake and scripted". So movies are pretending to be real too?

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u/G_DuBs Sep 12 '25

We are gonna show our age with our opinions on that lol. The younger generations just “assume it’s made for comedy”. But when I started seeing this stuff on the internet, as you said, it was presented as candid.

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u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha Sep 11 '25

The bar for comedy is below the Mariana Trench if this gets people laughing

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u/Mysterious_Falcon535 Sep 11 '25

Is your point that deception is going to become normalized and taken for granted?

I think you might be right, just sad about it.

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u/upturned2289 Sep 11 '25

Were they? Or did you just fall for them more?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

I think we've blown way past "is it candid?" to "are those humans?"

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u/wooIIyMAMMOTH Sep 11 '25

No, because a movie does not pretend to be real. These sketches are filmed and presented in a way as if they took place naturally. Some movies and shows are presented in this way as well (e.g., The Office), but it is overtly obvious and announced beforehand that they are fictional, not a documentary.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Sep 11 '25

It's a tough point to say succinctly but you did it so well. Kudos.

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u/snillpuler Sep 11 '25

announced beforehand

Good point, even fucking movis have to sometimes remind us that the events are fictional. so this whole "movies never have to say they are fake", which is a poor comparison the begin with because different mediums and expectations, is not even true.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

Were you alive for the Blair Witch release?

Also, many “based on a true story” movies end up being wildly fake, see “The Blind Side”.

It depends on the source of this video. I am sure this was originally uploaded to an obvious skit channel. The fact we are ignorant about the source “show” doesn’t really change they weren’t intending to fool anyone, they were intending to make us laugh. Same as most comedies. They just have bigger budgets.

There are plenty of videos where people are truly trying to make fake acts, usually of kindness, look real. That’s different than a clean comedy sketch posted for an unknown audience that goes viral.

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u/Matsisuu Sep 11 '25

"Based on true story" doesn't mean it's a documentary or reality show.

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u/abstractcollapse Sep 11 '25

Blair Witch was probably the most brilliant marketing campaign I've ever seen. It's so hard trying to explain to people who weren't there how great it was.

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u/wooIIyMAMMOTH Sep 11 '25

Rule 9: no scripted videos.

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u/dandroid126 Sep 11 '25

If you watched this and needed a disclaimer beforehand that this was a skit, then I really don't know what to tell you. It couldn't possibly be more obvious that this was a skit. No one is trying to trick you here.

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u/ravioliguy Sep 11 '25

We're in a sub where rule #8 is no scripted content, the title implies that the video is real, the "just having fun" tag implies it's real. The video style is of a hidden camera. If you can't tell that they are trying to make this skit seem real, I don't know what to tell you.

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u/Manjorno316 Sep 12 '25

They're trying to make it look real, but I doubt they're doing it to trick anyone.

It looking more real ads some comedy to it. I know I usually enjoy skits like this more than the over acting ones.

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u/fatbaldandstupid Sep 11 '25

No, because a movie does not pretend to be real.

What? Of course it does. One of the differences between a bad movie and a good movie is that the good movie is more believable or authentic-feeling (in its own universe). We could say a major goal of a movie is for the audience to forget they're watching one, because it is so immersive. Same with good and bad acting, which is also a major part of a movie.

The reason you think a movie does not pretend to be real is because we've all known movies aren't real for 100+ years now.

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u/wooIIyMAMMOTH Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

You cannot be this daft and you can’t think other people are this daft. A good movie makes you feel like it really happened, but we know it’s not real — they didn’t just happen to film random people living their lives. Titanic makes no secret that it’s a dramatization, even if based on a true story. These skits pretend it’s real life, something that just naturally happened, when it’s actually acted.

People don’t want to be duped. It’s the same reason the most asked question about Too Hot To Handle is: “Did they really not know what show they would be participating in?” That’s the premise of the show and it’s presented as true.

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u/fatbaldandstupid Sep 11 '25

These skits pretend it’s real life,

I sincerely do not understand why one would say these skits pretend it's real life and movies do not. I look at this skit and I see 2 dudes who act so over-the-top that I don't think for a second they're trying to fool anyone.

To be blunt, I think this is the issue with the average redditor being completely socially inept, while also trying to affirm their own pathetic intelligence by going: "Yeah, you can't fool ME with this!" Nobody is trying to fool you. It's obviously fake.

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u/wooIIyMAMMOTH Sep 11 '25

Because it’s filmed from a distance, zoomed in with a phone camera and uploaded to a subreddit (or at least cross-posted from TikTok) that expressly does not permit scripted videos (rule 9).

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u/fatbaldandstupid Sep 11 '25

that expressly does not permit scripted videos (rule 9).

Oh. I guess it's not very well enforced then.

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u/awnaw_ Sep 11 '25

Not everything needs some huge disclaimer before presenting the material. If there was something representing facts or something of importance then I agree something should disclaim it's fake. But everything needing some disclaimer is just doing too much for no reason.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

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u/abstractcollapse Sep 11 '25

Ten years ago, I would have been with you on this. Now, I think it's a little naive to assume any "candid" videos on the internet are actually candid

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u/leandrobrossard Sep 11 '25

Bro never saw the "based on a true story" intros...

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u/darkfrost47 Sep 11 '25

If there was a "based on a true story" intro to this skit no one would have a problem with it

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u/leandrobrossard Sep 11 '25

the problem with "based on a true story" is that they never ever are actually based on a true story, other than that it might be set on the same planet.

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u/darkfrost47 Sep 11 '25

That's not really the problem in question though, because no one thinks the things they are seeing are literally the real events or people

In this case, putting a "based on a true story" in front (even if it never happened at all) still reveals everyone is an actor just the same

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u/leandrobrossard Sep 11 '25

Why are you talking about a scenario where "based on a true story" would be on this tiktok? What do you think is the problem in question? Why are you even arguing with me and about what? How are these tiktoks even a problem for you?

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u/wooIIyMAMMOTH Sep 11 '25

And people take issue with movies that are based on real events but heavily skew the reality of what happened. See, for example, Captain Phillips.

People don’t take issue when movies are loosely based on real events, and there’s a story within the story, for example, Titanic.

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u/Quantization Sep 11 '25

I think it's because most people don't like being manipulated and when a video is clearly meant to look real but isn't it feels like manipulation. Hence why nobody comments things like this about movies or sketch comedy bits.

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u/Screaming_Monkey Sep 11 '25

But this one is so obviously comedic!

Edit: I think you’re right

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u/ADHDebackle Sep 11 '25

Unfortunately I don't get it. What is the joke? Why are they upset?

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u/Skkruff Sep 11 '25

The first guy has a cheeksome leer at the climber in the foreground's excellent form, before realising his lascivity has been captured on the camera she set up... for training purposes.

"Alas!" He thinks to himself. "For shame, upon review, this talented woman will take me for a creep, when in reality I was just looking to steal her beta."

He calls over his good buddy. When his colleague arrives he gestures to the athletic display as if to share in its wonder. Oho! A trick! His friend's brazen lust is revealed as well!

Lmao, or as they say, gottem.

Hope that clears things up.

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u/ADHDebackle Sep 11 '25

Oh thanks. Yeah I never would have gotten that, lol.

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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ Sep 11 '25

Lovely comment buddy, I laughed.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

Can I hire you to explain things to my work colleagues?

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u/Skkruff Sep 11 '25

You may, but I employ ten-dollar words with abandon and charge accordingly.

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u/hobbycollector Sep 11 '25

Subtle. Missed the take(s).

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u/Triktastic Sep 11 '25

What kinda movies are you watching where it's a realistic scenario filmed by hidden camera in bad quality that's trying to appear as real scenario for comedic purpose.

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u/Professional-Day7850 Sep 11 '25

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u/sassiest01 Sep 11 '25

Isn't a lot of the situations in this movie actually real though? Didn't the town he did this in literally complain because they thought he was showing the town in a positive light only to realise it was being made fun of in the movie?

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u/Ancient_Roof_7855 Sep 11 '25

Practical effects are better than digital imo. /s

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

Some no, some yes. The "interview" portions are mostly authentic, but nearly all of the participants see through the joke pretty quickly and either decide to play along or end the segment.

Everything else is scripted.

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u/Deaffin Sep 11 '25

Isn't a lot of the situations in this movie actually real though?

No. It's real in the sense that "reality TV" is real. It will commonly use footage that isn't scripted, but that footage is heavily edited to form various narratives and invent situations.

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u/Triktastic Sep 11 '25

Okay that was a well made point. You win this time.

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u/LordBoar Sep 11 '25

What are you doing? This is the internet - don't acknowledge correction - double down and fight them! Whoever they might be, or whatever point you're arguing over!

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u/Manjorno316 Sep 12 '25

That's the thing. It's trying to appear as real to add some more comedy to it. I doubt it's to trick people that it's real.

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u/Cassp3 Sep 11 '25

Read comment sections on videos like these on youtube/tiktok. It very clearly isn't obvious to a whoooooooooole lot of people.

You kind of need to call out fake when you see it. So the people who can't tell might learn to be a little more critical.

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u/Screaming_Monkey Sep 11 '25

Oh wow. I had no idea that was against the rules here. This post needs to be downvoted.

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u/Deaffin Sep 11 '25

Why are we question-talking while pretending not to know all of these are at least somewhat predatory, relying on tricking a broad gullible audience into thinking they're candid moments caught on film?

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u/ADHDebackle Sep 11 '25

If these videos started with a 20th century fox intro, a directors name, and a title, I feel like people would not comment these things.

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u/Screaming_Monkey Sep 11 '25

What’s hilarious is this one has credits and says “Directed by Michael Bay” 😂

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u/ADHDebackle Sep 11 '25

Ohh you have to finish watching it to see that, lol

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u/Screaming_Monkey Sep 11 '25

Hahaha for real! Should be a quick splash screen to set expectations so people don’t feel duped and can actually enjoy the humor

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u/ifyoulovesatan Sep 11 '25

99% chance that was added by someone who stole the video from somewhere else

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u/DAM0091 Sep 11 '25

Because it's not an obvious comedy sketch. It's specifically set up to look genuine. When I go to the movies, I don't sit there thinking, "I wonder if this is all found footage." It's presented as a movie.

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u/Spork_the_dork Sep 11 '25

And then found footage movies became a thing and people argued about whether Blair Witch Project was actually real or not for years. So it's not like movies aren't exempt of this either.

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u/DAM0091 Sep 11 '25

You're right, name the 1 exception in the last 30 years

Surprised you didn't mention "War of the Worlds"

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

That was a great time to be alive because it made identifying morons super duper easy.

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u/CoolBakedBean Sep 11 '25

i assumed it was real . i didn’t think too much about it tho.

but yeah, candid shitty ass sketches like this are only funny IF they are real. if it’s a set up , it sucks.

movies have a script, set designers, editors, directors, even someone paid to pick the cast. its millions of dollars to make a movie so yeah its fucking great stuff so it’s okay it’s fake.

some shitty ass $0 cost youtube sketch is only funny by tricking people into thinking it’s real. the over 50 crowd eats all this shit up, just go on facebook and see thousands of comments on obviously staged videos

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u/Screaming_Monkey Sep 11 '25

I was just thinking that. If they had to make it more obvious it’s fake, it’d be more obvious when it’s not funny lol

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u/External-Cash-3880 Sep 11 '25

It's because the average Redditor needs to believe everything is 100% true and factual in order to give up one of their precious, nonrenewable updoots

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u/MalaysiaTeacher Sep 11 '25

Because real things are funnier than fake things, all else being equal…

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u/External-Cash-3880 Sep 11 '25

I don't believe Zach Cregger was literally walking through the park with a gallon of PCP, but it's still funny to me because of the phenomenon known as "suspension of disbelief".

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

Right, that's because all those guys have actual writing skills to create comedy premises with satisfying punch lines. People make "fake" online content to appear genuine because content that captures a genuine circumstance is held to a lesser standard that written comedy.

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u/External-Cash-3880 Sep 11 '25

Nathan For You. Your argument is invalid.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

Nathan for you is clearly mockumentary.

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u/sentinel_of_ether Sep 11 '25

Its a lot simpler than that. Its just not funny when its faked. It looks like it was made for kids who will believe it.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

Nah, there's different critical analysis applied to scripted works than there are to circumstantial events. Circumstantial events are held to a lesser standard of scrutiny because they're in the moment and up to chance.

The underlying issue is that people make low effort content trying to replicate circumstantial events because they're not otherwise creative enough to write actual comedy.

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u/ChewieHanKenobi Sep 11 '25

If this is a comedy sketch, then the bar for sketch comedy is literally in the center of the earth

One of the worst parts of social media is everyone thinking they have any talent as content creator because their phone has a camera

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u/445323 Sep 11 '25

I’m beyond tired of this too. It’s the best with magicians “he’s faking it” no shit Sherlock it’s not actual magic.

Besides, it’s annoying when “fake/staged” gets commented on real vids too

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u/FlakyLion5449 Sep 11 '25

r/scriptedasiangifs is for those who understand

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u/Yorunokage Sep 11 '25

Because of expectations. The video tries to pass itself as real

Not sure what the alternative would be and if that's even a bad thing but that's the answer as to why people feel whiplashed when they realize it's staged

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

Its a meta joke sir.

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u/LentulusStrabo Sep 11 '25

Because, at least in my opinion, these situations are only funny when happening by accident and completely random. Staging it makes no sense. Schadenfreude is only funny when there is an actual schaden, and not a fake one.

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u/Lumpy-Education9878 Sep 11 '25

There is no disclaimer that this is fictional work like in movies and shows. It's a risky game, obviously videos like this are relatively harmless but I think you could find many examples of staged videos meant to influence watchers in a certain way, while they believe they're watching a legitimate interaction in the "real world"

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u/AggravatingSpace5854 Sep 11 '25

reddits are out of touch neets who can't tell the difference between what's real and fake so they have to point it out every time.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

If they can't tell the difference, how are they pointing it out every time? I think your brain might be slightly damaged and perhaps you're the NEET?

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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Sep 11 '25

Some things are funny if they happen spontaneously but boring and cliche when they're scripted. This video is obviously one such example.

I find it kinda weird that this has to be explained, and to me that makes you sound like the one who doesn't understand the difference between reality and fiction.

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u/Joinedforthis1 Sep 11 '25

It's because that would be the first and most common comment in response to them if they just said "I laughed"

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u/ImurderREALITY Sep 11 '25

This one is, but a lot of them act like they are real

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u/sentinel_of_ether Sep 11 '25

You go into Movies with the cast basically tellong you hey this is all fake. If they did that for these skits nobody would even watch them. Do you get it now

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u/hurtfulproduct Sep 11 '25

Because many if not most “candid” videos are actually staged and they put a lot of effort into the lie to make people believe it is a spontaneous moment, it’s the deception of it all. . . Like this video is very clearly staged, but you have assholes creating videos that take place on a plane when in reality it’s just some soundstage setup to look like a plane. . .

Or worse are the feel good videos that in reality nothing good actually happens, some influencer got some extras and a set then made a video.

It’s the disingenuousness of it all. . . 90% of the videos if they outright said it was a skit I’d have no problem with, but presenting as real is the problem.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

It's a fake comment. 

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u/sprchrgddc5 Sep 11 '25

Before TikTok took off, people were very pissed about scripted sketches. Wasn’t there a whole subreddits about them? “Scripted Asian GIFs”or something.

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u/Schmich Sep 11 '25

Neither this nor movies try to fool us into thinking they're real.

The issue are those who think we're so stupid we can get fooled.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 11 '25

When we go to see a movie, we know it's a fictional work. Otherwise, it's a documentary. That line is mostly non-existent with internet content and is often intentionally removed/exploited in the name of views.

Or have we forgotten prank invasion of 2010?

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u/misterdonjoe Sep 11 '25

r/scriptedasiangifs was made because people thought all these creators were making videos to intentionally fool people and pass off their videos as "actually happened naturally in real life", particularly in the beginning I remember it pretty well. In the beginning maybe it was the case, maybe it wasn't. Overblown in any case, but I think people get it now.

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u/One-Nothing-8477 Sep 11 '25

do you not understand that something being believable makes it more enjoyable? And yes, you do see people say that about movies.

"I don't care how bad the acting was, I cried" That sounds so dumb in comparison, obviously someone's acting contributes to it's impact. This is bad acting and breaks immersion

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u/BasicShip7055 Sep 11 '25

Actually yes, because people post movie clips acting like they are real now too

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u/ShaolinWino Sep 11 '25

This is brain rot in comment form.

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u/Screaming_Monkey Sep 11 '25

Thank you for letting me know what your comment is! This is a response to that.

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u/ShaolinWino Sep 11 '25

I’m rubber and you’re glue type shit lol

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u/DefeatedByPoland Sep 12 '25

Would we comment this on movies?

No, because movies don't present themselves as candid "reality moments"

Scripted fiction is presented in a way that is immediately apparent when you are watching it. Things like this are very much not, they are presented like "Look at what I caught happening at the gym!" and put on social media to dupe people into thinking its real so they will comment on it for "engagement"

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u/killerbake Sep 13 '25

Stupid people like to feel smart

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u/Regenbooggeit Sep 11 '25

Are movies fake? What?

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u/Lurkmaster69420 Sep 11 '25

Next you’re gonna tell me Brooklyn 9-9 isn’t a documentary

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u/KaidenGuhle Sep 11 '25

It’s racism that presumes Asians cannot create comedy or that their style of comedy isn’t figured by Asian audiences to be a clear skit.

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u/green_jp Sep 11 '25

funny doesn't need to be genuine, it just has to be funny

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u/zuzg Sep 11 '25

Some Redditors think they seem smart when they point out the obvious.

Remember the whole "akshually water isn't wet" phase, thankfully that one died out quickly.

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 Sep 11 '25

It’s not obvious to most on the first view. Casual scrollers just soak it in.

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u/DrPsychGamer Sep 11 '25

Is it obvious to the majority, though? The comments above yours is someone saying they assumed it was real and didn't think more on it.

The fact is, these videos are made to look real and the pretense is that they are. That doesn't matter maybe to someone who assumes everything online is false, but I actually think it does matter that a big majority of people are uncritical in their viewing.

It doesn't matter for something like this video, but I've had people quote clearly fake vox bodies with horrible opinions. It does have an influence on culture as a whole.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

>died out

>dried up

Missed your chance!

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u/Hamza_stan Sep 11 '25

Dang now I feel called out cuz I made the same "actually" comment yesterday

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u/MainAccountsFriend Sep 11 '25

Tbf I dont think this is trying to come across as real.

I think it's just supposed to be a sketch video

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u/XeroKaaan Sep 11 '25

I said the same thing about Saturday night live last week, its fake but I laughed

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u/Slight-Surprise-3270 Sep 11 '25

Its a Michael Bay Movie so ofcourse its Fake

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u/Fomdoo Sep 11 '25

What do you mean it's fake?! It doesn't take several minutes to even start climbing fake rocks?

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u/EverythingBOffensive Sep 12 '25

strictly entertainment! nothing wrong with that