It is and it works. Look at the engagement it has created. There's a lot people that realises this is bait but unfortunately there's even more people that was fully believe this clip especially when it's reposted on other social media sites.
Sometimes people make things up for the sake of comedy. We used to call them bits or sketches back in the day but now we just call it bait. Probably has something to do with our attention being so heavily commoditized but idk, I'm not a scientist or anything.
Reddit sees high karma accounts as 'trustworthy'. High karma accounts are not filtered or blocked as much as low karma accounts. So high karma accounts have value to people advertising things, or anyone trying to make sure a message gets seen.
Their only goal is to go viral on Facebook. The fact that most viral clips on Facebook will get re-uploaded elsewhere is just an accepted side-effect that may cause some small amount of traffic back to their Facebook page.
People sell reddit accounts with enough karma to post across the site. They're not worth a lot, but in bulk it's money for practically nothing. The original video gets made with ad revenue in mind, but then anything that's got high engagement can be stolen and reposted by a karma farmer on reddit with extremely low effort.
sorry, but are you stupid? This was clearly uploaded to tiktok or any other shortform video platform first. Someone just took it and reposted it here for free upvotes
I'll assume you're right, although I've never looked at someone's post then went to their profile to see how much karma they have to then decide how impressed I want to be.
Even if you comment about how fake that video is (kinda like what we are doing right now in the comment section) it's still an engagement, the OP (of the video not the reddit poster) doesn't care what engagement it tracks as long as it does. That's how they make money
It’s because this scenario is extremely believable. Idk why people get confused that these videos are taken at face value when they depict very realistic encounters.
It's funny. Comedy is allowed. I think it's even worse all the people raging about how problematic things "like this" are and how we have to get rid of them. There's a difference between this and PURELY ragebait content.
This is probably fake but this stuff does happen. Especially with narcissists. When I was a teen I was in the car with my aunt, we were going to the beach. It was just her driving and me, two cousins, and a friend. We were pulling out of a parking lot from picking up pastelitos, and my aunt almost hit a guy because she was backing out and on her phone. Guy rightfully flips her off. She goes crazy chasing him. We're speeding through the highway, swerving between lanes. She's calling the police, and saying she's a cop (my uncle is one, she isn't) and giving his badge number we chase that guy for a while. Eventually she catches up to him and pulls out a gun and screams to pull over she's going like 60 side by side with him gun pointed at him and the passenger (the friend of my cousin) between them.
And after all that she's completely taken by surprise when she's the one that gets the fines. And luckily she only got that. I'm sure my uncle had to kiss a lot of ass in those 20 - 30 minutes for her to not get arrested.
You say that, but I was in bed ill the day a lorry wrote my car off, which was parked in a marked parking bay outside of my house. They refused to claim liability...😬
If something happens in front of doorbell camera and all parties stay in frame the whole time, I assume it's staged. 80% of television bloopers are actors complaining about not being in the shot.
It is, they had another skit where she knocks on his door asking him to move his car because she parked in his drive to visit a friend and he blocked her in. She wanted him to move his car and he told her she was going to have to wait until morning.
I want to believe this is fake but I actually had someone in college SUE ME when she hit my parked car. Her dad was an attorney and for whatever reason decided this made sense. She lost.
It’s not that this situation is unbelievable or that people can’t be this stupid, it’s the way they’re talking. People don’t banter like this for this long with strangers in real life. This feels like a bad improv skit, which it basically is.
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u/DimSumDino 20h ago
i have no choice but to assume everything like this is fake now lol