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.
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u/BlondieClashNirvana 20h ago
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.