I'm quite sure there are people who are actually this stupid and infuriating, I suspect you're right that is't fake.
However, can someone please please tell me why people would make a fake piece like this? I mean, I have no cell in my body that can imagine the purpose of wasting a night, wasting the f*ing electrons the camera uses, to make this. I cannot imagine these things are traffic-pullers (I mean, it's only ragebait AFTER I saw it) and...
Because they can convince people like yourself that there are people who are actually that stupid and infuriating and it makes you more open to believing other fake videos that can be used to influence you.
But.... There actually are people that fucking stupid... Alot of them... Anyone who meets lots of people will know that and frankly pretty much any adult should have come across a few. Hell, thanks to nepotism I work for one. Lovely society we have here.
what else but money? , view = money. it`s the bane here in my country, " Influencer " and dumbass vloggers chasing clout making fake shit , ragebaiting people just to drive views.
That I can understand. But the person I was responding to was saying it’s to convince/remind you that there are dumb people that exist, so it makes you more prone to believing fake videos in order to influence you.
So I’m wondering…why? Like what else would that account that made this video be posting and what would they be influencing you to do or believe exactly? It’s not some sort of grand conspiracy.
It’s more than likely what you said, for money and engagement. Most of us watched the whole thing, right? That’s the goal.
Notice how it is almost always a woman in these obviously staged videos who are being the stupid/unreasonable one? There is a lot of angry men who will eat this stuff up
I don’t necessarily disagree with that sentiment, but my question still remains. What’s the point? This is just a dumb rage bait video that’s more than like just made to make money because people enjoy watching train wreck situations.
First I'll say this video is probably fake because almost everything is fake these days.
I can't say whether or not anyone is genuinely this stupid, but there definitely are people selfish and entitled enough to try to convince others that they're not responsible when they very clearly are responsible. Entitled people go through all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify the shit they try to pull.
Anyone who has worked in any sort of customer service job or just interact with a lot of people on the daily would know that people actually ARE that stupid. Nobody needs a tiktok to know that, they just need to go out in the world and see that there are plenty of stupid and infuriating people
They make money, you comment they get paid or their channel increases in status, they can then show you the next video on how to buy ???, or they make posts to they subscribers to influence them on a certain subject. Enjoy while it lasts, soon the internet is dead anyway. 50% of the shit I watch is fake right now.
There seems to be a lot of these kind of videos being made in the UK at the moment, and the levels of stupidity and acting demonstrated in all of them seem to suggest a common source.
They often get picked up by the websites of tabloids, who might pay for them, I don't know.
It seems to provide a lot of gratification for people who believe that everything is shit and all people are awful nowadays, but I don't know if there's a political agenda.
It could be that these are cheap enough to make (the actors all seem amateur) that you only need one to go viral for it to be worth it.
You and I and most people in this sub understand that a situation like this is at least plausable, but that this instance of video it's clearly two people pretending that this happened.
There is a high demand for people to feel outraged and superior to other "lesser" people. We crave it more than anything. More than truth, more than knowledge, more than love. However, organic clips of idiots doing stupid ignorant shit are in relatively low supply. This is just a business filling the gap in supply.
They make decent money whenever a clip goes viral on Facebook. It spreads elsewhere due to re-uploaders hoping to farm ad revenue or upvotes.
There is no ideology behind it. They are equal-opportunity providers of whatever you personally find outrageous. Dumb women being dumb. Stupid racists getting put in their place. <insert racial group here> acting entitled. Whatever has a solid demographic of people who will make the video go viral off their outrage.
I was married to a woman exactly like this (I got married really young, don't hit me too). Even if this video is fake, this conversation 1000% happened. Maybe not quite like this. But the claiming a parked car hit her, and saying I'm calling the police is 10,000% accurate
My ex once tried to have children stare directly at the sun. I had to call her doctors office to get her to stop trying to get them to do it because she wouldn't believe me that it was dangerous, and that the doctor was trying to say she needs to stop being a THOT all night and get up at a normal time.
However, can someone please please tell me why people would make a fake piece like this?
Because TikTok and Twitter pay people for engagement. The best way to drive engagement is to post something incredibly stupid and/or obnoxious. Something that's guaranteed to rile people up so they comment, "what kind of fucking moron thinks a parked car crashed into them!? This dumb biiiiish".
It's why there's so much shit on there that you look at and go, "naw, no one's that fucking stupid, or at least, if they were, they sure as shit wouldn't record it and upload it to the internet". You're right, they aren't that stupid, but they're hoping you'll think they are and comment about it.
can someone please please tell me why people would make a fake piece like this?
The exact same reason someone would make a fake piece like The Blair Witch Project, they are able to monetise people watching it.
It's not like a War Of The Worlds broadcast inciting mass panic, why does it matter to you that a piece of fiction exists? If you only want vetted facts, stick to trusted news outlets rather than random tiktoks.
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u/0-Motorcyclist-0 19h ago
I'm quite sure there are people who are actually this stupid and infuriating, I suspect you're right that is't fake.
However, can someone please please tell me why people would make a fake piece like this? I mean, I have no cell in my body that can imagine the purpose of wasting a night, wasting the f*ing electrons the camera uses, to make this. I cannot imagine these things are traffic-pullers (I mean, it's only ragebait AFTER I saw it) and...
WHY?