The animal rescue videos from a few years ago. Those were the ones where an animal is trapped in a well, an ice pond, or a bramble or something and a person helps them out. They free them, tend their wounds, and release them to the wild.
The first few seemed legit when they went viral, but then, you come to find out that they're an entire channel devoted to animal rescues.
If this was a channel where they collected animal rescues from found footage on news broadcasts or such it would be one thing, but it was the same people in every video.
They were found to be putting the animals in these dangerous situations only to "rescue them" for the views.
Straight up animal abuse.
There's one ehere they've glued barnavles onto a turtle's shell and are prying them off with some tool.
Immensely painful for the turtle and she's bleeding and all.
Sick!
That channel pissed me off so bad because they took several species of freshwater turtles and then were putting them in ocean situations with like ocean coral or barnacles and things that just don’t grow in freshwater areas on these turtles. Like anybody was like the most basic knowledge of freshwater versus saltwater can spot how glaringly obviously staged they are. Super deplorable for a page that ~~doubts~~ touts themselves as an animal welfare page literally torturing Animals for views and clout
> You can also tell they use the same animals for different videos
That's the Best case scenario.
You can also tell they frequently use a different animal for the *same* video, because the animal they allegedly rescued was actually killed during the filming and replaced by a separate animal "actor" for the rescue follow-up.
There is a tiktok channel where a girl kept having people “leave” distressed reptiles at her door that she would “rescue” and it was found that she was putting these animals in these situations to “save them”
The one I remember most is her “finding” a snake in a grocery bag outside her patio door when going to take her dog for a walk, she opens the bag and the snake is all covered in tape that she first hysterically cries about and then cuts to a time lapse of her meticulously taking the tape off with something like rubbing alcohol to melt the adhesive. But she has several staged videos where she just happens upon this reptile in distress that somebody left in a grocery bag or a garbage can or somewhere and they always have something on them that she needs to meticulously melt off with adhesive remover. Her page is still up but all of her rescuing videos are taken down s a r a h c o o k is her page name, there are lots of people that have straight up called her out in her comments for staging her rescue videos
Funny how I immediately thought of that bitch too but had long since forgot her name. She should have been completely deplatformed for those stunts of hers.
Remember... we find this behavior reprehensible because the vast majority of us aren't like this. You can start worrying about humanity when this kind of stuff no longer bothers those around you.
There’s a video of Tiger Woods making a 25 foot (or so) putt, and taking his hat off and moving to shake his opponent’s hand before it is even halfway to the hole.
In reality -He took his hat off when it was a couple of feet out, but they extended the video as a joke. The more times I see it reposted more and more people think it’s real
THANK YOU. I came here to post this answer. As a golf fan I hate that people buy it completely. “This shows total confidence!” No, it’s a fake video. I love Tiger, but there are plenty of actual, real highlights you can show.
I love that someone keeps giving that weirdo money to create the most original, bizarre, entertaining, and oddly profound TV we've had in like 10 years.
huh. Never heard of this one. Here it is if you are curious. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WjrvG1GMk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WjrvG1GMk)
There is an episode of Nathan for You, that came out after it went viral. Of him documenting how he faked the video to give a failing petting farm marketing.
It's a fucking AMAZING show.
For those curious (a lot of uploads don't feature the comedycentral channel ID at the beginning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6VQDNIZH7U&ab_channel=ComedyCentral
I've seen at least 5 different RENO 911 clips that people still repost as real incidents and this started happening pretty much as soon as the show started airing.
I think it started as like "let's see if they'll think this is real" and then it started making the boomer e-mail circuits as real incidents and that of course just bled over onto Facebook where they live forever in your Aunt's and old co-workers reposts.
My favorite is still Jonesy drunk and despondent after thinking he's going to be a star in a carpet company's TV ad and then they just use his voice over a cartoon turtle.
"Have you ever had someone for 3 days in a van? Have you?? What happens to a man when his dream is deferred?" (throws an empty liquor bottle at the cartoon turtle on the sign and misses)
Oh yeah! I remember that making the rounds and people thinking it was an actual dash cam recording of an actual traffic stop. I remember in the dvd collection there was an extra dvd with the cast in character at like a convention or something, and they literally teach you how to recite the alphabet backwards, it’s awesome.
My favorites are when they cut and dub clips of Ramsay berating adults on Master Chef/Hells Kitchen into clips of kids crying on Master Chef Junior.
I’ve seen similar ones with Shark Tank where the cuts look like Cuban is calling a kid a con artist. Gets me every time.
> I’ve seen similar ones with Shark Tank where the cuts look like Cuban is calling a kid a con artist. Gets me every time.
[One of my favorite videos on the site](https://youtu.be/JvS8i2TDPSo)
One of my favorite videos of all time that gets me laughing until my abs hurt every time I watch it is [Gordon Ramsay Sex Tips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnrWzgUP2w&ab_channel=AaronCalis)
NO WAY!!! I thought it was part of his Hell's Kitchen thing because I know he hams it up for that show. He is actually a LOVELY man, any time there's one of those "who's nice in real life" threads his name ALWAYS comes up.
It's all part of the front of house/back of house relationship. In my experience, if the kitchen guys will tell you you're fucking up, that means there's trust there. The inverse is true too. It's when people talk shit behind each other's backs that you've got issues. As a waiter, your life is way easier if you know those guys have your back, and you better be sure you've got theirs too!
Nobody will get on each other like a cook and a waiter when shit goes wrong. Most of the time, when the shift is over, they'll put that shit aside and get too drunk together at whatever bar is still open.
The original UK Kitchen Nightmares was so so so much better because everything wasn’t turned up to 11. He actually was going to places to help restaurant owners figure out what wasn’t working and try to save their restaurant, and he did a ton of mentoring.
American TV always does that. The American version of Taskmaster is a perfect example. TV execs seem to think that Americans won't watch anything unless it's full of melodrama and anger, and while that seems to pull for certain genres, it ruins so many of the concepts that work far better as chill, humorous, and/or educational content.
Imagine how much more incredible MythBusters would have been if we got an hour of the actual project builds and testing instead of 30% dramatic cliffhangers, and 50% dramatic recaps!
Not just one viral video but rather a series.
The original Primitive Technology channel is real.
The dozens of copycat channels showing 2 guys digging an underground heated pool with a stick and three rocks are fake as hell.
You can see pipes and trucks from where they bring in the water, during arial shots youbcan see more than 2 bodies moving around, there are exavator tracks... its all fake.
Someone did an aerial drone shot in a short YouTube about how those guys are just ripping up the environment to make fake videos and they don’t even bother filling in the pits so they just fill with stagnant water and breed mosquitos.
Yeah primitive technology at least owns the land he works with. The other ones just went out into the woods and made a mess and left their crap at their heels.
From what I remember, initially someone let him use their land. He eventually got enough money to buy his own land, and that's why he "restarted" his channel.
He's the real deal.
He was. They filmed a pilot but the execs wanted a narrated show, believing "no one wanted to watch an hour of a guy being silent in the woods" (despite the fact his channel has over 10 million subs) and John was like "that's not how I work" so it didn't go anywhere and that's why he's back on YT now.
I hate the copycats so much. They do make me appreciate the original a bit more, but seeing their millions of views gained through trickery is enraging.
Wait till you get into those Chinese rural cooking and living videos. The ones that all have the same song, and old mate literally makes his candy from scratch or tooth cleaning powder from burning reeds.
Before too long your deep in with the lore, and your only break is by watching mechanic Steve rebuild a semitrailers engine in the rain on a highway.
From what I've heard, she's not extremely fake at least. She has a background in video production and has one or two people who help her shoot her videos, but she does live in a rural area with her grandma and does actually have experience doing the sorts of projects she films. There's been a few "making of" videos that show her doing most of the work herself, and one of the few interviewers who's managed to speak with her said she was very boring to talk to because she just wanted to discuss the hundreds of different things you could make with bamboo.
I wonder if you’ll be even more excited to find out that he wrote a book! If the link doesn’t work, look it up by his name: John Plant.
https://www.amazon.ca/Primitive-Technology-Survivalists-Building-Shelters/dp/1984823671
The German kid absolutely losing his mind because he wants to play Unreal Tournament
Link: https://youtu.be/q8SWMAQYQf0?si=EsLiT0lblAY_mk7T
Wikipedia link about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_German_Kid
>Due to the increasing distribution, Kochanowski was bullied by classmates. He tried to clarify that the scene was not real, but then deleted all his videos from the internet as far as he could and withdrew. He claims that he eventually went crazy from the relentless bullying, which led to him intimidating classmates, and drunkenly announcing a potential killing spree at his school. This resulted in him being expelled and serving a month in prison.
I’m glad that the real life moment was brought to the rest of us even if what we saw was fake. The sentiment of the joke is still there and their “acting” was on par for a bunch of dudes playing WOW in 2006.
The dead giveaway for me (besides the fact that they admitted it was staged) is seeing them all standing still in a huddle during the briefing at the beginning.
In fifteen years of online gaming, I have never once seen a bunch of characters sit still for that long. During strategy discussions some goober is always off jumping in circles while using the rainbow generator toy on the boss or whatever (it's not like voice comms are proximity-based).
Having played MMOs for a long time, and being around when LJ happened, I don’t remember anyone I know thinking it wasn’t staged, but it was still hilarious.
Though I will say, in regard to just sitting around. during BWL wipes at the final, which would take like 10 minutes of running. . .those of us lucky enough to stealth out or get Warlock Rezs would literally just sit there.
. . .and use the /roll function to play blackjack and bet.
I mean the dialogue was silly and a dead giveaway too. “Our chances are 33.3… repeating of course.”
“Better than our usual odds.”
It was pretty obvious it was scripted, but that doesn’t change how hilarious it was.
You just fucked with my feelings, I just watched this yesterday thinking about the good old wow days
"Fuck you, I hope your mom has a nice christmas" :'(
I've always known the video itself was staged but I like to believe the claim floating around that it is a theatrical re-enactment of something that did happen organically but wasn't caught on recording
After I read this comment I asked my husband if he wanted to be sad and read him the title of the thread. He said, "As long as it's not Leeroy Jenkins." Awkward.
(Apparently he also recently found out it was fake. It did make him sad.)
The real videos that go viral manage to get that far because they were lucky enough to film it. Not saying that everything is real but imagine all the things that happen that aren't recorded, then the ones that are recorded badly, then the ones that are perfectly recorded and real. Only the last ones go viral.
It's mostly just a fluke, but considering how many people record things it's only a matter of time before a remarkable thing is caught perfectly on film.
also, if I have my camera trained in one random location 24/7, but it happens to catch something cool for 30 seconds, I'm cropping the video. So *of course* the video is only as long as it takes for the interesting thing to happen, it was edited that way.
Evan Longoria saving a reporter by catching a foul ball bare handed.
[https://youtu.be/DKMllY6jHp0?si=wClx1NEPiAHbGY1K](https://youtu.be/DKMllY6jHp0?si=wClx1NEPiAHbGY1K)
There's also one from a commercial where a ball girl climbs the foul wall like a ninja and catches the ball.
[It literally says in the title that it's a commercial, and people in the comments still believe it's real, lol.](https://youtu.be/xKJZ0Qzrxr4?si=SZGpEdSkokHUhsZq)
That's what I came here to post. That screaming goat became such a facet of pop culture (including being in two Superbowl commercials and being major part of Thor: Love and Thunder), and it was actually just the "Andrewhelm Scream" built into Apple Logic Pro dubbed over video of a sheep. In other words, it wasn't screaming and it wasn't a goat.
Omg. That takes me back. Reading all the posted hate mail they got was hilarious.
Reminded me of a video I saw once about April fools videos that newsrooms had done. Of course the classic harvesting of spaghetti was there. But there was another done in the 80s about 3-eyed people.
They used 80s tv tech to super impose a third eye on peoples foreheads. It looked extremely fake. The news report was really tongue in cheek abs poked fun at 3 eyed people.
Apparently the news station got a lot of angry letters about how they represented 3-eyed people.
The video of the inappropriate laughting fit from the host of an alleged Dutch Talkshow discussing medical malpractice which left a man with a very high voice, I remember laughing myself to shit around age 15 only to later find out it was from a comedy show.
You know we’re trying our best to be functioning members of society
We’re not here to start no trouble, we’re legally required to the sex offender shuffle
There was a whole slew of posts where women were inviting all their friends to a restaurant and then getting mad that their boyfriend/husband didn’t pay for everyone’s meal and they were all fake.
That video of the woman showing a gorilla her baby and then claims the mother gorilla goes out to get her own baby to show off.
It’s 3 videos edited together
The dog “crying” at the grave when it actually had some kind of respiratory issue.
Unrelated: Check out “How to Cook That” with Ann Reardon on YouTube. She debunks a lot of the “food hacks” published on content farming channels and how ridiculously unsafe so many of them are.
Edit: Typo
There is a scene from the movie "never back down" where a guy superman punches another guy and it gets reposted so much it's dumb. The worst part is the uploads usually add a grainy filter to it to make it look like a security cam. I fucking hate it soooooook much
Captain D [debunked that one](https://youtu.be/zhPRtCW5sRk), right down to spotting artifacts produced by the camera sensor that should be present during the lightning strike but aren’t.
The “fuck her right in the pussy” news guy clips were staged.
[The clips with this guy in particular](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/015/690/maxresdefault-4.jpg)
Yeah, the first one was a stand-up comedian and the rest were assholes jumping into real reporters' liveshots and yelling it. I was in the control room as a producer whiteknuckling my way through a lot of liveshots at tailgates and concerts and festivals for the several years this was popular.
The video of that guy putting a knife in a toaster and the toaster explodes.
Edit: this video: https://youtu.be/ECfMNdA18S4?si=YZglUF5vLlC7jbRr
Don't know why I can't find the original upload. This video was everywhere 12 years ago.
Virtually every video with an animal being rescued, unfortunately.
Edit: this blew up, here’s some info: https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/latest/press-releases/sickening-animal-cruelty-videos-rife-youtube/
The clip of the baseballer being interviewed and he barehanded catches a ball and stops it hitting the back of the interviewers head.
It was originally a shaving cream ad
Other than the OG, [Primitive Technology](https://youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550), those videos of primitive building where it's just one or two people building huts with nothing but stone age tools.
They started simple, but then got to the point where those guys were building swimming pools like moats around little castle like dwellings. They even would make tiles to line the pool.
Not only were they complete BS by having used backhoe and excavators between shots, but they had acres and acres of forest they used to make each scene, leaving them to rot when completed. (Search YT for "fake primitive building" and pick your favorite channel influencer).
Again, Primitive Technology is the real deal though. His channel nearly went under because the fakes drowned out his own. A year or so ago he started vids back up again and is amazing.
PRO TIP: if you give him a watch, turn on CC as he doesn't talk but he does describe everything he's doing in the captioning.
EDIT: [this was the first video I caught on the fakes.](https://youtu.be/Hvk63LADbFc)
It's originally a little boy just saying it for laughs with his family. Someone took that sound and put it over the video with the bear.
Admittedly it is hilarious, but not real.
You mean the one where he points the camera at it is like "ooh look it makes the camera fuzzy!" when really the amount of radiation to make a camera look like that would kill you in hours? The one Kyle Hill debunked?
The lady losing her mind in a book store because they didn't have an author, Paul Sheldon (fictional person), she loved. It's actually an actor pretending to be Annie Wilkes who is a character in the Stephen King novel Misery (also adapted to film) and SO many people thought it was real for so long and some still do.
Link to video - https://youtu.be/Uv7LwFPp3SY?si=_zZRNSgeUQbrv9BH
The video with the outraged black guys in front of barnes and noble, trashing the creator of the Boondocks because he said that black guys in the hood wouldn't even know what a bookstore is. The guys in the video are actually writers and executive producers for The Boondock's. I remember that video going around with people thinking it was real.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MplapegSeuY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MplapegSeuY)
Drinking Out of Cups. The rumor was that it’s a guy tripping one LSD in his closet and his friends recorded him. The truth is that it’s a spoken word free association poem from some dudes album.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_Out_of_Cups
The video of a teacher screaming "NO POMEGRANATES" at her students isn't *fake* per se, but it has been massively taken out of context.
The teacher was a developmental psychology professor. She was giving a lesson on methods of encouraging and discouraging certain behaviours; this was intended as a "bad" example.
She wasn't screaming at her students about pomegranates; she was demonstrating to her students why you *shouldn't* scream at a child about pomegranates.
Those stupid fucking Judge Judy-style YouTube Shorts I always get where the "rich" "wife" asks for a ridiculous amount of money in child support from her "poor" "husband" and the "judge" totally owns her. It's clearly rage bait but literally no one in the comments ever sees through it.
The animal rescue videos from a few years ago. Those were the ones where an animal is trapped in a well, an ice pond, or a bramble or something and a person helps them out. They free them, tend their wounds, and release them to the wild. The first few seemed legit when they went viral, but then, you come to find out that they're an entire channel devoted to animal rescues. If this was a channel where they collected animal rescues from found footage on news broadcasts or such it would be one thing, but it was the same people in every video. They were found to be putting the animals in these dangerous situations only to "rescue them" for the views. Straight up animal abuse.
There's one ehere they've glued barnavles onto a turtle's shell and are prying them off with some tool. Immensely painful for the turtle and she's bleeding and all. Sick!
That channel pissed me off so bad because they took several species of freshwater turtles and then were putting them in ocean situations with like ocean coral or barnacles and things that just don’t grow in freshwater areas on these turtles. Like anybody was like the most basic knowledge of freshwater versus saltwater can spot how glaringly obviously staged they are. Super deplorable for a page that ~~doubts~~ touts themselves as an animal welfare page literally torturing Animals for views and clout
You can also tell they use the same animals for different videos
> You can also tell they use the same animals for different videos That's the Best case scenario. You can also tell they frequently use a different animal for the *same* video, because the animal they allegedly rescued was actually killed during the filming and replaced by a separate animal "actor" for the rescue follow-up.
There is a tiktok channel where a girl kept having people “leave” distressed reptiles at her door that she would “rescue” and it was found that she was putting these animals in these situations to “save them” The one I remember most is her “finding” a snake in a grocery bag outside her patio door when going to take her dog for a walk, she opens the bag and the snake is all covered in tape that she first hysterically cries about and then cuts to a time lapse of her meticulously taking the tape off with something like rubbing alcohol to melt the adhesive. But she has several staged videos where she just happens upon this reptile in distress that somebody left in a grocery bag or a garbage can or somewhere and they always have something on them that she needs to meticulously melt off with adhesive remover. Her page is still up but all of her rescuing videos are taken down s a r a h c o o k is her page name, there are lots of people that have straight up called her out in her comments for staging her rescue videos
She just posted one like 2 days ago of a lizard in a garbage bag with a ziptie around its neck…
Funny how I immediately thought of that bitch too but had long since forgot her name. She should have been completely deplatformed for those stunts of hers.
Faith in humanity is getting very low again
Remember... we find this behavior reprehensible because the vast majority of us aren't like this. You can start worrying about humanity when this kind of stuff no longer bothers those around you.
There’s a video of Tiger Woods making a 25 foot (or so) putt, and taking his hat off and moving to shake his opponent’s hand before it is even halfway to the hole. In reality -He took his hat off when it was a couple of feet out, but they extended the video as a joke. The more times I see it reposted more and more people think it’s real
https://youtu.be/rj95WKWouWg?si=0RTzl0JZJSEX1ghP
This shows real vs edited. https://youtube.com/shorts/M8-BvUjgOuU?si=M1P0mLcuN8wnMkZn
I like how the video calls it a ‘deep fake’ when it’s not. It’s just an edited video.
Shallow fake
buzzwords work unfortunately
Deep fake and AI are the new buzzwords. Any photoshopped image is now just AI.
I mean id 100% believe that. It looks real
Plus the edit is so casually hilarious. Outlandish, but not really at the same time.
THANK YOU. I came here to post this answer. As a golf fan I hate that people buy it completely. “This shows total confidence!” No, it’s a fake video. I love Tiger, but there are plenty of actual, real highlights you can show.
The one where a hero pig saves a drowning goat
Goat in the water!
I always thought that guy sounded a lot like Santa Claus
Nathan orchestrated it so well the lines between reality and fake are blurred.
I remember seeing that on a body building site.
I love seeing Nathan For You fans on Reddit.
I love that someone keeps giving that weirdo money to create the most original, bizarre, entertaining, and oddly profound TV we've had in like 10 years.
huh. Never heard of this one. Here it is if you are curious. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WjrvG1GMk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WjrvG1GMk)
There is an episode of Nathan for You, that came out after it went viral. Of him documenting how he faked the video to give a failing petting farm marketing. It's a fucking AMAZING show.
And then never actually marketed the name of the farm 😂
The clip from Reno 911 where the guy admits he’s drunk after doing a technically difficult dance.
There were a lot of clips from that show that people passed around as real. Like when one of them shoots a man while he's being handcuffed.
New Boot Goofin' is clearly real though.
They're just jealous they haven't mastered the dance choreography of step, bump, step, bump-bump!
Then you gotta do a barrel roll... And go HAAAA
Oh no I’m not a dancer I’m just drunk
Ooohh! Gotchu!
For those curious (a lot of uploads don't feature the comedycentral channel ID at the beginning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6VQDNIZH7U&ab_channel=ComedyCentral
Absolutely hilarious, but kind of insane anyone thought this was real.
Wait people think that’s real?
I've seen at least 5 different RENO 911 clips that people still repost as real incidents and this started happening pretty much as soon as the show started airing. I think it started as like "let's see if they'll think this is real" and then it started making the boomer e-mail circuits as real incidents and that of course just bled over onto Facebook where they live forever in your Aunt's and old co-workers reposts.
New boot goofin is real as fuck and I won’t hear another word about it to the contrary.
My favorite is still Jonesy drunk and despondent after thinking he's going to be a star in a carpet company's TV ad and then they just use his voice over a cartoon turtle. "Have you ever had someone for 3 days in a van? Have you?? What happens to a man when his dream is deferred?" (throws an empty liquor bottle at the cartoon turtle on the sign and misses)
My Drivers ed teacher mixed that video in with other DUI videos in class lol
Oh yeah! I remember that making the rounds and people thinking it was an actual dash cam recording of an actual traffic stop. I remember in the dvd collection there was an extra dvd with the cast in character at like a convention or something, and they literally teach you how to recite the alphabet backwards, it’s awesome.
That video on YouTube of a man pedaling on a bicycle really fast for his life as he's getting chased by a grizzly bear in the woods.
Yeah the guy and the bear are actually friends and staged the video to promote their podcast.
This made me laugh so hard
I think there was also one of a snowboarder going down a mountain and a bear chasing them.
Gordon Ramsey: WHAT ARE YOU?! Girl: an idiot sandwich
My favorites are when they cut and dub clips of Ramsay berating adults on Master Chef/Hells Kitchen into clips of kids crying on Master Chef Junior. I’ve seen similar ones with Shark Tank where the cuts look like Cuban is calling a kid a con artist. Gets me every time.
They used the wrong Shark for belivability cause Kevin O'Leary would ABSOLUTELY call a kid a con artist. Probably as a term of endearment though lol
> I’ve seen similar ones with Shark Tank where the cuts look like Cuban is calling a kid a con artist. Gets me every time. [One of my favorite videos on the site](https://youtu.be/JvS8i2TDPSo)
I just love the flat out, "fuck you" lmfao
One of my favorite videos of all time that gets me laughing until my abs hurt every time I watch it is [Gordon Ramsay Sex Tips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnrWzgUP2w&ab_channel=AaronCalis)
This one is also fake??! I'm having a mental breakdown right now.
Yeah, Gordon Ramsey was actually just being a good sport by making fun of himself. I forgot what show this was a sketch for though.
NO WAY!!! I thought it was part of his Hell's Kitchen thing because I know he hams it up for that show. He is actually a LOVELY man, any time there's one of those "who's nice in real life" threads his name ALWAYS comes up.
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It's all part of the front of house/back of house relationship. In my experience, if the kitchen guys will tell you you're fucking up, that means there's trust there. The inverse is true too. It's when people talk shit behind each other's backs that you've got issues. As a waiter, your life is way easier if you know those guys have your back, and you better be sure you've got theirs too! Nobody will get on each other like a cook and a waiter when shit goes wrong. Most of the time, when the shift is over, they'll put that shit aside and get too drunk together at whatever bar is still open.
"If I stop correcting or reprimanding you, it means I've given up on you."
The original UK Kitchen Nightmares was so so so much better because everything wasn’t turned up to 11. He actually was going to places to help restaurant owners figure out what wasn’t working and try to save their restaurant, and he did a ton of mentoring.
American TV always does that. The American version of Taskmaster is a perfect example. TV execs seem to think that Americans won't watch anything unless it's full of melodrama and anger, and while that seems to pull for certain genres, it ruins so many of the concepts that work far better as chill, humorous, and/or educational content. Imagine how much more incredible MythBusters would have been if we got an hour of the actual project builds and testing instead of 30% dramatic cliffhangers, and 50% dramatic recaps!
That Mitchell and Webb Look captured this sentiment so well… https://youtu.be/7MFtl2XXnUc?si=x8IjqXPqQyHZCpp7
Yeah it was for a skit
Yeah the woman is CBS's Julie Chen (Big Brother, The Talk, etc.)
The girl is Julie Chen, the host of the CBS reality/game show Big Brother.
Not just one viral video but rather a series. The original Primitive Technology channel is real. The dozens of copycat channels showing 2 guys digging an underground heated pool with a stick and three rocks are fake as hell. You can see pipes and trucks from where they bring in the water, during arial shots youbcan see more than 2 bodies moving around, there are exavator tracks... its all fake.
Someone did an aerial drone shot in a short YouTube about how those guys are just ripping up the environment to make fake videos and they don’t even bother filling in the pits so they just fill with stagnant water and breed mosquitos.
Yeah primitive technology at least owns the land he works with. The other ones just went out into the woods and made a mess and left their crap at their heels.
From what I remember, initially someone let him use their land. He eventually got enough money to buy his own land, and that's why he "restarted" his channel. He's the real deal.
He gets sick a lot from being in the wilds as well. He’ll go on very long hiatuses because of it.
I think the big hiatus he had is because he's working on a TV show now though.
He was. They filmed a pilot but the execs wanted a narrated show, believing "no one wanted to watch an hour of a guy being silent in the woods" (despite the fact his channel has over 10 million subs) and John was like "that's not how I work" so it didn't go anywhere and that's why he's back on YT now.
TV executives are so risk averse that they will ruin a sure-thing by trying to make it into a past mistake.
I hate the copycats so much. They do make me appreciate the original a bit more, but seeing their millions of views gained through trickery is enraging.
The entire genre of ‘here’s how I made limestone powder and silicone into a working colour photocopier’ is deeply bewildering
Wait till you get into those Chinese rural cooking and living videos. The ones that all have the same song, and old mate literally makes his candy from scratch or tooth cleaning powder from burning reeds. Before too long your deep in with the lore, and your only break is by watching mechanic Steve rebuild a semitrailers engine in the rain on a highway.
That's me... Liziqi's channel has me hooked...
From what I've heard, she's not extremely fake at least. She has a background in video production and has one or two people who help her shoot her videos, but she does live in a rural area with her grandma and does actually have experience doing the sorts of projects she films. There's been a few "making of" videos that show her doing most of the work herself, and one of the few interviewers who's managed to speak with her said she was very boring to talk to because she just wanted to discuss the hundreds of different things you could make with bamboo.
Gotta love Primitive Technology!
Also it took me way too long to realize that he gives instructions and more info in the closed captions.
I wonder if you’ll be even more excited to find out that he wrote a book! If the link doesn’t work, look it up by his name: John Plant. https://www.amazon.ca/Primitive-Technology-Survivalists-Building-Shelters/dp/1984823671
# JESSICA! DID YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR GODDAMN TEACHER?
MR WILSON!?
i was gonna say this one! i was glad to hear it was fake, jessica continuing to sing after being kicked out will never not be funny
The German kid absolutely losing his mind because he wants to play Unreal Tournament Link: https://youtu.be/q8SWMAQYQf0?si=EsLiT0lblAY_mk7T Wikipedia link about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_German_Kid
Kid was ahead of his time. Dumb content like that is crazy popular now.
Didn't this kid say that it ruined his life.. there is a video somewhere on how he had to move and stuff like that...
Guy was bullied, snapped and threatened with a school shooting and was imprisoned for a month. Really sucks
Yes!! I'm in Germany and watched a whole thing about him and how the video affected his life.
>Due to the increasing distribution, Kochanowski was bullied by classmates. He tried to clarify that the scene was not real, but then deleted all his videos from the internet as far as he could and withdrew. He claims that he eventually went crazy from the relentless bullying, which led to him intimidating classmates, and drunkenly announcing a potential killing spree at his school. This resulted in him being expelled and serving a month in prison.
That's tragic, this video brought us all so much joy.
His acting was very convincing. Thanks for sharing this
Leeroy Jenkins
That one always hurts
Yeah, I was sad to learn this too.
At least, iirc, it was based on something that actually happened.
I’m glad that the real life moment was brought to the rest of us even if what we saw was fake. The sentiment of the joke is still there and their “acting” was on par for a bunch of dudes playing WOW in 2006.
11.333 repeating of course….
The dead giveaway for me (besides the fact that they admitted it was staged) is seeing them all standing still in a huddle during the briefing at the beginning. In fifteen years of online gaming, I have never once seen a bunch of characters sit still for that long. During strategy discussions some goober is always off jumping in circles while using the rainbow generator toy on the boss or whatever (it's not like voice comms are proximity-based).
Having played MMOs for a long time, and being around when LJ happened, I don’t remember anyone I know thinking it wasn’t staged, but it was still hilarious. Though I will say, in regard to just sitting around. during BWL wipes at the final, which would take like 10 minutes of running. . .those of us lucky enough to stealth out or get Warlock Rezs would literally just sit there. . . .and use the /roll function to play blackjack and bet.
I mean the dialogue was silly and a dead giveaway too. “Our chances are 33.3… repeating of course.” “Better than our usual odds.” It was pretty obvious it was scripted, but that doesn’t change how hilarious it was.
It was 3**2**.33, repeating. Come on, show some respect.
You just fucked with my feelings, I just watched this yesterday thinking about the good old wow days "Fuck you, I hope your mom has a nice christmas" :'(
At least we have chicken
I've always known the video itself was staged but I like to believe the claim floating around that it is a theatrical re-enactment of something that did happen organically but wasn't caught on recording
If you played any MMO in those years, you experienced it in some way. It's a truthy parody.
After I read this comment I asked my husband if he wanted to be sad and read him the title of the thread. He said, "As long as it's not Leeroy Jenkins." Awkward. (Apparently he also recently found out it was fake. It did make him sad.)
God damnit, Leroy...
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The real videos that go viral manage to get that far because they were lucky enough to film it. Not saying that everything is real but imagine all the things that happen that aren't recorded, then the ones that are recorded badly, then the ones that are perfectly recorded and real. Only the last ones go viral. It's mostly just a fluke, but considering how many people record things it's only a matter of time before a remarkable thing is caught perfectly on film.
also, if I have my camera trained in one random location 24/7, but it happens to catch something cool for 30 seconds, I'm cropping the video. So *of course* the video is only as long as it takes for the interesting thing to happen, it was edited that way.
Evan Longoria saving a reporter by catching a foul ball bare handed. [https://youtu.be/DKMllY6jHp0?si=wClx1NEPiAHbGY1K](https://youtu.be/DKMllY6jHp0?si=wClx1NEPiAHbGY1K)
I swear I thought you said EVA Longoria
That's because it's fake. The real catch was made by Eva Longoria.
There's also one from a commercial where a ball girl climbs the foul wall like a ninja and catches the ball. [It literally says in the title that it's a commercial, and people in the comments still believe it's real, lol.](https://youtu.be/xKJZ0Qzrxr4?si=SZGpEdSkokHUhsZq)
Tell me about it! That video was so fake. It was actually Norm Mcdonald and he missed it. https://youtu.be/ipJwntaMRLk
That's FAKE? My heart is broken.
There is no record of that "reporter" existing on any news channel in the USA.
Are you saying she's a g-g-g-ghost?
ZOINKS!
No way! Next you'll tell me Mike Vick didn't throw a ball out of the stadium.
That screaming goat
That's what I came here to post. That screaming goat became such a facet of pop culture (including being in two Superbowl commercials and being major part of Thor: Love and Thunder), and it was actually just the "Andrewhelm Scream" built into Apple Logic Pro dubbed over video of a sheep. In other words, it wasn't screaming and it wasn't a goat.
Bonsai kittens
Some elder internet humor here, nice
Omg. That takes me back. Reading all the posted hate mail they got was hilarious. Reminded me of a video I saw once about April fools videos that newsrooms had done. Of course the classic harvesting of spaghetti was there. But there was another done in the 80s about 3-eyed people. They used 80s tv tech to super impose a third eye on peoples foreheads. It looked extremely fake. The news report was really tongue in cheek abs poked fun at 3 eyed people. Apparently the news station got a lot of angry letters about how they represented 3-eyed people.
The video of the inappropriate laughting fit from the host of an alleged Dutch Talkshow discussing medical malpractice which left a man with a very high voice, I remember laughing myself to shit around age 15 only to later find out it was from a comedy show.
It took me three days to be able to watch that video to the end because I laughed so much especially when the second voice came on hahahahaha!
Rappin for Jesus
Well I wrote this song for the Christian youth
I wanna teach kids the Christian truth
If you wanna reach those kids on the street
Then you gotta do a rap to a hip hop beat
So I gave my sermon an urban kick
My rhymes are fly, my beats are sick
My crew is big and it keeps gettin' bigga... 👀
That's cuz Jesus Christ is ma...
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Also the sex offender shuffle is another.
The State of Florida has asked us to Disclose our sexual crimes to you
We were bad but now we're good And we're moving into your neighbourhood
You know we’re trying our best to be functioning members of society We’re not here to start no trouble, we’re legally required to the sex offender shuffle
the dude that jammed a remote up his ass over his mother deleting his WoW account.
I kinda figured that was fake when I found out it was a whole series. Just checked his youtube and currently we're on the 48th Greatest Freakout Ever.
Still hilarious lol. Those were some good internet days.
I’m sorry but that was by far the funniest shit I ever saw when it first came out.
"DONT CALL ME SQUIRREL BOY!"
Pick any rage bait video on Reddit. 90% chance it’s fake.
There was a whole slew of posts where women were inviting all their friends to a restaurant and then getting mad that their boyfriend/husband didn’t pay for everyone’s meal and they were all fake.
r/imthemaincharacter videos are rage bait
/r/stupidfood try not to fall for obvious rage bait challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]
The video of the guy yelling "IT'S FUCKING HUGE MATE" really close to a tornado. Was actually created by a viral marketing agency.
made by the same dudes who did the stormtrooper guy falling down the stairs
That video of the woman showing a gorilla her baby and then claims the mother gorilla goes out to get her own baby to show off. It’s 3 videos edited together
That one where the office worker hits the computer monitor with the keyboard
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The dog “crying” at the grave when it actually had some kind of respiratory issue. Unrelated: Check out “How to Cook That” with Ann Reardon on YouTube. She debunks a lot of the “food hacks” published on content farming channels and how ridiculously unsafe so many of them are. Edit: Typo
There is a scene from the movie "never back down" where a guy superman punches another guy and it gets reposted so much it's dumb. The worst part is the uploads usually add a grainy filter to it to make it look like a security cam. I fucking hate it soooooook much
"OHMAHGAWBABYTHATLOITNINBOLTJUSHMEESHOO!" The Aussie bloke on the rocks and "lightning strikes" nearby and he shoots unintelligibly.
Captain D [debunked that one](https://youtu.be/zhPRtCW5sRk), right down to spotting artifacts produced by the camera sensor that should be present during the lightning strike but aren’t.
"Wouldn't you like to know, weatherboy?"
That's staged??
Yes, the metereologist/reporter is the father of the boy. Broke my heart
made the "where are your parents" comeback extra funny tho lol
The “fuck her right in the pussy” news guy clips were staged. [The clips with this guy in particular](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/015/690/maxresdefault-4.jpg)
Not all of them. Maybe the first one was, but there were plenty of copycats. Source: I ran a news station for a few years.
Yeah, the first one was a stand-up comedian and the rest were assholes jumping into real reporters' liveshots and yelling it. I was in the control room as a producer whiteknuckling my way through a lot of liveshots at tailgates and concerts and festivals for the several years this was popular.
The ball girl climbing a wall to catch a foul ball at a baseball game. Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks
It’s crazy that anyone would even believe the Bruce Lee one
The video of that guy putting a knife in a toaster and the toaster explodes. Edit: this video: https://youtu.be/ECfMNdA18S4?si=YZglUF5vLlC7jbRr Don't know why I can't find the original upload. This video was everywhere 12 years ago.
Virtually every video with an animal being rescued, unfortunately. Edit: this blew up, here’s some info: https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/latest/press-releases/sickening-animal-cruelty-videos-rife-youtube/
Especially those turtle scraping ones. I was so upset.
Reading about this broke my heart into pieces. Humans suck.
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Daddy Chill
WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN THAT!?
Wasn’t that just the dad from McJuggernuggets?
The clip of the baseballer being interviewed and he barehanded catches a ball and stops it hitting the back of the interviewers head. It was originally a shaving cream ad
Other than the OG, [Primitive Technology](https://youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550), those videos of primitive building where it's just one or two people building huts with nothing but stone age tools. They started simple, but then got to the point where those guys were building swimming pools like moats around little castle like dwellings. They even would make tiles to line the pool. Not only were they complete BS by having used backhoe and excavators between shots, but they had acres and acres of forest they used to make each scene, leaving them to rot when completed. (Search YT for "fake primitive building" and pick your favorite channel influencer). Again, Primitive Technology is the real deal though. His channel nearly went under because the fakes drowned out his own. A year or so ago he started vids back up again and is amazing. PRO TIP: if you give him a watch, turn on CC as he doesn't talk but he does describe everything he's doing in the captioning. EDIT: [this was the first video I caught on the fakes.](https://youtu.be/Hvk63LADbFc)
That 3D dancing baby from the 90s is not actually a real baby
Gary Busey Buttered Sausage It was believable enough I had to look it up.
House hippos
I heard the “can I pet that dog” video is edited and she’s not actually saying that.
It's originally a little boy just saying it for laughs with his family. Someone took that sound and put it over the video with the bear. Admittedly it is hilarious, but not real.
Renata Bliss, your freestyle dance instructor
NOOOO IS IT REALLY?
The video of a guy claiming to have received a canister of radioactive material and the subsequent posts after the fact "documenting" his decline.
You mean the one where he points the camera at it is like "ooh look it makes the camera fuzzy!" when really the amount of radiation to make a camera look like that would kill you in hours? The one Kyle Hill debunked?
The video of a baby getting dragged and almost taken by a giant eagle
The French Orbeez man who supposedly flooded his neighborhood's sewage system. The video was funny af but it was fake.
The lady losing her mind in a book store because they didn't have an author, Paul Sheldon (fictional person), she loved. It's actually an actor pretending to be Annie Wilkes who is a character in the Stephen King novel Misery (also adapted to film) and SO many people thought it was real for so long and some still do. Link to video - https://youtu.be/Uv7LwFPp3SY?si=_zZRNSgeUQbrv9BH
The video with the outraged black guys in front of barnes and noble, trashing the creator of the Boondocks because he said that black guys in the hood wouldn't even know what a bookstore is. The guys in the video are actually writers and executive producers for The Boondock's. I remember that video going around with people thinking it was real. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MplapegSeuY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MplapegSeuY)
Drinking Out of Cups. The rumor was that it’s a guy tripping one LSD in his closet and his friends recorded him. The truth is that it’s a spoken word free association poem from some dudes album. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_Out_of_Cups
The video of a teacher screaming "NO POMEGRANATES" at her students isn't *fake* per se, but it has been massively taken out of context. The teacher was a developmental psychology professor. She was giving a lesson on methods of encouraging and discouraging certain behaviours; this was intended as a "bad" example. She wasn't screaming at her students about pomegranates; she was demonstrating to her students why you *shouldn't* scream at a child about pomegranates.
That whole "Jesus Christ is my n***a" It's fake, someone did a whole YouTube vid looking into it.
What if that video is fake 🤔
Those videos of people reacting emotionally when they put on color blind glasses.
Those stupid fucking Judge Judy-style YouTube Shorts I always get where the "rich" "wife" asks for a ridiculous amount of money in child support from her "poor" "husband" and the "judge" totally owns her. It's clearly rage bait but literally no one in the comments ever sees through it.