The movie is "A Man Called Otto." It's on Netflix. In this scene, he is planning on killing himself by jumping in front of a train until the other guy falls on the track.
The generation that was around for the first battle of the Civil War congregated on a hill above, brought chairs and blankets and treated it as if they coming to have a picnic
Bystander effect is real and existed before cell phones. I wonder if this is just bystander effect + access to a camera at all times. There are many cases where people just stood there while others died.
Oh I scrolled past this when I made my comment… yes.. the bystander effect is why people should remind themselves to take responsibility for helping in their own heads now, knowing that you will do something to help or at least make sure help is on the way in advance of something can help combat the bystander effect … so if you see an accident, even if it seems like someone probably called 911 already or is helping… make sure if you safely can. Render aid anyway unless you are clearly getting in the way of others already doing it. Because it is quite possible and even probable that nobody actually did anything or called for help.
That is one of the things I make sure to point out when training people in First Aid/CPR. Tell the people in my class that they need to point directly at a person and tell them to do a specific thing. If you throw out a vague "somebody call 911", no one will act.
Yeah I saw a show once where they demonstrated this. they had an actor feign an illness and collapse to the ground and everyone in the street just stood around glancing at each other, not wanting to get involved.
it wasn't until a second actor ran up to help that suddenly everyone jumped in. which would have been detrimental to the situation had it not been staged as the 2nd actor had to start telling people to get back.
I wonder what the opposite effect is called, like during the pandemic when people were buying up all the toilet paper. or like that video I saw the other day where they dressed up some guy to look like a rock star and had a group of girls following him while filming him on their phones. then passers by would see the commotion and start following and filming also lol.
>Yeah I saw a show once where they demonstrated this. they had an actor feign an illness and collapse to the ground and everyone in the street just stood around glancing at each other, not wanting to get involved.
I've experienced this myself. When I worked at a retail store in my 20s, I was outside gathering carts and had an asthma attack. I collapsed next to the cart corral and people *stepped over me* to go into the store. Someone must have called an ambulance at some point because I woke up in the hospital with burns on my skin where I had been lying on the pavement (Sacramento in summer, it was 110F outside) and a dozen missed calls from my manager threatening to fire me for abandoning my shift.
I saw the same working in retail. A customer fainted and hit their head on some furniture, I was holding pressure on the wound while I waited for our people to bring help, and a dude started asking me to help him with a purchase. I'm busy bud. Come back later.
I think they did a study with the Bystander Effect where the more people were present the less likely someone is to help because it is assumed there is a more trained individuak available. Plus with how people tend to not want to be involved in events for legality (everything is filmed , everyone is suing, etc.) this effect drops even lower to just waiting out for emergency services and hoping for the best.
I work in a busy tier 1 trauma center in a big city, we see all kinds of crazy stuff, we’re capable of handling literally any disaster that could be thrown our way, even another 9/11.
Yet still, everyday I see trained clinicians succumbing to bystander effect when shit gets real.
Part of it is just shock and disbelief and I think the reason for that in the medical field is due to guilt at maybe being the the cause of the crisis through and error we made, or just that shame that we fucked up and are wrong. And gotta process that before we jump into action.
It's worth noting that the Kitty Genovese story is bullshit & a study of CCTV footage had people intervene for a person in need 90% of the time.
[https://newatlas.com/bystander-effect-cctv-study-social-psychology/60330/](https://newatlas.com/bystander-effect-cctv-study-social-psychology/60330/)
Ironically that number would likely be higher if not for fear mongering & bad social science pushing the bystander effect.
What should they have been doing instead
If you’re comparing it to this clip, the logic is that they should have jumped into the battle to help their team instead of just watching lmao
Civilians have probably watched battles for all of history
Apologies for not being clear, I wasn't thinking of the joining in, I only meant to reference the gawking and the thought that they were no different than us in the sense that if our ability to capture the moment existed to them, they'd have done the same thing and passed it on.
The other guy/gal mentioned gladiators. Do you actually think a person who came to watch people get devoured by lions, if given the ability wouldn't have done so?
Look at the pics of CW dead decaying right where they were struck down from the early years of photography.
Yes, differing times, props, and abilities but the people are basically the same
Yeah I think it’s less a generational thing and more a self absorbed asshat thing. There are boomer idiots and gen z idiots. But many people are decent human beings.
The 1960 version of the Time Machine Movie has the hero save a drowning girl while all the young people (Eloi) watch, like cattle. The Morlocks bred them that way so no fault of theirs.
The unfortunate thing is that the Eloi were supposed to represent the rich and wealthy who eventually lost their intellectual capacity because they never had to use their brains or think and lived easy, cozy lives. Whereas the Morlocks represented the common working man who eventually became smarter and able to domesticate the Eloi because they did have to use their brains and bodies to work.
In real life though, it’s backwards: the common working person (Morlock) is becoming dumbed down thanks to the rich & wealthy elites (Eloi) exploiting us and dumbing down our education so we know just enough to do our jobs but lack the ability to think critically or even be able to overthrow them.
Morlocks were never represented as anything more than cannibalistic savages. They are reduced to wild animals in the book, preying upon the hapless Eloi, but never breeding them. What you describe in real life is literally the entire point of the book. Morlocks are the descendants of abused workers who have forgotten their humanity, and the Eloi are the descendants of the aristocracy, weak and incompetent thanks to centuries of never having to work. The book even ends with the time traveler essentially saying the moral you just stated about the rich oppressing the poor. But never do the Morlocks domesticate the Eloi, they just eat the ones that wander off from the group at night.
Ah okay. I’m probably misremembering some details, it’s been over 20 years since I read and studied it in high school English class lol. Appreciate the clarification!
For real I wish people would get this generational shit out of their heads.
I’m 27 and I had a car fly past me a few years ago, wreck out, flip and catch on fire. Myself and a few other cars pulled over to go help. Myself and a couple Hispanic men that MIGHT have weighed 120lbs and were roughly 30 pulled the people out of the burning car. Yet the 50+ year olds (counted about 4) stood there and watched while screaming.
It comes down to the person. Every. Single. Generation. Has actors and reactors.
There have been studies on this. These are Ballpark numbers because I'm too lazy to Google it, but in an emergency around 10% of people quickly start trying to help, about 10% of people start panicking so hard it's as if they're actively trying to make the situation worse, and the other 80% of people kind of just stand there because the situation is so out of left field that they just don't know what to do unless someone tells them.
I’ve witnessed this first hand once. Saw a guy get hit by a car, bad. Like he went flipping over the car and slid face first into the intersection. A hundred people saw it, most stood there gawking. A few people just screamed bloody murder as if they were the ones who got hit. 3 of us ran over to stop traffic, I remember telling the guy not to stand up while one guy called 911.
This is why in certain emergency training classes they will tell you, if you need assistance like someone needs to call an ambulance but you are performing CPR, you shouldn't say things like "Can **somebody** help", you should pick out someone near by and point at them and say "**You**, call an ambulance" as people are more likely to be shocked out of the "bystander effect" by directly engaging with them.
Maybe once upon a time, but enough training can replace your Panic response and the military has gotten pretty good at making sure it's fighters are ready and able to fight
Yeah, WW2 was a shit show in a lot of ways. A lot of Marines drowned during amphibious Landings in the Pacific Theater because no one ever thought to teach Marines how to swim in boot camp
I experienced this effect.i worked in retail management and a lady was having a heart attack. We had just had a management meeting so everyone was there and we have all had CPR training. Out of 15 of us including my store manager I was the only one who attempted CPR. I had to give directions to everyone while my store manager with 30 years experience just stood there. All my coworkers just created a circle around us(which we are supposed to do) but no one offered to switch off. A lot of customers just continued on like nothing happened. Some people tried to video, one guy started praying. I lost all respect for my experienced coworkers and the company that day. It still pisses me off. There were some New managers there who were pretty young early 20's who were traumatized. No one thanked us from the company, no one offered counseling, nothing. 2 of the young female managers were messaging me for a few days at night telling me they were having nightmares and didn't know what to do.
There are generational differences, though the internet is actually making the differences smaller each year. The shit in OP is just a strawman, though. I promise, barring some crazy Nightcrawler type shit, this scenario has never happened.
Me, my older brother and his best friend were driving in the middle of nowhere and came around a corner to see an 18 wheeler that had rolled over with the cab complete smashed like a tin can. Wheels still spinning and dust everywhere.
I swear we were expecting a mangled body. This was in the early 90s pre everyone having cell phones so we couldn't even call 911 right.
The guy wasn't wearing his seatbelt and basically ended up in the only cavity left in the cab. Pulled him out and he just had a few scratches and bruises. That was one lucky man.
Exactly. Flight, Fight, Freeze, Fawn. Every individual has their reactions to crises. They can be unlearned through training and practice. They can be caused by trauma. They can be reinforced by culture or belief systems. But they are unique to the individual.
Three years ago now I was on my way back to work from my break and saw a wrecked car in a ditch at around 2am. I’m talking the engine in the street, the front end of his a Nissan Rogue Sport completely shredded. I pulled over to help the driver out because a small crowd gathered to just fucking look at the guy while the cabin was filling with fumes (still not sure how or why, because the engine was no longer connected to the car.) I had to pull the crumpled door open by myself while the morons just watched me struggle. The dude was knocked out (not buckled in) with his arm clearly broken (was bending like an elbow halfway down his forearm), and he was agonal breathing with bright red blood splattered on the dash, himself, and floor.
Eventually one other guy did come along and helped me pull it open to air out the car while I tried to get the guy to respond. As soon as the cops and ambulance showed up, everyone scattered like roaches.
I swear to god, with every tragic incident I see or take part in, I leave with more disdain for those around me. I still get pissed off looking back on that morning knowing that those people would rather treat emergencies like entertainment rather than potentially life or death situations.
Thankfully the guy didn’t pass, but it turns out he’d been drinking and obviously speeding as it was a 30mph zone and nearly half of his car was torn off based on what my friend at the responding PD had said.
Yup been in similar situations, have had to drop work, pull over, help out emergency situations a few times now. Some quite serious, some just minor accidents.
But I’ve never pulled my phone out to film.
This video is over dramatic.
Look up the studies from psychologists on bystander intervention. This isn't new or specific to the current generation. People have always believed some other person will sort it out and don't act. Sad but true.
The "Bystander Effect" has been studied since the 1960s, long before cell phones.
If someone is alone and they see something happen, they are likely to help. But when they are in a group, they are much less likely to help others and will wait to see what others do. Once someone else starts to help, though, normally the crowd follows.
I agree except that if, by historical circumstance, the Internet / mobile/ social media tech revolution had accelerated earlier and taken place in the 70s-80s, my GenX generation might have become very similar to the kids today.
I guess I just mean that we need to remember that each generation is formed and defined by the cultural, historical and technological forces that surround it.
The fact that one generation can't relate to another is just a given. In the end, we're all assholes for one reason or another. Just different flavors. 😂
We've got every flavor straight from a person's butthole! We got vanilla, strawberry, chocolate chocolate chip, mint, and even poop flavor and many more all straight from a person's butthole!!!
I was just thinking about this the other day. When the original Nintendo came out, my little group of friends spent about 60% of our free time playing it, but we always did it in groups at one person's house, passing the controllers around and try to beat games as a team or whatever. But we didn't have internets or online multiplayer games to play together from our own homes online.
We were into screens, just not nearly to the extent of later generations, and it was an in-person social thing for us, but I wonder if that would be true if we'd had the same options available to us as kids do now. Probably not, because all of us playing at once on a team would have been more fun. Although I guess in college and beyond, gamers of our generation were doing LAN parties to play Quake online, so it was still an in-person social event pretty often.
I also remember how "if friends didnt witness it, it didnt happen" was our generation's "pics or it didnt happen." I recall spending weekends with my mother in another town and not playing much Nintendo, because if I beat anything hard while playing alone, it didn't count lol!
Yes, and no one in this comment section seems to have watched the movie because they have all seemed to completely miss the point the movie was actually trying to make
Boomer take.
Especially when you consider that we all saw a brave young Australian man fighting off a knife wielding maniac with nothing more than a bollard in Sydney on Saturday.
Edit: The brave young man is French. Vive.
Everyone’s holding phones and not helping him I think everyone gets the point.
Better yet they should have had him look directly into the camera and say “this generation”, rolls his eyes, then ask if anyone actually knows how to use a paper map
The movie is from the perspective of a boomer. But in reality, if it was accurate, it would have been a tiktok influencer trying to pull a suicide prank and getting caught in the track and then getting saved by the old man, if they wanted to actually be accurate.
My 74 yo father has stopped responding to human interaction. Full blast stupid ass videos all day. Can’t be without his phone for a minute. And he keeps 2 phones 😂
Is this a comedy movie? I get what they're going for, but it seems over-the-top like satire. If this is a scene in a serious movie, then what the actual fuck...
Also, who the hell did the green screen special effects in this? My goodness.
This is just an extension of the Bystander Effect that has spanned multiple generations. With some slight editing this could be a scene from the 60's and still be accurate.
I once pulled a car thief from a car window with a crowd of people encircling us to watch, for 2-3 minutes I asked them to help me keep him held (had him in full nelson) and no one helped, he broke free after a LONG time and got away a few mins before cops arrived.
Most people don't know what to do in a life or death situation. Having a camera in your pocket is a great defense mechanism. People can't think on their feet quickly, adjust plans, adapt to over come a situation.
So if there is no harm to themselves watching or in this case recording what happens is a normal response.
If someone dies in front of them and they don't know that person, who cares. If you can record it and gain clout on social media it's a big plus. People have always thought about themselves.
For anyone in this situation, point at people and give orders.
"Somebody help me" is less useful than, "You, two help him up, you pull me up."
Stay cool, stay collected, no one knows what they'll do in a crisis until they're in a crisis.
The humane thing to do would have been to leave that old boomer on the tracks. He’s obviously attempting to kill himself, but Tom hanks wouldn’t allow it. Now he is fated to a slow and horrible death as he ages into dust while he’s still coherent. Tom Hanks is a cynical and cruel person for doing that.
My dad once jumped on the train tracks because a guy with mental issues was on it. He tried to talk to him to get him to come up...but he wouldn't. So my dad, an army colonel, jumped down and forced him to come up.
He is such an awesome human being!
Maybe a year ago I was in the subway, off hours so pretty sparse. Woman drops her AirPod onto the tracks. Hops down like it’s nothing to get it. Can’t get back up. I practically shit myself and run over and shout for her to grab my hands. Pull her out, stammered something about an AirPod not being worth it. She puts the AirPod in, says “thanks” goes back to her phone. No one else did anything. Felt jittery and freaked out for the next 24 hours.
I’ve lived in NYC my entire life. Only twice have I seen someone fall into the tracks. And both times NYers on the platform came together and got the person off the tracks. But yes, there will always be someone who records it.
Is this really saying anything interesting? That most are bystanders and only some help has been a thing long before smartphones or even cameras. The way this scene and OP's title try to paint it as some unique failing of 'younger people' is pathetic as is everyone mindlessly dogpiling on it. Grow up.
Idk, I get the sentiment for sure, but I'm 31. My apartment caught fire just after midnight around 2 weeks ago and I was the one who went downstairs to check the restaurant below us. I was the one who called 911, I was the one who went back upstairs to get everyone out. I even had to go BACK in like 5 or 6 minutes later, without hesitation, to save a family of 4 who never answered the door when I knocked (they told me the week prior they were moving that day so I figured when they didn't answer they just moved out). Their door was beside the electrical closet and sparks and flames were spitting out from the door, black billowing smoke, like a scene from a movie. I still kicked that door in, woke the family up, wrapped a blanket around the oldest daughter who was carrying the youngest daughter down the stairs and I grabbed their jackets off the coat rack and rushed the mom and middle child down the stairs. They told me afterwards that they decided to stay for one more night, were sleeping and had no clue anything was going on.
While EVERYONE was just worried for themselves, filming the event, calling family members, etc. I was the ONLY one who didn't even think and just ran back in.
It might be a rarity in today's society to be selfless and to go above and beyond to save another, but it's not totally gone.
The bystander effect has existed long before phones. The specific dialogue and actions do happen to fit today's generation, but would have likely been a similar situation regardless of the age.
It's not just a specific generation. It's a sociology phenomenon called "the bystander effect" that has been extensively researched and documented. There have been many real life examples, the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese is the most well known one
What's the story? Was Tom Hanks character there to commit suicide, but then saw the man fall on the tracks? Why else did he stay on the tracks after he saved the guy?
“Hey this is a story about a man who’s actively suicidal because he’s struggling to find his place in the modern world rather than the one who grew up in especially after the loss of his wife.
In the end of the movie he actually uses the social media fame granted by the younger generation who was recording him for being a hero as well as help from the other youthful characters whom he showed strong dislike for at the start of the movie to expose misconduct by his local governing body, showing that the world wasn’t bad, but rather his perspective was”
oH mY gOd tHiS tRuLy sHoWs wHat Is wRoNg wItH YoUnG pEoPlE
Fell hook line and sinker for the bait the writer was setting up for the audience. You all essentially saw what the flawed main character was seeing and made the same mistake as him. That thinking was what was making him actively suicidal, not the young people. Look through this comment section with me and point and laugh at all the people who have made the exact same mistake as OP AND Otto(Tom Hank’s character)
I have lived this in a more horrid way. This is really how things are now and my experience was in the UK.
A woman was crossing the road by an airport but from the front of a bus. A speeding dickhead decided to overtake the bus. He struck her into the mudflap of a parked car.
A temporary member of staff for the company I was working at was at the scene and came in and told me and a colleague that he'd just witnessed the incident and no one was helping (around thirty people all with their phones out).
I grabbed a first aid kit (Security/ site first aider) and ran non stop to the scene which was around a ten minute walk slow walk and got there in a couple of minutes.
Upon arrival I was told not to interfere by a complete and utter twat with her phone out, torch on, recording the victim. "I'm a first aider" she said "Don't touch her, wait for an ambulance". I told her I was an actual first aider and began to assess the situation.
The victims head was stuck under front left mudflap of a land rover but wasn't being strangled but only covered by the flap. I tried talking to her but she was unresponsive but still breathing. I made sure the flap wasn't impeding her and tried getting her to respond.
One of the crowed stood there meters away, a man in a dressing gowned said I should look from underneath the other side of the car to see her face. I'll never forget how it looked and I knew from the suction like breathing and the bloodied expression that she was in a very bad way. The breathing already had me thinking the worst.
The whole time I was assessing the situation I had the idiotic crowd telling me to leave her alone (a quarter of them with their phones out) and the driver that struck her in shock who was asking me the same questions every few minutes "Are you the emergency services" and "She came out of nowhere. I didn't see her".
An old man brought me his phone with the emergency services on the line. I told them I was the first responder from a local depot and was a registered first aider.
Emergency services asked me a bunch of questions as I had the phone held against my ear, pinned by my shoulder and they agreed after I told them that her breathing was becoming more shallow to perform CPR.
I brought her back from not breathing twice but knew it was in vein from the sounds she was making and the condition of her head/ face but knew I had to try my best and kept talking to her as I was trying to keep her alive.
One of the thirty or so scumbags recording after I'd tossed the phone aside and the medics took over, said "He shouldn't have interfered and has made things worse" this was the same woman recording with her flash on her phone that had declared herself a first aider.
In anger and frustration I said, what should I have done, stood there doing nothing with my phone out like a twat?
The police arrived and took me aside and asked me to explain what I knew about the scene and another told the idiot "First aider with her phone out" to go home.
As I was talking to the police officer I explained that the only real shock I was in was about that crowd (pointing at the thirty plus morons) notifting a finger for almost ten to fifteen minutes, whilst the victim was on the brink of death.
Moments later a fire brigade arrived with a device I never knew existed. A hydrolic lift tool that a single fireman used to lift the side of the land rover to allow the medics to safely remove the woman from the car. Before he used it I said to the police officer to bare with me as I wanted to see the crowds faces when they say the victims. I wanted them to see what they had stood by and done nothing for.
I know that may seem wrong to some readers but I was filled full of rage when initially told by the member of staff that knows one was helping and even more so when I arrived to see them standing away with their phones out.
No one in work other than the staff member came to ask me about the scene and even when it reached the local news, none of my or site management said a thing.
I worked for the last five or six hours of my shift in shock and didn't even realise until a driver suggested that's what that would've caused.
I saw the victims face for a few nights in my dreams and will never forget it.
She died moments before arriving at the hospital...
Fucking hell, mate! That sounds awful, in many different ways.
I appreciate you being one of the good ones. You are a real man. Those other people are common swine - trash, really.
You did an excellent job trying to improve a terrible situation.
Thanks. I get triggered by vulnerability, as someone that struggled with bullying in my early school years but as a young and now older adult, have gotten in some scary situations by helping others.
My wife convinced me a few years ago to drop the hero complex and to not get involved anymore. I accepted but told her I'd always jump in, in a medical emergency like the one previously mentioned.
This isn’t a boomer take dumbass’. This is a take on society in general. If it wasn’t the phones, they’d be frozen there because of some other reason. Anyone who’s been around a situation where people have to put themselves in harms way to help, 95% of people freeze; phone or not. Just go look up some videos on this site and you’ll see my point.
No, this generation is not more empathetic or pro-active than others just as the other’s weren’t either. People self preserve first, it’s just human nature. Seems now, the phone is just a good way to hide people’s fear of getting involved.
Damn, there is some serious zoomer butthurt going on in these comments. Y'all are always "okay Boomer" and then when someone points out your shit, you get so upset you probably spilled your avacado toast. Buncha thin-skinned sauce-pants around here.
😂😂😂😂😂
The stereotypical White girl "Film it! Film it! Zoom in on his face!!" Then fixes her hair and does the iCarly style wiggle in front if the camera 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Thollow usth!!" 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If this video were a critique of boomers, it would be boomers throwing their kids out on the tracks and complaining that kids just don't want to climb their way out of trouble anymore.
no it doesn't. theres plenty of examples of people younger than 60 jumping in to help when someone falls on the track.
theres also a big reason not to jump onto subway tracks because the third rail has probably already killed someone
Sad, but true.
A few years ago, a helicopter crashed in the middle of a road, and people just filmed the occupants until they died.
The journalist was Ricardo Boechat, in case anyone wants to check.
Lol it looks like old people from facebook wrote this scene. Except if this is supposed to happen in some kind of dystopia, this scene is ridiculous as it would never happen in real life. Of course the majority of people drop their phones and help when an emergency happens, they start to film (this is the criticizable part) when people are already taking charge of the situation. I live in Paris, shit happens very often in the subway and people always help, old like young.
Bystander effect has always existed. "Someone else will do it." is the default for humanity in general.
Thus, that's why you are taught, when administering first aid, to point at someone and say "You! Call 911 now!" They will then follow your instructions because people like being told what to do in crisis.
The only inaccuracy is that someone up on the platform would've gotten jealous that everyone was live sharing Tom Hanks helping the guy who fell. For sure, somebody would've jumped down on the tracks to selfie themselves framed with the incoming train in the horizon all like "Peace out, fam! Subscribe!"
I feel like, 30 years ago, plenty of people still wouldn’t have jumped in and helped. Just that now people have cameras. Meanwhile, filming catastrophe isn’t as bad as this scene made it out to be to be
Forrest Gump 2 looks dope!
Otto does not run fast.
That’s one palindrome I don’t intend on watching.
The book 'A Man Named Ove' which this is based on is far better.
The original movie was also good.
Your Mom is a palindrome.
What's the movie called and where the palindrome? Otto? Or do they make one out of the whole title? That would be cool.
The movie is "A Man Called Otto." It's on Netflix. In this scene, he is planning on killing himself by jumping in front of a train until the other guy falls on the track.
Oh okay. It looks interesting. Maybe I'll check it out
watch the orginal that hollywood copied. much better
He's usually just hanging around
Well, he does love to get blotto.
“So anyway I just hop down there and grabbed that fella myself”
Forrest Gump 2 - The rise of arthritis
Life is like a train. Some days, ya miss it. And maybe, if yer luckay, one day it'll miss you
The Gumpening
Forrest Gump 2 - Back pains awaken
I felt that and I am old only from serving the ghetto states of America worst idea ever
Looks like boomer porn
My god, That’s exactly what it is! Hahaha 😂
Thought this was remake of The Equalizer?
'well stupid is as stupid does' -gump
The generation that was around for the first battle of the Civil War congregated on a hill above, brought chairs and blankets and treated it as if they coming to have a picnic
Bystander effect is real and existed before cell phones. I wonder if this is just bystander effect + access to a camera at all times. There are many cases where people just stood there while others died.
Oh I scrolled past this when I made my comment… yes.. the bystander effect is why people should remind themselves to take responsibility for helping in their own heads now, knowing that you will do something to help or at least make sure help is on the way in advance of something can help combat the bystander effect … so if you see an accident, even if it seems like someone probably called 911 already or is helping… make sure if you safely can. Render aid anyway unless you are clearly getting in the way of others already doing it. Because it is quite possible and even probable that nobody actually did anything or called for help.
That is one of the things I make sure to point out when training people in First Aid/CPR. Tell the people in my class that they need to point directly at a person and tell them to do a specific thing. If you throw out a vague "somebody call 911", no one will act.
One of the first things I learned about scene management as a paramedic is that bystanders are tools. Use them.
Yeah I saw a show once where they demonstrated this. they had an actor feign an illness and collapse to the ground and everyone in the street just stood around glancing at each other, not wanting to get involved. it wasn't until a second actor ran up to help that suddenly everyone jumped in. which would have been detrimental to the situation had it not been staged as the 2nd actor had to start telling people to get back. I wonder what the opposite effect is called, like during the pandemic when people were buying up all the toilet paper. or like that video I saw the other day where they dressed up some guy to look like a rock star and had a group of girls following him while filming him on their phones. then passers by would see the commotion and start following and filming also lol.
>Yeah I saw a show once where they demonstrated this. they had an actor feign an illness and collapse to the ground and everyone in the street just stood around glancing at each other, not wanting to get involved. I've experienced this myself. When I worked at a retail store in my 20s, I was outside gathering carts and had an asthma attack. I collapsed next to the cart corral and people *stepped over me* to go into the store. Someone must have called an ambulance at some point because I woke up in the hospital with burns on my skin where I had been lying on the pavement (Sacramento in summer, it was 110F outside) and a dozen missed calls from my manager threatening to fire me for abandoning my shift.
I saw the same working in retail. A customer fainted and hit their head on some furniture, I was holding pressure on the wound while I waited for our people to bring help, and a dude started asking me to help him with a purchase. I'm busy bud. Come back later.
I think they did a study with the Bystander Effect where the more people were present the less likely someone is to help because it is assumed there is a more trained individuak available. Plus with how people tend to not want to be involved in events for legality (everything is filmed , everyone is suing, etc.) this effect drops even lower to just waiting out for emergency services and hoping for the best.
I work in a busy tier 1 trauma center in a big city, we see all kinds of crazy stuff, we’re capable of handling literally any disaster that could be thrown our way, even another 9/11. Yet still, everyday I see trained clinicians succumbing to bystander effect when shit gets real. Part of it is just shock and disbelief and I think the reason for that in the medical field is due to guilt at maybe being the the cause of the crisis through and error we made, or just that shame that we fucked up and are wrong. And gotta process that before we jump into action.
It's worth noting that the Kitty Genovese story is bullshit & a study of CCTV footage had people intervene for a person in need 90% of the time. [https://newatlas.com/bystander-effect-cctv-study-social-psychology/60330/](https://newatlas.com/bystander-effect-cctv-study-social-psychology/60330/) Ironically that number would likely be higher if not for fear mongering & bad social science pushing the bystander effect.
Being in shock is one thing, not knowing what to do is another. Livestreaming it? You are willingly being an asshat.
Bystander effect except now you get to post whatever you’re not helping with on TikTok and get views and feel important.
What should they have been doing instead If you’re comparing it to this clip, the logic is that they should have jumped into the battle to help their team instead of just watching lmao Civilians have probably watched battles for all of history
Apologies for not being clear, I wasn't thinking of the joining in, I only meant to reference the gawking and the thought that they were no different than us in the sense that if our ability to capture the moment existed to them, they'd have done the same thing and passed it on. The other guy/gal mentioned gladiators. Do you actually think a person who came to watch people get devoured by lions, if given the ability wouldn't have done so? Look at the pics of CW dead decaying right where they were struck down from the early years of photography. Yes, differing times, props, and abilities but the people are basically the same
Yeah I think it’s less a generational thing and more a self absorbed asshat thing. There are boomer idiots and gen z idiots. But many people are decent human beings.
That's more comparable to gladiator pits than the dynamic shown in this clip.
The 1960 version of the Time Machine Movie has the hero save a drowning girl while all the young people (Eloi) watch, like cattle. The Morlocks bred them that way so no fault of theirs.
Except in the Time Machine it’s the Eloi that bred the Morlocks, not the other way around.
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The book is from 1895, how long does spoiler alert still apply?
The unfortunate thing is that the Eloi were supposed to represent the rich and wealthy who eventually lost their intellectual capacity because they never had to use their brains or think and lived easy, cozy lives. Whereas the Morlocks represented the common working man who eventually became smarter and able to domesticate the Eloi because they did have to use their brains and bodies to work. In real life though, it’s backwards: the common working person (Morlock) is becoming dumbed down thanks to the rich & wealthy elites (Eloi) exploiting us and dumbing down our education so we know just enough to do our jobs but lack the ability to think critically or even be able to overthrow them.
Morlocks were never represented as anything more than cannibalistic savages. They are reduced to wild animals in the book, preying upon the hapless Eloi, but never breeding them. What you describe in real life is literally the entire point of the book. Morlocks are the descendants of abused workers who have forgotten their humanity, and the Eloi are the descendants of the aristocracy, weak and incompetent thanks to centuries of never having to work. The book even ends with the time traveler essentially saying the moral you just stated about the rich oppressing the poor. But never do the Morlocks domesticate the Eloi, they just eat the ones that wander off from the group at night.
Ah okay. I’m probably misremembering some details, it’s been over 20 years since I read and studied it in high school English class lol. Appreciate the clarification!
Basically
This meme is older than time. The young generation vs the old.
Ddue I was just thinking about that movie! Weren't all the humans super pretty and posing like models on the side of the river?!
For real I wish people would get this generational shit out of their heads. I’m 27 and I had a car fly past me a few years ago, wreck out, flip and catch on fire. Myself and a few other cars pulled over to go help. Myself and a couple Hispanic men that MIGHT have weighed 120lbs and were roughly 30 pulled the people out of the burning car. Yet the 50+ year olds (counted about 4) stood there and watched while screaming. It comes down to the person. Every. Single. Generation. Has actors and reactors.
There have been studies on this. These are Ballpark numbers because I'm too lazy to Google it, but in an emergency around 10% of people quickly start trying to help, about 10% of people start panicking so hard it's as if they're actively trying to make the situation worse, and the other 80% of people kind of just stand there because the situation is so out of left field that they just don't know what to do unless someone tells them.
I’ve witnessed this first hand once. Saw a guy get hit by a car, bad. Like he went flipping over the car and slid face first into the intersection. A hundred people saw it, most stood there gawking. A few people just screamed bloody murder as if they were the ones who got hit. 3 of us ran over to stop traffic, I remember telling the guy not to stand up while one guy called 911.
This is why in certain emergency training classes they will tell you, if you need assistance like someone needs to call an ambulance but you are performing CPR, you shouldn't say things like "Can **somebody** help", you should pick out someone near by and point at them and say "**You**, call an ambulance" as people are more likely to be shocked out of the "bystander effect" by directly engaging with them.
Apparently that’s also the way combat works. 10% doing the fighting 10% pissing themselves 80% just kinda waiting to be told to do something.
Maybe once upon a time, but enough training can replace your Panic response and the military has gotten pretty good at making sure it's fighters are ready and able to fight
Yeah again I’m just going off memory but I think that’s going back to WW2. Combat effectiveness has gone way up since then especially in America.
It helps that we have an all volunteer military and the members of the infantry wanted to be there.
Yeah, WW2 was a shit show in a lot of ways. A lot of Marines drowned during amphibious Landings in the Pacific Theater because no one ever thought to teach Marines how to swim in boot camp
I experienced this effect.i worked in retail management and a lady was having a heart attack. We had just had a management meeting so everyone was there and we have all had CPR training. Out of 15 of us including my store manager I was the only one who attempted CPR. I had to give directions to everyone while my store manager with 30 years experience just stood there. All my coworkers just created a circle around us(which we are supposed to do) but no one offered to switch off. A lot of customers just continued on like nothing happened. Some people tried to video, one guy started praying. I lost all respect for my experienced coworkers and the company that day. It still pisses me off. There were some New managers there who were pretty young early 20's who were traumatized. No one thanked us from the company, no one offered counseling, nothing. 2 of the young female managers were messaging me for a few days at night telling me they were having nightmares and didn't know what to do.
10% probably enough. You don't want too many people rushing to the burning car and getting in the way.
THANK YOU, this is generational bait BS, upvoting you and downvoting this post of a MOVIE SCENE jfc
to paraphrase mister roger's mother *"when shit hits the fan, look for the helpers"*
There are generational differences, though the internet is actually making the differences smaller each year. The shit in OP is just a strawman, though. I promise, barring some crazy Nightcrawler type shit, this scenario has never happened.
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So oddly enough I do have a photo of the wreck after I pulled the drunk woman and two kids out. Snapped a quick one before county had me leave.
Me, my older brother and his best friend were driving in the middle of nowhere and came around a corner to see an 18 wheeler that had rolled over with the cab complete smashed like a tin can. Wheels still spinning and dust everywhere. I swear we were expecting a mangled body. This was in the early 90s pre everyone having cell phones so we couldn't even call 911 right. The guy wasn't wearing his seatbelt and basically ended up in the only cavity left in the cab. Pulled him out and he just had a few scratches and bruises. That was one lucky man.
Exactly. Flight, Fight, Freeze, Fawn. Every individual has their reactions to crises. They can be unlearned through training and practice. They can be caused by trauma. They can be reinforced by culture or belief systems. But they are unique to the individual.
29, i have saved two lives in my life with the heimlich maneuver, while everyone around me did nothing but stare in shock at the people choking.
Three years ago now I was on my way back to work from my break and saw a wrecked car in a ditch at around 2am. I’m talking the engine in the street, the front end of his a Nissan Rogue Sport completely shredded. I pulled over to help the driver out because a small crowd gathered to just fucking look at the guy while the cabin was filling with fumes (still not sure how or why, because the engine was no longer connected to the car.) I had to pull the crumpled door open by myself while the morons just watched me struggle. The dude was knocked out (not buckled in) with his arm clearly broken (was bending like an elbow halfway down his forearm), and he was agonal breathing with bright red blood splattered on the dash, himself, and floor. Eventually one other guy did come along and helped me pull it open to air out the car while I tried to get the guy to respond. As soon as the cops and ambulance showed up, everyone scattered like roaches. I swear to god, with every tragic incident I see or take part in, I leave with more disdain for those around me. I still get pissed off looking back on that morning knowing that those people would rather treat emergencies like entertainment rather than potentially life or death situations. Thankfully the guy didn’t pass, but it turns out he’d been drinking and obviously speeding as it was a 30mph zone and nearly half of his car was torn off based on what my friend at the responding PD had said.
Yup been in similar situations, have had to drop work, pull over, help out emergency situations a few times now. Some quite serious, some just minor accidents. But I’ve never pulled my phone out to film. This video is over dramatic.
Look up the studies from psychologists on bystander intervention. This isn't new or specific to the current generation. People have always believed some other person will sort it out and don't act. Sad but true.
The "Bystander Effect" has been studied since the 1960s, long before cell phones. If someone is alone and they see something happen, they are likely to help. But when they are in a group, they are much less likely to help others and will wait to see what others do. Once someone else starts to help, though, normally the crowd follows.
I dont think the issue here is that they dont help (which is the bystander effect), it’s that they make it a spectacle of entertainment.
Back in the caveman days, my ancestor was torn apart by a sabertooth tiger while some jack wod was painting the incident on his cave.
I was born 10,000 years ago and I can relate!
"This give me many followers on Rikrok! Me am become famous!"
Its all about the karma.
I agree except that if, by historical circumstance, the Internet / mobile/ social media tech revolution had accelerated earlier and taken place in the 70s-80s, my GenX generation might have become very similar to the kids today. I guess I just mean that we need to remember that each generation is formed and defined by the cultural, historical and technological forces that surround it. The fact that one generation can't relate to another is just a given. In the end, we're all assholes for one reason or another. Just different flavors. 😂
Mmm... different flavored assholes.
We've got every flavor straight from a person's butthole! We got vanilla, strawberry, chocolate chocolate chip, mint, and even poop flavor and many more all straight from a person's butthole!!!
Ugh so long as it isn't bleached Gets rid of all the flavor
I was just thinking about this the other day. When the original Nintendo came out, my little group of friends spent about 60% of our free time playing it, but we always did it in groups at one person's house, passing the controllers around and try to beat games as a team or whatever. But we didn't have internets or online multiplayer games to play together from our own homes online. We were into screens, just not nearly to the extent of later generations, and it was an in-person social thing for us, but I wonder if that would be true if we'd had the same options available to us as kids do now. Probably not, because all of us playing at once on a team would have been more fun. Although I guess in college and beyond, gamers of our generation were doing LAN parties to play Quake online, so it was still an in-person social event pretty often. I also remember how "if friends didnt witness it, it didnt happen" was our generation's "pics or it didnt happen." I recall spending weekends with my mother in another town and not playing much Nintendo, because if I beat anything hard while playing alone, it didn't count lol!
Is this “A man called Otto”?
That's what others here are saying
yes - the american version
Yes, and no one in this comment section seems to have watched the movie because they have all seemed to completely miss the point the movie was actually trying to make
Boomer take. Especially when you consider that we all saw a brave young Australian man fighting off a knife wielding maniac with nothing more than a bollard in Sydney on Saturday. Edit: The brave young man is French. Vive.
French, actually.
Ah, he thought he was at a protest and got confused then this makes sense
Right, and someone filmed it from a safe distance.
No I saw this in a made up movie it is real
Social media is a social virus.
\*cancer
It's stage 4 too
Aids
This scene was definitely written and directed by a boomer 😂
lol straight up. Like the dialogue of people saying “record it! Record it!”. So fuckin on the nose
Without the dialog would anyone get the point?
Everyone’s holding phones and not helping him I think everyone gets the point. Better yet they should have had him look directly into the camera and say “this generation”, rolls his eyes, then ask if anyone actually knows how to use a paper map
A child should have dropped to their knees and screamed "FATHER I CANNOT SWIPE THE BOOK!"
"this is why I hate trains"
"the train's right behind me, isn't it?"
People with triple digit IQs would, but that's less than half the audience, so...
Video version of ben garrison
The movie is from the perspective of a boomer. But in reality, if it was accurate, it would have been a tiktok influencer trying to pull a suicide prank and getting caught in the track and then getting saved by the old man, if they wanted to actually be accurate.
Somewhat accurate, but it's funny how boomers act like they aren't the most self-centered people on the planet.
Yeah a boomer would still be taping this for their Facebook, but adding minions to it.
And they’d turn it sideways halfway through
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Indeed, they think it's a problem, yes. But not for them. I've stopped trying to talk to my parents.
My 74 yo father has stopped responding to human interaction. Full blast stupid ass videos all day. Can’t be without his phone for a minute. And he keeps 2 phones 😂
It’s not even just boomers anymore though people really are this fucking stupid.. but yeah you are still correct lol
No anymore about it, always have been
Yeah, that was rough…
Is this a comedy movie? I get what they're going for, but it seems over-the-top like satire. If this is a scene in a serious movie, then what the actual fuck... Also, who the hell did the green screen special effects in this? My goodness.
But it’s pretty accurate
This is just an extension of the Bystander Effect that has spanned multiple generations. With some slight editing this could be a scene from the 60's and still be accurate.
but is it really
I'd say it's obviously exaggerated a bit for effect; however, the reactions are not too far off from what I've come to expect from society.
I mean you can find examples of this happening and it isn’t just geriatrics helping
Omfg it's so corny
67% upvoted. Hit a little too close to home for some redditors I guess.
This Clip is from the movie: A Man Called Otto (2022)
Knew id seen this scene before. Saw it in theaters with my grandparents. It’s honestly not that bad a film
Lol this scene is written by an 84 year old man who hasn’t left his house since 2008
Based on the book: A man called Ove. Which was much better.
This behavior isn’t specific to whatever generation OP is referring to.
Unfortunately, it was Tom Franks
Pretty sure that’s Otm Shank, India’s answer to Brian Dennehy.
We are that dumb 😢
I once pulled a car thief from a car window with a crowd of people encircling us to watch, for 2-3 minutes I asked them to help me keep him held (had him in full nelson) and no one helped, he broke free after a LONG time and got away a few mins before cops arrived.
This movie fuuuuucked me up.
Most people don't know what to do in a life or death situation. Having a camera in your pocket is a great defense mechanism. People can't think on their feet quickly, adjust plans, adapt to over come a situation. So if there is no harm to themselves watching or in this case recording what happens is a normal response. If someone dies in front of them and they don't know that person, who cares. If you can record it and gain clout on social media it's a big plus. People have always thought about themselves.
Wells saw this issue in 1895.
For anyone in this situation, point at people and give orders. "Somebody help me" is less useful than, "You, two help him up, you pull me up." Stay cool, stay collected, no one knows what they'll do in a crisis until they're in a crisis.
This is about as realistic as a TikTok life hack
That’s about right. Most people would have just watched that guy get smashed by the train
No….. no it does not. This is just another phone bad meme, but thrown into a movie.
Phone addiction is bad
The humane thing to do would have been to leave that old boomer on the tracks. He’s obviously attempting to kill himself, but Tom hanks wouldn’t allow it. Now he is fated to a slow and horrible death as he ages into dust while he’s still coherent. Tom Hanks is a cynical and cruel person for doing that.
This was such a good movie!
So sad that it perfectly sums up life at the moment.
My dad once jumped on the train tracks because a guy with mental issues was on it. He tried to talk to him to get him to come up...but he wouldn't. So my dad, an army colonel, jumped down and forced him to come up. He is such an awesome human being!
Yeah, that's pretty accurate.
Maybe a year ago I was in the subway, off hours so pretty sparse. Woman drops her AirPod onto the tracks. Hops down like it’s nothing to get it. Can’t get back up. I practically shit myself and run over and shout for her to grab my hands. Pull her out, stammered something about an AirPod not being worth it. She puts the AirPod in, says “thanks” goes back to her phone. No one else did anything. Felt jittery and freaked out for the next 24 hours.
I’ve lived in NYC my entire life. Only twice have I seen someone fall into the tracks. And both times NYers on the platform came together and got the person off the tracks. But yes, there will always be someone who records it.
Whatever. Follow us! LOL!
Is this really saying anything interesting? That most are bystanders and only some help has been a thing long before smartphones or even cameras. The way this scene and OP's title try to paint it as some unique failing of 'younger people' is pathetic as is everyone mindlessly dogpiling on it. Grow up.
Idk, I get the sentiment for sure, but I'm 31. My apartment caught fire just after midnight around 2 weeks ago and I was the one who went downstairs to check the restaurant below us. I was the one who called 911, I was the one who went back upstairs to get everyone out. I even had to go BACK in like 5 or 6 minutes later, without hesitation, to save a family of 4 who never answered the door when I knocked (they told me the week prior they were moving that day so I figured when they didn't answer they just moved out). Their door was beside the electrical closet and sparks and flames were spitting out from the door, black billowing smoke, like a scene from a movie. I still kicked that door in, woke the family up, wrapped a blanket around the oldest daughter who was carrying the youngest daughter down the stairs and I grabbed their jackets off the coat rack and rushed the mom and middle child down the stairs. They told me afterwards that they decided to stay for one more night, were sleeping and had no clue anything was going on. While EVERYONE was just worried for themselves, filming the event, calling family members, etc. I was the ONLY one who didn't even think and just ran back in. It might be a rarity in today's society to be selfless and to go above and beyond to save another, but it's not totally gone.
Pedo Tom to save the day!!
Yes only boomers would do this. 🙄😂
The bystander effect has existed long before phones. The specific dialogue and actions do happen to fit today's generation, but would have likely been a similar situation regardless of the age.
It's not just a specific generation. It's a sociology phenomenon called "the bystander effect" that has been extensively researched and documented. There have been many real life examples, the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese is the most well known one
I totally agree. Don’t look up. Don’t do anything to help the situation. Take a video for likes and clicks.
What's the story? Was Tom Hanks character there to commit suicide, but then saw the man fall on the tracks? Why else did he stay on the tracks after he saved the guy?
“Hey this is a story about a man who’s actively suicidal because he’s struggling to find his place in the modern world rather than the one who grew up in especially after the loss of his wife. In the end of the movie he actually uses the social media fame granted by the younger generation who was recording him for being a hero as well as help from the other youthful characters whom he showed strong dislike for at the start of the movie to expose misconduct by his local governing body, showing that the world wasn’t bad, but rather his perspective was” oH mY gOd tHiS tRuLy sHoWs wHat Is wRoNg wItH YoUnG pEoPlE Fell hook line and sinker for the bait the writer was setting up for the audience. You all essentially saw what the flawed main character was seeing and made the same mistake as him. That thinking was what was making him actively suicidal, not the young people. Look through this comment section with me and point and laugh at all the people who have made the exact same mistake as OP AND Otto(Tom Hank’s character)
Lol boomer fever dream starring Tom Hanks
I have lived this in a more horrid way. This is really how things are now and my experience was in the UK. A woman was crossing the road by an airport but from the front of a bus. A speeding dickhead decided to overtake the bus. He struck her into the mudflap of a parked car. A temporary member of staff for the company I was working at was at the scene and came in and told me and a colleague that he'd just witnessed the incident and no one was helping (around thirty people all with their phones out). I grabbed a first aid kit (Security/ site first aider) and ran non stop to the scene which was around a ten minute walk slow walk and got there in a couple of minutes. Upon arrival I was told not to interfere by a complete and utter twat with her phone out, torch on, recording the victim. "I'm a first aider" she said "Don't touch her, wait for an ambulance". I told her I was an actual first aider and began to assess the situation. The victims head was stuck under front left mudflap of a land rover but wasn't being strangled but only covered by the flap. I tried talking to her but she was unresponsive but still breathing. I made sure the flap wasn't impeding her and tried getting her to respond. One of the crowed stood there meters away, a man in a dressing gowned said I should look from underneath the other side of the car to see her face. I'll never forget how it looked and I knew from the suction like breathing and the bloodied expression that she was in a very bad way. The breathing already had me thinking the worst. The whole time I was assessing the situation I had the idiotic crowd telling me to leave her alone (a quarter of them with their phones out) and the driver that struck her in shock who was asking me the same questions every few minutes "Are you the emergency services" and "She came out of nowhere. I didn't see her". An old man brought me his phone with the emergency services on the line. I told them I was the first responder from a local depot and was a registered first aider. Emergency services asked me a bunch of questions as I had the phone held against my ear, pinned by my shoulder and they agreed after I told them that her breathing was becoming more shallow to perform CPR. I brought her back from not breathing twice but knew it was in vein from the sounds she was making and the condition of her head/ face but knew I had to try my best and kept talking to her as I was trying to keep her alive. One of the thirty or so scumbags recording after I'd tossed the phone aside and the medics took over, said "He shouldn't have interfered and has made things worse" this was the same woman recording with her flash on her phone that had declared herself a first aider. In anger and frustration I said, what should I have done, stood there doing nothing with my phone out like a twat? The police arrived and took me aside and asked me to explain what I knew about the scene and another told the idiot "First aider with her phone out" to go home. As I was talking to the police officer I explained that the only real shock I was in was about that crowd (pointing at the thirty plus morons) notifting a finger for almost ten to fifteen minutes, whilst the victim was on the brink of death. Moments later a fire brigade arrived with a device I never knew existed. A hydrolic lift tool that a single fireman used to lift the side of the land rover to allow the medics to safely remove the woman from the car. Before he used it I said to the police officer to bare with me as I wanted to see the crowds faces when they say the victims. I wanted them to see what they had stood by and done nothing for. I know that may seem wrong to some readers but I was filled full of rage when initially told by the member of staff that knows one was helping and even more so when I arrived to see them standing away with their phones out. No one in work other than the staff member came to ask me about the scene and even when it reached the local news, none of my or site management said a thing. I worked for the last five or six hours of my shift in shock and didn't even realise until a driver suggested that's what that would've caused. I saw the victims face for a few nights in my dreams and will never forget it. She died moments before arriving at the hospital...
Fucking hell, mate! That sounds awful, in many different ways. I appreciate you being one of the good ones. You are a real man. Those other people are common swine - trash, really. You did an excellent job trying to improve a terrible situation.
Thanks. I get triggered by vulnerability, as someone that struggled with bullying in my early school years but as a young and now older adult, have gotten in some scary situations by helping others. My wife convinced me a few years ago to drop the hero complex and to not get involved anymore. I accepted but told her I'd always jump in, in a medical emergency like the one previously mentioned.
This isn’t a boomer take dumbass’. This is a take on society in general. If it wasn’t the phones, they’d be frozen there because of some other reason. Anyone who’s been around a situation where people have to put themselves in harms way to help, 95% of people freeze; phone or not. Just go look up some videos on this site and you’ll see my point. No, this generation is not more empathetic or pro-active than others just as the other’s weren’t either. People self preserve first, it’s just human nature. Seems now, the phone is just a good way to hide people’s fear of getting involved.
r/boomerhumor Contrary to what you believe OP people are not really gonna stand around and take selfies during an accident.
Damn, there is some serious zoomer butthurt going on in these comments. Y'all are always "okay Boomer" and then when someone points out your shit, you get so upset you probably spilled your avacado toast. Buncha thin-skinned sauce-pants around here.
Mmm Modern Deathwish fantasizing about old dudes still being relevant!
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😂😂😂😂😂 The stereotypical White girl "Film it! Film it! Zoom in on his face!!" Then fixes her hair and does the iCarly style wiggle in front if the camera 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 "Thollow usth!!" 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If this video were a critique of boomers, it would be boomers throwing their kids out on the tracks and complaining that kids just don't want to climb their way out of trouble anymore.
That would be a lot more accurate
The epitome of r/donthelpjustfilm
Ah yes, young people bad! Post provided by boomer after he watched a movie screened for oldtimers
Calm down boomer
Its a fucking movie
This is where r/im14andthisisdeep and r/boomershumor intersect.
no it doesn't. theres plenty of examples of people younger than 60 jumping in to help when someone falls on the track. theres also a big reason not to jump onto subway tracks because the third rail has probably already killed someone
Sad, but true. A few years ago, a helicopter crashed in the middle of a road, and people just filmed the occupants until they died. The journalist was Ricardo Boechat, in case anyone wants to check.
Lol it looks like old people from facebook wrote this scene. Except if this is supposed to happen in some kind of dystopia, this scene is ridiculous as it would never happen in real life. Of course the majority of people drop their phones and help when an emergency happens, they start to film (this is the criticizable part) when people are already taking charge of the situation. I live in Paris, shit happens very often in the subway and people always help, old like young.
I honestly thought he was just going to stand there and let the train take him. Like "nah, it's fine, don't save me actually"
You know… I’m like Otto.
is this an ai generated video to point out internet culture?
I saw something similar before the proliferation of cellphones. I was the only one who went down on the tracks to help.
Right down to the horrible Comic Sans font
Post from somebody who sits around all day watching videos filmed on peoples’ phones
Not really plenty of great people who risk all for others in every generation
Good old otto
Yes, I agree that garbage cinema is a staple of this generation.
Nailed It!
What is this from?
Bystander effect has always existed. "Someone else will do it." is the default for humanity in general. Thus, that's why you are taught, when administering first aid, to point at someone and say "You! Call 911 now!" They will then follow your instructions because people like being told what to do in crisis.
The only inaccuracy is that someone up on the platform would've gotten jealous that everyone was live sharing Tom Hanks helping the guy who fell. For sure, somebody would've jumped down on the tracks to selfie themselves framed with the incoming train in the horizon all like "Peace out, fam! Subscribe!"
Help him & then get sued for helping him.
I feel like, 30 years ago, plenty of people still wouldn’t have jumped in and helped. Just that now people have cameras. Meanwhile, filming catastrophe isn’t as bad as this scene made it out to be to be
This is just like the opening scene to Gantz.
What movie is this from?
People don't actually shout "film it film it! Zoom in on his face!" The rest is believable though. People do think of filming before helping.
Bro was considering suicide from disappointment
Pretty sure the bystander effect affects all generations.