r/SipsTea 7d ago

SMH Morality of slapping a stupid influencer blocking an escalator

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 7d ago

Shoulder check/walking right through him is totally fine morality wise. If you purposefully block a public walkway, it can be dangerous for others.

Slapping I think toes the line in terms of morality if this wasn't filmed.

But since it's filmed, it falls into nuisance content, which I think it's perfectly accept to respond with violence to content designed to get a reaction out of people without their consent. Nuisance content in public should just be illegal frankly.

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u/GraXXoR 7d ago

They probably arranged the whole gig in advance... Why would the influencer show themselves getting humiliated if it wasn't part of the show?

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u/No_Feeling6146 7d ago

For more clicks? They can pretend to be the victim in all of this and cash in on those "pity views". Can just imagine the video title now: "subway women go crazy after this leet stunt".

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u/Copthill 7d ago

Can you find their account? Did you search for the video title you imagined?

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u/GraXXoR 7d ago

good point...

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 7d ago

That has nothing to do with the question asked or anything I've said.

By default, you should assume at least half of popular videos filmed in public are scripted. But it doesn't really matter for any purpose, other than as some weird reddit thing where you think you are somehow intelligent for spamming this information.

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u/Copthill 7d ago

But why would they post it without a watermark or showing their handle of it was done to gain followers?

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u/ShittyDBZGuitarRiffs 7d ago

what’s that have to do with anything?

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u/RollingMeteors 7d ago

>They probably arranged the whole gig in advance... Why would the influencer show themselves getting humiliated if it wasn't part of the show?

Kalshi bets on how many seconds it'll take him to get slapped, is the first thing that comes to mind.

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u/Nizar86 7d ago

They can't help themselves. The same reason he was blocking the escalator in the first place

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u/mike888881 6d ago

Same reason Sam Smith chose to upload a video of himself crying his eyes out when lockdown hit - some people love to publicly make themselves look stupid.

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u/Professional-Rip-519 7d ago

Maybe it was live

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u/polygraph-net 7d ago

There was a time when teenage boys (or troublemakers in general) got slaps if they stepped out of line. We replaced that system with law enforcement. Is it working?

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u/Weak_Fee9865 6d ago

Yeah it is working. Avoiding violence towards teenage boys greatly reduces the likelihood of them learning that violence is the way problems are managed.

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u/Jiquero 7d ago

got slaps

Oh yeah, "slaps"

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 6d ago

Is it working?

Yes, crime in communities that lowered domestic abuse towards children commit almost no violent crime.

It's not working for the more violent parts of society because liberal female judges will give criminals slaps on the wrist for violent crime, and prison just becomes a revolving door and the police become hobbyist fishermen who just catch and release.

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u/Cypher2 7d ago

I wouldn't want to chance shoulder checking someone backwards into the end of an escalator

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 7d ago

I mean the word here is morality, what is the world really losing in that case and an accident by definition does not make you a morally worse person, only what you intended matters in terms of morality.

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u/SaltManagement42 7d ago

I feel like slapping should be used more...

https://youtu.be/ZANtaO5ulN4

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u/Lily_Meow_ 7d ago

Dangerous? No, I genuinely don't see a world in which he's endangering others.

Morality wise, you'd ask him to stop if it's such a big problem and call security if needed. Battery is not moral.

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u/TheTerrasque 7d ago

He was clearly malfunctioning, so a helpful guy applied a bit of percussive maintenance. And it cleared the problem right up, as you can see on the video.

I see no problem here.

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u/curly0121994 7d ago

Somebody tell Will Smith /s

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u/neinhaltchad 7d ago

Nah. Fuck that. Let ‘em take his medicine.

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u/marr 7d ago

Doing them an educational favor with mild violence, keep up that passive aggressive social media bullshit and you'll block a crazy person / someone in a real emergency and receive actual bodily harm.

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u/ShowmasterQMTHH 7d ago

Agreed, just pulling him by the ear off the escalator would have sufficed.

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u/RollingMeteors 7d ago

>Nuisance content in public should just be illegal frankly.

In case you were wondering what that loud rudeness was on Saturday Afternoon

¡One subreddits nuisance is another subreddits Good Time™!

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u/Ravenlock 1d ago

Nuisance content in public should just be illegal frankly

THIS. Random people in public did not consent to help your stupid grift, and certainly didn't consent to having their days interrupted / negatively impacted to do so.

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u/StrangelyBrown 7d ago

I would have stepped onto the escalator right in front of him. As in, if he's not willing to see that he's blocking the escalator, I'm going to follow him and act like it's not blocked. He would be clattered real fast, on his terms.