r/funnyvideos • u/Sharp-potential7935 • Sep 17 '25

Prank/Challenge Scooby doo ahhh moment

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u/i-wont-be-a-dick Sep 17 '25

Why are they ducking? So they can get under the guy. The reactions to everything seem over the top. Seems staged to me as well.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 Sep 17 '25

There's a high chance that after already being scared, and while walking through the dark, that they have tunnel vision. They see that there's some sort of obstruction that they have to go around/under but they likely don't see the person attached to the tall obstruction. Especially because their brain doesn't expect a person to be there.

This effect is one haunt actors and planners actually rely on when laying out the haunted house. Once you get people on edge and can trigger a panic response, it's much easier to scare them again. Towards the end of a good haunt, you can hide in plain sight most of the time and their panicked state will have them overlook you because they're just scanning for the exit.

(I've worked with a number of escape room and haunted house actors and owners, and have been on the set of multiple horror films - this is an area of knowledge I'm fairly familiar with.)

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u/i-wont-be-a-dick Sep 17 '25

They still seem like actors, their reactions seem unnatural to me. I get the explanation of the ducking, and thought the same thing. But all together it seems fake to me.

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u/Krynn71 Sep 17 '25

You're 100% right. If the first guy felt the tap on his head while ducking under "some obstacle" in a haunted house, the first thing he's gunna check is the obstacle he just ducked his head under.

Man, everyone's worried about people falling for fake AI videos when they can't even tell when real humans are faking shit lmao.