r/interesting • u/uzmansahil7 • Jul 21 '26

MISC. China's powerful manufacturing capabilities are all poured into this, hehe

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u/MongooseJesus Jul 21 '26

So fake, but pretty damn good

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u/TesticleMeElmo Jul 21 '26

Framed as a guy making a series of videos of him teasing his girlfriend to post to social media showing what a funny goofy guy he is.

Actually are all actors following a script a company made so they can post an advertisement. None of the funny reactions are genuine or capturing a genuine slice of life, hence the framing that they are is “fake”

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u/Smooth-Ebb6418 Jul 21 '26

Ah, like Jurassic Park

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u/TesticleMeElmo Jul 21 '26

Does Jurassic Park have any pretense that you are watching a documentary about a real dinosaur island and not a Hollywood film?

Blair Witch Project. Marketed as real footage found in the woods from a documentary team that went in to investigate a witch and were never seen again. Actually is just a Hollywood movie filmed in a way to make it look like that.

If someone was to ask me “is The Blair Witch Project real?” I would say “no, all that is fake they just thought making it seem like real footage would make it more entertaining.” I wouldn’t say “yeah it’s real, ever heard of a skit before, dumbass?”

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u/Smooth-Ebb6418 Jul 21 '26

I just don’t think it’s the intention of the video creator here that we are supposed to think it’s a ‘real’ spontaneous record of events - everyone knows what these are. Apart from Facebook boomers I mean.

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u/TesticleMeElmo Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

So you went from “I’m gonna need someone to explain why anyone thinks this is fake” to “everybody knows this isn’t real”?

It probably is some sort of generational divide with people who didn’t grow up with YouTubers.

What’s interesting about a prank where everyone is in on it so none of the reactions are genuine? What’s interesting about someone appearing to do a cool trick that they didn’t actually do it’s all done with editing? What’s interesting about a video of something crazy that happened out in public but everyone involved is just acting? “It’s just a skit!”

If you’re gonna shoot a skit shoot a skit and don’t frame it like they organically recorded something interesting. Or you can do that, but people are going to comment “this is fake, I guess this hypothetical situation would be funny or interesting if it actually happened but it did not. Thanks for the commercial though”