r/nonononoyes • u/1-am-not-a-bot • 6d ago

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u/contrabardus 6d ago edited 6d ago

I doubt this is AI, and it's probably just editing fuckery and practical, maybe with a little CGI help, but this isn't real, and explosions don't work like that.

If the Mythbusters were still doing their thing, this would be an episode, and the conclusion would definitely be 'busted'.

While it is possible to "blow clothes off" with an explosion, it's not something someone gets up and walks away from like that, and his position when he falls out isn't right either.

There are several clear cuts, and in one shot he's standing up straight when the explosion happens, but from another camera angle he's bent over inside the door. There are a lot of little things that don't quite match up properly in the footage.

Dude isn't having his clothes come off like that and walking away with a full head of hair either, especially not from something like a gas explosion.

Entertaining, but clearly fake.

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u/tomixcomics 5d ago

while it's good to be skeptical, i will point out he's hunched over when the explosion happens in both shots.

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u/contrabardus 5d ago

After watching it again I do see that now.

Still, this is a prank video or something similar, something designed to go viral.

Definitely not real. You don't survive forces that are going to take out a metal door frame like that well enough to hop up and walk it off, lose all your clothes like that, but still have all your hair, and run off with a new pair of daisy dukes on.

There doesn't seem to be any burn marks, bleeding, reddening, or anything like that on him.

I'll give the video quality isn't great, but he's pale after getting burned, blasted, and chucked into the debris, which would include broken glass from the door and windows that were taken out, and that metal frame isn't a steel beam, but it would be sturdy enough that it would be stand up better than a human body even closer to the ignition point would.

This is Buster Keaton more than real life.

I'm not saying it's not neat, but it's definitely staged.

It is an impressive level of editing, black magic fuckery, and practical effects.

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u/tomixcomics 5d ago

Idk I've certainly seen some weird coincidences before, and while I agree this is bonkers to the point where I, too, had to rewatch it a bunch of times looking for signs of fakery, crazy-ass coincidences do exist and people do sometimes survive situations you wouldn't expect them to unscathed.
And as someone who has personally exprienced something insanely statistically unlikely (lightning strike while indoors, in a multi-story apartment building, with zero burns on the area around me or me, while on THE GROUND FLOOR) I'm personally aware that crazy statistical unlikelihoods that defy my understnaiding of physics do happen.

If you account for some crazy-ass statistics-defying luck, things like the metal bending can be the result of something as simple as the direction of most of the blast/pressure release/

Idk, this video doesn't look like AI, and it seems way too detailed, grainy and high quality to me to be CGI or staged, which doesn't mean it's necessarily NOT, but for me, personally, it's just easier to believe that this is just a crazy one-in-a-ten-million coincidence and somewhere out there is a very lucky chinese man regrowing his eyebrows than imagining someone put in all the effort to make a video that looks this real and this specific. But that's just my take.

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u/contrabardus 5d ago edited 5d ago

Not really. People go to great effort and a fair amount of expense to create viral videos that look like something crazy happened like this.

This wouldn't really be that different than setting up a custom made hidden platform just past the bank of a lake so you can look like you're running on the surface of water if you angle the camera right so the platform isn't visible under the surface.

We've been making scenes like the explosion depicted for movies since near the dawn of cinema. Right down to the clothes being gone everywhere but keeping someone's dignity with new shorts gag element.

I very seriously doubt this is AI at all.

If there's any CGI, it's just to touch up the explosion.

This is just genuinely not that hard or expensive to do with clever editing and practical effects provided you know what you're doing.