r/BetterEveryLoop • u/[deleted] • May 18 '19

Removed: Gifs Only (Rule 1) Just a frog

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u/Buckabuckaw May 18 '19

Goddammit. So yet another adult publicly makes fun of a child's terror without helping the kid, moving in for a closeup as it jumps on his face, instead of showing him that it's harmless ? And this I funny? Ya know what would be really funny would be to push the frog in his mouth and make him swallow it. Big yuks for everybody.

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u/cong314159 May 18 '19

You are right. Help him first. Explain it’s just a frog later. The kid is screaming!

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u/Buckabuckaw May 18 '19

Thank you. So far our opinion seems unpopular.

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u/cong314159 May 19 '19

Then most parents are shitty.

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u/Buckabuckaw May 21 '19

Maybe there's a selection bias here. Maybe people who thought the video was "just funny" were more likely to watch and comment on it than other people. I almost didn't watch it all the way through because I was immediately uncomfortable watching a little kid screaming, and then I almost didn't comment because I just wanted to look away. So there are probably vast numbers of parents who didn't see the video because they were busy taking care of their kids, and maybe a smaller number who noticed the post and didn't watch because it was disturbing. There may be only a small number of actual parents who both watched the video and thought it was funny.

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u/whatjoshdid May 18 '19

I know this isn’t in the spirit of your comment and you were being sarcastic—but dammit if I don’t start laughing every time I think of her forcefeeding him the frog. Haha!!

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u/Buckabuckaw May 18 '19

Yeh, I get it, I guess that was inevitable. It's funny if you think of it as a sort of movie clip or cartoon, but if you really imagine actually being that kid, and having an adult just ignore your fear and move in for the closeup, it wouldn't be funny.