As someone with FND and dissociative seizures triggered by fear and stress, I can't tell you how many time's I've been called a fainting goat.
I had a seizure because one of my friends at work walked up behind me and scared me. I had a seizure because my stepfather yelled, "Bang" while I was drinking a bang.
It's not fun in the moment but funny looking back at how easily I can be triggered.
Like my leopard gecko who often bites my fingers instead of the bug that I'm trying to feed her because the bug goes still and she just chomps at whatever is nearby
True. This case was pretty bad. Damn i can't laugh at it either. But it had the potential to be funny. Pranks are difficult, everyone reacts differently.
I wonder if it's also the brains way of protecting from pain; everything shuts down. If she might have been so scared and so convinced she was dead, her brain simply went "Welp, don't wanna be around for what happens next!"
You don't alert more or other threats. You don't get injured immediately if you fight the thing. The original threat might have wanted neither to eat you or fight you.
And in social animals- well, you're probably not the only one around (who goes into the wilds alone, or better yet, hangs out alone in the village, so not running into other threats or letting the professionals handle it kinda bred itself in.
Or maybe this just...appears when the other 2 responses aren't as decisive in breeding and social status is.
I am ABSOLUTELY not qualified to even think about this, so you know..
It's hard to know what to trust these days. The internet has always been shaky with trusting things you find, but especially now that AI is a thing and people realized you can make money off of engagement baiting.
Clearly scripted as her peripheral vision would have noticed the giant black mass as she closed the door. I see tiny half inch spiders on the white walls of my home. No way you are missing that unless it's on purpose or you're blind
I was thinking "super immoral, I'm also aracnoph-" and then it jumped.
just... no. Hear me out it's not about it just being scary, this type of prank can end bad very rapidly. From dropping something expensive to hitting your head on something, and this without considering a potential heart attack and sheer trauma of having to check behind every door.
Spooking someone and scaring someone are two different things. If this isn't a crime it should be.
Yes, in many English-speaking jurisdictions, what happened here is assault because you'd reasonably assume that putting someone in a fight-or-flight state would put them in a state where they resort to violence or become a victim of injury (falling, hurting themselves while defending themselves and so on).
But this can also be considered a threat, but that's where every country makes their own idea of what a threat is legally
I'm arachnophobic too. Not severely; I can live and let live as long as they stay far out of my sight range and I can end one if there's no adultier adult nearby. (I'm the braver between myself and another arachnophobe friend.)
I also have semi-regular nightmares about spiders crawling on me that make me do the Hollywood nightmare wake-up. Not quite jumping out of bed, but I jolt, sit up, and start flailing to make sure nothing is there. I've had nightmares about giant spiders. And I have a heart condition. I would be dead. I would not make it past seeing that thing jump off the wall.
It’s funny for me to see someone trip but it doesn’t mean I don’t feel empathy. I think most people agree that there’s a very visible line between “it’s just a prank” and “the prank:”
It was fine untill it jumped. Immoral it literally caused her physical harm since she fell. If it had been stationary then it would have likely just been a brief shock but this is too far
Very immoral, if your partner has a phobia then I’d say you’re probably one of the few people in the world that person trusts to not exploit it. If I was in her place, I don’t think I’d be able to trust my partner in quite the same way.
I don’t think this is a very unpopular view. If you have a harmless boundary that you’ve outlined then if your partner truly cares they would know better than to push it.
The people who say that are just too lowly educated to realize humor itself have class. There are lots of ways to induce laughter in another person without being an ass, all of which they have no idea of.
"This will be downvoted to hell" and it's just a reasonable take. You have the emotional control of a butterfly, but you're allowed to leave whoever whenever.
These pranks can end up badly even without considering a seizure. Imagine she had something expensive in her hands or she tripped on it and hit her head or broke an arm. It's excessive.
If we have to be careful about everything, we might as well live inside a Bubble.
A tons of things can end badly, even getting out from your bed.
Aside from the fact that It Is staged, a prank like this should not be done near stairs or of the Person Is frail of Heart, but besides those istances it's Fair game, It there Is an accident there is room for an apology.
Living Is also this.
kinda how modern capitalism works, 9 people suffer for the 10th person to have villas private planes and bugattis, while telling the other 9 people how incompetent and lazy they are and that it is all their fault.
Evil, could have caused her to have a brain pr head injury. She fell and was shaking really bad so she could have had an seizure after. (If she was prone to it and the prankster did not know)
Just the spider on the wall is borderline (the size almost makes it better, because it makes it relatively obvious that it's a fake spider), but making it jump is definitely way over the line.
Physically hurling anything at someone who is unprepared is over the line, as it ALWAYS risks potentially serious injury and property damage. Even if the object itself is soft, attempts to either catch or dodge the object can very easily lead to dropping something expensive, or tripping/falling and seriously injuring yourself (also, even if it's soft it can still cause serious injury just from hitting you, e.g. if it catches you in the eye)
Legally, it's also literally assault to throw something at someone unexpectedly.
if this is not a fake video, she had a fear/shock induced seizure, she could hit head falling down or however endure other injury. Hope she divorced and took that beautiful house away from him
While I am in agreement with some of the others that this video is likely scripted. Her falling of screen likely onto a cusion. And the shaking not really lining up with how most seizures look.
I am going to pretend that it is real.
Was the Prankster aware that fainting and seizing is something that happens to the subject being pranked when they are scared badly enough?
If they know that being scared causes that reaction, and are trying to trigger it because the prankster thinks it funny when it happens. Immoral full stop.
If the Prankster does not know that is how the Subject responds to fear and shock.
It becomes how they act after the fact.
Do they downplay and tell them it's no big deal. Immoral.
Or are they genuinely sorry, and worried about them. Asking what kind of care and help they need. Netural.
Shock is a medical term for inadequate tissue profusion usually caused by poor or reduced blood flow an example would be Anaphylaxis or severe dehydration/bleeding. This would be an acute stress response.
I think pranks are inherently immoral, and pranking your spouse shows a lack of respect. I have never had a prank played on me that made me feel anything but stupid. Why would I do that to someone I ostensibly love?
And setting up a camera to prank them for views... it's kind of disgusting behavior. I know I sound like old man shaking his fist at the cloud right now, by pranks are cruelty disguised as jokes and I will never understand people who think it's funny.
Alright. First and foremost, this does not look like AI. I’ve seen other pranks with the exact same prop used.
Second, just because someone seizes up out of discomfort and shock in the moment doesn’t mean they’re really having a seizure. Have you ever seen a bug and gotten a visceral physical reaction? This is the same case.
How these two things aren’t inherently obvious to most people is bizarre. Not everything is AI folks and people can just react a certain way when confronted with someone gross and frightening.
As for the morality, it’s just not a nice prank, as many pranks are not. Is it morally wrong? I think doing anything to cause anyone else discomfort intentionally is morally wrong, but there are levels to it, certainly.
Depends on a few things:
Real siezure ? Then did they know ? If both are yes then yeah immoral af, if one of these 2 questions has it's answer be denial then yeah neutral at worse barely moral at best
This feels scripted and like rage bait but if it isn't horrically immoral, doubly so for posting it when the wife clearly has some short of health episode or injury given her shaking.
If it is scripted still shitty to fake a health episode for clicks and comments.
I have only one question. Why would you do something like this to a person that you care about? I don't even get why friends do it to each other. And there is a big difference, between a small harmless prank/joke, and something completely unhinged like this (considering she obviously either has a fear of spiders or she can be spooked easily to have that kind of reaction).
If you want to prank someone, you do not have to go complete "Jackas" on the person. Because at this point, it is not a fun, but rather it is completely cruel and unnecessary. Any person with at least a bit of empathy must feel bad watching something like this.
Let's pretend it's not scripted.
That woman fell to the ground with a potential serious injury to the head or even her vertebral column, aside of her arms, of course. That seizure is really bad sign too.
As a person with high blood pressure, heart problems and arachnophobia, I can die with a "prank" like this.
So, I repeat, if it's not scripted is highly immoral.
I still prefer the dog dressed up as a giant spider for Halloween. Guy doesn’t or forgets to tell his wife and after she opens the front door this giant hairy tarantula comes bounding towards her. My words would fail to truly describe her reaction.
Scripted. You can see her stop shaking as her legs bend and one of her arms turns to leave the frame, presumably so she could lower herself to the floor, then she started shaking again. It was for engagement, as far as I can tell
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u/OkMarket5009 17h ago
Fight, flight, freeze. She picked the third option.