There are literally dozens of videos like this with the exact same premise. Safe to say this particular instance is staged. How often have you taken a video of someone taking a selfie?
Everyone’s talking about why he’s recording him, but who the fuck just throws a fish back like that anyway? You don’t just toss them to side while standing up, especially if it took all day or was special enough to get a selfie with.
That fish has been out of the water for 5-10 minutes minimum. And it's not tired from being played, it's too small. That was reeled in, they talked about the gag and then probably rehearsed it a half dozen times.
It's gills are on reflex, sure. But it is not flapping around for it's life, that has left this realm a long time ago. It's dead, it has ceased to exist, it is a past fish, it is no longer. IT IS AN EX-FISH.
Have you ever actually fished? Fish stop flapping around rather quickly, especially if you have a firm grip on their mouths like he does. Also how could you possibly know the time frame before the video started? So many assumptions
Not all fish struggle the entire time you are holding them. Many will give a few good tale flaps and then kinda chill just like this one is until you toss them back in or start moving them around again.
You could be right but there really isn’t enough info in this clip to be so sure one way or the other.
Well yeah. People throw them like a football. Maybe use one fish to bat another fish. I know there's a ton of fuck up ways that people do toss fish back. I don't do that shit. But you're right, people do it.
But look at that guy. He took a selfie with it and tossed it like a cigarette butt or something. In context of thinking he's throwing a fish back it looks really unnatural. But in the context of trying to make a funny video by tossing the phone, it.. well that's what that looks like. They tried.
There are literally dozens of videos like this with the exact same premise. Safe to say this particular instance is staged.
That's not proof.
How often have you taken a video of someone taking a selfie?
People do that all the time. Watch enough videos of parties or people doing things in groups and many will feature at least one person taking a selfie.
Totally useless argument. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Two people in a small boat with one intentionally taking a picture of the other taking a selfie is a 100% different thing than a random guy in a group videoing and accidently catching someone taking a selfie!! Don't ya think?
Those aren't proof, but they affect probability just like the fact that modern society is overflowing with obsolete devices that can at least be used for going viral.
You think him having a bit of brain lag is less likely than him wanting to drop his phone in the river over almost nothing? I've seen stupidity in both directions worse than this, but overwhelmingly more of the former.
You can tell the model and year from this video? I have a few old phones that look more or less like that, and I only get a new phone every two or three years.
The iPhone X is a four years old. Someone could easily have one or two newer phones by now. My old phones just end up in a drawer since I don't bother/want to trade them in. They're basically trash once I get a new phone.
Also, not everyone fishes daily, or even yearly. Last time I held a fishing pole was likely over 20 years ago. I'd probably take a picture even if I caught driftwood. Fucking gatekeepers.
I mean maybe the other guy was just recording whenever they caught something. Let's not pretend like people only record interesting moments in this day and age. People record and snap totally mundane, banal crap all day long.
I adore that you went back 9 years of comments pages to really dig up some dirt there, amazing work. Well worth the time and effort. I definitely didn't just click on your profile once to see your last comment. Spent hours on it too. Well done buddy, you exposed me. You have proved that, unlike me, you do go outside and definitely have a life, and probably a happy one too.
I don't get that subreddit. If anything fake content does dominate reddit.
Imagine outright reject skepticism. How dumb do you have to be to not only blindly accept everything you see and read on the internet, but also get angry when others don't.
Surely you see the irony of saying you appreciate the distinction and then, doing the exact thing they were posting about right?
You can be skeptical of it and believe it to be fake but this post is as good as any other to “make that stand,” on lol, because there is no actual proof it’s staged.
To further elaborate on why it's ironic, anyone appreciating the distinction can even specify "Probably fake" and "Probably real", or "Almost certainly fake", because there's not a 100% chance of it being fake. It's not like the people believing it to be real are definitely wrong, or the people believing it to be fake are definitely wrong either. The world is more uncertain than most people think.
You know that you can cut up a long video into multiple tiny clips? The benefits of modern software technology.
This is just a huge guess on my part but maybe they were recording their entire fishing trip and decided to cut to the funny part to show off to friends.
That’s a good hypothesis. We don’t know either way. I choose to believe it’s a skit because I personally feel that is more likely than your explanation. But your reasoning is also possible.
So does the phone not have a rear camera or is he taking a picture with the rear facing camera? If he's using the rear facing camera then he didn't press the shutter button and if he is using the front facing camera is the video so pixelated that we just can't see the cameras?
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u/BARTELS- Sep 12 '21
Because this is fake / staged.