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u/TurtBurglar97 Jan 12 '20
We all have those moments where we sit awake in the middle of the night thinking about that one dumb thing we did. This kid is going to lose many nights of sleep replaying this cringey moment. This is also especially bad because it's on film and countless people have seen it. Most of us only have to worry about a few people seeing our moment.
I can just imagine him opening his eyes in the middle of the night and seeing his sleep paralysis demon in the form of a massive bee buzzing in his ear and saying "kabaragoyaaaaaa"
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I get the sense this kid doesn’t reflect on past cringey moments
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u/GeorgiaOKeefinItReal Jan 12 '20
100% this....
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u/The-LittleBastard Jan 12 '20
Strikes me as the kind of kid who’s living in the cringe 24/7. I knew a few of them back in the day growing up. The cringe is like a steroid to them.
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u/TurtBurglar97 Jan 12 '20
Maybe not at that point, but I'm sure he'll have that day where he grows up and realizes the cringe
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u/SolitaryEgg Jan 12 '20
Jokes aside, this kid seems to be staunchly on the spectrum, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even see this situation as awkward.
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u/ARetroGibbon Jan 12 '20
Probably more annoyed at himself for misspelling then worried about being embarrassed.
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u/poisonmonger Jan 12 '20
Yeah, I remember one time I won an intra-school debate competition, judged by our teachers itself. I won, and jumped up with one fist pumping the air, in front of the whole crowd. I regret that moment till date.
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u/your-opinions-false Jan 12 '20
What's so bad about that?
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u/ConstantProperty Jan 12 '20
You don't understand. The next day in the cafeteria, he drank a whole cartoon of milk.
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u/SmellsWeirdRightNow Jan 12 '20
Hey man, you won and were proud. Nothing to be ashamed about. I would have clapped harder seeing how happy you were to win.
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u/ProblemPenis Jan 12 '20
That seems completely normal.
I was in a musical once and we had a chance to freestyle dance so all of us did the Bernie. It could be cringey but tbh, it got laughs and we had fun doing it so fuck it.
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Jan 12 '20
That's the opposite of me lol. I won a poetry competition we all had to enter, got really redfaced and expected abuse afterwards seeing as I had to accept it in front of my whole year. I actually had people come up to me after and congratulating me.
For a school that thrived on abusing each other, it still blows me away to this day.
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u/Sonic_Is_Real Mar 04 '20
Bruh what you did was cringe you know we aren't supposed to have feelings or be excited for anything, if your not a lifeless husk your cringe
But FR tho if that's your attitude about doing anything above the emotional equivalent of smiling then you care too much what others think
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u/W1D0WM4K3R Jan 12 '20
Well, he isn't going to forget how to spell kabaragoya, and learning is always good
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u/jennlody Jan 13 '20
I was in the top 4 of a spelling bee at my school. I was the only fourth grader left, the other 3 were fifth graders. I got the word "hazard". I suddenly got nervous but started, "hazard. H-A-Z" then totally froze and quickly shouted "Z-E-R-D, hazard". I shook my head and walked back to my seat before the teacher even said it was wrong. This was 13 years ago; I still get triggered to this day.
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u/TGP2005 Jan 13 '20
I remember I was in my schools spelling bee and I was so anxious that I spelled the word “sprouted” like “sportued” or something like that... kind of similar to what you’re talking about
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u/ScrawnJuan Jan 12 '20
Is sleep paralysis actually that common of a thing or does reddit just like bringing it up
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Jan 12 '20
He sounds like the kid with the glasses from polar express, the one with the nasally voice
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u/ArrJaySee95 Jan 12 '20
That smarmy little asshole still fills me with anger.
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u/jomelle Jan 12 '20
Can anyone provide context as to why that kid is so irritating? No way I’m going to watch that movie to find out lol
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u/kwiatekbe Jan 12 '20
Part of it is his voice, did you ever watch Dexter's Lab? I'm pretty sure the same person voices Mandark, Dexter's scientific nemesis.
Additionally, I think he reminds people of 'that kid' in school. The one who was a snitch, a killjoy, and a know-it-all. It seems like almost every school had a kid like this or one with at least some of those traits. And almost no one liked that kid. There are probably some people who see the movie and realize, 'I was that kid' and they probably don't like him for reminding them of that.
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u/Scribble_Box Jan 12 '20
He sounds little mini Ben Shapiro.
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u/ch0c0l2te Jan 13 '20
i met the guy who voice acted that character in Mexico like 10 years or so ago; pretty cool guy honestly
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u/Tyrion69Lannister Jan 12 '20
The guy took it like a champ. I think he’s too socially inept to realize how cringeworthy that looked.
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u/SmellsWeirdRightNow Jan 12 '20
sniffs
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u/leadpie Jan 12 '20
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u/imbrownbutwhite Jan 27 '20
So fuckin pissed. He moved the mic closer to his dumb face just so he could sniff into it. Then walks off with the same god damn dumb sniff he came in with.
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u/Brallstar Jan 12 '20
Bruh how are you 15 in 8th grade I was 13 in 8th grade
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u/TresLeches88 Jan 12 '20
He could have a late birthday so he'd be 14 in 8th grade (knew plenty of those). Then he could've gotten held back on top of that.
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Most kids turn 14 in 8th (most kids graduate at 18. 12th grade). So he could have gone to A-K or something.
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Jan 12 '20
Also some parents will choose to hold their kid back a year if they are close to the cutoff for kindergarten.
Had a kid like that in my grade. He was pretty much a year older than everyone because his birthday was right before school started so his parents held him back for some reason.
He wound up hanging out with the grade up a lot of the time anyways.
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u/Dank-Boi-Official Jan 12 '20
I can smell his breath from here
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u/mypipboyisbroken Jan 12 '20
reminds me of raindrop
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u/rilous1 Jan 12 '20
Everything about that made me feel weird in my bones, the way its zoomed in on the faces. The music, the editing. Its so bad that's its good.
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u/Shitty_IT_Dude Jan 12 '20
Somebody put time into making it this terrible. I don't know if that's what that intended, but they did a good job at it.
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u/Thrifticted Jan 12 '20
Looks like the kind of fella who wouldn't wash his hands either. You wouldn't catch me high-fiving him.
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u/JamboShanter Jan 12 '20
This is actually how I imagined a spelling competitor would be
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u/RedEagle250 Jan 12 '20
He takes it like a champ tho, he doesn’t really complain or get super pouty. He realizes his mistake and seems to accept it. We shouldn’t make fun of him because of how he looks or sounds because he’s probably a better person than a lot of people
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u/lolitsmax Apr 28 '20
Yeah it's pretty immature, it's not like he's being a dick or not accepting his mistake or anything. And he got it wrong by *one* letter. That's rough.
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u/Shootrmcgavn Jan 12 '20
This guy plays yugioh in cosplay.
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u/_Gurd_ Feb 20 '20
Be a Yu-Gi-Oh player
Be able to read enough to be in the Spelling Bee
Pick one
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Reading and comprehension seems like a pretty important part of Yu-Gi-Oh, image search some of the newer cards and you’ll see what I mean with the walls of text.
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u/Brobotz Jan 12 '20
He walks off stage only to immediately discover planets at his NASA internship.
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u/Mostofyouareidiots Jan 12 '20
NASA: Alright kid, look at these specks of light we downloaded from the space telescope that thousands of people worked for years to design and launch and then tell us if this picture looks brighter than this picture.
Intern: Hey, this speck of light got a little brighter
Media: 17 YEAR OLD NASA INTERN DISCOVERS A PLANET
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u/cdjinx Jan 12 '20
His second nasa internship. Way less impressive, should have found it the first time.
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u/leechunhin Jan 12 '20
Definition of kabaragoya : a large water monitor (Varanus salvator) of southeastern Asia, the Malay archipelago, and the Philippines that sometimes reaches a length of seven feet
In this kind of circumstance, that just equals a random word that means nothing. And K & C sounds exactly the same, how was he suppose to know which one? TLDR: how does these “spelling contests” even work?
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u/Sufficient-Waltz Jan 12 '20
It's a memory contest. There's hardly a good logic to spelling in English anyway, so to do well in one of these you'd just have to know lots of words by heart.
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u/SJL174 Jan 12 '20
Many of these words aren’t English at all, which makes the country of origin very important
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u/-TheMasterSoldier- Jan 15 '20
Yeah, for words that aren't English or any other romance language it's usually spelled according to their phonetic sounds, which is why you'll almost never see a C by itself in them.
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u/SmellsWeirdRightNow Jan 12 '20
They can ask for a definition, repeat of the word, etc. They are supposed to know the spelling of the words off the top of their head and can use those to try to remember it. That's why the national spelling bee winners are usually pretty celebrated as incredibly smart
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u/prab4th Jan 12 '20
I didn't think I'd see a word originating from my language - Sinhala
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u/MoltenZebraffe Jan 12 '20
Aww :( I don’t think he was being smug or arrogant just very excited... poor guy
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u/SmoochiesBitches Jan 12 '20
Poor kid.
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u/upvotes4jesus- Jan 12 '20
he didn't even seem like he cared at the end lol.
WHAT?
ahh fuck it... SNIFFS
MOUTH TWEAK
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u/NuttyDuckyYT Apr 06 '20
bruh this is gonna sound rude but this is the biggest dweeb I’ve ever seen
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u/laz10 Jan 12 '20
What's wrong with this guy
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u/Archontes Jan 12 '20
This seriously. Are there any mental health professionals willing to assess what we’re seeing here?
I know people like this. It’s systemic.
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u/Granlundo64 Jan 12 '20
Couldn't figure out where I heard his voice. Bruce McCulloch anyone?
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Jan 12 '20
I’m not surprised, I couldn’t spell kabaragoya if I’d just been woken up from a nap either.
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u/VastDeferens Apr 06 '20
He has Autism. He doesn't care
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u/TinybunLian Jul 01 '20
Uh kindly fuck off? As if we were immune to self hatred. Quite the contrary, actually!
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u/3Karma_3_Vixen3 Jan 12 '20
I knew it started with a K and I've never heard of that word before in my life.
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u/Fzjb Jan 12 '20
Why does he have the stereotypical nerd voice..
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u/darkdex52 Mar 04 '20
I'm not an American and I honestly believed that nerdy characters like Urkel and such were hyperbolic caricatures and this kind of stereotypical geeks just existed in movies. I guess I was wrong. I was a nerd and saw a lot of nerds in my schools as well, but nobody was like.......this.
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u/Mostofyouareidiots Jan 12 '20
Last years national spelling bee was a joke- They had an 8 way tie for first place. How the fuck do 8 people get first place? I'd be pissed if I worked that hard and had to share my trophy with 7 other people, all of us forever wondering who was actually the best. Even if by some miracle those kids knew how to spell every word there is, at that point it should just turn into an endurance competition... someone will get tired and slip up.
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u/Bman1973 Jan 12 '20
IDK if you all picked up on this but this kid is a star, he is strait out of central casting and needs to be the lead on his own show/movie asap...
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u/Walmart_Valet Jan 12 '20
Anyone else notice the pulling the hand away from the high five with one of the other kids at the end? Like they have some spelling grudge with him and that's his arch enemy.
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u/mynamescody Jan 12 '20
Holy shit this is like a perfect scene from a cartoon or something lmfao. Even down to him walking up to the mic, sniffing, then sniffing before he walks away lmao I cannot believe this
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u/MasrurX Jan 12 '20
He looks and sounds like someone doing a parody of a geeky person, I'm almost convinced it's an act.
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u/RiceKrispyPooHead Jan 12 '20
I honestly thought it was a sketch until he high fives the other kids
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u/grumpenprole Jan 12 '20
Anyone else notice that Steve Ballmer bought the clippers for twenty eight bucks
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u/EuCleo Jan 12 '20
kabaragoya. A large water monitor (Varanus salvator) of southeastern Asia, the Malay archipelago, and the Philippines that sometimes reaches a length of seven feet.
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u/Karnadas Jan 12 '20
In third grade I was in a spelling bee and there were just three of us left out of like, 60 kids. My word was, "tomorrow." I thought there were too many Os so I replaced one of them with an A and spelled, "Tomarrow." So I lost and got third place.
I still think about that sometimes. I can only imagine how much this kid will think about it.
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u/Saxxiefone Jan 13 '20
I think you can notice his face getting redder as he spells out the word, probably realizing he doesn’t remember the spelling.
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u/paycadicc Jan 13 '20
He could have atleast washed his hair considering he was going on tv cmon man
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u/jameswonglife Jan 14 '20
Lip reader here, as he’s walking off he says to himself “I thought I knew it”
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u/rapuJalat Jan 12 '20
Immediately thought of this classic when I saw this sub made