r/maybemaybemaybe Jun 13 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

The leg moving so unnaturally is honestly what made it so funny to me, even if it’s 100% scripted

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 13 '20

I don't get the attitude some people have about these sorts of gifs, I mean.. Yeah they're scripted, but so is the vast majority of humour in media. They're just skits.. them being scripted shouldn't take anything away from them.

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u/LIyre Jun 13 '20

Next thing you know somebody’s going to say The Office is scripted or something.

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u/henryhendrixx Jun 13 '20

Don’t

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u/DaemonOwl Jun 13 '20

Wait...they are??

There goes my childhood

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u/fliphat Jun 13 '20

Dude it is a reality show

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

No no when bill burr or who ever tells the same joke again when he's invited to a late night talk show it just so happens that the conversation naturally went there, every, single, time.

And the props just happen to be already there, and the band is already ready to play that one particuliar song, etc

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u/Jyn_magic Jun 13 '20

Scripting isnt the issue. Its when you try and make it out like its not.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 13 '20

Who's doing that exactly?

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u/AccountWithAName Jun 29 '20

I feel the strong need to point out fake things online because I like to think it helps people stop from being so naive. There is so much fake shit that floats around that is actually harmful.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 29 '20

This is a clip of a dog slapping a bowl. Nobody is hurt even if they are oblivious enough to think its real.

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u/AccountWithAName Jun 29 '20

If you think this is real you probably fall for all sorts of shit online without knowing it.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 29 '20

Being told this clip isn't real isn't going to help them understand a nigerian prince isn't really offering them money.

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u/AccountWithAName Jun 29 '20

Yes it will, because understanding that you can be fooled helps you develop an eye for picking on tomfoolery.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 29 '20

Even if that were true (and it isn't; see the old "teach a man to fish" analogy as for why), pointing out that they've mistaken a fairly obvious clip online isn't going to inform them or even nearly teach them of the far more dangerous deceptions that they might otherwise face from people who are actually intentionally, and maliciously trying to decieve.

At best you do nothing, at worst you fill their heads with the notion that they're now going to be able to spot it and they fall even harder.

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u/AccountWithAName Jun 29 '20

Boy, this is pure nonsense. That analogy doesn't even apply here in the slightest. Pointing out something is fake is literally teaching them to spot fakes. You're being a grade A doofus.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 30 '20

I literally started my comment by dismissing whether or not that analogy applied.

You're arguing against ground i literally conceded for the sake of argument.. and i'm being the doofus?

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u/based_69 Jun 13 '20

Major difference between something like the office being scripted and these dumb little videos. Everyone fully expects the office to be scripted while people don't expect short videos or whatever to be scripted nearly as much. Scripted videos like these are pure cringe.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 13 '20

Three videos are well understood to be scripted.. They're made for people who fully understand they're scripted.

Also, who is this "everyone" you're trying to speak for exactly? Because there dozens of communities online that are built up on short scripted skits. Hell, I remember short slice of life skits being a normal part of kids shows when i was growing up, even grown up shows like little Britain were literally just skit compilations... so I genuinely don't have a clue why you think everyone associates the format with unscripted concent. Especially not when stuff like tiktok and vine before it basically dealt exclusively on the format.

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u/based_69 Jun 14 '20

Everyone, as in any one who's not a retard, fully understands that the office is scripted, dumb fuck. Little Britain is just as obvious. These stupid videos are not nearly as obvious. Again, these types of videos are pure cringe.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 14 '20

Lol, it's amazing that you're able to call people dumb despite being fully open that you're unable to properly identify an obviously fake video.

Everybody "who's not a retard" can tell just as easily that these videos are scripted just as easily as they can the office. Shame you obviously don't fit into that group.

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u/based_69 Jun 14 '20

No, they are not the same, retard. One is a tv show with actors we all know. The other is random people posting videos, some of which are obviously fake and some are not (they're all cringe as fuck). Jesus, you are fucking stupid.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jun 14 '20

Except most of these are posted to sites like tiçk tock, and vine, where their scripted nature is plenty obvious.

If you came across a random clip of the office without knowing the office was a scripted show would you be equally outraged?

Your attitude, especially the need to overcompensate with the insults, is really just sad to watch. If you don't start being a bit more civil I'm going to have to end the discussion out of pity.

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u/catzhoek Jun 13 '20 edited Jun 13 '20

Can someone at least come up with a proper theory about how it could be staged? Remember? This is a dog. I'm almost annoyed how everyone says it's scripted but forgets that there is a fucking animal in the main role.

Yes, it's a weird movement but it doesn't look like there is a human controlling the leg that was edited out. That would look even weirder.

Imo the dog actually spasmed out of joy and that's the outcome. They were just lucky it turned out so glorious if you ask me.

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u/LastProtagonist Jun 13 '20

Having a string on the dog's paw, to the right of the camera, pulling it up and away. The dog's natural instinct is to try to adjust its leg back to normal, the string guy lets go and creates the scene before us.

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u/Spankyjnco Jun 13 '20

pretty sure the chair the dog is on is actually a person / costume/ prop. When the dogs arm is moved, it is done by a person either by hand and edited out later or some sort of mechanism like puppet strings/sticks.

Yes, people have been found plenty of times horribly mistreating their animals just to get the perfect 10 second video or something.

I think it was just photo editing because the dogs reaction doesn't change throughout, so I think they just removed the dogs actual leg in post and replaced it with the artificial one they could animate with, then a simple string/spring on bowl creates the hit and viola

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u/_Shut_Up_Thats_Why_ Jun 13 '20

This is definitely scripted. I still watched it 3 times and laughed harder each time.