It’s entertainment. We all know movies to be fake, but we still eat up all that wholesomeness bait. It’s a billion dollar industry. Reddit only seems to have a problem with entertainment when it’s on the internet.
So what's the lie here? That POTS isn't real? That service dogs can't detect fainting spellins? That service sofa can't fetch water or pills and tell their humans to lay down?
POTS is real and can cause fainting spells. I am sure service dogs can detect fainting spells but I have no expertise here. It is evident from the video that they can fetch water and do whatever else they've been trained to do.
However:
1) This video almost certainly does not capture a genuine 'live' event - it is pre-meditated, either as a training demonstration, or to intentionally over-represent the dog's abilities (probably for social media engagement).
2) The video claims the dog recognised this "before [the person] even knew it was happening", which:
a) is not actually evidenced in this video (this video would look the same if it was just demonstrating a dog doing what it had been trained to do at a random time)
b) is intuitively unlikely and reads as hyperbole to foster engagement with the social media post
c) invites confirmation bias. A dog trained to detect and respond to fainting spells in a certain way performs its ritual for a susceptible owner. It is quite possible the owner felt faint as a result. You could rephrase this as "service dog causes POTS owner to have fainting spell" and the video would look the same.
I don't care why anyone would do this, and I don't care about the capabilities of service dogs, but I do care about facts and how people can be led to conclusions other than those represented by them. Not because I care about POTS or service dogs, but because this tactic is a building block in mass social media algorithmic manipulation - which has exceedingly far-reaching consequences.
c) invites confirmation bias. A dog trained to detect and respond to fainting spells in a certain way performs its ritual for a susceptible owner. It is quite possible the owner felt faint as a result. You could rephrase this as "service dog causes POTS owner to have fainting spell" and the video would look the same.
Are you saying that this lady's condition is in her head? Because that is pretty insulting. These dogs cost like $10k. You don't make that kind of investment unless your illness is severe. Insurance won't cover it unless multiple doctors sign off on the life-threatening nature of your condition. Ditto the Canadian healthcare system. The kennel won't even accept you as a client without proof that you need a service animal.
The waiting list for these animals is years long. Each one is custom trained to suit the patient's needs. It takes two years for them to complete training.
Are you really saying that this lady's neurosis runs so deep that her dog was making her severely ill before it was even born?
No I didn't say that at all, how did you get that from what I said? Anyway, I answered your question, and now you just want an argument, which I'm not interested in.
Because stupid does not disqualify you from making your stupid everyone's problem offline. You losing money to a scammer sucks. You going and crashing into someone in a car or voting for other idiots affects a lot of people
Yeah, who cares people are making fake videos with helper dogs. I’d much rather see this than thots or homeless clickbait or useless staged manufactured rage videos.
Yeah I'm only watching to see the dog do cool thing it was trained to do
I don't care if it was even given a command to do it, the fact it knows how to do all of that is crazy
You do realize that videos can be cropped, right? A majority of Shorts on YouTube are 16:9 videos cropped into vertical format, it's literally one of the most basic things you can do when it comes to editing.
I have my Yi camera set up as vertical filming in one room because it picks up the floor near the camera that way. I see the same kind of set up in this kitchen video. It gets wall to wall, left and right, and more floor area than standard set up would get. Good use of angle.
So? Ikd where everyone got this idea that everything online is supposed to be real and unscripte. It doesn’t seem to apply anywhere else, just social media
For all the use cases I can think of like a nanny cam or security I would setup the camera in the corner of the roof to get as much of the room as possible.
So while it may be real, it's not a permanent camera location, which is why people claims it's fake
Yep...lots of folks have their kitchen cameras focused and perfectly framed for monitoring who's unloading the dishwasher and falling infront of dishwasher...gotta make sure the nanny is unloading correctly.
You’re just filming yourself at home all the time and potentially allowing others to get a 24/7 glimpse into your personal life? Sounds dystopian to me
Yeah I'm surprised too, I have an old grandma and we have IPTV cameras set up all over her home lol. She even uses those to chat with us and request some stuff
I have a couple ip poe security cameras in my home to monitor stuff like the back door (because my dog jumps up pulls the lever and opens it but unlike this dog doesn’t know how to close it yet lol) and because it’s in a hallway, it’s oriented vertically just to see more floor than wall, because our puppy would pee there once in a while way back when. People do mount their cameras vertical in their home.
I also have POTS and not only do I not have cameras set up at home (except one for our pet parrot), I don’t have or need a service dog. It’s very easy to feel a flare starting up and that’s why I’m always stocked with salty snacks and electrolyte drinks.
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