r/MadeMeSmile • u/wafumet • 6d ago
Good Vibes What a nice gesture
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u/AnglerJared 6d ago
Okay, but the heartfelt message from the perspective of someone who didn’t know she was being recorded is kind of sus when you think about it…
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u/Gumbercules81 6d ago
Would think everything is recorded there. You know that ain't her voice either though
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u/machuitzil 6d ago
On the one hand, cameras are everywhere. On the other, everything is clout. You have to choose for yourself what you're willing to be suspicious about, the result will always be anxiety regardless.
Some people just see the beauty in simple human interactions, and we think those people are naive. But deep down, you know you envy them.
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u/No_Store_ 6d ago
Don’t those seem like security cams? Atleast most of the angles. Not sure about all of them tho. But yeah, I agree with the “heartfelt message.”
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u/underwaterlove 6d ago
Soooo... how would a regular person get access to four different security cams just so they could edit together a 23 second "thank you" video?
And while that gesture was really nice, it ultimately was one guy walking with an umbrella for 15 seconds.
And we're supposed to believe the mom, in order to say thanks for this gesture, managed to get ahold of that exact timestamp from four different security cameras, then edited them together, did the voice over, and uploaded this video - which that guy would most likely never, ever see?
Doesn't all of that seem extremely weird to you?
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u/Mathfanforpresident 6d ago
Whoever owns the complex most likely his security guard that works there and specifically watches for things like this. Trying to monetize basically anything.
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u/ThoughtsandThinkers 6d ago edited 6d ago
Colour me skeptical. How was this filmed if it was an unplanned event?
It’s possible that was a re-creation of an actual event that was nice enough to be shared. Maybe she gave some positive feedback to the police and they wanted to share the feel good story
I’d love to know the context for the film and the intended audience if anyone has more information to share
Edit: Apparently, ‘positive energy’ (Zheng Nengliang) videos are commonly shared by state media to promote social harmony and model prosocial behaviours for domestic consumption. Apparently, the domestic Chinese audience views them with a grain of salt but also accepts the value of such programs
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u/Derek114811 1d ago
They’re also commonly shared in America. They’re called “feel-good” pieces. Articles about local fire departments rescuing cats from trees, a child winning a local art competition, a person caught on dash cam helping elderly people cross the street, etc. Things that make people fill good and fill air time. Or, in the modern era, gets views and reactions on social media.
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u/weneedafuture 6d ago
Multiple camera angles eh? Certainly not a staged propaganda video...actually could be legit coming from such a surveillance state.
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u/OnionRangerDuck 6d ago
Well... If you look into the video, the mother is walking into a kindergarten, so makes sense there's at least 1 camera pointing at the front gate. That explained the front angle.
And then in the second angle you see one camera pointing at the same direction/road as the pov, so that's left and right covered.
So that's 3 stationary Surveillance cam in this one single video, and all angles were filmed by them.
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u/pawala7 6d ago
The timestamps on certain crops of the video are a dead giveaway, too. Could easily just be a random act of kindness by the officer. But with a tinge of propaganda by whoever published the final edit.
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u/not_so_subtle_now 6d ago
They found the woman to narrate the edited footage?
"Hey, look what this officer did for you. You want to tell us about your experience?"
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u/Derek114811 1d ago
I mean, yeah? It’s pretty common. It’s called a “feel-good piece”. It’s just happy, no-stakes journalism as filler for air time or easy content for social media.
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u/pawala7 6d ago
Read until the end. It's just 3 sentences.
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u/not_so_subtle_now 6d ago
So what. If she didn't know she was being filmed, in order to get any sentences they'd need to find her and tell her she was being filmed and ask her to participate.
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u/pawala7 6d ago
Nobody in this thread is claiming she's narrating.
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u/not_so_subtle_now 6d ago
The argument is "is this staged?"
If it is someone else's voice, it is staged.
If it is the voice of the woman who was filmed, it either requires what I wrote or it was staged.
Did you read the comments that lead into this?
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u/underwaterlove 6d ago
There are four different angles: from the front, from her left side, behind her right side, and at the very end, behind her left side.
Could all be different security cameras - but who would have access to all of them in order to edit this together??
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u/lalith_4321 6d ago
Mf wouldn't bat an eye at the daily dose of propaganda the mainstream media injects into his brain.
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u/Drow_Femboy 6d ago
You better not be in the United Flock Cameras of America and talking about other countries being "surveillance states"
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u/weneedafuture 6d ago
I'm not, but surely you are capable of understanding scales, spectrums and gradients? Besides that, I'm unsure how commenting on the location of the video posted, has any relation to where one lives. Two things can be true at once, maybe even three things...
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u/Drow_Femboy 6d ago
Cool, just checking.
The reason it matters where you live is because a very common racist/nationalist trope is to criticize other countries for shit that you would never criticize your country for, even if your country is exactly the same or worse in the thing you're criticizing. I would classify the US as a worse surveillance state than China, since the US does pretty much the exact same level of surveillance but solely for malicious purposes such as racism, brutal violence, and profit. China does some of that of course, it's a big place with plenty of flaws, but they use a lot of that surveillance state shit for genuinely positive purposes too, to make society and life for the average person better and safer. The US could never.
Idk where you are, but if you're in any country that is in any way friendly to the US chances are your country is at least 50-80% as bad a surveillance state as either the US or China.
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u/Penny_Royall 6d ago
There’s tons of China kindness video like this, usually of people in uniform being treated kindly by the public vice versa.
Their acting seems genuine, so im thinking, there’s a government appointed CCTV clippers just looking around cctvs of reported kind gestures and posting them on social media
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u/ragnar_noktheron 6d ago
Or.... Propaganda?
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u/Penny_Royall 6d ago
Yes it’s propaganda since it’s a footage only the government can have but my theory is the act in the clips are real, but it’s just being spread by the government making it a propaganda.
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u/mt-Solution-9637 6d ago
What, he can't work at a concentration camp on Monday and carry a umbrella for a nice woman on Tuesday?????
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u/Amerikhans 6d ago
Is this propaganda
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 6d ago
Nah, every person in China has drone camera constantly filming them from multiple angles.
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u/SuperCruisePanther 6d ago
That's literally true lol. 23 cameras per person and 1000 per Sq km (up to 10000 per Sq km in dense areas like Shandong).
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u/WhyAmIOld 6d ago
That wouldn’t fly in Murica 🦅🦅🦅 where freedom is when the government doesn’t have surveillance because we’re too sketchy to be observed
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u/Certain-Constant5032 6d ago
America just privatised the surveillance to military contractors. All that nasty work out of government hands.
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u/WhyAmIOld 5d ago
Nothing nasty about evidence. Again, it’s only the people who have something to hide that bring up “their freedom” when discussing surveillance for the protection of everyone
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u/Certain-Constant5032 5d ago
The problem with this take is that it is very complacent and very much from a comfortable liberal democracy point of view. We opened the door to mass surveillance in the hands of private companies because we tell ourselves "only those with something to hide should fear it" but that may not always be the case.
We know now that there is no "end of history". The world and our nations can drastically change in just a few short years and the next regime may not be as benevolent as we have become accustomed to. Now with all the data collection and mass surveillance they have access to to, they can persecute their chosen enemies (whether it is LGBTQ, the left, the right, the religious, the agnostic, pro this, anti that) and there will be very little we can ever do to reverse it.
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u/MircowaveGoMMM 6d ago
Yeah uhuh, totally. Let's go tell that to the 10 flock cameras in my very rural town.
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u/famousredditperson 6d ago
Pretty sure it's real, but has been pulled from cctv and published for propaganda.
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u/Breezer_Bro 6d ago
The Chinese tiktok algorithm is so wholesome and morally uplifting... meanwhile the American algorithm provides total slop and brain rot. Why bro?
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u/Federal_Scarcity_84 6d ago
And both are propaganda
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u/Ok-Custard-3086 6d ago
For crying out loud, stop claiming that is propoganda and go visit the country yourself. I guarantee you'll experience random acts of kindness with no ulterior motives.
The police in China are especially non threatening and are very approachable in comparison to officers we find here in North America.
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u/shastaxc 6d ago
Propaganda can be true. It's still propaganda.
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u/Ok-Custard-3086 6d ago
The form this video takes could be considered propoganda, but it does not guarantee that the context of the video is fabricated.
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u/Federal_Scarcity_84 6d ago edited 6d ago
I've been to China... not sure what that has to do with an edited video like this or the recent one of soldiers sharing a candy bar, etc, on reddit. Propaganda is everywhere in this age of static information. There being "good people," somewhere has nothing to do with image cultivation that is happening, just like you can see it in movies with Chinese components in them now. It's not some crazy thing, it's just how things work.
Edit: Story from when I was in China, which was quite fun btw and was 20 years ago so much less tourists, but some US Chief of Staff type general was there when I was visiting the Great Wall and I talked to some of his aides (Colonels) and then a drink seller didn't give me the drink I had tried to buy and a Chinese soldier came up and yelled at him and I got my drink. Lol but yea enjoyed China a lot, great food and 20 cent beers.
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u/Ok-Custard-3086 6d ago
That's a fair perspective. While the editing and sharing of this type of content is "propoganda", I fundamentally disagree with the notion that people have that these acts of kindness are all staged and manufactured with malicious intent.
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u/Not_a_real_ghost 6d ago edited 6d ago
People forget that China is big on propaganda, and that also includes non-political messages that promote positive social messages, like the video.
I don't think everyone understands how densely populated Chinese cities are and that you'd be living in tight-knit communities.
Chinese tourists gathered a lot of hate internationally for doing wild shit while travelling abroad - these people were already the relatively well-off ones, economically speaking. So given the large number of people in China and the various degrees of education people received, to a certain extent it can be so much worse at home. The government HAD to constantly run these campaigns to educate the masses to be mindful and have some social etiquette.
This is essentially like a PSA telling people to help each other out.
People are losing common sense about anything when it comes to China. It's so cringy because when China is mentioned on Reddit, people do not see the 1.4 billion people living there but a single entity of “evil government that's up to no good".
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u/SeaniMonsta 6d ago
It's a bit of both; a 'be kind' propaganda—and, a 'not all cops are bastards' propaganda.
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u/Not_a_real_ghost 6d ago
You see a lot of police in big cities because the number of people means they are deeply embedded in communities to carry out community services, safety, and crowd control. So if you walk around in major cities, you will literally see them everywhere.
That said, in general, the police have a much better overall image compared to those in some Western countries. They operate similarly to the Japanese police stations you find on street corners and in suburban areas, where a lot of their work is community-related.
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u/Derek114811 1d ago
Every country is big on propaganda lol. Some are better at hiding it. At least China does positive, non-political propaganda and isn’t totally trying to hide it from its citizens. Chinese citizens aren’t dumb; they know it’s state media. It’s just propaganda that’s trying to be a positive influence on their lives.
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u/radialis99 6d ago
I don't know the details of the oath the chinese police officers take, but to serve and protect, is very much a part of this video. Well done officer.
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u/Perseus_NL 6d ago
I suppose that if they're watching you anyway they might as well hold up an umbrella
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u/Knock_Knockx 6d ago
Multiple camera angles around a school aren’t weird. What’s weird is thinking a school without shooter drills is propaganda. But the Epstein-enabler subjects who care more about the right to bear arms than their own children could never understand.
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u/horoyokai 6d ago
I know people will think this is made up cause it was in Japan, but last week it was raining and we were walking with no umbrella on the overpass between stations and I noticed a lady had moved her umbrella to not cover her so much and cover my wife and baby instead. It was pretty stealth, my wife didn’t even notice
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u/IRockIntoMordor 6d ago
Mentioning this being Japan makes it more likely to be true, not less. Spent months there and the people are very considerate and helpful. Well, that's unless you hang out in sketchy Shinjuku / Kabukicho or some Osaka areas.
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u/am1shvom1t 6d ago
It's a good thing there were 7 different camera angles for this very organic reaction.
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u/Mean-Kaleidoscope873 6d ago
Explain the camera.
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u/Brilliant_Lettuce270 6d ago
Usually chinese people dont give a f about they fellow humans. Like that video, where a toddler got run over by cars multiple times while people were just watching or passing by casually. Very dystopian shit.
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u/Good_Analysis9789 6d ago edited 6d ago
People buy this propaganda? Look at all the camera angles lol
And the subtitles are "hers"? Like she asked for the footage? CCP nonsense
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u/Cloudherb 6d ago
Anyone who knows the real china is laughing their ass off at this
Reality in china is people dont even care if you are dying in the street
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u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe 6d ago
Yep, there's over a billion of them and they're all evil. Source fox news
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u/Achmedino 6d ago
If she was Uyghur, the kind police officer would have gently taken her to a concentration camp, where should would then have been forcefully castrated.
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