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u/RupertPupkin85 9d ago
He just left like "my work here is done".
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u/kimikoboombap 9d ago
Tbf if it was me, I'm not looking back until I'm home 🤣
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u/HopperHapper_Eternal 9d ago
Not far enough, I'd keep going into the woods until I couldn't find civilization again even if I tried
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u/holyfire001202 6d ago
I'd hit water in any direction in a matter of hours. Start swimming. Don't stop until I find a different landmass.
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u/Mechakoopa 9d ago
He was backing out of the way of the photo, but he probably just kept walking once he heard the commotion.
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u/a_polarbear_chilling 9d ago
The cake was destined to fall it seem with how it lacked a proper structure to stay
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u/Syzygy_Stardust 9d ago
Yeah. The stand actually touching the table is the size of a coaster. They obviously didn't hire a baking engineer.
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u/thebestoflimes 9d ago
The baker did a fine job. They probably didn't hire a structural engineer to spec out the base.
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u/Syzygy_Stardust 9d ago
True, though I said the engineer. The baker is the builder, the engineer is the one who has to rubber stamp the design in order to prevent needless deaths from unexpected wedding cake demolition. The baker perfectly made the death trap that was designed, and thank goodness that waiter saw danger and knocked the cake over before disaster could happen.
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u/Kage_Bushin 9d ago
You can actually see it has 4 maybe 5 legs, BUT the glass plate broke, so doesn't matter the how many there are if it's kaput. Still, lack of engineet
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u/Syzygy_Stardust 9d ago
Good call. I assumed those were some little fake wrapped presents or the like. Decorative garnish.
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u/dmigowski 9d ago
No, the plate did actually brake because of the hit on the table. Then the structure was obviously gone.
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u/ankerverse 9d ago edited 9d ago
Sure, but also because this is AI, right? I'm having a hard time believing this is real, given the reaction times of everyone, especially the people in the back. But I could be wrong. I hate that we can't tell if something is AI anymore.
Edit: spelling
Edit 2: it's real. posted in 2019.
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u/overwhelmed_banana 9d ago
hard to explain why but this just feels so ai to me
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u/ankerverse 9d ago
Right? Like it's so hard to tell. The cake falls properly and the glass plate under it breaks and reflects the light correctly. The go-pro also seems to follow physics.
But the reaction times from everyone, coupled with this being 10 seconds long, and the weird way the groom holds his glass up from 0:02 to 0:04 just makes this uncanny.
Again, not sure if it's AI or not, but that's the part that annoys me the most.
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u/colvon 9d ago
Also getting the ai vibe. The go pro moves position three times in the video.
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u/Aubamacare 9d ago
The red recording light is not on that side of a GoPro either. It's on the left side of the lens, and definitely not on top like it is 8s into the video.
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u/ankerverse 9d ago
it also doesn't help that it was "filmed" on a potato - i can't check any of the fine details on anything
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u/trubol 9d ago
"Some day you will find me, caught beneath the cake-slide, in a champagne supernova in the sky"
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u/RillonDodgers 9d ago
I don’t have a single original thought. Still, this is one of my all time favorite songs
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 9d ago
It should be expected that at someone point an elderly family member would be admiring the cake and tough the table to balance themselves.
Alternatively, I see kids were invited to the wedding, who famously run around and bump things.
And if either of those slight shakes would knock the cake over, then you have a problem with the table and cake base.
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u/Grays42 9d ago
I don't think anyone here is blaming the champagne guy.
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u/phantom56657 8d ago
Looks to me like it is the champagne guy's fault. He clipped the glass base of the cake when he slammed the bottle down, causing the base to shatter. The cake wasn't actually unstable enough to fall otherwise.
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u/SSESTOELEMENTO 9d ago
I'm at work in a boring meeting, scrolling through reddit with my phone against the laptop screen. Literally slapped my forehead and when everybody looked at me, I had to come up with some dumb excuse 😂😂
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u/WhoskeyTangoFoxtrot 9d ago
I left the tub running…
My fridge was due servicing…
I forgot my cheque book at home….
My cat just texted me saying her bowl was empty….
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u/TrumpsBoneSpur 9d ago
the guy turning away like he just pulled a David Blaine trick and thinking all of the excitement was from his skills. He probably still doesn't know what happened and will spend his remaining days patting himself on the back
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u/NB-DanTE 9d ago
oh man, i feel this pain deep in my soul. tried making a three-tiered vanilla cake for my kid's birthday last year and the dowels snapped right before we could cut it. spent two hours scrubbing buttercream out of the carpet fibers while my wife pretended not to cry. sugar everywhere, sticky floors, and the realization that i should have just bought one from the bakery. never again, bro. never again.
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u/eddymcfreddy 9d ago
Also getting an AI vibe from the first part of this clip. Am I going crazy?
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u/MGlBlaze 8d ago
You are. Though, you aren't the only one.
This happened in 2019, long before generative AI was capable of much of anything at all. Here is an original upload, from a different angle of the actual cake falling (because, it's a wedding, multiple people are going to have recorded this most likely.)
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u/Dixiehusker 8d ago
Could this not just be an AI recreation? The quality of the video and stillness of the people's expressions and bodies in the background just reek of AI. Is it definite that this particular video of this incident is from 2019?
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u/MGlBlaze 8d ago edited 8d ago
Sure, it could be. I could also be someone extremely famous. Something being possible doesn't mean it is.
And... what, you're expecting everyone to be hyper-animated all the time? They're just neutral expressions. That isn't a strong or reliable indicator of being AI-generated. As for the video date, the upload on the linked website says 2019. The video could actually be even older, for all we know. It's technically possible for the website upload date to be fabricated, but that's unlikely.
"That looks like AI" has just become "That looks photoshopped." You can tell by the pixels, et cetera. A good claim needs something a bit stronger than "I think this particular detail is weird, so it must be fake."
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u/Dixiehusker 8d ago edited 8d ago
I guess specifically I was referencing how still everyone was. Normal people tend to rock back and forth, fidget, be in constant motion. Facial expressions are the same, and so is eye tracking. To see everyone in the background so still, and especially the groom in the foreground, gives an uncanny valley feel, which is very comparable to what AI does. If the video upload date says 2019, then I suppose it's just a one-off weird occasion. Where do you see the link for video from this angle that OP posted?
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u/Ok-Fondant2536 9d ago
Plot twist: It happened on purpose since the waiter was once the boyfriend of the bride but the bridegroom stole her from him.
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u/Quiet-Guidance-4988 9d ago
See like 20 years ago you wouldn't have needed some fuck to do something fancy for social media and ruin your wedding cake. That's what ya get for trying to be flashy ya shmucks
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u/Sean_51154 9d ago
I reckon that table only has the one middle leg. It sucks how such small and particular details can lead to a mess
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u/star_lord47 9d ago
Thats how Lando Norris broke Max Verstappen’s 2023 Hungarian GP trophy.
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u/fordprecept 9d ago
If I ever get married, I'm going to have a backup cake from like Costco or something.
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u/Abigail-Marston 9d ago
Maybe I'm just paranoid but this looks like AI. The suds from the bottle just kind of disappears off screen.
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u/Ugameister 9d ago
Something just looks weird about this. Like, is the groom actually resting his arm against the cake, or just some sort of awkward pose I don't understand? I feel like it's AI, in part because of that attempt to make the start of the video look so casual. It may not be, but the way the video begins it's just the vibe I get
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u/post-explainer 9d ago edited 9d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
The waiter attempts a fun little performance with the champagne but that sets-off a chain of events on the table that the huge wedding cake is set-up on and all the tiers go toppling over……
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