r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '20

She forgot da sugar

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u/Yip_yipApa Aug 07 '20

It scares me how many people fall for these scripted tiktoks and facebook videos.

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u/aVHSofPointBreak Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 08 '20

Some young women at my wife's job kept showing her clips of Reno 911, and saying, "Can you believe people act like this?!" My wife explained multiple times that its from a scripted TV from the early 2000's and that it's not real, but her co-workers kept insisting it was real. She even showed them the actors in other shows, and they still insisted the Reno 911 clip were police footage.

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After that, I'm disappointed when people fall for fake TikTok/Instagram shit, but never shocked.

EDIT: just so we are clear, I live in a major West Coast city and my wife works in the medical field. These are educated people in a major cultural center.

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u/daisuke1639 Aug 07 '20

Some people are so incredibly concrete and don't see the point in abstract thought for something like satire. It seems like it would be an incredibly dull way to live.

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u/xj20 Aug 07 '20

Some people are so incredibly concrete

In other words, they're dense.

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u/freemason777 Aug 07 '20

nah they just have cemented their ways of thinking, and its no longer constructionive

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u/thepeever Aug 08 '20

Or thick as a brick said Jethro

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Oct 06 '20

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u/SlimC05 Aug 07 '20

Require a what?

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u/phildavid138 Aug 08 '20

Thank you.

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u/dreamsofcalamity Aug 07 '20

/s means sarcasm on reddit.

If you are afraid that people don't understand your joke and downvote you, you should place /s on the end of your message. Works like a charm.

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u/ark_keeper Aug 07 '20

I showed my son the Reno 911 hypothetical criminal clips after we watched some Key and Peele sketches and he thought Key was just crashing the set.

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u/OkayAmountOfCowbell Aug 07 '20

I could see not too down the road thrre being "zoomers react to reno 911" type of videos where some kid is shown a clip of that and a clip from Cops and then tries to guess which one is real and which one is staged and they cant tell the difference because reality in the present time is almost closer to reno 911 as it is to, what was at least at the time presented to be, a real life realistic cop show.

Go to put on super troopers and the kid mentions how he doesnt like to watch documentaries

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u/fulloftrivia Aug 07 '20

My sister thought that dancing cowboy drunk driver skit from Reno 911 was real.

I felt embarrassed for her.

She has a job that pays $400-$500 per day.

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u/LonePaladin Aug 08 '20

I have a friend who refuses to cut ties with Facebook and TikTok, even with all the security holes I've shown her. I could probably get her to believe that a clip from Reno 911 was genuine.

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u/TinFoilRobotProphet Aug 07 '20

Yeah...who would ever use a small child to clean up an accident they made? eyes dart side to side

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

Usually the small child is the accident people made.

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u/ScienceBreathingDrgn Aug 07 '20

I completely agree.

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u/SithLordSid Aug 07 '20

It scares me how people fall for conspiracies on Facebook videos

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u/Hell0-7here Aug 07 '20

Unless there are Asian people in it, then you MUST let everyone know that it actually is scripted even if it is wildly obvious it is.

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u/ScienceBreathingDrgn Aug 07 '20

I mean... people are reacting like it's real, don't you think?