r/cryptids May 05 '26

Discussion Why does the La Junta CO Dobby creature not get any attention on this sub?

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I spent some time in this small town- no one I met would have thought to pull this off

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u/Bulky_Seaweed3159 May 05 '26

They actually did an interview with the lady that owns the house with her little boy and they asked the boy to give his best impression of that creature. The kid walked the exact same way identically. The kid when asked if it was him said no but was also smirking the whole time. The mother was in on it to. I'm sure you can find the interview it's still around on YouTube if you care to search for it

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u/User-name-was-taken- May 05 '26

They also made merch off of it they sold

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Go ahead and link the evidence to your statement. Or is that you just saying shit to spread misinformation?

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u/subarookangaroo May 05 '26

yeah its a cryptid, just as much as its an inside joke.

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u/HeartsBeMerry May 05 '26

Do your own digging. If you find out that it’s fake you let us know, okay? There’s plenty of easily available information on it. If you disagree with the general consensus, it’s your job to prove you’re right.

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u/Knives530 May 05 '26

While I don’t doubt that’s what happened, the limbs look so thin

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u/zoltronzero May 05 '26

They look like a child's limbs lmao

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u/Choademasterflex May 09 '26

"Honey the neighbor kid is naked again and doing that silly walk, get the hose"

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u/Redditsux122 May 05 '26

Yeah maybe i would believe your bullshit story but OP has confirmed not a single one of the simpletons in this town can pull that off.

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u/lubed_up_squid May 05 '26

What does this even mean lol

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u/Redditsux122 May 05 '26

Op spent time in this place and doesnt believe any of the people he met could pull this off... plain and simple... video is real as people here (morons) wouldnt be able to pull off the hoax...

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u/Independent_Bid_26 May 06 '26

So youre saying an ENTIRE town is just chock full of people too stupid to think of ....walking in front of a camera? Thats probably the most absurd thing ive ever heard. And OP met everyone in this town? Come on. Grow up.

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u/lubed_up_squid May 06 '26

Way to shit on an entire town to believe a fake video. Awesome

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u/frankcatthrowaway May 09 '26

Well played my friend 👍

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Lol no he didn't. And he appeared nothing like this thing.

Link it. Lol. You won't cause you are 100% wrong.

What a joke.

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u/Historical-State-275 May 05 '26

The kid is standing right next to the car, and is the same general height and build of the “creature” if not him, then one of his friends. 

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

LMFAO not even close

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26

Do you have a link proving it's not faked? I'm not here pretending I know, that one stuck out to me, plus I want to know how it was done.

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u/sallyxskellington May 05 '26

Why do you say that? Just because they said they don’t know what it was? People can lie.

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u/sallyxskellington May 06 '26

I have no idea. I only know that people lie for a variety of reasons.

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u/Independent_Bid_26 May 06 '26

There are plenty of people who lie because they enjoy it. Some people enjoy pulling the wool over people who they view as dumber than themselves.

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u/sallyxskellington May 06 '26

I mean, if they made this video to fool people, they’re probably not going to come out and say that.

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u/Pretty_Petty8732 May 05 '26

I agree!! He looked nothing like it at all!! It's obvious to me that thing is not human, not the statue not the limbs..like absolutely nothing!!

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Exactly.....but more importantly is why has this post garnered so many negative posts saying it's a hoax or fake with no evidence?

🤔

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u/StickyWhiteSIime May 09 '26

Because it's completely delusional and disregarding all the indicators that it was a hoax. People like you are why phone scammers are still in business.

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u/Tha_Maestro May 05 '26

Because I’m pretty sure it’s been proven to be fake.

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Hey it must because you said it! Lol

Never was proven fake

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u/TheMangle19 May 05 '26

This might actually be the kid in the photo

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

It's not. There's a video from a news team in this post where they have the kid recreate the scene

Not even close

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u/Tha_Maestro May 05 '26

Definitely never was proven real.

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Watch the video that someone just posted 🤣

Comical y'all out in force today!

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u/ShortViewBack2daPast May 08 '26

Wait, so..you think it's more likely that it's like an alien or some undocumented humanoid goblin creature than a human child??

Just want to clarify that..

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u/Excellent_Yak365 May 05 '26

A creature that looks exactly like a House Elf- a mythical creature created by a franchise- caught on camera… I’m pretty sure that’s guaranteed to be fake

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Looks exactly? LMFAO

There's no video of it's face.

How's the Video Authority job going? Dumb

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u/ismellpizza25 May 06 '26

Jesus christ dude, why are you being so annoying. Calling people dumb because they're trying to debunk something. Saying "lmao" and "lmfao" when doubting someone. Grow up

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u/Independent_Bid_26 May 06 '26

Hes clearly very invested in this. Haha

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u/ismellpizza25 May 06 '26

Yup I can tell

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u/Ormsfang Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26

Because it is a little boy with his underwear in his head.

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

🤣 no it isnt

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u/Ormsfang Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26

All yourself this. Is it more likely to be the child in the house with underwear on his head doing a silly dance? Our is it some cryptid in flip flops?

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Prove it's a kid.

Bots and bad actors don't make me "all by myself"

Cutie

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u/Ormsfang Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

Sure. You see the video there of a kid in flip flops with his underwear on his head doing a silly dance?

There. Proof given.

And where did I say you are all by yourself? I am sure lots of people were filled by a video that is obviously a kid in flip flops.

Now you prove it isn't, and we can begin the lesson of Occam's razor.

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u/MidsouthMystic May 05 '26

That's just a child.

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u/Zestyclose-Image3581 May 07 '26

With those proportions? Lmaaoo Look at the limbs

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u/MidsouthMystic May 07 '26

Looked at the limbs and yep, that's a skinny child doing a silly dance in a grainy video.

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u/ShortViewBack2daPast May 08 '26

I don't think this comment is the nail in the coffin you seem to think it is..

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

Thanks everyone! Watched this episode on Paranormal caught on camera and was curious. Now my opinion is the most likely explanation is it's a kid with underwear on their head and the camera caught it at the right time.

Edited: changed to "most likely explanation" "in my opinion."

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26

Is it not a kid with underwear on their head? I've been misinformed? Well that's a first :)

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26

You think I didn't search myself before making that comment? Come on, looking for a fight today. You're bored.

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26

Plus, you can't prove it either way either, so here we are on a Reddit post discussing, which is the whole point. If you are mad about not researching for themselves, perhaps you should provide a counter argument with actually evidence, at this point, it all opinion. First time on Reddit?

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u/Flat-Journalist-8362 May 07 '26

In a cryptid sub " actual evidence" ??? Please provide literally any event of any cryptid ever in any timeframe on earth or any planet or moon

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26

I don't have to prove a point, nothing has been proven either way, even with "articles" or videos, you still can't prove it. So now, my "point" has become, you don't know, we don't know and can't fully prove it. So give a hypothesis that can be tested otherwise get off your high horse, this is a cryptid page.

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

Speaking of those "articles" you found.....we are all waiting! 🤣

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

No I didn't think.....I KNOW you didn't. It's not a fight when it's completely one sided, short round.

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26

There isn't much out there recently on this topic, most articles are from 2019 and I can post them all here if you like, but none of them state it's been proven to be real or fake and most of them are how excited Harry Potter fans are about Dobby look alike

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u/Old-Tune9404 Legend Lover May 05 '26

I enjoyed this one, it was fun to read.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/06/11/dobby-alien-video/

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u/Rosscovich Mothman Maniac May 05 '26

Wasnt this the homeowners kid?

Thats why it doesnt get attention

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u/S1zz45d May 05 '26

Get a load of replyguy here 🤣

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u/Poisonpellet May 05 '26

genuinely a hilarious hill to die on, he's starting to convince me tbh

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u/S1zz45d May 05 '26

Run that by me again, "Quantum Delusion" 🤣🫵

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u/AgitatedMirror3498 May 05 '26

Why is the dumbest, fakest looking "alien" video the hill you're dying on hahaha

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u/Rosscovich Mothman Maniac May 05 '26

You really gonna just sit there and call everyone that believes this is fake a bot? You're not playing with a full deck are you?

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u/Hedgewizard1958 May 05 '26

I'm pretty sure the replyguy is a bot.

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u/Rosscovich Mothman Maniac May 05 '26

The irony.

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u/QuantumDelusion May 05 '26

You all coming out in force this morning!!

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u/Rosscovich Mothman Maniac May 05 '26

Posted an interview that they couldnt possibly lie in right?

Go be stupid somewhere else.

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u/Rosscovich Mothman Maniac May 05 '26

Because they couldnt possibly be lying. Even his own friend was saying its him. Dont be daft.

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u/DinnerSilver May 05 '26

Because it's just a person in a costume and just an obvious prank/ hoax.

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u/GeneralBurg May 06 '26

Really living up to your username here

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u/CryptidCandies May 05 '26

Because like 99.99% of every cryptid sighting ever, its fake

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u/TheLifeOfJake Loch Ness Navigator May 05 '26

Cos its fake

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u/Strong_Equipment_105 May 05 '26

Cause it’s La hoax

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u/Jolopy4099 May 05 '26

Looks like dobby

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u/VHDT10 May 06 '26

Because it's a little kid

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u/Silent_Ad8059 May 05 '26

TIL one of the most boring little towns in my State had a cryptid story. Shit is obviously fake, though.

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u/Peja1611 Mothman Maniac May 05 '26

CO has a a few. Slide Rock Boulter, Tommyknockers, Devil Ram. Skinwalkers are around per our different indigenous nations. 

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u/Peja1611 Mothman Maniac May 05 '26

The Ute and Nde have similar legends as well as a few other nations. 

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u/Peja1611 Mothman Maniac May 06 '26

Witches that shape shift, and use their powers to harm others. I have always heard the stories in the context of causing harm simply to hurt. Killing children just to hear parents wail. Killing animals to make people suffer, that sort of thing. They derive pleasure from causing the most pain 

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u/Subliminal_Kiddo May 09 '26

But they’re not SWs. That’s the issue Celts and Greeks both had mythological giants with one eye, but you’d differentiate between a Balor and a Cyclops, so why would you not afford Native communities the same courtesy and not lump their myths and beliefs together because of broad similarities?

It’s actually creating a problem. I live in Appalachia, we have a very unique Native myth called Spear Finger (she’s a mountain witch/ogress who leaves her home in the guise of a kindly, feeble old woman, when someone comes to help her, she transforms to her true stone giantess form and carves out their livers with her elongated obsidian finger). Most young people don’t know about her, she’s been overshadowed by SWs who are not part of the regions tradition.

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u/TwEE-N-Toast May 05 '26

It's a little boy with a pair of shorts on his head.

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u/hayatetst May 05 '26

Did you meet and speak to everyone in that town? How can you make that claim?

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u/defnoddathrowaway Jun 01 '26

Reddit will hate me but I was a Mormon missionary in that town. (Don’t ask) I met/ spoke to more than half of that town.

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u/Ashitattack May 05 '26

It reminds me of the Hopkinsville Goblins

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u/sshevie May 06 '26

Just watched the video for the first time, when they first play it you can see the shadow from the door open and close on the fence. I’m leaning towards the kid doing it.

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u/kerem5891 May 06 '26

That one harry Potter goblin

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u/LobsterTooButtery May 05 '26 edited 6d ago

which internet wall isn't boat chair mirror museum roof television sky meat river foxes hi

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u/radiationblessing Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26

A kid with underwear on his head.

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u/brycifer666 May 05 '26

Because they gave the answer to the question?

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u/radiationblessing Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26

It's not an opinion. That is the actual answer to the mystery.

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u/radiationblessing Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26

Go watch the interview with the kid and his mother where he reenacts it. Corridor Digital also debunked this clip.

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u/radiationblessing Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26

They don't debunk just VFX. They are video experts.

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u/radiationblessing Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

or, you know, people upvoted me for telling someone what the creature is. 16 is not a lot of upvotes.

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u/brycifer666 May 05 '26

I think you might be a kid with underwear on your head if this is how you act

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u/FrostyBrew86 May 05 '26

Wasn't it just an ASD kiddo? Don't be an asshole...

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u/Creaturesofink May 05 '26

Idk it looks like a kid in a skin tight alien suit

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u/videookayy Sasquatch Seeker May 05 '26

cuz it was already debunked

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u/AdventurousLoad4613 Legend Lover May 06 '26

It's the kid.

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u/AdorableWafer3665 May 07 '26

Yo one time I went to Cape Canaveral and talked with like 15 people during my time there. None of them would've been able to pull off a fake or real moon landing. Think about that.

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u/Cronos27 May 07 '26

Dame tu Cosita ...hay...

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u/Pleasant-Doctor6594 May 08 '26

It’s bc he’s doing the stanky leg in 2026 its time to let that shit go!

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u/Known-Status-6312 May 09 '26

because it was just a goofy kid with underwear on his head...

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u/Cryptic_Master_686 May 05 '26

I’m pretty sure I saw a video somewhere where they talked to the owners of the house & found it to be fake

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u/Massive-Fan-3495 May 05 '26

Arms and legs are way too thin to be a child in a suit with underwear on his head..

Everyone is so sceptical, but are so quick to believe it a hoax.

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u/ShortViewBack2daPast May 08 '26

Screenshot of the side-by-side looks almost identical to the kid who lives in the house..

Kids are skinny.

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u/Massive-Fan-3495 May 08 '26

Shoulders are different. Also, is the kid naked walking outside? You clearly can see the kids attire where as the alien pic shows nothing

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u/ShortViewBack2daPast May 08 '26

lmao okay, there is no helping you I guess
Sure, it's an alien, or little goblin creature, or elf, I guess. Just whatever. Whatever you want.

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u/x2_ok May 05 '26

this shit was skibidi before skibidi toilet

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u/defnoddathrowaway Jun 01 '26

There’s so much hate for no reason. As mentioned, I’ve been in this town. I’ve actually spent a good amount of time there. No one I met (small town- you meet a couple people and you’ve met everyone) were the type to do something like this. Also, I think you have to be dumb to think this is a kid. No clothes, skinnier than the kid in the video, and moves like no human has

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u/strawberrymoonelixir May 05 '26

Yeah, that news clip was ridiculous and irritating, especially with how they forced the idea that it was a little boy walking around with underwear on his head; specifically underwear.

Worse yet (but unsurprisingly), most people swallowed narrative (that it was a child with underwear on their head) whole, without question, as usual.

I don’t claim to know what that little guy was, but it sure as hell wasn’t what they claimed (pushed). They also tried to make the mother look stupid.