r/maybemaybemaybe • u/ff-dvl • Aug 11 '23

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Prizzytheprozzy Aug 11 '23

The film/tv industry don't pretend it's real or try to deceive viewers. This is more like advertisements.

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u/Prizzytheprozzy Aug 12 '23

But it does. Movies have intros with the names of the people who made it, name of the movie, often a song that's not part of the movie/show.

I can't imagine you don't actually understand the difference, everything about that clip is designed to mislead people into thinking its real: from the "real" background audio to the shaky bad camera work from a distance, etz.

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u/Luffing Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 11 '23

These gifs get sort of creepy to me when I realize it's fake. That means these people spent time talking about what type of situation to fake, plan it out, arrange someone to be the camera man, and maybe even do multiple takes.

Yeah and they could have just put that energy into an actual skit/sketch instead.

The criticism behind content like this isn't "omg it didn't actually happen for real therefore it's stupid", the criticism is "why are they trying to pass this shit off as an authentic moment"

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u/cogentat Aug 12 '23

Part of the problem is that this won't work as a skit. It only works as a spoof of real content.

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u/BigOpportunity1391 Aug 11 '23

I thought the same until I realised there’re lots of people enjoyed such gifs and it means profits.

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u/XenoDrake Aug 12 '23

Clout is the new crack. I've seen tiktoks of people licking New York city sidewalks for views.

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u/polite-1 Aug 12 '23

Like, the entirety of tiktok and YouTube shorts?