MetaFilter: Louder and Dumber than the YouTube commenters?
XKCD captures the stupidity of YouTube commenters who are quick to shout FAKE:
The thing is, for a site with open membership, YouTube comments are pretty damn good. Check out this video of our friend, a genius film director, on YouTube:
Check the comments at YouTube, and then go read the MetaFilter comments about this video. MetaFilter is supposedly a community of 20,000 of the smartest people you know. Bob even jumped in the thread and tried to correct people who were shouting FAKE!
Looks staged, but I’ve got no audio at work.
This has done the rounds before – and IIRC, it’s staged.
Yup! That’s definitely what’s happening. Look what his cheek is doing while he has his fist to his mouth — definitely filling up with something.
It’s definitely staged. Too poor production value to not be. And no tv show in their right mind would let an unknown in his condition on live television.
Actually, it does look staged. Had me fooled though.
meh. if you’re going to faux vomit on television, try and make it looks real. or exciting.
Eventually BoingBoing linked to the video, which I put online for FFFF, and it killed our server. The clip has been linked from everywhere (MetaFilter, eBaumsworld, fark, VH1) but it took BoingBoing to kill it. I moved the video to InfiniteBandwidthTube.
Anyway, it’s not fake.
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MeFi is a community of the 20,000 smartest people i know? If you say so. But, they are not the 20,000 most informed people i know. The only reason (besides the awesome power of my laziness) that I never created a MeFi account is because the comments on most medical topics on Mefi is a deluge of meaningless anecdotes, fallacies, and rants that don’t educate anyone about the topic at hand. One of these days I will start my OWN blog……oh, wait.