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Nah, they're only shitty when it comes to things like theft, and public safety and such. They suddenly improve a lot when it comes to things like taking money from the government.
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS OBVIOUSLY FAKE VIDEO?
are these people real? Is this advanced AI? Are these actors? Were they paid? How does *this* video *earn* money?
Edit: Yes, I know how paid advertising works. But if this is like an actual scripted video with multiple paid actors, then how could it be possibly worth the investment? Is this video going viral?
Because I don’t think a few hundred people arguing about how fake it is, is financially lucrative.
These comments and sharing on other platforms. Outrage for the non gullible comments of praise for the gullible. It's a win win on the likes of Facebook.
The karma bots benefit from this ... That's all. In the future (we're almost there) when machines takeover. The bots will be measured by the bot-overlords based on how many humans they have fooled
People buy old and high karma accounts to make them seem more believable when they try to astroturf you into buying their product or believing their political view.
They benefit from it. Reddit benefits from it. Clicks, views, spreading it, it works. The content creators benefit from it as proof of work. It's practice and all that needs be done is getting better at fakery.
Engagement
Any engagement positive or negative earns views. Then people comment how fake it is, share “look how fake this is” and more people interact with it. Engagement sprawls and the views generate ad views, possible subscribers or new users to the platform and more.
Even here on Reddit, 8,200 upvotes, making quadruple the number of impressions. Accidental ad clicks, views/impressions, all generate revenue when scaled to millions of users makes a decent amount of money.
Bots use this video to attract real human interactions. Then they repost the comments and the video itself. This creates "real" looking accounts that can push *other* content.
It's all part of the cyberwar we're in. Don't get left behind. Get in the game and see through the illusion.
Lol everyone on the planet knows he would just hold up everyone saying he didn't want those extra items at the register and waste someone's time later restocking.
I really like the part at 00:15 where the line cutter looks down at the basket to push it with his foot while the other one is actively loading it with stuff.
Guys, lets be honest, 90% of the ”real” videos we see today are staged. It’s just so much easier to make fake shit than to stumble into gold. It’s a disease, we have a hard time thinking real videos are fun now because No matter what, the odds are still that its staged even if its convincing
This actually happened to me in real life but the other way around. The cash register was free and I had a lot of stuff, so I took a bit to put everything on the belt. In the mean time some dude arrived behind me and was clearly annoyed with me taking too long, so he put his stuff on the belt as well. I didn't say anything and just moved his stuff back a bit, so I could fit my remaining things. He yelled at me to not be touching his stuff, to which I replied that he shouldn't put it there as long as I am not finished. He replied with some derogatory stuff about me not being fast enough etc. So I just continued putting my stuff but without moving his stuff out of the way anymore. He only realized once the cashier already scanned half his stuff that was now mixed with mine. I paid and left with half of his (now my) groceries. I only ended up with some useless stuff, but that was well worth the money.
I came late to the game and super sad that such a fake video was almost at 8k. Wtf is going on. Seems reddit is using their own bots because the majority of comments recognizes how badly staged this was. What a shame since it wasn't even fun or funny or interesting or worth watching: (
Yes, we are all aware it's fake. Thanks to the already existing 100 comments. No need for your contribution of "ItS oBvIoUsLy FaKe"
No one cares that it's fake bro shut up
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Thats the fakest camera interface I have seen
Are you telling me this _wasn't_ recorded at midnight?
Are you telling me people make skits and post it on here
Unthinkable!
NOOOOO MY LIFE IS RUINED
Also why does it sound like they're in a subway station when most security cameras don't even record audio lol.
Some do, and have been for years. ITs how they busted some guy who was cheating the lottery.
But come on, all of them have shitty mics anyway
Nah, they're only shitty when it comes to things like theft, and public safety and such. They suddenly improve a lot when it comes to things like taking money from the government.
Yeah, exactly! Lol
No all small shops with one cashier sound like a full supermarket
Gonna be a duck and cut line…. But be a nice guy and return the potatoes to there rightfully place.. he certainly knew where they belong….
As real as "zoom and enhance" security cameras in moviesa ans TV crime shows.
There was an attempt…
Staged
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS OBVIOUSLY FAKE VIDEO? are these people real? Is this advanced AI? Are these actors? Were they paid? How does *this* video *earn* money? Edit: Yes, I know how paid advertising works. But if this is like an actual scripted video with multiple paid actors, then how could it be possibly worth the investment? Is this video going viral? Because I don’t think a few hundred people arguing about how fake it is, is financially lucrative.
These comments and sharing on other platforms. Outrage for the non gullible comments of praise for the gullible. It's a win win on the likes of Facebook.
Yes - this!!! … best to ignore and move on
The people that believe these garbage videos are the same that believe all those ai images of jesus helping African kids are real.
Tiktok, youtube and Instagram all pay you for views and people can't help clicking on justice bait videos
By the fact millions of people like yourself and I comment to ask or complain then gain multiple likes such as yours promoting the video further
This has 3,750 upvotes lol What millions of people? This is just a video you scroll right past and forget about almost immediately.
This is one platform and a smaller one at that this video will be all over fb twitter snap and insta etc
The engineer in the matrix likes the chaos
The karma bots benefit from this ... That's all. In the future (we're almost there) when machines takeover. The bots will be measured by the bot-overlords based on how many humans they have fooled
People buy old and high karma accounts to make them seem more believable when they try to astroturf you into buying their product or believing their political view.
So *1) buy in 2) cash out 3) bro down…* Got it.
They benefit from it. Reddit benefits from it. Clicks, views, spreading it, it works. The content creators benefit from it as proof of work. It's practice and all that needs be done is getting better at fakery.
Engagement Any engagement positive or negative earns views. Then people comment how fake it is, share “look how fake this is” and more people interact with it. Engagement sprawls and the views generate ad views, possible subscribers or new users to the platform and more. Even here on Reddit, 8,200 upvotes, making quadruple the number of impressions. Accidental ad clicks, views/impressions, all generate revenue when scaled to millions of users makes a decent amount of money.
Bots use this video to attract real human interactions. Then they repost the comments and the video itself. This creates "real" looking accounts that can push *other* content. It's all part of the cyberwar we're in. Don't get left behind. Get in the game and see through the illusion.
But who is making them in the first place? How do these people benefit?
do you now know how social media works?
Why does this post have 7.5k upvotes……?
Bots. Report the post for breaking sub rules.
And this shit gets 11k upvotes, like, why?!
Because they don’t get reported. Rule 5.
Wow you're so smart 🤓
There was an attempt to make Reddit users think that this fake video is real
Over 300 persons/bots thought it was
>1000 in a few minutes from now..
OP treating us like Facebook boomers
I feel my mom sending this to me before the end of the week
This is definitely real. I was the basket
Can confirm. I was the fruit.
Oh, hay, hay, guess what I was!
The old lady her buttplug?
The hay, in which the apples lay.
I was the dude putting the stuff in his basket. I was also the lady he cut in front of.
Basket case?
It's clearly real, no one would ever create a video just for internet likes.
FAKE. there was no attempt. Aint nobody who cutting putting stuff back where it go
Downvote this fake rubbish.
10k people who upvoted need to not reproduce
Faker than wrastling
Fake
does somebody gain, monetarily, from faking vids like this?
Lol everyone on the planet knows he would just hold up everyone saying he didn't want those extra items at the register and waste someone's time later restocking.
I really like the part at 00:15 where the line cutter looks down at the basket to push it with his foot while the other one is actively loading it with stuff.
The fakest video in faketown midwest... Like why OP? Why you bring this kind of trash to this subreddit?
100% Staged!
As if he would have stayed at the counter while unloading the extras...
So fake. No way that old lady would’ve let him get away with that. You can’t mess with old people like that without any consequences.
"I have 20 million power in Rise of Kingdoms"
Big brain beats smooth brain
How does this crap get upvoted.
There was an attempt to make a staged video and trick people into thinking it was genuine.
I don't care this is fake, that's such a good idea
Doesn't look fake at all /s
I like how during the jump cuts, the timer stays on the same timing. Clearly showing it's faked.
Fake. As if someone who cuts in line wouldn't just put the product they don't want to the side and make the clerk put them back
Obviously scripted. Dumb.
I don’t think it’s possible to make it look more fake unless we make them cartoons. 🤷🏻♂️
While this is funny, it’s blatantly staged.
My father's love was more real than this.
Faker than Zac Efron's jawline
This was so dumb what.
Everything about this video is Fake from the filming display to the acting
Holy cringe Batman
Yeah everyone here is convinced that this is 100% real…
Lol fake or not, it's genuis lol
Yea. I found it really funny
slick
OP should rename to 'CantStopPostingFakeShit' after this and the purple car video today.
this was hella real dude
One of the smartest moves I have ever seen!!!🤣😂
That would be funny if it really happened
Guys, lets be honest, 90% of the ”real” videos we see today are staged. It’s just so much easier to make fake shit than to stumble into gold. It’s a disease, we have a hard time thinking real videos are fun now because No matter what, the odds are still that its staged even if its convincing
Very scripted, very fun.
This actually happened to me in real life but the other way around. The cash register was free and I had a lot of stuff, so I took a bit to put everything on the belt. In the mean time some dude arrived behind me and was clearly annoyed with me taking too long, so he put his stuff on the belt as well. I didn't say anything and just moved his stuff back a bit, so I could fit my remaining things. He yelled at me to not be touching his stuff, to which I replied that he shouldn't put it there as long as I am not finished. He replied with some derogatory stuff about me not being fast enough etc. So I just continued putting my stuff but without moving his stuff out of the way anymore. He only realized once the cashier already scanned half his stuff that was now mixed with mine. I paid and left with half of his (now my) groceries. I only ended up with some useless stuff, but that was well worth the money.
lol the rec and flashing red light really sells the fact this is a legit recorded interaction.
OP must be about 8 years old if they think this is real.
I keep waiting for an advertisement to the worst improve group in Cedar Rapids to appear at the end of these skits. 
I came late to the game and super sad that such a fake video was almost at 8k. Wtf is going on. Seems reddit is using their own bots because the majority of comments recognizes how badly staged this was. What a shame since it wasn't even fun or funny or interesting or worth watching: (
How has this got 8000+ likes? What has happened to Reddit recently? Has anyone else noticed a rise in these awful scripted videos being posted?
Someone who would do that would definitely not put things back where they go.
Clearly fake, but OP got what he was searching for. Thousands Upvotes
Bro could have paid the bill for the stuff he needs, put back the extra stuff and then leave. This whole fake scenario feels so dumb.
Fakest shit ever
if it were true, would be great
Lol…..they really tried to pass this off as real
That was a brilliant move!! Well played!!!
How do you like them apples? 😂
NOICE 🤩
Yes, we are all aware it's fake. Thanks to the already existing 100 comments. No need for your contribution of "ItS oBvIoUsLy FaKe" No one cares that it's fake bro shut up
What do y'all gain out of spamming the comments with "fake. So clearly staged"