Is this a prank or just some very clever viral marketing? Imgur user jwaldman says this was started as a wedding gift filled with fake facts, an inside joke. Now he's leaving it for unsuspecting fact finders to pick up in real bookstores. Whether it was the original plan or not, you can actually buy it on Amazon. Either way, these nuggets of fake trivia are pretty amusing.
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It's all fake. All of it. None of it is real. It is all a mirage you must see throughץ
Obvious Plant knows that most people love two things: animals and jokes. So he put them together and printed out a bunch of funny and fake animal facts, then he left them all over his local zoo.
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Okay, but why didn't any of the "thieves" notice the giant cord coming off the back of the bike?
Via Vivian Rubio
Actress Vivian Rubio replied to a Craigslist acting gig that she thought sounded fun, only to discover "RiskyRobTV" was shooting a "prank" video exposing Miami women as gold diggers. Frustrated with the premise, Rubio decided to go undercover and expose his falsehood. The best part? He at one point tells her he's going to blur her face, otherwise "people would be like 'oh, Risky Rob stages pranks now.'"
Here's the video they were shooting:
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IGN Editor Gav Murphy was lucky enough to get to attend the Star Wars premiere in London, and decided it was the perfect opportunity to get back at his buddy who consistently spoils tv shows. Well played, Gav.
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For anyone who loathes those horrible YouTube "social experiments," today is a glorious day.
Adrian Gee filmed a "social experiment" where he pretended to be a blind man to see if people would be dishonest when he asked for change. But the video was found to be a total lie when actors who said they were hired to be in the video came forward.
In a delightfully cringe-worthy video above, a journalist from TodayTonight called him out in a TV interview. Gee continued to lie and say the video was real, and then ended the interview abruptly.
But he did have something to say in a lengthy YouTube comment where he basically says that he lied, but it was all to troll TV networks.
I came up with the idea and thought it'd turn out to be an interesting video to shoot IF I could get a just a few people to take my $50. I contemplated on going to a bad area (which could be considered as 'The Hood' for anyone reading from the U.S) to shoot to get the reactions I needed but I took a second thought and thought to myself 'Why risk going out in 'The Hood' to lose some cash when I could just grab a few actors and get the shots that would be needed' So I decided to try it out and put a casting call out for actors to shoot a social experiment. I asked a few actors that applied and asked them if they were down and a majority of them were interested and enthused about the idea.
He continues...
After the video was up I have had a majority of the actors involved message me saying they loved the video it wasn't until I accepted invitations from the media for TV interviews that is when all of this went south. I had the top 3 TV networks in Australia basically fighting over me pressing for a TV interview. Initially I wasn't going to do any but then I reconsidered and thought to myself 'Why not?' as most of the stuff they put out to air are all lies what difference will this make. After all this is just a silly YouTube video that's intended to make you think. I basically 'trolled' everyone through the interviews via Channel 7 & Channel 9 (Channel 10 were smart and pretty much knew the video was staged and decided to back out from the interview).
SUUUUUREEEEE...Adrian Gee. How about this?
You were caught in a lie and your other dumb videos are probably fake, too.
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If a blind guy asked you for $5 in change, but handed you a $50, what would you do? What if you found out the viral social experiment video about it you just wasted 4 minutes on was totally scripted?
Self described aspiring actor/model Adrian Gruska posted this video of "The Real Blind Man Honesty Test (Social Experiment)" where he pretended to be blind and asked people to make change to see if they'd be honest. The video has over a million and a half views, but all the money stealing a-holes featured in it are actually actors.
Gruska posted an ad online recruiting actors for a "social experiment/skit" on October 30. Three days later, he posted the blind man honesty test.
Gruska makes no mention of the fact that the video is scripted in his YouTube post, and in fact feigns shock at the outcome: "I was quite surprised as to the amount of people who basically stole off a blind man, absolutely ridiculous."
As Abe Lincoln always said, you never trust anything on the internet.
