7 Viral Videos You Didn’t Know Were Staged (and How They Did It) by David Wong
I’ve been fascinated with this subject for a while, the fact that in order to spread, it’s more important for a piece of information to be striking than true. So I started looking into how people would fake these videos (or at least the backstories) to make them go “viral” and I think there’s something crucial to be learned there, about how mythology evolves to whatever truth makes it spread the fastest. How much truth is lost seems to depend on the size of the audience.
Or something like that, I realized it a couple of days ago and I’ve pretty much forgotten it since then. It’s probably the subject of another article anyway. In the mean time, I hope you enjoy this one.
Yes, I realize many of you knew arleady that some of these videos were staged, please do not take the title as a factual guarantee or accusation of ignorance. If any of you were offended by that
inflammatory title, I offer this animated gif of a man kicking a horse in the cock.
Thanks to Keroman in the forums for making that. See post below for context.
