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  • Is there already a thread of this sort? If not, post your bullshit filter fails here.

    Came across this vid on Insta; looks like it was originally 16:9 or maybe even 4:3, seems to be some middle eastern city. Given the oddness of the footage and the short shrift given to human rights in some places, I'm having a hard time understanding what I'm seeing... Is this really some poor fucker being catapulted to his near-certain death off the top of a skyscraper?

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5m9QHLgDb9

    If it's real, why even bother with the net on the top of the other building? Some sort of modern test for witchcraft? If you land on the net, then you must be a witch and then we cut off your head? And given the effort necessary to set this up, you'd think there would be better footage of it than this, right? And perhaps a write-up of the event somewhere... Not sure what the search terms would be though.

    If fake, then how and why was it faked? The shot would have included pretty much every physical object in view, right? Otherwise it would've been too hard to convincingly add the CGI to an obviously hand-held shot. So that's a lot of trouble to go to either way. And why would you make it look so haphazard and ad hoc? If it was an ad or something, why doesn't it seem less authentically sketchy?

    Anyone have a take on this which makes the slightest amount of sense?

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