r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Andi82ka • 4h ago

Doing handstand at the dentist

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u/WorkingInAColdMind 4h ago

Have we just completely bred self control out of our species?

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u/Mythosaurus 3h ago

No, we just only recently got the capacity to film what was already happening with personal phones.

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u/lego_georgetrevor 3h ago

Common answer and mostly true.  But I think there is more of an incentive to go viral now that makes people more willing to do stupid ass things 

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u/bubblegumbombshell 3h ago

It’s self propagating. People have always done stupid and/or shameless things but now they can film it, share it, and get widespread attention from it.

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u/hoax709 3h ago

We can monetize their stupidity. Before we had actors/clowns acting silly but otherwise nothing to dramatic. Then America's funniest home videos showed that you don't need much just like 30 seconds... follow the trend to Jackass/Viva la Bam/Dudesons..etc and now we're caught up to stupid tiktok trends where most of the drama is staged. I'm sure some of americas funniest home videos were too but i'd wager most were just funny moments that just happened to be caught.

If this guy pulled it off he gets clout for doing it if he fails he gets attention for failing. Any attention is good attention until the world turns on you (Ed Sheeran) even then you write a book about " how the world turned on me in 7 days" and shill a cryto coin while your in the limelight.

think about it we really did monetize stupid to the point where its a profession... look at "A simple life" or any reality TV.. we want people we can point at and say " well i'm smarter then them" .

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u/RedOctobyr 2h ago

and say " well i'm smarter then them" .

"I'm smarter THAN them" , I believe :) Sorry, just giving you a hard time. Sadly, I think you're right, lots of stuff seems like a bit of a race to the bottom.

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u/WorkingInAColdMind 2h ago

I don't want to upvote this, but I will because you're right.

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u/Tee_hops 2h ago

As kids we watched CKY/Jackass and made our own videos. Which led us to do really dumb stuff we probably wouldn't have done.

At least back then it was stuck on VHS tapes. 1 of our friends dads saw the tale and immediately broke it and threw it away. Then took my friends cam recorder till we stopped. As kids we were mad but as an adult I realized he was just destroying evidence so none of the things we did could be used in a lawsuit.

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u/MelonJelly 2h ago

This is one of the reasons many courtrooms don't allow cameras. People just naturally act out in front of them.

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u/HeurekaDabra 2h ago

They used to be shamed for their dumb shit though and today they are rewarded. The incentives are screwed.

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u/cardcollector_2 2h ago

Exactly. These are the kids that you went to high school with that would do anything for attention. They just have a worldwide platform now.

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u/valraven38 1h ago

Seriously this isn't a new phenomenon. People have always done stupid shit, hell circuses were just people traveling around doing stupid shit for money. Yes those people trained hard to do it and (usually) not die doing it, but that doesn't change the reality of them doing dangerous or even stupid stunts.

This has always been a thing, we've just given everyone the capability to record themselves doing their stupid actions and we've also commercialized it because that's what capitalism is about, even stupidity was just another untapped market.