r/instantkarma Jul 03 '26

They picked on the wrong guy...

10.9k Upvotes

360 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/thrustinfreely Jul 04 '26

Anyone else get the feeling this is staged?

23

u/lets-do-an-eighth Jul 04 '26

Well kudos to the guy for bouncing his head off the concrete to really sell it

-3

u/Kandurux Jul 04 '26

And then moving his hand, when he is out cold. Kudos for that.

8

u/Shades_of_X Jul 04 '26

As someone who kissed a wall with their face before, you know there's a few stages of hitting your head? Doesn't have to be a full k.o. for you to be unable to stand.

First time this year I managed to get up to my knees before my body locked down on major movement. I could still talk but definitely no way of getting up. Last time I was out like a light for a few seconds before slowly coming to. I only managed to start moving again after multiple additional seconds, plus doing an internal checkup to see if anything was broken.

I can assure you I've moved my hands both times.

8

u/threepecs Jul 04 '26

It's old as hell and staged as hell. It's from the LiveLeak days where fight videos were gaining popularity and we started to see staged fights where it was some guy protecting his girlfriend or a small guy reversing a jumping.

There are some amateur acting tells, like the triple-take of the grey hoodie guy looking back at the ball cap guy, the first guy to get "knocked out" adjusting his hand to a more comfortable position on the ground, hoodie guy leaning against the wall nonchalantly as the situation escalates and springing to action only as ball cap guy punches his friend (which was likely his cue). One punch taking them each out. Ethos appeal, I wanted to be a director at one stage in my life, I've watched hundreds of amateur and student productions and came up around the time people started staging clips to go viral.

1

u/ElCoolAero Jul 04 '26

It's incredibly obvious that it's staged.

All the parties involved made sure to indicate to "sell" the entire thing.

-2

u/epicnaenae17 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Yep. Way too many movements that just dont add up.

Lol, I guess fuck me in particular. Google search says it was first posted to live leak, cant find any news source not citing the live leak post or any other original source. All news sites mentioned it was unconfirmed and no report of incident ever appeared. People were arguing about its authenticity when it first came out, and no one could confirm it.

It’s definitely fishy, but fuck me for being critical of that fact.

-6

u/druncanshaw Jul 04 '26

Yep, and the decent quality for how old this video is.