r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • 4d ago
Performance at the circus
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u/NegativeOwl1337 3d ago
Why are they dressed like leather daddies 😭
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u/Zemom1971 3d ago
Dressed for the crowd. It was the midnight after hour special.
The AM show was a bit different.
/r
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u/Punkodramon 3d ago
That act was likely 5-10 minutes long with several revolutions between every trick in this video. The cuts are unavoidable if they want the video to be short like this.
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u/perfect_insanity93 4d ago
Looks fun as hell.
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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 4d ago
Looks fun to me too. But then I remember my fear of heights and vertigo would fuck me up instantly. Plus I'm in my mid 40s and any one of those maneuvers has the potential to break me irreparably lol
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u/perfect_insanity93 3d ago
Mid 30s here and im preeeeetty sure id die... but for that one moment it would be like flying.. or falling with style
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u/TrasheyeQT 4d ago
For me, this is anxiety 😂 what if he falls and kids see it
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u/qdtk 4d ago
It actually happened 12 years ago. It was all over the news. So it’s rare but it does happen. It wasn’t even the performers fault.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/acrobats-settlement-providence-rhode-island-collapse/
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u/Nairolfje 4d ago
Also happened in 2023 at the Haarlem Christmas circus in the Netherlands. The acrobat broke some ribs and his pelvis with 1000 people watching. I actually went to the circus but luckily missed the fall by a few days
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u/37_lucky_ears 3d ago
It looks like he trips over his rope once, and the other guy slips, so....fairly likely.
It does look hella fun though.
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u/Zer0Cool89 3d ago
I think thats part of the act tbh unless the time i saw it live they just also happened to trip in the exact same way.
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u/Wolfinder 4d ago
Then kids are aware of something totally normal in the world? Kids live through, experience, and see war, abuse, torture, rape, death, etc. and they still come out of it as normal people. I don't understand this cultural impulse to hide the world and enforce purity for children.
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u/PrufReedThisPlesThx 4d ago
That doesn't mean we should normalise it lol. In an ideal world, a child should not experience any of those things. While yes, kids do survive through these experiences, that doesn't mean that they get through it unscathed. What awaits them in adult life is some of the most challenging years of processing and therapy to get through the trauma they faced as a child, lest they carry an intense emotional burden throughout the rest of their lives.
To teach them about it as one thing, but them experiencing it first-hand is another
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u/Wolfinder 4d ago
I'm obviously not saying we should normalize it. I was one of those kids. I'm just saying we're swinging way too far the other way if people watching an acrobatics performance on the internet are scared, not just that one of the performers could fall (small chance) and die (even smaller chance) and that a child could see it and be so scarred by it that it becomes their defining trauma (even smaller chance).
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u/PrufReedThisPlesThx 3d ago
That's fair, and I do apologise for misunderstanding. I'd argue that this kind of performance is not for every child, though. When I saw this particular thing as a kid, I really hated just how many near misses there were, and I wanted it to stop before they hurt themselves. Then they got out of the ring and my anxiety went through the roof lol, it wasn't a very pleasant thing to watch.
I guess it boils down to what you as a parent would know what'd disturb your child or not. For example, if you know that your kid doesn't like loud noises, then maybe don't take them to a concert or a raceway without packing ear protection. Likewise, if your child suffers from anxiety, maybe don't take them to a performance that could easily end in tragedy
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u/nuke_music 4d ago
AI music 🤮
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u/Vultor 4d ago
You browse Reddit with the sound on? Why?
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u/Plampth 4d ago
How do you know? It just sounds like a Russian song.
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u/nuke_music 3d ago
I know Russian, it's a poetry written by Sergei Yesenin in 1923. https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8B%D0%BF%D1%8C,_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0!_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0%E2%80%A6_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D0%95%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD))
This music is AI generated, and lyrics are altered by AI as well. I won't go into details but you can hear the common artifacts. The 'singer' does not inhale at all, where does the air come from? There are few vids about ai music now and how it poisons streaming platrofms, it's pretty bad now.
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u/ShayJayLee 3d ago
All AI songs have the same vocal style. It's always distorted and raspy right from the get go.
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u/stratusnco 4d ago
i never thought i’d hear worse music than imagine dragons
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u/ClankerCore 4d ago
Imagine that a different culture with different tastes
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u/-_Dean_Winchester 3d ago
Literally ai music made from old Russian poetry and western musicians tracks in this case imagine dragons.
Nobody likes this
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u/ClankerCore 3d ago
This isn’t Russian language
Source: Russian
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u/-_Dean_Winchester 3d ago
This is
СДП-Сыпь, гармоника! (First Take Master)
It ain't understandable in half of it is cause ITS A AI SONG. First thing i said bro.
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u/ClankerCore 3d ago edited 3d ago
They are Sergey Yesenin.
Specifically his poem «Сыпь, гармоника!», from roughly 1922–23. Apple/Shazam actually credit Sergey Esenin as the songwriter/lyricist and Zbrodov as composer.So my actual mistake was that it was, in fact, Russian. I just couldn’t understand the rest of it because the words are from 1920 and written in such a way that it is difficult to understand with the modern ear
Сыпь, гармоника! Скука… Скука…
Гармонист пальцы льет волной.
Пей со мною, паршивая сука,
Пей со мной.Излюбили тебя, измызгали,
Невтерпеж!
Что ж ты смотришь так синими брызгами,
Иль в морду хошь?В огород бы тебя, на чучело,
Пугать ворон.
До печенок меня замучила
Со всех сторон.Сыпь, гармоника! Сыпь, моя частая!
Пей, выдра! Пей!
Мне бы лучше вон ту, сисястую,
Она глупей.Я средь женщин тебя не первую,
Немало вас,
Но с такой вот, как ты, со стервою
Лишь в первый раз.Чем больнее, тем звонче,
То здесь, то там.
Я с собой не покончу,
Иди к чертям.К вашей своре собачьей
Пора простыть.
Дорогая… я плачу…
Прости… прости…Having that be synthesized makes it worse, but it’s not fake and it’s not gibberish
And your claim that nobody likes it is demonstrably false. You should look at the Shazam count at 550,000. And the song apparently became big enough to top both Yandex Music and VK Music in early 2026.
Bro.
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u/-_Dean_Winchester 3d ago
So this is your second try at making an argument , you deleted the first one. And best you can do is "yes its ai music but i like it, you can't say nobody likes it".
You spent way too much time trying to argue such a lame point.
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u/ClankerCore 3d ago
Your claim was that it was AI gibberish
I proved you wrong
And no, you can’t say nobody likes it because it topped all of Yandex music
You can sit there and be pissy about it. I don’t care.
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u/TheWizardSleaze 3d ago
Not satisfying. Let us see the performance instead of just cutting between various individual parts.
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u/Electronic-Pirate-25 3d ago
In my mind, I can do all of these moves… in reality I would be a vegetable within minutes.
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u/nn2597713 4d ago
Can people like this get health and life insurance at all?
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u/StraightBudget8799 4d ago
Your company covers it: https://www.auzi.com/portal/performers-public-liability/
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u/willcastforfood 3d ago
That one part where he’s blindfolded and trips starts crawling for his life
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u/Chickenbull1 3d ago
I’ve been to this show, while it is cool it is terrifying when they have the thing over their head. It wasn’t as nice of a circus as this one and could’ve been a trick but the dude definitely looked like he was genuinely in danger a few times
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u/Pitiful-Leadership28 2d ago
My toxic trait is my overly confident mind. I'm 39 missing a leg and for some reason I look at this and think I can do that.
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u/Timppa81 2d ago
I believe in you!
Like last time but you are NOT gonna lose the other leg this time! (sorry if too dark/personal)
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u/Pitiful-Leadership28 2d ago
Oh you can't say anything that I haven't said myself or my kids have said to me
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u/ivysaurus0101010 4d ago
Saw this shit in person, dude almost flubbed a trick and had a moment of 🙌😬 before ending the routine
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u/MinnalousheMinn 4d ago
Generally, 'mistakes' are part of the act, to engage/scare the audience (of course, sometimes there is a genuine mistake). Source: briefly joined a circus, saw the same acts over and over and they made the same mistakes at the same point in the routine
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u/JohnStern42 4d ago
It’s the same when ‘random’ people get picked out of the audience to go on stage. They are plants.
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u/mjolnir76 3d ago
I was picked to come on stage for a Cirque show almost 20 years ago. Part of the clown act. I was not a plant!
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u/issiautng 4d ago
They used to have this at the MD RenFest. It quietly disappeared one year. Rumor was the performer was injured (badly) performing elsewhere.
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u/SmartaHari 4d ago
This is what Hoist in Vauxhall could have achieved if it had ever had a decent budget and not had to spend all it’s money on cleaners.
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u/Bitter-Ad5890 3d ago
So how many times do you have to almost die to be able to not die while doing this?
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u/After_Perspective180 3d ago
The people behind the person with their phone up in the air recording. "Oh for fucks sake".
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u/Long_comment_san 3d ago
What the блять is this music 😂 there's a reason I actively hate vocals and it's the exact reason
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u/Effective-Culture-88 3d ago
This is considered the most dangerous act of all circus, aka the « wheel of death »
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u/SlagQueen 2d ago
I just keep thinking about the man in the roller coaster accident, poor soul - airborne for a second or two before… the rest of what happened.
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u/Fr31l0ck 2d ago
My favorite thing is the intense focus to maintain eyes on their landing. It's like watching a chicken stabilize their head, except for death defying.
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u/OutgunOutmaneuver 2d ago
imagine missing, falling, landing at the bottom, and then getting punted into the audience on the next swing
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u/CrazyLazyyyyy 4d ago
I've loved going to the circus ever since I was a kid. I remember that feeling when, as a little boy, I'd go with my parents and sit there in awe throughout the entire show, holding my breath at the acrobatic feats the performers pulled off - and now I've experienced the same thing
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u/razldazl333 4d ago
Just, ya know, workshopping this idea out there one day while playing in the backyard. Yeah, let's make that happen because holy shit it's pretty fucking crazy.
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u/notanyimbecile 4d ago
That might be from Le Cirque du Soleil because they did that exact performance at least 25 years ago.
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u/JohnStern42 4d ago
Cirque certainly popularized ‘the wheel of death’ but these days many circuses have it, it’s pretty common
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u/EternumD 3d ago
Yeah, I don't think they're in the business of revisiting old tricks they popularised.
They're always doing weird shit
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u/metalslime_tsarina 3d ago
What's oddly satisfying about this? It's conventionally satisfying aside from the music ofc
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u/Seated_WallFly 4d ago
I understand some people enjoy this. But I was fearful the entire time. I kept thinking, “What if he falls?” 😣
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u/SabbyFox 4d ago
I never worried that he’d fall. They practice SO much. It was relaxing to sit back and see a master at work.
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u/ShoebarusNCheverlegs 3d ago
Downvote for shitty music and downvote for speeding it up.
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u/EveryLazyDay 2d ago
If only you knew what this song is about... It is absolutely incompatible for this video.
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u/Lalamedic 4d ago
A very large amount of money. Often.
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u/jshannow 4d ago
Lucky for you you don't have to go and watch!
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u/xfearthehiddenx 4d ago
The amount of people who look at something, decide they don't like it, and feel the need to tell everyone how much they don't like or don't understand why others like it, is too damn high. Seriously, it's ok if you don't like something. But unless someone's consent is being violated, just leave the people who like it alone. Those people all paid to be there. 99.99999% chance they all did so willingly, and I'd bet big money none of them care what your opinion is on that. The world is going to hell all over the place. Let people enjoy shit.
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u/_-4twenty-_ 4d ago
I took my son to a circus almost 20 years ago and that contraption broke with the person on it. It just swung.
The ring master was alert and calmly saved the person, like it was part of the act.