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A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 88 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

This is "negative marketing" and I would bet money on it being staged. Everything about the way it's filmed and cut screams staged.

The most obvious part is that this dude is laughing and smiling about his five hundred dollar glasses being broken. Come the fuck on this is not natural behaviour, he stands there neatly for the vertical shot by a third party, there's no confrontation, there's no altercation, the rest of the people on the carriage are bewildered rather than behaving like they just saw something go down. Then it cuts to a first person shot of him holding the camera off the train. Fake. Staged for negative marketing.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Reminds me of the chill guy meme. That shit was made up by the most boring striver corporate wage slaves. No chance it was organic.

Also, the only good chill guy meme

[–] Caitycat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chill guy was a shitpost made by a tumblr user that somehow breached the website barrier and ended up spreading worldwide. I genuinely dont get how this one post ended up getting spread so far.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I honestly think it was astroturfed. The internets dynamics are so artificial now.

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