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by ryanmercer 2736 days ago
>What are people's thoughts on if this is staged?

Well one, he's not a prank channel. He's a serious professional that even showed video of people stealing his package that started the whole idea. He then went as far as to machine parts, have a custom pcb manufactured etc. Then he contaminated cars and residences with glitter, yeah good luck talking random friends to let you bomb their cars and houses with glitter.

I mean, the dude worked for JPL for almost a decade and has his work on Mars, he already gets tons of views and has a history of deep-diving projects. He's also a tv host. He's also a former TED speaker.

Guy has better things to do than stage videos for YouTube.
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root_axis 2736 days ago
Nothing you've listed here precludes fakery.

> good luck talking random friends to let you bomb their cars and houses with glitter.

Right. Typically you pay an actor to do fake things that a real person would not be on board with.

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ryanmercer 2736 days ago
>Nothing you've listed here precludes fakery.

You think he can get a decent engineering job, especially for a government agency, in the future with a viral public hoax on his record?

Yeah, probably not and YouTube isn't going to rake in money forever, not that he uploads often enough to be anywhere near a top earner anyway.

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root_axis 2736 days ago
> You think he can get a decent engineering job, especially for a government agency, in the future with a viral public hoax on his record?

Who cares? Those are arbitrary rationalizations that didn't necessarily factor into the creator's reasoning; you're simply projecting post facto reasoning that supports your preconceived conclusions. People who fall for scams and fakes use this same flawed reasoning all the time: "would he really lie about this? It can't possibly be worth it, I have considered all possibilities and have perfect information, there is no way that someone would do something that is obviously a bad choice from my perspective"...

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ryanmercer 2736 days ago
> you're simply projecting post facto

He literally says it's not a prank video, that he doesn't do that. He has a solid reputation both as an engineer and as a YouTuber for being scientific and factual, 4 videos ago he showed a fake video from another YouTube user and explained how to help yourself determine when a video is fake...

His videos already get millions of views - his top 5 are nearly 1/4 of a billion views at 99 million, 46 million, 32 million, 31 million, 28 million, even his less popular ones easily clear multiple millions.

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cosmotron 2736 days ago
> 4 videos ago he showed a fake video from another YouTube user and explained how to help yourself determine when a video is fake...

Devil's advocate: sounds like someone knowledgeable enough to make a video that's can't be easily dismissed as a prank. :-)

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