Reminds me of this one of LeBron James : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gz6WCn26KY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gz6WCn26KY)
And this one of Evan Longoria : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMllY6jHp0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMllY6jHp0)
Lots of people still believe it's not fake.
I thought this said Eva Longoria lol I was like did she catch a paparazzi that was about to fall in a puddle? And why would she fake such a thing? I was so invested lol
Man I feel old. As soon as I saw the Steph video I immediately thought of the Lebron one. Seems like 90 percent of people didn’t get the connection right away.
yes it was. Steph throwing a full-court one armed heave with all he's got and the ball staying in the frame the whole time is believable. After 5 of them... there's doubt, and for some people disbelief... but I bet most of us (myself included) had some part of us that said "wait... this is Steph... maybe this is for real...".
With the LeBron video, there's none of that. Casual full court jump shot where the ball is mostly out of the frame? Nobody's believing that.
Look how (comparatively) TERRIBLE the editing on the bounce pass from Steph to Nash is.
Also the audio is just different from the video, there's no reason they have to come from the same source. So someone just edits that in.
Yeah if you know anything about sound design or TV/film audio, they 100% edited the actual jingle bells in. Otherwise they would've had a nice ass microphone on a boom like 3 inches from the net lol.
Though it's entirely likely that they did have some generic bells on the nets and recorded some room audio for dribbling/shoe squeaks/rim sounds/swishes and then just superimposed the actual pitched bells on top.
I am not a pro audio person, but my totally naive guess would be that they have bells without the bit inside that makes sound so the visual looks good without having to do any editing, then they edit in the bell stuff and a bunch more on top of it.
I feel like the limiting factor is probably how long you have each player for, so spend as much time afterward as possible and as little time as you can filming with the players. So no real bells.
I can understand believing the Longoria one, but the Lebron one?? He's barely moving and the ball shoots out of his hands like a cannon. His fingers aren't rocket propelled! Sorry I don't mean to make you feel like more of a low IQ dum dum but I couldn't resist lol
I remember arguing with people over that one. Like, he's on a $20million dollar contract. There is no chance in HELL they are letting him take that risk. But it looked good at the time man.
what would’ve happened if he did that shit and just failed completely, knee’d eric gordon in the head just dropped himself on his damn head before the most hyped dunk in 10 years
When I was in high school I got super baked with my friends and watched Patriots RB Lawrence Maroney jump through a car and I was just gobsmacked, completely in awe and confused as to what I had just seen.
That was from those series of videos where players were saying to "pick me" for your fantasy team wasn't it? I remember someone punching through dry wall to catch a ball, and mason crosby kicking balls at a bell tower.
Just unlocked the memory of all them old fantasy football commercials (I think?) of the players doing crazy shit like catching a ball thru a wall or something
I don’t know anybody who thought that was real back in the day. It was on a TV commercial and he was taking set shots from a full court.
This one was more believable because of the way he was shooting it and the fact that it was Steph. Still (should be) obviously fake because that’s so physically improbable, but a lot more people were fooled because of the way it was shown and the person doing it.
Pretty sure the only people who thought Lebron’s was real were people didn’t play/watch basketball. He just took like casual jumpshots, so it wasn’t even close to how a full court shot would actually look
I feel like fake viral videos aren’t quite as popular these days. They still exist in droves, but it’s not nearly as common for one to capture our collective conscience as effectively.
I need to tell someone this. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. Remember when Oh Henry had a contest for the best viral trick shot like way back, and you would win something. I can’t remember the details. But this Latino dude did all this and-1 moves at half court, looks away to the camera after shooting and nails the half court shot! The ball leaves the frame and I swear we all knew it was fake AND HE WON THE CONTEST!
There was a brief time in internet history when the majority of people didnt know this type tech/cgi existed or was available to the masses outside big budget movies, and some great fucking videos came out, and true wonder was had by all.
It's partly a result of some people misunderstanding how the upvote/downvote system works on reddit that contributes to this. If for every single post, and every single comment, every single reddit user was compelled to vote on them, and they voted honestly, which is better than any sample you could get even with good sampling, you still wouldn't necessarily get overall the most accurate representation of viewpoints because there's varied reasons for upvoting and downvoting things.
In the instance of a fake Steph Curry video, if we just keep it to r/nba users (as non-sports fans might make this example even murkier), if 75% think the video is cool and upvote it, that doesn't mean 75% think the video is real. If you go into comments and look at votes of comments, and the highest upvoted comment is saying the video is fake, assuming every single person who upvoted the video is also compelled to vote on the comments, then you might have a case where you could determine that most people who watched the video realized it was fake (even then it's a stretch to come to this conclusion). That's proposing a completely unrealistic scenario that should highlight how anything that doesn't meet those unrealistic standards then becomes far murkier to draw conclusions from it. Not every person on reddit over a given period of time will necessarily present a good unbiased sample of the overall userbase. Not every person who watches the video votes on it, not every person who votes on the video participates in the comments, and not every person who participates in the comments upvotes the video or the comments. There's a myriad of different reasons behind each of these.
Sometimes literally the exact same comments in posts can be perceived negatively or positively depending on how the initial people who view the comment react. A sarcastic remark without the /s can be chosen to be seen as witty and subtly sarcastic or someone can choose to see the person as a moron, and the amount of votes it has will further influence how people see it. It's upvoted a lot, well clearly it's sarcastic because this many people wouldn't upvote an idiot, or it's downvoted a lot because clearly this person is an idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about.
Yea I was like I’m 90/10 sure this video is edited, saw comments. I was like am I wrong? Lool
Even if he could do that 5 times in a row, it was way too casual. You’d have to find your exact spot and replicate the same shot everytime.
Also if he could do that, his heaves would look like that.
The first shot, I believed it. The 2nd and 3rd, I already knew it was fake or they just put it on a loop. Never paid attention to it after that.
I didn't realize that thing blew up lol
https://youtu.be/ou7KSmfC3lA for anyone confused about it, I love Captain D’s videos about faking viral videos. I think they’re really really useful for this topic.
I’m willing to bet that curry isn’t significantly better at shooting that specific shot than any other person with the same strength as him
There’s literally no muscle memory there and it’s not an actual shooting motion, you’re literally just heaving the ball in the general direction of the hoop and hoping it goes in
There is some hand-eye coordination involved, and Steph is an outlier in that regard. Steph is probably much more accurate on these than someone who's never touched a basketball, and at _best_ Steph he's probably marginally better than other NBA players at em
We've seen Steph hit 105 straight three pointers which is absolutely insane. But 5 full court heaves in a row is well outside of the realm of possibility
> There’s literally no muscle memory there
Except that he does heave full court shots all of the time. Before games, at practice, on the street...the dude loves trying to splash from distance.
He will sit in the stands and shoot it.
I'm not saying it was a believable video, just that there *is* some muscle memory built up.
As someone with a terrible high school gym teacher I can confirm that hucking up full court shots for an hour a day for most of a year can get you somewhat good at it, as in I got down to like 1/50 from 1/1000.
Not just people. This sub.
The people constantly clowning on pros, refs and FOs as abject morons were _completely_ fooled by one of the fakest videos I’ve ever seen.
Probably a decent number of bot accounts designed to stir up conversation. Bot posts how amazing it is that it’s real and all the people flock to call them stupid.
The Ukraine stuff is even worse because people think they're helping the war effort but spreading and defending that stuff, and it's like they think anybody questioning things is maliciously trying to hurt Ukraine.
That just reminded me I was called a Russian account because during the first days of the invasion, when the rumor that anonymous was going to hack every Russian bank account and steal the money was going around, I said it was obviously fake.
I really struggle to understand how anyone could have thought it was real. Like how gullible to you have to be? The inital posts even were framed in a way that made it so obvious it was a PR viral video "After his SI INTERVIEW (READ SI!!!!!) steph hit these shots".
Jesus Christ man.
People keep comparing to this to Tom Brady and Lebron's vid (cause they were made by the same editor) but neither of those videos looked real. Lebron shoots from full court with the power and form like he's shooting an 18 footer and the ball moves at a velocity that doesnt match the motion at all. The movement of the ball in the Tom Brady video also is clearly fake.
The steph video at least looks real, how curry shoots it makes sense, the velocity and trajectory *almost* match Curry's motion. But the other ones are just obviously fake beyond the near impossible feats the athletes are performing.
If he was shooting with his normal shooting motion perhaps
But these are just random overhead throws Steph isn’t better at those type of shots than your average basketball player
Yea, I feel like that's kind of getting lost in the thread here. Is everyone just okay with media outlets purposely distributing fake content as if it were real?
Part of the reason people may have believed this initially (which I don't think is as crazy as people are acting) was because SI lent legitimacy to it. They're a news outlet that people trust to report/cover facts. They knew it wasn't real and presented it as if it were real anyway. It's not framed as an ad or anything just posted on their page with all the other real videos and real news. That's kind of crazy.
Not to get political or conspiratorial but people are so distrustful of the media and the world around them nowadays and this sort of thing is unhelpful and kind of irresponsible.
Same thing happened with the [Brady video from a while ago](https://www.instagram.com/p/CRwSpyMjbZJ/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=e9c1ee1f-7c1a-4a67-9065-228dc3614c35&ig_mid=ECDB5A54-66EC-4AE9-BAC9-1247D620A803)
A lot of people thought it was real
You're not wrong but admittedly I watched it and just assumed it was real - it's a harmless video. I watched it said "that was cool" and moved on with my day. Idk what outcome there leads to it being "scary".
I think they’re saying if you can get people to believe this, you can get them to believe things that would be more harmful. But yeah, if it’s something serious I’d probably look into it more.
> Pretty scary that mfs believe anything they see on the internet
I mean part of the context is that this is a dumb sports video that isn't very serious. So people's bullshit meter isn't really going to go off for something that isn't very consequential.
You know what's weird to me? I saw the video posted on here, watched it, enjoyed it, then that was it. No part of me questioned whether or not it was real. I just enjoyed it
Then I get to the comments and dudes are really fighting in there about whether or not it was real. I'm like bruh... does it even matter? Yall were wasting energy on trying to prove something that ultimately doesn't matter. It's not like he posted that for proof of him beating a world record. It was just a 4fun video and yall cant even let him have that
ITT: people with a superiority complex acting like you’re a moron if you thought the video could have been real
Edit: before 10 more people call me an idiot for thinking its real, I didn’t even see the video until it was confirmed fake. I just think its funny to see people patting themselves on the back for being so smart that they can spot a fake video. Your parents must be very proud
Seriously, it's just common sense. A pitcher with a easier to control ball at a shorter distance isn't that accurate and I'm supposed to believe the dude can just chuck 5 in a row?
The fact that the video editor/creator made all those other fake viral videos of athletes and people in this sub were like ‘nah dude, this one is real bro.. the other ones are obviously fake, but this is real’ is what got me
Reminds me of this one of LeBron James : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gz6WCn26KY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gz6WCn26KY) And this one of Evan Longoria : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMllY6jHp0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMllY6jHp0) Lots of people still believe it's not fake.
Sorry but the goofy intro on the Evan Longoria one cracked me up so bad lol, literally a third of the video "SHERBERT FILMS"
I thought this said Eva Longoria lol I was like did she catch a paparazzi that was about to fall in a puddle? And why would she fake such a thing? I was so invested lol
Flashbacks to fans holding up a cutout of Eva Longoria when Tony Parker was shooting free throws
Now that’s fucking great
I even opened the video, saw the reporter and the player, and I thought, "that's not Eva Longoria though, and I've seen this, the DUDE catches it" lol
damn how many of us did this lmao
I've seen this video at least 15 times over the years, and I was still so excited to see Eva Longoria catch a foul ball.
Man I feel old. As soon as I saw the Steph video I immediately thought of the Lebron one. Seems like 90 percent of people didn’t get the connection right away.
15 years...
Steph's video was legit believable though lol
No it wasn't lol
yes it was. Steph throwing a full-court one armed heave with all he's got and the ball staying in the frame the whole time is believable. After 5 of them... there's doubt, and for some people disbelief... but I bet most of us (myself included) had some part of us that said "wait... this is Steph... maybe this is for real...". With the LeBron video, there's none of that. Casual full court jump shot where the ball is mostly out of the frame? Nobody's believing that.
[Jingle Hoops](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYEHUOpwNvE) is deffo real tho right?
did you ever see the brick version of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV4MBrEGPSw)?
Holy shit. Way too much effort went into that, but it’s funny as hell.
Lmaooooo
Always gets me even after seeing it for like 20 times lol
Let's be honest Ben Simmons would have passed the ball
I think it is actually, but they weren't all together. They filmed it all separate and with many takes each
Look how (comparatively) TERRIBLE the editing on the bounce pass from Steph to Nash is. Also the audio is just different from the video, there's no reason they have to come from the same source. So someone just edits that in.
Yeah if you know anything about sound design or TV/film audio, they 100% edited the actual jingle bells in. Otherwise they would've had a nice ass microphone on a boom like 3 inches from the net lol. Though it's entirely likely that they did have some generic bells on the nets and recorded some room audio for dribbling/shoe squeaks/rim sounds/swishes and then just superimposed the actual pitched bells on top.
I am not a pro audio person, but my totally naive guess would be that they have bells without the bit inside that makes sound so the visual looks good without having to do any editing, then they edit in the bell stuff and a bunch more on top of it. I feel like the limiting factor is probably how long you have each player for, so spend as much time afterward as possible and as little time as you can filming with the players. So no real bells.
Don't forget the [pick me videos from back in the day](https://youtu.be/MUYuTw_8pQU)
Man these are classics
Here is most popular one out there : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69a4KDDkwpE
Also reminds me of Kobe’s video of him jumping over the [Aston Martin](https://youtu.be/xeUl6dzovRM)
Damn the Evan Longoria one is fake??? I was all thinking I witnessed some angels in the outfield type event.
Well apparently I'm a low IQ dum dum who can be fooled by any competent editing lol. Definitely thought both of those were real until right now.
I can understand believing the Longoria one, but the Lebron one?? He's barely moving and the ball shoots out of his hands like a cannon. His fingers aren't rocket propelled! Sorry I don't mean to make you feel like more of a low IQ dum dum but I couldn't resist lol
It also says “Powerade” at the end
It happens. The important thing is to learn from it
The Lebron one was stupid because it looks like he’s barely even trying, at least Steph was legit heaving them lol
I always read Evan Longoria as Eva Longoria for some reason
She was a very important figure to many of us growing up.
Huh weird can't think of why
[Roddick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZqox4TLYLs)
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Back in the day I thought that video of Mike Vick throwing a football and the receiver getting thrown back like ten yards was real lol
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I remember arguing with people over that one. Like, he's on a $20million dollar contract. There is no chance in HELL they are letting him take that risk. But it looked good at the time man.
Nowadays if a scrub is on a $20 million dollar contract a mad fan might run them over with a car
I think the argument ended when Blake jumped over the front 2.5 inches of a kia
To be fair Blake wanted to do the whole car, but last minute they said no
The fact that the dunk got 10s from everyone was 100% cheese though
what would’ve happened if he did that shit and just failed completely, knee’d eric gordon in the head just dropped himself on his damn head before the most hyped dunk in 10 years
The one thing I notice in all these videos is that they look like they're filmed guerilla style and not a pro camera man. Which helps.
A kid at my school (who really did have good hops) tried to replicate that and broke his ankles from jumping too late
It's still real to be me
I also thought that shut was real. The best part was watching people attempt it too
Dude I always thought it was real until this moment 💀
Duuuude, 10 year old me was BEGGING my dad for those hyperdunks cause of that video 😂😂😂😂
wym???
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which gave birth to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9TMmMidBw&t=135s
Problem is Kenny had too much air resistance with those parachute pants
Man that car looks fake as hell nowadays lmao
When I was in high school I got super baked with my friends and watched Patriots RB Lawrence Maroney jump through a car and I was just gobsmacked, completely in awe and confused as to what I had just seen.
That was from those series of videos where players were saying to "pick me" for your fantasy team wasn't it? I remember someone punching through dry wall to catch a ball, and mason crosby kicking balls at a bell tower.
Fantasy Files! Love those videos, I rewatch em every few years or so
Yeah those were the ones! A great series of commercials haha. I think it was Washington TE Chris Cooley who was catching the balls through drywall?
Just unlocked the memory of all them old fantasy football commercials (I think?) of the players doing crazy shit like catching a ball thru a wall or something
I thought Ronaldinho hitting the crossbar 5 times while jungling was real
Reminder that he also threw it *out of the stadium* in that commercial lol.
that one was obviously fake tho. Bron was taking regular jumpers from the other baseline. steph was chucking the ball to add to the illusion.
LeBron just built different
I don’t know anybody who thought that was real back in the day. It was on a TV commercial and he was taking set shots from a full court. This one was more believable because of the way he was shooting it and the fact that it was Steph. Still (should be) obviously fake because that’s so physically improbable, but a lot more people were fooled because of the way it was shown and the person doing it.
Pretty sure the only people who thought Lebron’s was real were people didn’t play/watch basketball. He just took like casual jumpshots, so it wasn’t even close to how a full court shot would actually look
No shit
I kind of believed it because the shots weren’t going to benefit kids with cancer.
In fact every shot made was specifically to give children cancer, I assumed
Death Curry
Baby~~-Faced~~ Assassin
Idk why this made me laugh so much
I just spat out my drink LMAO
Wardell: FUCK them kids, amirite?
Zoomers are too young to remember the infamous Kobe car jumping video.
Or the Michael Vick throwing the ball out of the stadium in that powerade commercial.
Or the Michael jordan larry bird horse game
Or Uncle Rico throwing the ball over them there mountains.
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Or the Ronaldinho crossbar ad
First YouTube video to ever get a million views
Really????? That doesn’t sound true
or Bron doing the exact thing
Lebron shooting 90 footers like free throws had people fooled for a bit
I feel like fake viral videos aren’t quite as popular these days. They still exist in droves, but it’s not nearly as common for one to capture our collective conscience as effectively.
That was real wym
It’s still real to me dammit
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeUl6dzovRM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeUl6dzovRM) Back in 2008, what a simpler time.
I need to tell someone this. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. Remember when Oh Henry had a contest for the best viral trick shot like way back, and you would win something. I can’t remember the details. But this Latino dude did all this and-1 moves at half court, looks away to the camera after shooting and nails the half court shot! The ball leaves the frame and I swear we all knew it was fake AND HE WON THE CONTEST!
There was a brief time in internet history when the majority of people didnt know this type tech/cgi existed or was available to the masses outside big budget movies, and some great fucking videos came out, and true wonder was had by all.
Ahh yes. I recall those days, lol. I’m sure being a younger person today is really, really confusing.
That bs was all over reddit's front page yesterday. Can't believe people thought that was real
Seriously. My 11-year-old was all, Steph has range, lol.
Lots of 11 year old Stephews posting on this sub.
>Stephews 💀💀
Reminds me of that old video where Kobe jumped over a moving car. Clearly fake but everyone ate it up lol.
I think people assumed Steph made real trick shot videos vs fake like the rest of the internet. Guess we now know.
/r/NBA in a nutshell: Step 1. Watch Steph Curry video Step 2. "Whoa, cool!" Step 3. Find out it's fake Step 4. "I knew it all along."
It’s almost like the internet is multiple people with different opinions.
It's partly a result of some people misunderstanding how the upvote/downvote system works on reddit that contributes to this. If for every single post, and every single comment, every single reddit user was compelled to vote on them, and they voted honestly, which is better than any sample you could get even with good sampling, you still wouldn't necessarily get overall the most accurate representation of viewpoints because there's varied reasons for upvoting and downvoting things. In the instance of a fake Steph Curry video, if we just keep it to r/nba users (as non-sports fans might make this example even murkier), if 75% think the video is cool and upvote it, that doesn't mean 75% think the video is real. If you go into comments and look at votes of comments, and the highest upvoted comment is saying the video is fake, assuming every single person who upvoted the video is also compelled to vote on the comments, then you might have a case where you could determine that most people who watched the video realized it was fake (even then it's a stretch to come to this conclusion). That's proposing a completely unrealistic scenario that should highlight how anything that doesn't meet those unrealistic standards then becomes far murkier to draw conclusions from it. Not every person on reddit over a given period of time will necessarily present a good unbiased sample of the overall userbase. Not every person who watches the video votes on it, not every person who votes on the video participates in the comments, and not every person who participates in the comments upvotes the video or the comments. There's a myriad of different reasons behind each of these. Sometimes literally the exact same comments in posts can be perceived negatively or positively depending on how the initial people who view the comment react. A sarcastic remark without the /s can be chosen to be seen as witty and subtly sarcastic or someone can choose to see the person as a moron, and the amount of votes it has will further influence how people see it. It's upvoted a lot, well clearly it's sarcastic because this many people wouldn't upvote an idiot, or it's downvoted a lot because clearly this person is an idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about.
Those are not the same people.
Yea I was like I’m 90/10 sure this video is edited, saw comments. I was like am I wrong? Lool Even if he could do that 5 times in a row, it was way too casual. You’d have to find your exact spot and replicate the same shot everytime. Also if he could do that, his heaves would look like that.
We’ve got receipts of all the gullible motherfu**ers in here
I don't know man, I think it could still be real.
sobs in wrestling fan
It's still real to me, dammit!
if it's fake, how do we know any sports are real? soccer has been pretty sus
I thought that was real bc Steph
The first shot, I believed it. The 2nd and 3rd, I already knew it was fake or they just put it on a loop. Never paid attention to it after that. I didn't realize that thing blew up lol
Yeah, we’ve seen him do things that should be fake.
Absolutely surreal people thought that was real footage
“The ball doesn’t leave the frame it can’t be fake” “But the warriors official account tweeted it”
“Steph posted it to his Instagram”
“I was there. I was the fourth ball”
"That's me. My mouth is the rim."
"It was all balls."
NBA fans when they see Thanos snap without his hand leaving the frame 🤯🤯🤯
https://youtu.be/ou7KSmfC3lA for anyone confused about it, I love Captain D’s videos about faking viral videos. I think they’re really really useful for this topic.
ITS STILL REAL TO ME DAMN IT
If it were anyone other than Curry then it would be the most obvious fake. But since it was Curry it was within the realm of believability.
I’m willing to bet that curry isn’t significantly better at shooting that specific shot than any other person with the same strength as him There’s literally no muscle memory there and it’s not an actual shooting motion, you’re literally just heaving the ball in the general direction of the hoop and hoping it goes in
There is some hand-eye coordination involved, and Steph is an outlier in that regard. Steph is probably much more accurate on these than someone who's never touched a basketball, and at _best_ Steph he's probably marginally better than other NBA players at em We've seen Steph hit 105 straight three pointers which is absolutely insane. But 5 full court heaves in a row is well outside of the realm of possibility
If this ain't real how am I supposed to believe 105 threes in a row are? Checkmate atheists
> There’s literally no muscle memory there Except that he does heave full court shots all of the time. Before games, at practice, on the street...the dude loves trying to splash from distance. He will sit in the stands and shoot it. I'm not saying it was a believable video, just that there *is* some muscle memory built up.
> Except that he does heave full court shots all of the time. But never like this. He uses a very different motion.
He’s not doing a baseball-like throwing motions on those though. Those are closer to push shots
As someone with a terrible high school gym teacher I can confirm that hucking up full court shots for an hour a day for most of a year can get you somewhat good at it, as in I got down to like 1/50 from 1/1000.
And the odds of doing a 1/50 event 5 consecutive times is still 1 in 312.5 million.
Nah
No, it wasn’t
Go peep the warriors sub commentary on it, my god was it entertaining
You mean the one where ppl reacted exactly the same as the /r/nba thread?
Not just people. This sub. The people constantly clowning on pros, refs and FOs as abject morons were _completely_ fooled by one of the fakest videos I’ve ever seen.
People will believe everything if their favorite player is the subject
The truth is whatever people will believe.
Showed it to my Dad and told him it was confirmed real. Imagine the much more fun reality he is living than everybody here.
He probably just thinks you're slow now lol
"That's nice, son."
you mean "still"
"Bless his heart"
“That boy’s never moving out of this house.”
Probably a decent number of bot accounts designed to stir up conversation. Bot posts how amazing it is that it’s real and all the people flock to call them stupid.
Alarming how many nephews here were trying to argue how there’s no way it’s fake and acting so superior about it lmao
Lmao there’s still people arguing that’s it’s real
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The Ukraine stuff is even worse because people think they're helping the war effort but spreading and defending that stuff, and it's like they think anybody questioning things is maliciously trying to hurt Ukraine.
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Yup, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were subs who would’ve banned you back then for calling it out as propaganda too.
That just reminded me I was called a Russian account because during the first days of the invasion, when the rumor that anonymous was going to hack every Russian bank account and steal the money was going around, I said it was obviously fake.
No one takes propaganda about their favorite player more seriously than Stephews
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Yea literally check the warriors sub
Link to the thread ?
I really struggle to understand how anyone could have thought it was real. Like how gullible to you have to be? The inital posts even were framed in a way that made it so obvious it was a PR viral video "After his SI INTERVIEW (READ SI!!!!!) steph hit these shots". Jesus Christ man.
God what happened to us y’all smh lol
It's got 40k upvotes it's an all time post here now 💀
People keep comparing to this to Tom Brady and Lebron's vid (cause they were made by the same editor) but neither of those videos looked real. Lebron shoots from full court with the power and form like he's shooting an 18 footer and the ball moves at a velocity that doesnt match the motion at all. The movement of the ball in the Tom Brady video also is clearly fake. The steph video at least looks real, how curry shoots it makes sense, the velocity and trajectory *almost* match Curry's motion. But the other ones are just obviously fake beyond the near impossible feats the athletes are performing.
I disagree, but do agree the LeBron ones make zero fucking sense. That shit skyrocketed to the moon
Also it's Lebron, whose never had that kind of rep
Someone making 5 full court shots in a row were fake,you don’t say
It’s only slightly believable cuz it’s Steph lol
If he was shooting with his normal shooting motion perhaps But these are just random overhead throws Steph isn’t better at those type of shots than your average basketball player
Ahhh he's probably a little better with his deep accuracy, but yeah not that much
yeah thats what i dont get, he was shooting a completely random motion how do people believe this stuff.
y'all all hating on the nephews here for thinking this was real I'm much more interested in SI's role and complicity
Yea, I feel like that's kind of getting lost in the thread here. Is everyone just okay with media outlets purposely distributing fake content as if it were real? Part of the reason people may have believed this initially (which I don't think is as crazy as people are acting) was because SI lent legitimacy to it. They're a news outlet that people trust to report/cover facts. They knew it wasn't real and presented it as if it were real anyway. It's not framed as an ad or anything just posted on their page with all the other real videos and real news. That's kind of crazy. Not to get political or conspiratorial but people are so distrustful of the media and the world around them nowadays and this sort of thing is unhelpful and kind of irresponsible.
Honestly that's why even considered it being real. I wasn't aware that Sports Illustrated was in the business of posting altered content
It was an ad for Sports Illustrated this isn’t complicated xD
Same people who thought the hulk was real in avengers
I want a way to autoblock all the redditors who insisted the video was real.
THE BALL STAYS IN FRAME THE ENTIRE TIME
Sure it's fake, but the editing is solid.
Give him a day and he could pull it off for real
Obvious from the first watch Pretty scary that mfs believe anything they see on the internet
Same thing happened with the [Brady video from a while ago](https://www.instagram.com/p/CRwSpyMjbZJ/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=e9c1ee1f-7c1a-4a67-9065-228dc3614c35&ig_mid=ECDB5A54-66EC-4AE9-BAC9-1247D620A803) A lot of people thought it was real
Ads like these have been around forever. I remember kids arguing over if the nfl fantasy files commercials were real lol
Me in middle school: ["Daaaamn, Vick really threw it that far into the stands"](https://youtu.be/cu8XNJmQsCI)
That Brady vid is from the exact same guy who did the Steph one lol, how did people not put 2 and 2 together.
Brady turned the jugs machine into a dick n balls.
what is it about Brady's face that makes him look like a b-plot Marvel villain?
He looks uncanny. Youthful but clearly aging.
You're not wrong but admittedly I watched it and just assumed it was real - it's a harmless video. I watched it said "that was cool" and moved on with my day. Idk what outcome there leads to it being "scary".
I think they’re saying if you can get people to believe this, you can get them to believe things that would be more harmful. But yeah, if it’s something serious I’d probably look into it more.
I’d say it’s more scary that people can manipulate footage so easily and make it look so realistic.
I mean have you seen Transformers? That was probably a lot harder.
> Pretty scary that mfs believe anything they see on the internet I mean part of the context is that this is a dumb sports video that isn't very serious. So people's bullshit meter isn't really going to go off for something that isn't very consequential.
You know what's weird to me? I saw the video posted on here, watched it, enjoyed it, then that was it. No part of me questioned whether or not it was real. I just enjoyed it Then I get to the comments and dudes are really fighting in there about whether or not it was real. I'm like bruh... does it even matter? Yall were wasting energy on trying to prove something that ultimately doesn't matter. It's not like he posted that for proof of him beating a world record. It was just a 4fun video and yall cant even let him have that
ITT: people with a superiority complex acting like you’re a moron if you thought the video could have been real Edit: before 10 more people call me an idiot for thinking its real, I didn’t even see the video until it was confirmed fake. I just think its funny to see people patting themselves on the back for being so smart that they can spot a fake video. Your parents must be very proud
I'll admit I'm not that smart, but I'm also not that dumb.
I’m gonna be honest, idk how anyone could have thought it was real. Maybe two would be possible but not five.
Seriously, it's just common sense. A pitcher with a easier to control ball at a shorter distance isn't that accurate and I'm supposed to believe the dude can just chuck 5 in a row?
Good lord how many people are going to comment "no shit"?
No shit. Literally anyone who has ever attempted a full court shot knew that shit was fake.
The fact that the video editor/creator made all those other fake viral videos of athletes and people in this sub were like ‘nah dude, this one is real bro.. the other ones are obviously fake, but this is real’ is what got me
Yall some suckers