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u/Lucky-Crow-3510 2d ago edited 2d ago
guys this is rage bait posts .. the guy with the initial video got millions of views just because everyone was raging and calling him out in the comments -> engagement -> viral.
It's a stupid world ..
edit: sorry for unintentionally baiting lol
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u/satanicpedanticpanic 2d ago
Honestly I’m noticing a trend where people engage more and more with bait, and it’s so frustrating. Like clearly, CLEARLY this is rage bait. It’s painfully obvious.
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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 2d ago
Maybe OP is doing meta-ragebait and u/Lucky-Crow-3510 fell for it. Or maybe he is doing meta-meta-ragebait and you fell for it. Or maybe you are doing meta-meta-meta-ragebait and I fell for it.
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u/claymixer 2d ago
I am not failing for your ragebait, I am just doing ragebait for the next person. So um... healthcare should be more expensive, its not expensive enough now.
(I wrote its instead of it's to ragebait someone)
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u/mccrushin 2d ago
I’m so mad and also it’s it’s not its
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u/bmorris0042 2d ago
Yeah, insurance is soooo cheap. And rent too! These landlords and insurance companies are practically losing money on the product they provide. I wish, for their sake, they could just double or triple what they charge.
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u/Practical_Law6804 2d ago
OP is definitely engaging in rage bait with that title given the reaction fella is clearly American.
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u/Electrical-Bowl8818 2d ago
It's algorithms.
Fuck algorithms, worst thing that happened to social media.
Should unironically be illegal for a machine to decide what to push in front of eyes on a global scale.Bring back chronological feed to only the content creator you are subscribed to.
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u/Neuchacho 2d ago edited 2d ago
Imagining a new algo or non-algo world is legitimately a wild thought experiment.
Like, I'm completely with you that they should just be fucking banned. Especially "black box" algos. But even if transparent algos were made and modified to point not towards the most "engaged" thing but rather the most "liked" or positively-engaged-with thing (also requires social media to actively bury shit that gets overwhelmingly disliked which they seem reluctant to ever do) I think we'd legitimately see a huge shift in people's perception of the world as well as an improvement of how people engage with the world.
Just going back to the chrono and followed content would definitely be preferable, though.
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u/BonerPorn 1d ago
I'm very confident that simply making dislikes mean something would improve all the algorithms tremendously.
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u/Yota8883 1d ago
The algorithm works perfectly. You watch something and it feeds you more. My YT algorithm is filled with cars, racing, general aviation, bushcraft, boating, music, everything I enjoy watching. Why? Because that's what I watch. If it feeds me one video, I just don't watch it and I don't get my feed filled with it. Your feed is filled with garbage that you're angry about because you keep watching to stay angry.
Stop watching it. It goes away. The algorithm just feeds what you want it to feed.
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u/Pofwoffle 2d ago
The problem is that engaging with the bait is also good metrics for the channels that do it. They're both basically feeding off of each other.
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u/money-for-nothing-tt 2d ago
It's like a street scam where one person spills something on your clothes and another helps you clean it while they pick your pockets.
Only here instead of money it's your attention and the two people don't have to be working together because they both get rewarded independently of each other.
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u/BluePhoenix_1999 2d ago
Every time someone says "It's obvious bait" i think of young earth creationists, i think of flat earthers, i think of anti-vaxxers, i think of Magats. Sometimes it feels like nothing ever happens.
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u/Major2Minor 1d ago
Religion literally teaches people to ignore reason and 'just trust me bro', so there's a lot of people who have never been taught critical thinking skills, because religion prefers them that way.
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u/somersault_dolphin 2d ago
clearly, CLEARLY this is rage bait
The problem is some people are really that dumb and an asshole. It's a bell curve after all.
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u/PrincipledProphet 2d ago
Not to redditors it's not
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u/Striking-Working610 2d ago
Redditors are desperate to show everyone how they're the smartest, most righteous person in the room.
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u/SwimAd1249 1d ago
redditors are always the smartest person in the room, cause no one wants to hang out with them
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u/StuporFreak 2d ago
We're not? 🤔
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u/FirmPreference5551 2d ago
Fuck, that was good. Like it still triggered something in me even though I know what you were going for. Fucking hell.
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u/gmishaolem 2d ago
Because reddit has turned into nothing but jokes, and they completely bury actual information and discussion.
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u/private_developer 2d ago
It doesn't matter to people who make reaction videos. They respond to viral bait because it brings them engagement as well.
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u/unnieNOauntknee 2d ago
People naturally want to show off their self intelligence, and correct people.
So with that, if you ever need an answer to a question, all you have to do is post a question with the wrong answers and you'll get the correct answers in the comments.
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u/dontmentiontrousers 2d ago
How can I get a million dollars?
Sell the uneaten crusts from your frozen pizza.
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u/happy_bluebird 1d ago
and then I want to comment and tell everyone to stop taking the bait, but then I don't want to help out their algorithm...
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u/Zediac 2d ago
It’s painfully obvious.
Unfortunately, not to everyone.
One third of the entire US is basically illiterate and lacking in critical thinking ability.
Highlights of the 2023 U.S. PIAAC Results
Between 2017 and 2023, there were increases in the percentages of adults performing at the lowest proficiency level (Level 1 or below) in both literacy and numeracy: in literacy this percentage increased from 19 to 28 percent and in numeracy from 29 to 34 percent. The percentage of U.S. adults performing at the lowest level in adaptive problem solving in 2023 was 32 percent.
A third of the country has basically no ability to think rationally and then apply said rationality to a scenario in front of them.
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u/Significant_Ad1256 2d ago
The people engaging with him are the true dumbasses.
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u/rmczpp 2d ago
Maybe...but something in me suspects they actually know and are just riding the wave for clicks as well, like a sort of reverse rage baiting that is equally annoying.
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u/Fun-Inflation-4429 1d ago
ifeel that this original comment is a bti of rage bait too
its all rage bait always has been
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u/work_in_marketing 2d ago
guys this is rage bait posts
Makes me wonder if it's not the response video that is the actual rage bait. The first video with over the top acting is so obvious a joke that it barely qualifies as rage bait. The second video with the serious guy pretending to eat it up on the other hand...
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u/________O-O_________ 2d ago
It's bait all the way down. This post is probably bait.
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u/fuckenbullshitmate 2d ago
Is there not 3 videos in this? First one being the lifting competition increasingly getting harder. Second one, a body builder laughing (rage bait). Third one, explaining logic/physics. ?
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u/birberbarborbur 2d ago
I saw the original video and the first mean guy is german. Just look at his shirt
I don’t know why OP assumed he’s american and said the same to us
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u/Critical_Host8243 1d ago
...or OP knows, and is just using that as the engagement bait.
I almost fell for it.
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u/Head_Exchange_5329 2d ago
Yeah, and amongst those rage comments there will be bots arguing with bots, human with bots, maybe some humans arguing with humans though that last one seems unlikely.
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u/Scriptosis 2d ago
It’s usually both, the initial uploader is a genuine idiot, but being an idiot on the internet often gets you views from rage baiting people.
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u/BuffAzir 2d ago
How is it even a rage bait?
He is not intending to trick anyone, he is just making a joke and probably expected people to go "haha, good one you doofus".
Do people not have friends? Have you never played dumb for a laugh?
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u/sush-dev 2d ago
I also read somewhere that there was a 12 year old in the USA who built a fusion reactor all by himself.
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u/D0NTASKY 2d ago
Sheldon Cooper wasn't it?
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u/Party-Pause-4078 2d ago
Nuclear boy scout
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u/FuzzyAd9407 2d ago
The nuclear boy scout made a fission breeder reactor, but theres been a few different kids now that have built fusor fusion reactors. Theres been like 30 kids to do it with the youngest being 12.
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u/AncientProduce 1d ago
Nuclear reactors are pretty simple to build.
Getting enough fuel is the hard part.
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u/xoxox666 1d ago
Jackson Oswalt, and it was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Still impressive, but there are a lot of homemade fusors. And yes, they are working fusion reactors.
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u/ILoveTaiwaneseFood 2d ago
Amazingly the US has some of the most advanced technology in the world. The best universities, engineers, and doctors.
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u/Total_Career4755 2d ago
What does this have to do with the USA? And doesn't an American explain the science in this video?
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u/Colonel_Gipper 2d ago
America bad circlejerk is very strong on Reddit right now.
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u/Call555JackChop 1d ago
Average American reads at a 5th grade level, but this is by design so the rich can keep stealing from them without them understanding what’s happening
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u/KRacer52 1d ago
“ Average American reads at a 5th grade level”
In English. Roughly 1 in 5 households in the US speak a language other than English at home, and roughly 22% of American adults have Level 1 or worse English proficiency according to the OECD PIACC.
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u/AdvancedSandwiches 1d ago
What I'm hearing is that American 5th graders are so amazing at reading that they don't really need to be any better, but they still get 7 more years of education!
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u/rsta223 1d ago
The US is slightly above the OECD average for literacy, and very comparable to many countries like France, Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Ireland.
Should we shoot for better education? Of course, there's always room for improvement. Is it disastrously below the rest of the world? Absolutely not.
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u/Western-Bus-1305 1d ago
This isn’t true btw. America has one of the highest literacy rates in the world
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u/MattR0se 1d ago
I'm not from the US and my physics grades in middle school were also very bad... I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you how levers work, and how distance effects torque.
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u/ronlugge 1d ago
Because the USA has a strong history of "My ignorance is as valid as your education", to the point where it's a stain on the entire nation even when (like here) it's an exaggeration. The archetype has been established, and the problem with breaking it is that we have people actually pulling batshit stunts like claiming there's no evidence vaccines save lives. That's before you get major politicians re-elected on climate change denial platforms, too.
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u/Ok_Slide4905 2d ago
When you spend more time at the gym instead of school.
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u/what_it_dooo 2d ago
What bothers me most is if he actually thinks about his workouts, he must have noticed the influence of moment arms himself. There are countless exercises where this is at play, so even in the gym literacy must be missing. Or it’s just plain ignorance.
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u/Argo505 2d ago
It’s ragebait. Try being more media literate.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Dot_225 2d ago
It's amazing how when I was younger, people were just stupid. But now everyone is a mastermind because it's always reagebait.
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u/ReachParticular5409 2d ago
It's not always ragebait but ragebait is deliberately designed to go viral so you end up seeing a lot more ragebait in aggregators
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u/Puzzleheaded_Dot_225 2d ago
That's true. But since it's already gone viral, we might as well call the people who make these videos stupid, rather than the people who call them stupid.
When someone writes "It’s ragebait. Try being more media literate." all they did was comment on the ragebaiter's video. And even attacked the wrong person.
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u/Icywarhammer500 2d ago
In this video the guy is actually engagement baiting because he makes money off of the views. So he’s playing dumb in an angering way
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u/Argo505 2d ago
Who said anything about being a mastermind? It doesn’t take a mastermind to make ragebait.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Dot_225 2d ago
No, I know. I'm just saying that whenever someone does something stupid, it's automatically labeled as ragebait.
I'm not saying this one can't be, but people can just be stupid.
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u/xSonicspeedx2 2d ago
Omg lol. He’s saying the guy can just be an idiot. It doesn’t have to always be ragebait. When he said mastermind he was excessively exaggerating to make a point. Realistically he simply meant smart enough to think of ragebaiting someone.
So in conclusion, not everyone is of average enough intelligence to think of ragebaiting. Many are just idiots.
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u/what_it_dooo 2d ago
Not everything is ragebait, it happens often that people confidently post something incorrect. Media literacy would have taught you that…
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u/CataphractBunny 2d ago
I'll just leave this here: https://www.proliteracy.org/news/causes-of-low-adult-literacy-in-the-us/
In the United States, 59 million adults read at or below Level 1, the lowest level on a five-level scale.
This equates to roughly 28% of the adult population—or nearly one in three people—who can read only short sentences with foundational words and basic information.
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u/AGreatConspiracy 2d ago
I always see this statistic thrown around, but a lot of people tend to take it with no context. This is from the OECD PIAAC. I often see people showing statistics of other european countries having 95%+ literacy, but that’s via a different metric. By the same metric, for example, under PIAAC the UK has a 71% literacy rate, Germany has a 79% literacy rate, etc.
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u/nopuse 2d ago
It has become a reddit meme at this point. There are a lot of people who can't read well, but the context is important.
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u/Equivalent_Cold_8603 2d ago
I have no idea why you would bring up water wells into this discussion. I can't see the relevance in bringing that up?
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u/wytewydow 2d ago
you bring water up from a well to drink or wash things. That's why it was brought up.
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u/ColdStrain 2d ago
Am I missing something? Percentage of adults scoring low (at or below level 1) in literacy in the Survey of Adult Skills is nowhere near that? For the USA, the number is almost as the poster above quoted (27.6% of respondents vs OECD average of 26.1%, so worse than average); for England (UK), it's 17.6% (coonsiderably better than average). Are you pulling up a different stat or just reading the table wrong?
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u/mtaw 2d ago
Yes, the poster is comparing apples and oranges. Or rather contrasting a number about oranges with what the same source said about apples. Almost as if he had poor reading comprehension….
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u/Constant-Sub 2d ago
It's not a bad assessment though. I was just looking at the test, and I can IMMEDIATELY see why people would fail the test. It genuinely is asking for basic comprehension of reality, and reading.
Often, I feel like I run into the most obtuse, bullheaded, and pedantic people because they latch onto single words or phrases, and they refuse to see the conversation from any different view. Let's take an interesting example: I was on a youtube chain where a video asked what they would see in an empty room with only mirrors for walls. Every jackass in the comments said "you'd see nothing because there is no light." Get it? Because OP said "in a room with NOTHING in it?" And these people werent joking. I tried to suggest OP implied light were fkn be there, but things got hostile fast.
Those people would've failed the test. One of the questions was "pillows are comfortable and rocky." Those same idiots would've said "I agree," probably because "it's subjective. Maybe someone LIKES a rocky pillow." Another question was "which is better served soft: bread or crackers." Again, obviously bread, but you'd easily get idiots trying to argue crackers. Especially because the question was part of a paragraph where the text states they're looking for soft bread and hard crackers.
These questions genuinely are asking about our basic ass comprehension of the reality around us. Do YOU understand that most people want soft bread? In a sudden moment, would you make a choice based on obvious ideas, or flounder as you debate over pedantic subjectivities. Are you going to "draw the curtains," or am I firing Amelia Bedilia?
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u/Northstar177 2d ago
As a teacher I can understand this. Countless times on a multiple choice test a ‘smart’ student will pick a wrong answer when there is a clearly correct answer, then argue why their answer is correct. I’ll ask them, do you agree answer A is definitely correct, then why are you arguing that you picked B ? It’s always the same - they want to argue that they’ve found some silly reasons B is correct when they know A is definitely correct.
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u/BigHandLittleSlap 2d ago
Sigh.
Meanwhile, many, many tests are some variant of:
1) "Read the mind of the test writer."
2) "Guess what I would have guessed."
3) "What is statistically answered by most people, wrong or not."
Common "intelligence" tests will have questions like:
"What is the next digit in this sequence?"
1,2,4,8,16, ?
The answer is... 31 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_law_of_small_numbers
Or anything at all. Anything you want. Whatever. An equation exists for which any series of numbers is the solution!
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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein 2d ago edited 2d ago
I mean, 79% vs 28% … it‘s still a massive difference.
ETA: damn, I fucked that up badly, didn‘t I.
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u/cyphar 2d ago edited 2d ago
I don't quite know how to tell you this, but you might be in the 28%.
100-28 = 72% literacy rate. (GP was talking about a 28% illiteracy rate, while parent was talking about 71% and 79% literacy rates.)
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u/GehennanWyrm 2d ago
The illiteracy rate would be higher than 28%, since the statistic only covers people at level 1 reading ability. 'Level 0' (cant read at all) isn't included, and level 2 might be just as bad as level 1 for a grown adult.
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u/Servietsky 2d ago
What does it has to do with the post? People in the video are German.
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u/El_Sephiroth 2d ago
There's a reason for that and it's sad.
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u/JoshAllensRightNut 2d ago
And the people with a whole lot of money who are in charge of country would really like to keep it that way
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u/affemannen 2d ago
Not to be a party pooper but literacy rates are going down in my country and in Europe.
Which is kind of scary, because you would think with all the tech and information we have access to it should be the opposite, but apparently it's the tech and screens that are driving it.
That and brainless 15s clips fckn up peoples attention span.
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u/AFerociousPineapple 2d ago
That explains so much about the US… jfc
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u/Icywarhammer500 2d ago
The UK is only 7% better btw when graded by the same metric
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u/Johnny_B_GOODBOI 2d ago
Man, we really need more centers for kids who can't read good, and who wanna learn to do other stuff good too.
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u/NightBawk 2d ago
To be fair, a portion of those who can't read, specifically can't read in English. I'm sure a portion of them would have a much higher score in their first language. Others might have disabilities that make reading difficult, such as dyslexia. That said, I also know there are plenty of people who don't have either excuse. Our education system is a shambles, especially for ESL or disabled students.
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u/MrBoomf 2d ago
Can you break this down into something shorter & more basic? I feel like I’m not fully getting it.
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u/wrathful-anus 2d ago
This explains the DO NOT EAT silica gel packets. Some people can’t read the warning and still eat it!
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u/MellyKidd 2d ago edited 1d ago
Education isn’t illegal in the USA, it’s just strongly discouraged.
Edit; some people think I mean this too literally. My comment is mostly just political satire.
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u/birberbarborbur 2d ago
I saw the original video and the first mean guy is german. Just look at his shirt
Why are we assuming he’s american?
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u/Volcomcj16 2d ago
Even funnier when the guy that explains that he's wrong is most likely American 🤣
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u/Decloudo 2d ago
You can google stuff.
No one prevents you from educating yourself.
You just wont get a badge for it.
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 2d ago
where do they discourage kids from going to school? i wish i grew up there. school fucking sucks (learning is cool but school sucks)
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u/Pofwoffle 2d ago
They don't discourage you from going to school, they just discourage you from actually learning while you're there. There's a reason the right has been so rabidly gutting education funding and demonizing higher education for the last few decades.
They know full well that the only people who vote for them are stupid or evil, so most of their strategies are based around creating more stupid and evil people.
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u/KuningasTynny77 1d ago
Nobody discourages you from learning anything, this is just a common thing thrown around to ragebait people
Money is spent on your education if you are an American, even if you go to public schools and never pay a dime. They're not going to pay for your school and then tell everyone to not learn anything. That's the biggest waste of money ever.
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u/Boneraventura 2d ago
Sometimes it is explicit (“Dem librul universities making our kids communists”) or it is implicit (let’s not fund schools and pay our teachers poverty wages). Nobody is telling 7 year olds to not go to school. But there are many people that say go to trade school because university is a scam.
Likewise, there is a huge anti-intellectual faction of the US. Carl Sagan wrote about it 30 years ago in The Demon Haunted World. He warned us about it then and of course nobody listened. That is how we end up with large swaths of anti-vaxxers and flat earthers walking among us.
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u/whitestguyuknow 2d ago
That's true. Yet this dude is just making a dumb troll post. He doesn't actually think this. Its pretty easy to tell yet people are still up in arms over it
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u/Argo505 2d ago
Nah, I can’t say I was ever discouraged from getting an education.
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u/Balshazzar 2d ago
He's trolling for the engagement
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u/Cardboardoge 2d ago
Is it even trolling if its a clear joke?
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u/DeadPeanutSociety 1d ago
People keep saying it's "rage bait" but I think it's just a him acting stupid as a joke. It's like saying Patrick from Spongebob is doing "rage bait."
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u/Albertuscamus12 2d ago
I almost paused this video at the start just to double check that torque and distance from the pivot had a linear relationship
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u/verzing1 2d ago
Yes, the weight of the log does not change, but if you lift it from the far end, it requires less force than lifting it closer to the middle or near the hinge.
It is based on the law of the lever. The relationship is:
Torque = Force * Distance from the pivot
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u/TitaniaT-Rex 2d ago
I couldn’t explain it in physics terms, but I immediately knew this had to do with levers because of lessons learned in elementary school. Also included in those elementary school lessons were pulleys, inclined planes, and friction.
For an experiment, our teacher had half of us run across the PE field holding huge cardboard sheets while the others ran without them. I was already not fast, but I’ll never forget how hard it was to run holding that damned cardboard. Science is so cool.
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u/SilverWizard54 2d ago
Many people you will encounter will be stupid. Surprising.. I know.
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u/Me4TACyTeHePa 2d ago
Man, before i started working in tech support, i thought people were not that stupid. (i don't mean this particular video, i mean people in general) but now I know there's always someone more stupid than you think people can be
Plus many people are infantile.
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u/AIBotNotARealUser 2d ago
Everyone in here are dumb as shit.
First guy is making a joke, second guy knows this, but still makes the video because of engagement, since people like the Redditors commenting here are dumb as shit.
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u/BuffAzir 2d ago
Remember that reddit has an absurdly disproportional amount of autistic people, they just genuinely have a hard time telling.
They have also probably never set foot in a gym, so the only knowledge comes from "gymbro stupid" memes.
Its not necessarily just being "dumb", they just genuinely think he is being very disrespectful and uninformed.
While in reality, on average, people going to the gym regularly will naturally have a much better grasp and intuitive understanding of leverage by nature of... doing physical things.
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u/reddsht 2d ago
People will eat the most obvious bait, hook, line and sinker. Like theve never been on the internet before. This is such a lame dynamic, guy trolls for engagement, the "explainer" know, bit still eats the bait and spends his time explaining because he needs content to keep his channel alive.
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u/ManofManyHills 2d ago
The dumbest part of this is gym bros usually have a really good grasp of things like leverage because they actually have experience picking up things and know its harder to pick up a barbell at the center vs at the sides.
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u/Moezso 2d ago
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
-Archimedes
We learned about the simple machines in 3rd grade.
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u/PM-me-ur-kittenz 2d ago
THANK YOU.
In case anyone else is curious, the 6 classic simple machines are:
Lever
Wheel and axle
Pulley
Inclined plane
Wedge
Screw
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u/kadaka80 2d ago
Archimedes theory on levers has been 2200 years since it was published but some people still hadn't had enough time to get acquainted with it
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u/SoylentGrunt 2d ago
It's almost as if big ragebait create big reaction. Manipulatins work. I'll see ya tomorrow.
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u/BuffAzir 2d ago
Its not even ragebait, he is just making a joke playing dumb with himself as the punchline.
There is no intention to trick anyone, he probably expected people to understand and go "haha, you doofus, good one"
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u/Motor_Actuator_6210 2d ago
I may be a bore, but I don't like laughing at people's expense like this. And generalizing to a specific country (no, I'm not from the USA myself)
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u/tinfoilsheild 2d ago
Speaking as an American, the douche whose first instinct was to make fun of a woman working out can suck a fat one, and deserves any mockery that comes his way.
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u/North-Pea-4926 2d ago
Even if the weight was the same…it’s still a workout? Dudes lift dumbbells all day and nobody laughs at them.
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u/Grouchy-Notice-9951 2d ago
He lift dumbbell fast first time and lift dumbbell slow 1000th time they are weak pathetic bastard cus it's the same weight.
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u/Lemoncouncil_Clay 2d ago
Is he even American though? I watched this video 3 times trying to figure out who is American in this example? He’s wearing a shirt with Ü in the brands logo in 25 years I’ve never seen an American wear a shirt with that kind of symbol on it
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u/Medarco 2d ago
Speaking as an American, the douche
The original guy is German though, and the one intelligently explaining leverage is the American here.
America got dragged into it because the whole thing is just the ragebait content cycle from start to finish, and Reddit is devouring it without even a semblance of chewing.
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u/suhfaulic 2d ago
Some of us Americans appreciate you.
Google no child left behind act that was passed in early 2000s.
There's a reason our education systems failed some of us.
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u/TheRaiderKing 2d ago
The act itself was a good idea, because originally they were supposed to give students who were supposed to be held back but weren't more assistance, to get them up to snuff with their peers. But instead funding got cut and kids who shouldn't have moved on did, and received no help. Because cutting funding to schools is like a favorite pastime of the GOP.
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u/verzing1 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yes, the weight of the log does not change, but if you lift it from the far end, it requires less force than lifting it closer to the middle or near the hinge.
It is based on the law of the lever. The relationship is:
Torque = Force * Distance from the pivot
Ps: For all the comments claiming the U.S. has no education. I’m from Canada, and I learned this law of the lever when I lived in the U.S. and was in middle school.
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u/GunnyFreedom 2d ago
This has to be a sketch. The over the top pretense laughter. A gym bro that doesn’t know how lever weight works. Five will get you 20 the original video was staged for clicks.
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u/nrtls 2d ago
I don't even think it's "engagement bait". Like you said, it's so obvious he is trolling, playing dumb. People think they are smart but they are the dumb ones.
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u/ShrewdCire 1d ago
Yeah this is a common theme I keep seeing. So many idiots are pointing at obvious bait (or even just jokes) and going like "wow look at how stupid this guy is! Why can't he just be smart like me?!"
Dumb people always think everyone else is an idiot when in reality they are the stupid one and they just have no idea what the fuck is going on. Then when you point out that the video/post is not being serious, they always say something like "well today you can never know. I've seen plenty of people who actually believe this." Like, no you haven't. You probably just saw other people that were making obvious jokes, and just like in this instance, you were too stupid to tell the difference.
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u/Public-Location-3628 2d ago
The real idiots are those who fall for this rage bait, and then also watch videos explaining common sense things, posted as a reaction to rage bait.
You are all just part of the click-farm that is social media and wasting away your lives on this shit.
ib4 "hurr durr, you are responding too!": Yes. I almost pressed the cancel button while making this comment, but hey, might as well just press the 'comment' button if I reached this far in hopes that at least one person reading this exits this nonsense behaviour and focus on things that actually matter.
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u/komei888 2d ago
It's not the weight that doesn't change...it's the force that changes, and the moment (torque) required to have the lift in the first place has to be equivalent for each of the different distances.
I.e. the force is increased the closer you get to the turning point.
Anyway overall stupidity and remembered online forever.
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u/AdventurousInsect386 2d ago
i ctrl-f angular in this thread but cant find one, so im putting it here
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u/ChiaLetranger 2d ago
Archimedes: "Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the world"
This joker: "But the weight won't change tho lmao"
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