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Spent a whole weekend trying to prove a video of my favorite band was fake
A clip popped up last Friday showing them playing a secret show in Austin, and I got so excited. I must have spent 10 hours digging through their tour dates, checking building signs in the background, and even asking a friend who's good with video editing. Turns out the shadows on the guitarist were all wrong for the time of day listed. It's wild how something that looks so real can eat up your time and mess with your head. Has anyone else lost a big chunk of their weekend to a deepfake rabbit hole?
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emmam897mo ago
That shadow-checking is a solid move, honestly. The part that gets me is how these fakes can actually rewrite your memory if you stare at them long enough. You start to picture the event happening, and that fake detail gets stuck in your head as a real memory. It’s less about wasting time and more about the weird feeling that your own brain can’t be trusted after the fact. Makes you second-guess everything you see online now.
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shanef347mo ago
My cousin fell for a fake video of a bear riding a bike in downtown Portland last year. He was so sure it was real he called the local news tip line, which was pretty funny in hindsight. It's that mix of wanting to believe something cool and the internet's skill at making the impossible look normal. After that, we started a dumb game where we try to find one wrong pixel in weird videos before dinner.
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kim_ramirez37mo ago
My aunt still argues about a fake photo of her cat wearing a tiny hat.
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gibson.morgan6mo ago
Yeah, that part about it rewriting your memory is the real kicker. I saw a fake clip of a deer opening a gate once, and for a solid week I was telling people deer could do that. My brain just accepted it as a cool fact. Now I see something wild and my first thought is to check the date or the source, not to enjoy it. It's a bummer.
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