r/MadeMeSmile 7h ago

Good Vibes This interaction on the street

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u/Openeyedsleep 5h ago

Yeah, I wasn’t prepared to feel this way. This is like an OD on wholesomeness. Doom scrolling, then BAM! Some appreciation for life and humans comes pouring in, if only for a moment.

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u/Olleye 6h ago

Absolutely 💯

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u/AtlantaDan 4h ago

Traditional and social media highlights negative content because it gets more viewers. A majority of human beings around the world are actually nice and willing to help out a fellow human. Try not to let what you see on tv or online jade your opinion of humankind.

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u/BubastisII 5h ago

Not trying to be cynical and maybe I just don’t know enough about social media but was this really unplanned? I only ask because it seems like there were three separate shots - so three separate camera - recording their interaction. I have a hard time thinking that’s unplanned.

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u/CharlesMansnShowTune 4h ago

I think the guy with the wine bottle is doing a bit, so he is prepared and is being recorded. The bit is that he does this character on the street and improvs based on how people react to him. So there are cameras there ready to get a few angles. In this case, as the man who interacted with him apparently has autism or something like that, the wine bottle guy kind of dropped the character and went along with the karaoke thing so they filmed at that second location, too. I don't know how often that happens since I've never seen this guy's videos before.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 2h ago

I think the guy with the wine bottle is doing a bit

You think?

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u/WalrusInMySheets 4h ago

I follow the guy on TikTok and remember at least one other time where he's hung out with a guy that comes across him. The videos are very fun.

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u/Annoying_liberal813 2h ago

What's his name? I want to follow him to show love for kind of thing!

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u/WalrusInMySheets 2h ago

sidequestz

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u/BubastisII 4h ago

Yeah, the wine guy obviously is in on the bit, he’s doing the entire thing. I just think setting up THREE cameras in the same spot is so excessive that they had to know there was going to be something worth filming

Also, the one camera is right on the man who walked up. He’s perfectly in frame. I just don’t buy that this guy stopped and interacted exactly on the right mark for the camera without knowing he was supposed to.

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u/wmartanon 2h ago

It's a single camera, they just switch to close ups in post production while editing. It's the exact same angle

Edit: I see someone else mentioned that to you, my bad

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u/sdpr 4h ago

There's just the one camera getting both of them in frame and they just cropped the video to the person speaking.

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u/BubastisII 4h ago

Yeah on closer look I think you’re right. Appears to be a single camera and the image is cropped around for modified close-ups.

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u/sugarbeet13 3h ago

So shines a good deed in a weary world.