“The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.”
Clip that makes the article make more sense
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If anyone is curious about the Kimmel clip, it's on youtube: this video The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.
Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
1.8M views · Mar 14, 2014 · 4:57 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2014–2022
A Jimmy Kimmel segment in which interviewers at SXSW ask festival-goers about made-up bands, and many people confidently claim to know and like them.
Why Hacker News points people here: Used as an illustration of the confident-idiot effect and of people pretending to know things.
“The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.”HN comment, 2014
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Link to the missing video from the article
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Bitrot? Missing assets for video and some images (perhaps on iPadOS only?). Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News SXSW edition link: this video “Imagine that the illustration below represents a curved tube lying horizontally on a table:” link Paper without video links: link
“there is also a hilarious sample of the 'hipster' population in this Youtube video”
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For what it's worth, there is also a hilarious sample of the 'hipster' population in this Youtube video (Jimmy Kimmel 0:53 mark) this video Of course interviewees in this video are probably paid actors playing dumb, but boy it doesn't the stereotype ...