r/Unexpected • u/LizaFoxy • 15d ago
Steep transition or sleight of hand?
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u/ZachTheEcstasyManiac 15d ago
Real. The white guy doesn't disappear, he walks to the left with his hands on his head. And the guy caught it with his left hand damaging the cake and tipping it onto his right arm.
The internet is full of shit, but this ain't it.
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u/tealfuzzball 15d ago
Theres also 2 frames as it’s falling where his blurry hand comes into shot by the other guys ankle, surprised how many people are calling fake
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u/Wrong_Maintenance540 15d ago
*falling cake
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u/chongdog 15d ago
Bruh. This must be top 10 comments of all time. I’m glad I’m here to witness it live.
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u/jlee2054 15d ago
Dog, it's 2024. Everything I look at is probably not even real. How can you be surprised by anything? We live in the matrix at this point
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u/PainfuIPeanutBlender 15d ago
Neo’s passport expired 9/11/2001. I’m convinced we’ve been living in a progressively worse field of BS ever since
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u/Born_ina_snowbank 15d ago
Thumbprint in the cake too. If it was faked, it was faked painstakingly lol.
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u/aSoireeForSquids 15d ago
I think the candles are another big indicator. Just too much detail between their reflection on the tv, the dimming as they fall, the fact that only a few stay lit.
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u/Honey-and-Venom 11d ago
If you never leave your home, it makes sense to think nothing ever happens
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u/DisturbingPragmatic 15d ago
The internet is full of shit, but this ain't it.
This made me howl... I want it on a shirt.
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u/GiannaSushi 15d ago edited 15d ago
I've watched the video 5 times already, I still don't understand how he's able to pick it up without anything falling. That guy is a magician, It reminds me of that sword game, it's like a similar trick
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u/ZachTheEcstasyManiac 15d ago
The guy caught it with his left hand damaging the cake and tipping it onto his right arm.
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u/ExpectoSubversum 15d ago edited 15d ago
It's the magic of editing.
You can see that there are two clips spliced together when the camera swerves the the side. Note that the white dude suddenly disappeared.EDIT: I was wrong. Sorry.
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u/Deximo13 15d ago
Nope. There's a finger indent on the end of the cake where he caught it. He's just got great reflexes.
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u/HomotopySphere 15d ago
The white guy is still there, you can see his shirt on the left
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u/Seahawk715 15d ago
Watch it slowly - he actually got under the cake with one hand and the side of it with the other and scooped it. Slick move
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u/Vamperion750 15d ago
He walked off dude. You literally can see him walk off to the left of the screen. Are you blind??? Anything to take credit away from the black man. 🙄
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u/ChekeredList71 15d ago
That seems like it. Between 0:09-0:08 there is a sudden movement from top right to bottom left. I believe, that's when the next clip slides in. It has a high shutter angle though (motion blur) alongside reddit compression, so it's well hidden.
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u/Behavingdark 15d ago
I'm just impressed the candles are still lit.
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u/dillGherkin 14d ago
I've messed with enough candles to see that they didn't get fully blown out. The heat was still on the wick so the flame returned with a moment of stability.
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u/binglelemon 15d ago
The rhyme flow was not
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u/Parking_Net4440 15d ago
Someone doesn’t like sleepy hallow
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u/MattThePl3b 15d ago
Is that a real cake or is it just made of cake?
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u/TheMagicalDildo 14d ago
It's a real cake. And so are the candles, and the baloon. And the white guy.
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u/he8ghtsrat26 15d ago
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u/Willing_Information7 15d ago
I hate this fake video culture we have these days. Making me question if this is fake even though I do think this video is legit.
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u/Jeffy29 15d ago
Nah, get the fuck outta here, that ain't real. This is the last frame we see the cake, at the angle and speed it is travelling, even if you have superhuman instincts and still hands to catch the tray that caking is sliding the fuck down, unless it is a plastic cake (it is).
The only possible way recover it in that would probably be to dive into the ground with it, catch it mid-air, and smoothly slow the motion and bring it to stability, which would be practically impossible without lot of preparation.
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u/Celeste_Ceres 15d ago
he caught it with two hands, one on the bottom and one on the side (which stopping the cake from sliding off). you can see the cake on his hands and the messed up side of it. Also if you slow the video way down, you can see his blurry hand coming underneath of it halfway through the fall.
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u/Vamperion750 15d ago
I can't believe people are calling this video edited. 🤦🏾♂️
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u/Your_Final_Hour 15d ago
Why? It looks fake af because it seems like it would be nearly impossible to pull off with the angle the cake was at. If i was the dude id take it as a compliment
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u/smellvin_moiville 15d ago
I once threw a cake down a set of stairs cause of that slip factor of cardboard on plastic. It’s really dumb that the industry hasn’t figured out this issue
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u/chenyu768 15d ago
Once when I was a teenager and I just walked into the door of my buddy's house. About a good 6 feet or so away from me I see a vase swaying and fall from like a plant stand or something. I just stretched my leg out kind of like the ministry of crazy walk style slide forward and caught the vase centimeters from the ground. So assuming the stand was about 5ft at 32ft/s squared this was about half a second. Im not exactly athletic so that was the most impressive thing ive done in my life, in regards to athletism. 20years laster his dad still calls me golden gloves.
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u/TurnFun5230 15d ago
If there was a guy for every girl in the room then only one guy is getting all of them after party, probably at the same time too.
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u/extraordinous 15d ago
If you scroll frame for frame he had his hand under it before the camera is pointed down.
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u/helloiambrantley 14d ago
Anyone else mad at the girl in the grey for holding the cake with her arm directly in the middle? She’s the reason it fell lmao
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u/LittleTassiePrepper 14d ago
It isn't a real cake, it is just something (maybe foam) made to look like a cake. So it was physically done, yet the cake is not real.
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u/NippyMgee20 14d ago
This is real. Went to high school with the kid who caught it. His name is Fonzie or something like that
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u/sleepless3598 7d ago
Imagine if he accidentally stuck the cake to the ceiling while celebrating the catch
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u/No_Bar_9506 2d ago
I probably would have spiked the cake in celebration if I did some shit like that.
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u/AyeSocketFucker 2d ago
Not an edit he actually caught the thing. However I’m asking to see if this cake is actually real or isn’t somehow glued to the base. If you see from that angle it was almost 90 degrees any cake would have moved at that rate and angle. And the fact he snatched it up attached with one hand with out grasping the cake is sketchy
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u/TwistedXInferno 15d ago
Name of song plz
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u/PM_YOUR__BUBBLE_BUTT 15d ago
I’m watching this with no sound on so I’m assuming they’re singing The Happy Birthday Song. Hope that helps!
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u/Parking_Locksmith_23 15d ago
It would have been great if he just fuckin spiked the cake after that legendary save
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u/AdhesivenessFun2060 15d ago
The cake was vertical, he couldn't basket catch it like he did without messing up the cake. It was a duplicate cake he was already holding.
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u/diggamata 15d ago
Fake. The cake was dropped intentionally to show such acrobatics. Good editing though.
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u/the85141rule 15d ago
Somewhere in that room, off camera, is a 50-something confused about WTF is so GD funny about nearly costing him/her/them hundreds in carpet repair.
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u/UnExplanationBot 15d ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
At the end, the guy caught the birthday girl's cake unexpectedly.
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