First of all, Andrew was awful quick to whip that phone into camera mode. If he was staring at it while excreting, and some little kid started talking to him outside the stall, would he just like that snap the phone into camera mode because the kid started peeking under the door? That’s a little bit of a strange reaction.
Also, he’s gone commando. Doesn’t it seem likely that if this whole encounter were planned, Andrew would likely feel more comfortable sitting in his briefs on the potty than full on hanging it into the toilet?
Kid’s a good actor, if this is a set up. What do you guys think?
I wouldn’t have sent my son into a public toilet alone at that age. Unless I knew it was empty.
Video that drives me crazy is a little girl with quite a following talking to her mom saying outrageous stuff, all spliced together and she is only 3 or so… Ya I could make my kids parrot me at that age too.
I don’t think the kid necessarily needs to be acting for it to be staged. He looks about 5 or 6-ish and whoever was setting this up could have just sent him into the bathroom and told to get any adult to help him wash his hands.
I couldn’t agree more! Parents seem to think others will be impressed at how clever their child is to simply parrot their thoughts. When it’s literally no more impressive than if your parrot was saying it. The parent comes across as a Svengali and the kid seems like a Stockholm syndrome sufferer.
I always want to ask if they’re raising a child or training a damn seal? All I can hear in my head is that song snippet, “Mama’s gonna put all her fears into you!”
And it’s not enough they’ve done this to their child but now they are going to post it for everybody to see what a shitty parent you really are!
Those are so obvious, too. If your camera jumps every 3-4 words, then they’re clearly not on a cohesive train of thought. They’re just parroting mommy. I love [most] mommy bloggers. I am a mommy blogger. But these parrot trainers are so annoying. Just let your kid speak their mind. They’ll say funny things eventually.
I can believe it; it’s the kind of thing I could see my boys doing/having done at that same age if left unsupervised. They’re a little young for germs, nudity or pooping taboos, and are still really friendly, so they wouldn’t see anything untoward about doing exactly what that kid did.
But yeah, I probably wouldn’t have sent a 4-5 year old into the bathroom by himself for fear of something just like this happening.
I guess the only weird part would be that the guy with the phone got the camera on awfully fast.
I can usually spot the staged stuff but this seemed pretty candid to me. Not uncommon and actually the norm these days to be browsing your phone while sitting in a stall. And I’m amazed these days how fast young folks can get their phones into photo/video mode.
Neither the kid nor the guy said anything terribly witty either. Usually the staged stuff trys to give someone a clever line to say and this didn’t have any.
The guy seems genuinely caught off guard and the kid totally innocent in his actions.
Nothing special about it. I have my favored camera and video apps (Camera FV-5 and Open Camera, respectively) in my dock bar, so it takes 2 moves to get into photo or video move–touching the home button and touching the dock icon that I want. So less than a second. (That’s assuming that I am already using the camera at the moment–going from a “sleeping phone” to recording mode would take a couple or three seconds.)
Two possibilities sprang to mind. One he already had his phone out, checking messages or playing a game or something. Two maybe he started filming as self protection in case the kids parent came in and found their kid in a stall with a stranger. That would look pretty bad.
I can’t say it’s not staged, but some of the questions people are posing have already been answered by the guy in the stall and the kid’s mom. The guy pulled out his phone because a kid crawled into the stall and he wanted to document what happened just in case someone else walked in and got the wrong idea. The mom told the kid that he needed to wash his hands and he ran to the men’s room before she could stop him. She had been planning to take him into the ladies’ room.
My phone comes with shortcuts for certain functions. To open the camera app, you flick your wrist while holding the phone. Takes less than a second.
It’s not frequent, but I’ve had kids crawl under stall and dressing room doors at least a half dozen times in my life (usually from the next stall or room over). A hiss and a stomp typically sends them back where they belong.
A friend (a woman) had a small boy crawl under the door to her stall and she asked him to leave- he did. He opened the stall door and walked out… leaving the stall door wide open.
Like, there’s an obvious cut and edit. If the kid was saying their own words, there would be smooth, seamless recording. But I’ve seen some where the kid says 3 words, then their head suddenly tilts, they say 3 more words, then their hand is on their lap, etc. It doesn’t have to be that drastic; it’s easy to tell if their facial features aren’t smoothly transitioning, etc. These kids-talking-like-adults videos aren’t exactly produced by the same team that gave us the famously smooth oner of the Spice Girls’ *Wannabe *video. (Dated reference, for sure. But it’s an awesome editing job nonetheless.)
