Coming from a background in law enforcement, I can provide some context as to why it’s fake aside from the bad acting.
This is a ridiculously fake video. First you can tell it’s a fake plane with the most generic 1970s flight attendant costumes they could find. FA’s don’t go around IDing people on the plane. There is no scenario where the FBI is going to be conducting an undercover operation on a flight, but if an armed FBI agent was on the flight the flight crew would know about it. If for whatever reason that FBI agent was being enough of a jackass that the cops were called his status as an FBI agent is irrelevant, despite what some people think Federal agents don’t “outrank” municipality cops and don’t have the authority to dismiss cops that are conducting a lawful investigation. An FA has no way of knowing someone is flying one way without luggage and if that person was flagged for some reason he’s getting grabbed before he reaches the plane. It’s also highly unlikely a male agent will have hair that long even if they’re conducting uncovered operations.
Welcome! And thanks for your input.
Nice to see you back! Good points.
It’s a fake video. I’ve seen several different videos of that same guy doing other skits. The guy playing the FBI agent is an actor that’s made other videos just for youtube as an undercover police officer and other different law enforcement agencies. In all his videos he basically does the same skit where it appears someone is about to blow his cover. Not real at all. It’s for entertainment only.
Update: The video is unavailable as the account has been terminated.
I’m still pissed at Youtube for hiding the Dislikes number.
A video like that would quickly get a 10 to one dislikes/likes ratio, and people would know not to press play.
That’s good news although I’m sure they will pop up again. Like I said above what appears to be the same group posts videos usually with a racial component to stir people up.
You have a more positive opinion of the typical Youtube voter than I do.
Maybe. I think (feel/believe/hope) that a few succinct comments, pointing out the BS, would get voted to the top. And then anyone curious about the dislikes would glance at the comments and skip to the next vid.
It could happen.
But…so? Wow they get clicks. They get rated higher. Again, so?
Now if they are getting actual cash dollars from ads, then well, OK. But no one watches ads. So the ones losing are the advertisers. And if they are that stupid with their money, they deserve to lose it.
So much for the Power of The Click.
The dirty secret of advertising is that nobody’s really sure which ads will work, and how well. And nobody really knows how the YouTube monetization and recommendation algorithms work, either, but it doesn’t matter, because of the first fact. So “content creators” flail around randomly until they stumble upon something that gets them lots of clicks and likes and ad dollars. And while nobody knows all of the details, getting clicks seems to be the most important factor in both pushing a video up in the recommendation feed, and in getting dollars.