# Guy freaking out - PLEASE tell me this video is fake **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001 "2010-01-30T05:26:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/1 "2010-01-30T05:26:19Z")
I don’t know if any of you have seen the infamous “Greatest Freakout Ever” video on Youtube, which is a teenage guy who has had his World of Warcraft account canceled having an extremely severe fit of mania - [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc) - but I found another video from the same user (his brother, who films the poor guy’s episodes.) This one, I have a hard time believing is real. [Here it is.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFMs2w9Qexg&feature=channel) Basically, they buy him a truck for his sixteenth birthday. A real piece of shit truck, badly beaten up and covered with graffiti. It’s a surprise present; when he takes his blindfold off, he gets really upset about the truck, goes to the garage, gets a baseball bat and starts whacking the thing. I was sure that this guy was for real in the first video - that it was a genuine tantrum which was filmed - but the truck one seems staged and fake. Look at the other cars in the driveway and garage: an H2, a new Dodge Challenger, and some kind of gigantic, flashy pickup truck. The family is obviously well-off. But they buy the kid a truck that has been vandalized? And the dad says he paid 200 dollars for it? Seriously? Was this staged? Or was it an atrociously misguided attempt at “character building?” ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/2 "2010-01-30T06:09:00Z")
Pretty obviously fake. But at least he was cute. (that helped with the shirtless and boxer shorts only segments) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/3 "2010-01-30T06:38:04Z")
I was always pretty certain the first vid was a fake. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/4 "2010-01-30T06:46:30Z")
He managed to get that shirt off in about 2/3 of a second so it was obviously pieced together. Besides, I’ve seen people hit cars with baseball bats, (You can tell what kind of neighborhood I live in) and NO ONE hits the roof or the back. They go in for the windshield. It’s always the windshield. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/5 "2010-01-30T06:54:41Z")
How could anyone want to be seen in that first video? Why would someone fake sticking a remote up his ass and screaming like a lunatic? I’m surprised that the parents are even okay with their kids acting like this and putting it up on Youtube. Don’t they care about their reputation? Don’t they care that the rest of the world is going to think their kids are crazy and that they allow their son to act this way without controlling him? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/6 "2010-01-30T07:09:51Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > The family is obviously well-off. But they buy the kid a truck that has been vandalized? Ha ha! Pretty much exactly what I thought. Regaring the first video, I must be 12 years old, because I cracked the hell up. It’s fake, but still funny. Okay, so Brother1 mounts a camera in Brother2’s room, leaves, B2 walks in in what I would call hyper-precise, uncanny timing just as B1 exits, flips the fuck out, takes his clothes off (for some reason), ass-rapes himself with a cell phone, leaves the room in perfect YouTube-video-clip time, then B1 runs back in to ask the unseen camera if we just saw that. Yeah, no. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/7 "2010-01-30T14:43:09Z")
Steven: “You’re trying to make me look like a retard!” Hmmm…let’s pause and examine that statement for a moment. \ Conclusion: family succeeded. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/8 "2010-01-30T14:59:41Z")
Upon further investigation… There are five of these videos, with Steven freaking out in each one and little bro filming each breakdown. Amusing at first; after five, annoying. And fake x 5. Number five involves a wall-mount design microwave that is sitting in an awkward position on the kitchen counter. Our friend Steven proclaims that it does not work, picks it up, takes it outside, and beats the shit out of it. Obviously, the family needed to replace this very microwave earlier, so it is now expendable (and broken). The boys placed this old appliance on the counter top - as if that’s where it normally resided - and staged their play. They should have quit with the bedroom tantrum, which may have been semi-believable had they left it at that. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/9 "2010-01-30T17:26:50Z")
There are more than five,the sixth one features grandma verbally and physically assaulting poor Stephen. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rO6G6_hndbk/hqdefault.jpg "Greatest freakout ever 6 (ORIGINAL VIDEO)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6G6_hndbk) The last line of the clip is amazing! ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/10 "2010-01-30T18:14:42Z")
They look sadly real. Watching the adults closely shows that this is something they’re resigned too. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/11 "2010-01-30T18:23:09Z")
How can these adults be OK with having this stuff up on YouTube for everyone to see? Don’t they have any self-respect? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/12 "2010-01-30T18:26:41Z")
I can’t recall any web “freakout” video that involved spontanous destruction of property didn’t ulitimately turn out to be staged and fake. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/13 "2010-01-30T18:30:50Z")
Am I the only one who clicked on the uploader’s name? Go ahead and do it now. Does “Freakout Productions” sound like something that might stage these videos? Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/14 "2010-01-30T18:35:02Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > How can these adults be OK with having this stuff up on YouTube for everyone to see? Don’t they have any self-respect? Seriously? How many idiots are out there willing to trade self-respect for a million hits on their lame YouTube videos? Answer = yes. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/15 "2010-01-30T18:46:20Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > How can these adults be OK with having this stuff up on YouTube for everyone to see? Don’t they have any self-respect? Four words: [“America’s Funniest Home Videos.”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098740/) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/16 "2010-01-30T19:35:18Z")
Definitely fake. And definitely annoying too. ---
**Author:** ![Discipline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Discipline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Discipline)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/17 "2010-01-30T19:45:00Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=wafflepwns+fake&search\_type=&aq=4&oq=wafflepwn](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wafflepwns+fake&search_type=&aq=4&oq=wafflepwn) Fake. Entertaining, but fake. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/18 "2010-01-30T19:49:17Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > How could anyone want to be seen in that first video? Why would someone fake sticking a remote up his ass and screaming like a lunatic? I’m surprised that the parents are even okay with their kids acting like this and putting it up on Youtube. Don’t they care about their reputation? Don’t they care that the rest of the world is going to think their kids are crazy and that they allow their son to act this way without controlling him? Fame. Lulz. For some people, either of those are sufficient in and of themselves for anything. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/19 "2010-01-30T20:16:53Z")
If it was real he would have gone for the windows. If real he would have said to himself, “Okay, it looks like a piece of shit now, but a $300 paint job and she’ll look pretty good.” ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001/20 "2010-01-30T20:53:11Z")
I didn’t even crack a smile. What does that mean? Am I too old? Too jaded? I only watched the two videos linked in the OP. Just both just seemed predictable and dumb. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-freaking-out-please-tell-me-this-video-is-fake/527001.md?page=2)