I’ll own up- I thought it was real to the extent I thought about it at all. I saw the video, saw her fall, I laughed, then saw her leg on fire and it ended, and I chuckled and shook my head: “people are stupid”, and didn’t think any more about it. Although that’s not true- I watched it a 2nd time just to see the “friend” do the little Scooby-Doo run in place. That amused me.
I thought the flames looked real. That ironically is what made me a little suspicious. Usually when people post a “fail” video it’s something like them falling down or bumping their head. You usually don’t see people posting videos of themselves being seriously injured.
But the fact it was so realistic also was what made me think it might be real. It was too real looking for a couple of people to have faked it in their apartment.
When your legs are on fire, you don’t sit on the couch and stare at it happening. Instead you try to put it out with anything you can find, including your hands, a couch cushion, or rolling on the floor.
However, when I first saw it, it was via a link that said “I think this is fake:” so I was already on alert.
Obviously fake. That’s not what a real accidently-smacking-your-head-on-a-TV-while-trying-to-dance looks like.
