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Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
About this video
A Jimmy Kimmel segment in which interviewers at SXSW ask festival-goers about made-up bands, and many people confidently claim to know and like them.
Why it appears in the archive
Used as an illustration of the confident-idiot effect and of people pretending to know things.
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From the Hacker News discussion
If anyone is curious about the Kimmel clip, it's on youtube: [VIDEO] The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.
Read original comment ↗Bitrot? Missing assets for video and some images (perhaps on iPadOS only?). Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News SXSW edition link: [VIDEO] “Imagine that the illustration below represents a curved tube lying horizontally on a table:” [LINK] Paper without video links: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗For what it's worth, there is also a hilarious sample of the 'hipster' population in this Youtube video (Jimmy Kimmel 0:53 mark) [VIDEO] Of course interviewees in this video are probably paid actors playing dumb, but boy it doesn't the stereotype ...
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