The Weirdest Hoax on the Internet
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Published 2024-07-14
What started as a harmless joke by two students, became one of the biggest hoaxes on the internet.
This is a translation from our German channel Simplicissimus.
Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1mklyzCyoP2STlqtr8WOtmH…
Music:
Artlist
Night Rider 87 - Digital Battleground
ANBR - Run
Evert Z - Lets Go Bananas
Yonatan Riklis - Tomcat Rag
Jamie Bathgate - Homemade Apple Pie
ANBR - Dance and Whisper
Roie Shpigler - What About Sunrise
Epidemic Sound
Heigh-Ho - Bootlick
Brendon Moeller - Sunshine Rain
Aiyo - Too Quiet
FLYIN - Go Off
Marten Moses - Into Hiding
The Big Crunch from Stevia Sphere licensed under CC BY 3.0.
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Magic Escape Room, Professor Umlaut, In The West, The Entertainer, Run Amok from Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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All Comments (21)
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Sorry for mispronouncing the word “tear”. We meant tear as in tearing a photo 🫣
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"She was not holding appropriate respect for the power of the electric toaster" is brilliant
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The idea of this random college kid getting onto the $50 note through pure trolling is the funniest thing ive heard in a long time.
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This is top tier trolling.
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"It's just a prank bro", the prank in question:
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Nothing is more wikipedia, than a list of hoaxes on wikipedia, also listing their time existing.
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Just checked and yes chat gpt still thinks that Alan McMasters invented the toaster in 1893 😂
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If only all online misinformation is as harmless as this. Now we even have machines telling us to add glue to pizza
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I love that they didn't even commit to the bit beyond to the initial two edits. They kinda just let it happen. Makes it 10 times better imo. Also I was expecting that at the end of the video, they'd go "None of this ever happened, don't believe what you see on the internet"
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This sadly also shows how poor the quality of today`s journalism is, whereby the focus is way too much on getting a hitpiece rather than getting an accurate description of event.
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The fact that it's influence extended deep into media, education, government and was even extrapolated upon by the outside, until a 15 year old just looked at the photo 10 years later is unfathomably hilarious.
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10/10 writing for that last line, "At least, that's what it says on Wikipedia."
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The best troll would have been if this video was a hoax. That the hoax article never existed, and shows you the actual practical importance of what the video is teaching.
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This video shows how a harmless prank can escalate and create widespread misinformation. It also serves as a reminder of the importance of source verification.
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It even made it on Jeapardy. Category: Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread. Answer: Alan McMasters. Question: Who invented the toaster?
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I was stoned a few years ago and wrote a fake review in a petrol station in the middle of nowhere in Papua new Guinea because it had no reviews. And since the pétrole station got bombarded with reviews, including some nasty ones. All i said was "5 out of 5, would pump gas here again" lol Now according to google i am a reliable reviewer
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The time between these videos is insane for such high quality.
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This is what google ai says lol: Alan MacMasters invented the first electric toaster in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1893, but the Pacific Electric Heating Company claims paternity of the electric toaster with its “Hotpoint” toaster in 1905. The first model to become popular and commercially successful was the General Electric toaster, patented by Frank Shailor in 1909 and called D-12
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This time it really ”was just a prank bro”
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you could say they were 2 bored guys, if you know you know
