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I remember this was a huge phenomenon when it came out and people were recording it on their home VCR's and playing it back frame by blurry frame. News programs reported on it. Serious people discussed the reasons why they thought it was fake, as though it wasn't just grainy footage of a plaster dummy stuffed with spiced meats.

It sparked a genuine debate about whether we were alone in the universe, and what that would mean for human beings. It's really amazing how easy it was to pull off such an obvious hoax and full a lot of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Autopsy_(1995_film)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

You just reminded me that i would buy weekly world news and mad magazine with my paper route money.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You say this like people TODAY aren't falling for obvious scams.

Humans are by bulk numbers, idiots. Always have been. Always will be. There's a fool born every minute. You just need to wait 18 years to scam them.

Downvote all you want, but if you look around, and can't see the swarms of morons all around you, it's because you're part of the swarm.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree. Although I can simultaneously observe morons all around me while recognising my own moronic behavior.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 9 points 2 days ago

Most people are idiots most of the time.

Some people are idiots some of the time.

No one is never an idiot.

[–] gedaliyah 3 points 1 day ago

Obviously something reminded me of this ;)

[–] niktemadur 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My argument back then, my Occam's Razor, was this:

The moment the film industry could produce this type of makeup and visual effects, is the moment this thing gets so-called "leaked".
If this had popped up in 1965 or '78 or even maybe '86... sure, yeah, there may be a compelling mystery to it. But what an incredibly convenient coincidence this actually popped up after things like Total Recall and Terminator 2.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah we're way smarter now........

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I don't know man...I Want To Believe

[–] SamuraiBeandog 3 points 1 day ago

Aphex Twin's Rubber Johnny video?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I was expecting An Inconvenient Truth, but I'm shocked to find it's only 19 years old.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The first time I watched Spinal Tap, I wasn’t sure if it was fake or not… until I recognized Fran Drescher.

[–] De_Narm 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you're amazed by that, I've got a lot of stories about a certain pandemic for you. So many people got fooled, and still are to this day, you wouldn't even know which side I'm on from this paragraph alone.

Another movie in the same vein is 'The Last Dragon'. A fake documentary about dragons, plainly stating so in the beginning. Yet, some people still got fooled.

Or Beyond Believe, which your movie is related to.

There's even that one time a mass hysteria happened due to a dramatic radio play. People overall just don't get better at not getting fooled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I first heard about the fake mermaid "documentary" by someone who was fooled by it. Also a few years ago there were "alien bodies" in... Mexico maybe? They absolutely could not have looked more ridiculously fake, like junior high school art project fake, "found" and promoted by a known con artist, and people in UFO circles are still talking about them credulously.

I like to listen to old Art Bell episodes when I'm driving and it's pretty astounding how these people can just grift and grift and grift for decades. Thirty books, speaking engagements, radio, newsletters, training courses. The hard evidence is always just a few months away. The whole thing is about to blow wide open by Summer, by next year, in two years. Then it just melts away into the next thing. I find it entertaining for some reason.

[–] aeronmelon 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ll wait for someone from [email protected] to shop Quark’s head onto this.

[–] psmgx 1 points 1 day ago

CMV: The reason UFOs keep popping up is to distract the rubes.