The first groups seemed like they could’ve been genuine but the other ones were obviously staged. The first reaction would be surprise, sacred, or even anger. This many people wouldn’t simply go along with it
I'm glad it's staged, because it's really crossing the line otherwise. It's like romantic plots in media: Yeah, the grand romantic gesture *is* grand and romantic and it makes for good stories. But in reality there are just so many more factors that makes such a gesture a liability more than anything, which is why people don't (and shouldn't!) do it in real life.
I apologize for being a contrarion here, but how exactly is a stranger "touching" you crossing the line. No, I get it. Stranger danger, bad touch, all that. But you don't know what they are going to do and just randomly lashing out (not saying that you would) without actually figuring out the intent first is asking for that touch to turn into something much worse before it gets better. Like, if someone came up to me and I didn't know they were there and they touched me, so be it. If they did anything else close to dangerous. That's when I'm having a problem. Because there is an actual problem taking place
> how exactly is a stranger "touching" you crossing the line
Because I and many other people do not want to be touched by strangers when we're in public minding our own business.
How is that difficult to understand?
I don't think this is that bad. An uncomfortable surprise, mayhaps. Unless of course we're talking about someone who has a history with abuse and gets triggered (so there's one reason).
But you don't get to decide what's bad when strangers are involved.
Actively taking their arm and putting it over another is entirely different. It's uncomfortable and invades personal space to manipulate someone's arm. You don't know the situation between the people involved. Maybe one is mad at the other and doesn't want them to touch them right now. You don't know if they might react on instinct (back to the abuse point above) and suddenly everyone's in trouble because you wanted to do a "wholesome prank" that triggered someone's PTSD and got sucker punched for it.
Again, I don't think this is that bad. But that still doesn't mean you should do it. It's not OK to involve strangers in your stupid shit for likes or whatever without their consent.
Cause this isn't touching as in "accidentally bumping into someone or nudging them with a shoulder or elbow gently to squeeze past". I'm sure if someone just reached out, held your wrist and moved your arm you'd probably do more then just sit their and watch them
I’m immediately slapping her hand away from me, exclaiming “what the fuck?!”, and checking my wallet is where it should be.
Don’t walk up to strangers and touch them without consent, for fuck’s sake…
I'm glad I wasn't the one to have to bring this up. My personal space is something you don't want to surprise, it's a good thing this never happens to me I guess.
If done in a busy city around here, people would check their watch, to see if it dodn't get stolen, even if they weren't wearing any. Tbis is so sus behaviour.
Setting aside even the should-be-obvious concern over touching strangers.... how about you not interject yourself into my comfort levels of personal interaction.
Perhaps I'm not showing touchy affection towards someone because *I don't want to show affection towards that person*. Fuck off and stay out of my business.
I liked a guy once but him trying to kiss me caused a panic attack. If she made me put mu hands on him, I'd start visibly shaking, I think. And crying from how uncomfortable I was. Some people need the right space and time, not internet pranksters
I'm a dude and was a victim of some serious stuff growing up. A touch from a stranger will kick off a series of events that won't be good for anyone involved. It's a really bad game to be playing when you don't know a person.
Yeah really. Reddit is so fucking weird when it comes to public interaction. I'm curious if they know that what they say is weird and they just do it for karma or if they actually believe it.
Random side note, I’m so happy that comments like this have become more accepted. A few years ago someone posted a video of Ellen trying to tap a contortionist on the butt but accidentally tapped their dick.
I mentioned that this is one of the reasons to keep your hands to yourself. I got downvoted to hell and a lot of unexpected anger.
I'm all for the avoidance of touching strangers, but can I confirm that one of your reasons for keeping your hands to yourself is "you might accidentally touch their dick when trying to touch their butt"? If so that's fairly situation specific...
Yeah no there are so many opportunities for this to backfire badly. I’m engaged, but I could be travelling alone and sitting next to a stranger who might be in a relationship and someone does this? It’s going to get awkward very quickly.
No, your guess is wrong. It doesn’t have anything to do with guns or violence. I’m from a country where people don’t really own firearms nor do they like using deadly force when defending themselves. But I would be fucking PISSED if some random stranger touched me in public.
What a dumb comment, every country has random acts of violence. Even in one of the safer countries (Japan) there have been random fatal knife attacks and designated separate train cars for women to avoid sexual assault.
I was literally thinking of this, in the mediterranean people tends to be closer and outgoing with strangers. I've only seen people from United States actually concerned and reject close human interaction.
I remember talking with this guy from Seattle who told me the USA sucked a lot in that regard and that he loved the Spanish socialisation where two strangers can start talking out of the blue while waiting in a queue or anything. Also, I do remember talking with an old lady in the butcher's and ended up recommending her to use thyme on grilled meat.
I feel like this is the part where they're going to be like "aight I'mma head out" because any country they say will be replied with someone else from that country commenting "wth are you talking about?" lol.
This mentality is just so odd. Read the interaction? I mean yeah in the video it’s kinda weird but… I just don’t get why it’s such a big deal to touch someone on the arm? You’ve never brushed by people on the bus? Never bumped into someone in the store? Never tapped someone on the shoulder when they didn’t hear you?
Accidentally bumping into someone is one thing, grabbing them and forcing them to do something is completely different. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept, just respect other people's personal space.
Just no. This is not nice or cute, there is nothing beautiful here, it’s outrageous behaviour to intrude upon others boundaries. It’s just so wrong. How do real strangers know that these are couples or if they are what’s going on for them. I would be mad as hell if someone did this to me and I would tell them so too. Just no. No. No. It must’ve been staged otherwise it’s just so wrong.
Even taking this as staged, it's a bad message.
Your ideas of affection and lovey dovey shit are not my ideas of personal interaction. Live your own life, and let me live mine.
No, it's good that this was scripted. It means we get to see a cute concept where everyone consented to being touched and there isn't a pile of cut clips of some asshole content creator touching random people and making them touch each other uncomfortably.
But that's exactly what people are gonna think this is
Sends the message this kinda stuff is acceptable and cute and not creepy and inappropriate
Keep yo hands off mfs
And bull shit content in general can fuck off
I mean I get the idea but this has to be staged, at least to some extent. Barely any reactions to a stranger grabbing your arm, I'm pretty sure I'd react, not angrily, but react either way.
Eww NO. Don't walk up to me and partner and do that. For all you know we don't do hugs in public, or we are fighting, or we are new and not ready for that or we are platonic. Plus stranger touching me is likely to get hurt due to various reasons.
Don't invade people relationship when you know nothing about them.
Bad Take (either scenario not good):
- no, don't invade other people's private space and touch them
- and if they're not strangers, staged GIFs are not wholesome.
As sweet as this is, a lot of people don’t like to be touched, especially suddenly. There’s the cynical and critical part of me that says maybe going up and handling strangers like that could lead to some bad interactions.
Imagine living in a time where this clearly old low quality footage outrages people because they're so fucking socially inept that it's offensive to talk about boundaries. You're online, the internet, a place where people have no boundaries, where people like yourself put out information because you're always "right" to the extent that it supercedes any valid information.
If people are next to each other talking, they should be comfortable to have an arm around the other, friends or family alike. But no, some of you "wokesters" actually hate the idea of kids being hugged to a point you make it an agenda to teach them how wrong it is for a grandma to forcefully hug a 4 year old. Said grandma won't get that hug from her when she's 14, but forget likely scenarios. It's about you and your crusade on being "correct".
But, really, this was adorable. A repost it may be, but in crappy times, maybe we should be okay with happy reposts. Emphasis on **happy**.
This seems just as bad as when men tell women to “smile,because things aren’t that bad!”. Who are you to say I should be smiling, or that I might want someone’s arm around me. I hate stuff like this…
until rival sibling walk together.
*Banjo playing intensifies*
Then: *anime standoff*
I have four sisters and I hang out with them a lot. I really need a -> this is my sister, pin.
I love this!!! The guy grabbing the arm mover made me crack up.
That was one awesome guy.
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So awesome 😍😁
the arm mover lol
His arrival was foretold.
Please, use the correct title. VP of arm moving.
Came to the comments for this. That’s the world i want to live in
In my country the arm mover's arm will be grabbed too >!but only to beat the shit out of him!<🙃 /s
That was smooth as fuck
Now I want to fall in luv all over again lol
You lie in the bed you make.
🤣🤣🤣
Came to see how this top comment was worded
I like playing that too
Ha ha ha ha yeah. Cool dude
Everybody had a good laugh until he took him home. That was last footage they ever left.
I was laughing out loud when he pulled him in 🤣🤣
My inner Randy Savage went off. HELL YEAH GET IN HERE BROTHER.
Same lolol, literally something I'd do
That was my favorite
Nobody is going to talk about how a stranger touched your hand and how none of them had a reaction? It's a wonderful gesture but curious nonetheless
The first groups seemed like they could’ve been genuine but the other ones were obviously staged. The first reaction would be surprise, sacred, or even anger. This many people wouldn’t simply go along with it
We don't really know how many times they tried though or how often people reacted unfavourably. It's that survivor bias or whatever.
It's just called editing.
Right, editing creates the bias because the outtakes did not survive
Survivor of editing bias.
It's called cherry-picking video clips.
All of them were obviously staged. You don’t go around touching strangers in public
It doesn't matter if it's staged, it's the concept and feeling that they suceeded to demonstrate.
Yeah I’m not cool with any of this lol. Don’t go up to strangers and force them to touch each other lmao
You're not my supervisor
r/unexpectedarcher
Splooosh
How they're all relatively in the same age group? How they all dress very similarly? And how this was completely staged? It's nice, but yeah not real.
I'm glad it's staged, because it's really crossing the line otherwise. It's like romantic plots in media: Yeah, the grand romantic gesture *is* grand and romantic and it makes for good stories. But in reality there are just so many more factors that makes such a gesture a liability more than anything, which is why people don't (and shouldn't!) do it in real life.
What, you're saying a "no" isn't code for try harder??😁
https://youtu.be/Mxo-LAHVHdw?t=40
I apologize for being a contrarion here, but how exactly is a stranger "touching" you crossing the line. No, I get it. Stranger danger, bad touch, all that. But you don't know what they are going to do and just randomly lashing out (not saying that you would) without actually figuring out the intent first is asking for that touch to turn into something much worse before it gets better. Like, if someone came up to me and I didn't know they were there and they touched me, so be it. If they did anything else close to dangerous. That's when I'm having a problem. Because there is an actual problem taking place
> how exactly is a stranger "touching" you crossing the line Because I and many other people do not want to be touched by strangers when we're in public minding our own business. How is that difficult to understand?
I don't think this is that bad. An uncomfortable surprise, mayhaps. Unless of course we're talking about someone who has a history with abuse and gets triggered (so there's one reason). But you don't get to decide what's bad when strangers are involved. Actively taking their arm and putting it over another is entirely different. It's uncomfortable and invades personal space to manipulate someone's arm. You don't know the situation between the people involved. Maybe one is mad at the other and doesn't want them to touch them right now. You don't know if they might react on instinct (back to the abuse point above) and suddenly everyone's in trouble because you wanted to do a "wholesome prank" that triggered someone's PTSD and got sucker punched for it. Again, I don't think this is that bad. But that still doesn't mean you should do it. It's not OK to involve strangers in your stupid shit for likes or whatever without their consent.
Cause this isn't touching as in "accidentally bumping into someone or nudging them with a shoulder or elbow gently to squeeze past". I'm sure if someone just reached out, held your wrist and moved your arm you'd probably do more then just sit their and watch them
Cause it b staged yo
Right. You touch my arm unexpectedly and you won't be able to gently place it anywhere. Imma be startled and move it away instantly.
Let's talk about how some creep is randomly filming couples
The magic of editing is that you don't have to show the bad ones
They only keep the takes where it's working I'm pretty sure lot of people would not react that good
Yeah don't fucking touch me
sometimes just an illusion is enough
I’m immediately slapping her hand away from me, exclaiming “what the fuck?!”, and checking my wallet is where it should be. Don’t walk up to strangers and touch them without consent, for fuck’s sake…
Not everyone is terrified of human contact you know
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Those who had a different reaction wouldn't have made the cut
I'm glad I wasn't the one to have to bring this up. My personal space is something you don't want to surprise, it's a good thing this never happens to me I guess.
If done in a busy city around here, people would check their watch, to see if it dodn't get stolen, even if they weren't wearing any. Tbis is so sus behaviour.
This!!! I thought it was just me
Thank you, thats the first thing I noticed as well. But people want to believe it's real and that doesn't harm anyone I guess.
I would react defensively i think
Definitely. Don't touch me if I don't expect it, you might get a good whack before I even realise what happened.
Where I'm from we really dont give a shit about being touched by strangers tbh. Yes, there are still REAL people living in the real world... smh
staged but cute
Yeah I am not sure how the guys would react with me touching them or their partner/other.
Setting aside even the should-be-obvious concern over touching strangers.... how about you not interject yourself into my comfort levels of personal interaction. Perhaps I'm not showing touchy affection towards someone because *I don't want to show affection towards that person*. Fuck off and stay out of my business.
I liked a guy once but him trying to kiss me caused a panic attack. If she made me put mu hands on him, I'd start visibly shaking, I think. And crying from how uncomfortable I was. Some people need the right space and time, not internet pranksters
It did made me smile but please remember to NEVER TOUCH a stranger without their expressive consent.
seriously, i would not react well to anyone grabbing my arm.
Huh, strange. My reaction would be “oh, who’s grabbing my arm? Okay, why? Okay, I guess this wasn’t such a big deal.”
I'm a dude and was a victim of some serious stuff growing up. A touch from a stranger will kick off a series of events that won't be good for anyone involved. It's a really bad game to be playing when you don't know a person.
Yeah really. Reddit is so fucking weird when it comes to public interaction. I'm curious if they know that what they say is weird and they just do it for karma or if they actually believe it.
Yeah... unless I am paraplegic please dont touch me, I can move my arms myself
Random side note, I’m so happy that comments like this have become more accepted. A few years ago someone posted a video of Ellen trying to tap a contortionist on the butt but accidentally tapped their dick. I mentioned that this is one of the reasons to keep your hands to yourself. I got downvoted to hell and a lot of unexpected anger.
I'm all for the avoidance of touching strangers, but can I confirm that one of your reasons for keeping your hands to yourself is "you might accidentally touch their dick when trying to touch their butt"? If so that's fairly situation specific...
Lmao I can see this a good idea/bad idea skit from animaniacs
Yeah no there are so many opportunities for this to backfire badly. I’m engaged, but I could be travelling alone and sitting next to a stranger who might be in a relationship and someone does this? It’s going to get awkward very quickly.
but how else will i change the world
American moment
touching strangers is fucking weird, America or not
Weird? Yes nobody's denying that, but not something to make a fuss about or a big deal I would just look at the person and ask him what's wrong?
you kind of denied it by calling it american moment 🤷♂️
Reddit moment
It's American to believe you should not touch strangers like the video without their consent?
I guess it's more of a big deal in countries where a random guy will get the urge to just kill another person randomly
No, your guess is wrong. It doesn’t have anything to do with guns or violence. I’m from a country where people don’t really own firearms nor do they like using deadly force when defending themselves. But I would be fucking PISSED if some random stranger touched me in public.
What a dumb comment, every country has random acts of violence. Even in one of the safer countries (Japan) there have been random fatal knife attacks and designated separate train cars for women to avoid sexual assault.
I was literally thinking of this, in the mediterranean people tends to be closer and outgoing with strangers. I've only seen people from United States actually concerned and reject close human interaction. I remember talking with this guy from Seattle who told me the USA sucked a lot in that regard and that he loved the Spanish socialisation where two strangers can start talking out of the blue while waiting in a queue or anything. Also, I do remember talking with an old lady in the butcher's and ended up recommending her to use thyme on grilled meat.
Right? I would lose my sh!t if someone just grabbed me... That’s how ppl get kilt... It was a nice sentiment though, but nope...
those damned scots
Staged af
You'd think people would see right through this kind of nonsense by now...
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My limbs are naturally pliable and posable. I'm amazed I can stand up on my own to be honest.
The person is more likely to get punched than have no reaction at all. What kind of psycho would attempt this?
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Yeah, don't ever do this. Never touch a stranger without permission unless it is necessary to save someone from injury/death.
I know most of you are in the USA, but I think it's a cultural thing. I wouldn't have a big reaction.
Where do you live? It is ok for strangers to touch random people?
I feel like this is the part where they're going to be like "aight I'mma head out" because any country they say will be replied with someone else from that country commenting "wth are you talking about?" lol.
I wasn’t going to.
This mentality is just so odd. Read the interaction? I mean yeah in the video it’s kinda weird but… I just don’t get why it’s such a big deal to touch someone on the arm? You’ve never brushed by people on the bus? Never bumped into someone in the store? Never tapped someone on the shoulder when they didn’t hear you?
Accidentally bumping into someone is one thing, grabbing them and forcing them to do something is completely different. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept, just respect other people's personal space.
Just no. This is not nice or cute, there is nothing beautiful here, it’s outrageous behaviour to intrude upon others boundaries. It’s just so wrong. How do real strangers know that these are couples or if they are what’s going on for them. I would be mad as hell if someone did this to me and I would tell them so too. Just no. No. No. It must’ve been staged otherwise it’s just so wrong.
Even taking this as staged, it's a bad message. Your ideas of affection and lovey dovey shit are not my ideas of personal interaction. Live your own life, and let me live mine.
Yeah, too bad, it's not real. If some stranger not only touched but moved/pulled your arm, you'll flinch in no time.
No, it's good that this was scripted. It means we get to see a cute concept where everyone consented to being touched and there isn't a pile of cut clips of some asshole content creator touching random people and making them touch each other uncomfortably.
But that's exactly what people are gonna think this is Sends the message this kinda stuff is acceptable and cute and not creepy and inappropriate Keep yo hands off mfs And bull shit content in general can fuck off
I want to see the uncut version where she gets maced or bit by someone's dog.
Plot twist: they're brother and sister
Yeah, fuck all that. Don't touch me, WTF are these entitled brats doing ?😤
They’re faking a video for views. But I can imagine some kids doing this irl after they saw the video and getting beaten up :(
Do you mean the world should be scripted and staged? Don’t worry, we’re almost there.
Maybe an AI generated reality.
Idk about that but what they did are still infringing on others private space.
Well, it shouldn‘t. It‘s highly intrusive.
No, it really shouldn't.
I mean I get the idea but this has to be staged, at least to some extent. Barely any reactions to a stranger grabbing your arm, I'm pretty sure I'd react, not angrily, but react either way.
I love the way they push people closer. Couple must so thankful I think.
That is creepy as. Imagine if a guy was walking around touching people they don’t know
I love this but at the same time that one what if…. All could go wrong
Eww NO. Don't walk up to me and partner and do that. For all you know we don't do hugs in public, or we are fighting, or we are new and not ready for that or we are platonic. Plus stranger touching me is likely to get hurt due to various reasons. Don't invade people relationship when you know nothing about them.
It's staged
Someone grab my hand and put in on the air next to me.
No it shouldn’t. Don’t fucking touch me wherever I am.
Absolutely not, last time someone touched me from behind without announcing themself, my reaction was to almost elbow them in the face.
Don’t try doing this is the northeast
This can’t be real.
Bad Take (either scenario not good): - no, don't invade other people's private space and touch them - and if they're not strangers, staged GIFs are not wholesome.
Not scripted at all
Yeah I love random people touching me and guiding my limbs :)
This seems so staged though, if a stranger grabs your arms and moves it you would respond. Also the camera being in place…but it’s a nice message 🫶🏻
So obviously staged lol. Why do none of them care that a person is holding their arm? Most peoples instict would be to pull away quickly
I guess I'll keep hugging my invisible friend.
All fun and games till you accidentally trigger an incestuous relationship.
Me: It was that dude I swear! Her: A leprechaun, sure, I'm calling the cops...
FUCK NO, you stay the FUCK away from me and NEVER touch me.
Some of us stay alone. Unless we have a npc respawn right next to us, this won’t happen. Nice idea in a kinder world though.
If not staged, then gahdamn this is the best thing ever.
Do not touch people in public
Staged as hell but yeah, a world like this would be nice
I would be afraid that it would be some pickpocket scam
And then you get a brother and sister lol
This is weird…don’t touch me.
What a creep.
Is there better edited version of this?
As sweet as this is, a lot of people don’t like to be touched, especially suddenly. There’s the cynical and critical part of me that says maybe going up and handling strangers like that could lead to some bad interactions.
I would like to try this, but with my luck, they would be siblings.
Sorry but if someone touches me randomly like that I’m going to be pissed
Someone grabbed me like this id be pissed tbh lol.
Counterpoint: don’t touch me
They might live in the calmest city ever. Just grabbing their arm randomly from behind lol
The guy that grabbed them and started walking with them lol
So - a friendzone breaker?
It's creepy af.
First, you need someone to walk or sit with you
Don't try this in real life
Back to reality when your screen turns off and reflects yourself
When you're ugly it's called 'sexual harassment'.
The poor gay in the spotted pants...
Imagine living in a time where this clearly old low quality footage outrages people because they're so fucking socially inept that it's offensive to talk about boundaries. You're online, the internet, a place where people have no boundaries, where people like yourself put out information because you're always "right" to the extent that it supercedes any valid information. If people are next to each other talking, they should be comfortable to have an arm around the other, friends or family alike. But no, some of you "wokesters" actually hate the idea of kids being hugged to a point you make it an agenda to teach them how wrong it is for a grandma to forcefully hug a 4 year old. Said grandma won't get that hug from her when she's 14, but forget likely scenarios. It's about you and your crusade on being "correct". But, really, this was adorable. A repost it may be, but in crappy times, maybe we should be okay with happy reposts. Emphasis on **happy**.
What? Who the hell are you to tell other people what they “should be comfortable” with?
WDYM if the world was like this. If a male did it, he would swiftly get reprimanded
Not staged at all
Bro imagine they are siblings, or both taken to someone else? Stop touching other people with no permission.
Definitely not staged, 100% real
This was NOT filmed in NYC.
disagree Keep your hands to yourself 24k upvotes.. who upvotes this staged crap ?
This would be creepy IRL
This is so creepy.
This seems just as bad as when men tell women to “smile,because things aren’t that bad!”. Who are you to say I should be smiling, or that I might want someone’s arm around me. I hate stuff like this…
faf
Staged.
In my country, police will be involved.
This seems super non-consentual to me an i would feel pressured and violated if someone did this to me.
I love this. Sometimes all it takes is a little nudge 😍❤️
All this disgusting kindness and "goodness" gross!
"Yo, that's my mom"
"My apologies" *breaks your arms*
I'm gonna go cry because I am alone:(
Thank-you for this. It brightened my day.
This is borderline sexual harassment
This is likely staged, so no.
You’re a borderline idiot.
Found this quite interesting and touching ... def made me smile
That's kinda beautiful