Comments on: Stressed Out

By: GB

GB — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:18:35 +0000

Just saw this was posted today on youtube… Interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXytUKh0g8&feature=user

By: Protoplast

Protoplast — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:50:29 +0000

Looks to be faked:
http://gizmodo.com/5015249/cubicle-farm-rampage-video-was-just-a-viral -marketing-stunt

By: Caryl

Caryl — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:48:17 +0000

it’s all fake!

By: Enigma644

Enigma644 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:11:21 +0000

It’s a fake. You can tell because none of the monitors have any cables in them.

By: Peeves

Peeves — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:40:24 +0000

The woman hit by the first monitor was holding the same spot on her head (another coworker also holds it) so I think she was actually injured. It may just be a set accident since the behavior of everyone is just strange (multiple cell phones, no one leaving, that injured woman walking back and forth and seriously interested in the man for way too long) but Russians just may do things differently.

By: Miss Curly

Miss Curly — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:44:09 +0000

I watched one of the links on this with audio and it sounds like Russian to me.

I don’t know, the whole thing made me just…sad.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:57:58 +0000

They blocked Neatorama!

By: Jayshun

Jayshun — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:49:42 +0000

It’s been said before but it seems extremely fake to me

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:26:19 +0000

Fake Fake Fake

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:14:09 +0000

Who’s to say. Looks awfully staged to me. That chart in back looks like every picture of how a chart should look. Was there a presentation in back? No — just a random chart.

By: Ben Eshbach

Ben Eshbach — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:35:32 +0000

Wow. It seems that only a decade ago the people who couldn’t discern fake from real tended to return a preponderance of false positives - by judging “real” when in fact fake. Now that same cross-section is returning false negatives of “fake” when in fact real. Does anyone know why this is happening? Are there just more and better fakes out there, so if you have no choice but to guess it’s safer to guess fake?

By: My Life In a Cube

My Life In a Cube — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:20:37 +0000

If I was there I would have joined in the fun and started bashing stuff too. Boo-yah!

By: sonora

sonora — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:14:05 +0000

somebody has a bad case of the mondays…

By: Lea

Lea — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:00:16 +0000

This whole video felt weird. It seemed like it was going in slow motion to me…did anyone else feel that way?
I feel like it’s fake but then, people do seriously crazy things. I wouldn’t be surprised either way.

By: Batspit

Batspit — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:42:17 +0000

This video goes well with Carmina Burana (from the opera post today) playing in the background…

By: Puck

Puck — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:46:42 +0000

Yeah… there’s no way this is fake. Even actors wouldn’t be interested in acting this one. The guy on the left who gets attacked second gets shoved forcefully into the cubicle wall. The whole thing falls over. Even the monitors don’t look like they’re fake and i’m pretty sure the girl across from him gets hit because she flew back pretty quick too. And to all the people saying that they wouldn’t stand around while this happened and that they wouldn’t let some guy do this, think of it this way: noone expects to get hit with a monitors and various other office equipment at work - the first thing you’re gonna do is be shocked, not be interested in fighting, least of all if it’s someone you work with. Someone you might even be on good terms with.

By: Brayden

Brayden — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:52:15 +0000

that is hilarious, i also had the flower duet playing when I watched this. it totally made it worth it for me.

By: Sniperman

Sniperman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:15:42 +0000

whoa guy really lost it.

By: wscribbler

wscribbler — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:07:18 +0000

the phenomena is used to be known as “bystander effect” or “Genovese Syndrome.”

By: wscribbler

wscribbler — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:04:51 +0000

anyone who thinks this a fake because everyone is standing around needn’t look to far for examples of people failing to come to the aid of others … remember the puerto rican day parade in new york a few years ago? … still not convinced, look up Kitty Genovese … she was murdered in New York in the late sixties after her killer attacked her outside her apartment, left and came back. Almost every one of her neighbors reported hearing the confrontation. Nobody called the police.

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:42:38 +0000

This isn’t fake. It happened in a small office in Vladivostok, Russia (the language spoken in the second, cellphone clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMAUjuIKb0 , is Russian.) The story made the news in Russia, too:

http://news.ntv.ru/133544 (Russian site, but you’ll see the video)

http://www.1tv.ru/owa/win/ort6_main.main?p_news_title_id=122571&p_news _razdel_id=1

No details yet on what set him off, but I’m following the Russian blogs where this was originally reported — once there’s more information, I’ll post here.

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:45:04 +0000

fake or not it is incredibly beautiful when played in conjunction with the ‘leo delibes lakme: the flower duet’ posting

By: Dave Barak

Dave Barak — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:37:08 +0000

I vote for fake. I can’t see anyone going ape for that long without realizing they’ve just screwed up big-time.

Maybe it’s a viral video to advertise pepper spray, Thorazine or pre-frontal lobotomies.

By: Aundrea

Aundrea — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:35:34 +0000

I still don’t know what it could be an advertisement for. I’ve read the comments about other campaigns depicting people raging against their computers, but that seems fundamentally different than raging against co-workers using computers.

By: boris

boris — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:33:47 +0000

they speak russian, was on the news

By: gmgfarrand

gmgfarrand — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:07:39 +0000

Fake, just like countless others like it.

None of the monitors that get thrown are ever plugged in.

Ever try to throw a CRT monitor that is hooked to either power or a PC?

It just isn’t real…

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:35:42 +0000

This is why I am a Buddhist.
Please breath darling.

By: dermot

dermot — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:28:56 +0000

I vote fake.

Look at the two women in the cubicle where he began his attack. Having narrowly escaped death, they stand there, watching?

Wouldn’t any woman in that situation want to flee? To get away from the psychonaut? Yet they remain, even as the attack escaletes, even moving closer at one point.

Seems bogus to me.

There were similar TV ads back on ZDTV (aka TechTV) back around 2000 - a cube slave takes his CRT monitor and drops it down the stairs. Remember those?

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:25:20 +0000

Emerson, I miss you in my cell, luvah.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:23:55 +0000

I can’t believe that almost everybody is so cynical, and ready to say it’s fake.

1. My Office, (In America) still has a few 15′ monitors left. Not every company has a big budget for fancy flat screens.

2. I’ve seen people go ape-sh*t in my office or other places. People tend to stare, because they are shocked or want to watch. Especially here in NYC.

3. If a Man is going psycho, he can easily pull a monitor loose from a computer. Remember, there are two tiny little screws holding it in place, and a man raging would be able to rip them off.

4. If you are a woman, and a raging hostile guy hurls a monitor into your lap, who’s to say you wouldn’t be in shock and just freeze? I say it’s real.