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Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition

Name: Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
Description: 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.

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1 HN user recommended this comedy video1 month2014–2022 score 1

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Used as an illustration of the confident-idiot effect and of people pretending to know things.

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.

“The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.” (HN, 2014)

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@dlss Oct 2014 Recommends

on HN thread We Are All Confident Idiots

If anyone is curious about the Kimmel clip, it's on youtube: [this video] The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.

Clip that makes the article make more sense

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@robocat May 2022 Cites it

on HN thread We are all confident idiots (2014)

Bitrot? Missing assets for video and some images (perhaps on iPadOS only?). Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News SXSW edition link: [this video] “Imagine that the illustration below represents a curved tube lying horizontally on a table:” [link] Paper without video links: [link]

Link to the missing video from the article

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@kelvin0 Nov 2014 Makes a joke

on HN thread The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same

For what it's worth, there is also a hilarious sample of the 'hipster' population in this Youtube video (Jimmy Kimmel 0:53 mark) [this video] Of course interviewees in this video are probably paid actors playing dumb, but boy it doesn't the stereotype ...

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