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The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment
theodp writes "Having fooled major news outlets with a heartwarming-but-entirely-faked video of a pig rescuing a drowning goat, Nathan Fielder turned his attention to texting. CNET reports on the great Twitter 'text-your-parents-you're-a-drug-dealer' experiment, in which the Fielder called on his Twitter followers to text their moms and dads and (accidentally) reveal a drug deal. Fielder's tweet read: 'Experiment: text your parents "got 2 grams for $40" then right after "Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you." Then tweet pic of their response.' The reactions are various and, sometimes, hilarious."
In the United Paranoid States.
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
Yes.
And while the standard moron often shows initiative, these ones are "obeying morons", the duller subset.
Come on, make your parents regret having had you.
Again.
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... The FBI has dismantled a large network of drug dealers apparently led by a man named Nathan Fielder. Having failed to secure the drugs, the FBI has seized their computers instead to examine possible connections with other drug dealing groups.
Simple. iOS lusers are far more sheeplike and willing to follow stupid suggestions like this one.
I've never actually done a comment like this, where I go "Oh come on Slashdot, what is this and why is it here?"
But come on Slashdot, why is this here?
News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters.
Remember that there is an implicit observational bias here. Only a moron who can't think for himself would participate in this experiment.
I personally have made it a point to NEVER believe any sort of screenshots I see on the internet, ESPECIALLY ones from an iPhone or really any Mobile platform. These "hilarious auto-correct mistakes", "crazy responses to accidental messages", or "super funny drunk texts" are almost always faked. There are several sites where one can create these messages in very believable looking screenshots (http://www.iphonetextgenerator.com/ for one). Why this is posted to /. as news is troubling to me.
ifaketext.com
to the ones who gave you life.
...makes me think of punk'd, to be honest.
Remember when there were good prank shows?
When you'd have a desk clerk do a quick change act between tending to a customer and seeing them slowly wonder "wasn't she wearing a red shirt just a moment ago? Hold on, I swear she was a brunette!". Or perhaps one of the greatest pranks, switching a regular car for its UK equivalent in mere minutes, moving the person's every possession, then watch as they come back, get into 'their' car, try to start, and suddenly realize the ignition they tried to put the key in is actually thin air and wonder just wtf happened.
Now it seems it's a 'better' prank if you take the same car and bash its windows in in front of the person, then quickly run up to them with a camera in their face telling them how they were had because the celebrity victim is about to call the cops in on the situation - and being a celebrity, they have little choice but to react 'like a good sport' because who wants to be deemed the sourpuss?
No, I don't see what's funny about this. Nor newsworthy; Jimmy Kimmel has put up prank challenges and asks viewer to YouTube them for some time now. I'm sure he wasn't the first either.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jimmy+kimmel+challenge
What's next? "Text your mother 'Mama, just killed a man' and post their replies"? You know, 'cos that's hilarious - and if found otherwise just claim it's a sociological experiment to see how many pranksters' moms know Bohemian Rhapsody. 'cos the text in this story clearly doesn't refer to drugs either (I'm sure he ran that by legal).