Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
Jimmy Kimmel Live1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2014–2022
comedy · general · evergreen · 2014–2022 on HN
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.
Used as an illustration of the confident-idiot effect and of people pretending to know things.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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.
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
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 ...