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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Is this even real though....
Are people just willing to look stupid to be on TV?
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The one's filmed on Hollywood boulevard are just filled with attention seekers/aspiring actors, because they wait around for this type of thing and they know that the lie witness news segments get millions of views.
Looking around the internet appears to be fairly common knowledge that the whole segment is faked anyways. Although if there was a case for one edition of LWN being more organic (ha!) it would be this one, as the answers would be a little more tougher to edit and the idea that most people against GMO's are against them because they sound bad is fairly believable.
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I’d imagine most people were sceptics anyway — didn’t you often find yourself asking, “Surely no one’s THAT stupid?” — but, as the investigation found, in recent weeks more and more participants from the viral skits have stepped forward indicating that they were in on the joke or that the interviews are just the effects of sneaky editing.
For example, Mashable’s reporters tracked down Colleen McEachern, who featured in last year’s Super Bowl edition of the segment. “It is fake, but it’s all in good fun!”, she told them. “The people being interviewed know that the camera person is kidding.”
Another person who was featured in the famous Coachella video — the most shared installment yet, with over 14 million YouTube views — claimed that the show’s producers “altered her answers”. “It was fake. They replaced some of the band names in post and also used my description of other groups/bands as answers to other questions,” she said.
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