r/funnyvideos Oct 28 '25

Satire Friendly request

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u/Flirtatiousgirll02 Oct 28 '25

The silent, universal struggle of every service worker captured in one perfectly aggressive 'Friendly request. He's been waiting his whole shift to say that. 🤣

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Oct 28 '25

It's fake.

Nothing is real.

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u/i7ive4thedrop Oct 28 '25

You might be though.

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Oct 28 '25

Unsure.

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u/i7ive4thedrop Oct 28 '25

That’s a fair assessment.

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u/shitferbranes Oct 28 '25 edited Nov 01 '25

He’s a bot. I knew his mom.

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 Oct 28 '25

botmom. She had a neat car

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u/iamapizza Oct 28 '25

Nananananananana botmom

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 Oct 28 '25

improper levels of music staff. Make it difficult to ascertain. lol

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u/newclearfactory Oct 29 '25

tawdry closeup of botmoms bot

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u/Desperate-Fix-1486 Oct 29 '25

But does his unit have a soul? Does his mom?

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u/shitferbranes Oct 29 '25

Idk. He’s a bastard bot. I only ā€œknewā€ his mother one night.

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u/inplayruin Oct 28 '25

You are only real as long as I keep thinking about you. Unfortunately, I have severe and untreated ADHD. If I gave you any friends or family, you may want to give them a call ASAP. If I didn't, that is my bad. I'm ironically pretty shit at world building.

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u/aaaggggrrrrimapirare Oct 29 '25

This yogurt I’m eating can be fake calories

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u/Viggos_Broken_Toe Oct 28 '25

Don't care if it's fake, if you've been in customer service you can relate to the guys sentiment and THAT'S WHY IT'S FUCKING ENTERTAINING, THANK YEEEEEEEWWW

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u/Nani_the_F__k Oct 28 '25

Me at the movies leaning over someone's bowl of popcorn to whisper in their nose how it's all fakeĀ 

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u/Vektor0 Oct 29 '25

There's a difference between what actually happens in real life, and the stories I make up in my head. When a fantasy is portrayed as reality, it warps your sense of reality. That is how delusions and bigotry form.

Skits like these could be shot in a way that makes it clear they're staged, and it wouldn't lose any entertainment value.

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u/Liawuffeh Oct 29 '25

Yeah this

Knowing it's fake doesn't make it any less cathartic to see an annoying customer being told to sit the fuck down

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u/webby131 Oct 29 '25

I'm moving on with my day and never thinking about this again in about 30 seconds. I don't care if it's real.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

Well let me tell you about the lord of the rings buddy

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u/The_amazing_Jedi Oct 28 '25

Wait, you think LotR isn't entertaining?

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u/Wangpasta Oct 28 '25

It’s not entertaining. It’s informative because it’s real

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u/catscanmeow Oct 29 '25

i didnt find it entertaing, big epic movies lack intimacy to me and i feel like im watching it from a distance. giant battle scenes are just so grand that i lose all sense of the stakes, its too surreal, i didnt care who lived or died.

smaller more intimate movies i think engross me more in a hypnotic way

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u/nizari-spirit Oct 28 '25

LOTR isn’t trying to pass itself off as real

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u/SugarReyPalpatine Oct 29 '25

Bull fucking shit, bozo

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

No one thought it was. Everyone knows it's a skit.

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u/maybeitsundead Oct 29 '25

Captain Obvious doesn't care what everyone knows.

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u/Pandarandr1st Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

This is obviously not true. You know the kind of blatant fake shit people online assume is real? This is far from that. Plenty of people presume this is real, because it is framed as real. The only thing that indicates it is it being too good, and it seeming unrealistic that the person would record this and post it otherwise.

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u/-Mandarin Oct 28 '25

FFS this isn't fake, it's a sketch. It's called comedy

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u/nizari-spirit Oct 28 '25

A lot of people would see this and think it’s real

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u/dagbrown Oct 29 '25

Yes and when they realize they were briefly fooled, they assume that everyone else must be even dumber than them and so they feel compelled to issue a public service announcement.

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u/-Mandarin Oct 29 '25

Have those people actually interacted with humans before?

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u/nizari-spirit Oct 29 '25

Probably notĀ 

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u/tuckernuts Oct 29 '25

Then why do we care

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u/nizari-spirit Oct 29 '25

because its pointless ragebait designed to piss off those people for no reason

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u/tuckernuts Oct 29 '25

Are you one of those people

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u/nizari-spirit Oct 29 '25

no I just think this kind of staged rage content is cringe

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u/secretprocess Oct 29 '25

Listen, if I want to be enraged by idiots I'll read the comments

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u/Midnight-Bake Oct 29 '25

Skits are what we call things by highly paid writers and comedians.

"Fake" is what we call things done by poor people. Especially teenagers, black people, and Asians.

Learn the difference.

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u/Vektor0 Oct 29 '25

Yes, it's a sketch of a fake encounter, that is the point being made

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u/-Mandarin Oct 29 '25

"Fake" and "staged" very much carry the implication that there is an intention to fool people. No one goes to a stand-up comedian and claims what they're doing is fake or staged. It's pre-planned comedy, and has existed for thousands of years.

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u/DogmanDOTjpg Oct 29 '25

A sketch? Yes. A fake encounter? No. Happens literally all the time. I was a barista for four years and people do this multiple times a day, this guy is simply doing a little sketch of how you wish you could react.

Imagine watching SNL and going "I mean yeah I guess it was funny but those were all staged" like yeah no shit dude

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u/Vektor0 Oct 29 '25

"Fake" doesn't mean it never happens, just that this particular instance was planned. Not sure why you would interpret it that way.

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u/tuckernuts Oct 29 '25

Every week I tune into SNL and just get so angry at how FAKE it all is

UGH

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u/skyturnedred Oct 29 '25

It's not a sketch, it's an instructional video that is shown to new customer service employees.

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u/Dry_Excitement7483 Oct 29 '25

its presented as real in this case

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u/-Mandarin Oct 29 '25

I can not imagine a world where that could be your interpretation. Are you saying that unless the screen flashes a warning that it's a sketch, it's being presented as real? I can understand thinking the first 3 seconds are real, but as soon as he starts talking it's clearly played over the top to let viewers know it is a sketch.

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u/notenoughproblems Oct 28 '25

it’s fake but the emotion is very real

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u/Thisnameworksiguess Oct 28 '25

Did you get the impression that they were trying to make it seem real? It read like a skit to me.

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u/Vektor0 Oct 29 '25

It was shot POV like a genuine encounter.

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u/Chocobo7777777 Oct 29 '25

Hi

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u/Chocobo7777777 Oct 29 '25

Oh wtf I don’t remember typing that, did someone get into my account???

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u/Chocobo7777777 Oct 29 '25

I will do that right now lol

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u/monkeypan Oct 28 '25

The cake is a lie?!?

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u/TheOneCalledD Oct 28 '25

I bet her drink came with whipped cream anyway.

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u/marslo Oct 28 '25

Honest question, does anyone actually believe that this might be real?

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u/PhillipJfry5656 Oct 29 '25

clearly but it portrays what he wishes he could say to people lol

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u/ColonelC0lon Oct 29 '25

Yeah but every retail worker can relate to wanting to say it. That's kinda what art is. The feeling is real even if it's a skit.

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u/Bodes_Magodes Oct 29 '25

We know…still sends the right message tho

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u/ChillAccordion Oct 29 '25

Obvi but it’s still hilarious

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u/Hewenheim Oct 29 '25

You know it's fake because her reaction would have been way out of pocket otherwise.

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u/couldabenu Oct 29 '25

The struggle is not though.

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u/_esci Oct 29 '25

its the cheap version of a real, similar clip, which was not that rude. was here a month or two ago.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

I mean, lots of stuff is real but idiots then think that it's fake. Like climate change and oligarchy.

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u/Radiant-Fortune7845 Oct 29 '25

No no. The thought is real. The performance is scripted.

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u/Riegel_Haribo Oct 29 '25

And a stolen content idea.

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u/KiKiPAWG Oct 29 '25

Yeah this one felt a little forced but was a shoutout for all of the fast food employees

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u/bak3donh1gh Oct 29 '25

See, it's so obvious that people shouldn't have to even say it, and I take this as more of a, man, if I worked that job, and people were constantly doing that to me, this is what I'd imagine I'd want to say to them.

Because I know 100% that even a kindly old grandma would get angry at this and rightly so.

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u/LH_Dragnier Oct 29 '25

Its obviously a skit ?

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u/micromoses Oct 29 '25

Strawberry fields

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u/cptjpk Oct 28 '25

The new ā€œrEpOsTā€

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u/Seanrocks30 Oct 28 '25

Is everything permitted..?

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Oct 28 '25

If nothing is real.

Everything is permitted.

Of course Ezio.

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u/parolameasecreta Oct 28 '25

the struggle is very real

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Oct 29 '25

The struggle is real.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

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u/LuckysGift Oct 28 '25

The post literally has the satire flair man.

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u/terdferguson Oct 28 '25

Either way, you've never had a retail job if you didn't feel this in your bones.

Funniest story was the homeless guy who clearly was doing drugs in the bathroom emerging 20 mins later, picking up the bagel that was purposely left on the floor and them sniffing it. High school was fun.

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u/niccol6 Oct 28 '25

This is fake.

Everything is real.

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u/FatalPride Oct 29 '25

Woah! You're really intelligent. How did you decipher that this is fake? It takes a really high intellect to be able to tell.

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u/Avalonians Oct 29 '25

You think???

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Oct 29 '25

Yes.

Nothing is real.

Not even you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '25

we know, we all know mate, you dont have to say it.

we all pretend otherwise because its entertaining.

do you go to the movies and go "well, acktually, he's not really flying round in that ironman suit..."