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Ages 8+ · Digital Life · Scams and fakes
Videos too good to be true
🎥video✂️cut🎬staged❓ask
Can this really happen?
The big ideaVideos can be cut or staged: ask if it can really happen, and tell a grown-up.

How it works

A video can be edited: cut, sped up or changed.

A video can be staged: set up on purpose.

It can be the best of many tries, with the misses cut out.

One clip cannot prove it, so ask: can this really happen? And: what does it want from me?

Can this reallyhappen?Could it be cutor staged?Does it want meto tap, hurryor pay?What would agrown-up say?
Two questions to ask.

Example 1: The roof shot

  1. A man threw a ball into a tiny tub on his very first go.
  2. Tariq's own tries all missed, and Grandpa saw a piece was missing.
  3. The video was cut: maybe the man threw fifty times and kept the best one.
  4. One clip cannot show how it was made.

Example 2: Waffles flies

  1. Tariq put Waffles in a box with paper wings, a sky picture and a fan.
  2. On the screen, Waffles flew through the clouds.
  3. A video can show something that never happened.

Example 3: Too good to be true

  1. A video said, I got rich in one day! Tap the link.
  2. Another said, Free game coins for everyone! with a ticking timer.
  3. Free for everyone, right now, wants a tap and a login. Show a grown-up and do not tap.
Too good to be true• Rich in one day• Free for everyone, no work• A timer says act nowCould be real• A boy falls many times while he practices• A teacher folds a paper plane
A video that asks, and one that does not.

Words to know

edited
Cut, sped up or changed.
staged
Set up on purpose.
too good to be true
So amazing that it asks you to tap, hurry or pay.

Watch out

Try it

  1. A video shows a hamster flying. What does that show?
  2. A video says free coins for everyone, tap now. What do you do?
  3. Tariq's real shot took a month of tries. What does that show?
  4. Which is a good question about a video?
Answers: 1. A video can show what never happened · 2. Show a grown-up · 3. Real skill takes lots of practice · 4. Can this really happen?
Try at homeAsk a grown-up to watch a video that looks too good to be true, and look together for a cut, a trick and an ask.
For grown-upsWatch a trick-shot video together, pause it and look for a cut. Then ask what the video wants from you.
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