Comments on: YouTube – child abuse or baby gymnastics

By: Rowan

Rowan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:12:20 +0000

“we’re sorry. This video is no longer available.” Guess I missed it!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:16:19 +0000

I donno if it is CGI cause when he flips the baby up and hold on to its legs, the baby grabs his shirt and pulls it, i donno how u can pull that off with CGI

but still totally disturbing

By: annie

annie — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:23:25 +0000

You’ve made me feel better about it, Dan. But it is still hard to watch!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:09:18 +0000

yeah. I can’t even finish that video. The babies arms are too stretchy!

By: dray

dray — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:40:38 +0000

Another way to be CERTAIN that it’s fake is to watch from 3:05 to about 3:10, notice at 3:08 how much changes at exactly the same time:
– the brightness of the video – the activity on the tv screen – the baby is put on the floor

this is all right at the moment that the baby would need to become “real” again to walk around.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:38:21 +0000

Real or not, it is still a little disturbing to watch.

Though I have to admit – it looks fun, I wish there was someone tall enough to do that to me. Except for the very last part, that just looks painful.

By: dray

dray — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:23:02 +0000

Interesting. This I think is kind of a measure to what degree one can suspend disbelief (i.e., you know it’s fake and thus the lack of connection to reality means the video doesn’t get to you; or you wonder if it’s real and that connection to reality makes you feel uncomfortable)...

I’m actually pretty good at separating from reality/fiction but it definitely felt a “little” weird to watch it. Probably not as much as a mom.

It’s absolutely fake, no question in my mind, you can see the baby turn into cgi-mode if you watch it closely.

Also, finally, I think our genetic desire to protect babies keeps us from ever actually trying things like this. Short of crazy people, nobody’s gonna try this at home.

By: annie

annie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:44:34 +0000

I mean, CGI or not, what if somebody tries this?

By: annie

annie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:43:06 +0000

I could barely watch that. This man is insane.