Idk I'm not really convinced. It's easy to analyze something months after everything has already settled and make assumptions into facts. Body language videos are the biggest snake oil of this shit "look this person is clearly crazy because of his movements" (after they were caught and convicted).
The dad is clearly someone who forced himself into the limelight by doing weird shit on camera. The wife swap tv appearance should have made that clear. Having a balloon for months doesn't suddenly absolve him of guilt. People don't always launch into crazy ideas out of the gate.
Why would the kid be hiding in a box in the attic? Could the kid even get in the attic himself?
IH also just makes assumptions that the dad WASN'T thinking of ways to make it convincing as a hoax. A few hundred dollars in whatever equipment is just a write off.
After watching this I'm fucking convinced its real and balloon boy dad was strung up. It has footage of him being investigated and shows the prosecution straight-up lying, and also the cops deliberately keeping him from a lawyer and in a malleable state of mind while they interrogate him.
You know it’s one really interesting aspect of Christian slavery, converting to Christianity did not free you and Christians could own Christians. In fact in a lot of the early stage of the Atlantic slave trade, they’d seize Muslims or Pagan west africans, and force convert to Christianity at the sword. If you did not convert, you would be killed. However, if you did convert, this was in itself the justification for slavery, clearly since the noble European had saved your soul for all eternity, you now owed a mere life of servitude to your masters in gratitude for their “saving you”.
It’s really soooo much shittier than the Muslim system of capturing Christian or Pagan slaves, like they would not be immediately killed if they kept their religion, and could be freed through conversion to Islam. Whereas under the Christian system, death was the default, and the bone you got for conversion was your life of slavery.
This is further compounded by the fact that the maker of that video is an anonymous guy under the presumptuous name of "Internet Historian" who hides his face under a paper mask.
Probably the funniest thing I've seen a wikipedophile write.
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1 beastmane69 2019-12-03
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1 TheColdTurtle 2019-12-03
It wasnt a hoax cmv
1 shitmemesimake 2019-12-03
This completely changed my mind about the whole thing.
1 Burnnoticelover 2019-12-03
Internet Historian can do some decent investigative reporting when the spirit moves him to.
1 FrostyBlowmanSnowman 2019-12-03
Idk I'm not really convinced. It's easy to analyze something months after everything has already settled and make assumptions into facts. Body language videos are the biggest snake oil of this shit "look this person is clearly crazy because of his movements" (after they were caught and convicted).
The dad is clearly someone who forced himself into the limelight by doing weird shit on camera. The wife swap tv appearance should have made that clear. Having a balloon for months doesn't suddenly absolve him of guilt. People don't always launch into crazy ideas out of the gate.
Why would the kid be hiding in a box in the attic? Could the kid even get in the attic himself?
IH also just makes assumptions that the dad WASN'T thinking of ways to make it convincing as a hoax. A few hundred dollars in whatever equipment is just a write off.
Nah not convinced.
1 teamsprocket 2019-12-03
A retarded eceleb said it was real and the eceleb is based in facts and logic so I gotta believe them.
1 RIPGeorgeHarrison 2019-12-03
In another video he says he thinks there is a 40 % it’s real and he was more pointing out some interesting facts about the case.
1 Pinksister 2019-12-03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axgyj7g5XZY&list=PLxwlyOUWMDL7K-x-sOHDpar0UrckC1Yrg&index=15
After watching this I'm fucking convinced its real and balloon boy dad was strung up. It has footage of him being investigated and shows the prosecution straight-up lying, and also the cops deliberately keeping him from a lawyer and in a malleable state of mind while they interrogate him.
1 FrostyBlowmanSnowman 2019-12-03
Just wake up. Please just wake up
1 AlecOzzyHillPitas 2019-12-03
🤔
1 boyoyoyoyong 2019-12-03
I want to believe
1 hi_0 2019-12-03
It's both
1 Shitposting_Skeleton 2019-12-03
Hanlon's Razor strikes again.
1 Pinksister 2019-12-03
Holy shit this sent me down a rabbit hole. How depressing, we were all duped. I feel like a retard.
1 watermark1917 2019-12-03
You know it’s one really interesting aspect of Christian slavery, converting to Christianity did not free you and Christians could own Christians. In fact in a lot of the early stage of the Atlantic slave trade, they’d seize Muslims or Pagan west africans, and force convert to Christianity at the sword. If you did not convert, you would be killed. However, if you did convert, this was in itself the justification for slavery, clearly since the noble European had saved your soul for all eternity, you now owed a mere life of servitude to your masters in gratitude for their “saving you”.
It’s really soooo much shittier than the Muslim system of capturing Christian or Pagan slaves, like they would not be immediately killed if they kept their religion, and could be freed through conversion to Islam. Whereas under the Christian system, death was the default, and the bone you got for conversion was your life of slavery.
1 TheColdTurtle 2019-12-03
Ok
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-12-03
😴😴😴
1 MG87 2019-12-03
His son ratted him out on live TV. It was a hoax
1 BIknkbtKitNwniS 2019-12-03
That video wasn't super convincing but I'm a contrarian faggot so I'm going to go around telling people it wasn't a hoax now.
1 TheColdTurtle 2019-12-03
Sneed
1 BIknkbtKitNwniS 2019-12-03
I dont know what that means and I wont respond to it
1 Platycel 2019-12-03
You just did
1 BIknkbtKitNwniS 2019-12-03
Damn. Really makes u 🤔
1 TheColdTurtle 2019-12-03
Formerly known
1 quality_bratwurst 2019-12-03
Chuck
1 MikeStoklasaBackup 2019-12-03
Bane?
1 Ill_Regal 2019-12-03
DONTCHA just LOOOOOOVE THE FEED AND SEED
1 Redactor0 2019-12-03
Excuse me, but I need you to link to an article called WP:IMAFAGGOT so that I understand what you mean by this.
1 Pinksister 2019-12-03
Watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axgyj7g5XZY&list=PLxwlyOUWMDL7K-x-sOHDpar0UrckC1Yrg&index=15
It backs up the original, and includes footage from when the cops were questioning him. Fucking Balloon Boy dad was framed, this is ridiculous.
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-12-03
Based redditor
1 TrolleyDilemma 2019-12-03
This is the only post on this sub in the past week I’ve actually given a shit about
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-12-03
Imagine caring about anything at any time for any reason.
1 -holier-than-mao- 2019-12-03
Internet Historian is literally the only good Zoomer.
1 KaaraRaven 2019-12-03
His Aussie level bants balance it out. Also his videos are pretty damn well made.
1 dramasexual 2019-12-03
the talking harold is cringe as fuck tho
1 aqouta 2019-12-03
No u
1 200iqBigBrain 2019-12-03
He's apparently 30
1 Doctor-Pavel 2019-12-03
holiday fun-facts for snallygaster when?
1 snallygaster 2019-12-03
tis the season!
1 I_will_bum_your_mum 2019-12-03
Wikipedophiles*
1 wm20123 2019-12-03
Probably the funniest thing I've seen a wikipedophile write.
1 clubby789 2019-12-03
If you’ve ever argued on a wiki you’re at the end. Wikipedia jannies are an even lower form of life
1 Mrtheliger 2019-12-03
Isn't that just an episode of Seinfeld
1 Lehk 2019-12-03
imagine being autistic enough to generate 3 pages of arguments over some dumbass news clip from a decade ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Balloon_boy_hoax/Archive_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Balloon_boy_hoax/Archive_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Balloon_boy_hoax/Archive_3
1 snallygaster 2019-12-03
When you see the presence of more than two archives on an obscure/unimportant article then you know there's some good shit in there
1 PRIC3L3SS1 2019-12-03
Who is balloon boy? What's special about him I tried googling him but I couldn't find anything on him besides that it was a hoax.
1 Neon_needles 2019-12-03
Anyone who thinks it isn't a hoax is mega retarded h2h