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Re: Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video

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Post by sillysaurusx »

Chilinot wrote: post #15
pixxel wrote: post #14

Here’s the footage on YT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1p47H8HuLtY

This video is edited. The background music is not the original. Here is the original in a tweet: https://twitter.com/VonKoutli/status/1356278671267557382

I didn't expect it to be hilarious. No wonder it went viral.

But as someone else pointed out, the coup may have happened in the middle of the night at ~4am or so. Is this really showing the actual coup, or just the aftermath?

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Post by mot0rola »

vcxy wrote: post #6

Her shadow cuts off abruptly. Is this a green screen? Since there is already a dead comment about that, I'm guessing I'm wrong for some obvious reason, but I can't place it.

i think it's a step that cuts it off, does look like it though

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Post by ReptileMan »

jzwinck wrote: post #9
mhh__ wrote: post #3

I think this is also the road featured in Top Gear a while back. I know nothing about Myanman politics so I won't wax poetic about anything

I haven't even seen that Top Gear episode but I'm sure it's the same one. This, the main highway in Naypyitaw, is very famous for its incredible width and underutilization. Trip Advisor rates it the #2 best place to visit in the capital city: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g2036450-d1213... I've been there. It is awesome. Myanmar, I mean.

If you want to feel like someone in the movie Passengers Naypyitaw on a national holiday is an awesome place to do it. There is this vast swaths of infrastructure working and rarely a soul to see. Build for 20 million with barely one living there.

Amazing place, amazing people (when you get to find them) and amazing food.

Re: Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video

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Post by z92 »

ike77 wrote: post #29
gen_greyface wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its an elevated platform, the shadow is not visible because its falling on the steps. here is a opposite view, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtNsnSxVEAE6hJo?format=jpg&name=...

Makes you wonder why she chose the road view angle

Otherwise she had to place the camera on the road. And road views are fine specially when the background is the White House or the parliament building in this case.

Re: Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video

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Post by z92 »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #30
senthilnayagam wrote: post #13

highly doubt it. coup happened at 4am local time, sunrise in winter happens at 6:47 am. this video is pretty bright

This is an interesting analysis. Did the coup really happen at 4am? If so, then there's almost no way this video could be legit.

Coup news takes time to reach the media. If this is not fake more likely this video is from the previous day afternoon, when they raided the parliament.

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Post by minitoar »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #31
Chilinot wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This video is edited. The background music is not the original. Here is the original in a tweet: https://twitter.com/VonKoutli/status/1356278671267557382

I didn't expect it to be hilarious. No wonder it went viral. But as someone else pointed out, the coup may have happened in the middle of the night at ~4am or so. Is this really showing the actual coup, or just the aftermath?

I mean...what is the precise moment when a coup happens? I would argue that a military caravan to a central govt building is still pretty coup-esque.

Re: Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video

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Post by aaron695 »

Chilinot wrote: post #15
pixxel wrote: post #14

Here’s the footage on YT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1p47H8HuLtY

This video is edited. The background music is not the original. Here is the original in a tweet: https://twitter.com/VonKoutli/status/1356278671267557382

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