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Recently Australian vlogger Adrian Gee came under fire for his 'social experiment' entitled "The Real Blind Man Honesty Test". In it, Adrian pretends he's blind and asks 'strangers' for change for a $5 note, but, here's the twist, it's a $50 note! Oh no, moral quandary alert! What are the smelly, metal-band-vest-wearing public going to do with this one? Naturally they all swindle the blind man and take the pinkie. Gee them informs them that it's all part of his elaborate scheme to show up the selfishness of modern man, and teach us a lesson on how we shouldn't be stealing from people who quite literally can't see what they're doing.
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You get the sense that most people who watch this stuff know that something is off, but to reinforce their own ideals and beliefs they'll watch some actors fuck over a blind man, or a kindly millionaire give a whole pizza to a man who has no family, prospects or health. It's propaganda without an aim. It's emotional propaganda reminding you of basal truths; that you think giving to the needy is good and pretending to kill your mates for banter is not good.Once again Pepper is eked into the limelight and, once again, it's for something horrible he hasn't really done. His street harassment video was completely heinous, but it wasn't real—he didn't actually do that. I think it's the same here: he and his actor mates try and show off their chops to try and get picked up by a studio for a bit part role in a Netflix Original series about a lesser-known Marvel character. It's self-serving, it's fake, and it's crap. Let's get back to reality guys, like Big Brother and Britain's Got Talent. No actors in those. No siree.Follow Joe onTwitter.