TMWNN Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Attention Westeros.org! Operation WaW (Weeping and Wailing) is scheduled for today. The plan is to record as many reaction videos as possible of nonreaders to the Red Wedding and post them online in a central location.Details are at the Reddit discussion thread. We look forward to laughing at your friends' tears! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tirilei Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Why are you getting off on that? Laughing at people's tears? And who would take advantage of their friends like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bannerless Man Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Why are you getting off on that? Laughing at people's tears? And who would take advantage of their friends like that?Thanks to this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoreSeeker Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 The person I watched it with just up and screamed at the top of her lungs.,,,,it was 2:30 in the morning. SO my family woke up assuming someone had tried to kill her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonstoned Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Nice reaction compilation video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lehnaru Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 These reactions are brilliant. I'm still crying with laughter. Poor, poor Unsullied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khal Pono Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Why are you getting off on that? Laughing at people's tears? And who would take advantage of their friends like that?That's kind of judgmental. Yes I suppose it might be entertaining on some level to see people upset but I think it's more that it has a certain documentary value to see how emotionally invested many of the viewers (even non book-readers) are in the show and it speaks to the power of the material.In any case, I gasped louder than any the non-book readers I watch the show with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolverine Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Why are you getting off on that? Laughing at people's tears? And who would take advantage of their friends like that?Maybe cause it is just a show? Get off your high horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yushkevsh Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I saw one of these reaction videos and it's scary -- people get REALLY into TV shows don't they? I mean REALLY REALLY into it. One poor girl literally freaked out to the point you would've swore she just heard her parents died. It was creepy to say the least.Thankfully other reactions were mostly mild by comparison, nothing you wouldn't expect from a scary horror movie scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhasgul Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Why are you getting off on that? Laughing at people's tears? And who would take advantage of their friends like that?Sad comment trying to whiteknight.There are tv-programs all about showing homemade clips about people hurting themselves in terrible ways and such. This is simply laughing at someone who saw someone in a tv-show die. Get your priorities straight and grow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dove Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I saw one of these reaction videos and it's scary -- people get REALLY into TV shows don't they? I mean REALLY REALLY into it. One poor girl literally freaked out to the point you would've swore she just heard her parents died. It was creepy to say the least.Thankfully other reactions were mostly mild by comparison, nothing you wouldn't expect from a scary horror movie scene.I haven't watched any of those videos but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people are just hamming it up for attention/views or whatever. I mean, I'm really fucking in to this series but if someone's genuinely weeping, wailing, and gnashing and throwing an actual fit that's pretty silly.edit: yeah, just searched out a few random videos on youtube - this ain't for me, most people just aren't funny or entertaining. It was fun seeing my friend's reactions after watching (I was way too spellbound to really care in the middle of it) but that's about it. there's a few pretty good tweets on that one RW compilation twitter someone posted though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tirilei Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Thanks to this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchadenfreudeUsing a word from my language, ok. Being schadenfroh is not a good character trait. Filming a friend's reaction and putting it up online for others to laugh at, only a jerk who doesn't deserve friends would do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhasgul Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Using a word from my language, ok. Being schadenfroh is not a good character trait. Filming a friend's reaction and putting it up online for others to laugh at, only a jerk who doesn't deserve friends would do that.You, kind sir, must be socially retarded.As I pointed out earlier it is a common thing in our society to do stuff like that. There are failcompilations online of people hurting themselves and they get millions of views. There are shows on MTV and such that show clips where people break bones. There are loaaaaads of ways you can see people fall/get hurt/get embarrassed and that's because it's not the nicest thing to do, you do it for a laugh.THIS however, hurts noone. The people in the videos DON'T get hurt, they get upset over the loss of an imaginary character. You must be struggling with mental disabilities if you seriously think putting these videos online makes you less of a person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tirilei Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 You, kind sir, must be socially retarded.As I pointed out earlier it is a common thing in our society to do stuff like that. There are failcompilations online of people hurting themselves and they get millions of views. There are shows on MTV and such that show clips where people break bones. There are loaaaaads of ways you can see people fall/get hurt/get embarrassed and that's because it's not the nicest thing to do, you do it for a laugh.THIS however, hurts noone. The people in the videos DON'T get hurt, they get upset over the loss of an imaginary character. You must be struggling with mental disabilities if you seriously think putting these videos online makes you less of a person."Socially retarded", "mental disabilities", this minor little exchange is reason for you to use words that strong? Never mind then, let's consider this conversation over. And I'm not a "sir". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Of The Canals Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Why are you getting off on that? Laughing at people's tears? And who would take advantage of their friends like that?I know, right? I usually just bathe in their tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Snow Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Full disclosure:I am not usually an overly emotional person, but I do have a fair amount of empathy for my fellow man.My wife (Unsullied) took a couple of days to watch the show, but when she did, I let her watch it in peace.Later, she told me that she cried when Talisa and here baby died, and that she would no longer be watching the show with me. I attempted to console her, by telling her that all readers pretty much felt the same way when we read the Red Wedding, but give it a few days/weeks/months, to recover.My point is that being emotionally invested in the story is not a sign of weakness. The fact that we are all posting for the most part daily on this site means that , whether we want to admit it or not, we are all emotionally invested in these books, and by extension to TV show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Xayavong Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Using a word from my language, ok. Being schadenfroh is not a good character trait. Filming a friend's reaction and putting it up online for others to laugh at, only a jerk who doesn't deserve friends would do that.Judging other people's friendship doesn't seem to be a good character trait either. It's condescending. You're probably right about some who are bad friends. Some friends are comfortable with these things, let them be.As for apparently being a undeserving jerk, we get off on it because we've gone through the same experience that we now get to share with a friend. Not to be compared to a cheap thrill. We'd like to look back on these experiences because they are priceless. I kind wish I could see my own reaction. But that's me and I don't speak for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Fox Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Why are you getting off on that? Laughing at people's tears? And who would take advantage of their friends like that?Because it's hilarious. Pranks are fun.. chill out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyria Targaryen Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I didn't record anybody watching, but I'm enjoying watching the reaction videos because for the first time I get to share the experience of the Red Wedding with other people. Like other readers, I experienced it in isolation with no one there to videotape me. Seeing the videos is cathartic. And it's not like I'm laughing only at them. I'm laughing at myself and all the rest of us too. This is an experience we've all gone through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I didn't record anybody watching, but I'm enjoying watching the reaction videos because for the first time I get to share the experience of the Red Wedding with other people. Like other readers, I experienced it in isolation with no one there to videotape me. Seeing the videos is cathartic. And it's not like I'm laughing only at them. I'm laughing at myself and all the rest of us too. This is an experience we've all gone through.You should seriously check out the "Angry Hitler" one they posted, taking footage from a WWII movie but overwriting the German titles with stuff about the RW, it's freaking hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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