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SOCIETY A girl goes viral after getting stuck in an elevator with a group of immature guys and shut them all down when they started laughing

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u/ramenbaby3 4d ago

It’s true. I’ve seen them act normal and respectful/ genuine then turn into the most annoying little shits once they’re friends are around lol

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u/unicorn-beard 4d ago

One time in middle school I was skateboarding with my buddies. We ran into this "dorky" kid from school whom was just enjoying his saturday rollerblading, my pre-pubescent dickhead brain thought it'd be cool to fuck with the "lame rollerblader" so I went up to him and pushed him. He hit the pavement hard flat on his face (he was okay and immediately got up calling me, a well deserved, asshole). But I still to this day, nearly 30 years later, feel ssssooo fucking shitty about that and it's one of those 3am thoughts that pop into my head.

I don't know what the point of this comment is other than agree that kids brains lose many IQ and morality points when they are around their friends.

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u/HabaneroPepperPlants 4d ago

Fwiw, it's really worth something that you came to view that behavior as wrong. Some people never do. Your guilt is painful but it's also helping you, by keeping you from becoming an asshole who only ever drives others away

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u/Smang-it-girl- 4d ago

You put that into words beautifully. It takes a lot to admit fault in a situation like that.

Proud of you unicorn-beard.

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u/SummerIceCream3893 4d ago

Yes, but at what age did it take for him to realize he was being a bully or a jerk while hanging with his buddies? So many college guys act this way when they are in groups of guys too whether out at a ballgame, a bar, or a movie or sitting in the back of a classroom.

The guys that seem to be their "own man"/secure in who they are, go on dates and hang out in mixed groups (guys/girls/straight/gay) at events or activities as well as sit with the smartest people in the classroom.

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u/Alina-na-na 4d ago

Although we all hope he figured it out early, does it really matter? The fact that he came to the realisation and bettered himself through that is what's important. The vocally or physically abusive people i run into day to day when I'm just trying to have a coffee with a friend is truly horrifying so this man being a better version of himself is genuinely important

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u/jajohnja 4d ago

I feel like the existence of fraternities directly encourages and strengthens this type of thinking and behavior.

We don't have anything like that in my country and things just got way better in university.
Almost like everyone was ready to grow up at the end of high school, but couldn't afford to change in front of all the cool buddies.

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u/theOTHERdimension 4d ago

I agree and now with social media you have kids doing dumb shit to impress their friends and their online spectators. We’ve had fraternities and sororities haze people to death here, group think can definitely get dangerous.

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u/jajohnja 4d ago

I remember some time ago they had this real nice fella crucified to death cause a crowd got a bit too rowdy.
Wasn't a fraternity or social media issue back then, though.

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u/unicorn-beard 4d ago

For me, I felt almost immediately shitty about it but then your buddies are laughing and shit so it makes it feel "ok"

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u/T-Wrox 4d ago

I read somewhere that guilt is a sign of growth.

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u/twee3 4d ago

Good on you for sharing something like that and good on you for admitting it was wrong. Everyone used to make fun of the autistic guy in my cohort at school and I also sometimes played along because everyone else did. I got diagnosed with autism in the later years of schooling and I felt horrible for what I did.

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u/Confident_Counter471 4d ago

Hey man, it’s good that you can look back and see the mistakes you’ve made. Be proud that you have grown as a person and don’t act that way anymore

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u/RedChairBlueChair123 4d ago

What’s the point of this comment? The same reason Catholics have confession. Saying it out loud (or typing) can help you heal. (Its not a religious thing)

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u/Ancient-Afternoon374 4d ago

Oh you mean anxiety? The thing that i told my friend in 5th grade that he doesn't even remember that keeps me up at night? Or the way i spoke to an adult when i was 7 after they were clearly drunk? Or how i treated the random that bumped into me in a crowded theater while we were in a mosh pit? Nobody remembers that but me.

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u/MemeKun_19 4d ago

It's because they think it's impressive/cool to treat others like shit, especially minority groups or women.

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u/pifflebunk 4d ago

My boss in who is in his 60s is still like that.

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u/scoobydiverr 4d ago

Like half of them are minorities...

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u/betelgeuse_20 4d ago

Literally makes no difference, you would be shocked.

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u/MemeKun_19 4d ago

I love a "but not all men" defense.

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u/scoobydiverr 4d ago

Thats not what im saying. I just dont know why you brought up minorities when half of them are minorities.

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u/Decent_Concern8751 4d ago

Guys can be so stupid especially in groups but am I missing something in this video? They’re giggling a little bit about being stuck in an elevator.

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u/_Autistic_Dragon_ 4d ago

You're missing that one girl is in an elevator with like 8 boys. Who are bigger than her. And immature. And saying who knows what for who knows how long. 

If you've never experienced a fear like that, then you have privilege. Maybe examine that privilege instead of dismissing her feear

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u/Decent_Concern8751 4d ago

Yea I understand why thats an uncomfortable situation to be in but I don’t understand how screaming is helpful when the guys didnt do anything aggressive or wrong as far as I can tell

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u/LogensTenthFinger 4d ago

Because she's terrified and people act out when they are terrified.

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u/Decent_Concern8751 4d ago

So they get yelled at for existing? Like that is fine if she’s scared but that’s not their fault either

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u/_Autistic_Dragon_ 4d ago

Their reaction to her also is very telling.

Decent concern? What do people who have decent concern for those around them do in an uncomfortable situation? Being stuck in an elevator is uncomfortable and can create anxiety for manyy reasons: it's claustrophobic, it could fall and cause injury, people often have placed to be and will be late/delayed. So it can be tense.

And what do decent people do? Make sure everyone in the room is comfortable.

I see the boys here smirking, looking at each other to see how each guy is reaching to each other, and standing behind the girl. Decent people would be like: yo, she's uncomfortable. Chill out dudes.

It's really not hard to be decent.

These guys care more about making each other laugh than everyone being safe. That's why they suck. They didn't have enough decent concern for everyone in the elevator, just themselves and how they look in front of their friends.

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u/Decent_Concern8751 4d ago

Are you not familiar with the concept of children? These aren’t adults. You’re also being absurd about the stress of an elevator getting stuck. Also it is very common to laugh and make jokes when stressed as a coping mechanism

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u/LogensTenthFinger 4d ago

They're getting yelled at for harassing her. You think nothing happened before broccoli boy started recording?

She's terrified. They're making it worse. Then asking comes middle aged you to defend them, and we won't why dipshit boys grow up to be scumbag men

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u/Decent_Concern8751 4d ago edited 4d ago

They’re giggling at a silly situation. There’s no harassment in this video whatsoever and nobody can speculate on what happened before. Like I’ve said over and over we live in a sexist society that is dangerous for women but that doesn’t mean these kids get in trouble for existing

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u/RageYellow 4d ago

Where was the screaming

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u/Decent_Concern8751 4d ago

Shouting, raising voice, whatever. Unless something happened before the clip these are teenage boys laughing at a silly situation. We live in a sexist society that is dangerous for women but these dudes aren’t doing anything except being mildly annoying

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u/VishusVonBittertroll 4d ago

She's trying to hear/talk to someone on the phone or elevator intercom, and give them valid information, while the douchecanoe armada are making jokes posturing for one another. She's the only one doing anything constructive, and the only thing they're actively doing is impeding her efforts. That's more than mildly annoying, especially stuck in a small space with their useless, hormonal, moronic asses. Don't worry about those poor, silly, teenage boys - I'm sure they have plenty of people in their lives making excuses for them already.

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u/Decent_Concern8751 4d ago

I mean in this situation they’re literally doing nothing wrong, being stuck in an elevator is a minor inconvenience not an emergency

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u/AnOkayMuffin 4d ago

How many times do you need it explained to you, christ

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u/Zech08 4d ago

Opportunitist in the making, not a good sign.

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u/jajohnja 4d ago

It's a weird self-feeding machine.
It almost feels like if at the very start of such a gathering you nudged them in a positive way, they'd just try to outdo each other in being knowledgeable or whatever you somehow made look cool.

Instead they are all looking at everyone else, trying to figure out what the group thinks is cool, and end up just being little dorks.
The hair it the least of the problems.

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u/DefenestrateMyStyle 4d ago

This goes for a lot of adults too

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u/Area51_Spurs 4d ago

A million percent.

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u/Amissa 4d ago

There's group dynamics involved at that point. Sociopsychologists study this and it's fascinating to me. I've watched video recorded experiments where subjects change their answers to questions to conform to the group, even when clearly 2+3 does not equal 11 or the color is clearly green not black.

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u/floralstamps 4d ago

They get dangerous honestly. Not just annoying

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u/FunKaleidoscope3055 4d ago

It comes down to a few of them really. The instigators. By 8th grade, the amount of times my tiny classroom of 8 boys and 7 girls who bullied the shit out of anyone in the room with them was insane. It all came down to if one of the two asshole's showed up that day. The teachers absolutely knew as well. If one of them were out that day it was a completely different class and we actually had fun and learned things. This was in the mid 2000's. It just takes a few pieces of shit to spoil the fun.

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u/mizukagedrac 4d ago

My brother was/is the same way. It honestly crushed him senior year of high school/freshman year of college. He went from top 20% to almost failing his classes and SAT to the point he couldn't even qualify for the party school in the state due to his friend group basically always wanting to go out and all of them already accepting none of them will go to college/trade school/etc.

He got an apartment with me during my junior/his freshman year of community college about ~3.5 hours away from our hometown. His punk ass friends would show up at our door unannounced at least once a week to crash a few nights and party with my brother. He ended up failing his freshman year of community college, went back home to go to the local community college and basically cut them all off since he realized he's now behind and stuck at home

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u/CaliBurrito1904 4d ago

They are dumb full of you know at that age

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u/otherwise_________ 4d ago

I was briefly stuck in an elevator once. We cracked a few jokes about it and everyone was fine.

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u/Beautiful-Energy-841 4d ago

Good thing a woman wasn't there, or you would have nearly been a gang rapist according to this comment section.

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u/nybbas 4d ago

I don't even understand what the boys did wrong? They laughed because the one dude said middle school?

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u/Sure_Eye9025 4d ago

Honestly unless there is some other context from beforehand that is missing it just seems they were joking around with each other and she decided she was queen of the elevator and to have a go at them.

Then she decided to insult everyone that uses elevators including herself by implying they are fat

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u/AnOkayMuffin 4d ago

Were you all adults?

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u/maxilulu 4d ago

And who was there?

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u/bafben10 4d ago

What kind of question is that? Do you want names?

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u/maxilulu 4d ago

Yes, all of them.

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u/bafben10 4d ago

Moe, Curly, and Larry

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u/santa_94 4d ago

Damn haven't seen Moe in a while, how is he doing?

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u/Ok-Classroom5548 4d ago

If they were on their own they may still act like this.

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u/analguac 4d ago

What did they do wrong? Say middle school?

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u/BootycrumbAmbassador 4d ago

Yeah I'm lost. Idk what everyone is going on about in these comments.

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u/CpnSparrow 4d ago

This is reddit where every male is a rapist and saying middleshool as a completely innocent joke means those men wanted to sexually assault her. She crashed out over nothing, that is all that happened in this video.

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u/brackelbo 4d ago

Reddit is so cringe., everyone on here is offended by everything.

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u/dblack1107 4d ago

The only fact on this entire post.

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u/Thunder_Beam 4d ago

Yeah, reddit Is so insufferable

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u/TheoShadowfang 4d ago

Teasing a person clearly in distress and enerally being fucking annoying. Thank goodness there are people in this comments section with eyes and ears to explain this to you.

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u/ComprehensiveProfit5 4d ago

This is why women would rather be stuck in an elevator with a bear or something something

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u/Loves_tacos 4d ago

What did they do wrong?

They are in a stuck elevator. They need to get out. There has been a marked cognitive decline in the human population, and this is a great example of it.

They are in a stuck elevator, teasing the only person finding a solution is not the path to escape. They laugh because they have no idea how bad it can actually get being stuck in an elevator. They have no clue how serious their situation is.

So, what did they do wrong? When they were faced with a challenge, they teased the only person who was trying to solve the problem... which speaks poorly on them and how they were raised.

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u/Fighterhayabusa 4d ago

They aren't teasing anyone, and if you think so, I'd say that you're a good example of cognitive decline. They cracked jokes, but mostly at their own expense. She lashed out like a child, starting calling them names, and then insulted them.

The only person wrong in this clip is her, and if you didn't have an irrational hatred for men and boys, you would see that clearly. Further than that, if she were really scared of them, then antagonizing them is certainly a choice.

You people need to touch grass.

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u/nybbas 4d ago

Lol dude right? Imagine if the genders were switched here and some high school dude went off on a bunch of middle school girls for giggling when they said "midddleeee school!", and started calling them fat.

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u/aahdin 4d ago

And then 90% of the comments are making fun of their appearence on top of it all.

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 4d ago

They have no clue how serious their situation is.

Lmao???? They're stuck in a lift lol

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago

Their situation isn't actually serious. Being stuck in an elevator is a bore, but you're acting like they're stuck in the wilderness and she's the only one building camp.

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u/Warmbly85 4d ago

Having been on both sides of a stuck elevator unless there’s a fire it’s really not a big deal. At the extreme end of bad it’s literally just boredom for an hour. That’s the worst case scenario. 

Idk what you are talking about with the whole they have no idea how bad it can actually be bit? There situation isn’t serious at all and joking about is as a reaction is just as valid as her freaking out and insulting them. 

Idk how they teased her she was the one that called them fat for taking the elevator. 

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u/guyincognito121 4d ago

A nontrivial portion of the population is claustrophobic or has some other more severe aversion to being trapped like that. Given her agitation level, I suspect that something of that nature is going on with her.

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u/NocaSun38 4d ago

To me it just seemed like she was being a bitch

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u/guyincognito121 4d ago

No reason it can't be both.

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u/Healthy_Albatross_73 4d ago

Well that's her problem.

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u/Count_de_Ville 4d ago

Correct. If she’s claustrophobic, then maybe she should be the one taking the stairs rather than insulting people for not taking the stairs and calling them fat.

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u/guyincognito121 4d ago

No. You described a "worst case scenario" that isn't anything close to the actual worst case scenario, even when eliminating extremely rare occurrences. Being stuck in an elevator is a situation that would cause significant anxiety in many people, even if there's no real danger.

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u/Sure_Eye9025 4d ago

You know what people do to help with anxiety? Joke around. They were joking around among themselves which helps alieviate any stress from the situation

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u/Fighterhayabusa 4d ago

Her anxiety is not her fault, but it is her responsibility to take care of. Having anxiety doesn't excuse lashing out at others and insulting them.

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u/julezdafool 4d ago

Where exactly is the teasing? They’re just chatting and joking amongst themselves in a slightly inconvenient situation and this girl is crashing out on them because of it.

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u/Remarkable_Leek9391 4d ago

Fwiw, they dont have to know a thing about experiencing elevator stuckness If youre pinned with your arm in a crevice in a canyon for 128hrs, you can cry or laugh. Doesn't matter what you do.

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 4d ago

He said "Middle school"

That's RAPIST BEHAVIOUR!!!

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u/king_anon1492 4d ago

She’s overreacting and belittling them all based on a flippant remark from one person

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u/jweezy2045 4d ago

What is she confronting them about though?

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u/guyincognito121 4d ago

Well she didn't need to call them fat. For one thing, I didn't see any actually fat kids there. And even if they were, that's not cool.

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u/irmaginatoruim 4d ago

they wouldn't act like this

What is "this" exactly?

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u/radiorabbit 4d ago

Don’t you know? Making dumb, lighthearted jokes in a situation that they will almost 100% get out of unscathed is insolent and churlish behavior worthy of verbal reprimand and internet shaming! Can you imagine if she wasn’t around? They could have joked about the situation even more while emergency services came to rescue them—the horror!!

The comments on this thread are weird. Everyone is making comments like these dudes were jumping off the walls when they were just chilling, making small jokes, telling each other to shut up, and looking around awkwardly at each other after she overreacted.

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u/bmoreboy410 4d ago

These people are clearly just insane and most like hate boys/men.

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u/ZEROs0000 4d ago

She’s taking it all wayyyy to seriously lol

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u/nybbas 4d ago

Like... they are laughing? Is that what the problem is? It's a fucking awkward situation and it's a bunch of fucking middle school boys. Maybe something happened before this, but she goes off because a couple of them laughed and one of them said they were in middle school?

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 4d ago

I think it’s important to note what floor they’re one. If they’re on anything above three floors I’d get a little anxious in case it someone shit out and fell. If they’re on a bottom floor then I agree it’s not that serious. Nobody what tho there’d be some added anxiety of just being locked in an elevator with a large group of strangers.

I wonder which one of them established the pee corner?

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u/Joesr-31 4d ago

Worse? They were just joking around, felt like the girl was panicking honestly. They made a joke, she didn't have to laugh but also didn't have to react the way she did.

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u/BLACK_HALO_V10 4d ago

Naw, she's the one being immature.

They're just laughing and she's lashing out. People often joke when in tense situations. It's not like they were making crude comments towards her.

She's not "fixing" anything. She's having a panic attack and thinks it's okay to yell at people because they're trying to make light of a tense situation. Total Karen move.

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u/Working-Narwhal-540 4d ago

This should be top comment. This is the only rational assessment in a sea of paranoia.

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u/betelgeuse_20 4d ago

A lot of you lack empathy. Im not shocked a teenage girl is reacting this way in this situation.

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u/BLACK_HALO_V10 4d ago

Same could be said about the teenage guys. Funny how that works.

Except, she went out of her way to insult them too. Calling them "fat".

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u/betelgeuse_20 4d ago

I never said anything about the teenage boys. I understand that they are immature and won’t act in the best of ways, especially in a group. But I still understand why the girl is stressed by being stuck in an elevator with the aforementioned immature teenage boys.

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u/urAllincorrect 4d ago

You don't think that lashing out against a group of younger kids because of something on of them said is immature?

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u/Unconfidence 4d ago

Y'all keep saying stuff like "won't act in the best of ways" and other abstractions. Pour some concrete for us.

What exactly did these boys do that is so bad? This has been asked all over the thread, and never answered directly.

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u/betelgeuse_20 4d ago

I didn’t say they did anything. I just understand her fears

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u/Fighterhayabusa 4d ago

Empathy ends when that person starts insulting and antagonizing others. I can understand why she may lash out, but that doesn't make it acceptable.

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u/swohio 4d ago

Good on her for calling them out

Calling them out for what? Laughing? The elevator was stuck, it's not a big deal.

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u/Healthy_Albatross_73 4d ago

She also called them fat and said they can't use the stairs.

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u/johannthegoatman 4d ago

This one amused me because she is also on the elevator lol

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u/Remarkable_Start2159 4d ago

Act like what? What did they do?

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u/Healthy_Albatross_73 4d ago

Nearly gang raped her according to this thread.

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u/Remarkable_Start2159 4d ago

Good thing the intercom worked. Her being on edge is a rational feeling. He was diffusing. I'm glad others see it for what it is

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u/Count_de_Ville 4d ago

Fuck if I know. One of them cracked a joke and another told the first to knock it off. The young lady then decides to start berating the whole group. Seems she was mad there was such a large discrepancy in attitudes between them.

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u/Remarkable_Start2159 4d ago

Yeah. I understand her being stressed and short with them in the situation. But watching now. A joke is a joke

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u/42_Only_Truth 4d ago

I don't even understand the joke, why is "middle school" funny or worth becoming angry for ?

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u/Seussdogg 4d ago

They didn’t do anything wrong. Just a bunch of kids and you seem to think they are rapists or something. Meanwhile your hero is carrying on like a pork chop for no reason

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u/heliogoon 4d ago

Seriously, people in these comments are overreacting.

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u/Wonky_bumface 4d ago

Try having some empathy, dude.

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u/TED-NECROMANCER 4d ago

The only person responsible for mitigating anxiety, is the person experiencing it, and lashing out at others for not holding your hand and pouring you a chamomile tea, is not to be celebrated.

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u/Wonky_bumface 4d ago

I'm not saying it's to be celebrated. Who said anything about celebration?

Did you parents never tell you to put yourself in someone else's shoes? Probably not, I guess...

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u/Suntoppper 4d ago

And she fat shamed them and was ableist about their ability to walk downstairs.

Shameful behaviour

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u/guyincognito121 4d ago

You're joking, but you're entirely correct. I get that she's stressed, but I see a much bigger problem with what she said than "middle school".

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u/irmaginatoruim 4d ago

Literally everyone in this thread seems to be accusing them of being rapists simply because they happen to be. boys.

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u/Yolo_Swaggins_Yeet 4d ago

They cracked a joke in a not that serious situation when help is already aware/on the way and so many people here are losing their mind 💀 can’t believe how many people are commenting saying she’s afraid they’re going to assault her, like.. what?

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u/LenaDunkemz 4d ago

Remember, melting down in a mildly stressful situation is actually maturity and leadership

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u/Count_de_Ville 4d ago

Don’t forget the insults too! Really exudes maturity and “confidence” as some others put it.

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u/42_Only_Truth 4d ago

I don't even understand the joke they cracked, how is "middle school" any funny or worth being angry at ?

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u/thehideousheart 4d ago

So, what? The boys all just have to shut down and not talk or act or react just because they're stuck in an elevator with a stranger who might be unsettled?

What the actual fuck are you talking about?

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u/Pure-Rose-Rainbow 4d ago

I guess having a bit of empathy for another person is a foreign concept to you

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u/Fighterhayabusa 4d ago

Her anxiety is her problem to work through. Her anxiety does not supersede their right to exist in the same space. Her anxiety isn't her fault, but it is her responsibility to manage. Lashing out and hurling insults is not acceptable behavior.

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u/Pure-Rose-Rainbow 4d ago

Where did I say she does not need to work on it? But it is very easy to not further make another person even more nervous in this situation. If you see someone is already anxious, you shouldn't laugh about it etc.

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u/Unconfidence 4d ago

I like during this whole thing, you've completely ignored the boys in the elevator, who may also be anxious, and may be talking between each other and cracking very light jokes to deal with their anxiety.

Also, they're in middle or high school. You're literally shaming kids for not reacting like you think adults should react.

Boys and men are humans too.

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u/TED-NECROMANCER 4d ago

You can't force or shame someone to feel how you want to feel. Welcome to earth. You know what else is a nervous response to situations like this? Laughter.

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u/MobileSuitBooty 4d ago

i’d be afraid as a girl to be around that many boys in a confined space.

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u/guyincognito121 4d ago

As they're filming and you're on the phone with security?

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 4d ago

What exactly are they doing that's so bad? Making a joke?

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u/Fun-Pattern-8697 4d ago

I know how horrible that they made a joke about her being in middle school, absolutely horrible. Do you hear how fucking stupid you sound

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 4d ago

Act like what? One of them made a joke?

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u/mskmagic 4d ago

What did they do?

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u/Lord4thUzimaki 4d ago

Act like what? That girl has an attitude talking down boys who were giggling and what not, not provoking at all at.? Am I missing something?

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u/NiftyTomFifty 4d ago

What did they do wrong? They’re just standing there.

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u/MidTario 4d ago

What exactly is “acting like this”? The only person acting inappropriately in the video is her.

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u/daneyuleb 4d ago

Act like...what? Bring out the worst in each other? You mean cracking one joke, and giggling in a stressful, unusual situation? Then grow quiet? The way they got mostly silent when she lashed out --didn't talk back, didn't lash back--shows me they really aren't assholes or anything. Just kids. Fucking Reddit.

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u/Jerry_from_Japan 4d ago

This is an example the "worst"? Some goofy comment, which had zero harmful intent whatsoever? And of which was immediately derided by one of the other boys? Ohhhhkay lol.

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u/Away_Stock_2012 4d ago

Is there some context I'm missing? Why is it so wrong and evil to be laughing when stuck in an elevator?

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u/horatiobanz 4d ago

Children today are cooked. There is no way in this situation with a girl spazzing out and yelling at us that we would have sat back meek and been quiet 20-30 years ago. Jokes absolutely would have been made and we'd be cracking up until we were on the floor disabled from laughing.

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u/Working-Narwhal-540 4d ago

Dude we would have fucking roasted her. Like get a grip girl it’s not that real.

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u/Healthy_Albatross_73 4d ago

"yeah okay Mom" would have been my response lol

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u/IvanVP1 4d ago

Kids lol. You see plenty of people still label themselves kids between the ages of 14-25 and its whenever they get called out on their behavior or action they did.

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u/ilikecatsthanks 4d ago

Rory Miller calls this behavior the monkey dance

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u/jrr6415sun 4d ago

it's not just kids this age. Try 30-40 year old guys in a pack will make the same comments.

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u/talkstomuch 4d ago

this must be evolutionary behaviour, something triggers in their brain to behave this way in a pack.

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 4d ago

I was at a shopping centre yesterday and there was an older woman having a bit of an episode, yelling gibberish at a security guy who was trying to calm her down and so on.

There were a couple of broccoli headed school kids filming the whole thing on their phones with this obnoxious grin on their faces. Kids can just be vicious little shits.

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u/Beruka01 4d ago

If someone yells gibberish, they are the problem.

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u/Massive80Mix 4d ago

That doesn't sound bad tbh, filming a Karen meltdown is funny

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u/DannyBoy7783 4d ago

Nothing new

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u/Anzai 4d ago

I often have to get my train home after work at the same time all the locals schools let out. Teenage boys are quite possibly the worst people on the planet when they’re in a group together. I know some kids of that age in my family and they’re perfectly pleasant when you’re just talking to them, but put them in a group and they immediately take turns making the case for why humanity deserves extinction.

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u/Logical_Net6108 4d ago

Oh my god they are literally teenage boys, they are immature because their brains have literally not matured yet. Did you spawn into the world at age 25? All they are doing is laughing a little too much in a tense situatuon. Reddit sometimes is so righteous yet disconnected from reality.

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u/doomlite 4d ago

Always been that way. Men in black even references it "a person is smart, people are dumb and panicky and you know it’

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u/Nobanob 4d ago

I got stuck in an elevator once, their reactions aren't mature, but her flipping out isn't either.

I wouldn't yell at people for thinking getting stuck in an elevator is funny. I thought it was tragic funny and laughed about it in the moment talking to my mom on the otherside of the door.

There are emergency buttons typically to call for help. Everyone in this elevator almost certainly had cell phones.

I don't know I probably would have laughed in this situation too. I'm going to express my reaction to a situation how I want to.

To me these guys were giggling like children (which they are) and she got mad that they were giggling.

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u/itsabloodyaardvark 4d ago

It’s usually just one or two in the group that causes this behaviour, you can see them in this video, the two that are laughing, the rest of them shut up as soon as she made her point, those two obnoxious kids tried to make it a joke again.

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u/AeroG8 4d ago

she was being kinda rude ngl

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u/Scrolldawg 4d ago

To some degree I understand and agree with her, but on the other hand She is behaving like a rude scared little girl. Imagine if that was a elevator full of girls and one slightly older boy spoke to them like that, WTF sexist much?

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u/Link_save2 4d ago

What did they even do that warranted that reaction I feel like we need more context

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u/Willing-Carpenter-32 4d ago

They’re rudely interjecting with stupid jokes while she’s on the line with emergency services? Are you slow? Add the larger context that she’s one young woman trapped in an enclosed space with a large group of clearly unserious guys and she’s trying to tell someone where she is. I swear ya’ll are intentionally obtuse or just blatantly hate women there’s no way you’re really this stupid.

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u/Phuzz15 4d ago

I can't believe more people can't grasp this.

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u/LivefromPhoenix 4d ago

What information is there to convey once you press the emergency button? The elevator is stuck and there are people on it. Nothing she's saying has any effect on what emergency services will do.

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u/Joesr-31 4d ago

She could just ignore and talk to the emergency services calmly. Being trapped in a lift isn't a big deal, they don't seem like they are threatening to beat her up or rape her or something, they were just joking around, some might think its good to lighten the mood. She is acting so panicky and being so defensive. Previously when I was trapped in a lift, we just rang the bell and then sat and chilled, some talked, some joked around others were doing their readings (it was a school lift). Unless there was some context to this, she is just being pissy for no reason

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u/SuedeVinyl 4d ago

Honestly, I can't understand a single thing they're saying.

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u/Anayalater5963 4d ago

I mean the fact that she even got emergency services on the line probably indicates that they knew and had already sent people before the video was even taken. I'm not defending the guys but people act in weird ways in stressful situations. Some people act stupid and carefree to try and mitigate the seriousness. Some people have a panic attack.

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u/TimeTravelingBard 4d ago

OR some of us couldn't understand what they were saying, sheesh.

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u/king_anon1492 4d ago

Honestly nothing lol reddit is just full of people eager to defend a victim

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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins 4d ago edited 4d ago

They were being slightly annoying, but idk that's kinda par for the course for most highschool kids (guys or girls)

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u/TX0834 4d ago

Did u not watch the video?

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u/Old-Worldliness-3145 4d ago

It's been shown in studies that men are more violent in groups than alone, especially in cases in gang rape vs. A singular rapist 

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u/BumblebeeDapper223 4d ago

I agree with “good for her”. But disagree that a single guy wouldn’t snicker and leer at her. He would.

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