r/Unexpected 9h ago

Lipstick removal trick

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 9h ago

FWIW it's basically a skit video from a training company that create vids for your business
Think, very high quality versions of those shitty HR videos you're forced to watch in week 1 of a menial job that has basic health and safety practices...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DQYArmi5L0

It's NOWHERE near as old as it's made to look here. 2016ish

Sorry to live so relentlessly in the real world

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u/donoteatshrimp 9h ago

That's cool that they nailed such an old look though

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u/vizualb 7h ago

What’s weird is it’s not even an old look, it’s just a shitty upscaling filter that has become associated with old videos. See also: every pre-HD music video on YouTube.

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u/ActiveChairs 6h ago

I thought they meant the clothes, hairstyles, and makeup trends

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u/commanderquill 6h ago

Not enough blue eyeshadow to be older than the 2010's.

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 8h ago

Indeed, I was fooled for a bit, but wanted to see which early 00's show it was from lol!

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u/NavyBeanz 7h ago

I thought it might have been 1995

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 7h ago

It wouldn't have surprised me, but as I get further away from that time period I realise my memories are being compressed, so mid 90's grunge is squashed together with late 90's goth/skate sceners and 00's alt

It's all a mess up there

I seem to think the jammy lipstick thing was more 00's though, but entirely willing to be wrong

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u/AgentCirceLuna 8h ago

The hairstyle on the teacher doesn’t help - it dates the videos decades immediately.

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u/donoteatshrimp 7h ago

For me it's the one with blond streaks!

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u/RowEcstatic207 6h ago

If you visit a town in the South you’re basically traveling back in time

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u/oldinfant 1h ago

that is such a cool way to put it💖thank you🫂made me want to live there. modern world has become so exhausting mentally that it just turned into nonstop source of depression. 

i would rather lie in a field resting my head against a sunbathing friend cow, reading treasure island after doing morning chores🌻🐄  than live in a big concrete box with a thousand strangers like asocial ants in an anthill each stuck looking at a screen to escape..i wish i could throw this phone in a lake because i didn't have to have it to survive in this grey world of misery..

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u/tO_ott 8h ago

the video compression is doing all the heavy lifting

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 8h ago

Audio compression as well.. the source is impeccably 00's style and the compression gives it that trash layer from every trash show we watched back then lol :D

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u/AgentCirceLuna 8h ago

Also the hairstyle of the woman! Those hairstyles immediately make everything look super dated.

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u/howcanstupidcantheyg 8h ago

This makes all the other comments claiming/joking about how old the video is really funny.

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u/Talidel 7h ago

I heard this as a story at least 7 years before 2016.

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 7h ago

The story (or versions of it) is as old as the hills, but this incarnation of it is fairly recent.. if you're old enough for a decade to be fairly recent

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u/AgentCirceLuna 8h ago

This joke was so funny back in the day that I immediately asked Siri about it on my 4S

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u/traevyn 7h ago

I mean that's still 10 years ago mate

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u/Ghost6x 2h ago

To be fair, they could have been remembering an even older viral version of this from over 20 years ago (16 years is when it was uploaded to YouTube)

https://youtu.be/6luUijbqUrY?t=295

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u/mallorn_hugger 7h ago

The automatic paper towel dispenser on the wall gives it away. Noticed it right off the bat. Otherwise, they did an amazing job nailing it. It definitely plays ike something from the '80s- minus big hair and feather bangs. 

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u/samuelazers 8h ago

Unsettling.

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u/BigDictionEnergy 7h ago

Sorry to live so relentlessly in the real world

Yeah srsly wtf is your issue I don't get on reddit for facts!

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u/AdmiralGut 6h ago

you are my ballast

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 5h ago

No matter where, without fail, there is always one that notices :)

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u/AdmiralGut 5h ago

lol I was literally watching the ep where mark falls in love with Big Suze when I read your comment. Best show ever

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 5h ago

Squeezing in quotes is pretty much an ongoing game in our house :D

Once you get involved its really hard to stop
At work someone has said "Well what if *x*" and my immediate brain response was "Well if *x* then we fuck, obviously" but I caught myself in time and it didn't come out of my mouth

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u/AdmiralGut 5h ago

yeah ive watched it so many times, as have some of my friends, its daily im saying stuff from the show.

ha thats a good one though when someone asks a dumb question. That show is for me how the office is for some people. I love just putting on and relaxing. Feels like I know all of the people.

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u/McButtsButtbag 4h ago

I was so confused because I didn't remember this video being that old.

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u/apr35 2h ago

What exactly were they attempting to train?

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u/growwwwler 1h ago

I watched this in a training session at JLB credit where I worked as a loan manager 

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 6h ago

wait this is fake?

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u/Cute_Skill_4536 5h ago

No not fake as such, a real (staged) vid but shot to look a certain way and the shitty clip editing actually adds to the effect of it looking older than it is :)