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Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video
- pixxel 6y agoHere’s the footage on YT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1p47H8HuLtY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1p47H8HuLtY
- Chilinot 6y agoThis video is edited. The background music is not the original. Here is the original in a tweet: https://twitter.com/VonKoutli/status/1356278671267557382 https://twitter.com/VonKoutli/status/1356278671267557382
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- rezaprima 6y agoThe song is "Ampun Bang Jago".
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- sillysaurusx 6y agoI 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?
- minitoar 6y agoI 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.
- michaelt 6y agoI agree that a coup doesn't happen instantly - but this video has captured a unique moment of history if it's showing military forces bloodlessly capturing a government checkpoint. On the other hand, if it's merely showing military vehicles passing through a military checkpoint? There are probably hundreds of videos showing that.
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- aaron695 6y agoSource: https://www.facebook.com/100005518668726/posts/1569283416598932/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100005518668726/posts/1569283416598...
- 3kfskdlf 6y agoThis is making rounds on the web but please have a look at her shadow, this looks like a fake.
- mhh__ 6y agoI 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
- jzwinck 6y agoI 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-d12135502-Reviews-20_Lane_Highway-Naypyidaw_Mandalay_Region.html https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g2036450-d1213... I've been there. It is awesome. Myanmar, I mean.
- ReptileMan 6y agoIf 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.
- SJSque 6y agoThe video appears to be taken from this spot, facing roughly due west: https://www.google.com/maps/place/19%C2%B046'33.0%22N+96%C2%B007'58.1%22E https://www.google.com/maps/place/19%C2%B046'33.0%22N+96%C2%... After the vehicles pass through the roadblock, they can be seen to turn left, heading towards the Presidential Palace.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> Myanman Is there an adjectival form of Myanmar? I've been assuming we were stuck with "Burmese" regardless of whether we called it "Burma".
- Quanttek 6y agoYes: it's Myanma, so it's the Myanma government.
- Tarsul 6y agoperfect meme. However, i found what happens in the background to be too little for it to be actual news.
- nico_h 6y agoYes, it’s “just a convoy”, and you see normal cars passing by too.
- pjc50 6y agoThe dance version of the Iraqi information minister.
- vcxy 6y agoHer 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.
- eXpl0it3r 6y agoThere's at least one or two steps of a stair, so the "top" part is lower than the front part, thus making the shadow get cut off. You can see the shadow on the bag on the right side in the beginning.
- ummonk 6y agoI thought so too, but someone pointed out that she is standing on a raised location with descending steps behind it, causing the shadow to be hidden from view.
- gen_greyface 6y agoits 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=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtNsnSxVEAE6hJo?format=jpg&name=...
- mot0rola 6y agoi think it's a step that cuts it off, does look like it though
- SunlightEdge 6y agoIt's such a powerful piece of art (unintentional as it is)
- ilaksh 6y agoThat's very surreal. And would be funny if the situation wasn't so serious. Can someone from that country or who knows what's going on give some insight? On the face of it, seems like military leaders who don't want to give up control. Is it more complicated than that? Do they actually believe there will be some kind of revolt by one faction if she stays in power (or at least some excuse like that)? The article I saw was not very insightful.
- elif 6y agoThe military thought they were going to slowly take power back from her, but instead she extended her democratic election mandate. Plan A failed so this is B. Their pretense is the "election was fraud"
- senthilnayagam 6y agohighly doubt it. coup happened at 4am local time, sunrise in winter happens at 6:47 am. this video is pretty bright
- sillysaurusx 6y agoThis is an interesting analysis. Did the coup really happen at 4am? If so, then there's almost no way this video could be legit.
- z92 6y agoCoup 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.
- est31 6y agoAccording to this comment the camera faces westwards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999725 The sun shines from the back towards the right so is more in the east. I'd put it somewhere around 10 to 12 AM local time (UTC+6.5). https://www.suncalc.org/#/19.7758,96.1326,15/2021.01.31/11:43/1/3 https://www.suncalc.org/#/19.7758,96.1326,15/2021.01.31/11:4...
- est31 6y agoApparently the original post was done on 15:00 local time so that gives an upper bound: https://www.facebook.com/100005518668726/posts/1569283416598932/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100005518668726/posts/1569283416598...
- teorema 6y agoThis LA Times article notes that the video was taken in the morning: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-02-01/myanmar-coup-aerobics https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-02-01/myanma... This stated communication blackouts lasted from 3 to 1115 am, with one journalist reporting a loss of service at 4am: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55893736 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55893736. The coup didn't happen instantaneously at a given time, so it seems reasonable to say the video was recorded during the coup. At the same time, it's not really clear what specific activities the vehicles were on route to.
- ctdonath 6y agoBrazil 2: Myanmar
- NDizzle 6y agoToo perfect. I’d bet it’s psyops propaganda.
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- snickms 6y agoIf there were one video we could archive to describe the world as it is right now, this would be it IMHO.
- Traubenfuchs 6y agoIs there really someone who believes this video was not planned / manufactured? Are you that gullible?
- yread 6y agoLots of things happen in the world. Some of them are hard to believe. If there is 1 billion cameras in the world they are bound to catch some 1 in a billion events
- kergonath 6y agoExactly! We seem to process “unlikely” as “impossible”, but very unlikely events happen all the time. Just because there are also many, many opportunities for them to happen. It’s also funny to see skeptics who think they cleverly avoid being manipulated when they see a cut off shadow fall into that trap because they are not skeptical enough of their own hypotheses.
- NDizzle 6y agoI'm okay with them downvoting us now. Hopefully these comments will jolt something awake a few months (years?) from now when the story is "corrected".
- 93po 6y agoThey're at one of the biggest attractions in the capital city of a country. It's not exactly a stretch to think someone would capture this in the background.
- justjonathan 6y agoDance like no one‘s watching, or staging a coup.
- DC1350 6y agoLooks just like 1/6
- lazycrazyowl 6y agoPerfect personification of “Ignorance (situational) is Bliss”
- crispyambulance 6y agoIt's certainly funny after the fact but how could she, or anyone else, tell it was a military coup? It looks like some military vehicles politely entering a government complex at a rather brisk pace. Maybe an official wanted a joyride in the latest troop carrier thingy? It's not ignorance if there's no way you can tell something is up ! Certainly Jan 6th mayhem at the US capitol looked more like "a coup", and the rioters involved probably thought it was going their way for a couple of hours, yet in the end it was nothing but a humiliation for a bunch of angry hillbillies and conspiracy theorists. The military in Myanmar certainly knew where to go and what to do. Perhaps the aerobics video is more like a picture of competence in staging a successful coup? :-)
- gremlinsinc 6y agowell, imagine the military is with Trump, and says to the civilians: It's okay we'll take it from here and then a bunch of military vehicles show up to arrest all of congress who is against Trump. It's kinda like that a more "professional" coup.