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The Most Bizarre Stock Photos I Could Find Brought to Life by Your Captions

2019-02-15 · list · Hank · 3:07 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance

Hank shares bizarre stock photos found by the SciShow team and by himself, each read aloud with a caption that people sent him on Twitter, in a video made right before he left for London.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Setup: SciShow's strange stock-photo finds plus captions from Twitter, made before Hank left for London

  • ★★ Hank says the SciShow team, constantly looking for thumbnail and graphics images, keeps finding very strange things on stock photography sites. — 00:00:00 · SciShow
  • ★★ Hank shares strange stock photos found by the SciShow team and by himself, with captions that people sent him on Twitter. — 00:00:00 · Twitter, SciShow
  • ★ Hank made the video right before he left for London. — 00:00:00 · London

00:00:25 — Montage of bizarre stock photos read with viewers' captions

00:02:49 — Closing caption, sign-off and a sung 'Real Slim Shady' line

In the description and comments

  • ★ The description says Hank made the video with many very funny people on Twitter and thanks the 'inspired artists' of istockphoto.com for their 'beautiful pieces of art'. (playful) — video description · Twitter

Humor (dominant)

  • A stock photo is captioned as a disappointing Tinder date at the beach. — 00:00:25

    “Look, Steven, I'm just gonna say it. You really don't look, uh, very much like your Tinder profile pic.”

  • A bizarre stock-photo figure is captioned as a new presidential candidate. — 00:00:25

    “a new candidate, which we find ourselves somewhat surprised to realize we would indeed vote for.”

  • A strange stock photo gets a travel-regret caption about the island of Dr. Moreau. — 00:01:13

    “we probably should have checked out the Yelp reviews before visiting the island of Dr. Moreau.”

  • Hank closes with a twist on 'the real treasure was the friends we made along the way'. — 00:02:49

    “You know, I think the real pregnant dancing men were the stock photos we captioned along the way.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: stock photography

Also: Google Images · London · SciShow · The Island of Doctor Moreau · The Real Slim Shady · Tinder · Twitter · Yelp

Only in the description or credits: iStock

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