From the scores they gave roughly 20-30% always vote to be kind

@@adamboh393 That... actually kind of restores my faith in humanity...

see, this is why the concept of religion is flawed, imagine getting watched by someone playing god and deciding your fate

Keep it at 777

Obviously fake lol

True

wonder if the voting was faked - got doubts

Hedde I’m pretty sure it is. How else would they pre record the kidnapping scene?

Braelyn Deem they hired a stunt-double before the show in case the audience picked that option (each a or b question was set up beforehand for wherever the guy might go, it wasn't fake or that would ruin the ENTIRE POINT of the experiment)

@@b6274 all the things that could happen were planned, either positive or negative, why shouldn't they have recorded footage for this decision?

That’s the earth for you, we all don’t care.

This. This is why you need a society that from the get go explains in no uncertain terms that nearly nothing you do in life is isolated. Almost everything you do or even say has some effect and that to be considerate and try to make good decisions is your best bet. You are apart of society, you are never isolated. As you shouldn't be. People go on about how nothing is free, yet they want freedom of choice. That doesn't make sense. Choice has consequence and if you live in society, you benefit off of it. You pay back by making sure it functions and benefits everyone else including yourself. Selective empathy is a bitch. It's frustrating that people can't extrapolate that what they do and often say has genuine consequence, even if relatively small.

Blah blah blah! Stop already!

This is why I only make those choices in videogames where characters can't break the fourth wall.

I feel like this is more a show of character and not something everybody would do, you can say I am lying to myself just to seem better but I know i'm a cunt, i've laughed at fucked up shit but I feel like you have to be another level of an arsehole to cheer to ruin someones life basically in the matter of a night.

That's the point of the experiment I think.

@@iamalbertwesker2 true

nah man I actually found myself cheering alongside the audience

Same kinda a dick move :/

Not just you

Reminds me so much of White Bear

Fabio Alexandrino It's the other way around. This was made many years before Black Mirror.

The idea behind black mirror isn't unique

WHAT EPISODE PLEASE

Was going to say that.

thats a good point you have there

I do have to say that some people did in fact vote the other way, just that their voice was drowned by the masses, don't forget it wasn't 100% votes to see him suffer every time, so she could be one of the few who wanted best choices for him..

smalla weyhey11 I didn’t say he should quit his day job lol

Your point well made, Blames everyone else except herself

But with the mask on she could do what she liked without consequence.

I think that was the point behind it...to make it feel more like the audience themselves were doing the kidnapping...at least that is my interpretation of it.

The point is how self destructive people are. The internet for example, the keyboard warrior, safe at home can say what they like and be as abusive as they like. 🤔 Face to face?. The anonymity the internet provides. Brings out the very worst in people. Media desensitizing reporting, The evening news is always bad news, why?. Ask yourself what would you do. You come home and find your neighbors front door open, you have never spoken to them. You know they are away for the weekend you heard them say so. How many people would do what the majority of people here found hilarious.

It is to show how they took part in the situation maybe to make the audience feel like masterminds of what happened

@@gamehack6359 true

You really love the word chills don't you lol

I feel kinda sad for the actually good people who chose the good options seeing Chris going through the bad options and being shamed even though they were good

@@JoshuaDZ well he wasn’t addressing the audience as a whole, only the people who chose the bad options

You and I watched this modern day Roman Collosium event and participated right along with audience...while there was a percentage of people who had compassion they were outnumbered by the people who voted for the negative choice. We need to have honest self reflection as this was a simulation...a microcosm of the very human behavior that allows atrocities to happen!

It's just them frantically trying to defend their actions and make it look like they weren't the ones in the wrong somehow

That's the point of the show. It's the Mob mentality. When anonymous and part of a group, they'll do whatever is funniest. But, with their identity revealed, they realize what they did.

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 they are only sorry they get caught

@aBlaze Just because you have the same attitude toward that doesn't mean everyone are doing the same. There are many people in this very video who voted NO to this madness.

When did that happen?

Jordan Powell I would have wanted choice a for him

I couldn't watch it all and skipped to the end after 15 minutes. I can't grasp how people can be so fucking cruel. Sure, they are there to be entertained but in what world ruining a mans evening completely is entertaining? The worst part is: how much the mob mentality would affect me in that situation? Would I become a cruel ape too in the right circumstances? Really made me think... At least some people voted for positive outcomes so that gives me hope.

Dovahslayer it’s the smashing his tv and making him think he’s gonna lose his job that made me abit uneasy. It was an interesting looking into how such mentality would effect normally great upstanding people however.

Jordan Powell I honestly would have picked B for the guy. But, when he got arrested, that was were I drew the line and I would have picked A. That poor dude...

Jordan Powell and the gasps when they pushed it too far I wish he'd said Chris had died first then told them

"Chris' evening" was staged and filmed beforehand (like one of those live action games where you can choose an option and the resulsts are pre recorded)

forks and popsticles You realise that makes it more painful? He has to sit through various interactions, mostly intent on attacking him. I don’t care how staged some of this is, Chris was unaware of what was truly going on. Experiment or not, they should at least have a volunteer instead of going after some poor man.

@@hazmatsquad8923 thats the point Chris is a volunteer, every one of these was staged beforehand The subjects were the audience

forks and popsticles except no, Chris isn’t a volunteer, hence why they sent him a letter. They destroyed HIS possessions. Everyone in that room was guilty.

I thought for sure it was at least a staged apartment that the studio rented and planted so that Chris’ privacy wasn’t actually invaded, which wouldn’t’ve altered the outcome or the experiment at all.

You don’t believe Chris!?

The audience is like all trash

You just insulted humanity.

@@thebritishbuilder6251 I said the audience dumbass

No, you insulted humanity, this represents all humans, therefore, ya know.

That is a metaphor for all the close circuit TV cameras we currently have in Britain if ever I saw one.

That's how the government works

That’s why I have bad luck...

I'd be like oh thank God guys I need your guys help

@@andrewharper1609 Truman show

also how his so called girlfriend allowed for complete strangers to invade his privacy.The audience cheered while they went through his history and his laundry and destroyed his property. Imagine how much worse it could have turned out to be if they actually found something really private. Imagine the trauma he had to go through. Fuck the audience. This made me lose my faith in humanity.

Derren is truly a remarkable person. He proves his points by showing them to us, never glorying them or dumbing them down. When something happens, it happens. This episode just pointed out how low people can go to decide something and then quickly try to defend themselves when something horrible happens to the person they’re tormenting that wasn’t planned.

This was scripted lmao

Suedhickory6489 Chris and what the audience was watching, was scripted. The audience was not scripted.

You should watch my videos to feel better

It happens is called gang stalking, specially used by government

imagine if someone says "break the console, break the laptop" then they gave him the latest xbox and a brand new Razer or Asus gaming laptop

Ikr

Seriously. And imagine if that was given by his dead ancestor …

@@Chocochoco22 Imagine if that laptop had a project you'd been working on for months.

She sucks.

When was this?

@@superzolosolo @31:02 You hear her ask the question and then the camera kind of zooms in on her.

@@persona2grata She asked why were they still filming. She was wondering why the audience was still being filmed. Obviously the audience didn't know the reveal was about to happen.

@@dcost Maybe? I don't know. I listened to it about ten times in a row and about half the time now it sounds like she's saying "why is he running?" and now I also kind of hear "why are we still running?" The thing is. now that you said that I'm not sure if I'm hearing it correctly now or just being influenced by my expectation lol. You could be right.

ik

They where reflecting on how they acted. It's not easy to think alone when you're in the herd of sheep.

Nah.. clapping would mean, the show was a success, in turn acknowledging their thirst for entertainment.. nobody admits it when the fault is out.. they were all probably like I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't a game show, im not like that..

I kind of love the grief on their faces at the end 👀

They shook...

But the truth

It just shows how awful our society can be.

You know those 'Everyone be gangsta 'til...' type of comments? This perfectly fits it, bruh.

@@jonsena6yearsagoand949 everybody gangsta til you put a mask on them

@@EclipticRaisin ill correct it to you, everybody gangsta till chris got run over

Clever wording

Omg now I wish they did that too. That would have REALLY made the audience think.

@@missioncontrol4662 Imagine if after showing all of this shit he (or his actor) literally walked onto the stage. Imagine if he was shown being severely injured, bleeding from his head or something, and while Derren walks offstage to mamage some things he limps on as the lights go dark, and there's a stark spotlight which lands on him while the screens are static in the background, and he does nothing but stare at the audience with the blood still dripping down his face and turning his clothes crimson. Meanwhile the spotlights also appear on the crowd and fall onto their masked faces as they appear on the screen. They are forced to stare at the one true monster in the room: themselves Sorry, I'm a writer lol. I do horror stuff sometimes and this episode is TERRIFYING, I feel a little sick just thinking about it.

@@theoscout9205 damn that wouldve been actually amazing

That would have been a great 4th wall break

@@theoscout9205 that would have been great

AccidentalBroadcast I

IKR HAHAHA

Nihilist that made litterly no sense at, all ur irrelevant

cool guy over here

This was an experiment about how people come together to act like a job When they vote it gets worst and worst

If you notice, the voting wasn't unanimous in each case... although those who didn't vote for the first option should have walked out of the studio in disagreement at the whole thing...

@@thedukeofnuts or stood up to the audience telling them they were sick fucks and saying "I'm sitting over here now to the side of the audience and will vote for his happiness instead of misery like you sadists."

@Electro_blob there vote hardly counts unless the majority can be convinced otherwise. if they had gotten up and left, ppl would realise its a sick game because some people don't like it which would ironically enough, support the mob mentality. this hardly makes sense but im rlly bad at explaining me

@Electro_blob wow u put it into words thanq

You would've done it yourself

31:03 especially 🙄

Depends on what they voted. Do not forget that the votes weren't 100% bad. Some of the smilling probably were the ones who voted for the good option and now know that they're not a piece of shit.

@@jackbordar2727 true, cuz I can't believe that people can do bad staff to another human being and then smile.

I smille and laugh when im genuinely uncomfortable or scared. Nothing sucks more when your getting chewed out by a boss or in a bad argument with a girlfriend and you are uncontrollably giggling and making them even madder. It's easy to point at them and call them disturbing but we all handle our emotions in different ways.

they're probably pretending to be "relieved he was okay" but actually relieved they're not in that big of trouble. the people who voted for the good stuff were probably crying since the shoplifting bit

Indeed

Yup.

i wouldn't be surprised

No kidding!

Smashing the telly - that really got to me for some reason, I guess because it is irreversible where people can apologise. But this experiment proved the point Derren was trying to make: mob mentality is evil and justifies cruelty and abuse...

TEMMY WEMMY

And notice how none of them clap, they're angry with *him* because of the things *they* chose to do.

@@sfdntkthey probably felt tricked. When you are called out on things you often get very defensive

But you got to wonder if the reason we feel this way is because of genuine distrust of mob mentality or because we saw the intro and know the whole point was to show how bad mob mentality was. I bet a number of people who are watching and hating this in third person would have also voted for the bad options if they were there.

@@movies423 yeah true and that is quite an interesting thought ngl. tbh it also depends on the audience, so say there are a lot of younger viewers watching this, it could depend o how they were brought up and where they were brought up to see how they would vote. all in all, a very interesting concept.

It pisses me off when people say stuff like “grow up, it was funny” because the jokes and pain you’re putting that guy through are literally childish. Maybe they should grow up and learn to have a little humanity… whatever humanity means at this point.

@@movies423 definitely, i myself like to think im different but in reality i'd just be another sheep falling for mob mentality, not even sure if i would stick to the good options

The invasion of privacy was uncalled for in my opinion

To justify their actions, maybe?

Nobody commented about that because you need hearing of a bat to pick that out! 😂 What brand of headphones do you use?! She wasn't wrong, especially if she has a job where you see more horrors than normal folks, but yeah, whether he was badly hurt or not isn't the point is it? It was not really appropriate, the 'gameshow' had gone horribly wrong, did she want him to carry on? 🤣 She expected to see his reaction to his ransacked bedroom. To give the benefit of the doubt, she could have just been trying to reassure someone else that he was not badly hurt.

@@lk-musici didn’t realise my comment got recognised till now re watching it again and I used the pulse 3D headset on the ps5 haha 😂

​@@lk-musicanother woman said they should carry on filming, so I think people did want the "show" to carry on

@Red Boah Sutherland pretty "educational", right?

Your children weren't wearing masks, they weren't anynomous. And they are just children, and have different value system than adults. Just sayin

@@mohterofpigeons6567 You are correct.

@@mohterofpigeons6567 True but a child can have a proper mindset as adults.

Just say People.

One thing I found interesting is that the whole crowd became extremely open to Derren's mood and behaviour. When he laughs as the TV is smashed, the crowd laughs uproariously. When he whoops at the cash prize, they obediently woop. Their morality is gone and replaced with obedience to anyone confident enough to "lead" them in the moment. Kind of makes you wonder if this was how Hitler's speeches were so effective.

There are actually many experiments like this that have been conducted by psychologists. One experiment in particular had subjects administer electric shocks to another subject (who they did not know was an actor). Most subjects administered lethal electric shocks as long as they were encouraged to do so by an authority figure. It didn't matter that they knew the person would die and watched them writhe in pain, as long as they were encouraged to kill the person, they did. So I'm guessing Derren's laughter was necessary since he was the authority figure in this case, but it wouldn't have mattered if the guy had appeared to be in serious distress, they still would have picked the negative option.

That's called obedience to authority as opposed to peer conformity. He did exactly what the Stanly Milgram experiment did with the authorities there assuring the subjects they were ok to electrocute students who got the wrong answer. Thus if meer peer pressure doesn't persuade others as it does many {just look at football teams and fans for that) then obedience to authority is the final killer of any human decency left.

I felt his jovial laughing, making light of it also made them follow along and have this mindset about what was happening...maybe if his tone was more solemn and sympathetic to words the man their responses would have been different...I always went for the right decision but would I have done the same if part of the mob audience...I'd be so intrigued to find out...this affected me so much with every decision irritating me more...I didn't want the man to suffer I wanted him to be given a break, have good luck...I suffer from anxiety and depression so would never wish bad luck or stress on anyone ..wonder if this would make me more sensitive to the happiness of others ..would truly like to be in any experience derren brown could throw at me...showed my 13 yr old daughter and she was as angry and affected as much as me ..she even whent cold and had goose bumps too

This is underrated. Part of one of the experiments in getting a subject to "shock" someone was also an authority figure asking them to do it, vs a regular looking person. We are pack animals. We will follow the leader because we have an innate instinct to stick with our pack, even if the pack is making a bad choice because it's safer with them, then with out them. This is something I don't see people realizing as part of the equation. If there was no host at all, I wonder what the answers would be and also the audience reaction when they aren't being prompted by an atmosphere that encourages this behavior. IE dark room, creepy masks etc. If they gave them happy masks, put soft blue lighting and didn't make the room dark, what then? People don't want to think that much of our choice and nature we exhibit is affected more by surroundings than innate instinct. Blue light has been known to reduce crime and give a sense of calm. Dark lighting makes us feel more on edge and to lose track of reality (casinos have low lighting so that you lose your sense of time) If you are hungry, hormonal, sad or just bored, your decision could change. even something that is a big one. This is why to make good choices on big things most people encourage waiting on it, because the answer can change through so many outside factors and it brings into question the idea of choice at all at least in the way we think of it.

I mean he probably got 10k but still could have broke his storage inside (data) meaning he lost game progress

@@imgafu3258 F

@@XiGlove F indeed

I think it was one minor hit

Chris is also fake

It really is messed up

Yeah it was their fault and now they're like "oHhhHH ThAtS sOO saD :("

@@JoshuaDZ i think the chris part was real, but the kidnapping was fake

@@folddyy It was a double in the kidnapping

Yes watching Derren Brown really puts your faith in humanity to a test...

The audience are terrible

For all you know she voted to give him the good options.

Just thinking the same thing when I herd here shout that out she a hypocrite

@@CrazyMarc21783 hardly shes the sort of feminist bitch that would cheat on her doting boyfriend for laughs at males.

@@mindfulclarity169 And how exactly do you know for a fact that she is "the sort of feminist bitch that would cheat on her doting boyfriend for laughs at males"? I'm willing to assume that you are a reasonably good-natured and pleasant human being who wouldn't say that to her face, but yet you're saying it under the perceived anonymity of a KZfaq comment. Ironic, isn't it?

@@mindfulclarity169 Wow, you're just a sad human being.

Seb Whiting except it's reality and this is actually how human beings work on a basic psychological level. This is evident within advertising, corporate programming (large corporations who impose upon faceless workers laws of existence that extend into their personal lives) We see it in political voting mechanics. Its a psychological state that has been used for others benefit for a very long time.

Also, black mirror is a black comedy designed to reflect on societal flaws. It's rather ingeniously designed.

Older then black mirror darren amazing

What's the plot of black mirror

@@JoshuaDZ the show basically shows how modern technology could backfire and be used against the makers

Nah mate i dont think i would have voted for somone to get kidnapped and get fired from their job but ok.

I have been in mob pressured situations most of the time I do the right thing but sometimes I also can do the wrong things but not like making someone get kidnapped

Nah i aint guilty of mob mentality

@@gdbook_yt6656 nothing bad but like swearing and stuff when I was 5 I dunno I wouldn’t do that now I don’t care anymore about what people want me to do

Not to this level.

And behind the wheel of a car

Dovah Doesn't that mean it is exactly as bad as you thought? Lol I'm just messing around.

Look I Antifa and youll see it gets worse than this. Much, much worse.

@@kirbfx long live Antifa!! Down with the nazis!!

J J Lmao! Let me guess, you’re one of those who believe that Trump is a “fascist” even though his actions and policies are almost entirely the OPPOSITE of fascism, huh?? Fascism is the government taking over the private sector yet he has done the exact OPPOSITE by getting the government OUT of the private sector as he is drastically removing the governments stranglehold over business and the worker by removing their fascistic regulations and drastically cutting income tax and corporate tax that was bestowed upon the American people by far left policies set up by Obama and Bush. Fascism means the government takes over the media which Trump obviously hasn’t done. He defends himself from the 27/7 slanderous lies and hyperbolic insanity but has not nor would not have the government takeover the media like the far left usually does. Fascism means the government takes over and controls healthcare which Obama did, not Trump. Learn what fascism is and get back to us. Thanks

@@kirbfx It seems you need to learn what fascism is, my friend because what you're describing here isn't fascism. There's elements of authoritarianism, a dab of anti-free market, regulatory capitalism, privatisation advocacy...yeah you've got a huge mish-mash of subject matter here. If I may be so bold I'll illuminate in brief, inadequate and frankly disturbingly light tones the nature of the political belief system of fascism. Fascism has its roots primarily in the dictatorial tradition of the Roman republic. When things got bad enough they appointed a dictator, famously Sulla and Caesar. One of these men refused to step down as was tradition, creating the bones of fascism. Fascism was subsumed by Imperialism and Feudalism, which substituted supreme rule for a caste system for the next...eh, call it until the 1800s. Democracy escaped from the rule of Imperialistic and Feudal society, becoming the dominant style of government as it is today in the Western world. This is your first clue; fascism isn't an economic doctrine specifically. It's a totalitarian doctrine. No area of life is unaffected by fascist policy. In the 1920s we see the rise of ethnocentric advocacy which later married itself to the Strongman dictatorial style of leadership. But fascism itself existed for a long time before the dictatorial form. It was primarily focused on the race, the purity thereof being paramount. This is why homosexuals, other races and subversives are enemies of fascist thought; they do not promote the fictionalised ideal of "the race". In the interest of balance and a more complete picture I must lay it out; the Fascist party of Germany was called the National Socialist German Worker's Party. Don't let the name fool you; the Dutch Freedom party is not in favour of freedom, the Labour party is full of bone-idle Harrow alumni. The leader of the Nazi party before Hitler was fully in favour of socialism, but while he lead the party was weak, marginalised and unable to gain power. Enter Hitler. A man of single purpose. Driven and charismatic, he pushed the anti-Marxist and Anti-left wing parts of the party, subsuming it and turning it towards revolutionary violence. For which he was imprisoned. But even in prison, he advocated for a racially pure Germany wherein it was the duty of every German to purge non-Germans from their country by any means necessary. But Hitler was not a man of principle; he made deals with all right-wing parties in the Reichstag, absorbing many Christian ideals into his party's philosophy to gain the support of the Catholic Church and other large, influential bodies. Thus, during the 1930s we come to what many people consider "Fascism Proper"; a political philosophy that glorifies the "heroism" of violence, that enforces ethnocentrism and cultural hegemony. All things are in service of the race, and to the detriment of other races. All subversive ideas are crushed, all subversive persons removed. All of this in orbit around a single charismatic leader whom the entire country follows the whims of purely because he is the dictator. But that isn't the end story for fascism. Because fascism doesn't just pop up in Germany. It's existed in Spain, Brazil, Italy, at some points Russia, and yes, even America. China and Japan were, for a VERY long time pseudo-fascist with a philosophy that was very similar yet not exactly the same. Fascism also pops up in modernity, I'm sorry to say. Although now it's characterised more by slapping a happy face on the same ethnocentric ideas. If you've ever asked yourself why white people don't get their own ethnostate that is EXACTLY a fascist idea. Nobody is immune to it. Fascism is the hydra. You cannot kill it by cutting off its heads. You must inoculate people against the ideas themselves and teach them methods of spotting fascism wherever it arises. It's partially why I wrote this exceedingly long and boring comment; to make people stop bandying about fascism like it's a hot new slang term. "Fascist" should have the same gut-punch impact as calling someone any other form of evil. And yes, I do believe fascism in all its forms is evil. PS- Trump is not a fascist. He displays proto-fascist tendencies. Which if not curbed will embolden an actual fascist movement within the USA, as it has been doing. Fortunately Trump is such an incompetent statesman that many people are seeing the people who ally with him, holding their confederate flags up as they do, and pondering why it is that people so attached to the racially-charged past of America are so enamoured with him. I hold no contempt for you if you voted for Trump. I hold contempt for you if you approve his fascistic behaviours which, now, you can hopefully spot given this long winded explanation.

ayyyy

me

Likely that video i forgot what one im here fromw

@@glugleu3214 hi

@@lourdthebluefoxie hi

No shit.

You don't have to be such an ass about it dude.

How's that rude?

They were just commenting on something they noticed that other people may not have and you replied as if they were being dumb?

If you couldn't notice that you must be a fucking acorn.

@DJ MC how do you know

DJ MC He’s not, they used a stunt double for the kidnapping scene

@@samarthtiwari5532 Same, you not only ruined my day, but you got me fired, got me arrested, broke my property, and then recorded me without consent. Like what the hell I don't care if it's an experiment that's not right.

@@AshenDemon He didn't actually get fired or arrested, and he was compensated more than he lost in personal property

@@apollo1694 Doesn't fucking matter

You are that audience dipshit thats the point

@@rubber4943 damn someone's salty

@@rubber4943 And so are you.

@@rubber4943 Not everybody in the audience voted for bad things. The original commenter could have been one of those people. You have no idea so how can you judge?

Subject someone to Sexual Harassment Accusations, and getting Kidnapped? Hell no.

@@AshenDemon I'm pretty sure if you would ask any of the people in the audience if they would do that they would say no, even the ones that did

@@HappySisyphus0 Probably because they aren’t as anonymous anymore. Hiding behind a mask can really show who you truly are.

uhh no tf i wouldn’t lmao karmas a hoe and i don’t wanna be the pimp

I feel like it would me more pleasurable to watch somebody incredibly succeed than incredibly fail.

ikr

Same

The people you saw crying could have been the ones voting for a positive outcome. But we'll never know.

after all they've done they start crying when he got hit! what the hell

and he hit his xbox with his hard drive of saves and stuff :(

KZfaqaccount177 You are a Moron if you think that is funny!! It’s nasty!!

Oh my God, the way they were just laughing at the suggestion of the violent act too. Just the mere suggestion of trashing his house, invading his privacy and smashing things had even the older audience members and young women laughing mirthfully...

”Yay! Free will is an illusion and we’re all incapable of forming our own opinions!”

The silence was all part of making the point.

@@viseberg8527 Did you not hear Derren saying a good chunk of the audience still voted for the good outcome?

RookieNoobGamer Yay! The first person in the comments that understands social conditioning.

Human history right there fellas...

I'm back, 2 years later. Thought process is a bit different, but I still think lot of humans are assholes who need excuses sometimes

@@BreadMan434 how about 3 years

@@Nai_101 finally some f^$%ing sleep...

I want to forget this so bad.

yeah :'(

jackporridge Who were they following?

@Selim Sultan Akbar Muslim has now spoken and has an amazing reply "dumbass" with no explanation.

@@midguardz stop trying to insult people you prick.

I WAS SO CONCERNED ABOUT THAT!

I would of went mad haha

If not, he should sue BBC.

Chris was an actor. That wasn't his flat or his stuff. Listen to what Derren says at the start.

@@landl47 he doesn't say that. He says that Chris isn't the subject of the experiment, but not that he's an actor. He specefies that Chris has no idea of what's going on. Beside, if Chris was an actor, then the letter at the end would have been unecessary.

Yes and as the game progresses more presents the contestant is receiving,so the audience is giving more to Chris

Despite the name of the show, it wasn't an experiment at all. It was a demonstration. Not meant to get answers, but to give them. To deliver unto the sinister audience a record of their flaws. To tell them the tale of their misdeeds. It's a powerful message for the audience about the power of mob-mentality. But it's not an experiment, no.

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bruh you cant give an option to cut someones finger off, thats illegal and they would just know its fake at that point, the show did good in showing that they would choose the negative options, theres no way they could give torture options or else it's clearly fake. Is this a deep web red room now? lmfao cut his finger off

@@imgafu3258 but smashing his private property wasn't "illegal"?

People all over the world are like this, man. Mob mentality is a humankind thing

hahaha yessss

Hope this doesn’t seem too evil but I sort of wish they were told Chris was in critical condition and may not make it (even tho he was fine and so was his stunt devil). This ending shocked them and they understood. But my idea is just so the audience understands AND will never forget.

Not true. I know I'd never intentionally fuck up someone's life. I have that thing called empathy

drakocarrion yeah I feel like I wouldn’t either, that’s what is interesting about this video. I don’t think any of them would think they would do such a thing

It could be interesting to get to see the full voting statistics from this program. Did the majority proportion shrink as the night progressed, with some people snapping out of it and realizing what the fuck they’re doing; or did it just keep increasing as more people were overcome by mob rule?

To be fair, there was a certain amount of people (I think Derren mentioned something about 1/3rd) who picked the "good" events. So I'd very much like to think I'd never do that. I mean... I had to skip second hale of the "experiment" because I was grossed out by the audience cheering at this poor fellas misery. I doubt being in the audience would cause a complete 180 in my mentality.

Kinda true, you never really know what you'll do in a situation until you're actually in that situation. A simple example would that i never expected to be laughing after a bike accident, yet when i had a severe bike accident where I ended up tearing open half my face my first reaction was "oh fuck, my bike!" followed by me making jokes about "giving the asphalt a big kiss". Definately an unexpected reaction

Couldn't have put it better myself! Indeed the dark side of humanity

The idea of playing God and feeling so immensely powerful (when you feel helpless in your own life) would have been enough to send most people giddy with power and forget there was a human being who was suffering. There's been a lot of similar tests on control and obedience in the past that are worth looking into. It's sad, yet fascinating.

Except for the good people who chose the good options

@@JoshuaDZ I cried from start to finish. No not everyone goes along with the Mob Mentality that was shown here. I for one couldn't and wouldn't do this to anyone. I love all of Derren's work and I know it was left up to the audience. This was excruciating difficult to watch. 😔

I hope this haunts them until they're old and retired.

Putting a vote in anonymity is one thing, sure, I'd might do that myself too see what happens. But cheering and laughing at his misery.. I wonder if they screened the audience for certain type of personalities or even planted a few actors in there to rile the others up?

@@ogelsmogel yeah that makes sense, like when people started shouting out for what the guy in his house could do. i reckon the person who shouted smash his tv was a plant

@@bethb8653 I really hope he/she was.. it makes more sense, but maybe I'm naive.

@@ogelsmogel im gonna say they were, just because i want a small dash of faith in humanity and i am a suffering optimist :)

This is still an experiment as well looking at the perspective on front figures. If a celeb does a bad thing, would we anonymously accept it or would we still pick the good choice? Clearly they accepted his behaviour.

You know deep within yourself that hurting someone is bad. We learned this as children. Its called empathy and they chose to ignore it.

@@DiscoTimelordASD that's so true, I feel like they chose the wrong audience

Suggestions or not, it shows how mobs of people can be lead to hurt an innocent individual. History is littered with examples of this happening. In 2020 the main stream media was encouraging arson and looting, claiming it's non violent, safe, and justifiable, which lead to a man being burned alive in his store along with dozens of other gruesome deaths. Most of the Nazi's weren't told of the gas chambers, they thought they were safe work camps. Most people don't question authority figures and charismatic leaders, when we are capable of discerning which scenarios are unsafe or cruel.

@@JoshuaDZpsychology shows the vast majority would behave like this

Its called de ja vu