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WHAT: A man filming people until they get angry.
HOW MANY SUBSCRIBERS AT TIME OF WRITING: 86,789.
WHY SHOULD I CARE: Surveillance Camera Man only has one video. Well, two, but the one is just a video informing you of the other video. He has over 86,000 subscribers, all people hoping that one day he'll upload another video. They're like Jai Paul fans, living on a prayer, waiting for that fabled return to make their lives worth living.Surveillance Camera Man's previous videos (there were eight of them) were taken down after his channel was found to not be in "good standing". After removing one clip in which copyrighted music is featured, they made a comeback last year. The videos were a favourite of your more underground channel communities, like LiveLeak and Daily Motion. It most probably appealed to their specialist interest of pathological trolling.Surveillance Camera Man's 50-minute video, which has been viewed over 500,000 times (a lot less than I would have thought, to be honest), chronicles his experiment in filming people. He wanders up to them, sometimes quite closely, and films their faces without saying anything. When they inquire about his behaviour, he usually responds by saying, "Oh, I'm just taking a video," or, "You seem confused."The people (naturally) become uncomfortable and angry at this explanation-less surveillance, sometimes prompting them to attack the cameraman, call the police on him or swear at him. He doesn't giggle, he doesn't laugh, he doesn't react – he makes no sound, no impression other than that he is filming them because he wants to.
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However, it would be disingenuous to say that the only thing I get from these clips is a pseuds boner about the modern human condition. They're also really funny. People getting pissed off at a mute man filming them has a great amount of satisfaction glued to it. It's probably the same part of your brain that gets satisfied when you see someone fall off a bike or fight in the street, or anything schadenfreude-ian. One man's agony is another man's comedy.
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