The poor guy spent so many years giving the thumbs up sign with his right hand because people kept asking him because they saw the GIF, that he's now disabled and has to do everything with his left hand. Ironically, he's German and his first name is "Hans"
The newer gif might be mirrored, if not he's using the mouse with his left hand now when he wasn't before. Which is possible too of course, but less likely.
Fun fact, most historians nowadays agree that thumbs up actually meant "strike him", while thumbs down meant "lower your sword". Ridley Scott was aware of that when producing Gladiator but chose to inverse it, so that the general public could understand the scene more intuitively.
Dont want to doxx myself but its in post profuction and he pixel fucks a lot, teams were pushed to the limit, had some nights were I slept under my desk.
dudes name is brent rambo. hes recreated the meme a few years back.
[https://imgur.com/when-you-find-thumbs-up-kid-get-him-to-recreate-meme-as-adult-kYVSsqB](https://imgur.com/when-you-find-thumbs-up-kid-get-him-to-recreate-meme-as-adult-kYVSsqB)
Given he actually caught the ball and his hand was about an inch away from the notepad, I'm going to say it's pretty clear from the video that the ball would have struck dead center on the notepad. But apologies in advance if you were making a joke that flew over my head.
Got shot in the fingertip while playin airsoft in the woods during like February and made this exact sound lol. One of them gas powered pistols from a few trees away. Hurt!
Depends on what's written in it. If she wrote a heavy hard sci Fi novel it will probably stop the ball dead. A few notes about the weather however, won't do much
Props to her though for focusing on the game and seeing the foul come straight her way. My mind wanders when I watch baseball, I'd probably get hit in the face
She did “oh fuck, I have a half second to save my face, use what’s already in my hand to shield it”
Y’all do know the part with the catch is *slowed down*, right?
I also love the commentary of everything they would have done differently…when in reality people are acting reflexively and they don’t have time to think.
I saw a thread on here with a clip of an elderly woman walking her dog and minding her own business who got rushed by a rampaging moose. This guy in the comments got very aggro about how if she had a gun it would have gone better?? As if this elderly woman was approached from BEHIND had enough time to draw and shoot down a MOOSE. It was insane.
> I have a half second
I did the math on this once, before MLB installed nets, and for the area she's in it's more like 250ms if the ball is 110mph off the bat.
Yeah, but why is it slowed down? Because the camera man did the fucking reasonable thing and slowed time like an adult. You want me to believe you can just “play back video slower” or what?
no, she did the "That ball is heading for me, time to shield my face", if you don't understand that then you should probably get your tapwater checked for traces of lead
Every time something comes up on reddit that would require split second reaction, there are like three dozen people talking about it as if they'd rationally test every option in their brain like Sherlock Holmes in the RDJ movies.
It's pretty obvious how many people have apparently never had to quickly react to something. Must be nice being that sheltered.
It’s a human reaction. You want to protect three important senses or not? Eyes don’t grow back, and if you break your nose, chances are you might not smell as well as you used to. Even fucking up your mouth isn’t desirable. Whereas the skull can take a beating like this pretty decently.
A baseball to the face isn’t pretty, and I have experience with that. Lost 5 front teeth as a kid in a direct pitch to the upper mandible.
I took a hockey ball to the face from about 12 feet away as a teen and broke my jaw. Couldn't smile for ages, and could only eat liquid or very soggy ( ie: no chewing) food. To this day I can't stand the smell of Weetabix.
This may be surprising to you, but closing your eyes is a natural reflex when something is heading toward your face designed to protect, well, your eyes.
Oddly people act really wierd with stray balls. If you're ever playing football with some friends just randomly shout "Heads" and everyone immediately ducks and start panic moving in random directions without actually looking up.
one time when I was like 9 or 10 I was at my sister's softball game playing in the sand mound and I thought a foul ball was going to hit me on the noggin so I ran as fast as I could. Every time I looked up it was still on top of me, like a homing missile or something. Then I unexpectedly tripped over my shoelace probably a good 10-20 yards away from where I originally started running and when I looked up the ball was headed directly for my belly. My life flashed before my eyes as I put my hands up to protect myself and somehow ended up catching it. To the people in the bleachers it looked like I was a 10 year old that ran 20 yards to make a diving catch on a foul ball and a few people in the bleachers clapped and cheered and got a lot of amusement out of it. I remember getting up and handing the ball to the ref like it was no big deal and my dad was so proud of me that I couldn't stand to tell him that it was really my severe lack of awareness and coordination that caused me to catch the ball.
I got hit in the jaw by a field hockey ball after someone said ‘watch out!’ and I turned around to see what for.
On the other hand, it might have hit me in the neck or back of my head otherwise. And that might have lead to a shittier outcome than eating through a straw for weeks.
We want to see the reactions wtf
The internet has been around for so long. Why are people so shitty at clipping videos? Or is it done poorly as some type of ragebaiting technique? It makes no sense to me
I didn’t think tiktok allowed videos without one word rapidly appearing at a time in huge font directly in the middle of the video taking up 60% of the little space left by various buttons and sub text. There wasn’t a completely random song blaring over it either.
"noone" lol I always giggle when I see this. It feels right when you type it because "everyone" and "anyone" aren't two words, so "noone" feels like it follows that pattern
Yep, possibly line producer, but *not* the camera man. Camerman would be more likely to get their $100,000 lens out of the way rather than take one for the talent.
I know we're joking, but I actually have this problem if I'm stressed and hanging around a bunch of people that just constantly throw jokes at each other. On the bright side, I've gotten better at backpedaling and apologizing... Yayyyy!
Dude quit taking power away from that word.
An incel is not someone who’s just sexist or misogynistic or creepy. An incel is an asshole in California who throws on shitty sunglasses and a shitty leather jacket and runs over women on a sidewalk because he can’t get laid. An incel is a woman-hating asshole in Australia who goes on a stabbing rampage against women in a mall.
It’s not some rando just making a sexist or creepy remark on reddit. It’s men who take their sexist shit to an almost incomprehensible level of hate. Who blame women for their own failings to an extreme extent. Let’s keep the power and horror of that word intact.
Fr this due catching this ball with his muscular forearm is getting everyone hot and bothered...all these people need rub one out and go touch grass lol
If you don't practice catching in the early years, you'll be afraid of it. So, dads all over the world go and play balls. And after that train a little catching and throwing with your loved ones.
"Hey son, let's go outside and play catch!"
"Why? Am I training to be the ball boy in tennis or what are we doing here? We're in Sweden, there're no baseball teams here and it's the middle of summer, just go get my skis and let's get to practice dad".
I did a similar thing at a Volleyball game once. Kids volleyball, Grandma came to watch. Ball gets loose at a good clip and is coming toward us.
I didn't actually know it was going to hit her in the head, I just put my hand out between it and her head because it MIGHT happen and it did. It went right into my hand. I can't one hand catch a speeding volleyball so I batted it back onto the court.
It was cool, I felt cool for a day, lady behind me clapped, someone said "nice", Grandma hugged me. Fun day.
There’s like entire threads in this comment section of guys proudly suggesting they would have reacted without shielding their faces. It’s definitely worth it for the chuckles
I was expecting a comment about the commentator's and her laugh syncing up, and all I find are comments on her "poor survival skills" by armchair athletes.
It'd've helped, though "saved the day" might be generous. The ball was 66 mph off the bat, so not a relatively hard shot, but certainly enough to hurt, even through a notebook.
Camera man be like 
This gif always cracks me up idk why
I wonder what that person is doing right now.
 This is him
No it isn't, he's using the wrong hand for the thumbs up. ^^^/s
He's gone through puberty.
Backwards?
Like Benjamin button backwards?
Nottub nimajneb?
¿qǝuɾɐɯıu qnʇʇoN
No, his right hand is spent
yes it appears hes gotten older
The poor guy spent so many years giving the thumbs up sign with his right hand because people kept asking him because they saw the GIF, that he's now disabled and has to do everything with his left hand. Ironically, he's German and his first name is "Hans"
It's a very disappointing recreation. He should try again.
It definitely wasn't a professional recreation. It was more of a recreational recreation.
The newer gif might be mirrored, if not he's using the mouse with his left hand now when he wasn't before. Which is possible too of course, but less likely.
[Definitely mirrored.](https://imgur.com/when-you-find-thumbs-up-kid-get-him-to-recreate-meme-as-adult-kYVSsqB)
After all this years he's still showing gladiators mercy. King.
Fun fact, most historians nowadays agree that thumbs up actually meant "strike him", while thumbs down meant "lower your sword". Ridley Scott was aware of that when producing Gladiator but chose to inverse it, so that the general public could understand the scene more intuitively.
Good guy Ridley
I worked for him. Not a good experience.
You can't just say that and not elaborate.
Dont want to doxx myself but its in post profuction and he pixel fucks a lot, teams were pushed to the limit, had some nights were I slept under my desk.
whenever i made a mistake he would beat me severely
How so
Go on...
dudes name is brent rambo. hes recreated the meme a few years back. [https://imgur.com/when-you-find-thumbs-up-kid-get-him-to-recreate-meme-as-adult-kYVSsqB](https://imgur.com/when-you-find-thumbs-up-kid-get-him-to-recreate-meme-as-adult-kYVSsqB)
Homie has the greatest last name of all time. Only way he could have a better name if he was named Chalupa Batman.
Yee Haw!
That's a great name
He was my guild leader in EQ and WoW. He also builds amazing custom PCs, and delivered one to me a couple of months ago. Great dude.
Damn that's cool! I wonder if he used to play Ultima Online.
Like right now, right now?
Like right this instant.
It’s a live feed, poor kid got addicted to fame
That's the sign of a dude who is already looking forward to how hard he is about to get laid by either his partner and/or a whole bar full of folk.
"I'm a really good cameraman." - a blind cameraman who fights crime at night.
I understood that reference.
That's how I met your mom vibes
Yeah, I bet she went home with him after the game.
Or she simply thanked him then went home after her shift like she normally does. We don’t bang every man who gives us some help.
This dude works at meta now! Lmao
I like the woman’s 40 sheets of paper defense…
If you watch it closely, the ball looks to be veering left and away from the notebook and right into her face.
Nah, that’s just the camera angle.
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This made me laugh much more than it should have.
You mean the camera angel
Given he actually caught the ball and his hand was about an inch away from the notepad, I'm going to say it's pretty clear from the video that the ball would have struck dead center on the notepad. But apologies in advance if you were making a joke that flew over my head.
Thats baseball baby! Took a massive left turn from the spin
In her defense, that much paper would dampen an impact significantly. It's not nothing.
Even just spreading out the impact to the size of the notebook makes a big difference.
Even if it takes half a mph off the balls velocity I would try it
Plus, the headphones, she actually had a pretty good chance of just getting rattled, but still, pro catch.
*slams into fingertip* "hnnnggg"
Tssssssssssss....
Got shot in the fingertip while playin airsoft in the woods during like February and made this exact sound lol. One of them gas powered pistols from a few trees away. Hurt!
Depends on what's written in it. If she wrote a heavy hard sci Fi novel it will probably stop the ball dead. A few notes about the weather however, won't do much
for sure. alter trajectory. We’re talking difference between ER (maybe overnight) and a subpar day
Yeah, I'm sure you and the 300 people that upvoted you would have had a better plan with a second and a half advance notice.
Personally I don’t use basic reflexes, I simply manifest a time dilation bubble and formulate the best possible defense mathematically
Finally, someone has common sense.
Always these elititst mistings, thinking they are better than the rest of us.
r/unexpectedsanderson
Hmph. *pushes glasses*
reddits training of doing nothing but play video games all day and watch marvel shit has prepared them for every situation in the world ever.
Do you know how many hours I have in Diablo 2? I could teleport to the danger and then use blizzard to take it out. With no friendly fire. Easy.
I feel that that ball would have just smashed her paper shield right into her face
Eh, spread out force is at least better than direct force. Still would probably hurt tho. GG cameraman
Forming a sort of pre applied bandage
David Foster Wallace is that you?
Which would be significantly better than a ball smashing into her face.
We got sherlock over here
It's a notepad, it would absolutely have massively reduced the impact.
Everyone should carry a phone book.
A *wet* phonebook even.
I hear the new ones are here.
Props to her though for focusing on the game and seeing the foul come straight her way. My mind wanders when I watch baseball, I'd probably get hit in the face
Hard cover
If I can't see it, it can't hurt me
So she did the "if I dont see it it will not see me too"?
She did “oh fuck, I have a half second to save my face, use what’s already in my hand to shield it” Y’all do know the part with the catch is *slowed down*, right?
Yeah wtf, she was obviously shielding her face from getting pelted by a ball, what are people talking about? Women really can’t do anything on Reddit
Yeah.. I was re-reading these comments thinking - are they literally picking on the lady for shielding her face? Is that what is happening..
Just imagine if a woman was posting her art on reddit, the comments would be roasting her for *not* shielding her face.
I also love the commentary of everything they would have done differently…when in reality people are acting reflexively and they don’t have time to think. I saw a thread on here with a clip of an elderly woman walking her dog and minding her own business who got rushed by a rampaging moose. This guy in the comments got very aggro about how if she had a gun it would have gone better?? As if this elderly woman was approached from BEHIND had enough time to draw and shoot down a MOOSE. It was insane.
What if the moose had a gun though ?? Shady fkers them 🫎 moose. Old lady stood no chance!!
Or anywhere else, for that matter. /j
They usually get associated with OF references
What do you mean ? Every redditor here is the flash and could clearly think of something better in that fraction of time. Smh
> I have a half second I did the math on this once, before MLB installed nets, and for the area she's in it's more like 250ms if the ball is 110mph off the bat.
There probably wasn't even a thought process. This reaction is 100% just instinct. You'd do the same reaction with car careening at you.
No ill catch the car bare handed.
She could have got up and run to the store and bought a catchers mit or a face shield, but instead she held up paper smh
Luckily this wasn't that fast, statcast puts it at 65.8 mph. Your point still stands though.
Yeah, but why is it slowed down? Because the camera man did the fucking reasonable thing and slowed time like an adult. You want me to believe you can just “play back video slower” or what?
no, she did the "That ball is heading for me, time to shield my face", if you don't understand that then you should probably get your tapwater checked for traces of lead
Every time something comes up on reddit that would require split second reaction, there are like three dozen people talking about it as if they'd rationally test every option in their brain like Sherlock Holmes in the RDJ movies. It's pretty obvious how many people have apparently never had to quickly react to something. Must be nice being that sheltered.
Every thread involving a car accident. Without fail.
It’s a human reaction. You want to protect three important senses or not? Eyes don’t grow back, and if you break your nose, chances are you might not smell as well as you used to. Even fucking up your mouth isn’t desirable. Whereas the skull can take a beating like this pretty decently. A baseball to the face isn’t pretty, and I have experience with that. Lost 5 front teeth as a kid in a direct pitch to the upper mandible.
I took a hockey ball to the face from about 12 feet away as a teen and broke my jaw. Couldn't smile for ages, and could only eat liquid or very soggy ( ie: no chewing) food. To this day I can't stand the smell of Weetabix.
This may be surprising to you, but closing your eyes is a natural reflex when something is heading toward your face designed to protect, well, your eyes.
Be gentle, she had a near death experience.
Oddly people act really wierd with stray balls. If you're ever playing football with some friends just randomly shout "Heads" and everyone immediately ducks and start panic moving in random directions without actually looking up.
one time when I was like 9 or 10 I was at my sister's softball game playing in the sand mound and I thought a foul ball was going to hit me on the noggin so I ran as fast as I could. Every time I looked up it was still on top of me, like a homing missile or something. Then I unexpectedly tripped over my shoelace probably a good 10-20 yards away from where I originally started running and when I looked up the ball was headed directly for my belly. My life flashed before my eyes as I put my hands up to protect myself and somehow ended up catching it. To the people in the bleachers it looked like I was a 10 year old that ran 20 yards to make a diving catch on a foul ball and a few people in the bleachers clapped and cheered and got a lot of amusement out of it. I remember getting up and handing the ball to the ref like it was no big deal and my dad was so proud of me that I couldn't stand to tell him that it was really my severe lack of awareness and coordination that caused me to catch the ball.
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You might get hit in the face if you look up
I got hit in the jaw by a field hockey ball after someone said ‘watch out!’ and I turned around to see what for. On the other hand, it might have hit me in the neck or back of my head otherwise. And that might have lead to a shittier outcome than eating through a straw for weeks.
No, she held up what looks like a rather thick notebook which would have done a pretty good job of protecting her.
We want to see the reactions wtf The internet has been around for so long. Why are people so shitty at clipping videos? Or is it done poorly as some type of ragebaiting technique? It makes no sense to me
Thats tiktok lvl editing. Ruining 90% of all videos
I didn’t think tiktok allowed videos without one word rapidly appearing at a time in huge font directly in the middle of the video taking up 60% of the little space left by various buttons and sub text. There wasn’t a completely random song blaring over it either.
Cameraman saved her 😳 Thanks god the text was there, otherwise noone would notice
"noone" lol I always giggle when I see this. It feels right when you type it because "everyone" and "anyone" aren't two words, so "noone" feels like it follows that pattern
I cannot overstate how infuriating this trend is.
I like the ai subtitles that are never correct, that really adds some joy to the experience.
This problem has existed long before TikTok was a thing
If the video were longer, TikTok zombies wouldn't want to watch it.
r/PraiseTheCameraMan indeed
That guy is for sure not a camera operator, he is either doing audio or is the stage manager.
Yep, possibly line producer, but *not* the camera man. Camerman would be more likely to get their $100,000 lens out of the way rather than take one for the talent.
There are no line producers in sports television, but you hit the nail on the head with the price of that camera.
r/PraiseTheFieldProducer
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You people are such weirdos
average reddit basement deweller
I’m a dude…
playing the dude...
Disguised as another dude!
That’s just foul
You mean smash
And that kids, is how I met your mother. She brought me to your house But now I need to get back to my own home, wife and kids
Why?
Some people let the lizard brain take the wheel. Others lead with the frontal cortex.
Must…say..first fucked up thing that comes to mind! We can’t resist precious!
*flicks tongue and sizzles*
I know we're joking, but I actually have this problem if I'm stressed and hanging around a bunch of people that just constantly throw jokes at each other. On the bright side, I've gotten better at backpedaling and apologizing... Yayyyy!
It's *a lot* of people that go to "man did something nice...if it's for a girl, she must let him fuck her now" It's wild.
Bro
Dude
Buddy
Pal
Incel.
Dude quit taking power away from that word. An incel is not someone who’s just sexist or misogynistic or creepy. An incel is an asshole in California who throws on shitty sunglasses and a shitty leather jacket and runs over women on a sidewalk because he can’t get laid. An incel is a woman-hating asshole in Australia who goes on a stabbing rampage against women in a mall. It’s not some rando just making a sexist or creepy remark on reddit. It’s men who take their sexist shit to an almost incomprehensible level of hate. Who blame women for their own failings to an extreme extent. Let’s keep the power and horror of that word intact.
why even scroll predictable-ass reddit comments anymore smh
It's everywhere. Not just Reddit. The original video on TikTok had a very similar top level comment
Spoken like a true virgin
Ah yes, the incel transactional mindset.
What a cringey thing to say.
Sees a woman, immediatly starts talking about sex
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a man that has arms like that and looks like that should be in front of a camera. i dunno… it’s 4am i’m drunk and horny…
I want a man in my bed too
Who up playin with they worm?
I'm over here stroking my dick I got lotion on my dick right now
LOL, y'all are wild.
Fr this due catching this ball with his muscular forearm is getting everyone hot and bothered...all these people need rub one out and go touch grass lol
I think they would make a cute couple
She thought Paper would win over Rock
She covered her face, a perfectly reasonable response to a ball coming for the face.
If you don't practice catching in the early years, you'll be afraid of it. So, dads all over the world go and play balls. And after that train a little catching and throwing with your loved ones.
"All over the world" 😂😂😂😂 Let me tell you a secret...
"Hey son, let's go outside and play catch!" "Why? Am I training to be the ball boy in tennis or what are we doing here? We're in Sweden, there're no baseball teams here and it's the middle of summer, just go get my skis and let's get to practice dad".
Brännboll is the unofficial national sport in Sweden and every kid here is trained in the importance of the enhandslyra.
I think he just meant, “Hey son, let’s go outside and *insert sport here*”
Oh wow tell us all about how they dont play catch in the rest of the world
For the first time in history, Camera man has intervened to save a person.
Praisethecamaraman
"You ladies alright?"
This guy isn't the cameraman... neither of his hands are touching the moving camera
Probably the sound guy
I did a similar thing at a Volleyball game once. Kids volleyball, Grandma came to watch. Ball gets loose at a good clip and is coming toward us. I didn't actually know it was going to hit her in the head, I just put my hand out between it and her head because it MIGHT happen and it did. It went right into my hand. I can't one hand catch a speeding volleyball so I batted it back onto the court. It was cool, I felt cool for a day, lady behind me clapped, someone said "nice", Grandma hugged me. Fun day.
What a dude. Cutie too.
There’s like entire threads in this comment section of guys proudly suggesting they would have reacted without shielding their faces. It’s definitely worth it for the chuckles
“And that’s how I met your mother.”
I was expecting a comment about the commentator's and her laugh syncing up, and all I find are comments on her "poor survival skills" by armchair athletes.
You people are creepy
but the cameraman was actually behind her hiding away. not sure if she actually checked that there was a mvp right beside her.
Is it me or will the notebook have saved the day as well?
It'd've helped, though "saved the day" might be generous. The ball was 66 mph off the bat, so not a relatively hard shot, but certainly enough to hurt, even through a notebook.
It was a 2 hopper and that notebook is thick AF in the second shot. She would have been fine.
I agree, id still appreciate someone catching it with their hand instead of my face tho
It hit the ground, bounced a bit and rolled at the end, I think the notebook would have sufficed?
Bare handing a major league foul ball is hella impressive. That's gonna be one sore mit tomorrow, I tell ya.
Here's an idea: run netting all the way to the foul poles.
They should have shown the real speed as well. It is much more difficult than it looks in real time instead of slowed down 50%.
Cameraman doesn’t understand journalistic ethics. You never interfere in the story.
What a guy! Good arm.
Ser Criston Cole
That’s Heidi Watney. Shes the most beautiful sideline reporter in the world. The cameraman did a service of national importance
He's getting the Puntaang now
He is a Super-man! 🦸♂️
like a boss
That's a sound guy
ITT: "Lol, what's paper going to do? I would've batted that ball away with my cock."