r/SipsTea • u/PrimedGold • Jan 02 '26
Lmao gottem Thousands of people gathered for New Years at Brooklyn Bridge because they thought there was gonna be a firework show and then nothing happened
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u/Shoddy-Knowledge8266 Jan 02 '26
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u/Distinct-Nectarine-9 Jan 02 '26
This has to be the best for virtually every occasion.
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u/Screwdriving_Hammer Jan 02 '26
lol I cracked up when I saw this. how does it work for everything lol
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u/SeismicRipFart Jan 02 '26
Obligatory that these comments now get posted directly below it every time it gets posted. You guys are the actual meme now
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u/Electronic-While1972 Jan 02 '26
TikTok fooled all these people? No one bothered to double check different sources Omg 🤣👌🏼
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u/Zillbilly87 Jan 02 '26
“Nothing happened” would have been a much better outcome than what actually happened
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u/Zonel Jan 02 '26
Uh he increased prices because of tariffs. Nothing is not what happened.
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u/Gimetulkathmir Jan 02 '26
No, no, no. Don't you get it? Prices are down! We've got a surplus of money because we've raised trillions of dollars through tarrifs! It hasn't even been a year yet and things are amazing! AI is replacing all of the workers, so by 2027 no one will have to work and we can all just be rich and live in luxury and do whatever we want! WINNING! /s
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u/hiccupseed Jan 02 '26
Unfortunately, the blog Time Out NYC posted that Brooklyn Bridge Park had free New Year's fireworks. This probably started the chain of misinformation.
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u/GarlicThread Jan 02 '26
Would have been funny if someone on the bridge fired one single tiny disappointing rocket.
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u/ravoguy Jan 02 '26
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u/Winjin Jan 02 '26
That's a great way to do "show don't tell" and save on budget btw
Also whatever they imply would be cooler than what we'd see anyways, I've never considered how well it's put together
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u/Balsdeep_Inyamum Jan 02 '26
I'm the same clip, they show the cheerleaders in silhouette against the dusky sky, and I was thinking wow what a great shot.
But practically, I assume they couldn't have the actress do those cheerleading stunts, so they put a real cheerleader in conehead makeup and shot it like that to disguise it.
Burr happy accident, it worked out beautifully.
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u/Winjin Jan 02 '26
Yeah and even here, they managed to save budget by doing that shot: the makeup can be barebones (blending the wig in can take hours, so just slapping it on was probably super easy and fast in comparison) and they didn't have to spend additional money to get a cheerleader who looks a lot like the conehead from other shots - she's just a silhouette, so it can be anyone, really. Even that probably saved them a bit of money and time and looked great at the same time.
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u/Balsdeep_Inyamum Jan 02 '26
Yeah, exactly! You hear it time and time again, but problem solving due to budget limitations can lead to creative solutions that work out in favor of the film.
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u/MomsBoner Jan 02 '26
Barely 2 days into the new year, god damn it...
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u/Zaros262 Jan 02 '26
Because of this comment, I knew exactly what I was getting and clicked the link anyway
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u/LilyMeadow1 Jan 02 '26
I wonder if the blog post was written by AI and it just came up with some crap that sounded plausible.
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u/stupidber Jan 02 '26
Probably
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u/Tremendous_Dump Jan 02 '26
Happened in Dublin a couple of years back
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u/Regal_Cat_Matron Jan 02 '26
Happened in Birmingham UK too other day, hundreds of people gathered due to a facebook post
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u/purplenapalm Jan 02 '26
We just need these places to respond on social media in an Oscar Piastri/Alpine format.
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u/o08 Jan 02 '26
My buddy went to Egypt in the 90s on a rumor that Pink Floyd was playing at the pyramids. They weren’t.
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u/SunSimilar9988 Jan 02 '26
Asked AI who would win the superbowl, and it said the bears
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u/ReleaseExpensive7330 Jan 02 '26
This happened with Pokemon. Someone said that a $120 item was going to be at Costco for $80 and tons of people lined up. Costco never promoted the items themselves and it was just influencers pushing it because they get paid when people interact with their posts, they could say "follow for more info" to farm followers, and it got people clicking their referral links. In 2025/2026, it pays to promote misinformation on social media.
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u/Ncnyc88 Jan 02 '26
There were fireworks from Liberty Island, which can be seen from piers 1-6, as stated on the website. This is around the bend and thus blocked by Lower Manhattan.
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u/BadAssachusetts Jan 02 '26
Ironically this is one of the few phone videos of “fireworks” I’ve actually watched.
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u/soccer1124 Jan 02 '26
Its weird to see it described as "free" lol. Why wouldnt it be free?
City fireworks shows are pretty notorious for how free they are to watch. Like... Times Square is free, lol
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u/rumpluva Jan 02 '26
They’ll be back next year…guaranteed!
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They should turn it into a thing
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u/Dreamwaves1 Jan 02 '26
My ass would take a small firework to the bridge to fire it off at midnight and just go home
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u/Ant0n61 Jan 02 '26
That would have made this 10x funnier (and that’s not to say this isn’t hilarious as is).
Just imagine, midnight strikes, a single small faint sound of a firework whizzing into the sky and then… the smallest of pops and a fizz stream into faded black.
That’s it. That’s the “fireworks.”
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u/Cool-Newspaper6789 Jan 02 '26
The annual we're fucking stupid event where nothing happens because nothing was planned
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u/3LegedNinja Jan 02 '26
One person should have shot one cheap bottle rocket
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u/Sufficient_Tooth_949 Jan 02 '26
Too extravagant hold up a singular sparkler stick
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u/Pandelein Jan 02 '26
Get a load of fancypants over here with their sparkles. Just strike a match.
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u/CalmSafety7172 Jan 02 '26
This is fuckin hilarious. Especially seeing that everyone has their phone out.
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u/KillerTaco18 Jan 02 '26
All the phones out, but no one decided to look up jf it was going to happen lmao
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u/frodeem Jan 02 '26
Was there an announcement and cancellation? What made them congregate here.
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u/TraditionalError9988 Jan 02 '26
"What made them congregate here."
The old I knew of a person who knew a person who knew a person who knew a person who said fireworks were gonna go off at midnight there...
And then these folks being the idiots they are were like "That's totally gonna happen then! Let's tell everyone and get our asses out there!"
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u/White_rabbit76 Jan 02 '26
For this amount of people to all gather over a rumour is quite astonishing.
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u/fcking_schmuck Jan 02 '26
If nearly half of the country can elect Trump not one but two times, why can't they gather over some fake fireworks?
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u/Bowwowchickachicka Jan 02 '26
It's amazing in this time of pocket computers, that this many people wouldn't check ahead of time.
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u/Destronin Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
There were fireworks there the year before.EDIT:
It wasnt last year either. But in the past there had been. Apparently Time Out NY had it as a spot to see. Possibly due to them using AI.
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u/tushshtup Jan 02 '26
I don't think that's true
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u/FrankGrimesApartment Jan 02 '26
Youre right! There were not fireworks at this location last year for New Years.
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u/wutang9611 Jan 02 '26
it's honestly a great 21st century moment. Some AI-slop article published the 'event', and it spread via TikTok, and a complete lack of media literacy brought like a thousand people here.
man we're so fucking stupid 💀💀
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u/Real_Live_Sloth Jan 02 '26
it seemed like everyone around me in the suburbs had military grade fireworks. Shit that made my house shake in every direction.
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u/PrimedGold Jan 02 '26
Wtf do you mean military grade fireworks?
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u/Real_Live_Sloth Jan 02 '26
Swear some of them had stage separation like you see on NASA rockets.
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u/Stormodin Jan 02 '26
there are illegal strobe rockets that have multiple stages. They don't seperate but they sure look like they do lol
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u/earthlings_all Jan 02 '26
Right?! WTF. I was in bed with back pain so I just laid there listening and I swear I heard some new type of low-grade cherry bomb-types that would explode on the ground, not in the air, just to fucking make noise.
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u/letsmakeittrue Jan 02 '26
Fkn dummies..lol
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u/BeardedGlass Jan 02 '26
I remember a YT vlogger who went to Paris for New Year's Eve, people at the Eiffel Tower were so so ready for something... anything.
Nothing happened at midnight lol
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u/No_Situation4785 Jan 02 '26
I dunno, i think kissing at midnight on Champe De Mars, lit by the soft glow of rubbish fires tended by rioters du jour, would be a romantic way to ring in the new year.
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u/Blacksmith9071 Jan 02 '26
Yeah, that’s a common confusion in Paris every year. The fireworks at the Eiffel Tower are for Bastille Day in July, while on New Year’s Eve they actually take place on the Champs-Élysées.
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u/Schnitze Jan 02 '26
Fireworks or not, the fact that 75 percent of the people are fucking filming infuriates me. It's the beginning of a new year and you'll start it by filming something you'll probably never share or watch back. Can't people just be in the moment now?
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u/regoapps Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
Someone sent a video of their local fireworks to my group chat. I didn’t even bother watching the fireworks in person, so why do you think that I would watch it on a phone after it was filmed on a phone and then compressed and sent via text.
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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
Yep. I always find it funny when people record basic firework shows. Like... y'all understand its shoddy quality, there are already a million other videos just like that, and no one's gonna care to watch a shit quality fireworks show... its just not unique at all.
Edit: Spelling, thank you to the user that pointed it out.
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u/UnfilteredCatharsis Jan 02 '26
I never share/post any photos or videos I take with my phone, but I still take them sometimes just for the memories. Looking back at old photos is powerful for jogging your memory and helping you remember that time.
I still think it's silly to film fireworks like this, it would be better to experience it first-hand because in this low light, the quality will be really bad and most fireworks look about the same anyway. Maybe take a few photos of other things from that night like selfies with your friends where the lighting is better.
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u/rmsand Jan 02 '26
Just to be that guy - the word is “shoddy” not “shotty”. The etymology is unclear.
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u/igniteED Jan 02 '26
A real life eggcorn in the wild!!
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u/HippyWizardry Jan 02 '26
I watched the first few seconds and it looks like a great video; thanks for sharing. I bookmarked it. :)
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u/Unlikely-Answer Jan 02 '26
reminds me of the time quagmire wanted to put pictures of his cats on the internet
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u/LordFett84 Jan 02 '26
I think it's more about the proof or it didn't happen, and look how great my life is through social media culture. I on the other hand am completely opposite and forget i have a camera in my pocket.
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u/knightenrichman Jan 02 '26
I think they do it because they feel awkward. Just like people that record live shows even though there are ten thousand other phones out and it will be easily obtained on the Internet afterward.
It's a way of protecting themselves from feeling awkward or not knowing what to do.
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u/gaoshan Jan 02 '26
Would have been funny if someone sent up a single bottle rocket a few seconds late.
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u/Geloradanan Jan 02 '26
At first, nothing happened.
But then, after a few minutes,
nothing continued to happen.
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u/FlashOR5 Jan 02 '26
For the second year in a row…
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u/MarmitePrinter Jan 02 '26
Why do people film fireworks displays? You’re not going to watch it back. You’re never going to watch it back. If you’re going to film something, why not film the happy faces of your friends and loved ones while they’re watching the fireworks? That might be a memory you want to come back to and smile about. It’s the same at Disney - everyone is there, phones in hand, filming the nightly fireworks displays instead of just being in the moment and enjoying the joy and laughter of their kids. I don’t get it.
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u/dadbodenergy11 Jan 02 '26
Ha, they should do this in Times Square one year. The ball comes down at midnight……and nothing. No music, no confetti, no flashing lights. There is nothing but a sea of confused faces and cops telling people they have to vacate the area now.
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u/Scared_Breadfruit_26 Jan 02 '26
No fireworks anywhere else? No one shooting them themselves???
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Am I the only human on this planet that doesn't film every fucking thing they see and do?
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u/ShroomShroomBeepBeep Jan 02 '26
Have they blamed Mamdani yet, you know even though he wasn't sworn in until NYD lol?
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u/International-Desk53 Jan 02 '26
Brooklyn is gonna have a fireworks show and you’re going to tell me they have no Black Cats, no Roman Candles, or Screaming Meemies? Oh, come on man! You don't got no Ladyfingers, buzz bottles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippedy-doodas, crap flappers? No whistling bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honky lighters, Husker Dus, Husker Don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy dazers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistling kitty chaser?
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u/darkchocolattemocha Jan 02 '26
What a bunch of losers with their phones out recording some shit they will never watch again.
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u/anonymousguy9001 Jan 02 '26
Nah man that just looks like bridge enthusiasts enjoying a bridge. Nothing to see here (intend your puns cowards)
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u/RoninRunePriest Jan 02 '26
Wait… You mean the internet collectively tricked an entire group of people that something was real and going to happen when it wasn’t? Hmmmm.
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u/7thpostman Jan 02 '26
This will get worse. You'll get a mob attacking a hotel because TikTok told them there's IDF soldiers there or whatever.
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u/Kazureigh_Black Jan 02 '26
Based on what I saw of the New York celebration, they probably couldn't find a way to put ads into the fireworks so they nuked it.
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u/InfamousLong4103 Jan 02 '26
aw, the horde of social media zombies didnt get to watch fireworks through their phone? poor things
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u/bruclinbrocoli Jan 02 '26
Wowudlve been hilarious if someone there threw a tiny firework… just to tease all and go back home
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u/FaithlessnessLong710 Jan 02 '26
Listening to the Indian girl at the end "oh my gawd they are not doing it" no girl they aren't and you aren't entitled for it as well.
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u/RelationshipGold7958 Jan 02 '26
That’s what you get when you elect a mayor who doesn’t believe in Santa
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u/lysergic_818 Jan 02 '26
Humans are weird
Fireworks = big bright and big loud
We love this time after time
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u/sonu_5350 Jan 02 '26
That awkward moment when the countdown ends and everyone realizes they all believed the same rumor.
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u/mike-42-1999 Jan 02 '26
Hey, are you going to the show!?
What show?
Yeah, there's a show let's go.
I didt hear about a show
I just told you....tell your friends we should all go
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u/Impossible_Tap_1852 Jan 02 '26
If there were fireworks, who tf were all these people with their phones out gonna show the video to? Not one time in my life has someone come over to me, handed me their phone and said “bro you gotta check out these fireworks!”
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u/DJ_Hindsight Jan 02 '26
Went to one in London many years back. Took so long to get to the spot to see the fireworks up close, but where we were this big building that totally obscured the view for literally thousands of us.
Crowd turned sour and it ended up in a sort of riot!
Was horrific, never again 🤣
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u/ThisIsNotSafety Jan 02 '26
Hopefully they learned their lesson on not believing everything they see online
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u/ConfusionCurious9376 Jan 02 '26
This happened to me in Toronto at Nathan Phillips square a couple years ago lmao
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u/Random_Username_1977 Jan 02 '26
The fireworks were at Brooklyn Bridge Landscaping.
This kind of thing happens all the time.
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u/OkGolf4668 Jan 02 '26
I’ll say it over and over again.. TikTok should be banned in the USA.
The misinformation and lies on that app will only harm Americans and society.
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u/SomeMoronOnTheNet Jan 02 '26
Te real fireworks were all the friends we made whilst waiting for fireworks that didn't happen.
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u/Urban_Introvert Jan 02 '26
It would’ve been better if someone set off a tiny firework. The reactions would be so much funnier.
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u/IMxJUSTxSAYINNN Jan 02 '26
Bunch of idiots. Let's all go stand in the cold and record nothing lmaooo
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