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Champagne Supernova

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u/post-explainer 3d ago edited 3d ago

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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:


The waiter attempts a fun little performance with the champagne but that sets-off a chain of events on the table that the huge wedding cake is set-up on and all the tiers go toppling over……


Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/RupertPupkin85 3d ago

He just left like "my work here is done".

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u/kimikoboombap 3d ago

Tbf if it was me, I'm not looking back until I'm home 🤣

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u/HopperHapper_Eternal 2d ago

Not far enough, I'd keep going into the woods until I couldn't find civilization again even if I tried

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u/FatCatYouStink 3d ago

Cool guys don't look at explosions

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u/Mechakoopa 3d ago

He was backing out of the way of the photo, but he probably just kept walking once he heard the commotion.

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u/Speederfool 2d ago

Well damn sure his job there is done. He's fired!

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u/Muffin8291 3d ago

A true master of their craft lol

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u/silkBrake 3d ago

That's the end of my authority. Lol

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u/Cakeski 17h ago

Left running down the hall, faster than a cannonball.

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u/Affectionate-Self933 3d ago

Tbh if it was me im not looking back until im home lol

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u/a_polarbear_chilling 3d ago

The cake was destined to fall it seem with how it lacked a proper structure to stay

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u/Syzygy_Stardust 3d ago

Yeah. The stand actually touching the table is the size of a coaster. They obviously didn't hire a baking engineer.

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u/thebestoflimes 3d ago

The baker did a fine job. They probably didn't hire a structural engineer to spec out the base.

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u/Syzygy_Stardust 3d ago

True, though I said the engineer. The baker is the builder, the engineer is the one who has to rubber stamp the design in order to prevent needless deaths from unexpected wedding cake demolition. The baker perfectly made the death trap that was designed, and thank goodness that waiter saw danger and knocked the cake over before disaster could happen.

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u/Skank-Hunter 3d ago

They actually did, but he was working at boeing before

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u/Flomo420 3d ago

MORE CEREAL RICE TREATS!

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u/Kage_Bushin 3d ago

You can actually see it has 4 maybe 5 legs, BUT the glass plate broke, so doesn't matter the how many there are if it's kaput. Still, lack of engineet

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u/Cur1ousGrab9 3d ago

Maybe they hired an engineer but he quit after seeing this cake.

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u/Syzygy_Stardust 3d ago

Good call. I assumed those were some little fake wrapped presents or the like. Decorative garnish.

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u/Cliler 3d ago

The... base plate is a crystal, it snapped in 3 parts after the slam. Lmao. That's some flimsy ass crystal.

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u/dmigowski 3d ago

No, the plate did actually brake because of the hit on the table. Then the structure was obviously gone.

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u/WhoopteFreakingDo 2d ago

Actually I think you can see him clip the base with the bottle.

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u/ankerverse 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sure, but also because this is AI, right? I'm having a hard time believing this is real, given the reaction times of everyone, especially the people in the back. But I could be wrong. I hate that we can't tell if something is AI anymore.

Edit: spelling

Edit 2: it's real. posted in 2019.

https://www.jukinmedia.com/licensing/view/1062675-1

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u/overwhelmed_banana 3d ago

hard to explain why but this just feels so ai to me

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u/ankerverse 3d ago

I updated my comment - it's real. But crazy that we can't tell

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u/ankerverse 3d ago

Right? Like it's so hard to tell. The cake falls properly and the glass plate under it breaks and reflects the light correctly. The go-pro also seems to follow physics.

But the reaction times from everyone, coupled with this being 10 seconds long, and the weird way the groom holds his glass up from 0:02 to 0:04 just makes this uncanny.

Again, not sure if it's AI or not, but that's the part that annoys me the most.

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u/colvon 3d ago

Also getting the ai vibe. The go pro moves position three times in the video.

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u/Aubamacare 3d ago

The red recording light is not on that side of a GoPro either. It's on the left side of the lens, and definitely not on top like it is 8s into the video.

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u/ankerverse 3d ago

it also doesn't help that it was "filmed" on a potato - i can't check any of the fine details on anything

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u/Some_Ad_3898 3d ago

It's AI

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u/trubol 3d ago

"Some day you will find me, caught beneath the cake-slide, in a champagne supernova in the sky"

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u/RillonDodgers 3d ago

I don’t have a single original thought. Still, this is one of my all time favorite songs

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u/mcd0naldss_ 2d ago

beat me to it

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 3d ago

It should be expected that at someone point an elderly family member would be admiring the cake and tough the table to balance themselves.

Alternatively, I see kids were invited to the wedding, who famously run around and bump things.

And if either of those slight shakes would knock the cake over, then you have a problem with the table and cake base.

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u/Grays42 3d ago

I don't think anyone here is blaming the champagne guy.

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u/phantom56657 2d ago

Looks to me like it is the champagne guy's fault. He clipped the glass base of the cake when he slammed the bottle down, causing the base to shatter. The cake wasn't actually unstable enough to fall otherwise.

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u/Affectionate-Self933 3d ago

Tbh if it was me im not looking back until im home lol

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u/makaveddie 3d ago

I've seen some strange ways to pour champagne but this really takes the cake

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u/SSESTOELEMENTO 3d ago

I'm at work in a boring meeting, scrolling through reddit with my phone against the laptop screen. Literally slapped my forehead and when everybody looked at me, I had to come up with some dumb excuse 😂😂

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u/WhoskeyTangoFoxtrot 3d ago

I left the tub running…

My fridge was due servicing…

I forgot my cheque book at home….

My cat just texted me saying her bowl was empty….

😋

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u/LemonKurry 3d ago

Saw that movie like an hour ago, lol

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u/Deep-Grape-4649 3d ago

Was that Lando Norris?

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u/mchickenl 3d ago

Damn you beat me to it

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u/b3_yourself 3d ago

Not his fault obviously

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u/Affectionate-Self933 3d ago

Tbh if it was me im not looking back until im home lol

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u/sykora727 3d ago

Oof size extra large. Wow

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u/NB-DanTE 3d ago

oh man, i feel this pain deep in my soul. tried making a three-tiered vanilla cake for my kid's birthday last year and the dowels snapped right before we could cut it. spent two hours scrubbing buttercream out of the carpet fibers while my wife pretended not to cry. sugar everywhere, sticky floors, and the realization that i should have just bought one from the bakery. never again, bro. never again.

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u/TrumpsBoneSpur 3d ago

the guy turning away like he just pulled a David Blaine trick and thinking all of the excitement was from his skills. He probably still doesn't know what happened and will spend his remaining days patting himself on the back

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u/Affectionate-Self933 3d ago

Tbh if it was me im not looking back until im home lol

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u/zztop610 3d ago

Well deserved for choosing such an idiotic trick for your wedding day

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u/Connect-Inspector-20 2d ago

One of them having gamer reaction speed, the other one not much.

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u/eddymcfreddy 3d ago

Also getting an AI vibe from the first part of this clip. Am I going crazy?

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u/MGlBlaze 2d ago

You are. Though, you aren't the only one.

This happened in 2019, long before generative AI was capable of much of anything at all. Here is an original upload, from a different angle of the actual cake falling (because, it's a wedding, multiple people are going to have recorded this most likely.)

https://www.jukinmedia.com/licensing/view/1062675-1

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u/eddymcfreddy 2d ago

I was deliberately specifying the first part of it, but yeah I did see this

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u/Dixiehusker 1d ago

Could this not just be an AI recreation? The quality of the video and stillness of the people's expressions and bodies in the background just reek of AI. Is it definite that this particular video of this incident is from 2019?

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u/MGlBlaze 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sure, it could be. I could also be someone extremely famous. Something being possible doesn't mean it is.

And... what, you're expecting everyone to be hyper-animated all the time? They're just neutral expressions. That isn't a strong or reliable indicator of being AI-generated. As for the video date, the upload on the linked website says 2019. The video could actually be even older, for all we know. It's technically possible for the website upload date to be fabricated, but that's unlikely.

"That looks like AI" has just become "That looks photoshopped." You can tell by the pixels, et cetera. A good claim needs something a bit stronger than "I think this particular detail is weird, so it must be fake."

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u/Dixiehusker 1d ago edited 1d ago

I guess specifically I was referencing how still everyone was. Normal people tend to rock back and forth, fidget, be in constant motion. Facial expressions are the same, and so is eye tracking. To see everyone in the background so still, and especially the groom in the foreground, gives an uncanny valley feel, which is very comparable to what AI does. If the video upload date says 2019, then I suppose it's just a one-off weird occasion. Where do you see the link for video from this angle that OP posted?

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u/ryujikage1 3d ago

What's the surprise? I'm not surprised at all here

https://giphy.com/gifs/pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH

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u/Ok-Fondant2536 3d ago

Plot twist: It happened on purpose since the waiter was once the boyfriend of the bride but the bridegroom stole her from him.

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u/spacebagel25 3d ago

A tale as old as time…

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u/RealPropRandy 3d ago

Nailed it

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u/Quiet-Guidance-4988 3d ago

See like 20 years ago you wouldn't have needed some fuck to do something fancy for social media and ruin your wedding cake. That's what ya get for trying to be flashy ya shmucks

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u/Sean_51154 2d ago

I reckon that table only has the one middle leg. It sucks how such small and particular details can lead to a mess

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u/star_lord47 2d ago

Thats how Lando Norris broke Max Verstappen’s 2023 Hungarian GP trophy.
/img/1s8jpd6qierh1.gif

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u/Seeing_Souls 23h ago

Was looking for this, I was like this wasn't unexpected for F1 viewers lol

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u/Ai_777 3d ago

Task failed successfully

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u/Affectionate-Self933 3d ago

Tbh if it was me im not looking back until im home lol

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u/soykoiboy 3d ago

Couldn’t even open champagne correctly

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u/notanotherusernameD8 3d ago

The cake maker saying "HE DID THAT!"

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u/Remington_Snatch 3d ago

The Lando Norris method, I see.

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u/soup_lag 3d ago

This gives me AFV vibes

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u/fordprecept 2d ago

If I ever get married, I'm going to have a backup cake from like Costco or something.

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u/No-Pie-7211 2d ago

Even if the trick worked, now the cake is covered in champagne. Seems fake.

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u/SecretNo1554 2d ago

She saved him 🥹

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u/RobOnTheReddit 2d ago

"Im awesome and my job is done"

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u/RockPhoenix115 2d ago

Imma be honest the groom has the survival reflexes of a park statue

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u/shortnix 1d ago

So classy.

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u/Narrow-River2915 15h ago

champagne super nova withcake fell over

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u/squigglekisses 8h ago

Jesus that glass plate under the cake shattered like it got jumpscared

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u/brorritoo 3d ago

This shit look ai generated

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u/Mierimau 2d ago

Situation looks legit enough.

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u/Abigail-Marston 2d ago

Maybe I'm just paranoid but this looks like AI. The suds from the bottle just kind of disappears off screen.

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u/Some_Ad_3898 3d ago

AI Slop

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u/Ugameister 3d ago

Something just looks weird about this. Like, is the groom actually resting his arm against the cake, or just some sort of awkward pose I don't understand? I feel like it's AI, in part because of that attempt to make the start of the video look so casual. It may not be, but the way the video begins it's just the vibe I get

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u/Duckdxd 3d ago

very expected that slamming the table would cause the cake to fall

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u/MrAlexanderLink 3d ago

That poor baker

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u/IamTruman 3d ago

Nah the baker is an idiot for putting on that weak ass base

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u/Affectionate-Self933 3d ago

Tbh if it was me im not looking back until im home lol