Poll of the Day > woah will smith just punched chris rock in the face on the oscars

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Adam_Savage
03/27/22 10:41:08 PM
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https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1508271453656870916

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JOExHIGASHI
03/27/22 11:01:51 PM
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He over reacted over a tame joke

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KodyKeir
03/27/22 11:05:20 PM
#3:


He slapped him, then he shouted:


Leave my wifes name out of your f--king mouth. Yes. Keep my wifes name out of your f--king mouth.


It was uncensored in Australia.

https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1508270575902687232


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The_Viscount
03/28/22 1:33:13 AM
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Yeah, not sure why everybody keeps saying it was a punch, even Chris mentions it was a slap by saying he was smacked.

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dioxxys
03/28/22 1:52:31 AM
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dang son
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Red04
03/28/22 8:39:46 AM
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Wills Instagram post before attending:
me and Jada got all dressed up to choose chaos - both grimacing angrily.
The son Jaden on Twitter after the slap: And thats how we do it
This was either staged really well with great acting or Will Smith seriously need some anger management courses asap. It shouldve stopped at cursing at Chris at most, not proceed to then slap him on stage on live TV. Better yet, Will shouldve verbally confronted Chris directly after the show or during a break.
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Wanded
03/28/22 8:45:28 AM
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100% staged


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Wanded
03/28/22 8:47:50 AM
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Red04 posted...
Will shouldve verbally confronted Chris directly after the show or during a break.
wouldn't this also be an overreaction
joke was hella tame

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Judgmenl
03/28/22 8:54:27 AM
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It was staged

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Red04
03/28/22 9:00:35 AM
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I guess he took academy award/celebrity attention craving to a new level, although not funny or classy at all.
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SKARDAVNELNATE
03/28/22 9:25:21 AM
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Finally a reason to watch an award show.

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Wanded
03/28/22 9:45:28 AM
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Red04 posted...
I guess he took academy award/celebrity attention craving to a new level, although not funny or classy at all.
will smith became a meme in the last few years for several reasons, this staged stunt helps people treat him more seriously

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SilentSeph
03/28/22 10:04:02 AM
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Wanded posted...
will smith became a meme in the last few years for several reasons, this staged stunt helps people treat him more seriously
From what I see, this incident is causing him to get clowned and meme'd even more than before

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Red04
03/28/22 10:30:16 AM
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Wanded posted...
will smith became a meme in the last few years for several reasons, this staged stunt helps people treat him more seriously
I havent been following previous news about him, what was this meme all about and for what reasons?
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Wanded
03/28/22 10:35:56 AM
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SilentSeph posted...
From what I see, this incident is causing him to get clowned and meme'd even more than before
meme makers and people like us who are terminally online would side with rock because as internet people we're used to much worse than rocks joke and have become numb to insults, but most people aren't like us

all the memes i've seen so far present the moment smith slaps rock, obviously it's better optics in such memes to be the guy punching than the guy being punched

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KodyKeir
03/28/22 10:51:03 AM
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Wanded posted...
100% staged

Get out of here with that bullshit.

LAPD is saying that Rock is not pressing charges, if it was staged they would have stated such.

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GRTooCool
03/28/22 10:54:22 AM
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Staged for the ratings because it has been dropping basically every year. This is something to bring it back up as people scramble to tune in and whatnot.

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Revelation34
03/28/22 10:57:13 AM
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KodyKeir posted...


Get out of here with that bullshit.

LAPD is saying that Rock is not pressing charges, if it was staged they would have stated such.


Wat. A person can choose not to press charges.

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Wanded
03/28/22 11:05:56 AM
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Red04 posted...
I havent been following previous news about him, what was this meme all about and for what reasons?
there are probably 2 main factors, one is the notion most people have about smith only being able to play himself, like when he played deadshot in suicide squad, the character didn't feel like deadshot, it felt like will smith, same with the genie is Aladdin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/au18pp/will_smith_is_only_good_at_being_will_smith/

second is his youtube 2018 rewind appearance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ6l13s4HZ4


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KodyKeir
03/28/22 11:21:52 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
Wat.

There is a difference between "I'm not pressing charges because it's not worth putting it through the courts" and "I'm not pressing charges because it was a bit we were all in on"

I'm saying that if it was staged, that would have come out as part of the LAPD investigation into the incident.


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keyblader1985
03/28/22 11:23:23 AM
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Wanded posted...
the notion most people have about smith only being able to play himself
I've always hated when people say that because it's nowhere near true. Take his characters from Independence Day/Men in Black/Bad Boys, then look at his characters in Ali, Pursuit of Happyness, Bagger Vance, Seven Pounds, I Robot, or even Hitch and try to say they're even remotely alike.

Hes a damn good character actor, and what people are actually saying when they when they complain is that they just don't like when he plays cool/energetic characters.

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Revelation34
03/28/22 11:23:50 AM
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KodyKeir posted...


There is a difference between "I'm not pressing charges because it's not worth putting it through the courts" and "I'm not pressing charges because it was a bit we were all in on"

I'm saying that if it was staged, that would have come out as part of the LAPD investigation into the incident.



Neither one of those were quotes from the LAPD.

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KodyKeir
03/28/22 11:29:59 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
Neither one of those were quotes from the LAPD.

Never said they were.

The point I was making:

KodyKeir posted...
I'm saying that if it was staged, that would have come out as part of the LAPD investigation into the incident.


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Revelation34
03/28/22 11:35:59 AM
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KodyKeir posted...


Never said they were.

The point I was making:



Yet they never would have said if it was or wasn't staged.

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KodyKeir
03/28/22 11:38:17 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
Yet they never would have said if it was or wasn't staged.

Have you met the LAPD?

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Revelation34
03/28/22 11:43:18 AM
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KodyKeir posted...


Have you met the LAPD?


The Canadian has totally met the LAPD.

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KodyKeir
03/28/22 11:49:15 AM
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AF&AM

The Brothers of the LAPD have very close ties with the OPP

Most people have no clue the close knit ties the white nationalist elements in Canada have with their brethren in the states.

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Revelation34
03/28/22 12:01:16 PM
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KodyKeir posted...
AF&AM

The Brothers of the LAPD have very close ties with the OPP

Most people have no clue the close knit ties the white nationalist elements in Canada have with their brethren in the states.


Everybody believes your posts.

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Black_Crusher
03/28/22 12:17:15 PM
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At first I thought he was really over-reacting since I mean it's Rock's job as a comedian to make jokes but I mean if she's bald because of cancer or something I can see that pushing somebody over the edge a wee bit.

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FrozenBananas
03/28/22 12:24:28 PM
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Black_Crusher posted...
At first I thought he was really over-reacting since I mean it's Rock's job as a comedian to make jokes but I mean if she's bald because of cancer or something I can see that pushing somebody over the edge a wee bit.

Alopecia and Cancer are two completely different things

that being said its a comedian poking fun of celebrities, literally been happening every single year for decades

also hasnt jada Pickett been shaving her head / going bald for a long time now?

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AndyReklaw
03/28/22 12:26:53 PM
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It blew my mind that the swearing was just uncensored in other countries. The US broadcast rules are silly. Us delicate little flowers can't handle a few swears but the rest of the world is cool with it.

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Xtlm
03/28/22 12:48:04 PM
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That was a pretty hard hit for it to be staged.

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ParanoidObsessive
03/28/22 1:14:38 PM
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Wanded posted...
meme makers and people like us who are terminally online would side with rock because as internet people we're used to much worse than rocks joke and have become numb to insults, but most people aren't like us

all the memes i've seen so far present the moment smith slaps rock, obviously it's better optics in such memes to be the guy punching than the guy being punched

Yeah, but "the normies" are kind of shitting on Will Smith for it today as well.

He's not really coming out of this looking good to anyone, except the most old-school of dudes who are like "Yeah, you go man, handle yo' shit by slapping that dude for talkin' 'bout yo' wife."



keyblader1985 posted...
I've always hated when people say that because it's nowhere near true.

Hes a damn good character actor, and what people are actually saying when they when they complain is that they just don't like when he plays cool/energetic characters.

That's not really what people are complaining about at all.

Most of his characters ARE more or less the same, just with slight variations. Like when he was The Fresh Prince fighting aliens. Or the Fresh Prince fighting vampires. Or The Fresh Prince fighting robots. Or The Fresh Prince fighting different aliens. Or The Fresh Prince as a cop. Or The Fresh Prince fighting a weird Confederate super-villain with a giant robot spider.

He IS a good actor... when he's allowed to be. But most of the time (especially in his biggest, most memorable roles to the mainstream audience), he's just playing "The Fresh Prince". Because that's what Hollywood pays him to be. Every once in a while he'll get to show off his acting skill in something like Six Degrees of Separation or The Pursuit of Happyness (or even, you know, the more dramatic scenes/moments from The Fresh Prince itself), but most of the time they just want "Big Willy Style", so that's what he gives them.

I don't even blame him for it - if Hollywood was willing to pay me $10+ million a picture to play the same character over and over again, I'd do it too.

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ParanoidObsessive
03/28/22 1:19:56 PM
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Xtlm posted...
That was a pretty hard hit for it to be staged.

That wouldn't necessarily mean anything.

The staged part would be if they both agreed on the hit ahead of time, and it was planned to happen for ulterior reasons.

A staged hit can still be a case of Chris Rock basically going "No man, just straight up hit me, make it look real."

It's sort of like in wrestling. Some times wrestlers will use "worked punches" so they're not actually hitting each other but it mostly looks like they are (if they're done well), but sometimes they'll straight up "work stiff" and actually hit each other pretty hard just to make it look as real as possible (because it basically IS real). So long as both wrestlers agree in advance that they're going to be working stiff, usually no one gets permanently hurt for real and there's no hard feelings afterward.

Though no, I doubt the slap was staged. I just think Chris Rock and Will Smith have preexisting issues and one of them maybe has some unresolved baggage in his own head that he really should be working through (not to mention the emphasis black culture in general tends to put on "being a man").

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BlackScythe0
03/28/22 2:05:39 PM
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Wanded posted...
100% staged

I find it so weird that conservatives are so unwilling to accept reality they gotta make up conspiracies even when it doesn't make sense.

Why would this be staged? Why would anyone agree to stage this when it makes everyone look bad?
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iwasapoetonce
03/28/22 2:21:16 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
I find it so weird that conservatives are so unwilling to accept reality they gotta make up conspiracies even when it doesn't make sense.

Why would this be staged? Why would anyone agree to stage this when it makes everyone look bad?

I also find it weird when people are looking to brand things in some sort of political fashion when it doesn't need to be.

A liberal could easily find this to be staged while a conservative could easily think this was real. In fact, I was just talking to a card carrying conservative I work with who absolutely thinks this is real.

I don't know many people by name at PoTD, and maybe Wanded is a conservative. I don't know, and I don't care. I just find it strange why people want to brand things as political when it absolutely doesn't need to be.

When we're off the internet, and just doing our things on a normal day, we'll find that both conservatives and liberals have more in common in their everyday lives than they think.

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Wanded
03/28/22 2:26:38 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Yeah, but "the normies" are kind of s***ting on Will Smith for it today as well.

He's not really coming out of this looking good to anyone, except the most old-school of dudes who are like "Yeah, you go man, handle yo' s*** by slapping that dude for talkin' 'bout yo' wife."
he'll post a sob story about his wifes disease and it'll balance out

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Metalsonic66
03/28/22 2:34:21 PM
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Neither Chris nor Jada are that good at acting.

Those were real reactions.

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Wanded
03/28/22 2:43:26 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
I find it so weird that conservatives are so unwilling to accept reality they gotta make up conspiracies even when it doesn't make sense.

Why would this be staged? Why would anyone agree to stage this when it makes everyone look bad?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79961606/963817721

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Zareth
03/28/22 3:08:17 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
Why would this be staged? Why would anyone agree to stage this when it makes everyone look bad?
CRAZY CONSPIRACY TIME

Putin paid to have this staged so internet outrage culture would focus on it for a few weeks and ignore the Ukraine situation

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DeltaBladeX
03/28/22 3:46:34 PM
#43:


KodyKeir posted...
He slapped him

Paper beats rock

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Kyuubi4269
03/28/22 3:49:07 PM
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It's both staged AND it makes him look like such a massive cuck acting out. We already know she doesn't respect him.

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keyblader1985
03/28/22 3:49:29 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Most of his characters ARE more or less the same, just with slight variations.
I wouldn't even say that. Look at his filmography.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith_filmography

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BlackScythe0
03/28/22 4:04:52 PM
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Kyuubi4269 posted...
It's both staged AND it makes him look like such a massive cuck acting out. We already know she doesn't respect him.
I haven't seen any one provide any observations as to why it would appear staged, any insight?
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GRTooCool
03/28/22 4:40:22 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
I find it so weird that conservatives are so unwilling to accept reality they gotta make up conspiracies even when it doesn't make sense.

Why would this be staged? Why would anyone agree to stage this when it makes everyone look bad?

I'm not a conservative but I know Hollywood. (I live in LA if that counts for anything)

Chris Rock leaned in and braced for the slap that he knew was coming.

But look, ratings are up. Will gets to look strong for defending his wife. Chris's comedy tour? Ticket sales were slow and steady for him but after that bit he's basically sold out almost immediately.

Win-win-win situation for all.

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Metalsonic66
03/28/22 4:43:04 PM
#48:


GRTooCool posted...
braced for the slap that he knew was coming.
You tend to know a slap is coming when a guy approaches you with a hand raised into the air

That, or a high-five

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Lokarin
03/28/22 5:09:04 PM
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https://i.redd.it/efvlfdu7y5q81.jpg

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wwinterj25
03/28/22 5:09:33 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
It was staged
Agreed. Anything to get attention I suppose.

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