Awkward Stare | Brain Games

Do blank stares make you feel awkward and uncomfortable? We rigged a barbershop with hidden cameras to watch how customers would react if they suddenly became the center of everyone’s attention.
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[@calixa]

so basically, National Geographic is now getting into pranks.

[@HomebrandFishfood]

In It To Spin It no bRAiN gAmES

[@crazedcubing1195]

It’s brain games...

[@MindTrigger]

i agree

[@thompsonlensman8768]

CRAZY Staring Prank In The Hood (GONE WRONG)

[@chevon1920]

Pranks are sometimes social experiments

[@darkviking7135]

That guy at the window was so funny

[@elbandito5725]

Viktor Maes right 🤣🤣🤣

[@ajaylagrimas9488]

Hahaha exactly

[@subbot4417]

👁 👁 👃 👄

[@harleen5318]

Yeah your right 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@shkvocals]

Even more funny when he came in😂😂

[@sarilla6082]

I would just stare at one of them until they break character 😂

[@mekaimorris5963]

Sarilla they’re professional actors so I don’t think they would break character lol

[@dumbkidwhoknowstomuch8233]

Me'kai Morris you don’t know how i would do it

[@bdaarmy9736]

@@dumbkidwhoknowstomuch8233 They're getting paid not to. Won't be that easy. Especially since he's got a bunch of other people doing the same.

[@AmalgraemeV]

Now I wanna try that too

[@emilie3907]

same lol

[@bluex610]

They made it too obvious imo. They should have continued to do their things, but while looking at the guy over and stare once in a while. If this happened to me, I would think it's a prank right away.

[@tamearaharris63]

It's suppose to be OBVIOUS.

[@joji1673]

Even if you know that it is a prank, those eyes will still make you nervous.

[@cereal8974]

It’s not about being obvious or not it’s more like an experiment

[@samundraphewadin7459]

If your wondering how social anxiety feels, this is how it feels but without staring

[@annyeonghaseyoclownimnida7987]

True LOL

[@ChristineMAbrell]

That older guy is so funny haha. This was mean though

[@RAHULabatmanfan]

Hi Christine Abrell , did you watch full episode of it., it was more funny

[@Be1smaht]

He doesnt care

[@Sunflower28384]

How was it mean tf

[@anishanepal8881]

The guy outside the door 😂😂😂😂

[@johnc.3014]

I'd freak out like hell if i was in this situation.

[@737Bulldog]

A room full of silent people, who stopped everything they were doing could have something to do with it too

[@corychen7260]

I would’ve started laughing

[@maulid3514]

I wouldn't know what to do with my hands.

[@sirstain2613]

Swing em around

[@Brandon68plus1]

And that's why people have social anxiety disorder like myself. We think people are constantly looking at us and judging us

[@amritaswift443]

I would start laughing uncontrollably!!😂😂

[@annyeonghaseyoclownimnida7987]

Same LOL

[@SuicidalSummerSnowWoman]

same😂

[@goldenghxst]

Not funny, I have severe social anxiety and everyone staring at me would just worsen my paranoia and make me have a panic attack.

[@punoko6062]

lol

[@haydenhembree7015]

It’s actually really funny

[@Be1smaht]

You need to get over. When you're making moves people will look. Let them. You do you. You're welcome

[@Be1smaht]

Dont think about others focus on you

[@migglejoe1008]

Tori Gibson stoo being a little punk and get over it

[@kellysuzanne976]

I have social anxiety I would have been out !

[@gaviecross607]

I would burst out laughing cuz this is funny 😂😂

[@rain1676]

My god your beautiful

[@lyraskiwis1057]

The second guy is so funny

[@arlet101]

How to torture an introvert

[@hadassahlaura]

I’d get so anxious

[@Jessica.000]

How I feel when I have to do a presentation at school💔

[@mariehagemann420]

I'm so glad I'm high as balls watching this rn. I can even laugh at this because I got severe social anxiety. Haven't been out in like almost 6 months lmao.

[@4ohneys]

I would literally just bust out laughing. 😂😂😂 That second guy was great though.

[@pugzilla9172]

A demonstration of what it feels Like to have social anxiety

[@alphaarx3055]

Exactly

[@michelerodriguez2022]

I would have a hard time keeping a straight face 😂

[@promisonl3617]

I would probably just start laughing so hard if everyone was just staring at me like that because I would know that they were messing with me lol this was funny

[@sukievw]

my reaction: Problem?

[@bruhk9253]

I don't really care when people stare at me , I just stare back or close my eyes

[@RainbowCoda]

That one guy at the window is hilarious

[@matcimbo8916]

I could tell the minute he walked in the second guy wouldn't leave

[@TapanThakur1964]

1:21 When I got 50/50 in class test.

[@audreyfrench7553]

The guy staring through the window was too much LOL

[@StephJ0seph]

I would've been like, "What y'all looking at? Do I have something on my face?" 😂

[@mmisosouppp]

I would start laughing but inside I’d be dying

[@mitul__]

I ll start having a blinking competition with each one of them🤣🤣

[@MistahKayotic420]

Need to watch full episode.

[@aarohityagi4630]

If someone stares at me like that I would definitely start laughing 😂

[@monobloc]

1:41 that guy was trying to hold in his laughter so bad

[@catsadilla324]

Of course it's uncomfortable. It's essentially a horror movie.

[@julietatorres9253]

1:23 lol the face he is making and him overall

[@myfavourites5048]

If I will be in place of that second guy, after a minute, I will sUrely leave that place shouting that 'This place is haunted'😋😋😋lol

[@stephanieweeks3489]

We play this show at my job on loop and everytime this episode comes on I literally get uncomfortable just watching it. Freaks me tf out

[@kiran8656]

I was expecting Captain America winter Soldier lift scene, it would have been awesome 🤣

[@user-ez4cp2vh5s]

Lol

[@Mehhh_z]

I'll be all red

[@RayRay-ox2dg]

“ get a little closer, don’t be shy” 😂😂

[@ilogicalmind3618]

Tha face of the receptionist was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alexa-ni8gk]

thats my friends mom lol

[@shira1111]

a l e x a i’m the friend

[@brianinja]

@@alexa-ni8gk Is she still alive? I think it is hopeful.

[@bvnny1379]

I would stare right back at them like, "Who you starin' at?"

[@ranjith_s8032]

I am laughing😂😂😂

[@halhal2592]

I would think I was being surrounded by vampires

[@creamycatss]

I would get really uncomfortable and probably stand up to face everyone for fear that I'm about to get attacked or something.

[@irayan-hun]

I would knew right away that it was a prank. I would stare back at them and pretend to punch them in the face to put the joke on them.

[@MindTrigger]

its not that much, but it stimulates the mind to think "WHY" any weird action will let the mind ask "WHY" and then the brain will give the weird answers and the he start believing those answers and then it will appears to his body :)

[@dancepiglover]

One time when I was riding the bus, a kid sitting across from me was staring at me the whole time. It gave me so much anxiety, it was almost torture.

[@pallavisingh5013]

Omg this is so cool! !! I was laughing to death while watching the video! !

[@quilliamattari2772]

The second guy was awesome lol

[@peepoe]

Oh my god this is terrifying and perfect the second guy was great. Personally, I would assume it was a dream or cry

[@saschkaprama7548]

😂 the Guy in the window

[@opalmari6147]

0:12 oh my god that guy is my favorite

[@keisambemsana2204]

I would laugh like anything looking at those stares🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@juanvargas4200]

If that was me id just look down knowing they were judging me.

[@imanicepotato1540]

I would just go: dafuq am I that ugly?

[@premanshusingh9580]

i used this subconsciously on a teacher in 8th standard who had hit me without any reason , and angeryly staring him for a while maybe made him realise his mistake but he sure did mend his doings.

[@B1ackLotu5]

Honestly if I saw the 1 dude pressed against the glass like he was I would be laughing too much to even get a hair cut

[@annyeonghaseyoclownimnida7987]

My history teacher started staring at me and I burst out laughing LOL

[@crackroXsteady]

This is literally my life. I don't even notice anymore.

[@singingb]

Can you make a longer version this pls?

[@fazzadon8944]

That second guy is hilarious. Barber - "We're going to make u look handsome today" Guy - "it's gonna take more than a haircut for that"

[@bluelips501]

Lmao, I would stare back at them! 😂

[@cm.hipolito9318]

I'd leave. It's not normal for that to happen. All of the people in there are staring! They could be planning to kill you, you don't know what theyre thinking. It's best if you just leave if ever youre in that kind of situation.

[@StephJ0seph]

I would feel so uncomfortable especially since I'm already hyper self-aware/conscious in public a lot of the time The Spotlight Effect is real y'all

[@prajyot2021]

I love these kind of videos

[@DzDavidxD]

Aight, nobody knows that commercial 😂😂

[@makennaadamson4423]

My anxiety level has never hurt so much

[@dnc2115]

This is so uncomfortable to watch. I'm secondhand nervous for the test subjects

[@victortrejo5725]

I have the exact same shirt as the first guy. But I'm a musician performer, used to having eyes on me. I would make a joke/speak or something.

[@cosmosflowers5286]

I find this very cute 😂

[@sailorcandy6633]

I would have asked what's wrong with these people. Why are you staring at me like a bunch of stalkers

[@orangecrush922]

2:58 By the looks of it not well camera cuts off after the last guy lol

[@johnkia91]

how can that guy beside the test subject did not laugh. i will chuckle myself staring this long to a clueless guy

[@brennam5596]

The way I'd just be scrolling through Tiktok and wouldn't even notice 😭

[@rizot0ny1996]

The first guy is insecure 🤣

[@amyyhongg]

I would burst out laughing or start a staring contest

[@RezwanaShanta]

The guy playing with lagging people be like:

[@speedcubesolver1195]

This clip made me laugh so hard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Can't even express through words.

[@eaholland9146]

He talks about "pre-language humans," but this is about a communal animal vs a non-communal animal. Wolves, for example, certainly have their own "language" (howls, barks, growls, etc are their language)--but if all the wolves stopped and stared at one, it would think the same. (Dogs do the same, if I stare my brother down and my dog sees, she begins to stare my brother down too and starts play-stalking him, lol). Part of a community is the ability to pick up on the physical ques of the group which can indicate something is going to happen or needs to be done even when speech isn't practical (or safe). The reason your body temperature, heart rate, etc change is because adrenaline begins pumping to your body in case this is a situation you need to flee or fight.

[@svagnobb507]

I would start telling them random stories or I would sing of the top of my lungs

[@123leemur]

I would totally love to participate in this experiment

[@dhruvpatel6735]

That was literally me after my school results

[@Be1smaht]

I've done this to some people before. It's always works on them moving. You can try it.

[@xtragum6810]

My anxiety can NOT

[@hardeepbabhauri7379]

Thats why i got nervous to go on stage

[@AmalgraemeV]

Fascinating.

[@Cod4Wii]

THis is explain why I hate giving speeches in front of an audience.

[@alfemarie9116]

I really don't like people staring at me..

[@MinecraftRay114]

i have social anxiety, this would be like my worst nightmare...

[@YoMike91]

same

[@r.i.p.4485]

I hope I don't ever get picked for one of these experiments, I have anxiety and ptsd, I would have lost it and grabbed something sharp to attack with, maybe y'all can do a video explaining why people like me react like this. I literally will ,"wake up" sometime later and not know what I did, but usually the cops explain it to me later. Like my awareness trickles back after some time.

[@kaycyrus4251]

That counter lady tho😂

[@shira1111]

✨that’s literally my mom✨

[@blueflare3848]

This would make me more self conscious than I already am.

[@adhityabhaskaran4093]

Smart guy: .......a few staring faces...... Me: *couple of one to TEN ACTORS STARING THE S#*# OUT OF PPL WITH BAD HAIR*

[@sahiba9951]

the older u get the less u care

[@notapplicable4567]

second guy was kul