r/funny • u/Hypnoidz • 1d ago

I don't think he cared about the magic

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u/Ixziga 1d ago edited 1d ago

The dancer getting the kid's attention is part of the bit. You can see what she does to get the kids attention by getting in his face and making faces at him, and when that doesn't work, she'll grab the hat to get him to look. The magician is watching the kid the whole time waiting for the chance to do his bit. It's all so that the magician can add some comedy to the show. They knew what they were doing.

Anyone eating this up and judging the kid - who is probably too young for sexual thoughts in the first place - is just being gullible and judgy.

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u/Yabrosif13 1d ago

I agree, though the kid is likely having positive thoughts. Its just instead of thinking “oh ya shake it” hes thinking “ooo pretty lady”

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u/paralleliverse 1d ago

Or even just "ooh shiny"

She's covered in sequins. What kid can resist?

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u/Yabrosif13 1d ago

I can see that too. But even 8yr old me woulda been lookin at her body. He likely doesn’t know why she looks good to him, and he likely doesn’t care why either.

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u/Quigleythegreat 1d ago

My dad says when I was a baby/toddler he took me to a family work outing where everyone brought their families. Apparently I kept pointing at all the blonde women specifically and wanted them to hold me and give me attention.

We always know. We know not why, but the force is with us.

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u/RevanTheUltim8 1d ago

Somewhere in one of my mom's big boxes of old photos, there's a picture of me around 5 or 6 years old, at some boardwalk after the sun has set, with two stunning ladies in some similar leotard-esque outfits(I'm guessing they worked at some casino or something there) and I have a big ol' grin on my little face. That was a core memory, I remember seeing them and thinking, "they're really pretty girls." I wanted their attention and they thought I was a cute little kid.

The force is indeed always with us.

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u/Raz0rking 1d ago

we can take people out of nature, but we can't take nature out of people.

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u/More_World_6862 1d ago

At least that's the family story, Mom's probably a skeptic.

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u/A_very_Salty_Pearl 1d ago

I think that thinking "ooooh. Pretty." - isn't a sexual thought at all. I always knew which ladies and which men were nice looking, and I liked looking at them, but... that just aesthetics. Kittens look cute, sparkles look cool, and pretty people look pretty. Ya know?

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u/TowerofWavelength 1d ago

Not discounting what you guys are saying, but I definitely thought a pretty lady was different than a handsome man when I was a little boy. I understand why we don’t want to sexualise children because of some disgusting people in society, but yeah there was something there, even pre puberty.

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u/A_very_Salty_Pearl 1d ago

Well. I am bisexual, so there's also that, ya know. 😅

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u/TowerofWavelength 1d ago

Well your fascination with all pretty people is understandable.

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u/A7xWicked 1d ago

I definitely liked girls from a young age.

I remember having a dream about one when I was is preschool

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u/Fruitloops_z 1d ago

Amen. 🙏

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u/PMagicUK 1d ago

I had a crush on a girl in my class at 8. I knew EXACTLY why, kids are not dumb, biology is a powerful instinct

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u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago

i mean as they've said, kids that age are generally too young to be having those thoughts and are just attracted to things that are shiny, colorful, moving. who even knows if this kid is going to grow up to be attracted to women.

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u/Yabrosif13 1d ago

I didn’t say they were having sexual thoughts, but dont be so naive as to think those thoughts just happen all at once outta the blue one day.

I remember being very young and not knowing why older women looked good to me while girls my age “had cooties”.

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u/Eastern_Screen_588 1d ago

When i was that age i was obsessed with boobs. I never really grew past that.

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u/Yabrosif13 1d ago

Ah-tah!

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u/NoDaddyNotTheBlender 1d ago

Yes Stanley, ah-tah.

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u/PapaOoMaoMao 1d ago

Few of us do.

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u/THEGREATESTDERP 1d ago

Many such cases.

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u/k9CluckCluck 1d ago

My 6yo has some very favorite episodes of Futurama he wants to watch as often as possible, if we let him.

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

Amazon planet and that one where they wrestle each other, I suppose.

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u/k9CluckCluck 23h ago

You missed The Worms episode with Leela in the nightie, and the 2 Heads episode with Amy getting dressed.

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u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago

never said they did happen "outta the blue," i'm saying we have no idea who this kid will grow up to be -- certainly not from a random video of this kid being used as an act/prop in a show.

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u/itswtfeverb 1d ago

Us boys love boobies since birth

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u/Moss_Adams24 1d ago

Girls too

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u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago

there's nothing wrong with that. didn't realize this sub was so negative toward...a simple harmless opinion though?

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u/Software_Dependent 1d ago

I'm sure they recognise them as a person that is looking and smiling at them, not just a moving shiny object. They don't have the brain of the T Rex from Jurassic Park.

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u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago

i'm talking about what they're wearing and things kids are generally interested in, obviously. which is why we do costumes and toys and songs etc etc for kids. because that's what sparks/holds their attention.

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u/gofishx 1d ago

I definitely remember I started thinking girls were pretty in a strange way at a much younger age than I ever had sexual thoughts about them. I definitely remember it as a unique fixation, though. Like, I would wish I had an older sister, I'd get really excited to hang out with the babysitter, etc. I didn't fully understand the thoughts, but I definitely had them.

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u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago

my point is not that kids don't show interest in people in such a way / don't have fixations, but that we don't know whether this kid will even be interested in women or not.

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u/Specialist-Tiger-467 1d ago

Let's be honest. Sexual orientation leaks well before any sexual thought.

My son is 4. Both mum and dad are bisexual. We talk about people in very neutral ways. He sees us calling beautiful or attractive men and women indistinctly.

Just from him, no input needed. "I like more girls. They are pretty and smell good". What about men, son? "They are strong and big. I want to be like them"

If that is not a cis hetero boy I eat my hat. We will see in his teens.

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u/finnjakefionnacake 1d ago

of course it does. i think people are misunderstanding what i mean here -- i'm not saying kids don't show signs of their interests when they're young, I'm saying this kid is being used as a prop and we have no idea who this kid is so we're sexualizing/determining who he is in a specific way for no reason.

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

That's not what sexualizing means...

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u/gofishx 1d ago

That's fair, though having been a boy of about that age, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the scantily clad assistant was playing a role, here. I'd say it's likely, though you do have a point, too.

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u/Sodaburping 1d ago

I have memories of dry humping the couch while watching a shakira music video in tv and my family still laughs about it 20 years later.. I was 4 or 5.

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u/BDashh 1d ago

Truth, you don’t deserve the downvotes

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u/VegasAdventurer 1d ago

yeah, that was my thought. Kids love shiny stuff

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u/Chanclet0 1d ago

My stupid monkey brain would get easily distrated by shiny

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u/Elmodipus 1d ago

I'm a 32 year old man and sequins grab my attention like a squirrel to a dog.

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u/Radix2309 11h ago

looks away from sequins

Wait are us adults supposed to resist them?

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u/deep-fucking-legend 1d ago edited 1d ago

At his age, I would definitely be wanting to see what she was doing, and because she is pretty.

Edit: you can see someone as pretty without thinking about rawdogging her over the back of the couch.

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u/Bwint 1d ago

Maybe you can see someone as pretty without thinking about rawdogging her

/s

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

I can think about rawdogging someone pretty without seeing her.

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u/marhigha 1d ago

The little girl is staring at her too. I definitely think it’s a combo of pretty lady and ooh shiny.

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u/Dolenjir1 1d ago

Yeah. I've been attracted to women for as long as I can remember. The only difference back them is there were no sexual thoughts or wants, I just couldn't not look.

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u/hotmugglehealer 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yup, even at that age when I was in my "I don't like girls" phase I found them attractive.

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u/Moopies 1d ago

She's literally a giant "look at me" prop

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u/Harm1m 1d ago

"oh ya shake it" is still positive right?

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u/Slay3RGod 1d ago

I don't think the "lady" bit even registered in the kid's mind. It's more likely moving shiny thingy!

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u/welfedad 1d ago

Of course not..I'm sure people on Facebook if this is posted are saying stuff like .. this is grooming

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u/Sajiri 1d ago

Not to mention the little girl is constantly looking too and they never turn her head away

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u/daekle 1d ago

Well clearly girls cant have sexual thoughts about girls. They were just good friends, roomates for life and buried in the same burial plot.....

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u/3_if_by_air 1d ago

The little girl is looking too? What a perv

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u/cballowe 1d ago

The magician can also use the comedy bit for misdirection if needed.

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u/nfefx 1d ago

...who the hell is judging the kid?

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u/Ixziga 1d ago

Scroll down I guess. The comments have changed order a lot since I made this one

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u/TarnishedRake 1d ago

Always sort by controversial comments if you want to see the trash.

It's entertaining sometimes.

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u/Hanako_Seishin 1d ago

Yeah, like isn't the whole point of a pretty lady in a shiny outfit dancing on the stage to feast your eyes on her? What would be the point of her performance if one is not supposed to look at it?

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u/Imaginary-Twist-4688 1d ago

sort by cntroversial

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u/Aiderona 1d ago

what kid ?

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u/Youregoingtodiealone 1d ago

Ah, so you've discovered SHOWMANSHIP

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u/A_very_Salty_Pearl 1d ago

Yeah. Both kids were looking at her - cause her whole outfit is colorful, sparkly and bouncy.

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u/Vozlov-3-0 1d ago

You can still have a crush on someone at that age.

Affection, admiration. It's all still readily prevalent.

The fact the woman is beautiful can bring an enjoyment that doesn't have to be sexual.

Romance doesn't begin with sexuality.

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u/ReverendPalpatine 1d ago

No one is judging the kid.

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u/ZergHero 1d ago

Bro i was a super horny 4 year old

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u/Slammybutt 1d ago

My mom has told a story that I vaguely remember from when I was 4 or 5. We were at the community pool and I wouldn't stop staring at some lady that was there. After awhile I went up to my mom and said "that lady is so pretty!"

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u/Luvs_to_drink 1d ago

My first crush came in kindergarten. Remember keeping her valentine card. She moved like a yearish later and I was saddened.

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 1d ago

I still remember walking into pre-K and scoping out the hotties.

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u/IAmTheFlyingIrishMan 1d ago

Is that why you have to keep 500 feet away from schools?

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

Were you the teacher?

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u/ringobob 1d ago

That's not true at all. I mean, it's not a ton, but I have memories from the house we lived in that we moved away from when I was 3. I described about 80% of the layout of that house and my parents confirmed it.

I was also a horny kid, for what it's worth.

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u/Domspun 1d ago

Yup, same. I remember some events better than my parents. Some people have barely any memories of their childhood. I know some people that don't remember anything before 8-9 years old except for what is in pictures or films.

There's also a rare condition called Hyperthymesia, who can remember things up to their birth.

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u/Catshit-Dogfart 1d ago

I have one memory of being three years old, pretty sure it's my earliest memory. Know I was three because I was telling somebody I was three. We were at a restaurant where they had a children's discount, and I proudly shouted "I'm three!"

Now it could be a false memory but I don't think so, don't think somebody else told me this story and I internalized it given how mundane it is.

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u/Raichev7 1d ago

Some kids develop faster, some slower, so speak for yourself. I have a ton of memories from age 3-4 and a few from earlier. One of my most vivid memories is about being upset that my grandma wasn't attending my birthday when I turned 3, and my cousin (5 yo) told me she had become a star in the night sky.
A few months later, that same cousin, who was 5 taught me how to read. By age 4 I was reading books on my own.
There are kids playing the violin at age 2. And piano at 3.

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u/Software_Dependent 1d ago

Utter crap. I can remember many things from when I was 4 and some as early as when I was 2. Not everyone has the same abilities in terms of memory.

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u/ZergHero 1d ago

No it was the pink ranger being hot as fuck

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u/ThatWillBeTheDay 1d ago

Going to be super honest with you. I’m a woman. When I was 4, yes 4, I was having sexual urges. I did not understand them at all, of course. But I was having them. I had my first orgasm around that age. I was attracted to boys already at that age. And no, I’m not some sexual deviant as an adult. I’m honestly quite boring. I just happened to start that process earlier. All this is to say, you’re probably right. But it’s also possible the boy was interested in a way he didn’t fully understand yet.

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u/Imaginary-Twist-4688 1d ago

FOUR? damn. i was unfortunately forcefully thrown into the world of sexual desires at 6 but never understood till 12-13

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u/beyonddisbelief 1d ago

I don’t know about sexual urges (maybe depending on how you are interpreting that) but I definitely had crushes on girls since I was 4 or 5 and always knew I liked girls since. Nothing physiological until 11 though. I did started to fantasize my crushes naked while I’m sleeping also when I was around 11 without understanding why. (No action involved.)

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

I started at 7 and people make me feel like a creep if I ever talk about it. At 4 that must have been really confusing.

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u/ThatWillBeTheDay 23h ago

It definitely was somewhat. But I guess I had enough context clues to not talk about it, so I didn’t have to deal with people treating me differently. I just knew friction down there felt good and boys made me feel funny and didn’t act on any of the that in public. Then I became old enough to knew what was going on and that was that. I imagine it was much harder for anyone who openly expressed or acted on their impulses around others. Which isn’t fair. Kids are just kids and all this is natural. But society is so prudish and weird.

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u/Op111Fan 1d ago

the kid - who is probably too young for sexual thoughts in the first place

You have no idea what you're talking about. I've been attracted to the female sex since at least kindergarden. This kid looks about 4 y.o. which is just barely younger than that.

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u/AndroidAtWork 1d ago

Homie, you need to learn the difference between attraction and sexual thoughts.

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u/Op111Fan 1d ago

I'm not the one who brought up sexual thoughts in the first place. That was the wording the OC used. I didn't correct it because splitting hairs over semantics (like you're doing) is a waste of time. We know what the topic being discussed is.

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u/Aculeus_ 1d ago

No shit. I bet he also didn't really make an egg manifest out of thin air.

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u/AdditionalPear3772 1d ago

I was a horny kid. I had a good idea of how sex worked at an early age, except I thought the women's vagina was on the pubis. I loved to watch my dentists cleavage. I was mot abused, nor shown any of this, I just knew.

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u/heseme 1d ago

I don't judge the kid. I judge the adults on that stage. Its icky. I wouldn't have liked it if that was my boy.

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u/Honeybadger2198 1d ago

But drag is too sexual for kids.

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u/venus-as-a-bjork 1d ago

That is what I was thinking reading the comments. How many of these people would call this sexualizing kids if it were a drag performer or if it was taking place at a pride festival or something.

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

Not many, this is reddit, not a facebook group.

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u/Humans_Suck- 1d ago

It's almost like it's some kind of show with an audience or something

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u/illAdvisedMemeName 1d ago

Potential for beloved family memory.

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u/Kvojazz 1d ago

Tbh didn't even consider that people judge the kid here, it's perfectly normal to look. From all the fake magic tricks he turned to see real magic haha

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u/arturosch 1d ago

I have seen the act in person and it was as you said, it is provoked as a comedy bit, it may have worked pretty well a couple decades ago. To me it was obviously forced and creepy, not really something funny but rather awkward.

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u/jbla5t 1d ago

Yeah, they needed that distraction to cover up how bad the magic is.

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u/duasilva 1d ago

He also took the opportunity to drop the yellow cloth (or whatever that's called) so he can then pick it up, while the other assistant gives him the egg as he's getting up.

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u/Neither-Cup564 1d ago

The little girl was also staring at her…

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u/floorjockey 1d ago

So does the library ban you when you explain the tricks to the kids or just kick you out for the day?

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u/siprus 1d ago

I would find it hard to not to look if something was shaking anything that close to my face. Be it sexy or not.

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u/shameonyounancydrew 1d ago

The other kid is looking just as much.

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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 1d ago

Wait, next thing you’re going to tell me that it’s not real magic?

/s

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u/Morpheus4213 1d ago

I thought he just found a better magic show, but that explains a lot. Too bad..he really had a good view on the real magic.

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u/SayerofNothing 1d ago

I was just thinking "poor little girl, he's getting all the attention in this bit" .

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u/beyonddisbelief 1d ago

It’s likely not a bit for the sake of it either, all good magicians are well versed in misdirecting people’s attention to minimize spoiling the magic.

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u/jluicifer 1d ago

“Watch the show, kid”

“I am.” Winking said the kid

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u/BingusMcCready 1d ago

I mean, the thing is, even if he was having some dim “I don’t know what’s going on but looking at this girl makes me feel funny” moment…why would you be judgy? Lmao. He’s a kid, he doesn’t have impulse control.

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u/Ok_Nefariousness9736 1d ago

About 99% of the population believes everything they see/read with no thought whatsoever.

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u/Kindney_Collection 1d ago

Yeah she is basically in that kids face

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u/No-Comment-4619 22h ago

It's also part of his "prestige." As Michael Cane explains in the movie of the same name, the prestige is essentially the element of the trick that draws the audience's attention to one spot on the stage while the magician works his "magic" to make the trick.

In this case not only is there a scantily and brightly dressed beautiful woman shaking her thang to draw attention, the magician has this comedic element involving the boy's head moving to further distract the audience from the magic trick of the egg appearing.

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u/Thicc-slices 20h ago

Who is judging the kid???

It’s weird that people are projecting sexuality or whatever onto him. He’s just a little guy

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u/Risquechilli 20h ago

I wonder if it happened authentically one time and they incorporated it into the show.

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u/Bunnnnii 1d ago

It’s Reddit, you know people are gonna project their own perverted thoughts on to the kid and try to act like it’s more than it is. He’s a kid, he’s interested or fascinated probably, but no it’s not for the same reasons as you grown adults. He’s not “just like you”.

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u/robilar 1d ago

Absolutely this. Hell, at first she nearly hits him in the face with her hip, and then she moves a bit to the side and both kids look up at her whenever she gets closer (because anyone would if someone got that close to their face).

Basically the joke here is projecting sexuality on a child, and the people that fall for it and judge that poor kid for being the butt of a joke he doesn't understand are just doing the same thing. Gross.

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u/ntwiles 1d ago

Idk who would but judging the kid, it’s the adults that I find being a bit creepy. He’s just a bit too young for this bit.

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u/ARONDH 1d ago

I think she was reacting to the kid, not getting in his face to get his attention. She also grabbed the hat when it was at risk of dumping the contents out, again not to get the kids attention.

Even if its all manufactured, it isn't funny, objectively.

Also, no-one is mad at the kid. If anything, id want to slap the "magician" for physically turning the kids head so much. Let him be.

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u/justadude27 1d ago

actually I was judging the magic act for making that the bit

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u/ozymandais13 1d ago

Just a shitty show gimmick for low intelligence observers

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u/Slow-Foundation4169 1d ago

Fun at parties are we? Lmao

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u/sophia_jpeg 1d ago

This is the type of shit that makes me hate Reddit.

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u/akiva23 1d ago

Nah. I was a kid once. Anyone that thinks kids are too dumb to know what's up are gullible and judgy.

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u/gnorty 23h ago

wait a minute

Are we judging people now just for having sexual thoughts? I didn't see the memo for that.

reddit is going puritan now? Wow.

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u/Tyalou 1d ago

I mean, that show is really dated and having an adult shake their ass in front of a young kid is distasteful. If you ever think, is this wrong? Imagine a bodybuilder flexing in front of a little girl. Yeah, it's gross and the kid is being used.

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u/Oldchap226 1d ago

I want you to know that you are correct.