Everybody who hates Trump thinks the Smith/Rock video is real.
Everybody who supports Trump knows it's fake.
If you ask someone why they think it's real, they'll give you emotional reasons: Smith was defending his wife, neither he nor Rock would hurt their careers by faking something like this, Smith cried afterwards, etc. etc.
Not a bloody one of them says, "I looked at the video of the entire event. I saw how Rock just stood there with his arms locked down, eyes shut, and leaning into Smith. I noticed how there was only one camera angle and that made it impossible to see if Smith's hand even connected. I actually looked at the source and drew my own conclusion."
You get the picture. We are once again getting feels over reals, exactly as we did during the election and ever since.
The Left refuses to look at direct sources. They won't do it. They will literally scream and shut you down and cut you off before looking at an actual direct source for anything.
Instead, they listen to the opinions of friends, politically correct strangers, and Mainstream News. And that's it.
This is an absolutely unbelievable phenomenon, yet here we are.
Take an informal poll yourself and see what you come up with among your own family and friends. I'll bet you will see the same.
No. Now you are making a very big assumption. Saying 'Everybody' feels a certain way is just too broad of a statement.
I am a Trump supporter and I believe the slap was the real deal. I've been studying body language for many years and can spot subtle indicators of mental illness, guilt, sadness, love, and so on and have gotten pretty reliably good at picking up the 'tells' that show the truth.
So, the multiple film clips available were watched on my large 4k big screen monitor in slow motion multiple times. I concluded that it was real.
I think Will is feeling old, cucked and unloved by his wife and he's heard ad nauseum all the gossip that has been said about her cheating on him and also the discussion of their weird and sexually confused children and criticism on their parenting styles, etc.
And then, add his extreme nervousness for being nominated for an Academy award and he got triggered when Chris made a gentle and funny jab at his wife. I mean, at first Will laughed until his wife gave him the stink eye. He then had to stand up for her (or be berated later) and proved to himself in that moment he wasn't going to take it lying down.
Chris's lack of response was because he was stunned at the slap and was simply not expecting Will to do anything at all like that. Remember he'd been holding his hands behind his back and I'm sure he thought Will's approach was going to be a finger wagging or something comical.
So, you and I will disagree, but that is OK!