Well, now who's gonna pay for that!

i think that this was sifted before.

Real. You can't convince me otherwise.




...Probably

And the award for best performance in a fake video goes to...

not these people.

I'm sure it was sifted before, but I can't find it. Do killed videos appear in searches?

Must be one of them 'Tiger mommas'.

That is one sexy WOMAN.

It's in Thai. One thing that I and most other foreigners I've talked to living in Thailand have noticed about the culture here is that Thais are very averse to confrontation. Based on that, my guessed explanation of this is as follows:

Dude comes to class every day and plays on his phone, causing frequent interruptions. Rather than calling him out the first time it happens and telling him he'll get booted from the class if it ever happens again, confrontation-averse professor lets it slide. For weeks. Devoid of any repercussions, the dude gets ever more brazen and annoying. Eventually, that escalation plus perhaps a bad day in general for the professor combine and result in this ... snap.

In further typical Thai fashion, the professor is ashamed of her momentary snap and lapse in protocol, so she just slides back into routine as though nothing happened.

As a teacher here, I see this kind of thing (in various situations) quite frequently. My guess is that it is "real", but I can easily understand @KnivesOut feeling like it looks fake because the cultural influences on behavior here often make Thai's reactions seem wooden, stiff, or otherwise strange from a Western perspective. I could certainly be wrong, but I've seen enough similar real incidents firsthand here that I doubt it.

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@MilkmanDan nice insight. Thanks for the closer perspective. Would upvote again a+++++.

Absolutely fake.

I asked my wife, who is Thai. She said she has seen the clip before on Thai TV news as well as via internet sources. According to her, the standard reaction/assumption amongst Thais who watch it is that it was a real event, not staged.

I/She/we could be wrong, but I still think it is most likely real.

From my own teaching experiences here, suffice it to say that the cultural aversion to confrontation or showing emotion can be ... difficult for Westerners to deal with. There is a Thai phrase "mai pen lai", which basically means "no problem", "forget about it", or "nevermind". Very frequently, some smallish issue will crop up that the Western mind sees and says "let's nip this in the bud right now before it gets any bigger". But present that train of thought to a Thai, and you'll get derailed by a wall of "mai pen lai".

Sometimes, from a Western perspective, it seems like that system of suppression can perhaps limit the number of temper-related "snaps", but the ones that ones that do break through are likely to be more intense and less controlled. Maybe that is a good thing, maybe not -- a very subjective question. But, Thais seem very comfortable with their system, so I guess I'm just along for the ride as long as I'm here.

FakketyfakketyFAKE!