Star Wars: The Rise of Fake Trailers Meant to Trick People into Clicking
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- čas přidán 21. 02. 2024
- Fake Star Wars trailers can be fun when presented as fan projects or concepts, but this is not that. Today we're looking at fake trailers that are presented as real, and designed to deceive your average internet traveler into clicking.
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I remember back in early CZcams clicking on a fake trailer was just a harmless prank and you would be immediately Rickrolled.
I remember late 2000s fan made trailers for any franchise with footage of other things
Ah Jurassic park 4 with king Kong dinosaurs and redrum ost
Same
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
All the fan made Ghostbusters 3 trailers
You know it's fake when Kylo Ren is in the thumbnail... for a trailer for a show set hundreds of years before his birth.
Yep and I watch them like a dope lol
Goes to show how easily people can be fooled.
Unfortunately, a lot of casual fans won't even pick up on that detail.
I just saw both my uncle and my cousin's father in law share a trailer for "Back to the Future 4" on Facebook, the last even saying he couldn't wait to see it.
This a movie that does not exist.
@@alexdavid3339 Man, that's just sad to hear.
That clones and thrawn are like the top click baits
My dad sends me fake trailers and posters, sometimes, and I feel so bad telling him they're fake. He's so excited, it's like telling a kid that we're not going to Disneyland.
god same here i have to tell him everytime to check the youtube poster for the official star wars channel or just to simply turn notifications on
THIS JUNK LEGIT TRICKS MY PARENTS- EVERY. SINGLE. TIME😢
Same :(
Same for me only it’s my 21-year old son who, no matter how hard I tried raising him, became a RUBE.
If it isn’t on the main Star Wars channel, it’s not worth the effort
💯
I remember when the internet was bombarded with these fake trailers in the years leading up to Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. They'd always just use clips of Eragon or some other movie with dragons in it.
The worst of those trailers (which seems to have been deleted by now) had to be one that just used clips of 300 and The Matrix, followed by a JPEG of the book cover. And then two minutes of an empty black screen later it played the entirety of the Pirates of the Caribbean trailer (I don't remember if it was Dead Man's Chest or At World's End) with no editing or audio, like it was added in there by accident and the editor didn't bother to check before posting it online.
At least the ones that ended up being Rick Rolls were honest.
Some teenager made it and forgot to edit
The fun part is that it feels so old now bur it was relatively modern like what 2011 ish? And that's just a bit over a decade old now, Rick rolls are actually ancient by comparison
Do the clickbait dance…the clickbait dance.
Anyone can do it!
🕺🕺
Fake trailers while deceitful, used to be more about “what ifs” they used to feel like ppl using their video editing skills to show what they’d like to see from a galaxy far, far away. Now they’re purely abt tricking people to get views and spread misinformation.
I remember back in the early CZcams days I used to watch those "what if" videos, like what if Heir to the Empire was adapted into a movie? Or what if Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine was adapted into a movie? They used clips from the movies and sometimes fan made movies to make it look like a trailer. People used to do it for fun or like you said to try out their video editing skills
The biggest disappointment with these fake trailers is that none of them are Rick Roll videos.
I was noticing the same thing when AD_edits made a clickbait Bad Batch S3 trailer with a fake Vader thumbnail.
I’ve learned how to avoid it.
Is it on IGN? Is it on Star Wars’ (or other various franchise focused) channels?
Is it on a studio official channel? (Disney, WB, Universal, paramount, etc etc)
If the answer is no to all,
BULLSH*T
If it's from Screen Culture? Hell Nooo!!
I can't be the only one noticing how numerous these fake trailers are. Content farms almost on par with those weird kids videos.
My Dad has fallen for these things a few times and would send them to me or ask if I've seen the new trailer for "X". The best way to help people not fall for the bullshit is to tell them that if the uploader isn't an official brand that owns the IP, it's probably fake. I know there are re-upload channels for trailers, but even I always look for the official channel trailer.
I remember when teenage me fell for a fake Episode II trailer back in 2001, featuring such gems as Christopher Walken and a battle scene from Braveheart that edited the weapons to be lightsabers. In my defense, the video was bitcrushed to hell and played on a small Quicktime window, making it difficult to discern the details. I excitedly showed it to everyone I knew, only to get a cold dose of reality when the official trailers dropped.
Basically, we need a system like Twitter uses to put a disclaimer on a video. That way viewers can report clickbait and prevent others from clicking
...fuck that's a good idea
YES! THE HELLOGREEDO TRAILER IS OUT!
That’s real?
God I hope no adults actually fall for this
They most likely would. Since some of those adults would believe a lot of $h!t from clickbait CZcamsrs. And tbf a lot of people tend to be gullible these days.
They unfortunately do. It’s not just young kids that believe everything they see on the internet.
my roommate did
I fell for one of these before realizing it was all bs.
I never fall for any of these. I knew that they were fake to begin with. I used to be fooled by the “Captain Marvel (2019)” fake trailer video back in the day, but I only look at trailers that are tweeted to me by the actual movie company to make sure it’s legit. Always.
It's like when Facebook/Twitter advertises an article, "check out what this Star Wars boss says!" and down below it lists the source material as Mike Zeroh, Doomcock, SWT, and you just know instantly (at least the people who have been on the internet for 20+ years), that it's bullshit.
I wound up falling into the Fandom Menace Anti-SJW grift as a young adult. Thankfully, now I understand people like them are, alongside obsessive prequel haters and Far-Left stans, the definitive reason why Star Wars is dead. :)
[but the quality of content Nu-Lucasfilm puts out isn't helping much either]
What's anoying is that I and many like me spending lots of time in making good videos, but get barely pushed by CZcams, but these freaking fake trailers do!
I see SO many of these on my Google Discover feed, or whatever it's called, too. The worst part is I can't click "Not interested" or "Don't show content from" because it'll just be a broad general category like "Not interested in Star Wars" or "Don't show content from CZcams," which would just end up hiding all of the actually interesting stuff that I _do_ want to see.
I'm not sure why Disney or other corporations don't try to shut these channels down. I imagine it hurts their profits. Some of them even use Disney's fonts and use words like "official trailer".
This needed talking about as it's getting more and more common/
Especially when AI is taking over
My dad notoriously falls for this to the point where I gotta tell him what's actually coming to screen. He thought he watched the kenobi series a year before the actual show came out, turned out he watched the really well made and impressive fan film by Jamie Costa.
What still haunts me is that in 2013, My dad said he read some sort of interview briefly describing the upcoming Force Awakens Movie. he told me exactly this: "Yeah, the next film apparently luke goes crazy and lives on an island and the new characters have to find him!" my immediate thought was 'why would my dad believe the stupidest claim ever?'
a decade later, I still think it was the neatest plot line ever to open up the 7th film but I wonder how dad found out a year before the film even had trailers?
My earliest memory of these fake trailer things was before TFA came out and I saw one where they literally just used voiceover from the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer and footage from TOR trailers lol
I think there's going to be a lot of whailing and gnashing of teeth when The Acolyte comes out, and lo and behold, it's not even remotely about the Sith, but about something interesting instead.
Kind of reminds me of what Kyle Hill talked about when dealing with all the AI BS science channels a while ago. Now some of these guys might not be like those scam channels but seriously it’s really annoying that they don’t say it’s a fake trailer right in the title.
Yup I’ve seen theses fake trailers from Star Wars, Marvel, DC etc. it’s just really weird.
I wondered for a long time how long Disney is really going to let these go. I know some stupid clickbait videos aren’t huge on their radar, but continued False advertising that grows in views and “popularity” may provoke them to copyright strike a lot of these channels.
This ain’t just Disney, this is pretty much with every other big IP owned by a big studio/company. Marvel, DC, Star Trek, Fast & Furious, etc.
I wonder if they're not too concerned by them since it means people are interacting more with their franchise. Also helps give them some metrics to see how interested people are in a particular show or movie ahead of the real trailer drop I imagine.
Here's a good rule of thumb I relayed to my Dad. If a trailer does not come from the official Star Wars channel, it is likely fake.
I cannot stand the fake trailers. Who even wants to watch a "concept" trailer? Nobody I know.
HelloGreedo: Episode V - The Clickbait Strikes Back
“It’s the Internet…it’s only going to get worse.” Aaaand scene 😂
Thanks for talking about this. These fake trailers always annoy me
Stuff like this makes me glad I stick to my trusted sources and don't wander the internet much anymore. These fake trailers and stuff were always annoying.
But then something like Cervesta Cristal ads pop up, and I'm like "huh... There's some real fun shit out there."
In the words of Saw Gerrera:
"Lies! Deception!"
Time was my life was so empty and I was so starved for Star Wars news and trailers that I would click these friggin things even if I could tell it was obviously fake… 😅
its literally just 1 channel, "Darth Trailer"
As someone who edits Star Wars out of passion for the craft and the content, this kind of stuff makes me sick and is actively putting a bad wrap on those who actually create solid content that isn't trying to fool people into giving you views and money-and, yes, I can confirm that they do earn money off of these (which is why they clickbait in the first place).
For anyone looking for new Star Wars trailers, if it isn't posted on the Official Stat Wars or Lucasfilm CZcams Channel, it's not it. It's especially funny when they desperately put the Disney+ logo in the thumbnail [something real trailers never do], even if it isn't a Disney+ series. It could be a theatrical film and they'll still add that logo.
Another personal favorite is "Full Movie" videos.
Example: "Oppenheimer Full Movie": A 3 hour film by Universal, but the clickbait video is 1 hour 30 min with the 20th Century Fox logo as the thumbnail. Obviously not everyone is in the know on this stuff, but for those who are, you can't help but laugh at the absurdity.
On the bright side, we are getting Star wars Bf classic collection next month! 🎉
Really glad to see I'm not the only one who's been increasingly frustrated at these recently. My parents even fall for it, they try to follow these big franchises that I like and whenever they find one of these trailers I have to constantly tell them to check if the video was uploaded by the official company channel and not Screen Crush or some sh*t
The consistent pattern of the types of videos made and how they are presented shows it's not about a fan's passion for editing. It's clearly about the CZcams money through deception.
Seeing any SW trailer on CZcams:
LIES!! DECEPTION!!
The first fake trailer I ever saw was in like 2009 for a sequel to The Dark Knight but it just used a bunch of shots from the first two movies...
Baffles me how people genuinely fall for these things. If it's not on the official channel or twitter then it's obviously not real. Idk people have absolutely no sense of quality or media literacy. They see a shitty fake poster of a film that was never announced on a random Facebook page and are like "OMG SO EXCITED"
I remember coming across a lot of fake trailers during the early days of CZcams. Back then they were very amateurish, mostly made by kids playing with video editing software. I particularly remember seeing a lot of fake trailers for Jurassic Park IV (what would become Jurassic World). One used footage from Peter Jackson's King Kong, while others were just slideshows. I recall one that inexplicably ended with a picture of Karl Marx.
The amount of fake trailers I get sent by my mate who's into football is insane
yeah, also drives me crazy!! I don't even bother to click on a Star Wars trailer unless it is from the actual Star Wars official Channel. I don't think you can monetize these mash ups due to copyright.
I hate these.
Thankfully, I've been around the block so much that I immediately know which is fake just from looking at the channel.
My cousin was convinced Keanu Reeves was gonna be Revan in a Kotor movie cause a fake trailer. All he needed to do was 15 seconds of research. People really need to add concept trailer to their stuff
My dad scared the heck out of me one time when he fell for a fake Episode 10 trailer and told me Rey was coming back. I was so relieved when it turned out to be fake.
Back in the day it used to be fun, a prank, or a way to hype up an upcoming project but now it’s very very clickbait to get views
There should be a way to make it obvious that it’s fake maybe something at the start or even a watermark
People would rather believe lies than accept the truth.
You would think Disney's lawyers wouldn't want some rando making money off their intellectual properties. Oh well.
I just want to be able to block those channels.
Saw the top left one on the thumbnail on my google feed the other day. I knew immediately it was probably fake since it wasn't posted by Star Wars, but it crushed my soul a bit to see it. Why google promotes them is beyond me.
There actually IS an Acolyte trailer out there. You just won't be able to find it on CZcams and it is garbo quality because someone recorded it on their phone at that Star Wars event.
Yeah man! I am also sick and tired of those fake advertices. CZcams seems to know I am a huge Greedo fan, but everytime it recommends an strange stormtrooper!!! outrageous!!
Omfg THANK YOU for making this
My moms always sending me the screen culture ones, I always gotta remind her it’s fake 😭💀
We've been, quite possibly...Bamboozled.
100% agreed with every point made here.
Big same on these things ALWAYS showing up in my Pixel recommendeds... it's so obnoxious, no matter how many times I block the channel, another one takes its place.
"It's the internet and it's only gonna get worse" looking at recent developments in AI video tech... yeah I agree
Yo it’s you lol
Unless the officially trailer is released on the Star Wars CZcams channel or official film trade channel, I try to ignore it. I saw the official teaser at Star Wars celebration last year. It won’t be long until the Star Wars channel releases it.
Almost all of these feature footage from the Old Republic Cinematics
Do the dance…do the clickbait dance….anyone can do it, anyone can do it, make some clickbait. ~HelloGreedo
I’ve been a fan of HelloGreedo for so long and I love that you also like Pinegrove this just made my day
My dad gets tricked by these all the time and he gets so excited and then super disappointed cause I tell him they're fake.
Yeah. I've noticed this just this week.
I wonder if mike zerhoh is doing this at all?
I just ignore/don’t want trailers if they’re not from a reputable source. Such as the company themselves or news media like ign.
I see a lot of those trailers for stranger things and cobra Kai as well my rules is that if it posted by an official account like Netflix or an official account for the show then its fake or fan made
This is just the worst, I hate it with fake trailers and with trailer reuploads. I remember having the title of endgame spoiled for me because of a trailer reupload, and tons of trailer reuploads spoiling big reveals.
If it doesn't have the studio name under the title, then it's a fake trailer. I seriously don't know how these get so many views and how these people haven't worked this out yet. Plus they are generally poorly photoshopped thumbnails.
I’ve been reporting those Darth trailer fake trailers that are showing up on my Google feed as false/misleading. Hopefully if enough people flag it hurts the algorithm for them.
Remember how there had been fake avatar 2 trailers since the first movie came out?
This trailer BS always pops up in my news feeds too and you can't block them because I am actually interested in the topics they contain just not the BS trailer
We seen the Acolyte trailer at SWCE and I’m pretty excited to see it again 😂
The easiest way is just to check who the uploader is before clicking. When it comes to Star Wars, if it's not the official Star Wars channel, Lucasfilm, or Disney+, it's obviously fake. There are other channels that get the rights to share the official trailers on their channels because they're trusted entertainment news outlets with CZcams channels, but the creators of these movies and shows also have CZcams channels and upload to them. If you like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, look for Marvel Entertainment, if you like the Godzilla and Kong Monsterverse, look for Legendary or Warner Bros. as the uploader. It's really quite simple.
There didn't use to be so much deceit involved - I used to enjoy watching the speculative GoT trailers, but now would feel as if been got
I wonder how many of those views are bot-generated to boost those fake trailers' visibility.
I blocked Darth trailer.
God damnit Darth Trailer
Came here for the Pinegrove sweater. Great band.
i feel like fake trailers at least used to be alot cooler than they are now
When I see these fake ass trailers, I just know it’s fake and keep scrolling away. I’ll know when it’s a fan made trailer when I watch the wonky ass editing. Like how I was looking up the Kung Fu Panda 4 trailer and they had these wonky ass edits, I knew immediately it was fan made even when I didn’t spot it in the title.
Its crazy how real videos get copywritten strikes over like 2-10 seconds of their videos but then these entire fake ass trailers get away with 2-3 minutes of pure bullshit
The Rise? Bro, they been around since CZcams's been popular. Shit was wild.
Seriously. I remember in 2009 right after the dark knight came out all the fake “batman 3” trailers fancasting Johnny depp as the riddler. This shits been around forever
I believe Darth Trailer is one of these channels
I’m honestly not surprised some people would fall for something like that. A decent amount of people will believe a lot of stuff from clickbait youtubers. It’s sad but not surprising that a lot of people are gullible these days when it comes to certain topics/stuff these days.
Yes Avatar 5 trailer is out
But the movie doesn’t come out until December 2031 in like 7 years
Fake trailers have always been a thing. I remember almost getting tricked by fake KOTOR 3 trailers from back before SWTOR was even announced.
How dare they? I came from a time when you saw a fake trailer, you knew it was fake and it was basically a fanfiction in video short form.
A simple rule I follow for Star Wars trailers is that if they're not on the official Star Wars CZcams channel, then I don't watch them. It's the easiest way to avoid this click-bait BS.
The best thing to do is to ignore them if you mistakenly click on them. Even if you negativily react to it via angry comments or giving it a thumbs down, it will still drive up the algorithm.
The exact same thing happens for me on my Google Pixel! It's so annoying!
And let me guess - a lot of the comments in those fake trailers are along the lines of "BeTtEr ThAn WhAt DiSnEy WiLl Do".
Yeah, I blocked Darth Trailer recently after on of their videos are recomendet tonme again... But I have 2 little anecdotes about this:
At the pre episode 9 time, my stepfather told me, he actually saw the trailer of episode 9 (he isn't a prequel fan, so it probably was like: "look what Bull-#€)@ they made"). I took a look at the video he meant and instantly recognize footage of the ToR cinematics (wich where around a decade old at that time).
The other story was like 15 years or so ago. I heared rumors about the Underworld series, Lucas worked one. And after a bit of searching I found a pretty wild trailer... A person wearing Leias "Boush"-costume from episode 6, but it looked different, Boba Fett pulling a guy up, C-3PO and R2-D2 doing carring boxes or something and other stuff, I can't recall anymore.
Years went by and I recognize something about my memorys:
I found a trailer for the old Jango Fett game, where Jango pulled the same guy up.
I realized, there where quite a lot TV-spots with C-3PO and R2-D2, many content of them one can't recognize from the movies.
And last but not least, I heard about a species from Star Trek, that looked allmost exactly like Boush.
I thought I was the only one seeing this on my feed!!!