'Hammock on Bus Guy' viral video has been viewed more than 100 million times — here's why people thought the staged prank was real.
The scene opens with the action already underway, as if a bystander has just started recording an escalating drama. A man is suspended in a camping hammock, but it’s not outdoors — it’s fastened to the overhead poles inside a bus, more or less blocking the front door. Facing him is the bus driver, who expresses his displeasure at this approach to public transit, and refuses to drive any farther until the man takes down his hammock.
Viewed more than 93 million times on TikTok alone, the snippet first strikes the bewildered observer as an example of truth being stranger than fiction — an absurd but nonetheless plausible event in a dense urban setting where eccentric behavior is witnessed daily.
The hammock prank, for instance, didn’t get much traction when Lexi and Ocean first shared it Facebook in early May, nor did it get any significant pickup on Ocean’s older personal page, ““I was one of those people, like, ‘Holy shit, is that real or what?'” Kash recalls. His curiosity piqued, he went looking for the source of the clip and eventually tracked down Ocean and Lexi. He noted that their original upload had been viewed just a few hundred times and was clearly presented as staged.
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