There’s fake typing. And then there’s…this jaw-dropping effort.
Yes, eagle-eyed viewers tuning in to Channel 5 News the other day might well have been left wondering what on earth was going on during this report on the link between violence and video games.
Because while psychologist Berni Good had some very valid points to make about the subject during the report, it was somewhat overshadowed by the all-too-obvious ‘fake typing’ footage that aired beforehand.
Which kind of looked a bit like this:
Yikes. We know keyboards have come a long way, but we can’t help thinking that typing actual words still requires a little more effort than that.
It’s even rivalling this toe-curling moment of fake keyboard use, which went viral after airing on Irish channel RTE in 2013: