{"id":16728,"date":"2026-04-28T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/a-masterclass-in-manipulation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:56:21","slug":"a-masterclass-in-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/a-masterclass-in-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Masterclass in Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from Reddit&#8217;s front page &#8211; thousands of upvotes can&#8217;t be wrong.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/HO3fhumZnUqEIHFKqs4SqGugXtUvMu0cA0pZHpBSHaU.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=3e9cad4bbab14155a42546f1e681baa6b8275aa6\" alt=\"A Masterclass in Manipulation\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>The comments section is going to be interesting on this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1sxomyw\/a_masterclass_in_manipulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from Reddit&#8217;s front page &#8211; thousands of upvotes can&#8217;t be wrong. The comments section is going to be interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1sxomyw\/a_masterclass_in_manipulation\/","_sweary_views":24367,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}