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Aziz Ansari already has a pretty thick resume -- he's an actor, stand-up comic and even an author. Now, he can add documentary narrator to that list. Sort of.
Reddit user BenMeiri84 this week apparently discovered that Netflix had inadvertently taken subtitles from Ansari's "Live from Madison Square Garden" special and added them to a nature documentary. The internet suspects that David Attenborough's "Planet Earth" is the victim.
"A friend was watching some BBC nature show on Netflix, and a glitch on Netflix cause it to have Aziz Ansari's stand up special's subtitles [sic]," the user wrote. Said friend's Facebook post was made on Tuesday.
You can see the full gallery in all its glory here.
Some of the shots legitimately look like what would happen if Tom Haverford, the character Ansari plays on "Parks and Recreation", got a gig as a nature documentary narrator.
(Score: 2) by mth on Saturday August 06 2016, @09:49AM
Some of the photos have distortions on them that don't seem to affect the subtitles. The only distortion I see on the subtitles are JPEG compression artifacts, not the line and dot patterns that are on the rest of the image, including white areas. This could mean the subtitles were added after the photos were made.
Also the size of the gallery is a bit suspicious: I'm sure there would be a few good coincidental matches between the video and the subtitles, but this many? And the photographer would have to be very alert to catch them.
Still funny though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 06 2016, @02:44PM
Yeah, too bad you can't pause, rewind, and replay Netflix shows at your convenience.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Saturday August 06 2016, @03:09PM
You're probably right, but I notice there's less color moire patterning toward the bottom of the screen in general. And of course areas with high spatial frequency are going to encode differently. Also the text is presumably not moving while the background is, so inter-frame artifacts will show on the background but not the text. So it's hard to tell. Also it could easily have been faked so as not to be detectable that way, by just taking screenshots, superimposing the subtitles, and showing them on the monitor. As you say, funny anyway.