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Students who covertly embody college mascots reveal identities at graduation ⁠96%

5/21/2026, 11:45:37 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Hasty Generalization, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 64.2% saturation with 131 hits. Analysis detected 542 faulty-reasoning hits from 204 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠96% (971 of 20,247 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 95.20% of the video peer group.

It's a viral trend taking over the internet about a secret they've held for years. 
You never know who's truly in the suit. 
At colleges and universities across the country the students who secretly embodied the school mascot revealing their true identities just before graduation. 
Highly produced hype videos introducing the people behind the fuzzy faces. 
We are the Hokie Bird. 
Guess who? 
From the Ohio State mascot Brutus Buckeye and Kansas' Baby Jay to Otto the Orange at Syracuse University and Sebastian the Ibis at the University of Miami. 
The students behind the iconic characters bringing school spirit to new heights. 
It's always going to be in the top five coolest things I've ever done. 
And at the University of South Carolina Best mascot! just listen to the class of 2026's reaction. 
Students like Braden Hensley donned the yellow feet for the final time at commencement stopping by for a quick moment with mom and dad before leading thousands of grads in one final spirit-filled celebration. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 8.3%NBC News: 1.9%Confirmation Bias8.3%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 25.5%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic25.5%This article: 13.2%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic13.2%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 54.9%NBC News: 6.1%Framing Effect54.9%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 6.9%NBC News: 1.9%Optimism Bias6.9%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 22.5%NBC News: 4.3%Halo Effect22.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 6.9%NBC News: 1.4%Recency Bias6.9%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 24.0%NBC News: 3.1%Hasty Generalization24.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 15.7%NBC News: 0.6%Bandwagon15.7%This article: 64.2%NBC News: 5.2%Appeal to Emotion64.2%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 23.5%NBC News: 1.6%Anecdotal23.5%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 4.3%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S
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