The Weird & Dirty Social Experiment - The Acali Raft

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He picked people who's whole careers depend on positive social interaction and then expected them to be antisocial. And the man considered himself a genius lol..

local mad scientist ruined by the power of friendship and good vibes

bro wanted a sex and violence boat but what he got was a friendship and group therapy boat lmao

This actually a great study on how a narcissist cant get along with normal people

I'm surprised that Santigo, an educated man, somehow forgot that humans have spent centuries crossing the ocean on voyages that lasted months, in even more cramped conditions than in this experiment, with alcohol present, and still managed to not murder each other. He could have just read a couple history books and saved himself years of effort.

Santiago seem like the type of dude that would say “according to my calculations” when someone ask him how he makes friends.

I keep jumping between “Santiago is an abusive creep” and “Santiago is genuinely unwell and need psychiatric help”

What did homedude think was going to happen if his experiment worked? "Oh, yes, I tricked all these people to come on a raft with me for 100 days under false pretenses, and half of them murdered and violated the other half, just like I planned. Where's my award?" And that's even without considering that he himself willingly got onto a murder raft that he actively believed and attempted to make into a murder raft.

It's ironic that he specifically hired women who were professionally trained at the tasks needed in order to make the men feel threatened but the only man who ended up feeling threatened was him

Santiago, an empath, sensing that Maria is mad at him

I think the funniest thing about all of this is the fact that he gave them exactly what they needed in order to 100% bond as a team and develop a sense of loyalty between them: a common enemy.

I find it rather ironic how Santiago, who was so obsessed with getting results, was completely blind to the actual results the study yielded, which are actually pretty profound. All of these people were from completely different backgrounds, different culture, and yet, given the chance, they were all able to form strong connections and experienced incredible self discovery. How is this experience anything but an intense reminder of how powerful relationships truly are? How are these results a failure? Santiago was just so occupied with his proving his hypothesis that he forgot that disproving your hypothesis is just as meaningful in science, completely missing the incredibly moving results his research ultimately yielded despite his interference

So an edgy researcher tried to engineer social decline on an isolated raft and gets bullied instead. This sounds like a Key and Peele skit.

Someone: rips out a massive fart Santiago: "The subjects have managed to use the body's natural processies to create a chemical weapon to attack each other. THIS is the break."

Santiago is literally that one guy in the corner at a party meme. "They don't know I'm actually a genius..."

this reminded me of a conversation i had with my mom once, i asked her "mom, why our grand parents have so many children?" and she answered "back in the day, we didnt have a tv" and the conversation died there.

Santiago: “Women in positions of power will make men violent” The men on the boat: “Hey this is great”

The part where Santiago is trying to start drama with the crew and ends up with a group therapy session where everyone is apologizing to everyone else is so funny. This experiment could be a sitcom with how bad every plan Santiago had backfired.

You could make a pretty eery horror game about this, You are just vibing with the characters and then the experimenter is like “Do you enjoy hurting people?”