"I Made a Video Pretending to Care About One Direction. CBS Aired It."

Updated on March 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM

Yesterday, thousands of fans had a complete meltdown over Zayn Malik's One Direction departure. So much so that news stations around the country compiled clips, like the one above, of people freaking out on Vine and YouTube. Now one Reddit user named benberst is claiming that his reaction was all fake — his Reddit post has gone viral, with almost 2,500 comments. A top comment: that benberst is pretending that he was pretending to care, because he really does care, you see. Check him out at 24 seconds. Who you gon' believe?

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