A staged experiment films strangers' reactions to a boy presented as a 7-year-old homeless child. When a passerby shows kindness and offers food and warmth, the crew reveals the setup and gives them $500. The video tests whether people help vulnerable children and promotes compassion.
Chapters
Brother, you all right, little brother? What's the matter? You homeless? Yeah. You homeless? Yeah. You cold, bro? Tell me what happened to you. What happened to you? Where's your parents?
They abandoned me.
Your parents abandoned you? You're 7 years old and you out here all by yourself? Yeah.
Yeah.
Cold, bro.
Yeah, you cold, bro? So cold. Let me put my jacket on you.
Oh my God.
We're going to make you feel warm, all right? All right.
Let me make you feel warm. You good? Huh? You hungry?
Okay, maybe you'll get me something to eat. You know, I mean, it's my— yeah, I love you, brother, so much. Huh? Thank you. I know. I mean, so you're so abandoned at such a young age. Your family— I mean, your family— no You see, I can communicate because I'm homeless. You know, I'm homeless. And you know, me being an older homeless person, you know, we gotta look out for one another. Because, you know, maybe I can show you the road, but you know, you're too young to be homeless like this. See, I messed up in life, but you know, you're young, you can have a good chance in life, you know. And you know, thank you for something.
How are you, man? How's it going? My name's ET. How you doing, ET? This is my brother Mo. My name is Evan Carmichael. We were down the block and we saw what you did, and we were, uh, we were touched by what you did, man. A lot of people walked by him and, uh, you know, and nobody reached out to him. You, as a homeless person, you said something. We appreciate it. That's actually our little brother, and he's not homeless.
And he's not homeless. We appreciate what you did, man. Oh man.
Oh man.
I've been on the job for— here's 500. Thank you, brother.
Brother, I think I want to get you a— thank you, brother.
