David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

  • John Fleming

    Comedy Gold!

  • rvernon

    *Facepalm*

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/OMHO6ER5QJE3SIZ35VAXIRCLYM Stephan

    Please let this be serious!

  • http://www.nicejewishartist.com isaacb2

    Lectroid.

    • Michael Rosefield

      Red or Black?

  • http://arib.livejournal.com Ari B.

    If awkward looking bald Zionists had superpowers, I’d be wearing a cape right now…

    • Michael D

      We have only your word for it that you’re not.

      • http://arib.livejournal.com Ari B.

        Good point… :-)

    • http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

      Why let this stop you from wearing a cape?

  • annoyingmouse

    Who cares about the shape shifter?  THE REAL CONSPIRACY IS FROM 2:06 ONWARDS.  HOW ON EARTH DID THEY GET PREDATOR TO FILM THIS? SURELY THE FILMMAKERS SHOULD BE SENDING THAT GUY OUT TO SOLVE THE SHAPESHIFTER PROBLEM (the caps make it all more truer)

  • John Kerr

    Isn’t that just James Carville?

  • EL Zorrito

    What would David Icke Say?

    • Boundegar

      I think that was David Icke, or at least his friendly robot pal.

  • Conspirator

    My favorite part is when the narrator actually says to disregard the cause of this weird image.  It’s kind of like when religious people disregard the evidence and make something else up to fit their mythology.  

    • rrh

      Yes, disregard the all the distortions and image artifacts. These shape-shifting lizard video people seem to think they have a magical ability to disregard distortions and image artifacts.

      That guy’s head is what, maybe 32 pixels tall in the original video? Depending on the video compression used, that could be between 4 and 16 macroblocks to represent his whole head. You can’t trust that to accurately represent the shape of his ear, nose and chin.

      Do they ever address the question of why the camera that picks up his transformation has to be further away than the ones that didn’t see a thing?

      • Conspirator

        You have to disregard the other cameras when examining this evidence.  You also have to disregard things like “math” and “video compression” and “distance”.  If you don’t disregard these things, you can’t see the truth.  

        • Brainspore

          REALITY IS A LIE THAT BLINDS US TO THE TRUTH.

  • http://www.rickcortes.com Rick.

    Only shifting I see is feet shifting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Steve.LeVine Steve LeVine

    Its not April Fools day yet is it?

  • Snig

    If I didn’t fear for his safety, I would want Lizardman to hang out at the coffeeshops in the youtuber’s town.

  • Bradley Robinson

    Why is every shape-shifter I know employed in security?

  • Cowicide

    There can be no other explanation.

  • http://enigmatic.com cjearner
  • gauch0

    Caught on video: That’s proof. You can’t argue with that. They even got it with an infrared filter! Obama is so busted.

  • itsgene

    Another triumph for the Mac OS “Daniel” TTS voice.

  • Chuck

    Remember that funny-looking kid back in elementary school?  The one with the oddly shaped ears, jawline, and skull?

    He was a reptilian alien shape shifter.  Just thought you should know.

    And if your children currently go to school with a kid like that, let them know what kind of taunts they should be using.

  • SteveHynd

    I’m more worried about the pointy-eared werewolf in human form standing behind the alien shapeshifter.

  • SomeGuyNamedMark

    I knew it!  The truth is always revealed by grainy low-res images.

  • eldritch

    Lord Voldemort! Obama is a Slytherin Death Eater!

  • SumAnon

    ‘Berrek’ Obama?

  • waetherman

    They must have the “They Live” filter attached

    • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

      I’m giving you a choice. Either put on this filter, or start eating that trash can.

      • http://beresourceful.net/ Rusty

        This steak tastes Great!

  • http://twitter.com/TheFree_Lance Jeff A. Taylor

    You know, that is the LEAST weird thing on that user’s channel. In just a day, tons of bizarre uploads.

    https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaUniGirls27945?feature=watch

  • http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

    Christ, that’s one of the LEAST convincing shape-shift videos I’ve seen, which is saying something.  Most of them you can kinda go “Well, obviously that’s an artifact, but I guess I can see how it might look creepy if you were a superstitious, suggestible moron.”  But that’s just blurry footage of a bald guy!  Don’t get me wrong, the baldies might well be up to something, but I’m pretty sure their DNA is terrestrial. 
    Love the way the automated voice makes a dog’s dinner of pronouncing “Illuminati”.   

  • http://profiles.google.com/spacewatcer Marios P.

    imagine how silly we will all feel once these aliens conquer the world and destry skynet in the process…

    • Wreckrob8

      Why are they unable to conquer us immediately? Did they forget something, or have the rest of them got lost?

      • Meiles02

        I think there’s a clue in the video – this entity spends almost the entire speech peering into the auditorium trying to find his seat. Night-vision is their weakness. If the audio was better we would probably hear him quietly saying “excuse me, sorry, excuse me, can I just squeeze past there, oops, sorry…”

      • http://profiles.google.com/spacewatcer Marios P.

        this is obviously a scout team. I mean ok, you are supposed to send your spies first to find out about the enemy before you get into fighting neck deep.  Imagine them arriving here and starting fighting right away only to find out that Earth is a hollow shell full of robots yielding phasers and lasers ready to devour them and we are nothing but a low tech decoy. Just imagine that.

  • Engineer_

    I believe. 

  • http://mattdm.org/ Matthew Miller

    This video was made significantly better by leaving the Napalm Death video from a few stories up playing while I watched it.

  • Andrew Eisenberg

    I soooo wish this were true.  Imagine if there really were shape-shifting aliens among us.  Life would be so much more exciting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chris.palmer.35977897 Chris Palmer

    Then there are these eyes in the background @ 1:24

    • Boundegar

      Enderman.  Don’t look.

  • http://profiles.google.com/keithdtyler Keith Tyler

    0:18 Found ‘em!

  • http://twitter.com/Polackio Matt Popke

    Look at the rest of this person’s youtube feed. WTF is up with all the “sexy asian/vietnamese/china” videos that have the same biblical tagline from Thesallonians? It’s like running a schizophrenic’s journal through google translate and receiving it as Russian viagra spam.

    • Gilbert Wham

       The only thing that makes sense, is that the simulation argument is true, and Bruce Sterling’s in charge of the plotline development algorithm. And he’s drunk.

    • Ambiguity

      And that’s what makes the Internet great.

  • http://www.disoriented.net/ angusm

    I may be being overoptimistic, but I don’t think humanity has a great deal to fear from shadowy alien overlords who think that the way to run a secret conspiracy is to put one of your guys front and center at a televised news conference and shape-shift into a lizardoid under the watchful eyes of a dozen TV cameras. That’s not exactly ‘stealth mode’, is it? 

    Or are they just mocking us? Is his next move going to be to strut up and down wearing a T-shirt that says “I’m from Zeta Reticuli VIII – ask me how” and unhinging his jaw to snack on live rats?

    • ldobe

      unhinging his jaw to snack on live rats

      Hell, he could even make some walking around money by just having lunch.  I’d pay.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      What if they’re here not to conquer us, but to steal our penises? That would explain a thing or two.

      • Meiles02

        …certainly in my trousers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rtdh.abbs Rtdh Abbs

    Why does the devil in ‘The Bible’ look exactly like President Obama?  

    Well its not just the looks that add up, check out these numbers!!!!

    Obama is 44th president of the United States of America and the word “Beast” is mentioned in its singular form 44 times in the book of Revelations. The word “tribulation” is also found 44 times in the Bible. 11 in the old & 33 in the new.

    Barack Obama Born 4 August 1961 the 216th day of the year. 216 = 6x6x6A=6 B=12 C=18 D=24 E=36 etc. BARACK = 216 = 6X6X6.A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9 J=10 K=11 L=12 M= 13 N=14 O=15 P=16 Q=17 R=18 S=19 T=20 U=21 V=22 W=23 X=24 Y=25 Z=26.Barack:                                      2+1+18+1+3+11=36 Hussein:                             8+21+19+19+5+9+14=95 Obama:                                           15+2+1+13+1=32Add these:                                            36+95+32=163 Multiply by the Beast:                            163 x 666 = 108,558    Split and Add:                                        108 + 558 = 666″Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six”. Revelation 13:3

    • mccrum
      • Brainspore

        Also remember the last guy who pulled out all that “math in revelations” stuff had a stroke soon after his end-times calculations failed to materialize. Probably because Jesus snuck a blood clot in there just to rub it in.

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Then who the hell have I been summoning?

        • mccrum

          Just some girl named Janice from Sioux City, who just happens to be the Anti-Chris.

          How awkward.

    • mccrum

      And check the scripture while you’re in the library.

      http://bible.cc/revelation/13-3.htm

      You probably mean 18th verse.  But if you’re wrong about the religious text you’re quoting there’s little to no chance you might be wrong about anything else.

    • RadioSilence

      Ever heard of confirmation bias?

    • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

      I love you.

    • Brainspore

      Good thing McCain didn’t get elected then. If the 44th President was destined to be the Antichrist then at least we got the Antichrist who supports universal health care and marriage equality.

      • orangedesperado

        That’s the best kind of Antichrist.

    • Niklas Theelder

      “Why does the devil in ‘The Bible’ look exactly like President Obama?” : Because the men who wrote the bible were just as race prejudiced as the people who thump it at everyone today.

    • Niklas Theelder

      It’s as legit as Fox news I guess…

    • Cowicide

      6x6x6A=6 B=12 C=18 D=24 E=36 etc. BARACK = 216 = 6X6X6.A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9 J=10 K=11 L=12 M= 13 N=14 O=15 P=16 Q=17 R=18 S=19 T=20 U=21 V=22 W=23 X=24 Y=25 Z=26 = SHAPESHIFTING ALIEN SATAN!!!!!111111

      I can.. dig it… man….

      • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

        I think Shapeshifting Alien Satan in Autumn… would look quite magnificent.

  • Rob

    I don’t know, therefore aliens.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nell-Anvoid/100002383626402 Nell Anvoid

    Uh…the only thing I noticed “shifting” during the video was my attention…. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nell-Anvoid/100002383626402 Nell Anvoid

    Sorry, I’m a math phobe. I’ll stick with the 700 Club.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dimitrios.papagiannis Dimitrios Papagiannis

    I got your shape shifter right here. Oh

    • http://twitter.com/nonofyrpenguins NoneofYourPenguins

      I think you meant to say:  ”I got your shape shifter hanging right here.”

  • mccrum

    Thanks, Obama!

  • aurora50

    Loved the music used in the background, effective piano and then the vibra-slap when it got spooky!

  • Cowicide

    disregard all the distortions and image artifacts…

    I bet when this turkey looks through old, vintage glass windows he thinks the world is melting outside.

  • Prospero761

    Oh, Prunella! Thanks for leading me down the rabbit hole of Conspiracy Theory Theatre,

  • Kendra Billings

    I hope the SS guy sees this. I bet he’ll get a kick out of it.

    • Brainspore

      He’ll probably laugh so hard that he accidentally dislodges his jaw and coughs up a pig.

      • Kendra Billings

         A pig, you think? Clearly lizard-human hybrids only eat people.

      • http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

         actual goddamn painful lol.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    Based on the neck movements, I think that he’s related to Gustavo Almodovar.

    • Jake0748

       Well… I heard Gustavo was looking for a new gig anyway.

    • http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

      i think he is just watching a tennis match occurring at the back of the hall due to an embarrassing double booking.

  • Daemonworks

    Out of curiosity… where, precisely, is the line drawn between being a conspiracy theorist and being outright delusional?

    • Brainspore

      There’s a line now?

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Lines can connect as well as separate.

    • Cowicide

      where, precisely, is the line drawn between being a conspiracy theorist and being outright delusional?

      There’s no precise, straight line to observe…

      http://boingboing.net/2011/02/24/report-army-deployed.html

      It zig zags in and out of reality.

    • http://billmcgonigle.com bill_mcgonigle

      When you accept the theory without sufficient evidence.  Hey, that works not-just-here.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2X6OHAN7GLVLAIP4QLECKD3NY4 morgane

    nah, the security guy is just a scientologist. totally normal.

  • Alan

    Man, I hate it when my shape-shifting device fails when I’m in a crowded room!

  • http://twitter.com/JimGHalpin Jim G. Halpin

    There’s a word for this, a word that may REVEAL the SHOCKING TRUTH: *ALOPECIA*

    • mikei

      Ah, so you’re saying this alien follow is CIA, from planet ALOPE? 

  • http://twitter.com/jerwood Jeremy Wood

    That looks like dark lighting and MPEG artifacts. Or a secret reptile world government. Which one is more likely, I’m not sure.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/TOVZX2BB63INLINKFQGDWJUKPY The Dude(ette), you know…

    OMG light fixtures inside an enclosed building reveal an alien mutant zombie neanderthal pseaudopod…technology is amazing…

  • http://twitter.com/t0dampier T. Dampier

    It’s AIPAC, not “APIAC”. http://www.aipac.org
    And of *course* the Prez brought his favorite domesticated shape-shifting Grey to the command performance. Duh.

  • kelev

    Brought to you by…All the people who think Jesus was a white Christian.

  • Cowicide

     Don’t let this guy near housecats.

    I just remembered this from over 10 years ago or so (thank you, fish oil) and was able to dig up a link (thank you, google):
    Nudist thwarts evil shape-shifting housecats

    • Antinous / Moderator

      You should probably add a trigger warning to that.

  • Paul Bryden

    I really miss the X-Files,

  • http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

     Does it count as pareidolia if the meaningless images you use are artifacts of low lighting or zoom?

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Yes.

  • http://twitter.com/ursulas ursula

    Who the hell cares if a reptile is protecting the President from fat, old right wing teabag gunmen? Let the beast do his job!

  • Michael Vella

    The narrator of this video definitely has a non human voice. 

  • Alessandro Arcidiacono

    a shapeshifter can’t work??! they have family too! stupid racists..

  • http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

    Given the way people misuse the word “random” in recent years, maybe this is just a general trend of people failing to recognize their own perspectives and tendency to interpret stimuli and find meanings. People seem to think they receive meanings in a neutral, passive, unbiased way.