Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What does it actually look like when VFX experts tear apart viral footage in real time — live, in front of a crowd, with no prep?
On Day 3 of The Puget Experience at NAB 2026, Niko Pueringer, Sam Gorski, and Wren Weichman brought their wildly popular Debunk series to the Puget Systems booth stage for a live taping breaking down UFO footage and AI-generated shopping scams clip by clip, in front of an audience that got to watch them figure it out together.
The Debunk series started when Niko had a simple thought: there's so much "unexplainable" footage online, UFOs, paranormal clips, strange atmospheric events, why not apply VFX knowledge to actually figure out what's going on? That framework has since expanded into exposing AI shopping scams, where sellers use AI to generate or manipulate product videos that make items look completely different from what you'll actually receive. For the live episode, the crew purchased real AI scam products ahead of time and opened them on stage; unopened and sight unseen, to compare what the AI marketing promised versus what actually showed up in the box.
On the UFO side, the crew walks through a range of submitted clips: a "spaceship with exhaust" that turns out to be mylar balloons, an object that looks like it's hovering until you realize it's the moon, footage of a stationary object filmed against moving clouds (one of their key tells for digital trickery), Google's Project Loon balloons, one of the most mind-blowing real-world programs that has generated countless UFO reports, sky lanterns, and a clip claiming a UFO "destroyed a chemtrail" over a city, which gives them an opportunity to explain what contrails actually are and how atmosphere causes them to dissipate. Throughout, they break down exactly how they know what they know: compression artifacts, digital noise scaling on zoom, object motion relative to fixed reference points, and the telltale absence of camera shake that real handheld footage would produce.
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Corridor Digital is a YouTube-native studio and production company best known for VFX Artists React, Corridor Crew, and some of the most technically impressive indie filmmaking on the internet. With over 10 million subscribers, they've built a community around honest, expert breakdowns of visual effects in film and television.
🔗 YouTube: youtube.com/@CorridorCrew
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This session was recorded live at the Puget Systems booth at NAB 2026. All week, we hosted creators, filmmakers, and industry experts for conversations about the tools, workflows, and technology shaping the future of content production.
🔗 Learn more about Puget Systems workstations: pugetsystems.com
What does it actually look like when VFX experts tear apart viral footage in real time — live, in front of a crowd, with no prep?
On Day 3 of The Puget Experience at NAB 2026, Niko Pueringer, Sam Gorski, and Wren Weichman brought their wildly popular Debunk series to the Puget Systems booth stage for a live taping breaking down UFO footage and AI-generated shopping scams clip by clip, in front of an audience that got to watch them figure it out together.
The Debunk series started when Niko had a simple thought: there's so much "unexplainable" footage online, UFOs, paranormal clips, strange atmospheric events, why not apply VFX knowledge to actually figure out what's going on? That framework has since expanded into exposing AI shopping scams, where sellers use AI to generate or manipulate product videos that make items look completely different from what you'll actually receive. For the live episode, the crew purchased real AI scam products ahead of time and opened them on stage; unopened and sight unseen, to compare what the AI marketing promised versus what actually showed up in the box.
On the UFO side, the crew walks through a range of submitted clips: a "spaceship with exhaust" that turns out to be mylar balloons, an object that looks like it's hovering until you realize it's the moon, footage of a stationary object filmed against moving clouds (one of their key tells for digital trickery), Google's Project Loon balloons, one of the most mind-blowing real-world programs that has generated countless UFO reports, sky lanterns, and a clip claiming a UFO "destroyed a chemtrail" over a city, which gives them an opportunity to explain what contrails actually are and how atmosphere causes them to dissipate. Throughout, they break down exactly how they know what they know: compression artifacts, digital noise scaling on zoom, object motion relative to fixed reference points, and the telltale absence of camera shake that real handheld footage would produce.
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ABOUT CORRIDOR DIGITAL
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Corridor Digital is a YouTube-native studio and production company best known for VFX Artists React, Corridor Crew, and some of the most technically impressive indie filmmaking on the internet. With over 10 million subscribers, they've built a community around honest, expert breakdowns of visual effects in film and television.
🔗 YouTube: youtube.com/@CorridorCrew
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ABOUT PUGET SYSTEMS NAB 2026
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This session was recorded live at the Puget Systems booth at NAB 2026. All week, we hosted creators, filmmakers, and industry experts for conversations about the tools, workflows, and technology shaping the future of content production.
🔗 Learn more about Puget Systems workstations: pugetsystems.com
