On February 20th, WLOS‘s Justin Hinton was reporting live on the weather in Madison County, NC in order to prevent accidents. However, there was one accident he could not prevent.
Before the broadcast, he interacted with the viewers on Facebook Live. What he did not realize is that he somehow activated the faces generator filter on his phone. Thus, while he is giving a serious report about the hazardous driving conditions, they were seeing him with funny faces. Much to everyone’s delight.
Hinton had no idea about any of it until after the live shot. He revealed what happened, on guess what, Facebook. He wrote, “The photog I was working with said something about the screen having weird faces. He didn’t elaborate, so I said it would probably go away. Needless to say, it did not go away. 😂😂 I didn’t realize it until I stepped off camera and saw the comments where people were talking about the faces. My bosses, coworkers, friends, PIOs and more called/texted saying how funny it was, so here you go.”
Then he added, “If you can’t laugh at yourself, what’s the point of laughter? I hope you enjoyed the snow day, and remember to smile and laugh!” So today smile and laugh when you think of him as a fox and a wizard. We should dub him the Wizard of Weather.
BTW who else thinks that more news reporters should do this when they are reporting the news. I bet their ratings would go up because I would tune in to see what filters they are going to use that newscast. I would ask some of my friends to do that, but they get all insulted when I do.
