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You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
by CivBase 6y ago
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
- bigwavedave 6y ago> You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies? It's a sad world- it almost makes me regret creating the internet and inventing services like youtube and email and HN.
- icandoit 6y agoDon't, we're still in the just-discovered-beer-and-dont-know-my-limits stage of things. Better days (and much darker ones too) ahead. :)
- gnu8 6y agoI think the point is anything on YouTube is manufactured. It’s not necessarily lies, but people have to be aware when they are watching a video about an electric truck or rescuing animals, the intent wasn’t to do that thing, the intent was to create a video about doing that thing that people will enjoy watching. So while there is an inherit falseness to everything on YouTube, that doesn’t need to imply malignancy.
- tartoran 6y agoTo add to this, the intent is to add views to the videos. If something sells - and one can see what is trending - video creators jump on the bandwagon and do it. The problem is not only fakeness but inauthenticity. Similar with kids content, there was a scandal a while back about this...
- coward8675309 6y agoI think that’s a level of media sophistication that’s hard to instill in people. After all, motion pictures, literature, and art of all kinds produces emotional effects because at some level, people accept what’s presented to them. It takes consistent effort to remember that the thing we’re experiencing is not a naive, straightforward presentation “from nowhere” without any sort of goal, whether innocuous or nefarious.
- guardiangod 6y agoI am sad none of you guys caught the reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0