>In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an image lose its charge? No, because the image itself doesn't matter. What matters

>In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an image lose its charge? No, because the image itself doesn't matter. What matters is how much the public wants to hate someone. If t he public is primed, any remotely plausible incriminating image will do as an excuse. Fortunately, these images are actually far than what someone can cook up with Photoshop. Unfortunately, it's a part of a bigger trend where we get more and more tools to produce, manipulates and share information, while the tools to analyze and filter information are lagging by at least half a century.