And I don’t mean to jump on the “TV rots your brain” type of train (which critics have been saying about fiction forever).
But humans are literally programmed to emulate peers. And I think the line is especially blurry when those “peers” are presented as news hosts, ‘real world’ influencers, things that are seemingly real life content yet are total clickbait caricatures, and then that’s hyper personalized and constantly pinging you on a phone.
Folks really into certain TV characters (for example) know they aren’t real on some level and get normalized in life. But that system breaks with the kind of content we have now.
Yeah.
And I don’t mean to jump on the “TV rots your brain” type of train (which critics have been saying about fiction forever).
But humans are literally programmed to emulate peers. And I think the line is especially blurry when those “peers” are presented as news hosts, ‘real world’ influencers, things that are seemingly real life content yet are total clickbait caricatures, and then that’s hyper personalized and constantly pinging you on a phone.
Folks really into certain TV characters (for example) know they aren’t real on some level and get normalized in life. But that system breaks with the kind of content we have now.