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Unfortunately I think it fits the ... "everything is amplified on Youtube" type ecosystem that it stops being a weirdly storybook story and ... it's just what you expect to see so you don't notice it.

The YouTube guy who is amped up about everything, the latest movie is the worst ever, here are some videos of me overreacting to myself on video that I've seen before because I edited them but now I'll act like I didn't, everything celeb gossip type content, even videos reposed with slightly altered origin stories to fit a narrative....

It's all so skewed and wild it's just normal....



I wouldn't exactly categorize these 2 type of videos in the same basket...


They're not the same type of video, but the ecosystem is surreal as it is, I think that surreal nature makes folks less suspect of other sort of curious / awfully polished / almost surreal content as ... of course it is, it is on Youtube.

Kinda like on Twitter, people rarely just call anyone out for being what would qualify as a jerk IRL... because being a jerk on Twitter really isn't that weird.


> I think that surreal nature makes folks less suspect of other sort of curious / awfully polished / almost surreal content

I agree, and it it reminds me of a very good article:

https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-ubiquitous-matrix-o...




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