They aren’t “real” people either way, even the human ones are just drones reading a script that someone paid them to read.
This is how I think about social media in general. It’s a spectrum from mostly fake to all fake. Even the least fake profiles still only show the good parts of their life and unedited photos are still hand-picked from a bunch of other ones they don’t want people to see.
Hell even my own Pixelfed feed which is 100% landscape photography is all more or less fake. I take hundreds of photos and only publish one or two of the best ones and even those are heavily edited. It gives a totally false impression of how good of an photographer I really am.
Even with people knowing social media is fake or highly edited, It’s really doing a number on people’s mental health.
What a non-story.
They basically asked: In an ad, do you prefer an actor reading out the marketing script or a computer-rendered face?
I just… don’t watch ads.
Firefox, ublock origin, NextDNS when mobile, pfBlockerNG at home.
I’ve gotten to the point where it’s genuinely jarring if I see an ad on one of my own devices.
Ever watch somebody who doesn’t know about all that use the rawdog Internet? It’s amazing how people can just sit there, deal with all that, and not go apeshit. The population has been conditioned.
It is pretty insane and depressing that pervasive, jaw-droppingly targeted ads have more or less been completely normalized with the vast majority of the population. I sometimes feel like I have a tin foil hat on when I try to educate people about it these days. Everyone just seems to mostly not care.
I installed uBlock for someone recently. They complained about all the empty space where the ads used to be. So I removed the empty space by blocking that element with uBlock, which increased the width of the main body of the website, and they then complained that the website was too wide…
Some people are beyond help.
You’re way too patient. “Nothing I can do about it” would have been my answer to the first complaint.
It’s a harrowing experience I don’t intend to repeat any time soon.
It feels like a weird study. I can’t tell if the study, or just the article, was trying to make GenZ look like fools yet again, when the actual results found are “GenZ is like a lot of other people in yet another way”.
I dont get why people would care for influencers
I don’t get how people can watch reality shows but apparently they do.
Plus entertainment is a great control tool. Give people enough entertainment and they will never revolt.
If the only way to a revolution is making lives more miserable, is the revolution even worthy? Something, something, accelerationism…
One is temporary, the other is perpetuated for eternity through atrocities.
why do people care for Shrek? Or Walter White? Or Antigone?
The concept of caring for fictional narratives is ages old.
Wheel is excellent entertainment, and far more human than most of these pretenders.
I make the distinction among “streamer” who is doing a play by play similar to sportscasting, “presenter” is showing facts or teach a lesson like online learning, “op ed” to explain an opinion or parody, and “influencer” as someone trying to be center of attention but usually brings no value and has no reason to be famous except from being famous.
Maybe it’s just my own biases, but
- I can listen when my kids watch e-sports, recognize it as sportscasting
- I appreciate how “Everyday Astronaut” explains things
- I’ll go with Jon Stewart for presenting news topics with a sense of the absurd because I don’t have the patience to find a streamer equivalent
- somehow people like the Jenners, Lindsay Lohan, Kardashians, are famous for being famous, and supposedly “influence” people? Some of these really seem like the worst of humanity and ought to just be ignored.
I don’t care if it’s a human or a bot trying to sell me something because my ad blocker will make sure I don’t even see it.
Personally I despise everything about the idea of influencers. I have yet to see one who wasn’t an outright attention whore or just trying to get free shit.
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to be paid for being the center of attention. There’s pathological levels to it for sure, but we’re communal, creative creatures. Maybe it depends on how we define influencer, idk. I was gonna comment that younger generations aren’t fully developed physiologically, so the appreciation for fully human influence could be chalked up to that
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Probably because we didn’t care about them in the first place
I mean, who does? They don’t act like one.
Does anyody really look at anyone in an ad and say, “Yes, that’s a fellow human, I connect with them on a personal level”?
I’ve been perceiving them as robots since 1986. Because even as a child I knew people in an ad don’t act or talk like everybody I knew in real life and what they were portraying was completely made up, unrealistic dialog and scenarios.
Exactly. Marketing generally doesn’t try to speak to your rational forebrain. It’s going for your subconscious, by design. It’s why ads can be so random and still retain efficacy.
I’m a millennial, but I don’t necessarily care if the person I’m watching exists or not.
That’s not to say there aren’t a bunch of other factors involved that would generally steer me away from artificial people (general corporate BS being the obvious one), but all else being equal, I’m totally fine with it.
If it’s someone I’m never going to meet either way then it doesn’t matter if they’re real or not. What matters is the quality of content.
Newsflash: adolescents don’t care who is pushing consumerism to them.
My Gen Z son says these are Alphas and he doesn’t want to be associated with them.
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I know every generation says this, but I actually think Gen Z is doomed. They have like 50% support for Hamas lmao, brain rotted by social media and echo chambers
If you think that’s what’s happening, you’ve been in an echo chamber yourself.
Sorry, “only” 37%: https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-hamas-colleges-gen-z-polls-1895668#:~:text=In March%2C Harvard CAPS-Harris,respondents said they backed Israel.
That’s so fuckin depressing lmaoooo what a bunch of idiots
From a shit survey misquoted by a failed Republican sycophant. Echo chamber.
I didn’t even know that dipshit said 50%, but whatever. The Newsweek article I posted says 37%, my apologies. It’s still alarmingly high support for a literal terrorist organization. Brain rotted
Did you read the whole article? Newsweek misrepresented the results by leaving out other answers that clearly demonstrate the vast majority think Hamas is a terrorist organization and the Oct 7th attacks were terroristic and genocidal in intent. The sample size was far too small. You’ll notice they didn’t even tell you what the actual question asked was. There’s a big difference between “do you support Hamas” and “do you support the Palestinian government” or “do you support Palestinian efforts to defend against Israeli attacks?” Surveys in general, and especially ones on politically decisive ideas, are notoriously easy to skew based on subtle differences in how you word questions. I’d recommend you be very suspicious of any report on a survey that doesn’t tell you what was actually asked.
