Comment by adamrezich 3 days ago
My wife hates it when I don't enjoy the TikTok videos she sends me, because it's very easy for me to tell how staged and fake they are. She, on the other hand, neither notices nor cares.
This would be concerning, if I didn't know that this way of thinking was incredibly common these days—instead, it's mildly terrifying.
Everyone knows movies are staged, and they expect this. No one in their right mind wants to go to a theater and pay $20 for some crap that someone shot on their phone with no script.
With the short videos, people expect them to be genuine, and not highly staged productions meant to entertain.
No, I watch these kind of videos expecting them to be fake. Why would I expect otherwise when I have every reason to expect them to be non-genuine? If people's expectations are not right, that is on them.
I think better comparison would be documentaries and reality tv.
Would you get angry because you thought it was real though? Because that’s what happens with these people.
They show you something and say something incredulous like, “I can’t believe something like this is legal. How is this allowed?”
Your choices are to point out it’s fake or play along in a stupid fantasy. The latter is disingenuous just to avoid conflict.
I enjoy movies, even though they are staged.