There are plenty of YouTube shorts and short videos based on replaying a legit TikTok or Instagram with a content creators commentary. But the ones that were too smooth, too perfect I sensed were hoaxes. Men underestimating women, women receiving revenge after their affairs are discovered, con artists being outwitted, court hearing where someone is either vindicated or treated so unfairly as to inspire outrage. Acres and acres of emotional spillage, and I wondered - where do they find the people willing to be this patently ridiculous?
I am too used to videos of real people who are being stupid to have been alert that you can follow that down the garden path. These are mini soap operas. They are scripted. These are actors. Duh. As with hoaxes, the key is when they are just too perfect. The villain who mistreats the homeless woman who turns out to be the disguised sister of his job interviewer. Extra points if he's racist or sexist. The woman begging to be taken back and the betrayed husband delivering well-constructed and crushing lines right off the top of his head.
I never thought all of them were real, but I just figured out I have been falling for the new generation's soaps. Maybe if someone had been named Marco Dane I would have woken up.
3 comments:
I've been seeing those in the reels feed on Facebook, and I concur that they are mostly likely fake.
Or, to grant them their due, they are fiction. Dramas.
And more than likely content farms.
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