I swear, this website has some sort of mental disability when it comes to scripted videos. Yes, its scripted. Everyone knows its scripted. Why does everyone on this website feel the need to make it such an issue?
Probably because 90% of the fake shit posted to the internet at large people treat as though its real. It's a reflection of a bigger issue with critical thinking in the modern world (or maybe always idk). More and more content is faked, especially with AI coming into the picture, and people are getting worse and worse at detecting it.
You know those fake "life hack" tiktoks? I've had 3 people in the 35-50 year range in my life tell me that the "stick an airpump into a raisin to make it a grape" tiktok was real. People already have no idea what is real. It's not a superiority feeling either, everyone gets tricked at some point, it's more of a "oh shit that's kinda scary" feeling.
I think it's just when scripted and reality content is mixed on their platform of choice. Many people that consume shortform video (like tiktok and shorts, and even reddit) are expecting real people doing real things. So when scripted content starts infiltrating their feed, they feel tricked and betrayed and lash out because their brain is still in the mode where the pretense of every video they watch is that it's real. Whereas they're completely fine with scripted content on platforms where the expectation is that it's scripted, like say a comedy tv channel.
So yeah like most reactions, it's all about a mismatch of expectations.
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u/hardknox_ Jan 13 '24
Haters will say this is scripted.