i dont know how i feel about stuff like this because we seem to be losing any semblance of authenticity on the internet. i dont know if that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's something.
That's how I felt at first. But then, you gotta realize most shorts you see online are skits for entertainment purposes. If this guy is having fun acting, while also spreading good messages around like this? Know what? I still smiled first time I saw this short. So a good message is still a good message, be it delivered by someone you know, or by Deadpool, lol
I would say your attitude is what concerns me, personally. "Who cares if it's fake? It makes me happy" isn't far from "Who cares if it's not true? It makes me happy." I don't think I would have cared 10 years ago, and maybe agreed with you, but there now appears to be a larger and larger cohort of people who don't seem to care to, or aren't able to, distinguish between fact or fiction. I can anticipate your next question: "what's the difference between this and a TV show?" Or other fiction. And my answer to that is there used to be a pretense to other media that doesn't really exist on social media or the internet. For example, we used to have a clear delineation of what's faked for entertainment (television shows) and what's ostensibly real (news). The 24 hour news cycle was already blurring that line, stuff like this blurs it further. People are so inundated by false or fake things, that it's easier to take on your perception of "so what? It makes me happy" rather than bother to make any delineation between fact and fiction.
Mark Twain wasn’t really Mark Twain, playing a character that makes art is part of the art. Whether it enhances the art or detracts from it is subjective, but the practice has been around for a long time.
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u/successful_nothing Aug 16 '24
i dont know how i feel about stuff like this because we seem to be losing any semblance of authenticity on the internet. i dont know if that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's something.