Giantbomb has been undergoing a bit of content diversification and this is Very Online Show is one of the newer programs that I have started watching, with this particular episode being my second...
Giantbomb has been undergoing a bit of content diversification and this is Very Online Show is one of the newer programs that I have started watching, with this particular episode being my second episode. This video seems to center around Lucy and Tam explaining different (and seemingly harmful) trends that occur on the internet to Jeff. I probably associate with Jeff in many of these videos because I'm frankly out of touch with how an everyday person interacts with the internet/social media.
I thought this was a good episode that touched upon a phenomenon that I have started picking up lately and feeling grossed out over. That topic is web sleuthing which in the past I would have likely associated with True Crime internet forums. About two-three years ago, I recall binging several episodes of the Generation Why podcast with my partner on a long car ride. After each episode we would discuss the case and what we thought of general aspects. At a certain point, it suddenly hit me that we were getting some sort of satisfaction/entertainment learning about these harmful and traumatic events that have wrecked families and lives, and we were eating them like a snack. I reflected about how if one of these topics were a lot closer to me, I would probably hate that my ability to grieve would be extremely difficult as I would likely have random internet people try to contact me about their wild theories, and I wondered how that hard that must be for a lot of these people affected. Since then, I have had a different view on the True Crime genre and in particular, Netflix and documentary-type shows on personal tragedies.
This episode helped me see though that this type of behavior extends far beyond True Crime and into the personal lives of every day, no-name people. I remember just weeks ago being taken aback by the rabidity of the users in /r/GabbyPetito, with speculation threads being created for each major event and even several times across the day. It was sickening to me to see all these people gathered in one tiny subreddit treating the whole affair like an episode of Game of Thrones. This episode makes a salient point and argument regarding the content consumption habits of people online these days and the total disconnect that is occurring where people interact with content on sites like TikTok and fail to treat the people in the videos like people, rather than made-up characters in a TV-show. I also think when it covered how this conspiratorial-minded content can seemingly manifest out of nowhere due to TikTok's ability to amplify videos through its sharing feature.
Anyways, I hope you get something out of this. Curious to hear other people's thoughts on it.
Giantbomb has been undergoing a bit of content diversification and this is Very Online Show is one of the newer programs that I have started watching, with this particular episode being my second episode. This video seems to center around Lucy and Tam explaining different (and seemingly harmful) trends that occur on the internet to Jeff. I probably associate with Jeff in many of these videos because I'm frankly out of touch with how an everyday person interacts with the internet/social media.
I thought this was a good episode that touched upon a phenomenon that I have started picking up lately and feeling grossed out over. That topic is web sleuthing which in the past I would have likely associated with True Crime internet forums. About two-three years ago, I recall binging several episodes of the Generation Why podcast with my partner on a long car ride. After each episode we would discuss the case and what we thought of general aspects. At a certain point, it suddenly hit me that we were getting some sort of satisfaction/entertainment learning about these harmful and traumatic events that have wrecked families and lives, and we were eating them like a snack. I reflected about how if one of these topics were a lot closer to me, I would probably hate that my ability to grieve would be extremely difficult as I would likely have random internet people try to contact me about their wild theories, and I wondered how that hard that must be for a lot of these people affected. Since then, I have had a different view on the True Crime genre and in particular, Netflix and documentary-type shows on personal tragedies.
This episode helped me see though that this type of behavior extends far beyond True Crime and into the personal lives of every day, no-name people. I remember just weeks ago being taken aback by the rabidity of the users in /r/GabbyPetito, with speculation threads being created for each major event and even several times across the day. It was sickening to me to see all these people gathered in one tiny subreddit treating the whole affair like an episode of Game of Thrones. This episode makes a salient point and argument regarding the content consumption habits of people online these days and the total disconnect that is occurring where people interact with content on sites like TikTok and fail to treat the people in the videos like people, rather than made-up characters in a TV-show. I also think when it covered how this conspiratorial-minded content can seemingly manifest out of nowhere due to TikTok's ability to amplify videos through its sharing feature.
Anyways, I hope you get something out of this. Curious to hear other people's thoughts on it.