There's a French movie called Au Hazard Balthazar (The Donkey Balthazar) about a donkey who just goes around and looks at people & witnesses acts of human cruelty. Like 50% of the film is just a closeup of the donkey looking at something off screen. Anyway it’s generally regarded as one of the best films of all time
@alicealeph0 This, and I've also been in no fewer than 4 record stores in the last couple years where the guy at the counter looked up an untagged record someone brought him on Discogs to set a price in the moment!! If they can do it so can we
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@capybaroness Increasingly the internet is dominated by disingenuous (often covertly so) content crafted to evoke strong negative reactions and that preponderance of ragebait has mostly subsumed the slice of internet attention that those virally bad sensations previously called home
comes with the territory: irony, playfulness, sarcasm, double entendre are all natural modes for work that is oppositional to social or formal norms, and the structure of surprise and the unexpected is fundamental for both avant garde art and comedy
The battle against engagement/rage bait as predominant social media content was lost long ago, but you can still make your time online so much more tolerable by just muting these accounts! Subway Takes, "newswires" that are run by prediction markets, all gone in a few taps!