This is it, the most zeitgeist story. It’s got performative diversity fetish. It’s got social media body dysmorphia. It’s got AI moral panic. It’s got decay of academic institutions.
This is a good example of government being invisible when it’s working correctly. You didn’t get rabies bc the govt is working for you, but you don’t know it.
It should probably be illegal to run ads like this without a mandatory "AI SATIRE NOT REAL" disclosure on it, or something, because a depressing percentage of older Americans will genuinely watch this and think it is real.
I can’t really make fun of this because John Green ended up building a maternity hospital in Sierra Leone and coercing Johnson & Johnson to surrender their patent on Tuberculosis medication entirely off the power of millennial cringe.
"If I had a nickel for every time everyone in McKinney was dead, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?"
For everything bad you could say about American culture (and it could fill libraries), we used to have a very Protestant aversion to ostentatious displays of wealth and a very republican aversion to veneration of living leaders. The Trump era has virtually destroyed both of those
i'm sure the ability to fabricate convincing historical footage that eventually drifts across the internet, where it's picked up by people who present them as real, at a time when trust in educational and media institutions is already eroding, will prove to be a net positive