• Auth@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Most youtubers are businesses owned by corporate networks. The person on screen is just the talent pretending to be an organic channel.

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      4 days ago

      I don’t understand why people are so shocked and horrified when it turns out that people who do entertainment for a living have been professional entertainers the whole time.

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        2 days ago

        Most of them are pretending that they aren’t corporate. YouTubers are generally trying to keep up the illusion of authenticity, which on YouTube usually includes pretending that you’re on your own.

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          2 days ago

          I mean, the vast, vast majority of entertainment media is an act. Do you watch Top Gear and assume that everything they did happened organically?

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              6 hours ago

              Its the same reason I hate “reality shows”. Give me reality or give me fiction. Dont try pretending its real when its not