[tacotacotaco]

Maybe I’m too cynical but it just seems performative. It seems like any number of YouTube videos where some financially well off influencer spends their money doing something awkward to attract views. And it worked. Here we are gawking at the latest stunt. Like and subscribe. Don’t forget to smash that bell. Check out my patreon for access to my Discord.

[throwaway675309]

Yeah, I had the same impression after reading the blog post, it very much felt like a performance art piece rather than a practical experiment with any quantifiably measurable takeaway since there's no way this would be very financially sustainable as an actual applicable solution to the problem.

I think he could've saved a great deal of money by just going into a collaborative workspace environment.

[cactusplant7374]

This is a guy that has a "Date Me" link on his website that links to a google form. He seems quite unique.

[w-ll]

Liz from "Sneakers" gonna reply.

[fragmede]

Oh no! The person I'm watching wanted to be watched!

Wait, what?

[t-writescode]

I feel like this perspective is missing the point. A lot of what we see on the internet nowadays is pornography. It has no point at all except to be a spectacle and to generate conversation and views and to keep the person watching - thereby getting ads, thereby getting money.

I see a lot of this on TikTok nowadays; and, if my YouTube feed were less curated, I'd probably see it there, too. It's the food videos where someone makes an absolutely terrible meal out of 8 whole fast-food burgers, covered in fries, then honey, then mashed potatoes; or the videos where someone makes a mess with spaghetti and sauce in their hands and then puts it in the oven.

Once I got this perspective on a lot of video content, I could see it basically everywhere.

[Apocryphon]

Yeah, I think the moralism or existentialism or whatever of “what is real and what is a performance or simulation?” aside, something that is taught as part of an exaggerated performance inherently makes it less objective. It’s fine as entertainment, but questionable as education.

[jasmer]

Definitely performative, but even in that context still kind a fun.

[thdespou]

The only thing missing is a clickbaity thumbnail.