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Sep 21Liked by Dudley Newright

I feel like a fly on the wall listening to 2 nice, decent, smart guys hanging out & chatting. It’s a treat. Thank you.

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What a lovely comment!

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Sep 21Liked by Isaac Simpson, Dudley Newright

A BROADER CONVERSATION ABOUT *VIRALITY*? Please no...

A simply mahvellous combination, you two chaps

I remember 1996 (oh yah yah I was very very young) and I remember this quality of unguarded earnestness in people. It's funny though because at the time it seemed to me--I was an extremely perspicacious one-month old in October 96--that people were already starting to behave archly and insincerely.

But you know what's interesting is in retrospect things seem different what an original remark

The thing I find really depressing now is that a lot of *45 year-old women* (not cam-mums or anything, just ordinary media creative resources human assistant directors or similar), whom you once thought you knew well, behave like they're on camera in face-to-face social situations.

PS: I knew plenty of cats in the 90s who dressed authentic 70s. Nobody thought they were 'influencers' then so I don't know what you're getting at there...

PPS: leaks and spreads may not be the best words to use with reference to whores

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Sep 21Liked by Dudley Newright

I'm commenting on the wook girl post. Is this another example for the transition from the age of authenticity to the age of profilicity? Profilicity concept is explained her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBXZiBA1R8

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Yeah this feels related

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Sep 23Liked by Dudley Newright

I have been thinking on topic of that link for sometime. The Facebook Effect is what I call it. My So Curated Life combined with main character and npc behavior from society at large. The only fans girl you guys are talking about is just fucking gross and needs Jesus. Wtaf. Is she Gen z or something? I have so many thoughts, ya'll would be like bro wrote a whole essay lol. That's just sad. Regarding the need to social media inclusion in the media theories, absolutely.

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I agree with the sentiment of your post about Phish girl. Even though Isaac is right that she's playing a constructed role too, there is a difference in that she's performing it for herself and her immediate, real-life friends and acquaintances, rather than for the camera and online followers, which is like another dimension of artificiality. It's seems paradoxical, but you can be more genuine embodying an artificial (in the literal sense of constructed by human effort and planning) identity, if you're not doing it for the camera.

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well put

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