Do people care about 100% of the real thing though? Phone photos are oversaturated and over-sharpened. TikTok and other social media videos are more often then not run through filters giving their creators impossibly smooth skin and slim waists along with other effects not intended to look in any way realistic. Almost every major motion picture has tons of visual effects that defy physical reality. Nature documentaries have for decades faked or sweetened their sound production, staged their encounters with wildlife, etc.
People are more concerned about being stimulated than they are about verisimilitude.
People are more concerned about being stimulated than they are about verisimilitude.