My wife hates it when I don't enjoy the TikTok videos she sends me, because it's very easy for me to tell how staged and fake they are. She, on the other hand, neither notices nor cares.
This would be concerning, if I didn't know that this way of thinking was incredibly common these days—instead, it's mildly terrifying.
Everybody knows movies are staged, even the ones that are "based on a true story". From what I can tell, people seem to think those short videos are genuine.
Everyone knows movies are staged, and they expect this. No one in their right mind wants to go to a theater and pay $20 for some crap that someone shot on their phone with no script.
With the short videos, people expect them to be genuine, and not highly staged productions meant to entertain.
No, I watch these kind of videos expecting them to be fake. Why would I expect otherwise when I have every reason to expect them to be non-genuine? If people's expectations are not right, that is on them.
If every time I watched a movie with my SO they said "you do know this is completely fake, why do you even like movies?", I would probably get a bit annoyed
This would be concerning, if I didn't know that this way of thinking was incredibly common these days—instead, it's mildly terrifying.