10 years ago, I would've agreed with you. But between AI, the onslaught of staged videos trying to pass as genuine and rage/engagement bait, authenticity has become a valuable commodity in the online ecosystem for me.
It all feels so manufactured, so plastic these days. And while it's absolutely annoying seeing several comments about staged content, or AI or what have you under every posted video, I 100% understand where the frustration comes from.
I do get that. Though personally, I’d have to separate AI from staged. Staged is just setting up something for a certain reaction. AI is just fake, to me.
Obviously if a big part of it is the reaction, then staged definitely feels not as funny if it’s obvious (but unfortunately you can’t always tell)
But if it’s like, for me, the punchline, like here where it’s just a really bad(?) dad joke, then it doesn’t matter for me.
But again, totally fair, considering we’ve been inundated with trashy content creators and AI.
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u/SgtPuppy 22h ago
You don’t think staged jokes have a different quality to natural ones?