Interesting media futures question: is the age of organic virality over?
Things like bad art friend seem closer to high-budget summer blockbusters or prestige TV shows.
Great for fiction, but for nonfiction, it’s like gain-of-function media virality experiments.
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I think we’re at the “reality tv” type moment for textual media.
N=2 theory but… Bad Art and Cat Person suggest an intriguing link between what someone aptly dubbed ‘surveillance fiction’ and gain-of-function viral derived stories about the authorship. google.com/amp/s/www.prec
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Ie A stalks B and writes a cunningly undisguised bit of fiction about B, it gets discovered and fuels a second-order non-fiction viral story that makes author kinda notorious and committed addicts will pay to read all about. True pseudoevent within paywalled pseudoreality
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Yeah I’m speculating about the future here. The first couple of examples appear unscripted but it’s sooo obvious how to script and game this I can’t believe it won’t happen. It’s like “leaked” sex tapes. twitter.com/alexqgb/status
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