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Fake Famous
2021 · Film · documentary · 86 min
Directed by Nick Bilton
Explores the meaning of fame and influence in the digital age through an innovative social experiment. Following three Los Angeles-based people with relatively small followings, the film explores the attempts made to turn them into famous influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to “engage” with their social media accounts.
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'The Century of Self' is great. All of Adam Curtis' documentaries are awesome.
I also watched that Matt Walsh thing. A little vomit-inducing, but a great example of manipulative documentary techniques ("experts," scary music, "gotchya" ambush interviews).
I usually consume a number of documentaries, but this year I think I only watched...
Frozen Planet II
Fake Famous (2021) https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/788610-fake-famous
Do YouTube documentaries count?
'Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins' https://yewtu.be/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw and 'Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs' https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g by Folding Ideas were great.
I'm sort of coming around to this part of Elon's viewpoint. Nevermind if this is the right solution to a bot problem, but I do think it's a problem.
Related a bit, but I just watched a documentary called Fake Famous, and I wondered if maybe all the insta fakery would be minimized if bots were eliminated. Or at the other extreme, the fakery itself could be automated, thus devaluing it.