Give at least a century, almost twoThe world’s chin-resters have become obsessed with the idea of ”high” and “low” culture: poetry versus pop, ballet versus B-movie, opera versus a reality TV show in which people are forced to marry someone else they’ve only just met. The dichotomy is endless, and although there has been a (much needed) fight against such snobbish delimitations in recent years, there is also a case for a third category — one that does not exist continuously between high and low: “overflow” of culture.
It is impossible to overestimate the volume of content being produced, edited, and posted online today. The content trophy is running out, and much of what’s in it is confusing and bizarre: a woman Pour oil all over your body and use a spatula to project her body into a wedding dress, a man sawing his silhouette into the mattress to play prank. Despite the fact that these videos have over 100 million views each (and at least one requires a significant amount of money and time), no one talks about them – why should we? What’s to say? We ignore the madness and nonsense of the content engine because it mainly manifests as a flash of a second in front of our eyeballs before our fingers touch.
By definition, writing culture has to analyze some form of culture, and these videos are not culture, not really content. While journalists all over the world are now covering digital creativity, and while sometimes overlooked aspects of the content engine become weird enough or big enough to excite mainstream news coverage (think Elsagateor 5 Minute Crafts’ Eggs “bigger than before”), we mainly ignore the overflow culture; we have become accustomed to churn. But sometimes we need to stop and reserve. For the benefit of future historians, here are some of the pieces that have caught the attention of future historians, in 2021.
Since the advent of pizza and then with the advent of pizza cutters, people have asked the same burning, burning, and overwhelming question: Who cuts pizza better, boys or girls girl? In this stolen 35 seconds TikTok is uploaded to the VS YouTube channel (unfortunately, somehow the original TikToker is not credited), two videos of a “girl” and a “boy” cutting Margherita pizza placed next to each other. The on-screen slicing techniques are almost identical; no punches; The video simply ends.
Although the clip on YouTube has more than 50 million views (7 million more than the latest music video uploaded to Justin Bieber’s channel), the question of which gender is the better pizza cutter remains unanswered. . Or perhaps this is a piece of performance art, designed to demonstrate the futility of gender stereotypes. At the end of the day, men and women aren’t the same?
It’s not a YouTube video of a man hiding inside a humanoid hole in a mattress, covering himself with a blanket, and surprising his (probably joking) girlfriend Not entertainment — how could it not be, when we all have so many days and gaps to fill? What’s interesting is the logistics of this video: A newly purchased mattress specifically for the 58-second clip? How did the owners of the Woody & Kleiny YouTube channel cut the mattress so neatly? Has someone been hired to do this job?
The questions continued. Then how is the mattress thrown away? How does the prankster in question justify such wanton waste? It’s worth it? It’s worth it? Is it worth it in the end?
Despite the growing homogeneity of the Internet, Facebook content is still very unique. To wit: This July, social media was home to a video where a man named Adley crouched down in front of the camera and poured oil down her neck while saying, “This is your last resort. me, because I can’t give it back”. A wedding dress is being held in front of her by two unidentified accomplices. After Pam non-stick spray is applied to the lace material, our heroine propels herself forward on a swing and jumps into a dress that she can fit perfectly inside without smearing. slippery or playground for children.
The kind of fake CCTV footage is huge on Facebook, as are videos purporting to show husbands cheating on their wives. This video, uploaded by the Sarcasm Facebook page, under the logo of a Chandler Bing cartoon, is layered with tense music and covered by large red circles and bright yellow letters. While the video has a startling 410 million views, no one in the comments seems particularly convinced by its authenticity — possibly because the man the “wife” is cheating on chooses to hide. by lying down beside the couple’s double bed (why does he not think of hiding himself in mattress?). Facebook pages like these now frequently come with disclaimers, and Sarcasm’s writes: “Note: All videos on this page are for entertainment purposes only. All characters, events and ideas are fictitious. They are only parodies and are not tried in real life”. You have been warned.
Combining the itchy pleasures of ASMR with the traditional pleasures of a cooking clip is nothing new, but this 4-minute 20-second video is unsettling with its emphasis on the sizzling sound of raw chicken. Unlike the provocative food videos on the internet, this recipe is pretty standard and inexpensive (and the actual ingredient list is included in the video description!). However, you can’t imagine that cooking at a TV cooking channel would be satisfied with this dish, even if it appeared on the YouTube account Lieblingsrezepte (“favorite recipes”) ). Things only got worse in the more recently uploaded video,”If you cook chicken this way, you’ll be surprised by the results!“(Spoiler: hair dryer involved.)
A woman and a girl sat at the table, each with a bowl in front of them filled with sliced sausages and pasta; The woman asks the girl to bring her a drink, and when the child leaves, the woman steals sausage slices from the girl’s bowl. You — and the other 224 million viewers — might think you’ve got a handle on her greedy motives, but wait! The woman then swaps the bowls so the girl has more sausages than she does — altruism at its highest. But wait again! The woman was now digging around the bowl of noodles in front of her to reveal two full-sized, uncut sausages lurking inside. It is not possible to write a concluding sentence, because a conclusion cannot be made. Content simply ends. Here is another video.
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