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<p>This has probably been going on for a while now, but I'm not hip on social media trends. I've been hit, full force, by the contemporary equivalent to "it's fake" or "Photoshop," and I'm not here for it. In fact, I've read and heard the buzzword so much in the lest few months that I'm not including it here to spare others and myself from having to look at it again.</p>
<p>In the end I guess this doesn't matter at all. What's different this time from the old phrases, to me, is that it's so easy to make some fake video by anyone that it's lowered the trust of anything we see. Before, you needed to have some kind of basic software and artistic skills and creativity, even if it was nefarious. Now, you type up a sentence. What's frustrating, though, even with the previous equivalent, is that when people see real, actual marvels of physics or whatever scarcely believable thing that is being shared, the immediate conclusion is to comment on its apparent lack of authenticity rather than question and research. But, that's the modern social media way. Short attention content to get a knee-jerk reaction to boost engagement and hopefully you tell someone else so they can go and watch it for themselves and do the same thing over and over and over again.</p>
<p>I'm just a Gen Z curmudgeon. <i>IN MY DAY!! <shakes fist></i></p>
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