Why Everything Feels Fake Now

Movies predicted internet brainrot, social media addiction, & doom scrolling. Serial Experiments Lain, Perfect Blue, Videodrome, Pulse, Network and Black Mirror — all saw the internet coming long before we did. Chapters 00:00 The internet broke our brains 01:04 Media as Mass Manipulation 01:51 Network (1976) 04:06 The Internet As Identity Fragmentation 05:02 Serial Experiments Lain (1998) 07:13 Parasocial Relationships & Online Performance 08:18 Perfect Blue (1997) 10:46 Media Addiction & Screen Psychosis 11:19 Videodrome (1983) 14:13 Pulse & Internet Loneliness 16:53 When Brainrot Became Normal 17:17 Black Mirror (2011–) 18:49 Conclusion 19:49 Reassurance 🎬 Films (& Series) discussed -Network (1976) -Serial Experiments Lain (1998) -Perfect Blue (1997) -Videodrome (1983) -Kairo/Pulse (2001) -Black Mirror (2011–) 🔥 Watch Next Cyberpunk Predicted the Future → [   • Cyberpunk Predicted the Future  ] Spain Went Insane in the 1980s→ [   • I Rated Movies My Subscribers Swear are Good  ] Britain’s Nasty (Video) Secret → [   • Britain’s Nasty (Video) Secret   ] 📌 Follow / Support • Instagram → [https://www.instagram.com/psychotroni...] • TikTok → [www.tiktok.com/@princessqueerulan] • Business inquiries & Collabs → [[email protected]] • Spotify → [https://open.spotify.com/track/3aWl48...] #internetbrainrot #blackmirror #perfectblue Music: Midnight Fever Musician: AI Music 📚 references https://health.clevelandclinic.org/ev... https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-a... https://www.wired.com/story/doomscrol... https://www.theguardian.com/technolog... https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/09/p... Network https://rlterryreelview.com/tag/netwo... https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great... MIT study; https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-twitt... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... Serial Experiments Lain https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://shortends.ca/2021/11/01/recon... https://idolsandrealities.wordpress.c... Perfect Blue https://otakubrit.wordpress.com/2023/... https://morbidlybeautiful.com/movies-... https://www.outtakemag.co.uk/features... https://www.vogue.com/article/what-is... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/ba... Videodrome    / david-cronenbergs-prophetic-vision-of-the-...   https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/...   / videodrome-perception-politics-and-the-med...   https://journals.openedition.org/film...   / videodrome-perception-politics-and-the-med...   https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156... https://rue-morgue.com/long-live-the-... https://www.dictionary.com/browse/the... Pulse/ Kairo https://lwlies.com/article/pulse-j-ho... https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/09/p... https://www.arrowfilms.com/blog/featu... https://horrorobsessive.com/2019/08/1... https://www.glendalynndixon.com/refle... Black Mirror https://www.theatlantic.com/entertain... https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/2... https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/20... https://www.psichi.org/blogpost/98736...