Documentaries vs. Reality TV: How They Shape Truth - Wisecrack Edition 

Or they hide.

I couldn’t help but insert ‘violence inherent in the system’. Seriously prof was right.

You know what's more interesting? I have a parallel to that in my field of environmental engineering. I heard once that whatever you measure is altered by the very fact that you are measuring it. Take temperature, for example. When you stick a probe in the soil to measure its temperature, the probe itself is potentially at a different temperature and will exchange heat with the soil. Moreover, introducing the probe will cause the soil to mix with some amount of air, further changing its temperature. So, whatever you measure/assess/observe is not reality, since you are modifying it whether you want it or not. However, there is obviously a difference between little bias and too much bias.

Fernando Simão observer bias, yes

But the eye is the lens to the soul. If you watch a theater play, is that any more real than tv? If not, than is all reality seen through a subjective lens?

I feel like they could definitely have their own video as a follow-up.

Gotta make this comment rise. I was expecting it to be a sort of "4th generation of Realities", and would make extra sense in how we perceive and create our reality, surrounding us not only with new kinds of fame, labour and personalities.

Probably more relevant that “reality shows”.

Reaction to another reaction, the drama of vloggers should be called a chained reaction.

Perhaps social media based reality should have its own separate video. Big topic.

I'm surprised they didn't reference the Truman effect

Omg we living in a Truman universe

"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented." ~ Cristof (The Truman Show)

*grins ear to ear, softly laughs, exits the constructs of falsehood to bravely face falsehoods of reality*

Do the Truman Show! Do the Truman Show! Do the Truman Show! Do the Truman Show!

This is so mean and funny. I'm sorry 🥺 😞 I don't know why I think like this sometimes. 🚶

@@availanila Yeah, isn't animal murder the funniest shit ever? What's the matter with you...?

It’s distantly funny in a spiteful way. I just expect Disney to act this way now so I laugh about being proven right, that they’ve always been corporate monsters.

More like non-fiction simulator.

@@darwinxavier3516 Exactly.

If it's a joke, then it's a dad joke. It is so bad that it is funny.

Unfortunately

*The truth is incompatible with a functioning society

@@kidkangaroo5213 it is when its founded on lies

@@captainheat2314 and what makes you say that?

How did you miss the opportunity to quote the X-Files?

Day 49, Morale holding but begining to wain

Dammit wisecrack!!! Make this happen!

Do the Truman Show! Do the Truman Show! Do the Truman Show! Do the Truman Show!

@@joaoalourencoaffonso4986 Heyyyyyy Mah man

good luck. i'll upvote your comment if i see it on the next video lol

Keep telling yourself that.

Gonna need some additional evidence for this argument

@@royaltyblessed2454 working in offices big and small for 5 years.

Edgar Nova personal experience isn’t the equivalence of truth.

I think that's because the truth is simultaneously mundane and embarrassing and the only way to get that kind of authenticity is to either go undercover or act it out

also the laziness of the individual, you'd be surprised how any people who are supposedly "for the truth" and ask others to provide sources only to not look for them or read them themselves(when provided). It's almost like reality has become a large self esteem booster where people care more about the appearance of being knowledgeable and smart over actually being.

​@@dragonx3085 It's always been like that, most people are followers even though they like to think that they're not. Independant thinking is legitimately a rare skill no matter what time you live in. The distinction between the two types of people is often made with the terms "rhetoric thinker" and "dialectic thinker". If you're a dialectic thinker, you're part of the minority of people who can truly change their mind on a subject on the basis of information alone. If you're a rhetoric thinker, then you will simply be convinced by either what the majority believes or what you've been emotionally brainwashed to feel like the world is like (every day experience, documentaries, hollywood movies, the MSM, etc). You can see it for yourself easily when people express an opinion and you start asking them why they hold this opinion. Most of the time they'll either regurgitate pre-made talking points you've heard a million times or straight up not be able to explain their reasoning. This is why whenever you express unconventional opinions and you try to explain your reasoning, most of the time it'll look like you're talking to a wall. The big players in society are very much aware of this reality and use it daily to get what they want out of people.

Do you mean documentaries are like the SM-experiment where people supposedly obeyed authority blindly perpetrating cruelty, or like the SM-experiment where people believed the results Stanley Milgram reported and his reported methods were actually true, because he was considered an authority within psychology at the time?

@@Fakedeath84 Well said

I had to explain to my mate why a bunch of bro science he learned about health was wrong and he just said "but I saw it in a documentary!!"

"The sights, sounds and smells of a hardworking rock band."

That's just a form of satire.

What did he do?

@@nichelleharris7496 He uses terms like "magical" to describe ineffective weight loss supplements. (and that was only the beginning).

@@nichelleharris7496 He routinely pushes unethical, pseudoscientific BS on his unsuspecting audience.

Well s*it

Cyber Searcher PayForGodTV but without a religion

"And their beards have all grown longer overnight..."

Jojoba oil 👏👏👏

saw that and had to rewind to make sure I saw it right.

Maybe it was long during filming and he trimmed it just before filming the intro and outro?

@@yootxoh yeah. The editing makes it look like it grew in a second. I found that funny.

I remember back in the day thinking the Jerry Springer Show was making people more trashy by normalizing the worst of society. Reality TV took it to the next level. Now social media has turned everything completely upside down lol

Globalization WEW and cellphone cams didn’t make weird/bad things happen more. IT MADE IT EASIER TO FIND PUT AND SPREAD THE WORD

You truly think that didn't happen before reality TV? Reality TV is showing us our society in all it's toxic and problematic glory.

And then realize that doesn't actually exists and that everything is subjective and that you can't even trust your own mind.

@@phantomasuras If you truly think that then how do you know you are even conversing with me at all? Kevin, maybe you are just a brain floating around in a jar???? How do you know you even have a brain?????? ;P

Nature documentaries are still just as moralised though. The gaze is always biased.

That would, and should, require at least a 3 part series.

@Klaus Mateschitz no it's not. It depends on You. If you let their "recommendation" to lead you it's your fault. You should've subscribed to whoever you like by now.

@Klaus Mateschitz they meant the next generation of reality tv.. your reading comprehension needs work.

Klaus Mateschitz I don’t think RU-vid has made money.

@@grantbarnes3678 Wow one of the dumbest things I've read so far today.

So I guess you don't look at mirrors huh?

by that logic sharks were also always scary

@@stevewondering6311 I mean kind of..but anything can be scary & I think robert was just joking.

I think that this is very meta, this video itself is lying to us in some ways :D

@@Cradily8000 is that the best you got? Yawnarama

Spurlock also refused to release the amounts he ate during his "experiment" the guy forcefed himself tons of food during the month far beyond the rules he presented in the doc

I feel like it's a little hard to categorise someone as 100% healthy anyway. I'm not a doctor though, maybe you really can say for definite that someone is healthy. He could have also had a hand in cherry picking doctors

WISECRACK: Is it Deep or Dumb?

@@therealsmalk yessss WISECRACK: what went wrong? Lol

Crappy ghetto entertainment is my guilty pleasure.

what do you think its like a money laundering organization for the mob ? i mean how else can you explain the money :P

@Klaus Mateschitz there's no way you are the top 10%. You'll harm yourself with that comment because people will identify "Dunnin Kruger effect".

I love the competitive ones, like Project Runway, where you get to see amazing things made by creative people in crazy circumstances.

hahaha are you kidding me, my mother recently retired and I am sure her only purpose for waking up each day is to watch "reality TV."

I feel like while a ton of people who watch reality TV arent stupid, know it's fake, know its unrealistic and will happily criticise it while they're watching, there is unfortunately a population of viewers who will start to imitate reality stars consciously or subconsciously. Anecdotally I even saw this happen with soap operas. I knew a guy who watched em all the time, and everything in his life was so dramatic. Even said to me and my partner once "if you dont properly fight in a relationship it means you have NO PASSION" - he thinks problematic things like angry sex after a fight is desirable and to be aimed for in a relationship. No matter what your experience is with "angry sex" is I think we can all agree it's wrong to intentionally provoke and stress out your partner to try and initiate this. He loves giving relationship advice which is strange given he has never been in one

1914. Forgot to add the year

I thought the same thing when I saw it too.

Godamit, that's an amazing song... They have several good songs in the show, but Electric Love sounds like it belongs in an actual musical.

@@Palmieres that is so true, I have people who claim to not like the show but love the musical episodes because they're so well composed and executed you can't help but to bop!

@@MojoSojoJojo How can they not love the show? It's amazing! :D

Maybe now that he died...

it has its own channel, for thug notes only

Probably mah nigga doesn't want to do Thug Notes anymore.

@@ttm77777 the channel must not be on RU-vid?

Greg Edwards, aka Sparky Sweets of Thug Notes is on Twitter.

@@ttm77777 Nope. You're talking out of your ass.

They shouldn’t be They should be CAUTIOUS!

well you cant fix shitty owners in the time it takes them to film the show. I would argue that he did legitimately give people a second chance. nine out of ten restaurants fail. its almost always the owners fault.

A large % of independent restaurants fail after a few years anyway. So ones that were struggling enough to warrant a Gordan Ramsey visit don't have much hope.

Tbf, most of the restaurants featured in Kitchen Nightmares don't deserve to exist in the first place.

Stin I wouldn’t even completely blame it on the owners not changing Thé resto was already gonna fail and go bankrupt, giving a tv coverage + redoing the menu & interior only can go so far when the ship has been sinking for a while

They intentionally pick restaurants that will cause the most drama as possible for the show, which generally means they are extremely dysfunctional. While you can help these people to some extent, those extreme cases exist because those people have personal traits that are incompatible with a successful restaurant. Basically it's like helping addicts and being surprised that most of them go back to addiction. You're already trying to help desperate cases in the first place.

IMO the internet & modern media seem to have totally forgotten about Gen X. They only seem to know of boomers and millennials.

They pissed on his rug.

Yup the same one

Poor Topsy

Not that anyone really cares about the truth when it gets in the way of the narrative, but that elephant killed several people. The circus decided to put it down by hanging, but locals thought that was cruel so they decided to electrocute it to death instead. All Edison did was film it.

@@xandror source?

@@thehorriblebright The internet?

Maybe this was a warped distortion of truth based on our need to interpret our world through a narrative.