Kanye and The End of Reality - Wisecrack Edition 

'Natalie Portman,'

That's hella deep.

We're doomed bruh

Damn...

Crick1952 Reality never existed, it was just a beautiful dream.- Me, Just Now 🙃

Lol what made u think that lol what a dumbass

Yup, they got the point across.

It kinda is. I can now point out a fact that Kanye got in too deep with the kayfabe that he is distorted with the reality he perceives.

Bad timing.

Um, everything is about Kanye. Just ask Kanye...

when a doctor tells you,you have hemerhhoids, you have swollen veins up your butt

Now we got a WWE HALL OF FAMER as president 😃

Just a reminder, you're living in it.

wooooooooow

Was that a film or a documentary? I'm starting to have second thoughts on it.

I was waiting for this to be referred to...

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@Pecu Alex Kierkegaard.

lol

But, Dr, I AM Pagliacci!

Sounds like the bottom, considering where hes at now

Child actor, so the part about starting at the bottom might be literal.

@@kutter131 I think he mean't most children rarely has a chance to become an actor. But not sure whats Drake's bottom standards is.

what about Colin Kaepernick?

Its not the bottom of the bottom, but it's the bottom. From borrowing the mini van to letting mom borrow the maybach

At least served until a while back; now she's working on his re-election campaign.

You know... this means his ads should just be him elbow dropping on his opponents. Clearly the political climate isn’t that awesome brand of stupid yet, and I’m disappointed.

That is no small detail. Small businesses are the heart of the American economy. However, many of them are increasingly operating under the guise of this Kayfabe mechanism. Its tRAGIC ACTUALLY.

"and the people are mere players" - Shakespeare

Some guy? No, I said that, this is part of the stage, remember?

"Welcome to the studio" - Donal Trump in the oval office.

hold on. does wisecrack and fellow wisecrackers actually agree that biparti politics are a sham? niiice

I knew it. Now I am free from the Matrix through the magic of Wrestling

Yea it's really just Wisecrack pulling back the curtain and exposing the truth of the things that effect our reality. The most compelling or popular individuals become kayfabe whether intentional or not. Youve branded yourself as something and it's brought you fame and fortune. It's human nature to continue to do whats working for you and it's our nature as viewers to want to believe it's all real.

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Are you sure about this? How many Evangelicals rationalized their support of Trump because they thought that they could see through the kayfabe of his 'p*ssy grabbing' talk, but that the real man was going to stand up for Christians? How many of his friends in the entertainment industry thought that his 'real talk' bluster was just a show and that he would support gay rights? Or the women who voted him in, who thought that his misogyny against Clinton et al was just a show? They all thought they could see through to the 'real' Trump. They claim to be able to see through the show. I think they know it's fake. I think they'd rather have a liar who is unabashed, rather than a liar who puts on the cloak of morality.

but, how can we know that? we don't get statistically valid info outside media. papers and studies sometimes helps, but journals sometimes are not better than media in their selection bias. The last surveys showed that most people don't fall into the 2 big insane group that they insist to be the only ones. so believing that people are strongly influenced by media is just another part of the keyfabe.

Democracy couldn't work in the present world even if all politicians weren't whores to big business because the average person isn't qualified to decide what's good for them, let alone an entire country.

flippantb The criticism of Clinton wasn't misogyny. The criticism of Clinton was because she's a warmongering, quasi-neocon piece of shit.

"And so is GOD.....? WOW.... I'm so ready for you to come back, destroy this world, make the NEW EARTH and the NEW JERUSALEM and spend eternity in happiness. Fuck fuck fuck this world is run by evil GODLESS PEDOPHILES.

@@curtis209 Lol, somebody here has existential meltdown. gl tho

@@curtis209 go off man

Wisecrack- I can't believe you had to say that. I thought you'd at least respect spirituality even if you can't say the same for organized religion. All I can now say is, may God bless your souls.

That a bet mistake he did I mean WTF? This is the biggest philosophical question, who are you to make your opinion as a statement? Not cool wisecrack

Don't work yourself into a shoot brother.

the real title should be :From Kanye to Trump and the end of Reality

You will now be the royal comedian. Write my speeches dammit.

Just missed two minutes of the show trying to come up with a good response to this, I have failed, FAILED, the comedic genius is just too much for me.

Lax tax laws are cool too.

You take all the WIN.

Lol

Orwellian detected xd

It’s post-truth, if you prefer, and it’s obviously awful.

@@mauropuglia7991 Devastating if you will

Well big brother is a capatalist and Nlnot a communist anymore. Man we're getting old.

in politics it is. In pro wrestling and other non-reality things, it is a fictional narrative.

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@@fullmetaltheorist I ruined it. my bad

Seriously, hip hop owes vanilla ice a huge apology.

RIGHT?!

Benjamin Peters hahahah big time

@@benjaminpeters6729 why though? I'm asking ,not attacking you man

God is Kayfabe... Fuck God... Fuck Kayfabe... Finally, a video that addresses this!!!

I was about to say the same thing.

kayfabe is basically the epitome of the Spectacle (Debord). After that it's only total self-annihilation. Period.

I agree but not at all, i mean entretainment its natural at inteligent beings i though, if keyfabe is just for entertainment dosent matter i mean there is more people on planet still(thanks god, just an expression i dont believe in god anyway lul); than consider WWE as fake ass ridicolous show for kiddos, and thats the point of kayfabe its just for fun and any more; the real problem here is when we saw kayfabe in polittics, then the media, its like we are trying to lose all the formality and normal sense to get all the attention or making the serious shit as show just for get adience, thats dissgusting, this is not defintly a way to follow, we had to change our vision of the future, we need to keep it formal and bored when we had to, and stop trying to consume the fucking kayfabes in our news, serious shows and just keep it on entretainment. P.D. Im sorry about my terrible grammar im from México and really like to debate with smart people, what do you think about my though tho, salute you

Brian Koontz We have lost collective reality a long time ago, we'll have to resort to finding the real on our own.

I would add that you correctly describe Richard Dawkins' use of a Meme (thoigh I'm not referring to a clip that becomes temporarily popular). I added before reading your comment: Between Acting in general, things such as 'Pro' Wrestling and Soap Operas, no wonder news and politics are falling in line. Add video games (single point of goal/accomplishment) and sports into that mix. Oh, don't forget lowering the voting age to anyone who can comment or share content and you have the makings for the Idiocracy movie we are in. Most people are annoyed with philosophy or hate people that point out inconsistencies (like in movies) because they don't want the veil broken. And why then is Nihilism and Post Modernism so popular?? Derp

I knew there was a reason why I hated professional wrestling, thanks for explaining why.

It is called hypernormalisation. Look it up, there is a good documentary on it on the BBC.

Not really tbh, as far as the Rick Ross thing is concerned almost all rappers are like this now and it’s kind of accepted by fans even if they’re aware said artist is embellishing (to say the least). As long as it remains in places of entertainment instead of the political world, it is perfectly fine

covfefe*

I get the point you're making, but I don't think organised religions allowed a whole lot of "choosing" your own reality if you chose one outside the parameters of their leaders.

Sandcastle • “burger to death” 😂😂😂

I agree somewhat. Religion didn't allow individuals to choose their realities, but rather communities to. If your whole town is of one religion and goes to one church, then the claims made there are true for you. Now people are still stuck with their communities, but it's much more online than in actual proximity. I guess this is the end result of identity politics, every identifying group chooses their own narrative of the world. Obviously the right wing is much more detached from reality, considering their cultish refusal to accept any narrative where they aren't the heroes, but this video shows how the Democrats in media use this very fact for profit, inviting loons on so they can debate with them, as if the outcome matters.

They don't want you to "choose" a reality, the media as a religion wants you to believe the reality THEY are trying to push on the viewers.

Really good point if you consider points made about humans in books like "sapiens", where a deciding factor in the rise of Europe was the desire to evaluate the world through a lens other than the "truth" provided by Christianity. The resulting exploration and expansion of knowledge allowed a pretty small sub population to basically write the rules for 500 year's. Don't stop pushing for better answers, kids

Laughing at you for coming to this video to laugh at Kanye simply because you hate his politics

Bn Jon big facts

nzz.ch just had an article about Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business) ... if you like to extend your existential crisis by print.

@@TheJoggerby3 You're too deep into the kayfabe, brother.

I always thought Kanye was playing a character... it seems so scripted to me now but people are so emotional invested in hating him they can’t see it

Tyler's Riffs I was like awww he’s gonna tell the kids he’s joking, oh man I was wrong

Lol whhaatt..

I reckon , he didn't do well in his History class ; Jesus exist !

Well...... hes right so

@Kairi Ali prove he isn't right. A book written by bearded men millenia ago is not proof.

Comment of the year

I love the internet.

*Prove me wrong*

Black People like wrestling too

haha yeah that's some good anime

your 'hard work=equal rewards' really cracked me up :D What bothers me sometimes is not the fact that those people, that step over others, accept this as their truth of the world, but rather that they chose to do so counsciously. I just don't get how people can just swallow all this guilt and shame inside and pretend it's cool. Also, regarding the video: Politicians should be judged based on their actions rather than their words. In today's time words are way to damn weak ...

Excellent comment.

This is probably the most truthful thing I've read in along time, and its depressing as shit. No wonder people prefer the happy fake story over truth.

@PrisonCipher trolling? who prefers lie over truth? The ones that hurt you did .. thats okay but you haveto understand they were also just traumatized by quite afew things. People are good and highliestest social by /in their nature and thats no Cliché, its a Trueism. Not civility is the illusion, silly. Sillivity lol Ronaldmc donald was forced to fake that smiledance. _

I dont think it's a society thing, we always believed in lies, and we always manipulated our neighbours for our own gain. I think it's more about real feelings that comes from evolution, than a society thing. We are greedy, selfish by nature, because in times of scarcity, greed is what makes us survive, the ones who decides to not share their prey are the ones who arent going to starve.

Our reality died once we clicked on the video. We expected a full Kanye video, but only the first minute was Kanye.

Kayfabe autocorrected to Kanye?

Auto correct at its finest, lol

Kanthony Westano

And kid see ghost a 10

Fuck that nigga

and he is right

Never forget

Very much so

I think is pretty obvious. Kanye is the best friend of Trump.

@I Control My Fate Kanye is taking part in Kayfabe. And everything is turning into Kayfabe. But the scary part is, the audience is starting to forget it's an act for entertainment. Reality and facts don't matter anymore.

The word you're looking for is "Clickbait."

The title is kayefabe in on of itself

same as the presidential football for the first decade it existed

he saw the meme, now its; 111111

fishsticks

Or "imagod"

It's just a feeling, bro.

Facts not feelings snowflake!

But orange man bad

Gage Baumgard does that mean if wrestling can get to a point of not pretending it’s 100% real, that politics can change too? Why did wrestling stop being so ‘serious’ btw?

@@casualcommenter9730 So it's kind of a weird story. A handful of guys backstage in WWE (then WWF) had a clique - appropriately nicknamed "The Klique" and they would typically push people around backstage. Two guys left for a bigger contract with rival promotion WCW, and WCW tried to heavily imply without stating that these new guys in WCW are the same characters that just disappeared from WWF's TV show. This gave WCW a TON of ratings, but they ran into a small problem: they were right on the edge of breaking the law. One lawsuit from WWF later, and WCW's writers realized that they couldn't claim that these "Outsiders" were from a rival promotion anymore. However, they did notice that they were making a TON of money by playing around with the "What's real and what's not?" angle. Cue the WCW writers running the concept of breaking the fourth wall into the ground, but before they went too far WWF realized that there's big money in playing with this idea as well. They both overdid it, but WCW overdid it the worst. With two of the biggest international wrestling promotions basically saying "nah bro it's all a scripted TV show," there wasn't much use in others trying to put the cat back into the bag.

Uhhh... yes, that's the point of Kayfabe. Pretending it's real and never admitting it isn't, even up to the last moment. It doesn't "come from a time," that's exactly what it always has been. You're not doing Kayfabe if you're not insisting on something being real even though it obviously isn't.

Was this a time that, by any chance, you were very young? Yeah, they weren't trying any harder back then, you were just much, much easier to fool.

“And we have killed him.” Loved the Nietzsche mustache and cigarette as well.

Very true

They're douche bags

Von Lee why? Because he said god isn’t real? Lmao did that hurt your feelings?

Think he was more doing a bit about how you can just take it as a full-on Nietsche lover.

Well said. I'm on your page. The question is "how". In a democratic society where corporations are free to capitalize on consumers' emotions to profit, they will always continue to do so, and people will continue to consume entertainment like a drug. How do we break this new mass drug addiction? Install another drug in its place? Neurological tampering? There needs to be an alternative which is seemingly more appealing to the addicts, which means it needs to resonate emotionally.

@@p.bamygdala2139 How about limit the Corporations power? Honestly this seems like a symptom of this country's off the rails Capitalism

@@jzzy107 Its the entire western world to a certain extend, I fear.

'the world'. in this video, in your comment, everywhere. your country is not "the world"... you're gonna tell me you know that, you're not stupid, but still, listen to yourself : you're constantly overusing the word 'world'

It isn't so much "feels over reals" as "this gets attention so therefore it must have merit".

Dustin Rodriguez it's a Brave New World.

+Dustin Rodriguez "The success of Kayfabe in realms like government is terrifying. No matter what fictional characters are being portrayed, the government are still guys with guns who decide who gets locked in cages. It does win because people see feelings as more reliable than facts. And that's not a new thing. It's just more progress in a direction western society has been moving since World War I. Prior to WWI, science and reason were seen as purely good, incapable of being used for harm. Then with WWI people saw mustard gas, tanks, and suffering on a huge scale backed by science and technology. People are terrible at dealing with anything that has both good and bad in it, they want binary relationships because it takes less mental energy to think about. " If facts were enough we wouldn't have had two World Wars that made no sense to even begin with. We went one way and we got the inquisition. We went the other way and we got teh World Wars (far worse then the Inquisition ever was mind you). It's not so much ignorace or "anti-intellectualism" it's the matter fo an old time rule: everything changes. It's a matter of who plays their cards right and get's the bigger share when all is said and done. "When we see a TV show, for instance, we know the super smart guy is the villain. We know any smart protagonist will be socially inept, prone to hubris, and lead the other heroes into danger, needing to be saved by a gun-toting musclebound hero who follows their heart. These aren't how they argue things work, they're as basic as gravity and considered no more significant statements than having the characters breathe air. Intellectuals are cold, unloving, arrogant, disconnected, socially inept, and dangerous. " I'm not sure if you were trying to critique this or are just spouting something that's just blatantly true. "They're not how you want to live your life or how you want your kids to be. So it should be no surprise that people don't want facts. They want feelings. And as things get worse, they will double and triple down on feelings, insisting they simply haven't gone far enough in eradicating the influence of reason." Makes we wonder why you think that things like science and intellectualis are inherently true and why it SHOULD be since no matter what you say it's the same argument everybody else used.

Damn dude, that wall still got you down?

Amen, dude. Read through it. And it was awesome. Have you considered being a teacher, book author, youtuber or an employee at Wisecrack?

Well said

William David Thompson unfortunately 90% of people is a Mark is some shape or form

It's not only the dangerous resulting from false narratives but policy gets enacted based on those narratives.

We are all marks with our own narratives about what is true and why it’s true.

The problem with kayfabe in politics is that their lines and emotions might be faked, but the policies are real. Donald Trump for example, it doesn't matter if he's faking his hatred for undocumented latino immigrants, his policies are harming them. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Not to mention that the rest of the world does not buy into this, and when your leader starts insulting other countries, we don't see the wink behind the public backs, we see an act of war and this will end badly for everyone.

We need that alien invasion already

The Germans/Huns showed otherwise.

Human society goes insane regardless

Nobody wants to wage war against the US, it’s military became too strong for its own good.

The Roman Empire fell because the cost of defense got so high, taxes were pushed to the limit. Nobles didn't pay taxes hand had slaves handle labor, so the middle classes joined the military or moved to border towns to earn a living, or fled to the country where tax collection was difficult. Meanwhile more Germans were joining the military and becoming citizens, to the point of amassing more power than the noble classes, who tried to oppress them, leading to uprisings until the ruling class fled Rome. TL:DR Societies fall when the elites become too decadent and don't adapt to change. This is not meant as commentary on our current political situation so pleasedon't turn it into that.

Pittsburgh is a stark reminder of this.

I for one am tired of something happening all the time. "Entertainment" is fine, but not 24/7. It's too much and I'm over it

@Dudeistbelieve Yo, you know more about this? I'm....I'm fascinated. I really want to know more about this and talk with someone who knows more, but I don't know anything about pro-wrestling. Do you have any sources? Any good videos to watch, movies, books, articles, etc? I'm serious.

The media didnt twisted anything in that scenario... People understand cops shooting innocent black people is a false narrative. Statistics and facts show as much. Politicising a non political game for promoting a false narrative is will anger people.

drmnys found the Republican

Or we all stop putting up with it. We start reminding people why there are courses in college called the sciences and the humanities. We remind them that empirical evidence is reality, and when someone tries to erect a false reality around themselves, we tear it down, and drag them screaming back into the light of reality. We stop allowing people to change our words and our standards to achieve the upper hand. We tell them "No, you're just making things up and pretending, reality doesn't give a shit about your ideas, your requirements, or desires. Because your "reality" is just your human bias, but actual reality is what's left when there are no humans in the situation."

@@FredrickTeslaYup. We're all doomed.

SJWs called and said 'white noise' is another racist, patriarchical term used by those in power to suppress the minorities in this country!

@Michael Klump *good fiction

What if America is WWE for the rest of the world?

@@chrischeng7552 Reality check: It is!

@Al Caulique, mmm, what? Which country are you in? I am in Europe, seems pretty everyday stuff to me...

@@chrischeng7552 Im an Indian, but I watch and follow American politics and pop-culture every day. It is way more entertaining than WWE in my opinion.

I would not say keyfabe does not exist at all in Europe but it is true that it is less developed, or at least politics is treated in a way less "spectacular' way in the media that in the US

Like wisecracking didn't jut say God dent exist and there is no difference between good and evil

I read it as 'Corrupt The Mall'

darqlyte lmao the intergalactic space demons will corrupt the malls of this country

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Squirm - what would've happened if Taylor did the same to Kanye that night? Maybe he is right. But what he exhibited that night is 100 percent jackassery.

@@sarath431 Yes - even Obama remarked "he's a jackass" off the record during a CNBC interview in footage that was later released (I think by Gawker) He didn't do the morally right thing, but he was correct. Also, my name is Squim, but you're not the first person to make that mistake. I guess because the humps in m's look kind of like r's a lot of people tend to misread it. Makes me squirm a little every time someone makes that mistake though, since "squirm" is such an uncomfortable word

@@sammosaurusrex - sorry mate. It's auto correct in my phone. Sorry for that. Yes, Beyonce had the better video. But Kanye's stunt that night makes him look like a narcissist. I read an article which stated that Beyonce felt offended by that. As of being right or wrong, it depends on the person. Personally I'm on the middle.

How old was Taylor Swift when that happened? Barely 20? And Beyoncé was 28? Kanye was 32 and acting like it matters lmao they all getting paid no matter what, dude is a child.

Red pill, blue pill essentially?

What's the quote? Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away? It's hard to deny the reality of a Mack truck crossing your path? Kayfabe only bears truthiness because it is so thoroughly isolated from the screaming child that is teething. If you just believe hard enough, you will become that megastar everybody loves. Either that or your life is so inconsequential, it doesn't matter what you believe; the world moves on regardless. It is anti-zen.

Well your arguing that humans have that capacity to understand objective reality in the first place, which our senses and brain power are not capable of.

No interpretation of gravity will free you from it. A working perspective must be based in fact, or it will cause needless suffering. That's what's scary about all this.

@@drhashtagyolo And yet you understand that your perceptions/brain are limited perfectly well.

It also makes me disgusted, but the Hall of Fame had always been a joke and I'm probably taking it too seriously.

Linda McMahon is part of his administration as well

It's EARTH! On FOGNL!

Agree!

Maybe, but Kanye did fit into the discussion they wanted to have very well. Kanye as an example led into the video smoothly and coherently. He was relevant.

That's a swerve.

Emmanuel Bazimya were you hoping for a big smack down video criticizing that asshole Kanye? ... because I was 😬

JNurple why is he an asshole?

Good insight, it would have been interesting if they did read more of it but as it is they cant say much more without triggering anyone.

@@xempire103 true, yes. But I do think there are ways to go about this without being partisan if that's the concern. As it stands, the politics of this are undermined. True, the seeming irrelevance of truth is disturbing in and of itself, but its effects go beyond existential crises and into the realm of it can actually kill people. In a video that is primarily about politics, it seems that avoiding the direct consequences of politics is a shortcoming.

@@ShinGarugamesh Just no. I hate this argument because it just isn't true. Its hard for people to rise out of poverty when they can't even vote (tons of voter suppression) and many of there schools are terribly underfunded. While yes it is technically possible to rise up op out of poverty and many have done it, it shouldn't have to take a super human effort to do that. There's a difference between handouts and getting them on en even playing field with better schools and actually being able to vote for starters.

​@@skateisdestiny So the point your making is even though there is this fake reality there are two consequences. 1. People fall victim to this and lose sense of whats actually real 2.People are benefiting of of these fake reality's. People in popular culture are benefiting from these reality's but so are the politicians, so is the conclusion your trying to draw is are both parties benefiting from this just one and who what is effecting either way?

I hope you mean who THINKS does this idea of kayfabe benefits them? Because in practice and in the very long term I believe we are all losing.

I believe

@@acericafort8836 know

Not sure how this is related to the video, how it adds to it, or how it gives a solution to the issues mentioned in the vid But you do you, dude

I feel like this while making art, Rumi's always there :)

Like Big Brother...

Eiichiro Oda the video is about kayfabe not kanye just because his name is in the title doesn’t mean it’s about him

"Kanye" is clickbait, that's how RU-vid works.

The main premise is based on the situation involving West and Swift and how it relates to our current political climate - so, yes, it DOES have everything to do with Kanye because Kanye is still participating in the act along with all the other political players in this day and age.

Kanye is just part of Wisecrack's own Kayfabe. We all know what clickbait is but we play along anyway.

@@glitchygear9453 This is truly an easter egg, oh the irony!

do philosophy of dragnet! youre late!!

Do the philosophy of A Modest Proposal. You're late.