I think we’ve reached the place where nothing is real. I’m thinking specifically of the Internet and the dead Internet theory. However, what got me to this was thinking about Instagram post I saw today. It was a woman who is showing what her husband packed for her lunch and in there was everything from full bags of cookies to a Ziploc full of dog food. In the comment section people were freaking out about the dog food and talking about how disrespectful that was to the wife. Other people posted pictures of lunches that their husband’s made and of course it’s a shit show. What I suspect is that they did this as a joke on purpose and she play act at the shock that she had when she opened up her lunch that wasn’t really a lunch. Do we really think, outside of a complete asshole, that her husband would actually deliberately put dog food in his wife’s lunch? I highly doubt it. So this starts a new line of questioning. Is anything that we see that’s filmed and put online actually real? so with a few painful exceptions like today’s assassination of that right wing wing nut, which was unfortunately very gory, bloody and real, but definitely filmed by somebody on the site on their phone and posted to the Internet immediately. Aside from that kind of crap, what are we seeing? people being disrespected, people being handed thousands of dollars for getting a right answer, the list goes on. None of that’s real. It’s not that it didn’t happen, it just didn’t happen spontaneously in reality like they’re trying to make it appear. We’ve all grappled with fake news and misinformation online. But I think we’ve reached a new low, where you honestly have to question literally everything that you see because it could be filmed as a prank or a set up or something that wasn’t really real, but they’re just putting out the content for exposure.