Federico Pucci

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Sullo sfondo, una foto di D’Angelo dal booklet dell’album Voodoo. In sovraimpressione una frase dlale liner notes: “Whoa! Why am I attacking hip hop? ‘Cause I’m a lyricist, son, a lyricist that has had to serve as his own inspiration when most of my peers seem to idolize Donald Trump more than Sly Stone, when they don’t seem to realize that Jimi Hendrix was and is a sonic Bill gates. Oh shit, don’t make me call no names.”
But their blatant stupidity is why they’re so popular. It’s the uncomfortable truth underpinning pretty much everything that’s happened in pop culture — including politics — since the 2010s social media revolution. The online platforms that created our new world, run on likes and shares and comments and views, reshaped the marketplace of ideas into an attention economy. One that, like a real economy, is full of very popular garbage. And, also like a real economy, is now so vast and important that it’s virtually impossible to change it. If you want access to it, you better get comfortable making lowest-common-denominator bullshit in front of a camera. And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot.
locandina del programma tv britannico Taskmaster. davanti a uno sfondo rosso, seduti su sedie dorate, a sinistra c'è il taskmaster Greg Davies, a destra c'è Little Alex Horne
agusdrawing scrive: this is honestly really sad. With so many KatyCats in the world who are artists and would die for the chance to work on these projects, they choose to use AI instead.