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Can anyone tell the staged from the real anymore? On today’s After Dark: We’re growing increasingly certain that everything is fake now. Amazon drones delivering your package to the deep end of your backyard pool? Curiosity bait. A bunch of Kindergarten moms actually keeping up in a group thread? A Suno commercial. That behind-the-scenes footage? AI-generated – but you watched it, didn’t you? PLUS: The minds of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have converged to craft what’s anticipated to be one of the most compelling documentaries we’ve ever seen.
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Future Commerce — *TEASER* The Oreogate Lady Is NOT Real!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
like this actually is an opportunity for Amazon drone delivery to go more viral than a well-placed package. Oh, so you're saying Amazon paid or to do it? Exactly. Like, let's go even further. Let's take it a step further. Everything is astroturfed. Everything is fake. She's an influencer, kind of like Oreo gate. Exactly. It's like a, and it's a, it's a total astroturf account. Like, there's no real, like, what do we know about this person? One of these things that like, I think got me on the first video. And then all it took was clicking through to the profile and seeing that there's literally no other content other than Suno songs. But show me a single elementary school where all the moms are in one group chat. And all of the communication is happening over a group chat where the person, Nope. Where one person continues to screenshot all of the comms in that chat and they're making money off of it on Instagram.
Not real. Tell me, tell me where that world exists. Where you have other moms that are antagonizing one other mom for their parenting style. And it continues to happen in the group chat. That's not happening. That doesn't exist. First of all, there's just not that level of connection between people anymore. That's right. Yeah, people can't return a time like all of this is supposedly happening in real time text. Show me a group chat where people are actually responsive. I want to be an act group chat. What are people actually type? Oh my gosh. I don't believe it. It doesn't make sense. You've been listening to a teaser clip from Future Commerce After Dark, a weekly bonus content series exclusively for subscribers of Future Commerce Plus. Get ad free episodes of the podcast and more After Dark content by subscribing to Future Commerce Plus today. That's future commerce dot com slash plus.
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