Replacing the Black National Anthem with the Star Spangled Banner. Fascism Indicators everywhere.

"A Different World" Upscaling is Not Good (plus a comparison to the newly dropped MTV Unplugged series on Paramount+)

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Many shots have a flicker, too. And, this is the fun one - any shot with text gets really garbled.

These screengrabs are all from s01e01.

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Caveat that of course this happens in all generations, it's not exclusive to Gen Z. However the article is talking about Gen Z and that is the age of the kids I've taught since I got into schools. So my part of this conversation is very specific.

But it is an increasing problem in terms of battling misinfo. You can't get all your news from content creators pretending to be journalists. How we fix this I have no idea. All I can do on my end is try to teach what I can and hope it clicks.

Most of this I don't think is actually Gen Z's fault. Older generations dismantled and discredited journalism then turned around and established the content creator system, then turned around and exploited the shit out of that. Gen Z is working under parameters the rest of us set.

I'm constantly having to gently push back on my Gen Z students who use the number of followers or the high view count on YouTube as a metric for determining expertise.

Why? Because the journalists were too Millennial and too news-y. The other guy was younger, had more followers, and sounded more relatable. He didn't sound like what they thought news sounded like. It was only after we dived into his profile that they reluctantly relented.

A story I often tell was how I once used two tiktok videos about an upcoming state election to try and teach about misinfo and expertise. I showed LA Times journalists explaining an initiative, then a rando clearly talking out of his ass. Who did they trust? The rando.