Absolutely. It makes me think about the things in life that don't need
"validation".
Maybe it's a cliche but my dad would say about Korea and other wars
"no pics, no words, you had to be there". So that was a teenage trope
in the 80s and 90s too for my generation, if you were trying to be
cool just say "you had to be there". It draws a circle around a
personal or group experience that explicitly does not or cannot be
shared. I think maybe it somehow earns more respect and interest than
a photo, and I think with ubiquitous AI image manipulation the
currency of "pics or it didn't happen" and "for the Gram" is going to
vanish in a puff of incredulity. Now you can just text-prompt for a
picture of you and some celebrity you "randomly met" in front of
Buckingham Palace or the Taj Mahal! You can probably rent some bots to
"auto-like" you on social media, right? So who is fooling who now?
> Maybe it's a cliche but my dad would say about Korea and other wars "no pics, no words, you had to be there". So that was a teenage trope in the 80s and 90s too for my generation, if you were trying to be cool just say "you had to be there".
sounds like a partial retroactive justification to me. sure, you wouldn't get the full experience via a photo or verbal anecdote, but it's not like camera smartphones were ubiquitous in the 80s either.
Oh I'm not "justifying" it, because I don't need to. This isn't that
conversation. I'm just remarking on a difference of culture over time
for those who are interested. As you say, there were no cellphones
back then, so a quite different world.
Absolutely. It makes me think about the things in life that don't need "validation".
Maybe it's a cliche but my dad would say about Korea and other wars "no pics, no words, you had to be there". So that was a teenage trope in the 80s and 90s too for my generation, if you were trying to be cool just say "you had to be there". It draws a circle around a personal or group experience that explicitly does not or cannot be shared. I think maybe it somehow earns more respect and interest than a photo, and I think with ubiquitous AI image manipulation the currency of "pics or it didn't happen" and "for the Gram" is going to vanish in a puff of incredulity. Now you can just text-prompt for a picture of you and some celebrity you "randomly met" in front of Buckingham Palace or the Taj Mahal! You can probably rent some bots to "auto-like" you on social media, right? So who is fooling who now?