The Jerma Dollhouse & Parasocial Horror

For as long as entertainment has existed, it has innovated to satisfy our tastes and our new capabilities. Color television may have once seemed like an exciting new novelty, but we are a long way from those days in the era of a billion streaming services and even now we are still moving forward through the tides of time accumulating completely different platforms and methods. new ways to share content with each other and perhaps no method of entertainment demonstrates this better than the modern live streaming landscape which usually, though not always, centers around playing video games in front of a large audience, streaming has become almost ubiquitous in online entertainment.

Have a fun and interesting game to show the audience. Have a pleasant and attractive personality. Have a decent setup and internet connection. Well then you too can sit in front of the obs studios. Share the screen in half. -life and became an internet sensation, but streaming itself has been around for a while and innovations in its domain were bound to come sooner or later, audience feedback and participation in a streamer's entertainment is a of the driving forces behind streaming entertainment after all participation. in live chat, reading your donation messages, participating and achieving incentives through specific donation goals, things like that are great ways to engage an audience with their favorite entertainment personalities and really feel involved in a community sense, But what if that audience could? get even more involved, what if you could partly control the action?

Well, there is a streamer like several before who dared to ask this question, but unlike the previous ones, he decided to do it in a truly unconventional way and what resulted was one of the funniest and funniest. The entertaining broadcasts I've had the pleasure of watching are also ripe for the kind of existential

horror

that I think you may not have even realized was filled to the brim. This is my overly serious review of the Germa

dollhouse

. a serial comedy livestream that has captured the minds of thousands and whether intentionally or not, the true essence of fear that defines our growing entertainment landscape, part one, novel entertainment, let's take a step back, let's talk about the audience participation in broadcasts for a second.

The first extremely notable example I can think of when it comes to letting an audience dictate much of the action on the stream dates back to a series of streams affectionately referred to as Twitch Plays Pokémon. The premise is, as the title suggests, a fairly simple Pokémon rip-off. The stream through the Twitch service would be shown to a live audience of thousands of people and certain in-game actions, such as moving left to right, up or down, or pressing any of the other buttons, would be assigned to certain chat messages. , which meant that every time someone in the chat typed a specific command, the game that was connected to those commands in the chat would detect it and act accordingly.

The goal was basically to see if the chat could cooperate even though thousands were trying to do the same thing at the same time to complete the game. Of course, as expected, this exploded into a chaotic chaos with many people trying to complete the game, others going completely anarchic and trying to screw things up as often as possible, and others still trying to take strange detours, it was the perfect storm and of course, since it was so easily accessible to a potential new audience member that it only required them to join the chat to get directly involved in the action, it turned out to be a huge success.

However, one of the key draws of live streaming is the personalities involved, as you watch your favorite streamer, a person whose personality thoughts and feelings you enjoy a person you would like to watch play a specific game and offer your comments in color, reactions, etc. Twitch Plays Pokémon was a lovely novelty for what it was, but it lacked that specific element that many people come to stream. for a personality, for all intents and purposes it was basically just an emulator in a broadcast window for people to interact public gallery style, no one was actually performing the actions the chat was asking for on the other end, it was pure technology , what if you really could do?

However, something like this with a person would be possible, how would you do it? What format would be needed? Someone would come to answer that question. Someone we now have to talk about. Someone named germa985. Germa 985 is actually a man. Named after Jeremy Harrington, a YouTube commentator and gamer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, the beginning of his channel was defined by his popular video commentary of Valve's smash multiplayer hit Team Fortress 2. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. , Jeremy went to college and majored. in communications with a minor in art, he worked various jobs over the years, at a call center filming weddings and even as a substitute teacher in high school, although apparently most of them were pranks, very little is actually known about the germa's personal life, by his own admission, has done so many.

He jokes about it in order to protect his identity, that the truth is often lost among the lies. Most real-life information about him is only discernible through occasional anecdotes he tells on broadcasts, but even these are questionable at best. Jeremy streams weekly on Twitch. With highlights of his streams often uploaded to the second seed of his YouTube channel, his content consists primarily of raw gameplay with occasional front-facing camera and his own commentary via microphone, his strange mannerisms and energetic sense of humor have captured the attention of many viewers and endeared them to him. despite his insistence on building an elaborate story around him and often declaring him a psychopath during one of germa's broadcasts one day, although he said something quite prophetic, you know, i thought about a broadcast a while ago, this is actually during the broadcasts from house flipper, I was thinking would it be funny if I tried to redecorate like a house in real life, just an open floor with paint and stuff, just lay them out, build three or four artificial rooms and then decorate them and walk you through them?

It would take a lot of preparation, but I don't think it would be too big. All you would have to do is just put it up like a lumber and then have drywall, just make a fake room like a studio. but still be in the studio and have like three small rooms that can have couches, furniture and things from the

dollhouse

. The Germa dollhouse has several floors and is just strange and the camera zooms out. I like to climb the stairs. I get into bed. Oh this is convenient, do they have to be real life Sims?

Imagine if I made a dollhouse cut in half, kind of like a set and you guys were just playing the Sims, but it was just me in the house, that would be really creepy and fast forward two. For years, this same idea was put into production with the assistance and financial support of Twitch Coinbase and a whole team of dedicated talents who worked hard to make it a reality. The Germa 985 dollhouse, part two, was born. The German dollhouse 985 is a powerful metaphor for hell. of

parasocial

ity, I swear I'm going somewhere with this, the premise was pretty simple and based on the popular sandbox simulation game series, the sims in which players create virtual avatars, place them in houses, help Comprised of jobs, friends, family, and belongings, viewers would see Germa in a set of elaborate fake rooms in a sound studio that replicated a kind of everyday life truncated within from the boundaries of the fake dollhouse and would vote on their actions to continue the day they could make. rather routine things like choosing his clothes at the beginning of each session filling the germ meters feeding him to satisfy his hunger sending him to the bathroom to relieve his bladder and so on, but they could also decide tasks for him like jogging exercising dancing or catching butterflies, They could even dictate your responses in various social situations, such as being rude, flirtatious or confrontational At the end of the daily intervals, when Germa sleeps, the chat also has the opportunity to purchase different items for her house and decide which room they would be in.

He likes to place them within the first hour, things are already starting to be disastrous in his kitchen and he is harassed by clowns who seem to torment him when his fun meter has gotten too low. He is exhausted to the point of passing out in his garden and the chat, of course, does not work in his best interests despite his repeated insistence on doing so. They're doing what's fun and that's basically going to continue to be their driving principle over the course of the next three sessions that the broadcast will take place. He is visited by who he believes is the ghost of his uncle and they send the Grim Reaper after him.

Germa gets a pool. they let him drown in it by taking away the latter, he is about to be taken by death, they made him court him to convince him not to make all the decisions along the way, apparently, with the exception of occasionally giving in to the needs of their meters. done for the express purpose of frustrating or torturing Germa in some comical way and this leads to things often going over the top, such as when, after being forced to call death on his uncle, which visibly traumatizes him, Germa receives a visit from an elderly neighbor. who imposes himself directly for hours while the chat votes to make him flirt with her day after day simulates the ordinary minutiae of interacting with neighbors finds a fitness instructor paints walls hurting himself decides what to eat almost none of these things turn out well for him, although, Of course, if everything went well the whole time wouldn't be theatrical enough to entertain the chatter in all its bloodlust continues to demand which will produce the funniest results of these scenarios, most of the time at Germa's extreme expense, It's at this point that I started to notice that these broadcasts were touching on something that I'm pretty sure wasn't intentional, but I couldn't help but keep thinking about the fact that this is the perfect, horrible mirror of the way we often interact. with artists, especially in the Internet age, in a

parasocial

sense.

Now let me be clear: I'm not trying to philosophize as if I'm the only person who's ever thought about this. Parasocial relationships are something we have become increasingly aware of. of the last few years, particularly with how isolated we've been and I think there are plenty of pieces revolving around them, I just think it's funny, the premise of a streamer literally broadcasting a twisted facsimile of real life to an audience of thousands of people who determine their actions. and even the way you're allowed to interact externally with the world for entertainment purposes is, of course, only doing a little here;

He's not legitimately suffering, but it was almost surreal watching him bounce between the comic absurdity of one situation after another that was piled up on him. Watching him do a sobbing pantomime and then sit in front of a computer to pretend to stream while he's on a broadcast of himself and pretend to be happy in front of an audience while his simulated life falls apart around him, there's something that's a little sobering about that. As funny as it is within his own silly context, insofar as he reminds us how hypermarket we ourselves often feel compelled to be online.

Hey, what's going on? Everyone, Germa, here we are going to play some Call of Duty. I mean, how often do you see people casually commenting on a content creator's work by saying such casual things to them as if they were friends laughing when they've never met before? This is everything I feel brilliantly captured through the distorted lens of the Germa doll. House accentuating the absurd heights of how entertainment often requires exaggerating our everyday lives into something theatrical and absurd. Keep in mind after all that this broadcast that hundreds of thousands of people tuned in and participated in is more or less just a staged recreation of some guy's daily life, albeit with much more ridiculous scenarios available to seek its value from. entertainment, this is not even a broadcast of a video game, germa himself has become the fixture of his own video game, but in person for the purpose of doing everything.

From this job, he himself becomes a vessel to perform the comedy the audience wants to see, whether interacting with a hire or being tormented in his nightmares by people who laugh at him for getting dirty and thenbe forced to transmit again during it. See what I mean by personalities becoming more and more important in streaming and even content creation in general, especially on Twitch and YouTube, it's critical to becoming a brand, your own self-image becomes distorted. through the vision of thousands of people. other people who have a perception and an opinion about you, your actions, your style of humor, every little detail is magnified an infinite number of times to squeeze every grain of entertainment value out of it and please don't get me wrong.

I'm not saying something like this is fundamentally bad, in many cases it isn't and I find the Germa dollhouse very entertaining for these same reasons, but it just reminds me of where we are, generally speaking, and is a viable option for captivate this. A large audience wouldn't even be willing to play a popular fantasy game that depicts things so fantastic we could only dare to dream about, but rather a guy in a fake front yard being attacked by a guy in a bear costume who paints his walls and discovers a safe. And being evicted from your own home is a certain perfect level of madness that's captured here and I think it's indicative of how we find it necessary to get by in these spaces.

Honestly, there's literally a part of the broadcast where Germa is ordered to watch TV and turns it on only to find herself on the channel of someone she's with. I just caught myself earlier this week criticizing it and describing how much it sucks, it's absurd in a way that fits so well with the fears I've been describing here that it's almost hysterical. I really couldn't stop laughing when I first saw it as I thought. about all this because, like God, what a perfectly distorted reflection of all these anxieties, what if everyone had a megaphone to scrutinize every aspect of you in the past?

The extent of parasocial relationships was best captured by the celebrity craze which, to its credit, still continues to this day, with people latching on to these acclaimed stars as people they desperately wanted to meet but often could never meet. despite their best and creepiest efforts. Now, while celebrities and e-celebrities are more accessible than ever, join their patreon and access their discord chat. Watch their live streams and it will be on repeat too, because just as the audience is allowed to get close to their favorite artists, those artists are also expected to conform to those expectations. The intimate, mundane details about their lives that would normally remain reserved for friends or family. just a regular part of social media to share and become relatable content with the veneer of Hollywood spectacle crumbling after years of collective disenchantment with the widespread perception of people turning to more grounded, intimate-looking creators who seem real, ironically, it's that genuine.

Quality: this real quality that now becomes the new goal of the artist in the modern era: to be as effective as possible in imitating sincerity. Everyone is looking for a friend beyond the screen and they are looking for it from people they will probably never find. Get to know who Germa really is. I mean, we still barely know anything about the guy. I couldn't even tell you if the name I read him at the beginning of this video was real or just something he made up, but I spent almost eight hours. watching him walk around a fake house and do random things for my own amusement and so did thousands of other people why what happens with our collective human experiences draws us to something like this magnifies it in this way there is a real

horror

in being known when it comes to the scale of media like this and yet it keeps increasing because we all keep doing it and feeding it, it's a never ending cycle.

Often, this disconnect between our true life experiences and our marketable, brand-friendly personalities is also detrimental to our own health. I mean, there's no need to re-point out how many examples there are in these streams of different germ bars being extremely low and being forced to do something that will almost certainly make them worse off, just because it would be funny to be able to point out how deeply ironic that is. is. and almost terribly funny is that several of those examples involve sending an exhausted and distraught germ with almost empty bars to work, although not to understand everything we live in a society about this, but man, I really felt a little bad for him in moments like that.

While I know this is all just nonsense for show, it's just a sentiment I identified with enough to actually feel some empathy for the chaotic collection of circumstances that make up the many hours of this simply composed and even still broadcast throughout. of everything. From this nonsense the version of the drama germinates in the character who has absolutely no control over what is happening, he literally gets robbed and his house burns down and the chat will drown him in a pool five minutes later in an abstract way that actually remembers For starters, I'm referring to the algorithms that power sites like these, I mean, think about it, you can continue to attract an audience at the expense of all your time, energy, and even mental well-being and still be rewarded with peanuts unless you keep it up. if you are sane enough to value your own health more than that, your traction, your livelihood, it can all be taken away at the whim of advertisers who would prefer someone more willing to be crushed to death because they are creating more content that you have more entertainment to watch. feeding mindless grinder quality, even though what makes them the most money is someone who values ​​themselves and their own work enough to stay healthy or someone is so pressured by the constant demand of routine that he will literally destroy himself by making someone else, more money just to survive, this is what makes me feel better and the funniest thing is reflected towards the end of the broadcast when germa is evicted from his house and temporarily replaced by ludwig, who has been playing a fan-favorite character on the broadcast so far.

I think the audience would treat him better than Germa, right, no, in fact, as soon as he puts himself in Germa's position, they exhaust him to the same comically cruel point that they did to Germa himself, it's like the curse of the spotlight demanded that someone suffer for the camera and since germa is off camera it turns out that he is lucky enough to escape, but he was still evicted to escape, wasn't that the contrast with a parallel real life situation, Let's say someone can't continue their intensive work on YouTube content because of? serious health problems and then losing your main source of income, yes, it can be quite dark to think about, right?

I hate to sound like I'm getting too personal in my videos to the point of being uncomfortable, but I felt this kind of frustration firsthand and it was kind of cathartic to feel like it was all reflecting the whole topic back to me, in a fun mirror sort of way, like Yes, people understand it. I've been making videos for a couple of years and have seen pretty substantial growth. since then, but after making one of my most successful videos last year around Halloween time, my computer faced some serious issues that prevented me from making any more videos until January of this year and that period of downtime killed my momentum , all the exponential growth that was. watching on the channel faded away and for months and months I've struggled trying to piece together the things that matter to me while watching YouTube I just couldn't at that time of day be convinced that a brief drop in numbers meant I was completely irrelevant again, no posting content that isn't worth the replaceable ad space it's kind of heartbreaking to find out that your nation feels forced out of it just because you're not killing yourself to get it done, I mean even when I'm active it's not like it's always easy to dedicate, so a lot of time watching a video, the isolation of lockdowns and the depression that comes with worse performance, I'm sure you can only imagine, adds to that feeling of hopelessness and that's definitely not just my thing, so which in most cases you just have to move on.

No matter how empty and apathetic you feel, you are determined to push something forward for its own sake, if only because the thought of crashing back into cold irrelevance means it will be that much harder to overlook it and make more income from what you love. to do later, you start to forget that you even loved doing this in the first place. I appreciate you guys, I basically don't know any of you, please don't misunderstand the depth of that statement. I'm so grateful, but I'm not going to call you my family or any other weird, intimate nonsense like that, but in addition to being extremely grateful to you, I'm also terrified that you'll always wonder if what I have to say will be something you'll enjoy or accept. any interest or whether it will be dry, boring and trite as I write these words.

I'm already thinking how miserably stupid this will all seem if you don't accept the premise of this video at first glance - a silly series like germa dollhouse even provoked these introspections in me in the first place, if it doesn't land on what they then seem Silly ramblings from someone who ultimately takes something quite silly too seriously, isn't it or maybe? It's just me projecting my fear onto you. Sometimes it's hard to really know when this is the work you're doing. I also worry about smaller details. I often worry about making my room look good when it's on camera.

I worry about how. I look at the camera I worry about how my voice sounds when I record it and as much as I hate to admit it I worry about everything people in my comments say about me why lie about it, it's easy to say that nothing affects you, but it's much more It's hard to really say it seriously, it's interesting then that wondering what kind of input people I don't know would have about my actions, my work or my life would mean to me, divorced from the modern context of what entertainment is like now if we all wouldn't promote ourselves to each other. us through the veneer of our own virtual dollhouses?

How would we look? Would we even care what the other person did or had to say? Would any of us watch Germa walk around a set of rooms for eight hours? Maybe some of us would, but it's hard to imagine that many would be upset if I didn't feel like I have a certain degree of comedic familiarity and an attachment through entertainment to Germa as a streamer, then I probably never would have sat through all that and to be Sure, I'm glad I did it, it was very funny and fun, but its structure inevitably serves as the perfect time capsule of how we got here, seeking the grounded and sincere is a noble desire and is creating a massive substitute and convenient that we have been incentivized to even do things like this surveys chats incentives meats and doll houses What do you imagine it's like to live in a landscape like this when it's all you've ever known too?

I was born in the '90s, so obviously I know an internet before all of this and I've seen it grow into what it is now, but what about the kids who are ingrained in all of this from day one? It must be a uniquely disorienting experience. In that sense, I would like to draw attention to something that musician and comedian Beau Burnham said in an interview about this very topic when he was talking about his film 8th Grade during his investigation. Burnham looked for teenagers much like his younger self who told him their stories online but, unlike him, didn't rack up millions of views, he searched for videos by upload day rather than view count, he wanted to see the kids. that are usually ignored.

I remember watching these clips and thinking that if this were a performance, this would be Incredible, what got me was that image of a child looking into a camera addressing an audience that she knows probably isn't there yet. We're there watching the movie now we all act like celebrities and commodify ourselves. Children act as their own publicists. select your brands as someone who tried a little bit of that as a D-list celebrity comedian. It's the worst worst way to live your life. A kind of numbness and a slight loneliness and confusion. It's like a dissociative disorder.

It's made everyone feel like my life isn't real, my friends aren't real. It is difficult to describe in words all my fears and all my worries that I have because I am addicted to the Internet. In some ways it has made me worse. We're convinced that the story of the Internet is these loud, brash Jake Pauls and the suicidal Japanese kids in the woods or whatever, and it's not like most people on the Internet are people who speak up and aren't listened to. The internet is a really beautiful place with so much raw emotion, it's not just a groupof losers you can make fun of, it's not all idiocy and triumph or just a hellish satirical wasteland, now that I think about it, it reminds me a lot of Germa's dollhouse inside, oh god.

We are about to talk about the interior, aren't we the third part? For those of you who are not in the know, let me briefly contextualize the tangent we are about to go on. Inside Bo Burnham is a Netflix special, let's call it because I'm not sure the comedy special accurately encompasses the tone and structure of it, which was recorded solely by Burnham himself over many months in the guest house of his home in Los Angeles, without equipment or an audience, all in an effort to offer something resembling his usual stand-up. material but in a format conducive to the global situation we find ourselves in since 2020, obviously, like many of his other specials, it includes songs and sketches on various topics and his life within these walls, but it also quickly becomes a material very frank and often emotional.

A harrowing exploration of her own mental health, her relationship with her own audience and the fog of performativity that surrounds her, this is, of course, filtered through Beau's usual sardonic and self-deprecating humour, which bounces between absurdist Instagram-like parodies of a white woman and jokes that descend to uncomfortable levels. Personal reflections like making a reaction video to your own work that goes from reaction video to reaction video silently lamenting the almost absurd dedication we have to milking every aspect of our personal lives for some kind of content to repackage and send to the world. I mean, God, he even has a segment where he parodies a streamer playing himself crying in his room and trying to provide funny, relatable commentary, all of which is nothing extremely out of character for him, for Of course, his previous specials have often addressed it. issues of self-image and social perspective when it comes to having an audience after all and particularly because Beau himself blew up on YouTube when he was just a teenager, but there's something especially raw and almost extremely uncomfortable about the honesty with which he describes how prone Frustrated and useless, this often couldn't be done.

He feels uncomfortable but also in an equally twisted and cathartic way, because how all-encompassing that feeling can be in light of what I've been trying to describe all this time: the idea of ​​someone who He tries so hard to make even the most mundane thing personal. details about themselves as attractive and theatrical as possible for the sake of greater exposure, more invasive entertainment at their expense, all in an endless cycle of searching for something genuine and, in practice, distancing ourselves more and more from that and what earn a living. entertaining people it quickly becomes so obvious why someone in the boyfriend position, someone who already struggled with these fears, gave up comedy five years ago due to his severe panic attacks on stage when he describes the process of his recovery. which peaked in January 2020 when he begins to think he should perform live again, we already realize that deeply bitter and almost hilariously cruel outcome that is waiting for his past self on the other side of that decision because it is the that led him to do what we have been.

Watching for over an hour at this point, which coincided with his mental health plummeting again in a way that I honestly don't think I've ever seen a more chilling depiction of other than literally watching myself in real time, almost feels voyeuristic. see the road beau acts during this and that seems almost to be part of the point too, isn't it that something so human, something so wildly uncomfortable and sad, could itself be the crux behind a popular streaming film that has been nominated for multiple awards and whose soundtrack reached Many national charts in the interior is always a character study in the performance of isolation depression and the parasocial, as it is relatable content edited by experts that made many people make a lot of money at the expense of the Bo Burnham's own tangible visible suffering. he benefited significantly from the visibility and monetary benefits he obtained by filming it in an artistically pleasing way that was able to shake the audience.

There is something so beautiful and at the same time deeply sad and worrying about the fact that we can all rally around feelings. That this special provides while simultaneously consuming you in the terrifying, distantly hungry way it allowed its creator to do so in the first place is, in a sense, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now also gone is the novelty of conscious content of your own parasocial obligations to the point where you can even make comparisons from this and similar things. Will this also become a format to follow? It's just a matter of time, like I could get in front of the camera right now and just be emotionally open and break down and I talk about all the things that I fear regarding content creation and the online sphere and all that, but would it seem real?

Would it seem accessible now that you're thinking about it? Even the most sincere confessions would seem like theatricality. Wouldn't that be scary? I don't even know what to propose in response. There is a solution? Do you need a solution? I don't know the answers to that question or if there's a good one necessarily, but that still doesn't mean I'll be able to stop thinking about it. The closed, tightly drawn spaces the interior inhabits begin as a seemingly endless place for creativity, but also become emblematic of the deeply isolated and claustrophobic spaces we are all drawn to. to wait behind a curtain that will rise at any moment when we will have to smile, go out and face the crowd in the hope of catching their attention, if only for a fleeting moment at the end of the special bo sheets. his room only to find outside on the side of the house that approaches the sideline is quite a stage, a sound stage, another room full of spectators watching his actions while he stands coldly in that paralyzing spotlight, the audience begins to Laugh as he is locked out of his house and starts banging desperately on the door wanting to escape back to the comfortable silence of being unknown, his laughter grows as he breaks down and sobs and back into the room, another version of himself watches this footage. shown on a projector smiling to himself, so ends another piece of relatable content, so I hope you can see what I was going for here and why something that seems so harmlessly fun, was and is very funny and deeply entertaining to me , it also made me think about these things, call it over the top if I want to call out trampoline if you want, that's fine and they could even be valid criticisms, but I feel like I'm more honest when I talk about my mindset and certain things that lead me to think, whether intentionally or not, and I'd be lying if I said the Germa Dollhouse didn't captivate me in more ways than simply for its surface-level entertainment value, because it really was a hilarious piece that accompanied the anxieties I've been dealing with.

It's been sitting around for more than last year, but I also find a little hope in that, seeing the way their huge team and talented contributors came together to make it work, seeing the dedication Jeremy and everyone here put into it. to make something memorable and fun for your audience reminds me of the inherent value of creating media that sometimes gets lost in the weeds as more and more of these dilemmas are presented for our consideration. This doesn't mean that these questions aren't very apparent and important, of course, but it also serves as a reminder that, at the end of the day, all of this exists for a reason, besides just making people money, it exists as a way to communicate and connect with each other to share ideas, themes or even just jokes that art has always had.

It's been an exchange, a conversation between the person painting the canvas and the person coming to see it and it's things like this that remind me even in my darkest moments that that's a big part of why I bothered to do this first of all. The expanse of the media landscape we inhabit can often be terrifying and impersonal, but it can also be empowering, connective, and hopeful. We may not always know each other, but in some way, big or small, we can always try to help each other, whether it's through a laugh. conversation or even a generous donation, there is always something to be gained from the way we express ourselves to the world around us, whether we are seen by two people or two million people, and to be clear, yes, we should definitely take measures to ensure that we are not so entangled in parasocial networks that we overstep our boundaries and put undue pressure on people, but at the same time we are incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to communicate so widely for equally important reasons: the horror of being known is A paralyzing thing, but sometimes the cult is worth challenging, we just have to be careful in defining the lines we have to walk along the way, the line between our world and the dollhouse.

Hello everyone, thanks for watching. I know this video was a little unconventional. and the topic of the media was more of a springboard for the discussion of the topic than a more traditional analysis this time I hope you find it calm sometimes I just feel the devil in me to do something a little more abstract like this because I only have to speak my Think about these things in a format that I think is right if that's not your thing that's great but thanks for watching and giving me the time of day regardless, as always you can support the creation of my content on Patreon by leaving a me like and a comment. tremendously to spread my content to more people, subscribing is obviously also recommended if you want to see more of my content as it is published and ringing the bell is a good way to make sure that YouTube actually notifies you instead of notifying you.

I'm just taking a nap when I upload something. Thank you all again, sincerely, for watching and we'll see you next time. Peace too, germa, if you're looking, you look pretty, bro.