WEBVTT - What’s With Influencers Crying On Camera? 😭 📸

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex

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<v Speaker 1>and Frooms catch up podcast. It's Flex and Firms and FLEXI.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever uploaded a video or a photo of

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<v Speaker 1>yourself crying to the Internet?

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<v Speaker 2>Nah?

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever been tempted? No?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I feel like no. I just don't

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<v Speaker 2>think the internet's a safe space. I don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>they tried to tell you, but I just feel like

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<v Speaker 2>the internet wants three things entertainment, education, or somewhere in

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<v Speaker 2>the middle like but and crying is usually entertainment. And

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<v Speaker 2>so if you cry, just know you've been circulated in

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<v Speaker 2>plenty of group chats and you've been responsible or instrumental

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<v Speaker 2>in someone's laugh that day.

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of great for the clowns out intown. This headline

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<v Speaker 1>from a few weeks ago piqued my interest. It came

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<v Speaker 1>from Tamman Cursock, who used to be on Home and Away.

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<v Speaker 1>She did a podcast with Luke Cook, who is an

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<v Speaker 1>Australian comedian living in America. I actually meant to be

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<v Speaker 1>on this podcast hasn't happened yet, but he's a funny,

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<v Speaker 1>funny guy. And she was saying how influencers who film

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<v Speaker 1>themselves crying on social media. She reckons it's bullshit because

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<v Speaker 1>if that's the first thing they think of doing when

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<v Speaker 1>they're upset, to take the camera out, she reckons, it's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not the first thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, they put it on makeup first, right, that's

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<v Speaker 1>the first thing. She was saying this because the only

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<v Speaker 1>time she's posted a vulnerable video of herself crying online

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<v Speaker 1>was when she had a miscarriage, and she said she

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<v Speaker 1>posted it because it was her husband taking the video

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<v Speaker 1>and it was a bit of an awareness piece. But

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<v Speaker 1>she seems to think an awareness piece, what the way

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<v Speaker 1>you phrase it, it's a I don't know how asked

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<v Speaker 1>to say that. However, she thinks that sharing hard moments

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<v Speaker 1>online is important. But yeah, posting a video at the

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<v Speaker 1>exact moment that something is raw is very performative. And

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<v Speaker 1>to which I say, I think that it's a generational thing.

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<v Speaker 1>We've seen all the belhadide crying videos. I think like

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<v Speaker 1>for the generation gen Z, for example, they've always had

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<v Speaker 1>camera phones. It's like very and group chats where sharing

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<v Speaker 1>your face is a normal thing, like be real, Like

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<v Speaker 1>I remember when I started in your group chat. When

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<v Speaker 1>you're really young, you do share photos of yourself constantly.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just kind of like a normal thing. So therefore,

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<v Speaker 1>I think, like putting it on the internet, it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Not that far of a stretch for a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 1>No, Whereas I think, like, if you think about it

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<v Speaker 1>in terms of a social what's it called, like social etiquette,

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<v Speaker 1>it does feel weird from like an oldie weldy perspective.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I guess it's I would go back to the

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<v Speaker 2>first point in that posting yourself crying is performative. The

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<v Speaker 2>act of engaging with social media is performative. Everything you

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<v Speaker 2>do is contrived, everything you do is curated. Not one

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<v Speaker 2>thing you do on there is genuine. Because there's nothing

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<v Speaker 2>genuine about having an experience and then jumping onto an

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<v Speaker 2>app to share it with strangers for free. It doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>make any sense. So I think the argument that it's

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<v Speaker 2>performative and therefore it can't be trusted with an Now

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<v Speaker 2>we have to start looking at everything with that length

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<v Speaker 2>and saying, okay, is it less performative to have a

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<v Speaker 2>cry wipe my and then go like, hey, guys, let's

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<v Speaker 2>be grateful for each other today. I would argue they're

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<v Speaker 2>living in the same boat in terms of just level

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<v Speaker 2>of performativity, right, performance, level of performance. I think it's

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<v Speaker 2>it's tricky because like, I don't I wouldn't do it right.

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<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't cry and then take a photo and put

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<v Speaker 2>it on the internet. But I also think that a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people have a fundamental misunderstanding of what social

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<v Speaker 2>media is used for. It feels weird because social media

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<v Speaker 2>is turned into this circus for strangers, Like I put

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<v Speaker 2>myself on the Internet for a stranger to consume, that

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<v Speaker 2>is weird. If you're using social media to connect with

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<v Speaker 2>your friends and family, it should not be strange for

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<v Speaker 2>you to emote virtually, for you to share your feelings virtually.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think it's becoming so matter that people kind

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<v Speaker 2>of in use the Internet for its original purpose sharing

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<v Speaker 2>of information. Yeah, the fact that you'd go on and

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<v Speaker 2>make money or you'd go on and talk about like

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<v Speaker 2>the fact that it's more normalized to go on the

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<v Speaker 2>incident to where people existing than just existing yourself on

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<v Speaker 2>the Internet. It's better and it's both lame.

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<v Speaker 1>Smooth smooth back Hoti singer Let's.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't Sitting back Suzy wrecking Ball vibes.

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<v Speaker 1>I will say finally that like I feel like it's

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<v Speaker 1>a very ucy like American tiktoks and people taking the

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<v Speaker 1>piss out of them, like a woman's husband has just

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<v Speaker 1>started and she's put a video out there. Living in

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<v Speaker 1>this Dare I say capitalist society, You're smart to capitalize

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<v Speaker 1>on your pain and your trauma because you will be rewarded,

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<v Speaker 1>So it makes sense to me. I wouldn't do it,

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<v Speaker 1>but wouldn't.

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<v Speaker 2>Free You need to get your bag, and that's the

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<v Speaker 2>distinction we want to make.

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