rant · moment 20 of 22
Broadcasting at the End of the World: Digital Life and Black Mirror Future
from #200 - Knife Fights In Malibu | The Tim Dillon Show · #200
6 min
Tim delivers a reflective riff on civilization declining into a permanently online "black mirror" existence, contrasting soulless big YouTubers with real-world performers, and affirms his continued love of live comedy over podcasting despite embracing the medium.
- Tim describes the apocalypse as longer civilizations decline, the economy worsens, and people grow angrier.
- Black Mirror was named after what a computer looks like when it's off.
- As the outside world gets uglier, people will fall into digital existence and live primarily online for the rest of their lives.
- Tim observes that big YouTube personalities who exist only online have something missing when you meet them in person.
- These digital-only guys are only alive when they're on a screen; there's something sick and sad about that pattern becoming the future.
- Broadcasting from a room while the world falls apart seems like the only appropriate art form right now.
- Tim loves live performance and expects it will come back, but for now this format feels right for the moment.
- Tim jokes that they engineered and released the coronavirus, then clarifies he means the podcast.
- Some people have been living entirely online for years on 4chan and imageboards; the rest of the world is just catching up now.
- Tim will always prefer shitty comedy clubs with real people and actual energy exchange over digital performance, despite being good at this format.