rant · moment 22 of 34
When Did Talent Become Offensive? Susan Boyle to Shane Dawson
from #231 - Giuliani And The River of Gold | The Tim Dillon Show · #231
3 min
A theory that culture shifted from valuing raw talent to valuing relatability, coddling, and access to mediocre people's lives, tracing it from Susan Boyle's viral fame to influencer culture.
- Coddling content and participation trophies created an appetite for what wouldn't have existed when we were kids.
- People watch mukbangs and unboxing videos instead of engaging with literature, movies, or music to pass time.
- Tim doesn't know if the appeal of watching someone gorge themselves is sexual, a repressed desire, or something else entirely dark.
- Stoney, a competitive eater from Long Island, does mukbangs but he's a skinny guy doing it competitively, not sadly.
- The person watching mukbangs is either actually fat or fat at heart, experiencing the lack of filter and judgment they'd get in real life.
- We're allowed to see this content now on platforms when before there wasn't a community or way to view it.
- Tim thinks ASMR is sexual for people—the sounds and feelings trigger something, though he's uncertain if it's purely sexual or just pleasant.
- Most ASMR isn't actually about the dominant sexual claim; people just like how it sounds pleasant, not like self-harm content.