Numbers and their significance.

Why do numbers hold such great importance to us? Yes, I say ‘us’ because I fall within the scope of people who are more inclined to appreciate quantity rather than quality of something. This is just a rant I want to put out there.

Media

The large corporations, the reality stars and whoever benefiting from television shows are concerned with the number of views they receive. This quality of the show’s content is not as significance as the numbers it garners from the population.

Therefore the aforementioned individuals are willing to do, produce and create nonsensical degrading lifestyles , gather people who are more than happy to play the roles and be a part of the television fame and follow through with production/broadcast because at the end of the day, the views do matter.

Furthermore, they are not investing in these films which lack so much substance and unfortunately tend to accurately reflect our current state of society, but,   are catering to the audience’s desires. We complain that Tv is stupid or that there is nothing to watch when we flip through the channels but the majority of the world out there, the number of the people that no one person can contain, is facilitating it. They watch them and enjoy them and they boost the views.

 So therefore why shouldn’t the large corporations give the people what they want? It is indeed true that they have our best interest at heart.

Youtube

Ever since its inception, many persons have been doing unthinkable tasks and enduring immense pain in order to accumulate views, to make her/his video a viral success. Everyone wants fame but not everyone can have it. And honestly, fame is not the most wonderful of fulfilling state in the world. Just take a glimpse of the many lives of celebrities’ portrayed in the entertainment news. Just take one glance.

 Anhyhoo, back to the point of people do anything and I mean anything to gain recognition. Is it a form of rebellion, a cry for acceptance or just utter stupidity? Yet, even though these persons are harming themselves, torturing themselves the audience still extracts humour from it. I’ve done it as well but after I’ve reflected on it, I wonder if I’m some type of sadist or if I’m so sad/bored with my life that I have to find happiness in another’s demise.

On the other hand, I laugh because I can and I will. If you are that inconsiderate towards your own well-being, to go to great risk to be noticed or to stimulate humour, I find it funny, hence, I laugh.

However, at the end of the day it is the views that count. The views stir motivation and inspiration and give the person a sense of confidence (false sense of confidence, sometimes) that he/she is good at something and should continue, so he/she release more videos and the views increase.

Instagram

I love this site because I’ve seen a lot of beautiful pictures, art and watches. I’m obsessed with watches! Also I cannot stress enough the innumerable selfies I’ve liked. They really are a lot of gorgeous people out there. Hmm instagram, you post selfies and gain likes from random people when you flood the image with hashtags. (I do that.)  But why does the number of likes matter so much to us? If no one likes our photos, there is a sense of defeat, failure.

Otherwise, if we receive a lot of likes, beyond our expectation, we’re elated! Now, again, these are random people, people we’ve never met, never seen and possibly will never meet. They are liking our photos and probably stealing them to make to contribute to his/her shrine of beauties in his/her basement! 

On that note, the majority of us (I hope) would not walk into a crowded public setting and ask strangers to sift through our photos and determine if they like them. No! That is because we are seated behind a computer screen , we’re anonymous hence, more confident and bold. And deep down inside, we want to be recognized too, we want some sort of fame, we want to be seen as beautiful and we thrive off of the attention. Our self-confidence is dependent on and thrives off of the number of likes we get. I may be wrong.

I think that’s the end of my rant. 

Lol.