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I like how in Nosedive, nobody is ever having fun.

I mean, guests at the party (spoiler) should be amused at the ghost of the maid and the scandal, filming it and all - especially young guys. It should go completely viral. Instead they stand frowning as if they're 70 - to avoid hurting their score.

Under social credit society, everybody will be forced to act like they're at the end of their life path.



The interesting thing and probably the point of the episode is that that's already what's happening in social media right now if you want to keep your followers.


I don't know what kind of people friend boring self-promoters. The problem here, there's not enough eyeballs. They end up friending each other and then pretending they have a huge crowd.

And then there's real content, viral content, assertive content. In short, life. Social credit system fights life because life doesn't follow rules, life doesn't care about likes and life doesn't climb their ladder. So naturally I expect harsh sanctions for anything viral or any unexpected flash mobs in such systems.




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