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Edited by dazarobbo:
7/2/2015 1:34:46 PM
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Are social experiments valid and representative, a pretext for driving social or political activism, or an exploitative scheme for fame and money?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=social+experiment
Watch some of these, or even just read the titles, and tell me what you think.
[spoiler]I think they are exploitative. For example, every video I've seen involving extremes of classes juxtaposes a supposedly good-natured homeless person with middle/upper class folk in various situations and ends up presenting the latter as apathetic or snobbish. Not only that, but I think they're inherently exploitative to the subjects of the "experiments", because it's their reactions (or non reactions) which are being used by the authors of these experiments as "evidence" to drive the underlying cause.
Furthermore, when coupled with the fact that they're often posted on YouTube, they come across as simply being a pretext for entertainment value, consequently exploiting a given issue for a poster's own benefit: popularity, views, and money.[/spoiler]
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That title has so many big words. Anyways, I believe that they can be a mixture of all 3, but on YouTube, mostly the latter 2. Social experiments as a whole aren't completely any of the 3 choices. I agree that many are exploitative, and tend to just go along with societal expectations, such as the rich and poor ones, and that most of them try to push an agenda, as the creator has to edit the videos and most likely cherry picks the parts that look the best. After all, a social experiment video that shows everybody acting the same way wouldn't be very exciting.
