That title sounds crazy, I would like to clarify I don't hear voices that aren't there lol. So I’m wondering if anyone else has noticed what I
am terming the “educated wink” I also considered calling it the “your too smart
for this shit wink”, but that’s not all that catchy. The educated wink is when a
commercial or TV show deviates from its expected role as passive or inert tools
of social influence to directly engage the viewers. I first noticed the wink
when watching Conon O’Brian for the first and “regrettably” only time. O’Brian, can only be described, as obnoxious
in his desire to reveal that his show was a complete fabricated representation
of a late night TV show. His parody wasn’t so much a subtle nod to the
production of televisual media as tool of social control as a violent shaking. The
next time I notice the educated wink was in a Chap Stick commercial that
started as a traditional commercial, in which an attractive Caucasian woman
talked about how much she loved a particular brand of Chap Stick as she walked
through a field of flowers. Then the commercial ended, and get this “the camera
kept rolling” Boom!!! Mind blown. The attractive Caucasian woman now off camera
picks up her backpack, yeah that right backpack, and turns to the camera that
is no longer supposed to be there applies the Chap Stick and says something
like “e. The action the advertisers were going for on the surface may have been
something like, wait, she’s not actually acting… she really uses this chap
stick… Oh My God she put it on off camera this is no joke, but some real life
shit—No…… Freaking…. Way. I feel like a popular culture student wrote those scripts to say analyze this.
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