did they really deserve THAT😭😭 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Let's pretend we time traveled back to
2. 0:01the Stone Age, but we're Gen Z. Ah, why
3. 0:02am I not wearing my dress? It's prom.
4. 0:04Oh.
5. 0:05>> [music]
6. 0:07>> The fact that you even took time out of
7. 0:08your day to type [music] that comment
8. 0:10needs to be studied by scientists.
9. 0:12Somewhere in an alternate universe,
10. 0:13there's a version of you that opened the
11. 0:15app, saw the video, [music] thought,
12. 0:17"That's cool." and kept scrolling.
13. 0:18Unfortunately, we got the timeline where
14. 0:20you voluntarily announced your presence
15. 0:23like a medieval town crier whose [music]
16. 0:25only purpose is to contribute absolutely
17. 0:27nothing. I imagine you sitting there
18. 0:30pushing that comment, staring into the
19. 0:31darkness of your brain illuminated
20. 0:33[music] only by the sacred blue glow of
21. 0:36your phone waiting for somebody to
22. 0:38acknowledge your existence. [music]
23. 0:39Not because the comment was funny, not
24. 0:40because it was clever, but because deep
25. 0:42down you know that if the notification
26. 0:43sound never [music] comes, then for a
27. 0:45brief moment, you must confront the
28. 0:47horrifying possibility that nobody
29. 0:49cared. Generations from now,
30. 0:51archaeologists will [music] discover
31. 0:52your comment fossilized in the digital
32. 0:53ruins of this app and ask each other,
33. 0:55"What ancient catastrophe caused this
34. 0:56individual to believe that this was
35. 0:58worth posting?" Entire documentaries
36. 1:00will be made. Experts will debate.
37. 1:01[music] Historians will argue. Yet, no
38. 1:03answer will ever be found. The wildest
39. 1:05part is that somewhere in your brain,
40. 1:07there was a process. Thoughts were
41. 1:08generated. Decisions were made. Neurons
42. 1:10fired. Electrical signals [music]
43. 1:11traveled at incredible speeds across
44. 1:13biological supercomputer evolved over
45. 1:15millions of years just to arrive at
46. 1:16that. That's like using a space shuttle
47. 1:19to [music] deliver a single grain of
48. 1:20rice across the street. I don't even
49. 1:22dislike the comment. I'm fascinated by
50. 1:23it. It has the same energy as finding a
51. 1:25shopping [music] cart in the middle of a
52. 1:26forest. You're not angry. You're not
53. 1:28confused. You're just left standing
54. 1:29there wondering how events unfolded in
55. 1:31such a specific sequence [music] that
56. 1:33reality allowed this to happen.
57. 1:38>> [music]