Vix in Japan's video: The fiction in-between the reality

I often have too much time to think. Most of the time; there isn't really anything of too much consequence occurring to me. But yesterday driving in the rain, I began to think about how the way we consume our experiences and understanding of the world is being rapidly changed by what we see and how it's presented. We now live in an age where social media presents "the best bits", the videos on YouTube are "the best bits", the TikTok clips and viral Tweets are rapidly fast becoming people's understanding of reality, what it should be like. Even Japan on YouTube is represented with the eternal myth of it being out there, or somehow apposite to our own experiences, all things in life are now sensationalized through media. And so saturated are we with it all now, that we take the fiction as reality. Here is the what has become fiction in-between the new reality, the Japan that no one romances, that no one shows you, that no one ponders over because it doesn't live up to the new constructed reality that the algorithm beyond our control believes you need to see. It's nothing really, it's just remnants of what you won't be shown, because it means nothing, and yet we all live in it in the true reality. These thoughts were prompted by the very music in this video, "Vision of Self" by Rival Consoles. For me, I am happy with the "fiction" of my life, my life in Japan is nothing like what you will see on the whole on YouTube, and I am happy to enjoy this fiction in-between the "reality", because I couldn't bear to believe in the new reality on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and more... (Clips from: Nara-ken, Niigata-ken, Gifu-ken, Aichi-ken and Mie-ken, main thread, Meihan Kokudou Tenri to Konoguchi)