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It seems inevitable that we will be annoyed by the attractive 25-year-olds strategizing about how to achieve social media popularity and laboring over choosing the profile picture that makes them look hot, but not intimidatingly sexy. After six hours glued to your couch, staring at your TV watching 24-year-old bisexual Sammie stare at her TV, it’s impossible not to feel like you’re living an episode of Black Mirror. According to both Twitter and my personal experience, the show is mainly consumed in lengthy binges, and it’s not long before reality starts to mimic art (or, well, augmented reality). Yet it’s highly addictive just minutes into the first episode. The contestant who ranks first at the end wins $100,000.Įach episode is comprised entirely of twenty- and thirtysomethings spending the whole day alone, looking at a screen, talking to themselves. The two most popular players each week become “influencers” (blue verification check and all) and get to “block,” or eliminate, a contestant of their choosing.

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They are competing to become the most “popular” with other contestants and after a full day of stalking each other’s photos and bios, chatting via instant message, and playing games, they rank their competitors from favorite to least favorite. Its premise is peak 2020: eight contestants live in isolated single apartments in what appears to be the same building, but they are forbidden from physical contact with one another, instead communicating exclusively through a “voice-activated” social media platform called The Circle.

The final installments premiered on Wednesday. I’m talking about the Netflix game show The Circle, which set Twitter abuzz when the first four episodes dropped on Jan. It may only be two weeks into the year, but we have already received a glimpse into a dystopian new decade of normalizing catfishing and online clout-chasing.

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