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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was thinking why does it have to be recorded? Is everything a performance? Even her kids think that way. [/quote]

It's common to record big moments like this. I felt she was being 100 percent genuine in this video and did not know she was being recorded. She was not playing to the camera like she usually does and seemed to be present with her family in the moment. [/quote]

It felt totally performative to me. [/quote]

In my opinion, the fact that so many commenters here immediately feel back into the "awww, the grandchild announcement was so cute and authentic" is further evidence of the larger problem with influencers like Jen and the people who get sucked into following them. A simple appeal to sentimentality immediately turns people into piles of mush and all discernment goes right out the window. The bigger picture is that the entire social media based culture of influencers and putting your personal life on display for all the world to see is toxic and fake. It's just another manifestation of our sick celebrity culture, except that now we all get to participate in the celebrity machine by projecting our own lives online and watching other people project theirs and believing their anything authentic about it all. Our entire existence has become mediated. It's like the Truman show, except were all inside the dome. [/quote]

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