TRAPPO'S TELLY TALK!
Let's talk about TELLY! No, not the English slang term for television, but the brand-new "free" ad-supported television that's supposedly coming later this summer! Have you heard of TELLY? If not, then just let your good friends at TRAPPO tell you all about it! Or you could just read this article from WIRED that discusses TELLY in some detail. That would be quicker. But not as entertaining! Is TELLY a harbinger of the dystopian, surveillance state future we've all long feared? Is TELLY our new best friend? Or is TELLY our greatest enemy? Let's stoke each other's fear and paranoia this week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose! You can listen below, or find TRAPPO on Apple, Google, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Potify for Spycasters and Amazon, so choose your own adventure and jump headfirst into the existential nightmare that is our shared entertainment future!
There's a conversation going on right now, and you need to be a part of it. Scroll down a bit and share your thoughts on this whole TELLY thing. Is this some overblown flash in the pan crap, or is the real deal? Will you sign up for the TELLY experiment, or will you shun TELLY and the horrifying future it represents? Tell us what's on your mind. We really want to know. If you're feeling a real ramble brewing in the recesses of your mind regarding this TELLY situation, you can always share those extended thoughts in a convenient email, which we always appreciate. Just send those emails to this address: trapposhow@gmail.com and we'll read your insane manifesto on a future episode of the show! Just don't be a bigoted asshole, and we're all cool.
Thanks for listening, and all hail TELLY!
Just fucking shoot me. We're done, right? Telly. This is the future of capitalism. The absolute end of everything. What a fucking nightmare.
ReplyDeleteI know current smart TVs collect a lot of data. My Amazon Fire TV remote has a microphone built-in and it’s nearby all the time. But there’s something so creepy about a TV with a camera that’s explicitly monitoring whoever is sitting in front of it. It can count how many people are viewing? It will tailor ads for viewers. It will ask you to participate in polls so it can learn more about you. Is it recording everything it sees and hears? Is that footage being stored somewhere? Is it being viewed by TELLY employees? If you take one of these into your home, you’re signing away any right to privacy. You’re breaking a fundamental barrier that may never be repaired. TELLY is genuinely scary. Where does it end?
ReplyDeleteI must admit to a certain kind of exhibitionist thrill at the idea of being watched by my TV, like you two touched on in your episode. People are definitely going to fetishize TELLY. I'm not too keen on the idea of constant surveillance by my television, nor the never-ending ads, but a form of this is probably going to become the new normal eventually. TELLY is just step one. What comes next? The slow poison of late-stage capitalism is going to destroy us all. But at least we get a free 4K television in the bargain.
ReplyDeleteI’ll take a free tv. I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m sure the Telly overlords will be thoroughly disappointed when they spy on me binge watching The Office for the fiftieth time. Fuck ‘em. Free TV please!
ReplyDeleteTV that watches you. A second screen that’s always on and feeding you news and weather and never-ending advertising. Surrendering to a technological nightmare. Put me on a fucking rocket ship and fly me into the sun, because I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
ReplyDeleteWho gives a shit? This is no big deal. Don’t try to lie to people and tell them this is the beginning of the end. It’s some dumb shit that probably won’t happen. It doesn’t matter.
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