Presenting: The “collaborative art project” Webcam Tears which is really a Tumblr, featuring crying teenage girls who are really 20-something internet-famous seapunks. Sometimes.
“In a time where showing genitals on the internet is not shocking anymore, tears are a new form of pornography,” says fashion journalist Dora Moutot and she wants you to sob and snivel on webcam for her. She says she’s inspired by Laurel Nakadate’s piece 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, but I don’t blame Laurel. Does this Tumblr realize how mind-bogglingly meta it is?
It’s a blog of staged Internet crying semi-masquerading as real Internet crying, based on Nakadate’s staged Internet crying based on real Internet crying. Oh, my head.
There are a few submissions already, and many of them look like actual angsty teen girls, so get a salty whiff, you pervert. There’s an understated note of that “Am I Ugly?” artist con girl, but not quite that sad.




















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internet-famous seapunks is a good band name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUzBCl6iVoc
Ooh, schooled. Many thanks.
When our usage of everyday social media technology puts each individual in the role of micro-PR-pro and online forms of interaction become constantly leveraged and analyzed for engagement, social feedback loops govern even the most mundane actions, and the authentic becomes fetishized. Is the value of emotionality vested in the authenticity of expression, as separate from a desire to connect with another human and have them accept that expression? Is the expression of an emotion possible without the imagined recipient of said emotion in mind? Is there such a thing as an authentic expression, or is it something we fetishize because we are so overwhelmed with calculated expressions that are scientifically formulated to evoke a primitive response in us and increase engagement? Do you stab yourself in the face just to feel something authentic? Are you bored?
my favorite part was when they started crying. i played them all at the same time in sync. it was awesome. ugly girls.
I can't even begin to respond to this..
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