1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,120 This is me when I'm feeling nothing. 4 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,600 No joy. No sorrow. 5 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,240 No pain. Just nothing. 6 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,000 Maybe that's just what scrolling on your phone is. 7 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,567 But according to my therapist, the 8 00:01:16,579 --> 00:01:19,600 problem is that the numbness is spreading. 9 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,880 I have been working with patients for 20 years now, 10 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,680 and formerly they've come in to the session rooms, 11 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,000 complaining about strong emotions. 12 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,960 That they have this anxiety or depression, 13 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,160 feeling abandoned and feeling alone, 14 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,120 but now they have the opposite. 15 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,800 They don't feel anything anymore. 16 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,360 They are, what do you call it... some kind of flatliner. 17 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,600 What is happening? It's not just me. 18 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,143 So many people sense that something 19 00:01:53,155 --> 00:01:55,320 is messing with their emotions. 20 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,360 I want to find out why. 21 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,976 My job is to make prime-time science and 22 00:02:03,988 --> 00:02:06,640 tech documentaries for public television. 23 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,480 Can you guys wear these? Is that like a thing? 24 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:15,280 For years, I've covered stories all over the world of tech. 25 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,749 So I decide, as I travel the world 26 00:02:18,761 --> 00:02:21,480 reporting on stories about the internet, 27 00:02:21,678 --> 00:02:24,758 I'll seek my own answers. 28 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,280 I'll film how cutting-edge technology hacks our emotions. 29 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,480 Every single one of them. 30 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,040 The thalamus is not consciously controlled. 31 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:43,120 Yes! 32 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,120 Big response in the brain. 33 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,800 Kiss my ass. 34 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:49,600 Who are the people that change the way we feel? 35 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,920 And I'll smash you. 36 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,480 And how can I make myself feel again? 37 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,400 I don't get why you're here filming us. 38 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,400 I am a troll, and... 39 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,040 I'm like a low-down, dirty troll. 40 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,819 And it doesn't make sense to me why 41 00:03:25,831 --> 00:03:28,280 you'd be here filming me or him. 42 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,960 And I just... I don't get it, so... 43 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,213 We can do it, though. If you wanna 44 00:03:35,225 --> 00:03:38,000 come and film me, talking about this 45 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,280 and let me keep going on and on, I can do that, too. 46 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,680 But we're not... I don't think we are what you're looking for. 47 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,720 Unless we totally are, and I just don't know. 48 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,480 If some scientist told you, 49 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,400 "Hey, go film some low-down, dirty dude at a video store, 50 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:03,000 because he's gotten a few people to fall for his trolls." 51 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,229 Great! But it still just doesn't 52 00:04:05,241 --> 00:04:07,560 make any sense to me. That's all. 53 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,680 I don't know why you're here. Why are you here? 54 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,400 At the dawn of the internet, 55 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,142 trolls were some of the first to recognize 56 00:04:22,154 --> 00:04:24,360 the power of manipulating emotions. 57 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,880 While other early users of the web saw it 58 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,667 as a way of exchanging simple information... 59 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,818 ... the trolls recognized how powerful 60 00:04:36,830 --> 00:04:39,960 pushing emotional buttons could be. 61 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,920 Andrew is a prime example of a present-day troll 62 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,423 with an almost scientific approach to pissing people off. 63 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,400 So I can say something like, 64 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,086 "LOL, kid." Just throwing in the 65 00:05:01,098 --> 00:05:04,160 word "kid" will get their attention. 66 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,400 Here on the word "baby doll". 67 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,640 "Maybe someday... 68 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,520 ... you can cook breakfast for me... 69 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,440 ... in the kitchen..." You can do this thing. 70 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,520 "... where you belong." 71 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,120 He shows me around the adult video shop in Orlando, Florida, 72 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,400 where he works as manager. 73 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,280 Andrew's also a semi-professional wrestler, 74 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:51,160 which he sees as an extension of the trolling lifestyle. 75 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,243 Why are all the world-class trolls 76 00:06:03,255 --> 00:06:05,360 that you know also wrestlers? 77 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,240 When you're a pro wrestler, 78 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,578 you are playing these psychological 79 00:06:10,590 --> 00:06:14,000 games with people and their emotions. 80 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,560 And that's what you do as a troll. 81 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,640 In wrestling, it's the same thing. It's just... 82 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,256 A lot of it is make-believe, but you're 83 00:06:22,268 --> 00:06:24,400 making people believe, basically. 84 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,800 Slam! 85 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,640 Yes! Yes! 86 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,361 Andrew sees himself as something 87 00:06:37,373 --> 00:06:39,880 of an expert in channeling anger. 88 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,200 To see what this could do to someone, I meet with Kim. 89 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,600 She had been personally trolled by Andrew for more than a year. 90 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,680 I met him online in a Facebook chat room. 91 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,720 He was trolling everyone and playing tricks on everyone. 92 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:03,560 Just trying to get a negative reaction out of the group. 93 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,656 Do you sometimes feel like your 94 00:07:06,668 --> 00:07:09,720 emotions are being totally messed with? 95 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,138 Yeah, it's so frustrating the way 96 00:07:12,150 --> 00:07:14,800 that he just has to engage with people 97 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,520 by pissing them off, offending them. 98 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,055 "I was thinking, let's do another women's 99 00:07:21,067 --> 00:07:23,320 march. The last one was so effective." 100 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,341 "What do you say, ladies? How about 101 00:07:25,353 --> 00:07:27,000 we go out tomorrow and march?" 102 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,160 "Or are you too busy drinking wine?" 103 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,880 Trying to get attention in this way, 104 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,480 almost drawing power from annoying other people 105 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,600 and keeping himself in your thoughts almost gives him power, 106 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,600 almost dominating. 107 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,080 This guy did not get enough attention as a child. 108 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,400 Andrew is an OG internet troll. 109 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,115 He sees himself as an avant-garde 110 00:08:03,127 --> 00:08:05,120 artist, working pro bono. 111 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,007 But at the same time, other parties 112 00:08:07,019 --> 00:08:08,600 see the potential capital gains 113 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,880 of messing with people's emotions. 114 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:19,040 In China, I see this become the basis of entire industries. 115 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:22,840 Our company was China's first to 116 00:08:22,844 --> 00:08:25,400 professionally produce internet stars. 117 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,200 We are the first company to specialize in beautiful women... 118 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,240 Let me start over! 119 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,160 I enter a large factory complex. 120 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,840 The hundreds of people working here are the opposite of trolls. 121 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,561 While trolls master anger, these 122 00:08:42,573 --> 00:08:45,920 workers craft a very different product. 123 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,880 Shengxi Entertainment is a live-streaming talent agency. 124 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,680 From a complex with countless fake bedrooms, 125 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,090 the company's entirely female 126 00:09:00,102 --> 00:09:03,040 talent livestream their lives 24/7. 127 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,680 Thank you, Mr. Luo, for the donation! 128 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:14,640 Is it about to stop? 129 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,913 How did starting this company 130 00:09:21,925 --> 00:09:24,200 become such a moneymaker for you? 131 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,600 Currently, our office employs more than 200 livestreamers. 132 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,880 We "manufacture" new livestreamers in this facility. 133 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:38,080 They stay here and are trained for anywhere from 1 to 4 months 134 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,800 and work in the 20+ livestream rooms in our office. 135 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,080 Ultimately, we set them up to livestream from home 136 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,080 after we mold them into form. 137 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,440 Steps 5, 6, and 7 are a bit tougher. 138 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:54,480 Ankle out for 5. 139 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,840 For 6 you need to look as adorable as possible. 140 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:59,640 7 and 8... 141 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,640 No, the hands are up higher. 142 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:20,645 Do you think we can move this a 143 00:10:20,657 --> 00:10:23,160 little bit over here? Is that okay? 144 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,600 Jin is the biggest star at the love factory. 145 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,960 No makeup. 146 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,136 She's a master at making people far and 147 00:10:33,148 --> 00:10:35,720 wide develop strong feelings for her. 148 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,400 I want to know how she does it, so I ask her manager, Emma. 149 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,128 Our goal for Jin He is to develop 150 00:10:44,140 --> 00:10:47,760 her into a top-tier livestreamer. 151 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,040 So we manage her quite strictly. 152 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,880 Wow! Thanks so much for the donation. 153 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,120 Mr. Honey! I didn't see you come in. 154 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,000 It feels so good to have you guys all here! 155 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,629 When Jin He first came to us, she was 156 00:11:05,641 --> 00:11:08,360 on our minimum salary of $120 per month. 157 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,287 Now she receives $30,000 to $45,000 158 00:11:13,299 --> 00:11:16,160 worth of donations every month. 159 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,680 Look, another one of my darlings is here. I'm so happy. 160 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:28,600 Revenue is generated from direct donations from fans. 161 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,507 Thanks for the generous gift from 162 00:11:30,519 --> 00:11:32,160 Mr. Honey. You're a great guy. 163 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,640 Thanks for the gift from Mr. Piao. Yes, give it to me! 164 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,248 The company plans for you... As you know, 165 00:11:46,260 --> 00:11:48,640 originally it was to make you a singer, 166 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:50,932 but the new plan is focusing more 167 00:11:50,944 --> 00:11:53,000 on becoming a big livestreamer. 168 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,440 Nowadays, livestreamers are more profitable 169 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:02,680 than all but the biggest traditional celebrities. 170 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:11,680 I don't mind. I'm OK with anything 171 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,000 as long as I can still make music. 172 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,840 Today's lesson is a journey into the world of naive rich people. 173 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,000 I'm sure you all want to increase profit 174 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,609 by getting rich guys to visit 175 00:12:37,621 --> 00:12:40,640 your livestream rooms more often. 176 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,887 Some of you have beautiful features, 177 00:12:43,899 --> 00:12:46,360 so we go the "beauty route". 178 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,480 Others of you aren't very pretty. 179 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,400 You might opt to go for a more "innocent" style 180 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,600 to give the user a feeling of a pure "first love". 181 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,943 Regardless, it's crucial to determine 182 00:12:59,955 --> 00:13:01,720 which users are big spenders. 183 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,400 Otherwise, don't waste your time. 184 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,360 Remember, time as a livestreamer is very valuable. 185 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:10,909 A real rich guy won't be bragging about 186 00:13:10,921 --> 00:13:13,240 his money in your livestreaming room. 187 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,080 Anyone doing that is full of shit. 188 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,160 Here are a few characteristics of rich users. 189 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,920 They're lonely. They're looking for a spiritual connection. 190 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,200 He comes in, 191 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:36,360 and he lurks in the livestream room for a while. 192 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,880 At first he's just observing you. 193 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,402 But then you suddenly say the 194 00:13:41,414 --> 00:13:43,120 right thing, sing the right song. 195 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,080 Then the donations start coming. 196 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,122 Ignore the people who are all talk. 197 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,928 A real rich guy won't start small. 198 00:13:54,940 --> 00:13:57,600 Their first donations will be big. 199 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,241 I want to talk about your 200 00:14:07,253 --> 00:14:11,120 feelings. How does Jin affect them? 201 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,768 I do think that virtual relationships 202 00:14:14,780 --> 00:14:17,160 can replace real-life relations. 203 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,880 She makes me feel warm, and I think the feeling is mutual. 204 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,920 It definitely can replace real-life relationships. 205 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,120 In South China, I meet another one of Jin's most loyal fans. 206 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:44,400 I have a present here that Jin He gave me. It's a spicy sauce. 207 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:50,480 Beef and pickled peppers hot sauce. 208 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:57,120 It's true that I already ate all of the sauce. 209 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:03,280 But I would never throw it away like some normal hot sauce. 210 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,760 I'm keeping it preserved in this box. 211 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:12,960 She isn't even in my real life at all, 212 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,840 but she still does this for me. 213 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,760 It truly touched my heart. 214 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,280 It makes me feel like she really looks at me as a friend. 215 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,240 I'm now only $10,000 away from being a "7th-level fan". 216 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,240 I've already given Jin He about $75,000. Yeah... 217 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,680 Thanks. That one's for you, Mr. Long. 218 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,320 Maybe it isn't surprising that 219 00:16:19,332 --> 00:16:21,880 there's a huge demand to feel loved. 220 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,151 But actually, it seems there's a 221 00:16:24,163 --> 00:16:26,800 market for every emotion conceivable. 222 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,320 Even the ones we try to avoid. 223 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,764 Veles, Macedonia, became famous in 2016 224 00:16:39,776 --> 00:16:42,560 as the fake-news capital of the world. 225 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,155 Some say that the town played a critical 226 00:16:49,167 --> 00:16:51,360 role in the election of Donald Trump. 227 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,893 The work done here made local 228 00:16:57,905 --> 00:17:01,000 fake-news kingpins very, very rich. 229 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:10,080 Fake news is something that we engineer 230 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,560 to get maximum clicks and attention. 231 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:20,192 It's easy to make news for people 232 00:17:20,204 --> 00:17:22,880 like Trump voters, for example, 233 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,960 because they are rednecks in some way. 234 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,520 People who'll click on almost everything. 235 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:38,480 Another category of people who are easy to work with... 236 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,000 ... is feminists. 237 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,760 It's easy to manipulate passionate people 238 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:56,000 because they truly believe in something. 239 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,880 The local gold rush was financed by Google. 240 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 They placed ads on the fake news sites. 241 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,888 And the income was a lifeline for average 242 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:12,400 Macedonians struggling to make ends meet. 243 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,680 Including Elena, Alex's protégé. 244 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,360 It's surprising to learn that Elena is a 245 00:18:21,372 --> 00:18:23,960 doctor and surgeon at a local hospital. 246 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,400 She's also an activist, 247 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,207 who in the past protested against 248 00:18:34,219 --> 00:18:36,600 fake news in her own country. 249 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:41,000 But now she's in debt and only sees one way out. 250 00:18:41,127 --> 00:18:43,487 Can I sit here? Or not? 251 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,800 - Sit down. - Or sit down. 252 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,976 Generally, you need some European states, 253 00:18:52,988 --> 00:18:55,800 Western-European, definitely America, 254 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:02,800 because their clicks are worth more, they pay more. 255 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:07,840 Fear is the key to choosing the subject you write about. 256 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:12,480 You need to consider human psychology. 257 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,560 People have a long history of living in fear. 258 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:18,960 Yes. 259 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,640 The general key is to exploit this fact. 260 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,680 You find a trending fear... Let's call it "trending fear". 261 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,242 And you report on it. 262 00:19:30,254 --> 00:19:32,720 And you work on that subject. Yeah. 263 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:38,680 You just find a fear out in the world. Find a fear, that's it. 264 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,438 The more mysterious you make it sound, 265 00:19:41,450 --> 00:19:43,760 the more paranoia it will create. 266 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,920 Elena's task is to find something scary to write about. 267 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,880 But it actually isn't so easy. 268 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,915 Most scary topics already have 269 00:19:54,927 --> 00:19:57,520 fake-news people writing about them. 270 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,600 I found a Facebook group. 271 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,440 Look at these people, they're so... How should I put it... 272 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,687 They're so into it. They live 273 00:20:09,699 --> 00:20:12,280 with these thoughts, these fears. 274 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,662 They believe that there's a looming 275 00:20:14,674 --> 00:20:17,200 danger, that something bad will happen. 276 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:22,920 These people are paranoid, and that's exactly what I need. 277 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,400 Elena probes the recesses of people's insecurities. 278 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:32,640 She finds fear and reinforces it in the articles she writes. 279 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,520 A trail behind an airplane. 280 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,680 Is it just water vapor? 281 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,449 Or maybe it's a perilous chemical 282 00:20:41,474 --> 00:20:44,213 cocktail that controls our brains. 283 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:57,000 In California, I meet up with Elana. 284 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,160 She had shared the articles that Elena in Macedonia wrote online. 285 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:06,360 This is the air we breathe that this is affecting. 286 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,028 If you think it's natural clouds 287 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,000 over your head... If only you knew. 288 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:14,352 We're breathing it, and it's going 289 00:21:14,364 --> 00:21:16,800 into our lungs, messing up our lungs, 290 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,240 and then going into our blood 291 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:22,600 and then moving to the brain, where it can, 292 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,816 because of the nanoparticles, easily 293 00:21:24,828 --> 00:21:26,880 go through the blood-brain barrier. 294 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,080 Oh yeah, that looks like a trail. 295 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:40,880 It's unusual, because it's just sitting there. 296 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,720 I can say it's scary. Of course it's scary. 297 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,320 And now they can use the 5G-6G system 298 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,320 to beam into us 299 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,830 and make us complacent, make us angry, 300 00:21:56,842 --> 00:21:59,720 make us have certain thoughts... 301 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:01,828 So they can affect our emotions? 302 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,840 Emotions, thoughts and behavior. 303 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,040 That's what they claim. 304 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,083 So the point of the chemtrails is to 305 00:22:08,095 --> 00:22:10,240 influence our emotions and our thoughts? 306 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:14,520 Yeah, the endgame is that, 307 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,680 along with full-spectrum dominance over the planet. 308 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,752 Full control over every aspect of 309 00:22:20,764 --> 00:22:22,960 life on Earth. That's what they want. 310 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,160 Maybe she's a conspiracy theorist, 311 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,440 but I recognize what she's feeling. 312 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,640 Even if her theories aren't the right answer, 313 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,430 it is true that forces around the 314 00:22:50,442 --> 00:22:53,360 world are messing with our emotions. 315 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,549 Including some of the most brilliant minds of our time. 316 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:08,960 I'm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 317 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,200 Hate. 318 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,360 To see how the world of computer science approaches emotion, 319 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,760 I meet with Dr. Rosalind Picard. 320 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,560 Can you show me anger now? 321 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,080 That's not allowed. 322 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,200 She's the founder of the field of affective computing, 323 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,463 a branch of computer science that 324 00:23:35,475 --> 00:23:38,200 researches how to influence human emotion. 325 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,524 She's showing me a sentograph, a 326 00:23:42,536 --> 00:23:44,960 machine that measures your emotions 327 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:50,000 based on the way your fingers touch a button. 328 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,304 It's the very first machine ever made 329 00:23:52,316 --> 00:23:54,280 for measuring someone's emotions. 330 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:55,763 Grief. 331 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:02,040 And the first one of these represents anger. 332 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,180 Invented by the scientist Manfred Clynes, 333 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:06,480 the sentograph assumed 334 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,016 that the body channeled emotions 335 00:24:09,028 --> 00:24:11,760 in a universal and measurable way. 336 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,320 Wow! 337 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,298 It was one of Rosalind's inspirations to 338 00:24:17,310 --> 00:24:20,320 start an entire field of computer science. 339 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,880 Originally, I defined affective computing as 340 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,729 computing that relates to, arises from 341 00:24:26,741 --> 00:24:29,200 or deliberately influences emotion 342 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,000 and more broadly affective phenomenon. 343 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:37,040 And when you are crafting the computer interactions 344 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,480 so that you are mindful of the person's affective state, 345 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,640 what it's likely to be and what you wish it were, 346 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,400 then it's an example of affective computing, 347 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,451 trying to directly influence 348 00:24:50,463 --> 00:24:52,960 those emotions with the computing. 349 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,754 What started with the sentograph has now 350 00:24:55,766 --> 00:24:58,320 evolved into endless new technologies. 351 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,360 Your pupil would get a little bit larger. 352 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,981 Billions of dollars are being invested 353 00:25:03,993 --> 00:25:06,120 in the companies that make them. 354 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,480 The seven core emotions are joy... 355 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,890 They're building a future where paying 356 00:25:11,902 --> 00:25:14,440 customers can see what people are feeling. 357 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,400 At all times. 358 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:21,120 This is the future. Everybody is going to read your emotions. 359 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,438 Do you think, now that people can 360 00:25:23,450 --> 00:25:25,920 measure emotions with such precision, 361 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,480 that more people will mess with our emotions? 362 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,817 People did this before the technology. 363 00:25:32,829 --> 00:25:35,000 They just watch what provokes people. 364 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:38,320 Uh, if I pull the girl's hair, does that provoke her? No. 365 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,595 If I kick her in the shin, that 366 00:25:39,607 --> 00:25:41,000 provokes her. I'll keep doing that. 367 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,920 There are people who just like to get reactions. 368 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,309 Now that you can get them at scale. 369 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,322 I can't help but think that affective 370 00:25:59,334 --> 00:26:01,400 computing companies have a curious way 371 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,840 of looking at our emotions. 372 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,120 One that traces back half a century. 373 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,760 Emotions are centered in the lower part of the brain. 374 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,720 The thalamus is not consciously controlled. 375 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,822 In the 1950s, one of the most famous 376 00:26:17,834 --> 00:26:20,280 psychologists in the world, B.F. Skinner, 377 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,578 was experimenting with how to use 378 00:26:22,590 --> 00:26:25,360 technology to condition people's behavior. 379 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,520 In the process, he created a new way of seeing human emotions. 380 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,875 An emotion to me is like a need. Fear is 381 00:26:35,887 --> 00:26:38,680 a heightened probability of running away. 382 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,840 Anger is a heightened probability of attack. 383 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,400 Emotion, as far as I'm concerned, 384 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,722 deals with changes in the probability of 385 00:26:46,734 --> 00:26:48,840 engaging in certain kinds of behavior. 386 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,735 And we're going to try another pigeon 387 00:26:58,747 --> 00:27:01,240 now, and I will try to pick out... 388 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:04,002 To Skinner, emotions were only interesting 389 00:27:04,014 --> 00:27:06,360 when they encouraged subjects to act. 390 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,800 The bird has been already conditioned to eat 391 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,400 when the magazine sounds and the light flashes. 392 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,520 For most of history, feelings were dark and mysterious. 393 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,760 But what if they were brought into the world of science? 394 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,680 Perhaps by stimulating certain emotions 395 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,120 you could control a subject's behavior. 396 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,120 There we go, all the way around. 397 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,426 I doubt there's a risk that affective 398 00:27:39,438 --> 00:27:41,520 computing will induce brainwashing. 399 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,240 There are so many stages that the brain has to go through 400 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,429 before a decision is made, that if 401 00:27:47,441 --> 00:27:49,760 those stages are not lined up and met, 402 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,480 you're not going to be influenced by this. 403 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,817 And yet, what social creatures do 404 00:27:54,829 --> 00:27:57,320 all the time is influence each other. 405 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,520 That's what it means to be a social creature. 406 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,577 You're embedded with other members of 407 00:28:01,589 --> 00:28:03,640 your species and try to influence them. 408 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,680 You know what, the dogs are actually here. 409 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,040 In Los Angeles, I arrange a meeting with Dr. Paul Zak. 410 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,872 He's the cofounder of a firm 411 00:28:15,884 --> 00:28:18,040 that helps clients take advantage 412 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,160 of the insights of affective computing. 413 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,720 There's the dogs. Hi there. Look at that. 414 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,880 - This is Dozu. Wanna say hi? - Sure. 415 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,720 Hello. Oh, look at that. 416 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,593 Paul is about to give me a demonstration 417 00:28:34,605 --> 00:28:36,560 of his company's technology. 418 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,480 Look at these sweeties. 419 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,040 For this, he's joined by Loni Edwards, 420 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,360 one of America's leading dog influencer agents. 421 00:28:47,401 --> 00:28:51,881 So, there's a ton of money in the industry. 422 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,320 The most high-level way to bring joy out of a fellow human 423 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,920 is to have something that makes them happy. 424 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,992 In the industry I'm in, pets make 425 00:29:02,004 --> 00:29:04,200 people happy. Dogs make people happy. 426 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:09,080 So having them in the content really brings out joy. 427 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,560 - Gracie... - Good boy. Roxy's here. 428 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,760 Good girl, good boy. Good girl! 429 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,480 - No, no, no! - Stay. 430 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,040 - Good dog! - Good girl. 431 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,880 Perfect, that's it. Gracie. 432 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,170 While Loni and the team have done well, 433 00:29:40,182 --> 00:29:42,200 they're still interested in learning 434 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,680 how they can generate even more views and income. 435 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,760 For this, they turn to Dr. Zak's technology. 436 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,116 It can help them figure out which of 437 00:29:55,128 --> 00:29:57,680 their dogs make people feel the most joy. 438 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,840 And why. 439 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,200 I watch as Loni and Dr. Zak read results from two subjects 440 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,920 wearing biosensors. 441 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,160 Big peak. Big response in the brain. 442 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,040 Flight attendants are holding them. 443 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,040 - Did that impact at all? - No. 444 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:40,240 Seeing actually inside the human is next level. So exciting. 445 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,600 85 out of 100. Outstanding. 446 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:52,869 We look at the second-by-second 447 00:30:52,881 --> 00:30:54,960 data, 91. It's out of 100, right? 448 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,920 Your brain is just working the whole time. 449 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,188 I believe Paul when he says he 450 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,720 isn't trying to brainwash people. 451 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,640 But still, something seems off. 452 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,240 So here's where we're seeing nothing. 453 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,720 Curtains are closed, curtain opens, big peak. 454 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,560 Big response in the brain. 455 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,921 You know, it's like seeing your 456 00:31:20,933 --> 00:31:23,840 infant child or your romantic partner. 457 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,948 It's that good. We are in love with these 458 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,960 dogs though we've never seen them before. 459 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,480 By the end of the evening, Paul uses science to show 460 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,280 that Gracie Doodle brings people the most joy. 461 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,920 Whether they like it or not. 462 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,440 That's amazing. That's so interesting. 463 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,840 I look into the very image of modern mind control, 464 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,080 and maybe it's not so scary. 465 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,284 I ask myself, maybe there's part 466 00:32:03,296 --> 00:32:06,240 of us that wants to be controlled. 467 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,160 What's going through your head right now, Robert? 468 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,718 I'm thinking about how totally screwed 469 00:32:13,730 --> 00:32:16,560 I am and how I'm at your mercy, 470 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,564 and there's not a darned thing I can do 471 00:32:19,576 --> 00:32:22,400 about it. This is something I ask for. 472 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,183 I honestly have no idea what's gonna 473 00:32:25,195 --> 00:32:28,160 happen, or what you're gonna make me do. 474 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,105 Oh look, a camera. Let's turn this on 475 00:32:31,117 --> 00:32:33,880 and see if we can see his dumb face. 476 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,280 There's his dumb face! 477 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,480 He looks very pensive. He looks nervous. 478 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,123 He's just sitting right there. 479 00:32:46,135 --> 00:32:48,080 Just sitting and watching and terrified. 480 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,642 Sometimes you meet someone who gives you 481 00:32:53,654 --> 00:32:56,360 a new sense of clarity and perspective. 482 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,800 I'm the one and only Tech Dom, 483 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,160 the mistress of hi-tech domination. 484 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,189 Mistress Harley holds the trademark 485 00:33:07,201 --> 00:33:09,200 for the term "tech domination" 486 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,240 along with countless other iterations of the term. 487 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,815 I'll take care of this right away. 488 00:33:14,827 --> 00:33:15,960 Yes, you will! 489 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,120 I go to Beverly Hills to meet her 490 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,160 along with her manservant, Dick Jones. 491 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,280 From her home, she shows me the surveillance footage 492 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,960 of the thousands of men she controls over the internet. 493 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,754 She says that you don't need whips and 494 00:33:34,766 --> 00:33:37,520 chains to truly dominate a human being. 495 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,280 Through using technology to control their emotions 496 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,795 she can dominate people on a deeper 497 00:33:43,807 --> 00:33:46,280 level than was ever possible before. 498 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,760 Starting with her tool of preference. 499 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,130 I'm Mistress Harley's slave. I'm a 500 00:33:56,142 --> 00:33:58,920 complete loser, totally pathetic and weak. 501 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,400 I do anything Mistress Harley tells me to do. 502 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,120 If she tells me what to eat or to make a confessional video. 503 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,300 She controls what I wear, so she doesn't 504 00:34:08,312 --> 00:34:10,080 let me wear clothes when I'm home. 505 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,840 She makes me wear this collar. 506 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,635 She controls my privacy, so she can 507 00:34:14,647 --> 00:34:16,240 make me make confessional videos. 508 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,400 She has cameras in my home. 509 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,080 I have one here in my room. I have another one in my bathroom. 510 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,985 I'm getting one for my living room 511 00:34:22,997 --> 00:34:24,640 so I'll have no privacy at all. 512 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,643 The only freedom I have in my life is 513 00:34:26,655 --> 00:34:28,800 stuff she hasn't decided to dictate to me. 514 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,920 Otherwise I just do whatever she tells me to do. 515 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,071 If you think about the physiological 516 00:34:38,083 --> 00:34:41,160 sensations of shame or humiliation, 517 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,996 they're very similar to the 518 00:34:43,008 --> 00:34:45,440 physiological sensations of arousal. 519 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,680 To make somebody feel shame, you need to get to know them. 520 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,680 Not everybody is ashamed of the same things. 521 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,560 Some people are ashamed of being called a slut. 522 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,000 Other people are proudly sluts. 523 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,400 So the more you know about someone, 524 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:04,120 the easier it is to figure out what they are ashamed of. 525 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:06,642 And gathering data on someone will 526 00:35:06,654 --> 00:35:09,000 give you great insight into that. 527 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,334 Google knows how to sell you peanuts. 528 00:35:11,346 --> 00:35:13,280 I know how to make you feel bad. 529 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,160 You're bad, and you should feel bad. 530 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,080 I want you to go find something heavy, 531 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,280 because every time I sink a pool ball in this table, 532 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,560 you're gonna smash your dick with that heavy thing. 533 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,440 Oh, there's goes one. Punch yourself in the nuts. 534 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:37,760 Aha? 535 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,080 There's another one. Another one. Another one. 536 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,840 Are they hurting yet? Are they all big and swollen and painful? 537 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,200 Oh, keep hitting them. 538 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,560 Punish your nuts. Punish your nuts. 539 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,040 Punish your nuts. 540 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,960 Because I always win. 541 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,280 You always lose! 542 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,120 I'm trying to comprehend what I see. 543 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:19,320 What Harley does doesn't seem to be much different 544 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,400 from the other tech stories I film. 545 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,008 She manipulates emotions in order to 546 00:36:25,020 --> 00:36:27,520 completely dominate the human being. 547 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,600 She's just a lot more honest about it. 548 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,040 I can see everything he's doing. 549 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,375 He doesn't know that I'm watching him, 550 00:36:45,387 --> 00:36:48,040 but I could speak to him at any moment. 551 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,640 This must be how God feels. 552 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,800 That's fascinating. So... 553 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,902 A lot of similarity but then a couple 554 00:37:35,914 --> 00:37:37,960 of interesting individual differences. 555 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,600 Ale had the 4, the corrugator muscle, 556 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:43,808 the furrowed eyebrow plus a little 557 00:37:43,820 --> 00:37:45,680 bit of the upper eyelid raise. 558 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,154 Very strong 23, which is that tightening 559 00:37:49,166 --> 00:37:52,040 of the lip, the buccinator muscle. 560 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,801 Facial-action coding turns emotions and 561 00:37:54,813 --> 00:37:57,400 feelings into a simple set of numbers. 562 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,520 All discernible through scanning a face. 563 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,045 It's the cornerstone of tech that 564 00:38:08,057 --> 00:38:10,320 reads and manipulates our emotions. 565 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,000 Joy, love, sorrow. 566 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,320 Just a number 567 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,440 that's the same for everyone in all places and all times. 568 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,560 I think it's heated because people feel 569 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:30,920 that emotions are sacred qualities of their identity, 570 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,400 or what we used to call the soul. 571 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,720 And they're... that... 572 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,748 I am the only one who can be the 573 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,160 arbiter of the meaning of my emotions. 574 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,657 There's this feeling like, my 575 00:38:43,669 --> 00:38:46,800 passions are just uniquely who I am, 576 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,400 and that's sacred. And it turns out that's wrong. 577 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,038 A machine can only understand our 578 00:38:56,050 --> 00:38:59,320 inner world by reducing it to numbers. 579 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,000 But I can't help but think it can't be right. 580 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,600 If our emotions are just numbers, 581 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:10,240 then the right formula can make us feel anything. 582 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,560 We're going to try another pigeon now. 583 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:17,320 And I will try to pick out some particular pattern of behavior 584 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:22,360 and make it a more frequent part of the repertoire. 585 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,080 My thoughts were turned to B.F. Skinner. 586 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,086 After years of experimenting on 587 00:39:27,098 --> 00:39:29,240 pigeons, he discovered something. 588 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:34,480 Behavior can be molded pretty much any way you want. 589 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,880 You've talked about the need for a technology of behavior. 590 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,440 Yes, well, we certainly do need one. 591 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,840 All the great problems today need a behavioral solution. 592 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,920 How are we going to get people to stop breeding so much, 593 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,168 to cut down on the consumption of goods 594 00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:55,160 that we're running out of, supplies. 595 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,280 Stop glutting the environment. 596 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:02,520 Stop beating each other up personally or internationally. 597 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,640 These are all behavioral problems 598 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,664 and have to be solved by something like 599 00:40:06,676 --> 00:40:08,640 a behavioral technology, it seems to me. 600 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,372 He became obsessed with creating a 601 00:40:10,384 --> 00:40:12,240 machine that could build a better world 602 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,120 by controlling everyone's behavior. 603 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:18,240 A playpen has been selected for our experimental environment, 604 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,280 because it is one to which the child is well-acquainted. 605 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,908 The unfamiliar additions include a 606 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,440 food dispenser loaded with snacks. 607 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,268 The Skinner Box was meant to 608 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,080 revolutionize the raising of children. 609 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,240 By keeping a child confined to this space, 610 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,760 they could be connected at all times to a powerful technology 611 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,400 capable of molding their behavior. 612 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,283 It is best to separately establish 613 00:40:43,295 --> 00:40:45,120 the function of the light and sound 614 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:50,160 as stimuli which reliably signal an upcoming reinforcement. 615 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,920 What if children could always be connected to a machine? 616 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,440 A device that could use light and sound 617 00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,000 to shape the way they act, think and feel. 618 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,560 No recurring group of activities immediately preceding the action 619 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,840 of the light and sound is singled out for reinforcement 620 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,018 in order to avoid the building in 621 00:41:09,030 --> 00:41:11,040 of an unwanted form of behavior. 622 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,775 Skinner dreamed of a day when this 623 00:41:13,787 --> 00:41:15,412 technology would take over the world. 624 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:31,880 Maybe Russia wasn't quite what B.F. Skinner was dreaming of. 625 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,181 The airborne brigade made a big 626 00:41:44,193 --> 00:41:48,160 contribution to the Soviet Union! 627 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,760 Human emotion is the biggest battleground in this war. 628 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,761 How do you make the youth of a country 629 00:42:16,773 --> 00:42:19,760 proud of their nation, of their military? 630 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,326 Well, with a tool like TikTok, you 631 00:42:23,338 --> 00:42:25,920 can make them feel anything you want. 632 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,399 Ivan is the fake name of a social-media 633 00:42:30,411 --> 00:42:33,320 entrepreneur in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 634 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,200 The hashtag with my name gets 1.5 billion views. 635 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,360 I'm basically a household name here. 636 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,938 Our company has a lot of talent. 637 00:42:44,950 --> 00:42:47,960 These guys behind me can sing, dance. 638 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,840 They're sexy, cool, goth. 639 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,969 Ivan creates TikTok content 640 00:42:52,981 --> 00:42:55,600 funded by the Russian government. 641 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:05,000 Like, yeah, Russia! Awesome! 642 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,920 He shows us some videos that represent his work. 643 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,480 You're 10, scrolling through TikTok. 644 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:16,448 Then you suddenly see one of your favorite 645 00:43:16,460 --> 00:43:19,960 stars reading lines we wrote for them. 646 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,960 Russians are the genetically strongest, most sincere 647 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,080 and most persistent race in the world. 648 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,326 Don't be scared now. History shows 649 00:43:29,338 --> 00:43:31,720 everyone else was always afraid of us. 650 00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:36,160 Strength and justice is rooted in our superior genetics. 651 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,160 It may seem crude, but there's an art to it. 652 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,040 Russia is full of fire and power. 653 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:49,840 This word is the flame of victory. 654 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,680 Let's raise Russia's flag. 655 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,520 We also have talent for the really young target groups. 656 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,988 We're making a public service announcement 657 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,120 for TikTok. Do you know what that is? 658 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:36,360 Of course. 659 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,160 Let me get you something to stand on. 660 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,800 Who doesn't need a stand? Who's the tallest one? 661 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,480 - I need a stand. - Me too. 662 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,320 OK, step up. 663 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,880 - World of Tanks. - Our poor tanks. 664 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,270 These are all American tanks. In 665 00:44:54,282 --> 00:44:56,920 our video you shoot at these tanks. 666 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,497 An average kid is watching hundreds, even 667 00:44:59,509 --> 00:45:01,920 thousands of videos on TikTok every day. 668 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,126 Never before have human beings watched 669 00:45:05,138 --> 00:45:07,760 videos at this speed and volume. 670 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,298 The kids don't even remember anything they 671 00:45:12,310 --> 00:45:15,240 watch. But they're left with feelings! 672 00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,080 Fire! 673 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,040 Fire! Fire! 674 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,480 We are proud patriots! 675 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,360 Fire! 676 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:47,800 My own son? I'd never allow him to touch a phone. 677 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,920 I'd do my best to keep him away from it. 678 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:56,000 Because I want my children not only to have brains - 679 00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:00,000 but also to be capable of using them. 680 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,440 Why am I showing you these things? 681 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,040 Maybe I'm just looking for someone to talk to. 682 00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,880 This is our world now, not just in Russia but everywhere. 683 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,520 This is it. This is all there is. 684 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,280 I feel like I've hit a dead end. 685 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,139 Everyone I've met seems to be perfectly 686 00:46:51,151 --> 00:46:54,040 happy living their lives on the internet. 687 00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,320 Am I all by myself? 688 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,520 I think maybe I need to talk to someone else. 689 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,499 Near where I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, 690 00:47:04,666 --> 00:47:07,195 I meet with therapist Morten Fenger. 691 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,115 He's one of Denmark's leading experts on 692 00:47:12,127 --> 00:47:14,720 how the internet affects our emotions. 693 00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:20,280 He's passionate and committed to raising awareness of the issue. 694 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,440 I feel sorry for mankind 695 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,640 and for people, parents, children, everyone, 696 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,320 because the telephone has hijacked your brain, your mind. 697 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,320 You're not yourself anymore. 698 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,640 What shall I do? I tell people, come on, wake up. 699 00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,920 But they will not wake up. They prefer to be on their... phones! 700 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:43,720 I'm... I'm so annoyed by this, frustrated. 701 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:45,751 What shall I do? I keep telling 702 00:47:45,763 --> 00:47:48,120 people, get away from the telephone. 703 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:51,960 They will not listen, they prefer the telephone! 704 00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,080 What is happening here? 705 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:59,640 What shall I do? I still keep on fighting, but I'm exhausted. 706 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,720 I'm so tired of being this expert nobody will listen to. 707 00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,640 Every day, people come in and out of Morten's office, 708 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,120 feeling exactly the same way I do. 709 00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:17,560 Maybe they're better at talking about the problems than I am. 710 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:23,560 Is it okay for us to film, or would you rather we go outside? 711 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,292 I'm okay with you staying here. 712 00:48:26,304 --> 00:48:29,160 I can stay? Okay. Then, all right. 713 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,920 Welcome, Jonathan. 714 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,558 I feel sad about not trying to see 715 00:48:35,570 --> 00:48:39,000 what else the world has to offer. 716 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,720 One thing that scares me is 717 00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:46,240 that it just feels better to be on the computer my whole day. 718 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,306 Is there anything in the real world better 719 00:48:49,318 --> 00:48:52,000 than what a modern computer can offer? 720 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:53,574 I can go through the whole 721 00:48:53,586 --> 00:48:55,560 emotional spectrum in 10 minutes. 722 00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,840 I experience everything, even faster than that. 723 00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:03,680 It's a totally cold and empty feeling. 724 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,000 I feel the same way, 725 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:10,800 no matter if I'm happy, angry or affected by it some other way. 726 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,680 It's like... 727 00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,880 ... like an addiction. 728 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,720 This feeling that I get. 729 00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:27,360 So, like, how does it happen? Why are we feeling numb? 730 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,368 So you have this concentration of the 731 00:49:30,380 --> 00:49:33,280 feeling of joy, of anger, of anxiety. 732 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,280 Everything is so concentrated. 733 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,372 The internet creates feelings for people. 734 00:49:38,384 --> 00:49:41,440 They have all the feelings served to them. 735 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,920 They just have to eat them 736 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,720 and then after a while, they feel empty again. 737 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,192 They don't create the feelings 738 00:49:49,204 --> 00:49:51,160 themselves. They don't know how to do it. 739 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,150 It's the first time in history, they 740 00:49:53,162 --> 00:49:54,840 have experts to create feelings. 741 00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:59,040 So you have experts creating feelings on the internet. 742 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:04,040 That's the new stuff. You aren't accustomed to that. 743 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,889 Do you have some personal reason 744 00:50:12,901 --> 00:50:15,760 for your thoughts on the internet? 745 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,120 The job or challenge for me as a father is: 746 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:24,000 Every day is a struggle to keep their attention with me. 747 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:29,000 Getting them connected to me instead of the internet. 748 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:33,600 I feel like every day I lose ground to the internet. 749 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,720 I feel defeated by the internet. 750 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:41,640 They've taken away my children from me. 751 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,680 They have abducted them, or kidnapped them. 752 00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,600 So... I'm in great despair. 753 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:04,360 We're all exhausted. 754 00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:09,760 But what about the people who exhaust us? How do they feel? 755 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,080 I'm sort of lonely, and... 756 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,784 I'm forced to be independent, 757 00:51:20,796 --> 00:51:23,720 obviously. And I always have been. 758 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,162 I've known for years that I have 759 00:51:26,174 --> 00:51:28,800 these values and the strong belief 760 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:33,360 of having a family and coming home and taking care of everyone 761 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,200 and having dinner on the table and feeling love inside and out. 762 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:43,040 You give what you get. 763 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,160 - Hello. - Hey, Mom. 764 00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,261 I saw the video you sent the other night 765 00:52:09,273 --> 00:52:12,120 with the eyes popping out of the head. 766 00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:16,080 I never saw anything like it before... No. 767 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:21,760 The other internet things I saw were very... disturbing to me. 768 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,640 Some of the other... things. 769 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:26,997 I kind of feel like maybe sometimes 770 00:52:27,009 --> 00:52:29,320 you guys aren't looking hard enough. 771 00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,480 I have this talent... 772 00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,255 I don't even know your artistic ability. 773 00:52:34,267 --> 00:52:37,000 You've said you've done all sorts of art. 774 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,800 I've never seen anything that you've done. 775 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:44,920 Right. 776 00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:00,640 Do you think there's like something behind the trolling? 777 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,560 I don't know. Just maybe part of it is... 778 00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,180 ... things that I don't want to confront 779 00:53:10,192 --> 00:53:12,560 about myself or that I hate about myself. 780 00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,160 That does what? 781 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,320 It's hard to explain, man. 782 00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,803 I mean, there's gotta be a reason 783 00:53:27,815 --> 00:53:29,840 for all the trolling, right? 784 00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,008 That's the thing, though. I'm not 785 00:53:35,020 --> 00:53:37,480 necessarily super-mean to anyone. 786 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,720 I mean, I like getting attention... I guess. 787 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:53,560 Not as much anymore. I don't care as much anymore, but... 788 00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,179 This might be what messing with other 789 00:54:02,191 --> 00:54:04,760 people's emotions does to a person. 790 00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,879 But I'm starting to see an entire world 791 00:54:07,891 --> 00:54:10,600 that runs on manipulating emotions. 792 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:18,680 Yiwu, China, is the e-commerce capital of the world. 793 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,080 This is the place that brands and sells the Chinese products 794 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,120 flooding the internet. 795 00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:36,643 People in this part of China once made 796 00:54:36,655 --> 00:54:39,440 money by making things in factories. 797 00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,105 Now, they work with emotions, trying to 798 00:54:44,117 --> 00:54:46,280 prod people into buying stuff online. 799 00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,400 Just in. Order now and get a free case! 800 00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,680 Interact with the livestreamer, and you might get free gifts! 801 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:57,480 Buy now and get a free pair of socks. Just do it now. 802 00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:05,080 For a boomtown, the feeling here is melancholic. 803 00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:09,400 Nearly everyone who arrives in Yiwu fails at breaking it, 804 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:13,120 returning home to the countryside to live in poverty. 805 00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:15,440 Are you ready? 806 00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,807 More established streamers help 807 00:55:17,819 --> 00:55:20,880 newcomers learn the tricks of the trade. 808 00:55:21,642 --> 00:55:26,082 Even if sometimes, it's a little bit of a struggle. 809 00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,920 I'm going to kill you! 810 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,360 "What product are you selling?" 811 00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,396 No one's hired me to do that yet, 812 00:55:33,408 --> 00:55:35,280 I'm just opening my account now. 813 00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,440 - He just opened his account. - It's my first livestream. 814 00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,464 I used to have a workshop making 815 00:55:41,476 --> 00:55:45,120 purses, but now the economy is failing 816 00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:48,440 and my business has collapsed. 817 00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:52,440 It's OK to tell them that you're nervous and scared. 818 00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:59,600 I want to see if I can... improve my life through TikTok. 819 00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,103 You're here because you've heard 820 00:56:06,115 --> 00:56:08,360 about the opportunities on TikTok. 821 00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,697 We all know it's hard to make 822 00:56:10,709 --> 00:56:13,400 money nowadays in the real world. 823 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,511 It's the same all over the world. 824 00:56:15,523 --> 00:56:17,880 There's nothing left in the real world. 825 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:23,800 Your idea to come over to TikTok really deserves a thumbs up. 826 00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,960 Lee is a seasoned trainer in Yiwu 827 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:32,000 with a company that's instructed hundreds of newcomers. 828 00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,440 But to me, he seems kind of burned out. 829 00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:40,440 Many people come here with a desire to make money. 830 00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,453 People who owe money, who need money 831 00:56:43,465 --> 00:56:46,840 quick. People who have run out of options. 832 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:52,080 Us e-commerce livestreamers... 833 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:56,320 90% will fail. 834 00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,560 These products are quite pricey 835 00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:09,200 if they buy them in a store. 836 00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,840 But if they buy them in your room, 837 00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,560 they get a good deal! So TikTok is a special place! 838 00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:22,080 - What is your own dream? - My own dream? 839 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,360 Actually... 840 00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:38,760 We all have our own desires. 841 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:43,640 But I'm tired. You asking this question... 842 00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,040 It's a question that really affects me. 843 00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:10,520 I've endured one year. 844 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,960 I haven't seen my son for one year. 845 00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,480 If only my life situation was better, 846 00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,360 I could have just stayed home with my family. 847 00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:28,040 This is the honest truth. I'm hurting my son. 848 00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,440 Yiwu seems like a city of broken dreams. 849 00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:38,960 But I still want to see what success looks like. 850 00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,256 What about the people who do land 851 00:58:41,268 --> 00:58:43,520 contracts working on the internet? 852 00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,520 To make it in a place like this, 853 00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,877 what special something do you need to bring to the table? 854 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,280 What I do is all about making something shocking. 855 00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,560 It's about showing a test of strength. 856 00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,840 I got into this because of problems with internet gambling. 857 00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,772 A lot of young people are doing it now, 858 00:59:22,784 --> 00:59:26,800 often drawn in by internet scam websites. 859 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,840 I saw it as easy money. 860 00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,960 That's why I decided to enter this industry. 861 00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:44,480 Time to spin the wheel. Good luck to all of my viewers. 862 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:51,040 Let's hope it's red, so I can get more of your donations. 863 00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,400 Doesn't look good for me. It landed on black. 864 00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,760 Black is a punishment for me. Red is a reward for you. 865 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,760 This is how we spinning-wheel livestreamers are doing it. 866 01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,400 3 liters of red wine. 867 01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:17,760 I'm not sure I can drink this in one go. 868 01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:25,880 Thank you for all the donations. Thank you, everyone watching me. 869 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,240 Thanks, bosses. 870 01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,720 Time to drink. 871 01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:49,640 Mom, Dad, bring a bucket. 872 01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,920 - What? - A bucket. 873 01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:58,720 This isn't enough to floor me. 874 01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,440 This is normal. 875 01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:07,120 Today is a special occasion. It's really special. 876 01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:12,440 I haven't been streaming for a month. 877 01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:27,463 If you're drinking for us, please stop. 878 01:01:27,475 --> 01:01:29,520 No, no no. Not at all. 879 01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,960 - I do this on every livestream. - Don't drink any extra for us. 880 01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,680 A normal day is 5 liters of liquor. 881 01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,440 You're going crazy with the drinking. 882 01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:42,080 Today, they make you drink 10 drinks. Tomorrow, 50. 883 01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,400 - I'm in control. - The next day, it's 100. 884 01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:48,290 200 drinks, is that enough for you? 885 01:01:48,302 --> 01:01:49,840 I can handle that. 886 01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,631 People are calling me all the 887 01:01:52,643 --> 01:01:55,880 time, trying to make me stop you. 888 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,960 I say that I've tried, but you keep livestreaming. 889 01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,040 It's not about that. 890 01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:08,200 I know what I'm doing. 891 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:13,280 No matter what you do, it's hard to make money. 892 01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:21,360 We can't make it if you're dead. 893 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:29,360 There's so much left. 894 01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:38,200 My dad says there's 1 liter left. I think it's half. 895 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:49,640 This is a family operation. 896 01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,760 This is my mother cracking raw eggs for me. 897 01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:04,400 My hard work has resulted in getting a work contract. 898 01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:07,040 The platform signed a contract directly with me. 899 01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:10,742 TikTok pays me directly to livestream for them. 900 01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,400 I think I finally feel something. 901 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:42,960 I feel despair. 902 01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,360 But then I realize 903 01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:49,967 this feeling is shared by nearly everyone I've met. 904 01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:56,535 In Macedonia, the fake-news writer 905 01:03:56,547 --> 01:03:58,400 Elena tells me she feels stuck, 906 01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:01,600 navigating between different lives. 907 01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:06,400 It's sad, because people who share fake news are earning more 908 01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:10,240 than I could earn as a surgeon. 909 01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:14,600 Everyday life is just a fight to have a decent life. 910 01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:16,476 You can't just sit here, thinking 911 01:04:16,488 --> 01:04:17,840 about the meaning of life 912 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,688 if you don't know if you can afford to 913 01:04:20,700 --> 01:04:23,720 pay for your semester or feed your family. 914 01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:27,520 After a while, you're just... 915 01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:32,160 You just ask yourself, why not? 916 01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:35,080 I'm just one more fish in the sea. 917 01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,954 I was protesting against fake news, 918 01:04:39,966 --> 01:04:43,480 corruption and everything in my country. 919 01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:51,160 Students must wake up to the problems in civil society! 920 01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:55,640 It was all for nothing. You see all the politicians 921 01:04:55,760 --> 01:05:01,280 that are just telling lies every day, and nothing is changing. 922 01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,128 After a while you say, I really 923 01:05:05,140 --> 01:05:07,960 love my country, but I love me more. 924 01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:10,960 I love myself more. 925 01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:14,499 Nobody attends the real world anymore. 926 01:05:14,511 --> 01:05:16,840 They prefer the telephone all the time. 927 01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,480 They're just like zombies. What shall I do? 928 01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:26,160 This woman posted this heinous picture of her 929 01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:31,960 just super-pregnant, alien-like pregnant with two twins. 930 01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:35,840 And she saw fit to post a before-and-after pic. 931 01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:41,280 I'll just go right into it. I wrote, "Oh, fucking gross." 932 01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,651 "You women are becoming assholes on 933 01:05:43,663 --> 01:05:46,240 this thing nowadays. Just being honest." 934 01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:48,644 Maybe she'll see it and respond, 935 01:05:48,656 --> 01:05:51,240 or other people will see it and... 936 01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:55,440 ... they'll start... talking to me. 937 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:12,080 11 million impressions. 938 01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,600 - I can see you're tired - My heart feels tired. 939 01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:52,480 I know. This is going to be a tough month. 940 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:57,320 Actually I'm not giving you a day off in the coming months. 941 01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:01,110 Once we've earned enough, we can rest. 942 01:07:01,122 --> 01:07:03,160 Until then it's every day? 943 01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:05,560 Yes, seriously, a day off can't 944 01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:08,320 happen. You'll be this tired every day. 945 01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,120 Welcome, everyone. 946 01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:31,840 Welcome. 947 01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:37,200 Today... No songs today, guys. No songs. 948 01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:40,920 We can just chat a bit tonight. 949 01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,952 I know you're tired and had a tough day, 950 01:07:43,964 --> 01:07:46,960 but how could you go on camera like this? 951 01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:51,800 If you're going to be like this, just sign off now. 952 01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:56,200 We need to talk about your attitude. 953 01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,640 Are you OK, Jin? 954 01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:11,800 Tired. 955 01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:43,360 Morten, you've been treating internet addiction for 20 years. 956 01:08:43,480 --> 01:08:46,560 Is there a big thing that you've learned? 957 01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:49,560 The biggest horror for me in my profession is 958 01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:53,400 when people come to me for my service, 959 01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:58,600 they actually prefer the internet to being alive. 960 01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,152 When they have to create their feelings 961 01:09:01,164 --> 01:09:03,120 themselves, it's too difficult, 962 01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:06,440 so they prefer to stay in the artificial world 963 01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:10,640 with these artificial feelings making them feel empty. 964 01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:15,986 People want structure and control. 965 01:09:15,998 --> 01:09:18,440 They want a power and balance. 966 01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:20,783 They don't want to be free. They 967 01:09:20,795 --> 01:09:23,520 want someone to tell them what to do. 968 01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:26,680 In some ways, there's a liberation in submission. 969 01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:29,766 I see that people prefer to feel 970 01:09:29,778 --> 01:09:32,080 nothing, to be left without feelings 971 01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:33,720 because it's easier. 972 01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:36,932 They don't want to be in the real world 973 01:09:36,944 --> 01:09:40,280 because it's too flat, too ugly, too gray. 974 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:46,440 It's a much better life on the internet. 975 01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,489 I can remember a time when I felt 976 01:10:09,501 --> 01:10:12,000 things stronger than I do now. 977 01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:18,520 Sometimes, when I'm scrolling away in my bed, I ask myself: 978 01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:23,120 Is this just how it's going to be now? 979 01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:33,080 Or is there a way out? 980 01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:44,400 Back in Copenhagen, I'm trying to digest what I've seen. 981 01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,680 I go back to my normal job as a science reporter. 982 01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:05,753 So, what percentage of Copenhagen's 983 01:11:05,765 --> 01:11:08,400 fecal matter is processed here? 984 01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:14,320 On this plan, it's about 70% of Copenhagen's sewage water. 985 01:11:14,440 --> 01:11:16,518 What have you learned through working 986 01:11:16,530 --> 01:11:18,400 here? The most interesting thing. 987 01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:20,679 How many resources we can take out of 988 01:11:20,691 --> 01:11:22,920 the water and bring back into society. 989 01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:26,840 So you can make a lot of good things of out shit. 990 01:11:42,440 --> 01:11:44,868 I decide I want to make something 991 01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:47,320 nice out of everything I've seen. 992 01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:52,520 So I invite Morten to my editing suite to get some advice. 993 01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:57,600 Alright! You did all of these feelings, all these emotions. 994 01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,480 Fascinating. Good movie. 995 01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,216 Over there, propaganda, TikTok. 996 01:12:04,228 --> 01:12:07,280 Oh yes. A huge phenomenon, TikTok. 997 01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:11,648 What's it called, the Chinese version? 998 01:12:11,660 --> 01:12:13,080 Douyin. 999 01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:21,040 I don't know what I learned, so much. 1000 01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,800 I went out to find all these people, 1001 01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:30,240 and I guess all I saw was that for every emotion we have, 1002 01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:34,840 there's someone really good on the internet at manipulating it. 1003 01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,720 Yeah, some kind of wizard out there. 1004 01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:42,920 Yeah, there's like a wizard for every emotion, 1005 01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:46,640 completely changing the way we feel it and overloading us 1006 01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:49,840 and warping that emotion. I saw that. 1007 01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:53,560 They crap on our feelings. They control us completely. 1008 01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:56,680 Right, and... you know. 1009 01:12:56,800 --> 01:12:59,680 You don't think it would be 1010 01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:04,960 practically and academically sound for me 1011 01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:07,591 to give this film a happy ending, 1012 01:13:07,603 --> 01:13:10,200 like a hopeful ending in some way. 1013 01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,480 Let me think about it, David. 1014 01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:22,360 I think that there are always two ways to go. 1015 01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:26,640 One way is to change people's understanding of the world, 1016 01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,960 and the other is where you tell them what to do. 1017 01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,372 So, you can be a prophet saying, "Say no 1018 01:13:32,384 --> 01:13:34,800 to the internet because it will harm you." 1019 01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:37,920 The other way is that we have a much better solution. 1020 01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:39,994 You can be with your loved ones. 1021 01:13:40,006 --> 01:13:42,280 Go out and have feelings right now. 1022 01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,560 Just go out. It's so simple. 1023 01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:47,028 The model for a better world is to be in 1024 01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,400 real life. It's already there, for free. 1025 01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:54,280 You just have to be with people you love. Just do it. 1026 01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:16,120 I return to Florida to help Andrew pack up his house. 1027 01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:17,763 He's getting ready to drive to 1028 01:14:17,775 --> 01:14:19,720 Vermont to move in with a girlfriend 1029 01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:22,880 he met on the internet. 1030 01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:38,813 There comes a point in time 1031 01:14:38,825 --> 01:14:40,880 where you wake up next to no one. 1032 01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:44,020 So much that it... becomes like the 1033 01:14:44,110 --> 01:14:47,478 normal. It's comfortable enough, but... 1034 01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:57,320 She actually makes me feel like I deserve somebody so nice. 1035 01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:01,258 The curious thing is that this nice 1036 01:15:01,270 --> 01:15:03,680 girl was not just any nice girl. 1037 01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,440 She was a very specific nice girl. 1038 01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:09,760 This guy did not get enough attention as a child. 1039 01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:27,880 Hey. 1040 01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,160 - I love you. - I love you too. 1041 01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,615 Do you see me as a low-down, dirty... 1042 01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:49,680 No, no. 1043 01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:54,400 But I see your social-media presence and whatnot as... 1044 01:15:54,440 --> 01:15:55,480 A slimeball? 1045 01:15:55,480 --> 01:15:58,360 No, just sort of irritating at points. 1046 01:15:58,480 --> 01:16:01,720 And it's just like, come on, man. Just be yourself. 1047 01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:05,840 Because I know that's not who you are. 1048 01:16:12,014 --> 01:16:13,014 Oh! 1049 01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:18,680 You did it. I'm proud of you. 1050 01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:23,400 Is this the hardest thing you've had to do in your life? 1051 01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:27,320 - It's definitely not. - Exactly. So let's keep going. 1052 01:16:27,440 --> 01:16:30,323 But usually the hard stuff has a reason. 1053 01:16:30,335 --> 01:16:32,960 The reason for this you'll find out. 1054 01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:41,600 - So close. - I just don't care about it. 1055 01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:45,000 Well, what do you care about? That's something to explore. 1056 01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:48,560 Can I please not do it? I'll do anything else. 1057 01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,480 Feeling terrible is recovering from surgery. 1058 01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:54,440 There's nothing you can do about it. 1059 01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:59,080 There's something wrong with me. I'm sick or ill. I can't do it. 1060 01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:03,760 No, you just let your mind get the best of you. 1061 01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:04,960 That's fine. 1062 01:17:04,969 --> 01:17:07,320 And you say, "I can't do this!" 1063 01:17:07,440 --> 01:17:09,109 If you said, "I can do this," and 1064 01:17:09,121 --> 01:17:11,000 took your time and smiled through it, 1065 01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:14,240 it would be more enjoyable, it would move quicker. 1066 01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:18,680 I'm sorry if, "Come on, you can do it," is upsetting you. 1067 01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:21,623 I don't know how else to motivate you. 1068 01:17:21,635 --> 01:17:24,400 I just don't want to do this anymore. 1069 01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:27,880 - Will you do it for me? - I guess, yeah. 1070 01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,590 So come on, let's go.