On the Imaginary Rise of “Hot” Performance (or, “Imaginary What Now”?)
There may in the future have been some little interest in learning more precisely what may be imagined(!) as “an imaginary performance collective.” This desire of course will also have been requited by several succinct replies probably more satisfactory in their precision than in their accuracy and scope. But “lol just a shtick” may not be well understood in whatever epoch of our human history that the turkey in question was to have landed (imaginarily!), and its own motto “Join us, or discover yourself” is perhaps not the exquisitely-crafted absurdity its formulators had hoped... but something else entirely.
Tria: It just came out of me. It is comic gold.
Indeed. “Hot” performance is simply interaction with a medium, requiring relatively little agency, and which in point of fact continually reinforces a sort of Pavlovian “freeze” reaction when new or novel stimuli appear (in contrast to “cool” media, which demands considerably more meta-cognitive participation to be experienced). A relevant example of imaginary performance is conceptually easy to describe but quite difficult in its execution, at least in the beginning. It is simply deferring any involvement other than the minimum necessary to see the next thing: no comments, no likes, and (in the best case) forgetting the last image as soon as it is no longer actually visible.
Naturally, this description is misleading (or, “Just fiddle with it; it will come to you”)
Our main concern should be the extent of authentic gas-lighting being done — unknowingly, in all innocence — and how such a course, uninformed by principles and guided by rules of thumb learned across the unmeasurable time units of Time! Itself! could conceivably be more ejoyable than whatever tf is happening here. Therefore, this is not a “imaginary performance how-to”. (And btw, attempting the simplistic procedure limned above may just as well result in the possibility of learning... that that is boring af. And that would be the first lesson, and possibly the easiest one.)