Dashcam's in Social Media
This week in class we read Videotapes by Don DeLillo. He talked about how a girl accidentally filmed a murder through the window of her car. His whole point is that something that was unplanned like this is very raw and real, and how it's hard to replicate this type of realness. The camera catches everything raw because no one is trying to be performative. This made me think of the videos that I've seen on TikTok this week, when I watched car influencers driving with their dashcam, a certain type of video always shows up or goes viral—influencers driving past cops. You've definitely seen these types of videos before, car guys with their dashcam mounted on the windshield, wide angle, driving the speed limit past the cops in their riced out BMW's. Hands tight on the wheel, looking in their rear view mirror 50 times, and repeating "I'm cooked," all for a cop parked on the side just eating his lunch. They act like they've committed 10 felonies while dri...
