experimental
06/15/2007
Renetto: Who's Watching?
Here, popular vlogger Renetto shoots footage of three attractive young women at the beach as THEY take pictures of a hunky young lifeguard. The premise outlined in the ample narration is that it's hypocritical to judge him for recording the bikini babes for posterity -- when the babes themselves are going through quite the machinations to get their target on camera.
Renetto clearly anticipates plenty of backlash for his oh-so-edgy analysis of human nature. What he conveniently ignores is that by taking this personal experiment to the webiverse, he's invalidating his own point. He and the girls aren't doing the same thing: the girls are taking pictures to put in a photo album and giggle over with their friends, while renetto is filming the girls and using their images -- and their lives -- to promote himself and his "art" online.
Somehow, I don't think this is the fine moral line he intended to straddle.
