The original post: /r/television by /u/swimmerpicayune on 2025-11-18 22:32:56+00:00.
I rewatched black mirror’s “nosedive” and it honestly doesn’t feel like a dystopian warning anymore. It feels like a documentary we just filmed a few years early. The whole episode is about people obsessively managing a public score like smiling, performing, editing their personalities to earn tiny digital points. But look around: we’re already doing it. We rate uber drivers, and they rate us. Restaurants live or die by yelp stars. airbnbs demand spotless mutual reviews. linkedIn endorsements and “professional reputation signals” literally affect hiring. Even social platforms quietly push our content into the void if we don’t play the algorithm’s game correctly. We’re already performing for algorithmic approval the only difference is we don’t have the score floating above our foreheads yet. The incentives are just hidden inside apps, dashboards and “engagement metrics.”
“Nosedive” isn’t a warning about something that might happen. It’s a slightly exaggerated version of what we quietly accepted already.