https://fakeittillyoumakeit.lol/
Door: Maya Man (https://www.instagram.com/mayaontheinternet/)
“FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT borrows from the bubbly language and pastel aesthetics of text driven instagram graphics to scrutinize the promotion of wellness, self-care, and confidence on social media.
Online, these types of posts survive on likes, comments, and shares. What do I believe? becomes What do I want to appear to believe? Fake it till you make it! Maybe your dream life lives here: In a digital, fantasy world where the algorithm plays god and loving yourself feels like looking into the light of your screen.”
“The generative language algorithm deployed on chain lies at the heart of this software system. In order to highlight the cultural influence of social media’s persuasive self-care rhetoric, language is designed to be the primary focus of the program’s output.
All words and phrases included in the project were manually sourced from existing text graphics on Instagram (nothing was simply made up). These found words and phrases are collaged together at random. This strategy works best for producing output that mimics that familiar cheerful tone, but ranges from sounding vageuly cliche to totally absurd.
The system contains a list of 250 phrase structures as well as lists including 145 nouns, 194 adjectives, 213 adverbs, and more. All phrases and words were found via scrolling and saving graphics of this style on Instagram, then typing up this found language to create a collection of arrays labeled by their word class for the program to pull from.
There are 80,202,368,730 (over 80 billion) possible phrases that may be generated.”
