There are dozens of misconceptions and foul ideologies stacked on top of each other to get here, but one that stands out in this quote is the belief that all a piece of art is is having a cool idea. The details and execution are just drudgery that get in the way of that grand vision.

My running theory about people holding their phones in front of them with speaker on is reality TV & content creators performatively doing that so often to capture conversations on camera that they became accepted cultural signifiers for their audiences to reflexively imitate outside of that context

I reckon I know already.