Rather than asking about exposure on the internet, I was wondering what people thought of the state of YouTube comments on basically any magic performance on AGT, BGT, Fool Us, Ellen, etc. It seems that most of the comments are along the lines of: "Terrible magician/dumb trick, he just used an electromagnetic implant to make the coin vanish into a skin pocket on his hand. And I'm not even a magician"
As I said, this isn't an issue of exposure. It's just a shame that people don't appreciate a good performance when they see one.
For example, I really dig Colin Cloud's presentation style. I've been a HUGE fan of Sherlock Holmes since like 4th grade so I love the idea of presenting mentalism and mental magic as Sherlock Holmes style observation skills. However, none of the comments seem to express this same sentiment. They're all focused on the method.
However, I do understand that some performances sort of invite this type of skepticism. Like Will Tsai's infamous matrix routine. Sure it's intended to be purely visual, but there was nothing to really appreciate other than the visuals, so everyone was focused on figuring out how he did the trick.
It's also created this weird misconception that simple=easy to do. Most people have this idea that all magic tricks are feats of advanced technology or complicated gimmicks so when they find out that the solution was something simple, they claim the magician is not skilled.
The example I used in the other post are the second, bottom, and center deals. I could totally see comments saying "pfft. Easy peasy. He just dealt the cards from the bottom of the deck" (Don't think that's exposure). It's a simple concept but takes years to make it look natural and fully master.
Idk. It just kinda sucks how people are so focused on the method and can't appreciate a good performance.
What do you guys think?
As I said, this isn't an issue of exposure. It's just a shame that people don't appreciate a good performance when they see one.
For example, I really dig Colin Cloud's presentation style. I've been a HUGE fan of Sherlock Holmes since like 4th grade so I love the idea of presenting mentalism and mental magic as Sherlock Holmes style observation skills. However, none of the comments seem to express this same sentiment. They're all focused on the method.
However, I do understand that some performances sort of invite this type of skepticism. Like Will Tsai's infamous matrix routine. Sure it's intended to be purely visual, but there was nothing to really appreciate other than the visuals, so everyone was focused on figuring out how he did the trick.
It's also created this weird misconception that simple=easy to do. Most people have this idea that all magic tricks are feats of advanced technology or complicated gimmicks so when they find out that the solution was something simple, they claim the magician is not skilled.
The example I used in the other post are the second, bottom, and center deals. I could totally see comments saying "pfft. Easy peasy. He just dealt the cards from the bottom of the deck" (Don't think that's exposure). It's a simple concept but takes years to make it look natural and fully master.
Idk. It just kinda sucks how people are so focused on the method and can't appreciate a good performance.
What do you guys think?
