Eh. For many young people, this IS the "real world". These are their experiences. It's not productive to discount so many other people's realities.

Nope, it is plenty productive to call out corporate pseudo-cultural production for what it is: fantasy.

This isn't the first generation to live in a "corporate pseudo-cultural production" world.

Movies and movie conventions. Baseball cards and other popular collectibles. Sport events. Music events. All those things are just "corporate pseudo-cultural productions". Yet they're also the culture, because - for better or worse - commerce is part of our lives too.

> Yet they're also the culture, because - for better or worse - commerce is part of our lives too.

And I am saying it is enormously productive and beneficial to be skeptical of those things.

> One could just line in the real world where you don't know or care what the "web" is

Here, I rewound the comment 25 years for you.

I think saying that "finstas" are as important to society as the "web" is a false equivalence. As evidence I would point to the fact that "finstas" are in fact just a very tiny subset of the web.

One could also just live in the real world where you don't know or care what baseball is.