That Wierd Kid on the Internet

If you don't know already, Daxflame is, and forever will be, the greatest thing on the internet. He's a 15-year-old kid named Bernice Juach but his handle is Daxflame because "it sounds cool". You can see Daxflame on Youtube. He posts video diaries and "motion pictures" on his site. The diaries are full of emotion, teenage angst, and all sorts of digestable material. It really is a symphony to watch one of his meltdowns. The crux of the show, as I like to call it, is his dealings with Sojax-an amalgamation of a kid named Jacob and his would-be-girlfriend Sophia. His goal is to become friends with Jacob and to get jiggy with Sophia so that they can "rule the school".

What I love about this little social experiment is that Daxflame, even if he does seem like the epitome of wierd, reflects a side of all of us when we were in high school. All we wanted to do was to have friends, be popular, and be the big wolf on campus. That's all that matters in high school. We don't have to worry about jobs or money because we are dependent on our parents. And our grades are subordinate to our social lives because being smart only hurts you in that department.

But Daxflame is a cultural phenomenon, which is why I consider to be the greatest thing on the internet. There is a discrepancy as to the authenticity of Daxflame. Many consider him to be acting and that his exploits with Jacob and his stories are all contrived. This causes a lot of people to be Daxflame-haters. While others on the other hand think that he is genuine and sincere and that he really is crying those tears of loneliness and depression. To be honest, I don't know what to think of him. I know I love his show. See, for me, it doesn't matter if he's faking it or not, if it's all a spectacle and he's acting. I don't care about that. I watch movies all the time and I never think of movies that way. I never say, "Oh well that's just Tom Cruise, he's acting, he could never jump off a building like that." I suspend my disbelief for Tom Cruise and I can do the same for Daxflame. But why can't others do this? What makes Daxflame different from anything else? Is it the way in which he presents his show, like a diary? Perhaps people feel duped because Daxflame's program is shown as a real-life documentary but they someone see through it as an artifice. This manipulation of reality that Daxflame's show deals with, I find fascinating.

What ever the case may be, Daxflame proves that perhaps, people aren't ready for reality.