Followers (I) (2017)

Sean Michael Gloria: Jake

Quotes 

• Nick : My name is Nick, and this is Jake, and we're making a documentary about how easy it is to track people through social media.

  Jake : And kill them...

  [laughs] 

  Jake : But not really.

  Nick : We're trying to show how dangerous this could be.

  Jake : Yeah.

  Nick : What we're doing here is we want to show everyone that people are kind of free with the information they put online these days. So we want to get that information and really take advantage of it. So what we did is we found a YouTube celebrity couple online that frequently blogs about their personal lives. I tracked them down through their social media accounts, and they're going to be our target couple. So we're going to track them down, give them a big scare, and hopefully we'll shed some light on this subject.

  Jake : Yeah, we want to really show everybody just how dangerous this all is.

• Jake : Brooke.

  Brooke : Hi.

  Jake : Hi, my name's Jake, it's so nice to meet you.

  Brooke : Nice to meet you, Jake.

  Jake : I've seen like, every video you posted. I'm one of your 200 and some odd thousand followers. Do you mind if I get a picture?

  Brooke : Sure, okay, just one.

  Jake : By the way, you look fantastic on camera.

  Brooke : Thanks, I really... I'm sorry, I've really got to go.

• Jake : What we're doing here... is it really going to make a difference? Is anyone going to see this and be affected by it? Are you going to see this and make a change in your life? No, no, you're going to look up from your phone and laugh about it with a friend and then you're going to look right back down at your phone and see how many of your friends liked the same article, but that's as far as it goes because it didn't happen to you. You're not the one in danger, not yet, and I'm tired of begging you to see it, so what I'm going to do, what I'm going to do tomorrow is I'm gonna do something that's gonna send a ripple through the pyschosphere. I'm going to try and change the course of human evolution and show you that we're no longer transcending to the fusion of humans and technology. But rather descending into slaves for it because we eat, sleep, drink, breathe, electronic validation. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, the juggernauts of the etherworld that feed our egomaniacal desires. We are prostitutes for likes, we're not our likes, we're not our followers, we're not even our photos anymore. Nothing is gained from all of this, nothing is accomplished. We don't gain anything except for maybe a few new followers, a few strangers, who we know nothing about, who took an interest in the persona we created. Followers that we didn't mind sharing our name, phone number or address with. The time for telling you this is dangerous and no good has passed. Now it's time to show you, because no one pays attention until somebody gets hurt.

• Jake : Do *not* tell them everything is going to be okay, it is *not* going to be okay! They cannot keep doing what they are doing and expect to get away with it, to live the way they live, they cannot! What are we doing with this documentary, huh? We're going to finish it, we're going to put it online, it's going to get liked, it's going to get shared, we're going to be doing the same thing they are! The SAME THING! It's just a cycle over and over and over! There must be some consequences for it, there must be! With them, we could change everything!