Perfect Life (Feb 2020)

When you search "a day in my life" on Youtube, you get so many vlogs. If you start watching some of them, you might be able to find a pattern in the content, which may or may not look similar to your own daily life. But how real is it? How 'perfect' is it? Do you feel like you're living a similar day?

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Perfect life is an immersive juxtaposition of the ‘perfect life’ often portrayed in social media and extreme reactions to its display. The two-step experience involves the audience isolating themselves by putting their head into an upside-down figure, which holds an iPad playing audio of a typical vlog opening with a bold text in magenta saying “The Perfect Life.”

After being fed the perfect lifestyle, the audience would come out to see the mess created with various hate comments displayed. The ideal illusion one would see in their eyes during this stage is a cyan text of what they have seen inside the upside-down figure. The negative afterimage of the text, or the ‘perfect’ life in a vlog, creates an illusionary layer drastically different from the mess, which often leads the viewer of the vlog to feel miserable and burst out their negative emotions using anonymity on the Internet.