Most people consider the early 90s MTV show “The Real World” (it launched in 1992) to have launched the reality television era. The show followed young adults as they left home and faced political, economic, and romantic realities on their own for the first time. As we all know, television gushed forth a glut of “reality” shows ever since, with most offerings upping the ante with rude, selfish, and abusive behavior among the cast members taking entertainment center stage.
Entire generations of American kids grew up in the world of “reality TV.” To them, it’s always been normal to have a camera following ordinary people around indoors and out. Melodramatic and conniving behavior to friends and colleagues became an expected part of the plot; indeed, narcissism is the “drama” that viewers tune in for. It’s a chicken-egg question. Did the selfish diva behavior create reality TV, or did the TV create the behavior?
It’s probably both. But whatever the answer, we’re living in a very strange world in 2025 where just about any bad behavior is seen as “camera ready.” Time was that stealing a video tape of a rocker and a hot actress having sex was seen as a scandal—Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were angry and embarrassed when someone leaked their home video. That didn’t last long. Just over a decade later, a sex tape featuring then unknown Kim Kardashian and actor Ray J having sex was released by an adult video company. No one knows for sure, but there are allegations that Kardashian’s own mother leaked the tape to propel her daughter into super stardom.
This cultural “evolution” may explain why so many criminals seem perfectly content not only to be caught on camera, but to film their own illegal activity for public applause. How else do we explain the brazen destruction of Tesla Motors dealerships by candy-poison-haired leftist activists? If you weren’t aware, the hard left has developed Elon Derangement Syndrome (Elon Musk, owner of Tesla) to complement their unbalanced obsession with Donald Trump. Angry, for some reason, at Musk’s attempts to cut federal government waste through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), these people are spray painting and setting Tesla facilities on fire in broad daylight, seemingly without a care in the world.
Here’s one in Berlin, Germany:
As the X contributor Liberacrat wonders, is someone paying these criminal brats who claim to be fighting “rich fascists?”
Here’s another in Ottawa:
Here’s another one. This woman is taking part in the latest craze–”keying” Teslas. That is, property damage against some innocent driver.
There are many more just like this if you care to look.
Some of the vandalism has gone much farther than mere spray painting and scratching. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently announced that she’s charging the worst of the perps with domestic terrorism. Cooper Frederick, 24, is charged with firebombing a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado. He looks strangely surprised in his mugshot:
From the responses on X, the public is in no mood for light sentences.
