Tyra Banks To Create a Fake Talk Show. Yeah. What Else is New?



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When we heard that Tyra Banks -- she who wants us to believe that she has a mortal fear of docile dolphins -- was creating a "fake" talk show, our immediate reaction was: It took you long enough. Every day is a fake Tyra Banks talk show times a million as she takes her low rent Ricky Lake demographic ("Go Ricki!") and methodically positions herself with icy precision as the heir to The Oprah (All knees must bend at ther mention of The Oprah). When, pray tell, is Tyra Banks not fake? Breaseteses notwithstanding. But then we read Paidcontent, and realized that this new show thingie is not "fake," per se, but "Virtual Reality." Ho ho; our bad.

From Paidcontent:

"Supermodel/talk show host Tyra Banks is recreating an online version of her afternoon gabfest as a 'virtual studio' within Music Lounge, a 3-D virtual world operated by San Francisco online community developer Doppelganger. Banks fans can hang out online and chat using digital replicas of themselves, or avatars. She’s already made one visit, hosting an invite-only, virtual post-Grammy party on Feb. 12."

How positively Meta. An already fake Tyra Banks creates -- if it is even possible -- a simulacrum of Herself (The Corsair oscillates wildly). We are now officially suffering from cognitive vertigo at the House of Mirrors that is the disgusting voodoo of Postmodernism.