Sociology
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- 1. A big topic with few options
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- Please remember this is a general reading, so just take whichever messages that resonate. You can choose another one if you don't find if you feel these messages aren't right for you
- Welcome to "Pick a card" reading. Today topic is "Describe your future spouse". Choose a pile, and I'll tell you about your future partner
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- 2. Encourage to ignore false messages
- Oh OK!
- 3. An influx of information
- Oh my gosh. That must be my office. Some new female staff have been hired recently.
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- Jack has not been in love for so long that he starts to worry about his romantic life, so he decides to look for a general tarot-reading session on YouTube. Caroline is a tarot reader who usually practices “Pick a pile” reading tarot. This type of tarot reading is a general reading where viewers randomly pick a pile, and the reader will convey the messages from each pile. The topic is yet general, but options are usually limited.
- 4. General messages
- The cards tell you to be patient. You will meet your significant other when you are really ready. You will eventually find them suddenly some day.
- Yeah yeah. That's right. I need to be really ready to welcome the one into my life.
- Caroline will encourage selective observation by telling viewers to cherry-pick the messages which are applicable to individual cases. Hence, the reader tries to avoid scrutiny from the viewers as the reading can be considered as a hoax if audiences decide to put false and true prediction into comparison.
- 5. Viewers make it real themselves
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- As only a few options are there to choose, a lot of messages are jammed into a pile. As a result, chances are that at least some of the messages will align with viewers' stories.
- 6. Create a strong belief
- You may meet that person at your workplace, maybe on a holiday. And oh, I also see a place where you usually come to, that could be a gym
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- Hello my love. Welcome to another "Pick a pile" reading. For today reading, I will predict your career until the end of the year.
- In general tarot-reading session, conventional advice and obviously true messages are given out to make viewers believe that the reading is genuine.
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- Viewers may experience self-fulfilling prophecy as their expectation after the reading could contribute to the result. As being predicted to be in certain situation, viewers may expect such events, and as a result, their behaviors is inclined to fulfill their expectation/prediction.
- That person has dark hair. He/She may have their hair dyed, too.
- Is it Lily, the new girl? I am actually interested in her.
- They may have a fair skin. May be a bit tanned, but not too dark
- Usually wear dark color
- After eliminating all of the false statements, only true statements are retained. The reading appears to perfectly predict the future and encourage the audiences to form bias towards the reader. Moreover, as the viewers keep watching, they tend to engage in para-social interaction - the situation where the audiences feel that they are truly interacting with the media persona (but not the other way around).
- She was so right about my love. I should watch some other videos to find out more about my life. She is my personal tarot reader.
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