Throw away your phones, embrace the world, move mountains: the paradoxical moral of Inoxtag’s documentary phenomenon

le documentaire d’Inoxtag s’impose comme un phénomène de société. MAXPPP – LP/Fred Dugit

TICKET. That a child of the web, bottle-fed with clicks and clashes, proclaims his outdoor intoxication with such faith, leads one to wonder about what could be a new paradigm: sport experienced as a challenge (quest for oneself).

It is a small beast that grows, that grows and that will swallow everything, inevitably. In one or two generations, the gaming wave will have conquered all the markets of the planet, in tyrannical proportions that we cannot even imagine, under the yoke of artificial intelligence.
The news went unnoticed last week, but it says a lot about the announced eSports revolution: for the first time in Europe, Karmine Corp, one of the most popular clubs in France, will play in its own stadium, in Évry (3,000 seats).

Borrowing all the successful codes of traditional sports – which have been at the top of the bill for over a century – gaming will have its own Olympic Games in 2025 (in Saudi Arabia), with the added bonus of all the fantasies dedicated to futuristic and dystopian formats. While waiting for Generation Z to take over the reins of society, the meaning of history is that it will eventually establish itself as the new king of entertainment. And the curtain on mainstream events will fall, victims of technological Darwinism.

Preserving humans and their five senses, the challenge of the century

At the same time, another news story has created a buzz, very much in tune with the times: the documentary phenomenon Kaizen, which has collected more than 25 million views on YouTube in eight days. The film tells, not without emotion, the ascent of Everest by Inoxtag, a young 22-year-old YouTuber who essentially set out to conquer himself. Its projection can be watched like a dream and follows you like an avalanche trail with its paradoxical moral: throw away your screens, embrace the world, climb mountains.

That a child of the web, bottle-fed with clicks and clashes, proclaims his outdoor intoxication with such faith, leads one to question what could be a new paradigm: sport experienced as a challenge (quest for oneself) and no longer as a competition (rivalry with the other). Experiencing things physically, connecting with nature, Inoxtag realizes. In the fight between the mind (AI) and the body, the latter has not completely abdicated. Preserving the human and his five senses, the challenge of the century, says the sixth.