Is it a good idea to fake or mask your emotions when hanging out with people, just to keep the conversation going longer? That's what super-friendly salespeople and influencers do, right? Mainstream media and pop culture might want us to think that being boring, dull, emotionless and monotonous is bad, abnormal or undesirable and we should always be excited, quirky and funny in a certain way for no reason even when life's suffering and we're going through tough times, to hide our real feelings and put on a show, because that's how they want ordinary people to act and behave, but does that justify feigning emotions? On the other hand, pessimism, fearmongering, and doomerism can also be faked for attention, I mean, that's what LARPers do.