Crucial to Amalia's critique is the way it brings the viewer-follower into the critical space. The performance of Excellences & Perfections was successful because it was convincing. The audience was ready, eager even, to take it at face value, consume it, and discard it. Performance art, and art in general, doesn’t typically conceal its purpose. It’s art. We know it’s art. We go to museums and theaters to look at and watch it; we admire public murals and sculptures; we toss coins into the hats of artists performing in public squares. Excellences & Perfections flirts—perhaps recklessly—with the idea of authenticity. It is committed to its performance until the very end. But the reveal doesn't just insinuate a critique of social media's shallowness and artificiality. After all, many of us have already come to accept these as conditions of the form. Instead, the performance points to a broader critique—of the performances we maintain in our everyday lives, the ones we take for granted, the ones we often feel compelled to defend and protect.