The episode "White Bear" is a very confusing one from the very beginning putting the viewer first hand and confused as the main character Victoria. Victoria does not know her own name, where she is from, or even why she is in this house to begin with. A reviewer on IMDb named Tyler-and-jack said "Brooker is clearly asking us to stop living our lives through screens and viewfinders." (Tyler-and-Jack) Saying that people are seeing the world not for themselves through experiences or through life, but artificially through a screen that controls one's life.

The way Tyler-and-Jack said that society is now viewfinders is very interesting. It makes one think how much a cell phone or anything with a screen captures and controls our lives. Almost every moment now can be viewed through technology without having to actually witness or experience it. When it is rainy or cold outside most people confine to their homes to watch a football game rather than in person because one can be dry and warm from their house rather than actually living the moment. Society has now accepted that people can live their life artificially where almost nothing they do is real or first hand, but witnessed on a screen or a viewfinder. Instead of capturing moments with devices like most are intended people are using them to experience life in a way where a screen control's their whole life. True outdoor experiences are dying out because people can use their screens or viewfinders to see everything instead of making a six mile hike to the top of a mountain that has a once in a lifetime view, the screen watchers sit on their couches and get a 360 degree view of the top of the mountain right from their computers or cell phones. Children are exposed to screens now at a very early age. Most toddlers can pick up a tablet or I Pad and fluently navigate, surf the web, and explore apps almost better than some adults. In the past there was no such thing as an I pad, tablet, or maybe a computer in some households, so much of a child's life was spent outside where they adventured, used their imagination, and were free of all worries because they were just children. Now children sit on the couch with their I Pads, I Phone's, and other electronic devices and experience life from a screen and sometimes never go outside and discover or adventure anything and only viewing life from a screen. Even if one does not leave their homes very often because they are always with their face buried in a screen, they are captured by some viewfinder when they do go out and can be viewed anywhere by almost anyone wherever they go. So when one thinks they're alone they aren't because someone is always watching.

Brooker shows one that almost everything in life is captured by a viewfinder that someone can then go back and watch again and again almost every moment in most people's life on a screen. Even when people are in their houses, where they feel the most comfortable and safe there is a way in which they can be viewed. Whether it be on one's home security system, a webcam from a computer in their home, or from a security camera from a company across the street. A lot of people do not realize that most of their private moments are captured by some type of viewfinder, and when it does one feels violated. Being alone with today's technology is almost impossible and very rare. If someone wants bad enough to figure out where you are at or what you are doing it is not very hard. With people sharing their whole lives on social media and people having access to a lot of viewfinders being found is almost effortless. Every moment being captured has helped in some instances by notifying the military of unwanted guest, showing where fugitives are hiding, and making life a little safer. Viewfinders are anywhere and everywhere and are unavoidable by all and they are used as forms of entertainment in some ways for movies, pictures, and videos. A lot changes when a moment is captured or shared for entertainment when that moment is only meant for the people actually experiencing it. Not everyone in the whole world.

Tyler-and-jack said "the episode looks at mob mentality, heightened in the internet age to a terrifying degree, and the bloodlust for more and more "fitting" forms of punishment" (Criminal, Tyler-and-Jack) saying that the people in this episode used their viewfinders to capture horrifying moments of a person's life for their own entertainment. Eddie Adams was a combat photographer that took many picture of gruesome pictures in Vietnam during the war. One being a picture of a man murdering another man by putting a gun to his head and pulling the trigger. The picture captures the exact moment the bullet hit the man being murdered. Adams says ""I still don't understand to this day why it was so important, because I have heard so many different versions of what this picture did, like it helped end the war in Vietnam."" (Adler) Adam in a way believed that the photo did nothing to help with the cause of the war and only exposed a horrific moment in one's life that should have been left uncaptured. Most people would not want a picture of their loved one being murdered published and shown all over the world. The entertainment that people get from images or videos such as these are very disturbing and should be stopped. An act of violence is almost normal for people in today's society. People have gotten so used to violence and bloodshed that it's not seen as horrific but as interesting and as entertainment. Almost every kid today that plays videogames has played any war game where one controls a player that has weapons in war and shoots people as a point or for game. Almost teaching children that bloodshed and war is normal. There is also a videogame out now that you can be a character that steals cars, performs heist, and murders civilians for fun. Society accepts this game as a huge success and is producing more and more videogames with this mentality because that is what people see as entertainment. Videogames are meant to be fake and meant to be fantasy and not real. Some people do not understand that. Some people take games that show violence completely serious and want to live their life like they do in a videogame. Whether that be to steal cars or shoot people children are almost unaffected by violence but thrive and flourish with interest when violence occurs. This episode is not taking about videogames but these people in this episode do get off on violence by videotaping a person running for their life thinking that they are going to die at any moment during the day due to people that all want to kill her just for sport. These people in this episode go to this theme park to experience this person go through complete agony and fear for fun. Brooker shows exaggeration to show people how bad our society is getting in terms of how violence is look upon more as entertainment than anything else. Brooker is trying to show people that society lives their lives though a screen and flourishes on violence before things get to be like this episode where a punishment is torturing a murderer by putting them on show, trying to scare them almost to death every day, capturing them and showing them what they did, then erasing their memory to replay it all again the next day. Brooker is trying to highlight a lot of big flaws our society has as a whole to promote a change by releasing a form of entertainment to society that promotes watching and flourishing on violence to make society look at ourselves and hopefully reevaluate the way we do things and hopefully change.

Black Mirror's "White Bear" leaves the audience on full suspense and confusion all the way to the end of the episode. Brooker takes a huge problem in today's society and shows what could be the future if society continues with their ways in the form of how we integrate fear, violence, and entertainment. He shows how unfazed people are to violence and how people get excited about the way violence is conducted. Brooker also shows us how controlling and demanding a viewfinder is in one's life. Having a viewfinder everywhere and anywhere in today's time can capture your best moments to relive for a lifetime or capture every moment in a lifetime to be entertained by the horrific moments in one's life. There are some things in life that should be left uncaptured and if society is not careful viewfinders will totally take over and all there will be left is screen watchers. 

