Are we as a society really at the point where we have to explain the novelty of pre-rendered backgrounds in PS1 games

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Are we as a society really at the point where we have to explain the novelty of pre-rendered backgrounds in PS1 games
Is it really that dumb or is the thumbnail clickbait giving way to something more interesting?
I don't really make a habit of clicking on videos with bad thumbnails in the hopes the video underneath is secretly good.
ah yes, as opposed to real-time rendering, which doesn't involve any trickery whatsoever