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theyre trying to dehydrate our beautiful bears and make them have a six pack.... i feel sick.
#DONT GIVE IN TO COMMERCIAL CULTURE. YOU DONT NEED A DIET. BEING FAT IS HOT AND SEXY AND THEYRE CAPITALIZING OFF YOUR INSECURITY.#dont let comic book artists and oscar movies and toxic social media influencers win....#be fat and happy and draw fat and happy characters today...#ransom note
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And you know that there are many journalists who are very concerned about the pressure that's being applied about the sensitivities of this conflict.
And let's just be very clear here. We have the Israeli government, has a lot of supporters in Congress, has a lot of supporters in the media, has a lot of supporters in activist groups on K Street. There is a, quote unquote, pro-Israel lobby which does apply pressure on media organizations.
If you've worked like I have, both in American media and British media, you've seen the emails from honestreporting .com, and Kamera. And some of these groups your listeners may never have heard of. But I'll tell you what, every newsroom has heard of these groups; “Why is your headline this,” and “Why is your reporter showing bias?”And, “Why do they tweet this?” In this recent case, it's Louisa Lovelock, who is a British journalist at the Washington Post. It's a fantastic Middle East correspondence. Covered Syria, covered Iraq, covered Gaza, covered a bunch of things.
It's so absurd, the dossier they've produced against her. One of the things they go after is she took part in student protests at university in England against tuition fees. And..? A) that's a bad thing? B) that means she can't cover Israel's bombing of Gaza? It's so absurd. The stuff that they pull with me. Of course, I've had stuff going back 20 or 30 years that they've thrown at me. And it's a real problem where people get intimidated into not saying, not speaking what they want to speak about.
And we live in a world where the right is obsessed about cancel culture and free speech when, let's be very clear, the greatest victims of, quote unquote, cancel culture in this country have always been Palestinian activists, both on campus, in the media, and in politics.
I mean, let's just be clear, we have a Congress filled with white supremacists. We have a guy, I think, Andy Ogles from Tennessee, this week who was caught on tape saying, “Kill them all.” Alright? None of these guys get any attention. No votes of censure. Who is the only member of Congress who's been censured since October the 7th? The one Palestinian woman.
So let's just be very clear who the victims of, quote unquote, cancel culture and suppression and intimidation are. It tends to be people who speak out on behalf of Palestinians. And that's the case with reporters who aren't even taking positions. They're just reporting what they're seeing, and what they're seeing of course, is not favorable to the Israeli narrative, because what they're seeing is mass starvation. What they're seeing are mass killings. What they're seeing are kids being pulled out from the rubble. And, of course, that doesn't help the Israeli narratives.
—Mehdi Hasan, on ‘cancel culture’ and how journalists and reporters are attacked for simply reporting the truth about Gaza 🇵🇸
#politics#mehdi hasan#gaza#rafah#israel#hasbara#aipac#cancel culture#all eyes on rafah#ethnic cleansing#genocide#war crimes#accountability culture#media bias#media influence
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historians in my podcasts repeatedly asserting that medieval conceptions of childhood were vastly different in that teenagers as young as 14 were already given adult responsibilities (especially if they were royalty) if not considered legal adults depending on the time period and this is just feeding my headcanon that yaad and thistle don't see themselves as children
#especially thistle. don't get me wrong he is a kid but neither he nor those around him view him as such#being a member of a different race justifies their treatment of him further in their minds#delgal doesn't view him as a child and maybe that's less him being an idiot and more to do with cultural context#yaad i think has different ideas since a thousand years of thinking might sow new perspectives into one's head#but i think even he doesn't fully grasp that thistle is a Kid kid and it's only started to dawn on him post-dungeon#hell i don't believe yaad views *himself* as a kid but he does struggle with a dysphoric self-perception because of that disconnect#roomba media#dm#dmposting#melinis#yaad#thistle#thistle dungeon meshi#yaad melini#txt#i guess one should also consider how elven influences shaped the other races' ideas#since dm's anachronisms seem to be a result of those influences#food for thought!
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I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.
"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.
Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.
#this is one of the reasons why#although i would kill antis in real life if i could#i also don't trust anyone who identifies as 'pro-ship'#it's just an excuse to shut down legitimate ethical questions and engaging in honest self-reflective media consumption and critique#art doesn't exist in a vacuum#it's a flat impossibility for it not to inform nor be informed by real world politics and attitudes#because that's what it means to be created by human hands#we can't even make machine learning thats not just human bias fed into an algorithm#if the way we interact with art truly didn't influence anything then there would be no value in it#just because antis have weaponized those points in the most bad faith ways possible#doesn't mean you can ignore them in good faith#anyway fandom stans villains because society loves to defend and protect abusers#it's not because you get the chance to be free and empathetic and indulge in your darkness and what not#it's just people's normal levels of attachment to shitty people with an added layer of justification for it#this blog is for boring do-gooder enjoyers only#lol#knee of huss#fandom wank#media critique#pop culture#fandom discourse
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yes I'm a Christian writer. Yes I'm a Christian artist. Yes I'm a Christian whatever--I'm so tired of people being like "I'm not a Christian ___, I'm actually a ______ who is Christian" what?!? No! Say the "Christian" part of my identification louder, it's the only part that matters.
I have been crucified with Christ, therefore it is no longer I who live! No longer I who put pen to paper! No longer I who type! No longer I who thinks and plans and practices and works and communicates--it's Christ who lives in me! He must increase! I must decrease!
If you're a Christian, knock that bogus worldly self-centered crap about "no I'm not part of the 'Christian genre' so I'm not a 'Christian whatever,' because I want to be taken seriously," off. Knock it off, shut up, get out of here with that.
Who cares if you're taken seriously? Who are you doing this for? For others? For Christ? Or just for you and your own credit and your own status? Get away from me with that. Ugh.
Anything you do in your life is supposed to be for Christ. You died. You said He was in charge of you from now on--You said He was the sum total of your identity, from now on. Did you mean it? Or did you mean, "everything except my special interests and career?" Of course not.
Anything you do in your life is supposed to be for Christ. That includes your art, your music, your hobby, your writing, your job. You should be so fortunate, so favored, to be called a "Christian" anything. You're not identifying with the "Christian genre," you're identifying with Christ. The word Christian doesn't mean "little Skillet" or "little Frank Peretti" or "little Dallas Jenkins." The word Christian means "little Christ."
You should be so fortunate to be called "Christian" anything, like the disciples were beside themselves with joy to be called "Christian" prisoners and "Christian" slaves. Because they got to be associated with Christ.
Get out of here. Honestly.
#I can never go on social media again#my algorithm sends me the most ridiculous culturally-acceptable diet “claiming to be Christian” influencers#Christian writer#Christian filmmaker#Christian artist#Christian songwriter#Christianity#christian art#cultural Christianity#trends#influencers#the Bible#Rant
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I miss when "Wokeness" was popular on social media.
It was always fake and made to gain popularity online rather than to provoke systemic change, but at least it was based on ideals of self expression, of fighting oppression, and of caring for someone else besides yourself.
This new wave of social media influencers terrifies me. These fitness gurus, these tradwives, these edgy comedians, and these manosphere influencers - they are all based on a extreme form of conformism and selfishness.
It's so tragic how Gen Z seems obsessed with conforming to extreme gender roles and beauty standards.
If the 2010's were marked by "I'm a special snowflake", the 2020's are being marked by "I have to conform to societal expectations by all means necessary".
@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @mask131 @princesssarisa
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These are the same people who keep saying that the voice actors don’t need to look like their characters.
Like is there any actual critiques about this show or are there a pandemic of people needing to go outside and socialize?
Also how desperate are you for views that you need a photoshop version of the actress’ breasts to get attention.
#before anyone get on my ass for ‘giving them an audience’#Grummz is one of the spokesmen for the gaming part of the antiwoke side of the culture war for years#his tweets alone has influence how these people view media#and it only go downhill when footage of his game showed how mid it looks#also I think it’s important to let people know they can have more nuanced opinions instead of picking either of the 2 extreme dumb takes#tomb raider#lara croft#tomb raider reboot#tomb raider anime#anti woke#woke#culture wars
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when will Catholic Instagram influencers realize they can’t “sis you are infinitely worthy” their way out of everything
#laksksksksjsjsj so sorry I’m back on my criticizing the Catholic social media influencer culture again#but damn do they ever let a thought breathe and exist for one second#(Anne Marie thecatholichypewoman don’t listen to this you’ll make a reel about letting our thoughts just ✨breathe✨ sometimes)#but like actually. the reels are turning cannibalistic#every thought and half-emotion is endlessly dissected to point to the Great Conclusion#and it’s like girl. yes God loves us just as we are. flaws and all.#but when you’ve said it once why are you not just repeating it to yourself as needed and/or saying it to your friends#WHEN APPROPRIATE#why are you trying to teach at every opportunity#as someone also cursed with the desire to teach you know where that instinct belongs????#A CLASSROOM#as my siblings remind me daily#anyway like. sorry it is so upsetting to me because I think a lot of hearts are in the right place!#though where money is involved I WILL be cynical#but also like. you can’t make the pain go away through endless processing/rationalizing#yes God speaks in the silence. so let Him speak! why are we trying to speak for Him at every opportunity#ANYWAY GO TO BED MARIA CHALLENGE#I am doing what they’re doing BUT TO THEM SO It’s NO BETTER BUT——-#S TILL#when will they REST
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I'm constantly torn between "a private internet life their parents don't know about is good and even life-saving for a lot of kids" and "kids should not be exposed to the modern internet unsupervised" and the only answer I can think of is to bring back Voyforums
#seriously though modern social media is INCREDIBLY bad for kids#questionably-moderated small forums were definitely ripe for individual cases of abuse#but this broad sweeping 'be interconnected everywhere! put your real face! your real name! influence and monetize!' culture#is so so fucking bad
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I truly despise celebrity culture because what do you mean you worship a person who, honestly, cares about you solely because you put money in their pockets. You are dedicating you free time, hard earned money and energy to defend questionable people who can barely apologise for serious issues.
#reflection#alone but not lonely#celebrity#celebs#celebrity culture#wake up call#clarification#social media#social commentary#social issues#influencer#influencer culture#accountability#levelling up advice#levelled up mindset#leveling up advice#levelling up tips#thoughts#hot take
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I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care
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I honestly couldn’t handle being an influencer. I’m already on Tumblr, the place where nothing matters, and I’m like “wait I can’t post this. 😰 What if the mutuals think it’s cringe and unfollow me.” If there were actually stakes and money involved I’d have imploded a long time ago.
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"This social media is so toxic" says the most toxic person on it.
#the pot calling the kettle black#pot calling the kettle black#social media#social media was a mistake#social media usage#social media influencers#social media posts#toxic community#the internet was a mistake#internet was a mistake#internet things#internet issues#internet of things#internet of shit#internet problems#internet stuff#internet discourse#internet humor#internet culture#internet nonsense#internet#the internet
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Every time a bsd chapter comes out I see everyone posting about asagiri killing characters or the wild things that are happening and I’m just over here kicking my feet back and forth waiting to see a character have a mental breakdown on the battlefield
#I’m sorry. I’m an English major. and I’m having the time of my life right now#a western author saying he’s saving someone while also destroying everything?#ohohohohoooo#am I 100% that’s what asagiri is going for? no.#but it sure is interesting to think about it like that#and how sure of something can you ever really be when analyzing media#bsd spoilers#bsd 118#I also don’t know enough about Japanese literature and general cultural things#like how people feel about western lit and influence#but oh well#I don’t really have time to research it#I’ve got classes starting soon
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I take a liberal approach to what qualifies as drag, but the tl;dr of it is that my criteria for whether a performance is drag are: queerness (the essential ingredient!), performativity, emphasis on visual cohesion, a strong sense of irony/affinity for the deviant (from queer to queer y'know) and last but not least if it would be really funny to categorize them as a drag artist
#do you know this drag artist#these are more guidelines than rules and vary on a case by case basis obviously#visuals as a measure of whether or not a performer is doing drag or not is influenced by this being a social media drag blog on a#social media platform that prizes visuals in a drag culture that prizes visuals#we are not here to judge your drag drag is art and art is subjective etc etc
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