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The Devastating Impact of Coronavirus on Greek Mythology Girls

Greek Mythology Girls Blog, like many other websites, relied heavily on user-generated content and active community participation. However, with the pandemic spreading across the world, people's lives were disrupted, and priorities shifted. As the health crisis escalated, the interest and engagement of readers dwindled. Many followers faced personal hardships, including health issues, financial struggles, and emotional stress, which understandably diverted their attention away from the blog.

The pandemic's consequences were felt by the blog's contributors as well. Writing and researching content on ancient mythology required focus, creativity, and emotional investment. Unfortunately, the pandemic's anxieties and restrictions made it difficult for writers to maintain their usual levels of productivity and dedication. Some contributors might have faced job losses or increased workload due to shifting work dynamics, leaving them with little time or energy to contribute to the blog.

Another crucial aspect that impacted the blog's reach was the surge in misinformation and sensationalism during the pandemic. With numerous myths and misconceptions about the virus circulating, readers might have been skeptical of consuming content, even if it pertained to mythology. The climate of uncertainty caused people to seek out factual information about the pandemic, often overlooking or dismissing leisurely pursuits like the Greek Mythology Girls Blog.

Furthermore, the pandemic significantly altered online content consumption patterns. People found themselves spending more time on social media and news websites, trying to stay updated on the rapidly changing situation. As a result, niche platforms like the Greek Mythology Girls Blog struggled to compete for attention in an increasingly crowded online space.

The financial impact of the pandemic also affected the blog's operations. Advertisers, who were themselves dealing with economic challenges, reduced their spending on non-essential platforms like the blog, leading to a decline in revenue. As a result, the blog faced resource constraints, hindering its ability to adapt and overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic.

Despite these setbacks, the Greek Mythology Girls Blog attempted to adapt to the new reality. They might have shifted their focus to discussing how ancient myths and legends could provide valuable insights and comfort during challenging times. They could have also used their platform to raise awareness and funds for pandemic-related causes or support their writers who were facing difficulties.

As the pandemic eventually receded, there might have been opportunities for the blog to regain its footing. The enduring allure of Greek mythology and a sense of community amongst its followers could have helped revitalize the platform. Additionally, they could have explored innovative ways to diversify content, engage with readers, and expand their reach.

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Niall Horan is more than Mr Nice Guy

Three years after his last release, the 29-year-old singer has jumped feet first into the spotlight to promote third album The Show, which lands on 9th June.

“I’m more excited than I thought I would be,” Horan says of his return, a quiet confidence lingering. With outstretched legs, the double-denim-clad singer lounges in his chair, decanting still water from a glass bottle, as we settle in for our chat in his luxury London hotel suite. A high-pitched giggle ripples through him when two builders, dawdling on a pulley lift, nab his attention through the window, before he apologises for losing eye contact. “I’m revved up, but I’m nervous. I hope I didn’t waste 18 months writing something for people not to like it.”

Those 18 months in question were spent, in part, during the coronavirus lockdown, which acts as inspiration for many of the introspective lyrics on The Show. It was the first time in a decade that the singer had, well, nothing in his schedule, allowing time to contemplate his meteoric rise to fame. “There’s no heartbreak stuff [on this album], so there needed to be a new concept. The only good part of the pandemic for me was that I was actually happy being still. I had time to breathe; I realised it doesn’t have to be a thousand miles an hour all the time.”

For the uninitiated, the first six years of Horan’s career were spent in the extraordinarily successful band, One Direction. Originally from Mullingar, Ireland, Horan auditioned for X Factor as a solo artist in 2010, later forming a five-piece alongside Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. What followed was unparalleled success, multiple award wins and huge stadium gigs. “I loved touring, but it was fucking crazy,” Horan muses now. “We’d go to countries and never see a second of it - it was hotel, venue, plane, same again. We couldn’t get out the [hotel] door. If you went out in the car, you’d be seen and chased [by fans]. I understand why it was going on, but it gave me a thing where, when I came back to London, I would be afraid to go out. There was a period where I actually couldn’t.”

1D announced their hiatus in 2016, and Horan released his first solo album, Flicker, the following year. His second, Heartbreak Weather, came in 2020. Three years later in February, he dropped The Show’s sparkling lead single, ‘Heaven’, taking to social media to celebrate.

“I was lying in bed when management texted to say the song was out, so I checked Twitter. The numbers were fucking nuts. I was up for hours seeing what people were saying.” Horan generally views social platforms as a tool for fun, and mainly use them to engage with followers. “Sometimes I type my name in to see tweets I’m not tagged in. If I see the fans talking about me without tagging me, I’ll reply. [My TikTok ‘For You Page’] is full of people doing dances to my songs, golf, and mid-century modern furniture. I like winding people that don’t like me up. I get such a laugh. I also try to reply to people who ask genuine questions about the music, or what I’m up to.”

With 14 years in the public eye under his belt, Horan has also seen a darker side of the internet. “I’ve [read that I’ve] been in car crashes that I wasn’t in. I’ve been in three or four fake ‘PR stunted’ relationships. What’s the old phrase? It’s tomorrow’s chip paper. I care about what the fans think, but there’s always going to be people… who would never say a thing like that to your face, because they’re cowards.”

As our time together rolls on (me looking at Horan, Horan looking at the procrastinating builders), his genuine charm reverberates around the giant hotel room. A chatty openness takes the conversation from his favourite true crime documentary (The Jinx) to tips for long haul flights (green noise) and best skincare advice (facial steaming). It’s this endearing, positive aura that makes his Nice Guy Reputation™ legitimately easy to believe. But what’s his secret?

“Don’t be a prick?” Horan jokes. “There’s no secret to that. Just don’t be one. My Irishness? My humble upbringing? This is like some kind of questionnaire. A combination of a few things. Carefree attitude?”

Horan laughs off the suggestion that he’s going to dinner parties with groups of celebrities, instead insisting he has “two really good [industry] friends, and a tight circle of old mates. People have this idea that all famous people are friends. But you’re not friends with everyone in your office, are you? I remember seeing Channing Tatum on a plane. I’d never met the guy in real life, but he waved. We were laughing later. He was like, ‘I felt like I had to do the token ‘celebrity to celebrity’ kind of moment.’”

One person Horan has connected with on a deeper level is Lewis Capaldi. “He’s just a diamond geezer,” Horan says, before sharing a better-than-average imitation of a Scottish accent. “There’s not a bad bone in his body. He’s a solid friend, and he also happens to be one of the funniest fuckers you’ve ever met in your life. We’re in a lot of WhatsApp groups together.” Horan also reached out to fellow Irishman Paul Mescal, when Normal People came out. “He’s a nice fella. When he first moved to London, I talked to him a bit. But then the pandemic happened, and we never spoke again.”

The singer briefly touches on his relationship with Amelia Woolley, who he’s been with since 2020. On whether he has a romantic side, Horan says, “I think so. I wouldn't say I’m like ‘rose petals on the floor’ type of romantic, but I'm good at caring. I'm good at making dinners and the day-to-day stuff." On love languages, he adds, "I’m good at words of affirmation and I’m good at touch.”

Album release aside, 2023 also marks Horan’s 30th birthday, with the singer entering his third decade in September. “I’m excited for it - I’ve heard your 30s are the best time of your life,” Horan says, enthused. “I’ve never been one of those people to overthink timelines. I hope I don’t age too much!” On plans for the next decade, he's thoughtful for a moment. “I’d like to still be doing this, going around the world, still playing to thousands of people. I’d like to win a Grammy. I’d like to be happy. And to still have decent skin.”

Better keep at the steaming, then.

[louisupdates]

Review: Louis Tomlinson’s ‘All Of Those Voices’ shares a heartfelt story of growth

DAILY TROJAN

By JESSICA MESSINA | March 26, 2023

In an intimate look at his life and career, audiences delve into an in-depth journey alongside Louis Tomlinson as he forges his path through the last 13 years in the documentary “All of Those Voices,” released March 22. In the film, director Charlie Lightening brings to life a raw and emotional story of self-discovery.

The documentary travels back in time to the moment where it all began: “The X Factor.” From Tomlinson’s audition to the formation of his band — One Direction — and its snowballing success, life as he knew it would never quite be the same again. Rather than glossing over reality, Tomlinson was forthright about his struggles to find his footing in the band and the lack of control he felt during its first few years. He shared that he is most proud of contributing more writing credits than anyone else in the band, finding a way to leave a creative mark on One Direction’s legacy.

The band’s breakup is seen as a jumping off point for Tomlinson’s introspection as an artist and individual outside of the group. Just as he started to figure out his place, tragedy struck. His mother, Johanna Deakin, passed away in 2016 after battling leukemia. The film explores the deep bond Tomlinson shared with his mom, mostly on account of his father’s absence and the fact that his mother had him at only 19.

Tomlinson was scheduled to play a show on “The X Factor” the same week of her passing, and in a present-day testimony, he discusses the challenge of performing with such loss — yet the motivation he still garnered from his mother — even after death. Three years later, his sister Félicité passed, further demonstrating the hardships he faced outside of being an artist and the willpower it took to continue his work.

While most artists shield their personal lives from the public, Tomlinson’s brutal honesty in the documentary displays the trust he holds with his fans and his desire to be understood as their equal. The personal deep-dive into his life is unlike most other artist’s documentaries in that it establishes a deep bond with the audience. Rather than seeking to just to be taken seriously, he utilizes the film to display a sort of humanity we rarely see in artists, especially those who we often put on a pedestal.

With a trail of lows, the highs in his career felt that much more satisfying. In 2020, Tomlinson released his debut album “Walls.” Upon the album’s release and start of the tour, Tomlinson described how he could feel himself beginning an upward trajectory. Performing live had always been his favorite part of One Direction and having the opportunity to do it again solo provided him with the sense of purpose he lost after the band’s end.

But he just couldn’t yet win, as the coronavirus pandemic hit, forcing him to reschedule his tour for two years later. Tomlinson recounted using the lockdown period to find his voice musically and, more importantly, take a well-needed break with family.

Tomlinson’s experience during the abrupt halt of the coronavirus lockdown was easy to relate to. Tomlinson reminded the audience, yet again, that while he may be a music artist, he shared the same struggles and newfound opportunities as everyone else.

In 2016, Tomlinson’s son, Freddie, was born. He now lives in Los Angeles with Freddie’s mother, whereas the rest of Tomlinson’s family reside in his hometown of Doncaster, England. Tomlinson discusses how having a career that demands travel has been emotionally taxing, as he is forced to spend his time away from his loved ones. While many aspects of Tomlinson’s life are public, he largely shielded his role as a father from the media. The immersive look at his relationship with Freddie was a sentimental touch to the film, and one that expanded on his persona as an individual outside of his former band.

Despite his heartache toward his complicated and troubled career path, Tomlinson used the film to display his love for his family. As the oldest brother to all sisters, his siblings gave personal accounts of him being their fiercest and most loyal protector, especially after their mother’s passing. His grandparents displayed their admiration for his strength and spoke on the special bond he had with his siblings. Displaying such personal aspects of Louis’ life breaks down some of the facades around celebrity culture to remind the audience that, just like them, he has people who he cares for wholeheartedly.

In a scene that touched the hearts of all audience members, the film included footage from the first live show Freddie ever saw his dad perform. Becoming vulnerable and even heavily crying in front of the camera, Tomlinson spoke on the importance of that moment in their relationship.

Once the coronavirus lockdown was over and Tomlinson restarted his tour, he began to gain momentum once again. Tomlinson noted that his relationship with the fans had always been special to him, especially seen in the energy during live shows. In a standout quote, he claimed, “I need you and you need me.” This sort of symbiotic relationship he holds with his fans speaks to not only their faith in him, but his growing faith in himself seen throughout the duration of the film.

By the end of “All Of Those Voices,” Tomlinson completed his first world tour and his second album. In a way, the documentary proved that though Tomlinson’s value has been historically undermined and, even against all odds, he continues to rise above. His lighthearted charisma and desire for authenticity shined through the work. Whether you walk into the theater a Louis Tomlinson fan or not, it is hard not to leave one.

“I deserve this,” said Tomlinson for the first time aloud at the conclusion of the film.

And if “All Of Those Voices” proves anything, it’s that he absolutely does.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Hunter Walker at TPM:

A dispute raging inside the “Stew Peters Network” ended up in a federal court in Florida last month. The ongoing case has exposed drama between a group of far right media personalities, complete with alleged text messages and emails that show the inner workings of a company that has peddled conspiracy theories, anti-gay hate speech, racism, and antisemitism, while still maintaining connections with more mainstream Republicans.  In many ways, the trouble began — as so many things have in the modern far right — with the coronavirus pandemic. 

The company’s namesake, Stew Peters, is an internet personality whose eponymous show and associated social media posts have, in just the past two days alone, suggested immigrants are “retarded cannibals,” declared “Jewish Zionist infiltration in our government” is “our enemy,” and attacked “queer perverts” who he said needed to be “brought to heel” for creating “Weimar conditions” that “must be met with Weimar solutions.” Peters, who has amassed six figure followings on the social networks Gab and Telegram along with an audience of over eighty thousand on former President Trump’s “Truth Social” platform, has shared his stage with neo-Nazi leader Nick Fuentes. Yet Peters’ evident extremism, which has included airing blatantly antisemitic cartoon caricatures in the introduction to his broadcasts, has also not stopped him from drawing established Republicans as guests on his show, including Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who has been credited with appearances in six episodes, and multiple current GOP congressional candidates.  

While a blend of right wing politics and hate speech is a core part of Peters’ brand, COVID conspiracy theories are what provided him some of his strongest social media momentum. Specifically, Peters gained prominence with the 2022 documentary “Died Suddenly,” which focused on what the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation described as “the evidence-free claim that COVID vaccines are causing sudden deaths in people around the world.” Peters was among the producers of the approximately hour long movie. It mixed jump cuts and archival footage — including images of 9/11, the moon landing, and bigfoot — along with interviews and easily contradicted claims to argue the vaccines are part of a population control plot engineered by the “global elite.” “Died Suddenly” concludes with onscreen text urging viewers to “let us never forget what they have done.” “If you are quiet, or apathetic, or complacent you have to stand before God and you have to answer for that,” Peters warned the audience. 

[...]

The lawsuit was first reported on last month by Angry White Men, a site dedicated to “tracking white supremacy.” However, the internal correspondence from Peters’ company and other case documents are being reported here at TPM for the first time. Along with feuds and alleged malfeasance in Peters’ inner circle, the documents — including some which were unsealed due to TPM reporting — shed light on the financial model that fringe far right broadcasters use to build their business. The suit paints a picture of an extremist media empire driven by clicks, commercials from a company selling gold bars to people paranoid about the “next crisis,” and audience donations. It also reveals how heavily Peters relied on outsiders to create much of the content that aired under his brand name. 

[...] Starting in 2014, Peters went on to work as a bounty hunter in Minnesota where he experienced some initial social media success posting videos of apprehensions and taped rants. However, this venture was not without its own issues. By 2020, Peters began posting a political radio show on the Facebook page where he shared bounty hunting exploits. The following year, according to the Daily Beast, Peters was arrested after a scene at his home. The incident reportedly led Peters to express fears about the future of his law enforcement-adjacent career, and his bounty hunting videos ultimately tapered off. As Peters increasingly focused on political content, it was the “Died Suddenly” documentary that helped Peters, as Mother Jones put it, “hit his stride.”

“Died Suddenly” was produced by Peters, filmmakers Matt Skow and Nicholas Stumphauzer, who directed the movie, Edward Szall, and Lauren Witzke. It was presented by the “Stew Peters Network,” which is essentially a subscription-based website and series of social media pages that host Peters’ show and affiliated broadcasts. Szall and Witzke are partners in the production company TLM Global, which is short for “Truth & Light Media.”  Like Peters, Szall and Witzke, who was previously an executive producer for Peters’ network, have their own connections to both GOP politics and the more extreme far right. Witzke, who could not be reached for comment on this story, was the GOP nominee for  U.S. Senate in Delaware in 2020. After winning the Republican primary in that race, Witzke cheerfully accepted tweeted congratulations from Fuentes, the prominent neo Nazi activist and broadcaster. Before losing in the general election, Witzke conducted an interview with the website VDare, which has consistently hosted white nationalist and antisemitic content. In that conversation, Witzke indicated she was more concerned about immigration than being branded a racist.

“Died Suddenly” wasn’t the only product of the partnership between Peters, Witzke, and Szall that, according to court documents, began in October 2021. Since then, the pair also worked with Peters on the documentary “These Little Ones,” which focused on a narrative about “elite pedophilia” with echoes of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. They also produced two movies under the “Watch The Water” banner that were credited with originating a conspiracy theory that COVID was caused by snake venom in drinking water. Two other videos made through the partnership suggest world leaders and scientists are involved in a Satanic plot and that Americans are being enslaved by taxes, narratives that are more extreme versions of the concerns about globalists and elites that hint at antisemitic tropes and have increasingly become part of the Republican playbook. Along with producing these documentaries, Witzke and Szall also hosted their own biweekly broadcast, “Crosstalk News” on Peters’ network.

The Fokiss v. TLM Global lawsuit exposes the inner workings and internal fights within far-right extremist Stew Peters’s media empire.

See Also:

Angry White Men: Stew Peters Files Lawsuit Over Rights To Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Film

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David Horsey, Seattle Times ::  [Scott Horton]

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[Why climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’

How U.N. reports and confusing headlines created a generation of people who believe climate change can’t be stopped]

When Sean Youra was 26 years old and working as an engineer, he started watching documentaries about climate change. Youra, who was struggling with depression and the loss of a family member, was horrified by what he learned about melting ice and rising extreme weather. He started spending hours on YouTube, watching videos made by fringe scientists who warned that the world was teetering on the edge of societal collapse — or even near-term human extinction. Youra started telling his friends and family that he was convinced that climate change couldn’t be stopped, and humanity was doomed.

In short, he says, he became a climate “doomer.”“It all compounded and just led me down a very dark path,” he said. “I became very detached and felt like giving up on everything.”

That grim view of the planet’s future is becoming more common. Influenced by a barrage of grim U.N. reports — such as the one published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earlier this week — and negative headlines, a group of people believe that the climate problem cannot, or will not, be solved in time to prevent all-out societal collapse. They are known, colloquially, as climate “doomers.” And some scientists and experts worry that their defeatism — which could undermine efforts to take action — may be just as dangerous as climate denial.“

It’s fair to say that recently many of us climate scientists have spent more time arguing with the doomers than with the deniers,” said Zeke Hausfather, a contributing author to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and climate research lead at the payments company Stripe.

The origins of doomism stretch back far — McPherson, for example, has been predicting the demise of human civilization for decades — but the mind-set seems to have become markedly more mainstream in the past five years. Jacquelyn Gill, a climate scientist at the University of Maine, says that in 2018 she started hearing different sorts of questions when she spoke at panels or did events online. “I started getting emails from people saying: ‘I’m a young person. Is there even a point in going to college? Will I ever be able to grow up and have kids?’” she said.

Well before the coronavirus pandemic, a few factors combined to make 2018 feel like the year of doom. 2015, 2016 and 2017 had just been the three hottest years on record. Climate protests had begun to spread across the globe, including Greta Thunberg’s School Strike and the U.K.-based protest group known as Extinction Rebellion. In the academic world, British professor of sustainability Jem Bendell wrote a paper called “Deep Adaptation,” which urged readers to prepare for “inevitable near-term societal collapse due to climate change.” (The paper has been widely critiqued by many climate scientists.)And then the United Nations issued a special report on 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, released in October 2018, which kicked many people’s climate anxiety into overdrive.

The report, which focused on how an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels might compare to 2 degrees Celsius, included grim predictions like the death of the world’s coral reefs and ice-free summers in the Arctic. But a central message many took from the report — that there were only 12 years left to save the planet — wasn’t even in the report. It came from a Guardian headline.In three of the four pathways the report charted for limiting warming to 1.5C, the world would have to cut carbon dioxide emissions 40 to 60 percent by 2030. “We have 12 years to limit climate catastrophe,” the Guardian reported, and other outlets soon followed. The phrase soon became an activist rallying cry.“‘Twelve years to save the planet’ was actually: We have 12 years to cut global emissions in half to stay consistent with a 1.5C scenario,” Hausfather explained. “Then ‘12 years to save the planet’ becomes interpreted by the public as: If we don’t stop climate change in 12 years, something catastrophic happens.”“It was really a game of telephone,” he added.

Hausfather said part of the problem is that climate targets — say, the goal to limit warming to 1.5C — have become interpreted by the public as climate thresholds, which would drive the planet into a “hothouse” state. In fact, scientists don’t believe there is anything unique about that temperature that will cause runaway tipping points; the landmark IPCC report merely aimed to show the risks of bad impacts are much higher at 2C than at 1.5.“It’s not like 1.9C is not an existential risk and 2.1C is,” Hausfather said. “It’s more that we’re playing Russian roulette with the climate.” Every increase in temperature, that is, makes the risks of bad impacts that much higher.Still, scientists who try to clarify those nuances sometimes encounter hostility, particularly online. “If you try to push back on this in any way, you get accused of minimizing the climate crisis,” Gill said. “I’ve been accused of being a shill for the fossil fuel industry.”The problem with climate “doom” — beyond the toll that it can create on mental health — is that it can cause paralysis. Psychologists have long believed that some amount of hope, combined with a belief that personal actions can make a difference, can keep people engaged on climate change. But, according to a study by researchers at Yale and Colorado State universities, “many Americans who accept that global warming is happening cannot express specific reasons to be hopeful.”

For some, however, doomism isn’t permanent. Youra, the former engineer, still remembers how strongly he felt that humanity was done for. He believed that the IPCC and other scientists were covering up how bad climate change actually was — and no peer-reviewed research could convince him otherwise. “I think it’s kind of similar to what deniers feel,” he said. “I wasn’t being open-minded.”In 2018, he briefly considered quitting his job to travel the world — hoping to see what he could before society and the natural world collapsed. Slowly, though, he started getting involved in local climate groups, and when he attended a meeting in Alameda for the California city’s climate plan, something clicked. “I think that for me was key,” he said. “It made me start realizing the power of good policy.” 

Now 32, he has earned a master’s degree in environmental science and policy and works as the climate action coordinator for the California towns of San Anselmo and Fairfax.Worry — and even occasional despair — about the climate crisis is normal. Most scientists believe that, without deeper cuts, the world is headed for 2 to 3 degrees Celsius of global warming. But higher temperatures are still possible if humans get unlucky with how the planet responds to higher CO2 levels. Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute, has said that while humans probably won’t go extinct due to climate change, “not going extinct” is a low bar.“It’s a question of risk, not known catastrophe,” Hausfather said. 

[This is a well-written and researched report/essay by Shannon Osaka:]

[mobiused]

I know you don’t like bp but do you know why they have such a fanbase? You seem to understand why fandoms do or don’t gravitate to certain things so i was wondering if you understood why they got paired with bts or twice/rv a lot and have such attention in general. No pressure to answer if this doesn’t interest you though

I actually don't dislike Blackpink! I just think they fell off after Boombayah.

I think its a mix of a lot of things but to keep it succinct (edit: lol) 1. International members, having english speaking members and a member from SE asia is a massive pull for both the anglosphere and SE asia region

2. They're from YG and after the massive success(? despite the mismanagement) of 2NE1 everyone was excited to see what Blackpink would bring to the table. After all, even if 2NE1 never quite reached SNSD levels of fame(? debatable) they did kind of change the industry forever, and I think people had the same expectations for Blackpink too

With these two combined, I remember reading an article written (after BP's boom) about aespa about how the trajectory of Kpop is often dictated by global politics by virtue of K-pop being part of Korea's soft power [article's main point was about how aespa and 4th gen had moved to the virtual world in response to globalisation and coronavirus, contrasted with how groups were marketed and then not marketed to Chinese and Japanese audiences in a way that coincided with Korea's interasiatic politics] so they were very strategically designed to attract a lot of attention for this generation of Kpop music listeners. And in classic YG fashion, the massively OTT music videos, constant stream of content and pretty faces offers a unique fan experience that domestic entertainment industries are largely failing to offer young music listeners. Blackpink are already very accessible by having 3/4 of their members speak English, and this is aided by a company large enough to translate all their vlogs, reality shows, documentaries into a billion languages. So TLDR they're rich and english speakers.

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Big Things: Otaku Conventions

Personally, I have never been to an anime convention before. I know they are a staple in anime and manga fandoms alike, but I was never really interested in going to one for a few reasons. One reason was when I first started to watch anime it was in 2020, and I am not sure if you all are aware, but a little virus known as Coronavirus-19 was pretty big back then. Everything was on lockdown and there was minimal fan gathering movement that these people who usually held the conventions can do. Due to this, I was never able to learn about these conventions and how people enjoyed participating in them. Another reason was that I was going through a difficult time in my life that left me jaded enough to not care for these events since I was more prone to feel isolated if I saw other people enjoying themselves without a hint of worry (depressing I know but I am doing better now). Currently, however, after watching the documentary, I now know how amazing and inviting anime conventions can be. The cosplay, the voice actor panels, and countless vendors selling hand-made goods took time and dedication that was shown in the otaku documentary and had me question why I had never gone to one before. Two reasons for this are probably…well…money and time, but other than that, why not?

In the documentary, the reporter walked around asking attendees what made them want to attend anime conventions and even dedicate their time to cosplaying, and many people exclaimed how they wanted to be seen for their interests. They wanted to engage in a community that encouraged their interests and, in fact, fan them even more by constantly engaging in creating pieces of fan art, recreating iconic costumes worn by popular anime characters, creating fan theories about different storylines, and more. In the case of cosplayers specifically, I remember there was an attendee of an anime convention who mentioned that if she were to dress up as an anime character and walk down a street, she would be considered as weird by those who see her. She would have been mocked and her sanity would be questioned since it is not really common that people would walk down a street looking like they just hopped out of an anime series. But when she is at a convention? No one bats an eye to the way she looks. Even more so, if she was wearing an impressive cosplay costume then she would be praised for her fashion and encouraged to keep practicing her craft. This is what anime otakus crave - acceptance acceptance in a community. They don't want to be chastised for their hobbies (I mean who would?), it is not their fault that anime was not popular at that time (compared to now) and relatively unheard of. That would not stop them from creating their own gathering places and activities. The otaku communities would hold their own conventions like the one in the documentary, Anime Expo, ComicCon, etc for all otakus, by otakus.

I admire them since they are so passionate about their favorite stories and characters, so much so that I now want to attend one. I learned through other blog posts and UF forums that UF holds its own smaller-scale anime convention known as SwampCon in the spring. I am planning on attending just as a spectator since I want to get a taste of what an anime convention is all about. Plus, it would be a good starting point and a good gage on whether I would want to attend a bigger anime convention in the future.

[dertaglichedan]

New Documentary Asserts Deborah Birx Was Real Culprit Behind Disastrous Covid Lockdowns

Legal Insurrection recently looked back on the 4th anniversary of “15 days to Slow the Spread,” highlighting the spate of disastrous consequences of the covid lockdowns that extended in some locales for three years.

I have often noted the role of Dr. Anthony Fauci in this fiasco. But a new documentary reminded me about”Scarf Lady” Dr. Deborah Birx.

“It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump” shows how Birx, a career bureaucrat, seized control of the government from President Donald Trump and created a disaster.

The documentary shows how Birx was invited to join the White House Coronavirus Panel in March 2020 through a connection with former Vice President Mike Pence. Her qualification was being the leader in the Office of the Global Aid Coordinator (OGAC) as part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program.

Interestingly, there was an Inspector General report on complaints about her leadership style, which is described as dictatorial and “lacking rationale.” The complaints in the letter should have been heeded.

In addition to concerns about performance targets, country team members cited broader issues related to OGAC’s management approach. Of 68 statements the inspector general’s office received about OGAC’s leadership, 49 — or 72% — were negative. The auditors cited responses that described OGAC’s leadership as “dictatorial,” “directive,” and “autocratic.” “Sometimes decisions are made without clear rationale other than ‘[the Global AIDS Coordinator] told you to,” one respondent told the auditors. Another reported that an implementing agency with “high level technical staff” has been “directed to read the [planning] letter and do exactly that.” “Let’s just obey and move on. This is a worrying trend. Working in fear and a space where nothing is negotiable. It is causing a lot of strain with the government. Also losing gains made in the country. There should be room for negotiation and allow people to air their views,” the same person reported.

The documentary notes that Birx was the covid policy maker on the panel, not Fauci . . . whom the film suggests was merely its “face.” Birx handled covid, caused by an airborne respiratory virus that is readily transmittable, using the exact same approach used for AID—a bloodborne pathogen that is substantially more difficult to contract.

The playbook she used was taken directly from her PERFAR experience.

Treat the disease as a killer.

Focus on children.

Get to zero cases at any cost.

Thus, the “15 days to slow the spread” morphed into the national nightmare from which we are still recovering.

[isalms]

Thoughts on public shaming and cancel culture

What is the cause behind cancel culture? Why do we as people enjoy shaming others? In this post I will be diving in to the topic of cancel culture through different forms of media, and sharing some of my own thoughts!

For my ALMS course, I wanted to choose a topic I could discuss and reflect on by watching and reading content, and then giving you my thoughts on what I watched or read, as well as my personal experiences. Cancel culture seemed like the perfect theme for this!

Cancel culture is a phenomenon I have witnessed over the 10+ years I have spent on the internet, and it is a topic I have also learned about in my journalism studies. I'm planning on watching documentaries, TV shows, Ted talks or podcasts regarding the topic, to get an idea for what exactly this phenomenon intails and how it can impact people.

27.9 15 Minutes of Shame

Today I watched a documentary called 15 Minutes of Shame, a documentary on cancel culture and public shaming. Monica Lewinsky, who is an executive producer on the documentary, and who herself was a victim of public shaming back in 1998, wants to dive into the topic of public shaming and why it happens.

The phenomenon of public shaming dates back very far, to days way before the internet. As human beings, we have a desire to shame and call out others, which was interesting to learn about. Public shaming used to be done on the streets, before it was moved into tabloids and later on, the internet.

The documentary follows four different people who were victims of public shaming online, as well as interviews with experts. The stories range from getting racially harassed at a university campus, bullied over anti-Trump comments and getting fired for an alleged white supremacy handsign.

The story that touched me the most was that of Matt Colvin, an Amazon reseller. Admist the coronavirus, Colvin agreed to be part of an article for The New York Times, depicting how he had purchased nearly 18 000 bottles of hand sanitizer to resell for a profit. What followed was an article, focusing on price gouging, and ultimately painting Colvin in a bad light.

I decided to read the article, titled He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them, written by Jack Nicas, to see what lead to Covin being threatened and unemployed. The article uses Colvin as an example of greed and unethical profiting during a pandemic. Quickly after resellers on Amazon raised their prices to make a profit, the sales of products like Colvin's hand sanitizers was heavily restricted, hence the bottles collecting dust in his garage.

I find the link between media and public shaming to be very interesting. In multiple of the stories highlighted in the documentary, the media picked up these stories, thereby sensationalizing them and making them even bigger than they needed to be. What follows is the wrath of an online mob, leading to negative attention for the company the canceled person works for, mental health issues and even death threats.

It especially makes me think about clickbait and using sensational stories to get more clicks, and how this can lead to people losing their livelihood or even their own lives. Being the reason for another person's suffering is not something I would personally be okay with.

I really enjoyed the documentary, and it made me think about my own role in these kinds of stories, as a potential journalist of the future. The documentary also highlights one of the dark sides of the internet, how easy it is to ruin someone's life.

5.10 Hated in the Nation

The topic of cancel culture and social media reminded me of a few Black Mirror episodes I have seen. Black Mirror is a British anthology series focusing on various topics surrounding dystopias and sci-fi. The show's Wikipedia page describes it as a speculative fiction, which I feel is very accurate.

Today I decided to rewatch an episode that sparked my interest for the topic of cancel culture: "Hated in the Nation". It is the sixth episode of the third Black Mirror season, and it came out in 2016. The episode is set in the near future, with advanced technology and most notably, a network of Autonomous Drone Insects (ADI), which are solar powered drones acting as a stand in for near-extinct bees.

The episode follows a team of police officers in the UK, investigating the death of a journalist, a celebrity and a normal woman who were all in the middle of so-called "online shitstorms". The team come to find that all victims were killed by the ADIs. Each victim was determined by the use and popularity of a #DeathTo-hashtag, with the most popular person under the hashtag being killed each day.

At the end of the episode, the person who hacked their way into the netword of ADIs and his plan are revealed - he wants people who take part in cyberbullying to pay the ultimate price. He calls it a game of consequences, where the hacked ADIs eventually end up killing all of the thousands of people who took part in using the #DeathTo-hashtag.

This episode of Black Mirror is very dark, as it shows how many people take part in cyberbullying. Not only do the people who post the hashtag unknowingly take part in the death of the person they target, they also end up paying the ultimate price as a consequence.

The episode highlights how easy it is to take part in bullying or wishing death upon someone they don't even know. It also shows how people react to being the target - the journalist puts on a brave face while the normal woman is practically having a panic attack. I find this episode to be eye-opening in many ways, and definitely worth a watch.

I'd also like to point out the use of accents in this particular episode. The lead actress Kelly Macdonald is Scottish, and it took me a second to get familiar with the Scottish accent. I decided to listen to the episode without subtitles to challenge myself to understand her, and it didn't take me very long to clearly comprehend what she was saying.

11.10 The Most Hated Man on the Internet

I decided to watch another documentary relating to public shaming and the internet, and stumbled upon a docuseries called The Most Hated Man on the Internet. The series is about a website used for revenge porn, and follows several victims who had their nude photos posted on the site.

The series mainly follows a woman called Charlotte, whose daughter had her nude photos posted on the site. The daughter had stored the images in her private email, which means that the photos posted on the site were a result of someone hacking her acount.

In the series, multiple other victims explain their stories. One victim got his photos posted while someone was using his phone, another victim tells her story of trying to use the site to promote herself (she was doing porn on other sites) but ended up losing her children for the posts. One woman ended up attempting suicide over the leaked photos.

The man who owns the site, Hunter Moore, seems to get a lot of enjoyment out of publicly humiliating people. His cult-like following bullies the victims who end up on the site and even threaten victims and people like Charlotte, who try to go against the leader.

It was interesting to watch a documentary about getting bullied and attacked on the internet for other reasons than opinions or bad choices in life, getting a glimpse of how having your private photos leaked can ruin your life too. This gave me a wider understanding of just how evil the internet can be - anything you post (or just keep for yourself) can have huge consequences.

The first part of the series also touches on legal issues, like copyright and privacy, which was interesting to learn about. These things will most likely be discussed more in the other parts, which I might watch at some point.

I think the documentary was very eye-opening. I can only imagine what I would do if I was in any of the victims' shoes. The fact that a website like this existed, where anyone could post revenge porn for the leader's followers to bully and harass, is very scary. I find the worst part to be the leader himself, who didn't seem to care about the victims' feelings at all.

[xcookedxchroniclesx]

Here's my theory about coronavirus.

Under a microscope it looks nearly identical to a mushroom spore. So I think it is a spore from bubonic plague which I believe to be a mis shapen mushroom from undercooked bread focusing on the yeast that didn't die and survived the digestive tract by eating our shit and it is pissed off that it had to eat our shit and wants to eat our bodies instead. I believe that every animal that had shit in the streets of London has their own coronavirus including bats.

The bubonic plague didn't die in the dead infected that were dumped into pits and is living off of the bodies so it releases its spores in a cycle. The documentary I watched on bubonic plague said it started happening every 20vyears but over time it has pushed to every 100 years because in 1918 it was the Spanish flu that did the same thing to the world. Look it up.

And bubonic plague was the worlds first cold and coronavirus is the cold at its weakest virus.

[brn1029]

On this date, the really important stuff, from the world of music…

April 18th

2020 - Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney, Elton John, Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and several other stars performed from their homes on the One World: Together At Home concert during the coronavirus pandemic. The event organized by Global Citizen of New York City and curated by singer Lady Gaga was in support of the World Health Organization.

2017 - Prince

Numerous opioid painkillers were found at US singer Prince's home shortly after his death last year, unsealed court documents show. Some of the pills discovered at Prince's Paisley Park estate in Minnesota had prescriptions in the name of his friend and bodyguard. But the documents do not offer evidence about the source of the fentanyl that killed the singer on 21 April 2016.

2015 - Green Day

Green Day was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of the 2015 class, in their first year of eligibility.

2012 - The Beatles

An original and extremely rare 1963 mono copy of The Beatles ‘Please Please Me’ album, signed by the Fab Four, sold on an eBay auction for nearly $25,000. Paul McCartney and John Lennon both signed their names with “love” in royal blue ink whereas George Harrison and Ringo Starr signed their names in midnight blue ink. The autographs were signed in May of 1963.

2006 - Elton John

A sale of clothes belonging to Sir Elton John raised more than $700,000 (£395,000) for the singer's Aids charity. Over 10,000 pieces were sold during a five-day sale in New York City at the specially-created shop, Elton's Closet, at New York's Rockefeller Centre.

2006 - U2

A line from U2's 1992 hit 'One' was voted the UK's favourite song lyric after in a poll of 13,000 people by music channel VH1. The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" came top. The Smiths lyric "So you go, and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die" from the song 'How Soon is Now' came second in the poll, followed by "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us", from Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' which was voted into third place.

1973 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

The Crosby, Stills Nash & Young documentary Journey Through The Past, directed by Neil Young, debuted at the Dallas Film Festival. The experimental film featured concert footage from 1966 onward, backstage footage and art film-like sequences.

1970 - Bruce Springsteen

Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) played in the Main Gym at Ocean County College in New Jersey. Tickets cost $2.00.

1964 - The Beatles

The Beatles appeared on the UK TV comedy program The Morecambe and Wise Show, playing ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, and ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ and also participate in comedy sketches with Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. The Beatles also held the UK and US No.1 position on this day with 'Can't Buy Me Love'.

1963 - Paul McCartney

After a Beatles performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the radio show Swingin' Sound '63, Paul McCartney met the actress Jane Asher for the first time. They later became engaged, but never married and split up in 1968. The relationship inspired several Beatles songs, including 'All My Loving' and 'I'm Looking Through You.'

[faustocosgrove]

had another dream within a dream last night

oh, and tw for human death

so the first layer dream was me desperately trying to get the people around me to be quiet so i could go to sleep. got to the point where i just gave up and decided to stay up the rest of the night because it was 4 am. this decision was met with protest and promises of quieting down, but i said nope. to fill the time i started watching a documentary on youtube and this became the dream within a dream where i would kind of float between watching this documentary through a screen and being the camera man.

the documentary was about a lady who was the last person left alive in her village. everyone died in a plague, it in implied to not be coronavirus, but rather something transmitted through water. burning the bodies was for stopping the spread but everyone but her died anyway. for some reason, she either burned the bodies where they lay or else burned them and returned the ashes to where they died. so she’s showing us around her neighbor’s house and in the middle of the floor there’s a pile of neighbor. and as she’s walking around the pile she’s like fucking stepping in the edges of the neighbor. and i was pointing this out but she was crying too much to notice. then the ashes collected themselves and morphed into a zombie like version of the neighbor. the skin and clothes were ash grey but the hair was black and frizzed out to look like Patty from the Simpsons. the neighbor ash zombie opened its mouth and let out a piercing shreik and hte lady just kept crying and talking to the ash zombie like she was still talking to a grave. then all of the other ash piles stood up and turned into the same neighbor. this did not strike me as weird in the dream. the ash zombies communicated with each other with shrieks of varying intensities and durations. they were just walking around the town now. then some other weird shit happened that’s kind of hard to explain and i retreated out of the second layer dream into the first layer trying to replay a portion of the video i just watched because things were getting touristy and i thought i recognized someone but then youtube kept playing an ad and would not let me watch the video and then i woke up.

upon waking i was able to place the particular shriek the ash zombies made as the same shriek that the Angel of Death from the Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen movie made.

here's a clip featuring the shriek. it's at 1:46 but watch the whole clip it's fun movie.

[korphsblog]

Cruisin!

The cruise industry was fascinating to learn about. I myself have never been on a cruise and have a HUGE fear of big bodies of water, so I would probably have to really overcome that fear, perhaps a cruise would do just that!

The cruise industry is far more complex than I thought. I thought it was just a few restaurants, a pool, parties on a ship, and people walking freely. There are many components of the boat, and the people are the most important, including the hotel director, cruise director, workers, and more people behind the scenes. The hotel director has to ensure everything is perfect for embarkation day in terms of the cabins and public spaces, while the cruise director is in charge of selling all the activities and opportunities to spend money to the passengers. All of these people have to work extremely hard, especially the workers at restaurants, cleaners, and more. It was hard for me to believe that they work such long days, I do not think I could do it forever, but I am sure I could do it for about a year!

All the different entertainment components, food, casinos, art, and theatres share a cut with the cruise to stay aboard and open to the passengers. I found it extremely interesting to see how the money has to be cut and shared everywhere, even when docking boats in different countries.

The local communities at least get some money put into their economy with cruises. Undoubtedly the natives who perform also get a cut, and the local community also gets money from the passengers wanting to shop on land.

Scary image...but it IS important to consider health and safety precautions. I think cruise ships are definitely lacking in sanitation and health precautions. I am sure they are much more focused on money-making. I do appreciate that the cruise ship in the documentary had so much surveillance because MANY things can go wrong! As a passenger, it would definitely give me peace of mind knowing that there is a team constantly watching everything.

The norovirus and coronavirus are pretty similar and transferrable with contact. They are different in terms of what kind of virus they are and how they affect the human body, norovirus mainly affects the human stomach while coronavirus can also affect the stomach but is more like an intense flu.

[smitharaghu]

Mo Farah - The Most Successful British Track Athlete of All Time

Mo Farah is the most successful British track athlete of all time. He is a four-time Olympic gold medalist and has won six World Championships gold medals.

He has also been a champion of orphans in Somalia. He has founded the Mo Farah Foundation and visits to see orphans he supports regularly.

Born in Hargeisa

Four-time Olympic gold medalistmofaraholympics was born in Hargeisa, a small city in the Somaliland breakaway region on the coast of the Gulf of Aden that has asserted independence from the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia. It's a region where people are starving due to drought.

He told a BBC documentary that his father was killed in the country's civil war when he was just 4. He later moved to Djibouti and then came to Britain.

He was brought to Britain by a woman who gave him a false name and fake travel documents. After arriving, she put him in a household that he was forced to care for and work for food. He was then sent to school and became an elite athlete.

Moved to the United Kingdom

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah revealed Monday that he was illegally trafficked from Somalia to the United Kingdom and forced to serve a London family. The runner says he was eight or nine when a woman he didn't know brought him to the country using fake travel documents.

He said the woman told him his name was Mohammed, and that he'd be taken to live with relatives. But the athlete said his parents never came to the U.K.

He later escaped domestic servitude and gathered the courage to tell his physical education teacher and social services about his true identity. That intervention allowed him to obtain UK citizenship in 2000 and start a new life. The BBC reports that it attempted to contact the woman who trafficked him for her side of the story, but hasn't received a response yet.

Defended his title at the London Olympics

Sir Mo Farah’s track-distance heroics at the London Olympics have served as a touchstone for a modern Britain. His story of overcoming adversity to pursue his athletic dreams has shaped an indelible and inspiring legacy, which has also fostered a culture of healthy living.

After switching his focus to road running two years ago, the 36-year-old has decided to return to shorter distances in a bid to defend his Olympic title at Tokyo 2020. His decision to do so marks a U-turn, although he still needs to qualify for the event.

Farah was set to defend his 5,000m and 10,000m titles at this summer’s championships but has postponed them until next year, citing the coronavirus pandemic as a reason for his change of mind. He said the time off has boosted his confidence and will give him more time to prepare for Tokyo.

Defended his title at the Rio Olympics

A heart-pummeling moment ruined Mo Farah’s 5,000m title defence at the Rio Olympics, but he remained focused to win his second straight Olympic 10,000m crown. The Team GB athlete fell over in the middle of the race but recovered smoothly and was able to run his way through the field, regaining the lead on the final lap.

He’s now only the second man after Finland’s Lasse Viren to defend both the 5,000 and the 10,000 at consecutive Olympics.

He has ten global championship gold medals to his name and is considered one of the greatest long-distance runners of all time. He’s also the only British male track athlete to have won two Olympic titles, which is an unprecedented feat.

Defended his title at the World Championships

Sir Mo Farah, the most decorated British athlete of all time, has retired from track and field racing to focus on marathon running. He has won a record ten global championship gold medals, four of them at the Olympics, and is regarded as one of the world's greatest distance runners.

Born Hussein Abdi Kahin in Somalia, he moved to England when he was eight. He had a tough start, as his father was killed in Somalia's civil war when he was young.

In 2012, he won both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at the Olympics, and also defended his title at the World Championships. He then repeated the feat at Rio 2016.