#social media history

[tiktok-singularity]

American politics in a nutshell. Tik tok ban edition.

It’s all about the power, manipulation and control.

[panic-sl0th]

Fellow data hoarders!! I'm collecting screenshots of old social media things for a project I'm working on. BBS boards, The Palace... Places like that. If you have old screenshots, I WAnT tHEM.

You will be given complete credit on them if used! Message me here or you can email at FromHellsHalfAcre at Gmail dot com

Cute doodle for attention, please reblog so I can get this in front of as many eyeballs as possible

[oncewild]

linking to the sixteenth minute (of fame) episode on this. I think it's a great example of the urban - rural chasm, which we can see just by looking through the tags (one person even claimed hogs only exist in africa???) or the tweets (the suggestion that a fence is an obvious solution). The episode includes an interview with William McNabb, and while people have a wide variety of beliefs about gun access (which the episode doesn't really get into), it's worth thinking about how so many of the people dunking on him because they thought he was a moron were actually the ones ignorant of the experiences and lives of people different than them.

plus, the host speaks with an expert who discusses how hogs have become this exotic, invasive species destroying peoples' livelihoods. (not to be confused with animals like javelinas, which are native to places like my home in the sonoran desert and should continue to exercise their right to destroy all golf courses). one thing he highlights is that he sees hogs bigger than bears in Texas, and while they're not the big bears of northern climates, they're still well over 300 lbs and cause a lot of ecological and economic damage.

I love the perspective of this podcast and the opportunity to see more context, especially when the punchline drifts further away from the initial critique.

[stegzy]

Last Days of Twitter - Part 2

Long form bollocks that nobody will read about social media. By a guy who once taught social media.

Last time I wrote about the end of social media was in November 2022 . I say wrote, in effect I shouted into a dark room and nobody heard me because of all the other people shouting into the dark room. At the time Elon Musk had begun his terminal fiddling with the Twitter platform and people threatened to leave in droves. Some did, and never returned, while others left for a period of time then…

[jstor]

In a post-truth world, where emotional appeal sometimes drowns out factual accuracy, the humanities are our compass. They help us question the narratives we’re presented with, cultivate empathy, and dig deeper into the layers of truth behind media, politics, and culture.

By embracing literature, history, and the arts, we enhance our critical thinking and foster a connection to the human stories that shape our collective experience. 💭

Check out our latest blog post on how the humanities equip us to navigate the complexities of a world filled with conflicting truths.

[metamorphesque]

source: learn4artsakh

To those who claim 'It's only the government; the people are innocent,' — this is for you.

to learn more about Artsakh and Armenia, please visit the website learnforartsakh.com

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

March 21st, 2006: Social media site Twitter is founded.

[whereserpentswalk]

Just saw a "feminist" video essay (by someone who just happens to only talk about feminism in relation to cishet white able bodied women) say that the Hays Code was good for women because it "prevented them from sexualizing women by preventing onscreen depictions of sex". Never before has a video said something that made me vocalize my disgust of it's takes, but this did it.

I didn't think I would have to say this but if you defend the Hays code you are horrible and not in any way progressive. And if you don't know what it is please look it up because it's probably the most important piece of history when it comes to all media analysis in the western world.

[performing-personhood]

GO WATCH THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK ON NETFLIX

NOW NOW RIGHT NOW

NO TIME TO EXPLAIN IT HAS ALL THE ANSWERS GOOOOO TELL YOUR FRIENDS

[tiktok-singularity]

“Social media platforms are falling apart.”

Users are now more interested in platforms like forums, discord, telegram and many other social platforms.

Where are we all off to next?

[mysharona1987]

This was yesterday.

They literally stole the dude’s idea though.

[murderandcoffee]

sasha: so, boys, what do you think of our new boss?

tim: he's got a major stick up his ass, but hey, as long as he doesn't make us do team-building exercises, I'm fine!

sasha: mm, seconded. I think he's got potential, though he does get a bit touchy whenever I bring up gertrude. have you noticed that?

tim: yeah, he always gets weird whenever anyone mentions her. I wonder why

sasha: what do you think, martin?

martin: *staring dreamily into his tea*

tim: *waving his hand in front of martin's face* hey, any thoughts on the new boss, big man?

martin: I desire him carnally

[vaperarmand]

happy 3 year anniversary to this certified mads mikkelsen facebook post. hope he's having a better one this year

[aroaceleovaldez]

What is the PR disaster in question that made Rick announce TSATS? I wasn’t active in the online fandom at that point

Of course! This was awhile ago so it figures people don't remember it/aren't familiar:

Basically a couple years back (2020) the fandom had some posts circulate discussing the ways different characters in the Riordanverse were written poorly or offensively. There was a masterpost that went around tumblr but the two major points people were particularly focusing on were Piper and Samirah (particularly because Piper had featured prominently again in Trials of Apollo recently and the third MCGA book had further emphasized and discussed Samirah being Muslim, since it was supposed to take place during Ramadan). Basically each had multiple posts breaking down the ways they were depicted incorrectly or offensively. The entire fandom for a little bit was VERY intensely discussing this (and it's around this time the "RR crit" tag got very popularized on tumblr - it did exist before, but suddenly was being used VERY frequently - cause it was that wide-spread - though the discussion took over basically every side of Riordaverse social media on different platforms). People really wanted Rick to respond to these criticisms, so he did!

He made two blog posts, one about Piper and one about Samirah. He has since deleted both so the links are to archived versions. The short version: he essentially tried to justify his poor research and double-down that he hadn't written them offensively, actually, people were just being mean to him. The fandom, of course, reacted poorly to this.

[Further elaborated events under the cut since this got a bit lengthy]

(Fun fact, this all happened within a month or so of the time i posted an open letter on aphobic tropes in the Riordanverse that Rick replied to, and then he immediately followed with announcing that Reyna was intended to be ace-coded [which cause a LOT of fandom debate] before Rick dipped for a couple of weeks, and then came back to post the blog posts in response to Piper and Sam stuff. So I like to jokingly refer to this as "The time I imploded the fandom/drove Rick off of twitter." Twas I that set the house ablaze.)

Rick fully left social media after this and the LT Musical social media manager became Rick's social media manager for the time being.

So this all happened June/July of 2020. Tower of Nero would end up being published in October of 2020 and a few months after that Rick would state that he was done with the series and wouldn't be writing any more series installments involving Percy, and also that he wouldn't be writing a Nico quest following Tower of Nero as it "wasn't his place to" and encouraged the community to write their own versions of Nico's story.

The community continued to circulate the tumblr posts and discuss the topics of Rick's offensive character depictions, and this is also where we see the dramatic shift in how the fandom depicts Piper in fanwork (though in most cases it is admittedly not an improvement 😬) because of all this discussion. This is also around the time when the fandom brought Viria under scrutiny claiming that she was whitewashing Piper as part of the same discussions, through the justification that she was drawing Annabeth as having tan skin (which she does canonically), and if Annabeth has tanner skin then Piper then that's whitewashing Piper? Except they were using completely separate images of not fully rendered Piper art versus Annabeth in dramatic lighting, so it's all very awkward and poor logic, and did actually get kind of racist. A lot of people were calling it "Tannabeth Blackchase" (yeah, i know) or similar and a common sentiment you'd see repeated is "Don't draw Annabeth as having darker skin than Piper, because that's offensive/racist/whitewashing." (Note: it was not phrased "don't draw Piper as having lighter skin than Annabeth" - we also won't get into certain offensive depictions of Native Americans, but I digress). But yeah, the Annabeth stuff in all that did not age well at all.

Anyways, in October of 2021 however Rick would announce that he was co-writing The Sun And The Star - with a lot of heavy emphasis on how Mark Oshiro works as a sensitivity reader, and some false advertising from the official social media that Mark Oshiro was the first time a non-Riordan author would be collaborating on the series (disregarding the ghostwriters completely). One of the big criticisms in the breaking down of issues in Rick's writing was his lack of ever seeking a sensitivity reader, and fans claiming that a sensitivity reader could solve a lot of the problems. This was basically Rick's "look! I totally listened!!!!" (though it did little to actually improve things, based on the book) and in TSATS as well Piper gets a large cameo at the end where the text very directly addresses a lot of points made in criticism of Rick's writing of her.

We also then of course got the CoTG trilogy later, explicitly stated to be for advertising purposes for the show.

So basically, short version: Rick came under scrutiny for a lot of offensive writing within the span of two months, made some bad blog posts doubling down about it, left social media. TOA ends. Rick says he wasn't going to continue the series/write what would become TSATS. Community celebrates the end of of the franchise but also continues to discuss Rick's poor writing and the blog posts at length. Rick suddenly announces TSATS and Mark Oshiro's involvement. Everybody gets distracted from being mad. Show announcement stuff also happens and the discussions peter out.

[louisferrignojr]

evan buckley's google search history

-> part one: second adolescence