The way we consume and relate to media has changed a lot with the rise of the internet. Websites with public forums like Twitter and Tumblr have allowed fans and critics to connect and publically show support or disdain for a piece of work. In most ways, this has been fantastic. It’s a more effective [...]
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Meet & Greets: The Demi Lovato Conundrum
In a world where you can Tweet your favorite celebrity and they’ll reply, there is no higher aspiration for the average fan than the meet and greet. Meet and greets— for singers anyway— occur backstage before a concert. They allow you a brief amount of time to say hello to your idol and get your [...]
Analyzing Your Analyses
While I majored in creative writing, I took a lot of literature classes. This isn’t just because the courses are similar and I love to read— it’s because I love to analyze things. From books to movies to television, I love dissecting characters and their stories. I love picking apart symbolism. I love digging into [...]
Gay Doesn’t Mean Good
With the (albeit slow) rise of queer representation in media, the community has had more characters to relate to than ever. This positive forward progress is a good promise for the future, even if there’s still a lot of failure. However, not all media including or about queer people is good representation. This distinction and [...]
Viral Victims: Good or Bad?
The internet is a very powerful place. It has the ability to make or break you. One goal everyone has (whether they want to admit it or not) is going viral. Most people go viral for silly reasons, but every once in a while something serious will gain our attention. One of those things is [...]
Thoughts on Taylor Swift No One Asked For
Pretty much ever since that infamous night at the 2009 VMAs, Taylor Swift has simultaneously been a media darling and a media villain. As time has worn on, however, articles have been leaning more and more towards the latter. And, for about as much time, I haven’t blamed them. Taylor has always tended towards the [...]
Queer Celebrities are Entitled to Privacy
A couple of weeks ago, the editorial director of voices and executive editor of queer articles at a prominent feminist publication (I will not name which one, as I do not want to give his piece more traffic) wrote an article about how it was “bullshit” Demi Lovato did not want to come out and [...]
Why Don’t Baby Boomers Mind Their Own Goddamn Business?
Every day it seems like there’s another article complaining about Millennials. “Why aren’t Millennials buying diamonds?” they ask. “Why aren’t they buying houses?” “How come they don’t carry cash on them?” And so on, and so forth. Well, I can answer those questions easily: 1. We’re broke. And 2. Because we learned from your mistakes. [...]
The Problem with Stan Culture
With the rise of social media, stan culture has grown exponentially. Sure, there have always been fanatics, but social media gives us something we never had before: a connection to celebrities. Or, more accurately, the illusion of one. We communicate directly with celebrities via Twitter, Tumblr, and more and have easier access to interviews, behind-the-scenes [...]
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