#Popular Culture News

[thechekhov]

#chekhov answers #cant search for something specific about the lore for fear of revealing a New Interest #to the Algorith #which will then fill all your algorithmic feeds with All The Most Recent Popular Posts #i will not say what it is #tumblr culture #fandom #content #comics #chekhov draws #comic

[stuckinapril]

I’ll never forget how once my ex joked I “live under a rock” and when I asked how he showed me a Snapchat reel of “hot celebrity gossip,” after which he pointed out I don’t keep up with any of it. I really dated that that’s so embarrassing

#If anything I’m trying to get AWAY from that #I don’t dislike keeping up w pop culture but at this point id rather be reading a book watching documentaries learning something new #Idc if it sounds pretentious bc it’s true #I don’t like using the term “low vibrational” bc i don’t have to be spiritual not to consume what’s essentially brain trash #Do I judge people for being too invested NO you do you. But beyond very popular pop culture headline I really would rather be out of the #Loop #id just rather be consuming healthy brain food #And it amazes me how he full chest thought that keeping up w vain stuff like that is him being in the loop. Never again <3

[musical-chick-13]

Like, not to harp on this, but just because you don't see the "value" in a piece of art or don't think it's "technically beautiful enough" to be acclaimed or don't want to interact with it because the function it's serving isn't something you're interested in doesn't mean that it just. Doesn't deserve to exist.

#by these standards we'd have to bar most amateur art. and that is NOT a road I want to go down. like imagine trying to #rob someone of participating in one of the richest and most fulfilling human experiences because of YOUR standards. #'oh I'm not talking about amateur art I'm talking about stuff that gets popular/famous' as if amateur artists don't get #discovered or go viral or get a random cultural wave of popularity all the time #there is no amount of gatekeeping that will keep art you think is 'talentless' or 'effortless' from seeping into the professional world #so maybe like. we should all chill out a little bit. #okay. I'm done now. #the good news is that this reminded me that any art I do is for myself and it doesn't have to be Technically Perfect #so thank you to the modern art haters I guess

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Best Tom Ewell movies and performances:

1. The Seven Year Itch - Billy Wilder (1955)

#tom ewell #the seven year itch #billy wilder #1955 #1950s #50s #1950s movies #50s movies #romantic comedy #George Axelrod #marilyn monroe #popular culture #White dress of Marilyn Monroe #Monogamy #psychologist #new york city #maine #Psychiatrist #femme fatale #sergei rachmaninoff #Piano Concerto no 2 #chopsticks #Piano stool #air conditioning #creature from the black lagoon #Pleat #halterneck #evelyn keyes #Sonny Tufts #Robert Strauss

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is watching a show/reading a book/whatever, going to enjoy the fandom and finding out it is 95% shipping content. Look, shipping is alright most of the time, but if it’s just all shipping, you get a bit annoyed!

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#Anonymous #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #i enjoy shipping in *many* forms of media #but sometimes it's like okay buddy. it's okay. they don't have to be in romo for it to be a story. #there's a particular fandom i'm in with a... extremely popular ship #that honestly i think is like. hm. it's okay but i just don't honestly prefer it #and i have the fun that it's considered like. Ye Olde Fandom Member to prefer a different ship for that character #and as a very very new member of this fandom that's kinda hilarious to me #it's more that while i understand the dynamic appeal of it... ppl misrepresent one of them who has a strong personality and like. ugh. #he gets good but incorrect characterization a lot of the time and he deserves more silly representation #i will not say what the fandom or ships are. do not ask. (personal boundary)

[stupidpicturesofledzeppelin]

#stupid pictures of led zeppelin #robert plant #a new acquisition #courtesy of the hugo keesing collection on popular music and culture in the special collections at the university of maryland

[lovelyrainbowkitsune]

Idk is it weird to actually sort of miss 2013 Tumblr? It was ‘cringe’ and had some awful moments/experiences sure… but a lot of that early to mid 2010s genuine goofiness is what partially got me through high school when I was at my worst. The internet was considered a place to escape reality for a little while. Roleplaying. Ask games and blogs. Calling each other by our usernames. The follow for follow technique. Hipster vs fandom being the only main discourse topic. Getting into interests and memes that were essentially nonrelevant irl. I don’t think I would like to fully go back. Nonetheless, it still comforts me knowing that the earlier community gave me a space to exist.

#i think one of the traditions in tact is finding news in an unconventional way #and seeing memes before they become popular on other social media sites #old tumblr #2013 tumblr #fandom culture #rainbow ramblings

[worstloki]

negative connotations to Arabic phrase ‘God is Great’ incorrect. average praying Muslim does takbir (says Allahu Akbar) a minimum 95 times a day and should have been counted.

#minimum #like MIMIMUM. #each day #like that’s just for the 5 prayers #only the obligatory ones it doesn’t include the additional voluntary ones most people also tend to do at some point #it doesn’t include regular use of the phrase in conversation #the phrase is literally used as an exclamation #like if you say ‘Allahu akbar my shift is over! I can go home alhumdulilah!’ #like I don’t know what to tell you #western news-media connotations are so weird #you literally yell takbir to celebrate as well #saw a thing where everyone did takbir every time someone donated a huge amount to charity like brooooooooo #people be laughing so hard and getting Allahuakbar Allahuakbar out while wheezing #you score a goal? Allahu akbar alhumdulilah #this is very normal culturally transmitted info #Christian Arabs use the phrase as well like it's Arabic come on western media you’re not even trying #it’s such a joke #95 doesn't even include the 2 calls to prayer #it doesn't count people who do the extra allahu akbar (x33) after each prayer #doesn't include anything recited before bed #like. these are not uncommon things people choose to do. like...... BRO??? #if you've ever seen Muslims praying in a group the person leading the prayer does the takbir out loud. that's literally how it's done #there are like 7 or 5 'Allahu akbar's in each round of prayer #you can't NOT say that part out loud it's literally THE part that has to be said out loud in each prayer #this information is very available online #you can say it before doing anything idk why it became a big deal in the west especially #it's some strange xenophobic Islamophobic normalise killings in those regions of the world mix #I’ve been getting recommended so many Arabic anime edits idk what to tell you #call everyone habibi it’s good for you #one of the most popular world languages fr

[sagetheroom]

we cry together

#black culture #black tumblr #black twitter #culture #popular culture #fashion #black girl magic #taylour paige #kendrick lamar #mr morale and the big steppers #new music #rap and hip hop #rap legend #2022 rap #pop culture #melanin magic #melanin #we cry together

[dykeseinfeld]

the grown person in me with self respect doesn't give a shit about the big bang theory/young sheldon/the new spinoff etc but....the sitcom historian in me............

#the new show is going back to single camera live studio audience!! #we haven't had a popular sitcom w that format in. possibly a decade!! #they're so absurdly popular they represent interesting parts of the culture!! young sheldon is so popular among christians!!!!!

[mariocki]

"From a very early age the child becomes part of a pattern he never fully understands and is powerless to change. It is a pattern that is made up of rituals - of form periods, morning assemblies, lessons that follow each other in quick succession for no apparent reason, bells rung by other people that govern his changes of activity, milk, school dinners, homework. His life is part of a scheme that has been devised by people he does not know, and into which he is expected to fit without question.

And it is here that we come to the real content of our educational structure. At school, the child is taught by experience that it is normal for other people to organize his life. He will be told in Civics or History that he lives in a democracy, which means that people govern themselves. But he will know as an experienced fact that he must expect to be governed by other people who know better than he does."

- Albert Hunt, The Tyranny of Subjects, in Education for Democracy (2nd ed., 1972)

#teaching tag #education for democracy #albert hunt #quotes #the tyranny of subjects #1972 #education #teaching #this is proving a valuable read; it's necessarily dated‚ and some of the ideas that must have seemed revolutionary in the late 60s and #early 70s are now taken for granted in most popular approaches to pedagogical ideals. elsewhere tho there are radical suggestions for #completely new approaches to comprehensive teaching which still carry merit and would still bear further investigation (and remain just as #unlikely to see implementation under the current uk culture of education). many of the articles and papers collected in this book were #written under a Conservative government that was slowly undoing what small progress had been made in the field of universal education #by the previous labour gov. in the 59 years since publication‚ that baton has gone forwards and backwards several times‚ with seemingly #ever slower and smaller progress made at the expense of ever greater compromise and deconstruction. two steps forwards‚ one step back; same #as it ever was. same as it may well ever be

[yamirexic]

a hard take on today's music (especially pop and tiktok songs)

looks are more important today. they all sound the same. music doesn't mean anything anymore. yesterday: hit, tomorrow: forgotten. short shallow songs. same old shit spit out and shitted out by consuming too much milk. boring, always the same, sometimes even plagiarized. bring back the value, bring back mtv times, bring back the time when we waited in front of the radio for our favorite song from our favorite artist. bring back music and forget the trash like it was supposed to be, quote: the labels.

I'm not saying that everyone out there is making bad music but most people don't stand out or just copy.

#pop #pop music #popular #music video #new music #music #gen z #gen z culture #gen z shit #gen alpha #wtf #millennials #boomers #life's shit #shitpost #depressing shit #personal shit #fuck #pop is dead #today music #tiktok #bad music #hard take #honest #honestly #honest opinion

[azuredrg]

ppl on tiktok will say that a girl is not gyaru & the girl in question is quite literally a model for egg

#mamba is one of my favorite styles too but it is not the 90s anymore!!!!!!! #mostly popular w gaijin now no one in jp rly wears it... 😭 #so sad lame teens are inventing new rules for a fashion culture instead of just adhering to it #sorry i dont wear it much anymore but i am still a gyaru believer

[nutzo0001]

what grinds my gears, and happen so very often:

short post, and just for my blog (here just to have place to input it in)

0/27, 17/04/24 Random thoughts

many intenrnet posts about "how people love..." to be awake at 1-5am, "just to be in..." dark and silence, alone, with their thoughts - when one person pinpoints it, it is romantic for a while. but then, it starts to (get popular,) feel sacharine and there are copycats andcomments to it. makes one wonder ?how so?"

...

what to do? it feels like the best era already happened, and we live in the last era - last juice of past glory - pastiche of it. '97-'15 peak (/before big-media...). after that, culture and society went to era of "meta-criticism", being critical about why [it] is so critical... - gives me the same "vibes" as if... your dreams came true, - but then , as if - you start to feel guilty, lied to (sorts of "suffering from success"), weird ("and now what!") - similar to about any [post-revolution] (brainfog) zeitgeist - you got what you want(ed), - but how to assure this wont repeat, that [*this*] will not be took for granted (...), forgotten, and bagatelized - (new-)normalized, - simplified, and >> used in (some, pol.) future campaign , and or used in some form of (pol., soc.) coercion?!! - - just *another* status quo, "without" history!

(they npcs accept unacceptable)

#what grinds my gears #and happen so very often: #short post #and just for my blog (here just to have place to input it in) #0/27 #17/04/24 Random thoughts #many intenrnet posts about “how people love...” to be awake at 1-5am #“just to be in...” dark and silence #alone #with their thoughts - when one person pinpoints it #it is romantic for a while. but then #it starts to (get popular #) feel sacharine and there are copycats andcomments to it. makes one wonder ?how so?" #... #what to do? it feels like the best era already happened #and we live in the last era - last juice of past glory - pastiche of it. '97-'15 peak (/before big-media...). after that #culture and society went to era of “meta-criticism” #being critical about why [it] is so critical... - gives me the same “vibes” as if... your dreams came true #- but then #as if - you start to feel guilty #lied to (sorts of “suffering from success”) #weird (“and now what!”) - similar to about any [post-revolution] (brainfog) zeitgeist - #you got what you want(ed) #- but how to assure this wont repeat #that [*this*] will not be took for granted (...) #forgotten #and bagatelized - (new-)normalized #- simplified #and >> used in (some #pol.) future campaign

[zinck-poetry]

Person to Person

Sister, I don't know your sorrow.

But I'll sit and listen for as long as this man can.

When the talking's all done.

Our faults we shall know.

We let them all flow into day of days and night of night.

We've come so far to bare our, souls!

Brother, why don't you speak to me like you used to.

I'll even give you the words to say.

When the talking's said and done.

Our flaws we shall know.

We let them all just flow into, day of days and nights of night.

We've come so far to bare our, souls!

Sister! Brother!

Take a look, tell me what do you see?

To the edge of the land we run.

To watch the ocean rise and fall.

To the top of the mountain we run.

To watch the sky.

Day of days and nights of night.

We've come so far to bare our, souls!

By Zinck.

#original poem #new poetry #short poem #modern poetry #poems on tumblr #culture #poem #spoken poetry #pop culture #popular

[benkyoutobentou]

#my other poll blew up so I thought this might be appreciated as well #inspired by the one person who wanted daifuku as an option #langblr #studyblr #language learning #Japanese #food #culture #polyglot #benkyou posting #I absolutely had to add zenzai because I became obsessed with it when I had some for new years when in Japan #also I’m kinda sad I couldn’t fit in kuromame but I don’t think that honestly would be very popular compared to the other options