#social phenomena

[atlasinlimbo]

Are we what we do.1

What if I stop being active? What if I didn't evolve or grow or perform as everybody does around me today? That would produce a sense of self disgust and make me ashamed of my lack of will, my lack of vitality? Would i stop deserving to be alive if I didn't matched all the goals set up sine qua non life isn't being used correctly as it is supposed to be dedicated to a mission within society, within the social media...Every day that passes and every face I will cross is the significance of my satisfaction with myself, the expectations for what comes out of a being whether it is words, ideas or commitment are no longer qualitative but quantitative. It is possible that instructors and scholars have stopped looking for what a content is truly about in a frenzy to produce as much content as possible but what for? If i work for money, I would probably work as an advocate for the system of money and if I am rewarded for an achievement it is not so much for the achievement in itself but because i have placed or rather invested my reward and the significance of what is rewarded in the hands of this or that prominent influence that made a lot of money at a certain time and keep on making money because it transmitted the validity of its purpose into a sufficient number of people's psyche. Every second of life is about shifts and elevators and signing up. You have a number of possibilities to sign up for a trail and the delay to do so, both will lead you somewhere in opposition to the existentially distressing idea "leading to nowhere". Time, space and the actors embodied by us are in a board game and depending on how many trials you enroll yourself in, your position on the board game is eloquent and satisfactory to look at or pitiful and dissatisfactory. The closer you are to the end of the game before the end of life the more alive you will feel, the closer you are to your beginning square, the more isolated and purposeless you will feel which will cause self hatred, depression and anxiety. The most elementary rule is that it is only in the power of those who finished the game the earliest, the quickest before their own timer breaks down (death) to become the administrators of the game and maker of the rules the upcoming participants crossing the starting line will be playing with. But what if the winners of a game could only reproduce the same kind of rules as the ones that led them to victory regardless of what challenges the newest participants bring along with them. What if to become a board creator rather than board participant you needed to find a way to stop playing and extract yourself from the entire board not by crossing its finishing line but creating some underground tunnel that leads to another side of the reality you've been thrown on? What if it is not your name in a basket with many others all establishing their territory step by step harmoniously that mattered and was significant to fulfill some true happiness but giving all the attention to the phenomena your being creates and surfs on no matter what is being asked from the outside world, that invisible yet sensorially vivid magnetism almost triggering and somehow disturbing.

#neo liberalism #productivity #burn out #existentialism #philosophy #psychology #social phenomena #absurdism

[ratedc]

we literally have no clue how much of the horrors in genloss actually represent the content creators’ actual feelings about content creation and how much of it was just thrown in to make it a better story. i want to throw up.

#generation loss #genloss #we know that niki's character is based around how she's treated online #but like how miserable are content creators in reality?? #not to be parasocial either bc i am genuinely just fascinated in the social phenomena of content creation and labour as a whole #but content creation is so idealized and content creators tend to talk positively about it so are they actually just fucking miserable? #and how much of that is our fault as viewers and how much of it is a product of capitalism and broader societal expectations? #rated rambles

[topnotchquark]

What @moonshynecybin said in her fic notes about Vale being very good at being a Celebrity and having fun with it as opposed to explicitly performing has given me so much to chew on. What is the clear line of distinction between knowing you're a spectacle vs performing to come across a certain way. What was it about Vale that time and again made it so that people always seemed to be charmed. How much of it was a product of the time in which he was at his best. How much of it was down to a certain type of world we lived in where celebrities were spared the scrutiny of social media and the public eye was decidedly masculine in its sense of consumption. How is it that he found fame so young and managed to understand it's machinations so well without an excessive amount effort put into it. How did he bring his authenticity to it time and time again while keeping his privacy intact. Anyway send me asks about this if you would like and also go read the fic in question (x)

#someone had tagged a picture of Vale with “no wonder the whole of Italy jumped when he said jump” #and that's so true #but also #sports and celebrity was something of an interesting phenomena in pre social media times #when television converage was sort a one way singular point of reference #celebrity wasn't for scrutiny as much as it was for consumption #so many thoughts #valentino rossi #vale #motogp

[noknowshame]

today during a research meeting I reached into my backpack and pulled out my copy of Violence & the Sacred and before a word even came out of my mouth my advisor said “…not this guy again”

#that feel when your job is studying observable phenomena but your fav phenomena functions via unobservability #listen you can still dig a hole with an oar and by god will I make girard work in experimental social science #rene girard

[llycaons]

I don't actually have a strong sense of the aro/ace inclusionist tumblr cultural climate rn except like 'guyyys we were so mean to them :( let's let them in now come on' or like....really agressive and condescending posts asserting their validity and ~obvious~ inclusion in the lgbt community without any genuine followthrough or explanation

#I was so good staying out of this shit for so long but WHATEVER #im makong posts now #a lot of them are styled off the posts that talk abt like transmisogyny but dont seem to exhibit a deeper understanding #of the social phenomena they're discussing #making it seem like ppl read short supportive sj posts for marginalized groups and then directly co-opt that language #I remember when ppl were trying to make a word for aroace exclusion modeled off terf #and like. stop trying to ride the coattails of advocates against transmisogyny trans women deserve better than that #aroace people are of course valid! but leave trans women alone! #and lgbt ppl honestly and women in general too like the amount of homophobia and victim blaming I've seen is godawful #cor.txt

[honeybabymp3]

literally the population of tumblr (gay) likes to look at insane gaylor stuff and go "wow they are so insane" but they are missing the crucial context that that is actually how all swifties are

#main difference is that bc gaylorism is about 'she is secretly gay' it has an extra conspiracy theory level unlike common swiftie shit that #is just album and single announcement #but still. you have to look at a social phenomena in the context at which it grew. you heathens

[eileenleahy]

soo much historical revisionism on the left it's mind-boggling. "the us suffrage movement was super racist bc all its leaders opposed black men's right to vote" i think you dont know anything about the suffrage movement? like i think youve only ever heard of susan b anthony and maybe elizabeth cady stanton

#like. did you know there were 6 black suffragettes who were active in the nwsa (anthony's suffrage organization which infamously used racis #in their rhetorical strategy)? it's historians who try to understand such ''confusing'' phenomena. there are explanations!! because the #history of race has never been White vs Non-White or Racist vs Anti-Racist. no social history looks like so manichaean #and it's not conservative in the slightest to say so? it's only a reflection of ideological insecurity to oppose such complexity. because #you think complications = negations

[meaganfoster]

doing two ask games at once….top five colors and 11 20 29!!!

hello jules top five colors yippeeee um 1. guts (album) purple 2. guts (body) sticky pink 3. mahogany 4. gray rose 5. sunlight

11. what do you consider romance is one of the most interesting qs on the list to me....well i guess marriage is inherently about conformity or at least that's how i see it.....sorry did i say marriage i meant romance. romance is literally abt marriage its schrodingers marriage. not always but socially structurally etc. you can take pleasure in that conformity in a myriad of ways and take pleasure in how you're capable of creating a good portrait with blood as yr paint but still the validation comes from everyone knowing the blood existed and satisfied by it so the painting is for your happiness..which is perfectly fine and often sexy. mostly im thinking about how most people both hate it and want it and how im no different but like. in a new inspired way that totally makes all the difference !

20. what do you love about the night !! the stars are great friends. and due to its like an oven in here night is the world opening the door and placing you on the counter where delicious smells of you are wafted down to everyone in the house. night is relief and potential

29. what do you do when youre sad. well unfortunately im kind of the worst at being sad but also i cant get enough of it....i mostly watch a tv show or read a book until the dam breaks and regret washes over me. but at least there's always the indulgence of carefully scheduling the crying

#um i had more to say abt romance but i forgot. i love it so much my favorite genre (or at least the KEY element of my fav genres !!) #and one of the most interesting social phenomena. although calling it that implies a lack of choice i hate and only partially agree with #r.💌

[cuntstable]

i do think its sad when people dont make an effort to try and understand something from another persons perspective LOL like yes maybe going ”well i cant relate to that” is a fairly basic human reaction but it just feels like base level compassion to at least try to push through that be it in online or irl communication

#like i just saw this on twitter for maybe the millionth time this week and like i said its clearly a common phenomena but it still makes me #a bit sad. and like i do think social media esp twitter does promote this because Saying Your Piece is often give more importance there than #simply listening to others :/ #like wheres that copypasta thats like I Like Flowers Well have you considered that some people are allergic to pollen 😒 LOL. #and i mean obviously there are topics where multiple point of views and experiences NEED to be brought up and discussed but i do not think #that you should like. qrt someone whos talking about how happy they are in a relationship and how its been healing for them talking about #CODEPENDENCE or whatever when its clearly a very personal experience and not meant to be aplicable to everyone #like at least make your own post. its just rude

[28mindgames]

a rigorous sociological study of american woman in their 40s obsessed with two men who have not been seen in the same room since 2016:

- fixation with a specific era (both in their early 20s)

- projection and reproduction of dichotomies: gender and ethics

- the self-perception of "saviors" "judges of truth"

- distortion of arguments and facts

- confinement in an online community

#it has many contacts with other phenomena both social and political #right?

[cursezoroark]

there needs to be more pokemon trainer ocs in this cruel world i want pokemon oc lore. make your trainer go through some Character Development.

#pokemon #talk #the universe had always been expansive to me. idk i feel like theres. good potential. whether or not your human is a trainer or not #they could be a baker with a whismur for all i know but they get absolutely floored by an event. #doesnt have to be cataclysmic either. idk the whole supernatural phenomena and mythical events rlly holds potential for fun stories. #or just general cultural worldbuilding. school office life work social gatherings relationships etc. ways of life.

[blanketforcas]

if you think a post sounds a little harsh, it's probably cause there's some nuance missing. and you'll probably find it in the notes

#don't let it make you feel bad. life is hard etc etc there's psychological and social processes that explain the phenomena being criticized #and that you often (unknowlingly/unwillingly) take part in #it's okay. hold my hand

[ratedc]

once i move back home it's over for my roommates (i will explain the entire plot of genloss when i encounter them in the kitchen)

#generation loss #genloss #i'm trying to convince them to watch it and i don't think they understand that i am literally a changed person after watching genloss #one of them is a social psychology student!!! he would LOVE genloss!!!!!! #i just want to talk to people about sociological phenomena and the way that they're represented in genloss pls #i really miss my roommates they're so cool #rated rambles

[haggishlyhagging]

. . . [F]inancial incentives are increasingly being introduced in social realms, bringing our market identities—as consumers, customers, service providers and workers—to the forefront of our attention. And when market norms displace social norms, the effects can be hard to reverse, as demonstrated in an experimental study in Haifa, Israel in the 1990s. Ten children's day-nurseries all introduced a small fine for parents who were more than 10 minutes late collecting their children at the end of the day. The parental response? Rather than arriving more promptly, twice as many parents started arriving late. Introducing a monetary fine effectively wiped out any feelings of guilt and was interpreted as a market price for overtime care. Three months later when the experiment ended and the fine was removed, the number of late pick-ups rose higher still: the price had gone, but the guilt hadn't come back. The temporary marketplace had, in essence, erased the social contract.

-Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

#Kate raworth #economic theory #social contract #market phenomena

[kaibump]

I dunno man between all these 'have you watched' 'have you read' 'do you know this character' type of poll accounts it really seems like people under a certain age bracket straight up barely consume a lot of media or bother to watch anything older than current seasonal fodder and it's kind of sad tbh

#i remember one of my cover teacher friends asked a class when they came back from their holidays #what movies and tv shows or anime theyd watched and just found out most of them werent watching #anything but streamers or the most general disney/marvel fodder #some watched anime but they were basically all just saying the same 2 shows mainly JJK #i dunno man i'm not judging them at all but it just feels really weird #i also realise its not like all genz and younger kids but there is like a weird like lack of media they consume or know of #even as a person not of those generations i still knew a lot of 80's and 70's bands+movies+media #and anyone getting into the anime space around my age didnt just start at seasonal but would go down a selection of classics first #and be aware of others #this isnt to say younger people are stupid or less knowledgeable so much as like there's this lack of interests #IN THEIRMEDIA OF INTEREST which is so.. weird like i wouldnt know what to call the phenomena #but its like some are replacing time for watching/reading/playing things with almost entirely social media and twitch streamers/youtubers #which again not necessarily bad but something definitely feels off about it

[stayathome-ts]

"But I don't want to look like I'm copying my friend by doing X" firstly it's not copying if you both like something, secondly you're already two variations of the same person so there's already got a lot in common here, thirdly who give a shit.

#social anxiety is hilarious sometimes #as a system we use purple heart emojis but I'm wanting to use that new light blue one because I like the color #this is incredibly silly for our brain to worry about considering the same hat phenomena is already established here