#then modern social media rolled around and no longer can we just publish and disappear no no

[mishkakagehishka]

Idc anymore i think i'm a good enough writer that i can say that when i noticed the pattern in what exactly makes a book "good" on booktok (and, bc of that, what makes it popular and top bestseller lists), it feels almost demeaning and denigrating to the entire craft. Idk if i should blame the way tiktok-esque social media has utterly rotted everyone's ability to concentrate and read more than three sentences, but literally none of those books are objectively good.

(Yes, yes, art is subjective. HOWEVER. Art is subjective when you look at style, at themes, at motifs, at plots and characters. Art is still a craft, it still requires skill. I've seen beyond the tiktok quotes of these books. Not even their editors are good given the amount of typos/spelling mistakes. That is not something that you should find in a traditionally published book.)

You look at these books, and you know the only reason for their existence is to make money. I cannot and will not accept that as art.

(I'm on Tumblr, of course I have to explain every point. Artists who make money off their art =/= people who only create art meant to be profitable. There is a difference between an artist who hopes to monetise doing what they love, who creates what they wish to see more of and who happens to then create something that other people wish to see more of, and a person who looks at what's trending and decides that making an unholy frankenstein's monster of a book that mashes all those trending tropes and motifs together would get them rich quick. The fact that a lot of these booktok books become popular because of nepotism is just the cherry on top. It's soulless.)

And to finally say what I wanted to say, it's because none of these books have any deeper message or even artistic value to them. You will find a few out of context quotes or paragraphs, ones written specifically so they'd look deep and beautiful when taken out of context, so that people would post them, so that people would buy the books. Entire books written just so those few lines could become viral and make cash. It cannot even be compared to a hook line writers would post to get people interested in their works, because in booktok's case, those are the only lines of quality and in the context itself, they are often out of place and forced.

I just hate booktok, i hate what modern social media has done to art. It's all created to be quickly consumed, for the few ☆aesthetic☆ glances, and then discarded. Just to make more money for those who are already nepo babies. As if artists needed more obstacles to jump over.

#of course historically it's always been the same #people with free time to create (rich powerful) created #very rarely did you see someone from a humble bg make it as an artist #which is why killing maiming everyone saying Shakespeare was actually a rich guy btw #but like it makes me angry personally #before you call me just jealous - i don't have any wish to monetise my art #my career ambitions lie in a different field (tho adjacent i suppose since i'm a linguist) #i'm saying it makes me angry for other writers who want to make money doing what they love most #it's always been hard. you've always had to have connections or fight tooth and nail for a chance at being published #why? because of how SUBJECTIVE it is #but at least if your skills distinct you and if you bring a truly unique concept you'd have better chances #then modern social media rolled around and no longer can we just publish and disappear no no #WE have to market our works. on twitter on instagram on podcasts on the radio and tv it's up to the authors #i already found that demeaning enough as an introvert #but now it's not even that. publishers no longer look for unique and distinct #they found out booktok is the real cash cow. they look for colleen hoovers who publish fifty books a year #all of poor quality but with enough aesthetic lines that they can easily be marketed thru #the youth who uses AO3 tags and ''omg it's so girlboss!'' and ''it has representation! (not really it's always piss poor rep)'' to market #it to others. who take the same line over and over and go ''omg... this is so deep'' but the lines never look good in context

[miscellanyblue]

Tales from ‘the heart of modern misogyny’

The Daily Beast unmasking of a New Hampshire House member as the founder of a notorious online forum that has been called “the heart of modern misogyny” sent shockwaves through the state’s political community. The governor, House speaker and GOP party chair all called on Rep. Robert Fisher (R-Laconia) to resign and last week the Republican-led House voted 307-56 to review Fisher’s actions for possible sanctions.

In a Laconia Daily Sun column, Fisher implicitly acknowledged his role in creating the forum when he explained and defended comments attributed to Reddit user pk_atheist in Bonnie Bacarisse’s detailed investigation. The previously anonymous Redditor is the founder of The Red Pill, which bills itself as a forum to discuss “sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.”

Fisher’s defense pointedly omitted any mention of The Red Pill, either his role in creating it or his ongoing involvement in the community. He will have a chance to expound on that Tuesday when he appears before the House Legislative Administration Committee. Here’s what we found.

‘Friends, I am stepping down’

On January 4, 2013, pk_atheist handed off the role of The Red Pill moderator to RedPillSchool, a Redditor whose account had been created just 17 minutes before the message from pk_atheist.

“Friends, I am stepping down,” he wrote. “Thanks for the great month.. this place has really grown and I'm excited for its future. Unfortunately due to circumstances I won't be bringing up here I am officially stepping down as a moderator and will no longer take part in any way with this community.”

“But don't worry..” pk_atheist wrote. “I leave you in the very capable hands of /u/redpillschool. I have been talking with him over the past few weeks and he is more than prepared to continue taking the community in the same direction. So long, and thanks for a memorable experience.”

“Don't worry... I promise to fill the void!” RedPillSchool chimed in. “Pk and I are on the same page.”

Over time, some Red Pillers conflated the two aliases and referred to RedPillSchool as the forum’s founder. For example, pickup artist Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh introduced The Red Pill to his blog’s readers by writing, “The Red Pill subreddit was created by an anonymous individual who goes by the handle RedPillSchool.”

When “The Red Pill Sidebar” was published in 2015, a post that had been written by pk_atheist in November 2012 to introduce the forum was included -- but it was now attributed to RedPillSchool. RedPillSchool thanked the member who assembled the collection and he placed a copy on a Red Pill website “so it doesn't disappear one day.”

In that same discussion, RedPillSchool recounted a date he had with a women's studies major who was familiar with The Red Pill and “went on and on about how refreshing it was to go on a date with a guy who was nothing like that. … I told her that I created the forum and actually hated women. She laughed and ordered another round. I don't think people would believe me if I did go public. Lol”

RedPillSchool made an explicit effort to refrain from providing personal details that would threaten his anonymity. In 2013, though, he did confirm his age as “30 +- 2 years.” (Fisher was 28 at the time.) In a Guardian interview he also confirmed that he is “white, atheist [and] conservative” (though admittedly, that likely applies to most Red Pillers).

RedPillSchool does occasionally repeat the story that he inherited The Red Pill from its founder, pk_atheist. “The sub itself was handed over to me early on,” he wrote last year, “I had had a lot of long conversations with the founder who went on to bigger and better things and he trusted I would run the forum well.”

But in a Guardian interview, RedPillSchool changed his story and said that he was the creator of The Red Pill. In the unabridged version of the interview RedPillSchool posted online, he told the reporter that he had been moderating the subreddit “since the red pill's inception.”

RedPillSchool described the events that led him to create the site. “I got started when I stumbled upon a few manosphere blogs and realized there wasn't really a good forum for discussion on masculine topics,” he explained. “I noticed the attitude of women in the dating market was very negative, it was a terrible experience. So that led me to researching others' experiences which led me to the mansophere, and eventually theredpill.”

(The Guardian piece referred to RedSchoolPill as “Morpheus Manfred.” RedPillSchool explained: “A few years ago was my first big interview, it was BBC world News. I needed an email, quickly. So I made a GMAIL, and it needed a name, so I figured, let's try Morpheus. You know, for obvious reasons. They needed a last name though, so I just thought Manfred sounded kinda righteous. Didn't realize they'd read my ‘From’ line on the email and announce me as Morpheus Manfred on the air. Since then I just kept it for consistency's sake.”)

‘We are the Puerarchy’

As The Red Pill grew, RedPillSchool was instrumental in rolling out a series of Red Pill-related websites – all with a connection to Fisher.

The original administrator’s email address for each site was Fisher’s personal email address -- the same email address linked to his campaign website, his band website and included in Fisher’s letter of complaint to the PUC -- and are all hosted on servers in Orlando, Florida. (Fisher once told Redditors that he is “personally spending thousands of dollars to co-locate [computer servers] in places like Florida.”)

The websites include trp.red (email), a Red Pill-related social media platform; forums.red (email), an archive of the Reddit Red Pill subreddits; feministvictims.com (email), a fundraising site for “victims of feminism;” and puerarchy.com (email), RedPillSchool’s blog.

Puerarchy.com is also linked to Fisher through a Google Adsense account. The website shares a Google Adsense publisher ID with insideNH.com, a website authored by Fisher and Rep. Nick Zaricki (R-Goffstown) where the legislators discussed issues related to their work in the New Hampshire House. (The insideNH.com domain name expired last month and the site is now offline.) Ad revenue from the two sites is directed to the same user's account.

Puerarchy.com made its debut in the summer of 2013. The word “puerarchy” was coined by the author of The Manosphere: A New Hope For Masculinity, Ian Ironwood, to describe “the evolution of male values and masculine goals toward a more selfish, self-oriented and unashamedly masculine perspective.”

RedPillSchool embraced the notion as a battle cry: “We’re going to eat pizza. We’re going to play videogames. We’re going to look at porn. We’re going to fuck every bitch we can. And we’re never going to ‘grow up,’” he wrote. “Some of us may make brilliant amounts of money. But one thing’s for sure: what we do is for us- and we’re not going to share. … Honor is dead. Long live the Puerarchy.”

In addition to news and discussion, the site hosts an interactive, text-based game: Slut Quest. It’s a sendup of Depression Quest, the game by female game developer Zoe Quinn that was at the center of the Gamergate controversy. The Slut Quest storyline is a typical Red Pill trope: a woman who has sex with men to advance her career and threatens to accuse them of rape if they don’t accede to her demands. “Slutquest was my crowning achievement,” RedPillSchool wrote.

Feministvictims.com was launched in response to the Andria Richards controversy that resulted in a male tech employee losing his job after she overheard him making an off-color remark. A Huffington Post write-up included a quote from RedPillSchool explaining why he believed the new site was necessary. “Unfortunately in today’s climate, being a man has become a financial liability,” RedPillSchool wrote. “Say the wrong thing in the wrong place and you can find your entire life ruined. Destroyed.”

“Feminists have fought for equality, but now they’re out for our rights,” he continued. “They’re destroying us financially. They’re trying to tear apart our families. We’re saying that enough is enough. No longer should men fear masculinity.”

‘I won't deny that the language is colorful’

When interviewed by Guardian’s Stephen Marche about The Red Pill’s notorious reputation as a misogynistic cesspool, RedPillSchool said, “I won't deny that the language is colorful and there's a lot of emotion expressed by the men on the forum.”

“I would argue that the definition of misogyny isn't really very concrete, that much is labeled as such because it's inconvenient. So, let's say there's a guy who just says ‘well I hate women.’ I think that's textbook misogyny and, in fact, we let them say that,” he continued. Because there's nowhere else for a man to blow off steam. … The endgame of our advice isn't to hate women. It's to understand them so you can stop being so darn frustrated by them.”

“If a guy came on and talked about actually hurting women or plotting to harm them, we'd remove them and possibly contact authorities if there was any risk of an immediate threat,” he insisted. “But this is the one place where men have the freedom to throw around ideas, vent, and discuss openly with other men.”

RedPillSchool denied the forum promotes rape culture. “There's no discussion of rape strategies. It's antithetical to our entire purpose, which is to find a way to become attractive enough that women will want to be with us,” he said. “If the group was seriously pro-rape, there simply wouldn't be a discussion on building attraction. We'd just take 'em all by force.”

“There have been probably a handful of comments I've removed over the past three years,” he continued, “and they're usually one-offs by trolls who want to make the group look pro-rape. They're banned and removed, since that is strictly forbidden in our forum rules.”

On the other hand, RedPillSchool has endorsed the subject of rape as “a great marketing gimmick.” In a post summarizing the “Red Pill state of affairs” written last year, RedPillSchool praised pickup artist "Roosh V" for the attention garnered by his plans for an international meet-up that was condemned as a “make rape legal” rally by detractors. The American blogger is best known for a 2015 article in which he proposed legalizing rape – a piece he said was a “satirical thought experiment” and “not to be taken literally.”

“I really can't fault him for the play that he made,” RedPillSchool wrote. “Some clever statements about rape that could be played off with the plausible deniability of satire, but gaining international attention on the sound bites. He was able to scare feminists and women in every major city, convincing them that big, bad rapists were coming to town to meet, plot and fester in the underbellies of their streets.”

‘The wrath of vitriolic women’

RedPillSchool has apparently been keeping a close eye on the Fisher unmasking and the subsequent reactions. The day Fisher’s response to the Daily Beast article was published by the Laconia Daily Sun, RedPillSchool posted a link to it on a Red Pill-related site. “I just got sent this by somebody on [Reddit],” he wrote.

Saturday, he addressed the unmasking, referring to it as “the recent doxxing of an alleged redpill founder.”

“Knowing the truth and living by it was not enough to save that man from the wrath of vitriolic women,” RedPillSchool wrote. “He stands as a testament to what happens to men who stand alone: They get torn down. Had he not built his own support structure, it could have been the end of his career.”

#Robert Fisher #The Red Pill #Misogyny #NH State House

[universeinform-blog]

Instagram for iOS adds support for downloading live videos to your Camera Roll

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Instagram for iOS adds support for downloading live videos to your Camera Roll

Instagram today has announced a new replace for its iOS and Android apps. The update comes now not lengthy after the social network brought assist for stickers to its Tales feature. nowadays’s replace, but, pertains to stay video and provides the guide for downloading live videos as soon as the broadcast has ended…

Instagram revealed the update in a post on its respectable blog, explaining once alive circulate has ended, the broadcaster now has the potential to download the pictures and keep it to their smartphone. After the live move ends, the broadcaster will see a brand new “save” button inside the higher proper nook of the app. Tapping this can store the photos from your camera roll, for this reason keeping it all the time.

One crucial element to the word here is that after the video has been downloaded, it nonetheless disappears absolutely from the Instagram app itself. Neither the broadcaster nor the visitors might be capable of watching it within the Instagram app after the circulate has ended. Instagram also says that most effective the raw video photos can be stored, no longer the likes or comments the movement obtained.

Right here’s how Instagram explains the new characteristic on its legit weblog:

Starting these days, you’ll have the option to keep your live video for your phone on the stop of a broadcast. While stay motion pictures will preserve to disappear from the app while you’re executed, this replace offers you the flexibility to preserve onto your video and re-watch it later, particularly if something interesting occurs all through your broadcast which you want to remember or proportion.

After your live broadcast ends, tap keep within the upper right corner. You’ll handiest be capable of shop your video — not the remarks, likes, a range of viewers or any live interactions. After saving, tap accomplished and your live video will be saved to your camera roll but will no longer be available within the app.

Instagram first delivered assist for live streaming video lower back in December. The capacity to download stay publicizes comes with the modern model of the Instagram app for iOS and Android, that are to be had on every respective platform today.

How to Use Instagram Stories to Market Your Biz

Live video is eventually getting the attention it deserves. Systems like Fb and Twitter have already jumped aboard the bandwagon, rolling out their very own variations of this feature. Now, we see Instagram doing the identical component, with “Memories.” That is going to take social media advertising and marketing to some other degree for agencies which are already on Instagram.

Instagram is owned by means of Fb, so it is no wonder that they determined to head this path. Each time someone goes Live on Instagram, you will see a “Stay” icon display up in the profile’s Memories bar. Only fans could be capable of seeing this alert.

Unlike Fb and Twitter, Instagram Testimonies doesn’t hold on to the Live photos you shoot. As an alternative, the video disappears after 24 hours. This became to house people who are concerned about their films turning into a part of net records, which might also someday come lower back to hang-out them.

So how are you going to start the usage of Instagram Stories for your brand? You can both hire offerings from social media advertising agencies or follow these commands.

Brief Guide to the usage of Instagram Testimonies

This is a simple step with the aid of step Guide for setting up your Stay feed on Instagram:

Click on the plus signal determined in the left nook at the pinnacle of your screen. Next, hit the round button to capture an image, or press down on it for 10 seconds to begin shooting video.

Now, You could use one of the three pen types to start drawing for your picture/video and adding emojis. Color filters are also to be had. As soon as you’ve carried out, Click on at the check mark icon. This can submit your video to your feed. You may take a look at out who is visible the video by means of swiping up in your story. If there are humans viewing which you’d like to block, simply absolutely Click the “X” Subsequent to their name.

Constructing Credibility and fans

Frequently developing Instagram Tales can pressure more followers to your channel and make your profile extra discoverable. simply ensure you are selling your organization content on different social media channels you’re advertising on. In case you need help on this location, You may rent an internet advertising business enterprise to deal with this for you.

What makes Testimonies a neat addition is that it suits flawlessly with Instagram’s idea of showcasing stunning, curated content material from your each day lifestyles. With the right method, You could provide you with innovative approaches to apply snapshots and video to decorate your brand.

Android Vs iOS – Who Wins? Let’s Check It Out

With the smartphones marketplace just blooming nowadays cellular running systems have visible a whole lot of modifications in phrases of look, overall performance, usability, utilities, and credibility. Considering the fact that the beginning of this Dog Fight cell Device developers is certain to face demanding situations in staying beforehand of competition. The 2 important competitors of this mobile operating Gadget market are presently Android (a Google Product) and iOS (an Apple Production).

Permit’s take a look at the strategies that they have opted to stay beforehand of every other.

Person Interface.

It’ll take a while to factor significant variations in the Person interfaces of The 2 operating structures but to an everyday Person, Apple’s iOS UI appears plenty richer as compared to Android due to its fluidity and versatility in switching animations. Although each provides similar resolutions video display but we have to mention this battle is gained by iOS.

Packages

Android is an open source product whereas iOS isn’t, therefore in android anyone can construct Android Programs or even sell it without certification from Google which offers the target market an extensive location to discover and because of this element marketplace percentage of Android has visible a higher increase as compared to iOS.In a case of iOS if you are developing an iOS app then you need to first certify that with Apple which makes it less famous when as compared to Android which makes Android win this warfare with the aid of tremendous margin.

Touch Panel

Considering the fact that maximum of the cell phones launched today is fully Touch enabled therefore mobile Person seeks the higher response from the Contact display panel. cellular customers desire for greater responsive Contact experience and which even has a restoration for misplaced Contact. This option is difficult to grasp but Apple has located a way which gives each of those functions to extra accuracy when as compared Android cell phones, therefore it offers iOS users a wonderful enjoy with their Apple product and cause them to addictive to iOS, that’s a function that Apple has gained the struggle.

Overall performance and Battery Backups

Considering that one-of-a-kind Android cell structures may additionally offer special overall performance and battery backups, we will evaluate the average of Android vs. IOS battery backup. Although each those systems provide Packages wherein Consumer can decide whether to go with excessive performance or higher battery backup, Apple’s iOS battery backup is with the aid of far a good deal higher in comparison to Android common battery backup and also while we look at the performance of Android telephones it is a whole lot slower in comparison to Apple’s iOS fluidity and switching speeds, so this struggle also is going to iOS.

Hardware Components

While we come to this segment it becomes simply tough to choose who absolutely wins this conflict.

Camera

Android offers surely the first-class Camera first-class and capabilities which include editing videos and photographs with the assist of unfastened Applications dynamically and there are a lot of stuff that you could do together with your images and motion pictures.

Sound Plugins and Utilities

by means of the first affect on This option, you would say Apple is the one and you are proper. When you study iTunes, it gives the satisfactory track libraries all around the global which permits you to percentage your song amongst extraordinary Apple products with just a Touch of a button. The sound Hardware at Apple product is perfect in its Treble and Base which makes it unbeatable on this section.

End

We, in the long run, concludes that Despite the fact that android has the extra marketplace proportion in terms of Packages nevertheless iOS looks rock stable on the subject of income.

In comparison to latest Android version i.E. Ice Cream Sandwich (Android four.0), the conflict gets excessive and it would be actually interesting to see how some distance Android gives when the tons predicted idea iPhone 5 lands inside the market.

This may publish your video for your feed. You may check out who is visible the video by using swiping up in your tale. If there are human beings viewing which you’d like to block, simply sincerely click on the “X” subsequent to their name.