#this is a community for media consumption

[clonerightsagenda]

I have absolutely no opinions on the Barbie movie but since I am already seeing discourse about it all over my dash I am begging people once again to get involved in some kind of local activism so they will stop thinking what movies you watch is a hardhitting form of praxis

#i'm not saying it's an entirely neutral act #and I get this is the Media Consumption site so people are going to focus on the ethics of media consumption #but I scroll past some of these and go. cool. do you want to invest some time helping real people in your community now #why this

[boylikeanangel]

2023 good omens fandom would never survive may 2019 when the entirety of season 1 got leaked on the emmy fyc site and me and several other blogs spent the entire month slowly feeding people spoilers and screenshots and we all shared the fucking google drive folder with the leaked episodes still with a watermark over them and spoke to each other about it publicly in riddles and it was the best month of our fucking lives. like we did that shit because it was funny it was like we were all staying up past our bedtime and getting away with it. you are all so boring now

#why do you all hate fun im asking so sincerely and from a place of love for this community #i remember a time when we loved leaks leaks were our love language. look what he has done to you. to all of us #literally me skipping school because a new password to access the episodes dropped and i fucking RAN home to watch the last 3 #where is your fucking WHIMSY your zest for life your drive to be a bit naughty about your media consumption. honestly #good omens #discourse // #negative //

[future-exmrs-malcolm]

This is just something I'm curious about after discussing with a group of friends

#sexuality #gender #queer community #gender dysphoria #media consumption #i swear this isnt bisexual erasure #im bi and i genuinely just forgot i exist

[a-fragile-little-teacup]

Sexuality, Consumption of Media, and a Small Comment on Parasocial Relationships.

Hi.

Let's talk about sexuality and how we consume media has led to unhealthy and inappropriate patterns of behavior.

I am going to make this as short and sweet as I can so that my point gets across without giving anyone fatigue from reading.

Throughout the years, we have watched on media consumption has mixed with the online world to create something of a little bubble for each thing. Fandoms form from these little bubbles. This fandom can lead to creative works of art, interesting discussions, and shipping of different people. This is typically around a show, movie, or other fictional work with fictional characters. It has created a sense of community for many people and to blindly claim that it has done no good would be disingenuous.

However, with the rise of this behavior- especially shipping- there has been an increase in assuming the sexuality of many characters. This has since begun to expand into the way real people (singers, actors, content creators, etc.) are treated.

I would like to propose that we have stopped seeing these celebrities as anything more than fictional characters for us to morph and shape into whatever we want them to be. Social media is television show and we are creating the story by using these celebrities. This has caused the line between what is okay and what is not okay to become somewhat blurred.

This has led to an alarming pattern of using "evidence" to assume the sexuality of an individual. This evidence can be the use of vague answers in interviews, claims of personal interpretations as the intentions of the artists, and the use of stereotypes that are commonly harmful to the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.

These celebrities are human beings with lives outside of our view. We cannot play pretend with them like we can with fictional characters. I would advise all of us to hold off on the assumption of someone's sexuality until they make a clear, public statement, if they ever decide to do so. We should not be reading into small jokes, song lyrics, clothes, or stereotypes to find the conclusions that we find to be the most satisfying to us. We should also never be harassing those individuals to make statements that would verify those conclusions.

Believe me, I understand the desire to see ourselves in the people we admire, but it is not those individuals' job to reflect to us a successful image of ourselves. These are people with personal insecurities, valid fears, and a need for privacy.

It is a time for respect. A time to reverse this behavior before it gets further out of hand than it already is. I have seen the victims of this pattern getting younger and younger and I am scared for them. Please, let them decide what is true and right for them. You will never know them in the same way that they know themselves. I promise you that.

Thank you for reading all of this. Even if it seems horrendously obvious to you, please keep it in mind while participating in any online discourse.

Have a great day.

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #bi #bisexual #bisexuality #gay #lesbianism #sapphic #wlw #lesbian #fandom culture #parasocial relationships #media consumption

[unfuck-your-tech]

Unfuck your Tech

The Internet is increasingly profit-based in its design, intended to extract the maximum amount of value from your use of it. Proprietary tech, ads, monetization, algorithmic content dissemination, digital rights media (DRM) etc. are all things that benefit corporations, but that make the Internet more hostile to real individuals and communities.

This blog shares community-oriented tools, free alternatives to paid content, and ways for healthier more human media consumption with a focus on free open-source software (FOSS), that anyone can use to remove limiters, paywalls, ads, mindless endless content feeds, and take back digital autonomy, self-respect and fulfillment.

Unfuck your technology, and make your digital landscape a kinder place.

Header image made in aeCAD, a FOSS circuit board design tool.

#tech #technology #media consumption #media #content consumption #social media algorithms #yo ho ho #anti capitalism #community building #tech tips #life hacks #hacking #hacks #hardware

[heymacy]

Could you say more, ifyou want, about how it feels better to be over your Shameless hyperfixation?

I have been thinking for months that it might greatly improve my mental health if I could get over my Shameless and Gallavich hyperfixation because sometimes it brings me joy but sometimes it causes me to spiral downward.

of course! this got long winded because of who i am as a person so my thoughts are under the cut 💛

first of all, i don't want anyone to think that my opinion on fandom has changed whatsoever. i still think fandom is beautiful and transformative and inspiring and all the lovely superlatives. this is not me talking down about fandom at all, this is just me talking about my personal experience. i will definitely continue to engage with fandom in varying capacities as i have since i was 14 years old. that won't change. i think the main difference is that i no longer feel consumed by the show. it used to be that i would plans my days around fandom activities, think about the show/characters constantly, and spend (i shit you not) 90% of my free time engaging and creating. but it just isn't like that anymore.

i didn't necessarily do anything to make this happen, it just did. but there were definitely catalysts. for example, a lot of the shameless content we consume and engage with is pursuant to ian's bipolar storyline which, to me, is very personal and intense. being bipolar myself, it became very difficult to be constantly surrounded by content about my disease - especially when so much of that content was full of really bad takes or insensitive jokes that hurt me on a very deep, personal level. i realized that if i were to embrace my waning interest fully, to step back and give myself some space, i wouldn't be inundated with that kind of hurt anymore. i wouldn't spiral like i had been and instead i could focus that energy onto maintaining my own mental health and wellbeing. so that's what i did. and it WORKED. so because of that, i feel better.

i also feel better because now i have more time and energy to engage with new and different things. for so long, shameless was one of the only shows i watched. shameless fic was one of the only things i read. shameless gifs and metas were almost exclusively the only things i posted and shared around these parts (which made sense, me being a fandom blog and all). yet somehow, in light of it all, i wasn't enjoying myself anymore. i wasn't engaging because i wanted to engage, i was engaging because i felt a compulsory need to do so. i mean, it had been my entire life for three years, what the fuck else was i supposed to do? so i made the decision to stop, even if it only lasted a week or two. i stopped watching my favorite episodes on repeat. i stopped reading fics and deleted the ones i'd downloaded from my kindle app so as to resist temptation. essentially, i cut myself off cold turkey. then step two, if you will, was to push myself to engage with new content and hobbies, even if only to cleanse my palette. so i read new books and watched new movies and fell down random niche YouTube rabbit holes. and wouldn't you know it, it felt SO GOOD. i discovered new blorbos and watched some delightful films and started doing practical, real-world things like learning to cook and organizing my apartment. i went from feeling flat and one-dimensional, like i was only made up of one basic component, to fully formed and three-dimensional, a well-rounded human being. believe me, and please don't misinterpret what i'm saying here, i am fully aware than 98% of people that engage in fandom activities are fully formed, three-dimensional, well-rounded individuals that can engage with variety of content while maintaining that fandom/life balance. that just wasn't MY reality. still, i managed to break the hyperfixation off at the roots and i feel 5000x better for it. sometimes it's what's necessary to get to a headspace where if you wanted to engage, you could, and you could do it in a healther, more well-balanced way.

i think that if you feel your interest waning even the slightest bit, or if you feel like you're too consumed by it, or if it's not sparking joy anymore, or you're concerned about your mental wellness - take a step back. try engaging with something new and different. ask for recommendations from friends. give that new show everyone is talking about a try. pick up a hobby that's completely removed from media (i've started drawing again) and throw yourself into it entirely. or just sit there! allow yourself to be bored and aimless for a little while! it feels weird but i think it was a necessary thing for me to do. what worked for me and got me to this place definitely won't work for everyone, especially because everyone's levels of engagement and consumption are different, but i think for me it was always an inevitability that this was just a season for me. and a necessity, because i was Not Doing Well near the end of things.

lastly - and if you've made it this far i am genuinely sorry i'm so long-winded and Like This - i love you. i'm sorry that your hyperfixation has you feeling this way. i relate and understand completely and if you ever need someone to talk to about it, you can always come to me for a chat or a vent or even just a different perspective on things. i wish you all the best and i'll be here as a friend and a resource while you figure it all out!

#i hope this makes even the slightest bit of sense and isn't just a long-winded mess of gobbledygook #and i hope i communicated these feelings accurately #if anyone can relate to this please find comfort and solace in knowing that you're not alone #not even just in this fandom but in all fandoms and all levels of media consumption/hobbyism/life #love you guys immensely #macy babbles #anons

[toribookworm22]

Just finished watching Community and while the fifth and sixth seasons were pretty much all bad, the finale episode was something special. As in, it made me tear up. So at least they got that right and let me say goodbye properly to the remaining characters.

#media consumption #community #annie edison #they let me say goodbye to annie edison perfectly #bookworming

[kindestegg]

Some well meaning if slightly annoying wannabe internet philosopher makes the argument that it'd be good to think of ourselves and who we are outside of the mainstream media we get into (which is kind of fair considering how often we see anti intellectual takes regarding how ppl read n interact with media n art itself on the internet) but words it in the worst way possible somehow making it sound like consuming any media ever is unnatural and in result some easily scared bloggers who get terrified of the ridiculous Twitter discourse level take that being into any media ever is problematic being a thing because of this rush to make like 20 posts about how actually it's GREAT to watch whatever you want without a single thought going through your brain and completely detached from the reality of whatever is on-screen without questioning it.

Fascinating. Both of you are soooo fucking annoying.

#commander's orders #i simply think media consumption is a part of life bc it includes art n culture n communication #so it should never be put so deeply into question as people are making it seem #but also. also. i feel like 'ill watch garbage all day without analyzing it or gaining anytjing from it' is not the flex you think it is #its giving 'i can like hp without liking jkr' #and this is coming from a guy who is utterly and hopelessly married to the idea of making #a very long au fan series for a disney show thats already ended #but like damn i still try to be on the other end of the conversation when art communicates itself with me!

[uhgood-girl]

so this video isn't directly about bts but i feel like it's super relevant to them and how there's actually some interesting science going on behind the infamous bts army glow up.

if you're unfamiliar, the bts army glow up is the long running theory? shared experience? amongst said army that listening to bangtan is life changing, usually in incredibly positive ways. your self confidence goes up, your heart grows wider, your view of the world changes, sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes outright. when you choose to engage with their music, and i think you get out as much as you put in, you are choosing to immerse yourself in a thoughtfully composed orchestra of genuine thoughts and feelings and philosophies curated by real human beings. which can be really difficult to find in this age of AI and algorithms. (fuck them, as a wise man once said) go further and choose to engage with them directly, beyond their music alone, and now you're straight up in the magic shop.

if bts were any less than outstanding, that type of power and influence would be terrifying. in the wrong hands, it has been terrifying before but call it some sort of cosmic, karmic balance to the rest of these times we're forced to live in, against all odds, they are good. they are good people. they're overarching messages are positive and deep and applicable to their own lives, it's not just for show. and even when/where they are flawed, they grow, and are made all the greater for it.

personally, they have raised the bar for all of the media i enjoy. i am low key disappointed when i cannot find the underlying meaning in something. this artist hasn't used any jungian theory/greek mythology/contemporary indie films/etc. references in their work? well, what am i supposed to do with that? lol and i'm not saying everything, always, should be an elucidated think piece, that there's no room for the dulcet tones of bubblegum pop (bts has plenty!) or whatever cotton candy equivalents of entertainment, those things have their place, for sure.

but you are what you eat? or in this case, listen to. be careful what you consume.

#bts #bangtan #tik tok #in this essay i #stream the tannies for a balanced media diet #consumption symptoms may include but are not limited to #reasons to stay alive #euphoria #being the one you should love #belief that the future will be okay #slow dancing #safety zones #getting lost in the lights #referring to yourself as a moonchild #an affinity for the color purple #a worldwide community of people you can share values and interests with #the number 7 #like just the number itself

[cockatrice-writers-guild]

#you ever just watch something that changes your brain chemistry #anyway the relationship between creators and their audience huh #any media that talks about the relationship creators have with their audience Gets Me #like g/eneration loss and n/ope that point out the almost uncaring nature of thr audience and how many people will tend to just #essentially chew stuff up and spit them out once they're done #no thought no care to the creation or the creators #or how people tend to just reduce creators and creations to simple one note traits for easier consumption #not thinking about how it might effect the creators at all #just Man #the g/t community tended to do this too #reducing characters to their size and maybe One trait if they were lucky #and i know its not really their fault cuz its the funni size community but Still #writing is thown aside in favour of art cuz it simply takes less time to consume #and even then art os barely given the respect it deserves #people come to the community expecting Content and then getting mad when creators are real people who won't listen to their every whim #to some people jax will never be anything more than Mega Giant and mia nothing but The One Who Makes Him Big By Standing Next To Him #and it sucks but at the same time theres nothing i can do but hope someone sees my characters as Characters #i know a lot of people who felt pressured to make what people wanted rather than what they actually wanted to make #even though i don't think i ever did that for various reasons i still felt guilty for making stuff that wasn't as dark as people wanted #even though stuff filled with hope and caring and jokes is very very important to me #whenever the gt community had a stupid fluff vs fearplay debate i felt like i was contributing to the problem #even though when you think about it #having a fluff vs fearplay debate At All is pretty messed up in a community that's supposed to encourage Creation #reduce peoples work to either one or the other #no inbetween #you don't hate the people who look at your stuff #you appreciate it even but Man #i wish people didn't treat creators as just a form of entertainment and then dispose of them the moment they weren't entertaining anymore #tldr GL messed me up and I'm going to think about it for A While

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

Earlier today had a conversation with a Canadian who 1) felt like American pop culture overwhelms Canadian culture (almost definitely true) and 2) felt that the US hadn’t produced a culturally significant work of pop culture since “Friends”, which….kinda contradicts her first point

#granted she had grown up in a community that severely restricted consumption of secular media #but still that’s an odd argument to make

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

took a shower

is it weird that I want dick to have connections and like relationships outside of the hero community? idk what his current or past state is regarding this, It just makes me kinda happy thinking about him having regular people who live near him, maybe even kind neighbors. like I think im a fan of community and having one, and from what I know Blüdhaven is like Gotham but worse right? there's still just regular ass people living there they just happened to be born there or there was no where else to go, maybe they chose to go there, but they all live there together regardless and shit gets pretty rough. like, they definitely would have groups  maybe like neighborhoods or apartment complexes where they look out for their own? idk I just think it would be something I cant describe it, for dick to become apart of the city in a civilian way where its concerned neighbors, getting invited to watch a game, being trusted to watch the kids on the block, people giving food and other things. is it weird?? is it too domestic to want him to have something like that?? like it would make hiding his night time activities harder maybe?? Because now there's people he lives in the same area as that dont know and they could see things. idk I might just be lonely a projecting again hfinsefeusouefn. it doesn't feel fully real when I imagine it, but it seems nice to just be apart of something like that. Because his other relationship are still kinda work related in a sense, and his family ones are confusing. Idk is this even anything at all?

#dick grayson #grem screams #like #I remember growing up in an apartment complex as a kid barely #it was awhile ago and for like 2 years #I might just be projecting a bit of misremembered child like rose tinted glasses with a mix of media consumption #I might also just really like the idea of him having somewhere to go if things go to shitin other parts of his life #idk man #like it wouldn't happen right away the integration into a community #it never is #I just think it would be cool from outsider pov of people getting to know just dick grayson #like yeah #he has weird bruises and sometimes he has a limp #but hes a real one and im bringing him some pie I made as a thank you

[lewlyfe]

Reality TV: A political conversation starter or easy to consume baby food?

Week 4: Digital Communities and Fandom It’s a Wednesday night, you are sitting on the couch with your family, and you find yourself beginning to have a conversation about the Reality TV Show you are watching… Whether its ‘Married At First Sight’ and you are talking about the conventions of relationships or you are watching ‘Gordan Ramsay’s Food Stars’ and talking about what it takes to run a…

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#Alone Australia #Digital Communities #Gina Chick #Goggle Box #lifestyle #MAFS #media #reality TV #trashy tv #TV consumption

[immortalfornow]

nothing worse than enjoying the first book/season/movie/etc. of a series and wanting desperately to look up fan content but knowing you will immediately be spoiled

#it takes so long to finish a whole series i want reactions to it Now #community is half the fun of media consumption!! #this is because i read all of raven boys today and will not even be at the library for 3 more weeks #i am in fact probably going to look it up on here anyways bc i am fearless

[nicholasandriani]

The Poetics of Apocalypse and the Apologetic Pandemic: Navigating the Maze of Media Literacy in the Age of Information with Data Analysis

In response to your feedback from yesterday’s post, I thought we should continue our conversation on data literacy and media consumption. Let’s face it, we live in an era where the drumbeat of digital information shapes the rhythm of our lives. I am presently replaying The Last of Us as part of an ongoing research project analyzing the use of apocalyptic parables for contemporary sentiments on…

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#communication technology #critical media analysis #data analysis #digital age #Digital Media #electronic media #global village #information dissemination #Information Overload #information technology #interpreting media #Marshall McLuhan #McLuhan quotes #media and information #media and perception #media and society #media consumption #media dynamics #media ecosystem #media education #Media influence #Media Literacy #media platforms #media theory #technological impact #technology and society #The Gutenberg Galaxy #The Medium is the Message #Understanding Media

[floorpancakes]

random 4am thought but one of the things my brain loves to consume the most is deeply personal longform media where people lay their entire hearts bare and transparent regardless of format. like really personal video essays or vtuber drunk streams where they unintentionally reveal hidden parts of their personalities or ramble streams about people's life experiences. it might come from the fact i kinda have a deep fear of misunderstanding people and the existential reality of never knowing a given person, or a sense of shared humanity, or some secret unknown third thing but itll never stop appealing to me

#its also a little bit bolstered hy how i am as a person #im chronically incapable of shutting up and the way i communicate is pretty much mostly unfiltered intention or not #it can be troublesome but i like it when i meet people that are similar or accept me for that #and even if theyre deeply different from me i love hearing people talk #the fact that wevare similar and different and human is scary but also something with an addictively important quality to it #maybe im just weird but ive felt this way about longform naked heart personal media since #waaaay before i got into vtubers and streamers #its just that once i got into watching more live medium personalities it stuck out a lot more obviously to me #i like feeling this emotion that happens when you get personal insight into someones soul like an accidental photograph #i hope one day i can write heart render and itll feel like that to some stranger out there #even if theres scary stuff about pouring yourself that deep into publicly accessible media in a sense too #yeah #media consumption #and all that #i cant wait to become a drunk person peoplewatcher again when im better