It was a weird feeling when the news started to report on popular YouTube videos and later social media posts. More lately social media TRENDS.
The media landscape has become so strange in the past decade.
The more I think about it, advertising and more abstractly, corporatism, are really to blame.
How many of the “video games are violent and bad” or “Marilyn Manson is the devil” people were there really in 90’s early 2000’s? Starbucks hates Christmas people in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s?
Were they just amplified by the media? Is social media and the internet really to blame or did they just exploit a greedy industry already broken by years of mergers and acquisitions by conglomerates who already weren’t keen on spending on journalism?
The media landscape has become so strange in the past decade.
The more I think about it, advertising and more abstractly, corporatism, are really to blame.
How many of the “video games are violent and bad” or “Marilyn Manson is the devil” people were there really in 90’s early 2000’s? Starbucks hates Christmas people in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s?
Were they just amplified by the media? Is social media and the internet really to blame or did they just exploit a greedy industry already broken by years of mergers and acquisitions by conglomerates who already weren’t keen on spending on journalism?