Parasocial Relationships Final Project Video

Link just in case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQAi9R1uEI&feature=youtu.be

Fangasm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGLqq5TdaE

There is a new show on Syfy that is called Fangasm. And this show represents geeks being, well geeks. They are so proud of everything they love. This show got my attention. But the more I watched it, and the more I learned about reality television in class I started to understand why this show grabbed my attention. Everything these people stand for and believe in is so foreign to me, like if it was another culture. Duck Dynasty, Honey Boo, and Real Housewives have that similarity in common. I cannot stop watching because it is so different than my life style and that is one of the main reasons that can draw you in.

But this reality TV show specifically got my attention after Caleb had his discussion in class. Because I would have had no idea what cosplay even meant. But in the show Fangasm it talked about the issue of women being to revealing while they dress up in costume. And the interesting part of this show is that it really gets the essences of a geeks’ passion in life.  When they got to pitch their own superhero to one of their role models, Stan Lee, I even got excited for them.

This TV show represents a lot more than a pretty girl in glasses, it shows the idea that the geek life is becoming a culture. I was unaware of how much preparation it took to get ready for a comic convention until I watched this show. I had no idea that LARP means live action role-play.  I love watching the show and respect anybody who shows passion in what they love. I feel like Fangasm shows a great representation of some geeks’ life style and help the world understand geeks a bit better.

            

If it's Not Posted it Never Happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tveFj-O5Q2s 

This YouTube link is about a popular Viner named Jessi Smiles who addresses the issue about how people revolve around social media way too much.  In a joking tone she yells to her mom how she does not want dinner because Instagram is down. And there is no point to eat the meal if she cannot take a picture of it and show it to her followers. If she cannot post it then did it ever really happen?

The Vine by Jessi Smiles reminded me of one of our class discussions. How in today’s society things “do not happen” unless it is posted on a social networking site so all of your friends can see it. If you do something exciting or different you automatically have to post it on every social media website to prove that it happened. Is this proving that your life is better than someone else’s life? What is the purpose of constantly tweeting or posting photos on Instagram? The reason why is because you want to be able to show off what is happening but only the great things that are happing in your life. As well as the need to be connected so you don't have that fear of missing out (FOMO). 

This is a big issue that is happening in our social media world. The idea of people feeling like they have to post certain activities or information on the internet of else its not a real thing. For example if you are in a relationship with a boy the first thing someone asks. is it Facebook official (FBO)? And if you say no they look at you like you just have an imaginary boyfriend. Everything now needs to be on the Internet in order to make it easier for people to cyber stalk. Because if its not posted its not real.

Love is Messy

Reality television is suppose to the show the viewers true-life situations. But media has corrupted the idea of “real life” into just entertainment purposes. The biggest reality television concept that gets me the most irritated is The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. This is a reality TV show that is about one bachelor or bachelorette who tries to find true love. He or she gets to choose from twelve stunning men or women to see who will be his or her soul mate. While the twelve single men or women fight for that position to make the bachelor or bachelorette the happiest person in the world.

The Bachelor and The Bachelorette is a show that is supposed to represent the example of true love. The reality TV show The Bachelor and The Bachelorette shows that love is out there for everyone. But The Bachelor and The Bachelorette producers and the directors of the show apparently only mean love is out there only for the beautiful men and women. The couple of times I have seen this show is either a gorgeous bachelorette or a handsome bachelor. The only choose the men and women who look externally beautiful, is that actually considered reality?

            Also love is not as simple as meeting a man or a women for a few minutes, because of his or her charm and good looks and then automatically in love. Being in love is messy. Love is not always perfect, romantic, out of a movie type of dates. Love should not be a competition and through this reality television show this is the message it is relaying to the watchers.

#Ironic #Funny #Hashtag #WeCantStop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57dzaMaouXA

Hashtags are everywhere in today’s social media. People use hashtags to start having something trend which means a general direction in which something is chaining, or can search for the hashtag and get a set of messages that contain it, or people use hashtags ironically. Hash tags are supposed to stay on social media like Twitter, Instagram, Vine, and even Facebook now is getting apart of the hashtag phenomenon.

This clip with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake shows how we are starting to over use hashtags in our society. We are not simply using hashtags just in social media any more it is now a common slang word in our everyday language. This clip represents how people abuse hashtags, which is something we touched base on in our class discussions.

Like we have discussed in class there are some unwritten rules in social media, and the over use of hashtags is definitely one of them. #When #You #See #This #On #One #Tweet #It #Gets #Super #Annoying. Which in the is clip illustrates a great example of how people are abusing hashtags. In the end of the clip after Jimmy Fallon and Justine Timberlake obnoxiously use hash tags while they banter back and forth, someone walks in and aggressively and tells them to shut up! This shows the anger people get when people abuse their “hashtag privileges.”

This clip also represents the comic relief we us as a society. And why we use hashtags ironically because since people over use hashtags now we have something to make fun of. When Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake created this skit it was to show how we could ironically use hash tags and make it funny entertainment. As well as showing a great demonstration of how the internet and hashtags can lead us to have one thought to have another thought and then creates three more thoughts about something you were thinking earlier. 

Harry Styles Please Favorite My Tweet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kphSmXCVjtw

This clip was created by a popular Viner named Brandon Calvillo who represents the extreme behavior of people believing that if celebrities retweet or favorite their tweets then their life will be complete. It shows both of them going to extreme measures waiting for their man crush Harry Styles to notice them.  Which as a society we have never been able to feel so close/connected with our celebrity crushes before. We were able to read up on them in magazines but even then once writers get the article written and published that information will already be out of date. But now in this generation we have power to know what is going on with their lives within seconds.

The  Vine is a great example of what my group is talking about  in our presentation. It touches base on how people try to connect with famous people through social media.  Which being able to be this connected touches on the fact of parasocial relationships. A lot of people defend their celebrity crushes or idols as if they were their best friends. And in doing so they tweet at them and in hoping to get a response back from them.  

It doesn't even phase people anymore on how invested they get into a celebrity’s life because since it is out their then why not? If they are posting this kind of information on the internet then of course there will be who knows Beyonce best arguments.  And those type of arguments are completely normal. I know I catch myself talking to my friends about certain celebrities like I know their whole life story and want the best for them as if they were my own flesh and blood.

Hey Arnold

In the beloved Nickelodeon series, Hey Arnold, there are several example of gender norm concepts. There are also some great examples how Hey Arnold writer's breaks those gender norms. Hey Arnold shows the stereotypical idea of an elementary mind set of how girls should act and how boys should act. Also how the certain characters break those norms 

Arnold, Gerald, Harold, and Stinky always go out to the empty lot and play baseball. Which is the typical gender norm of being a boy and playing sports and being competitive. But the example of how Hey Arnold writers broke that norm was through Helga, who is the bully in the neighborhood. Which the stereotypical idea of a bully is a boy, but Helga  is represented as the tough shell and no one is welcome in; except Arnold but she still picks on him. But since she has that "boy mindset" she is able to join the boys when they play baseball.

Also with the other characters we have on Hey Arnold is Phoebe who breaks the gender norms because she is the smart one of the group.  In today’s society it is becoming normal for women to show of their intelligence, but in the 90’s that was still a hot topic on women can actually have beauty and brains! Hey Arnold writer’s also had a Harold who was tough on the outside, but on the inside he was a soft and would cry to his “mommy.” Since Harold was a boy, him crying to his mommy should that he was weak. But if Harold was a girl would be more socially acceptable because the society labels women more emotional and sensitive to their feelings. 

Another norm which is more cognitive is how the artists idea on creating the characters. This idea is something we discussed in class. Arnold’s outfit is dominantly blue, which is associated with boys and masculine.  And even though Helga is mean, and a bully she still wears a pink dress to seem more “feminine.”This color concept is something I remember very clearly talking about in class and without having that discussion I would have never realized the dress code because its so normal for girls to be associated to pink and boys to blue.