Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?
I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable
the biggest thing that fucks me up about lil nas x is he put out some REALLY fun creative music, with a really cute minimalist pink early 2000s aesthetic, super queer and well made, and it got so little attention. and then the whole bullshit with him getting arrested happened and that was what got everyone talking about it. fuck i’d be livid if i were him.
& on my own people: a lot of white queer people love lil nas x when he’s doing cunty clapbacks online but don’t actually support him materially in any way. which like. its not that you are Morally Obligated To Stream HOTBOX, its not activism or anything. & idk if i have the best perspective to really analyze white queer people online’s relationship to him. but it frustrates me to watch.
but like seriously do stream hotbox
nicki minaj has gone full fascist anyways. montero is the new queen of cunty music videos ft a pool of pink water.
first assigned reading in my textile history class is about orientalism and the political appropriation of the paisley print and kashmir shawl by the british written by a south asian researcher
“in this essay i would like to offer a way of reading pattern and textile history as political and ideological” sickos yes ha ha ha yes . jpeg
