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unsafepin · 3 years

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Optical Illusions: A Study of Aesthetics in Activism in Two Accounts

There’s been a particular thing bothering me about social media for a while. I should probably get a cool editing app, write it in a few bullet points and post it on Instagram. You know what I’m talking about, right? The goddamn infographics. If I have to sit through another slideshow explaining to me another military conflict, another societal issue, another existential unfairness on a baby pink background in a cheery font, I might combust. But the cognitive dissonance of aesthetics in activism has been a problem for a while, hasn’t it? So today, I want to examine the effect of focusing on aesthetics over content, or, on the flipside, not considering the optics of your activism enough, and what it does to the consumer of your content by picking apart two local activist-adjacent media projects, Tetraedras and Giljožinios.

Firstly, I want to make my own bias abundantly clear. I am personally acquainted with the teams of both projects, so obviously there will be innate personal bias involved. I highly encourage anyone reading to check both projects out themselves (@t3traedras and @giljozinios on Instagram, as well as Giljožinios’ YouTube channel) and make their own conclusions on the matter. I believe that while my familiarity breeds deeper knowledge of my subjects, it also makes me more vulnerable to assumptions about individuals involved. My insights come from the perspective of an observer, not an expert. Welcome to the circus.

The use of the word “optics” in a metaphorical political sense sprung up in the 1970s to describe the way major political decisions would not necessarily affect an average citizen, but how it would appear to them, e.g. 'U.S. President Barack Obama temporized for weeks, worrying about the optics of waging war in another Arab state after the Iraq fiasco' (Toronto Star, 19th March 2011). However, it’s become increasingly relevant in our age of social media, an age of perceptions over substance, of shortening attention spans and increased barrage of information one has to stomach daily. Social media is the great equalizer - a random person off the street can theoretically hold as much influence as a politician - thus it is becoming increasingly crucial for the average Joe posting on the countless apps owned by Facebook to be as familiar with PR terms as a firm with a six figure salary. Or at least that would be nice, seeing that more and more average Joes are becoming actively involved in politics and education, seeking to influence their newfound audience.

So, let’s see how successful average people with no media or politics degrees are at balancing their image. Both Tetraedras and Giljožinios lean into their 2010’s social media project optics: millennial pink themes, bold names, young teams. But that’s where the similarities end. Tetraedras’ brand is safety. The shades of color on the profile are calming, the illustrations are youthful and playful, their more serious posts are interspersed with more relaxing content (poetry, photoshoots, etc.). Giljožinios is confrontational. The colors electric, posts loud and to the point, they’re what it says on the box - a leftist project - and unapologetic about it. This might help to explain why audiences react as differently as they do to these two, on the surface, similar accounts. Because while you might’ve stumbled on Tetraedras organically while browsing, them having almost two thousand followers, Giljožinios crashed into the educational/political social media scene by being featured on the goddamn national news, that’s how controversial the project is. And obviously I am oversimplifying the issue, Tetraedras slowly built up to posting more opinionated content, while Giljožinios came in guns blazing accusing USA of imperialism, but you’ll have to let me explain. Tetraedras, in its essence, is a welcoming environment. They explain complicated problems in short bullet points with accompanying comforting visuals, their mascot is a inoffensive geometrical figure and their face is a beautiful girl, make-up matching the theme of the post. Giljožinios is named after a revolutionary device, their profile picture is a monarch being beheaded, their host quite infamously sat in front of Che Guevara memorabilia in their first and (as of writing) only video. It’s a lightning rod for angry comments by baby boomers, no matter what comes out of their mouth. In fact, I would argue that, if presented accordingly, the idea that the US is conducting a kind of modern imperialism is just a simple fact and personally can’t wait until Tetraedras posts that with a quirky illustration of Joe Biden to introduce the concept to the wider public.

This leads me to my next point, because despite what’s been previously suggested, I’m not here to solely sing Giljožinios’ praise. There is a cognitive dissonance in both of these flavors of social media activism, but while I can understand Tetraedras’ on a PR level, I’m kind of personally insulted by Giljožinios’. While purely personally I find aspects of Giljožinios’ radicalism distasteful, I appreciate the honesty in the youthful maximalism, of coming in strong and not backing down, but from the guys that made a communist Christmas tree once I almost expected something more stirring than “military industrial complex bad”. This leads me to ask: who is your content for? Your average breadtube-savvy twenty-something already heard this a thousand times, because they consume similar english-speaking content and I doubt any minds of the vatniks that came by to fume in the comment section are being changed. I’m obviously harking on a newborn project here, the team of which has already been bitten by authorities censoring their content, but so far there has been a lot of optical bark, but no substantial bite, especially considering the team seems to be in a safer place now. And the inverse is true for Tetraedras, while I can understand wanting to be visually interesting yet inoffensive, their visuals are sometimes laughably, morbidly light for the topics they discuss Sexily posing in Britney Spears-inspired outfits while discussing the horrors of her conservatorship springs to mind (funny how Britney’s conservatorship leads her to have next to none bodily autonomy, including her public costume choices). And, once again, your target audience is teenagers. They understand English, they’ve seen the news, they don’t need you to translate infographics filled with statistics and information that’s locally completely irrelevant. There needs to be some kind of middle ground between aesthetic cohesion and common sense, because this all signals to the viewer that the content is meant to be mindlessly consumed first and to educate second.

Which leads me to ponder what kind of consumption accounts like these encourage, which will surely lead me to an early grave as I drink away the existential dread of how social media rots all of our brains. Because yes, actually, producing funky visuals to convey an idea way too complicated for an Instagram post is fun. I myself got distracted multiple times during writing to make the first slide for my own post. Meta, I know. This is obviously more of a problem for Tetraedras, who seem to fervently resist injecting their content with a few more paragraphs and a tad more nuance, but even with Giljožinios choosing a more appropriate long-form format to educate, I still pray everyday they don’t get lost in the revolutionary reputation their group built up and forget to make a point, not just talking points.

Because what all this all inevitably leads to is misinforming the public. Again, this seems to be less of a problem for Giljožinios, as the amount of critical eyeballs they have on them leads to them being corrected on every incorrect numerical figure and grammatical mistake, I just hope all this harassment, once again, doesn’t get them all caught up in the optics of a revolution against all the Facebook boomers and forgetting to do their due diligence to the truth. As far as I know, the only factual mistake is miscalculating how much Lituania invests in NATO and there’s still a historical debate in their comment section about the existence of a CIA prison in Lithuania, if anyone’s concerned. Tetraedras, however, is safe. And safe content goes down just like a sugar-coated pill, you don’t even feel the need to fact-check it. And fact-checking is what it sorely requires, or else you’re left with implying that boxing causes men to become rapists and citing statistics of every country except the one in which, you know, me, the team and the absolute majority of their followers live in.

So what’s my goddamn point? Burn your phone and go live in the woods, always. But in the context of this essay, if you are a content creator that aims to educate, inform, incite, whatever, you need to put aesthetics on the backburner. And, more importantly, we as consumers need to stop tolerating content that puts being either pretty or inflammatory first instead of whatever message it’s trying to send, because the supply follows where the demand goes. Read books, watch long-form content made by experts, not teenagers on the internet chasing followers out of not even malicious intent, but almost a knee-jerk reaction. Because while the story of those two accounts cuts especially deep, expectations for local-, even friend-made content being much higher than that for some corporate accounts shooting their shot at activism, the problem is entrenched deep, thousands of accounts exhibiting the same problems racking up millions upon millions of followers. Having said that, my attention span is barely long enough to read the essays I write myself, so maybe do burn your phone and go live in the woods.

Also, pink is actually my brand so both of these accounts are being contacted by my lawyers and the rest of you don’t try any shit.

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timalexanderdollery · 5 years

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How the Washington Post’s TikTok became an unofficial 2020 campaign stop

Andrew Yang poses for a selfie. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images

For politicians, the buzziest new social video app presents a risk and an opportunity.

In 2015, Hillary Clinton was “yas queening” all over the internet. She had an official Snapchat account with a “Yaaas, Hillary!” logo that was also a T-shirt, a posed #yas photo with the stars of Broad City, custom Hillary Bitmoji, ironic cross-stitch art, and other signifiers of “yas” culture that’s since become emblematic of a certain kind of blinkered white feminism. An attempt to reach millennials with a passing familiarity with stan culture, it was also an extremely strategy easy to mock. As Amanda Hess wrote at the time in Slate, “American culture does not exactly appreciate the image of the ‘authentic’ older woman, but boy does it hate the older woman who strains to stay relevant.”

Hillary Clinton lost the election. That fact certainly can’t be attributed solely to a social media voice that many criticized as insincere and pandering, but it had a lasting impact on the ways we expect politicians to behave online.

It also might offer a clue on why so few politicians have a presence on the buzziest social media app of the moment, TikTok. Since its US launch in August 2018, the short-form video app has exploded in popularity, having been downloaded more than a billion times in 2018 and boasting 27 million active American users as of February 2019. Both Facebook and Instagram have launched competitors (or clones, depending on whom you ask), and celebrities like Will Smith, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, and Reese Witherspoon are now flocking to the app en masse.

Politicians, meanwhile, have been understandably hesitant to hop on board. Like all social media apps, TikTok has its own vernacular, and any transgressions of that shared language and sensibility stick out like, well, septuagenarian politicians on a social media app meant for teens. The fear of coming off as insincere or being flooded with “ok boomer” comments is a real one. The other outcome? A TikTok presence that fails to leave a mark, like Julian Castro’s account, which currently only has 470 followers.

Still, that leaves an opportunity. Enter: the TikTok account of an equally stodgy publication that has, against all odds, managed to feel truly native to the TikTok ecosystem. It’s the Washington Post’s, which since its debut this spring has amassed a quarter-million followers and a legion of superfans who praise its goofy premises and unserious tone. So far, three candidates — Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke, and Julian Castro — have appeared on it.

The Washington Post’s TikTok’s success is the direct result of its creator and biggest star, 28-year-old Dave Jorgenson, who previously created humor and satire videos for the newspaper. A scroll through the Washington Post’s TikTok account will show Dave making self-deprecating jokes about being an adult on the app, Dave occupying the role of “the TikTok guy” in meetings, Dave doing silly 15-second sketches with the paper’s fashion, gaming, and economics reporters.

Jorgenson attributes the growth and fanbase of the account to his spending two months watching and listening to videos on TikTok instead of rushing to quickly turn around content. “If you’re gonna launch anything, whether you’re a newspaper or a brand or a company, you need to understand the app, otherwise people will see right through you,” he says. “Especially on TikTok, because the whole thing is that it’s mostly just raw videos set to music.”

The Washington Post, however, has what regular TikTok users don’t: access to very important people. In October, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang just happened to be scheduled to visit the Washington Post’s offices filming an unrelated segment when Jorgenson was able to strike a plan with Yang’s team about filming a TikTok.

Yang’s team was already a fan of the Post’s TikTok account; the campaign has also leaned heavily on the fact that he is a tech entrepreneur. “We didn’t really have to sell it to Andrew Yang,” says Jorgenson. “He was like, ‘If they think it’s great, I’m going to do it.’” It’s a particularly impressive feat considering the resulting video was actually poking fun at Yang’s low polling numbers. “Finally relaxing after a full day of interviews and meeting people,” reads the caption on the first segment, followed by “Still polling at 3 percent” against a backdrop of Yang dancing in celebration.

The paper has since done equally self-deprecating videos with both Beto O’Rourke, who ended his campaign on November 1, and Julian Castro, whose video was a play on how much he looks like his brother, Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro. All three videos took off, garnering between 40,000 and 400,000 likes.

Though neither Beto’s nor Castro’s team replied to a request for comment, Yang’s press secretary told Vox, “We’re constantly exploring ways to reach new audiences and voters, and the TikTok video with the Washington Post is certainly one of those ways.”

Since the election of Donald Trump proved politicians could tweet rambling, often nonsensical stream-of-consciousness sentences and still win over voters, politicians have approached social media with an increased candidness. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has posted her skin care routine to her Instagram stories; O’Rourke live-streamed his haircut; Elizabeth Warren posts videos of herself calling small-dollar donors to social media and makes a point to pose for every single person who wants a selfie after her town halls. In an age where we expect to be welcomed into the homes and lives of everyone we follow online, connecting with politicians has never felt so intimate.

Politicians have historically been pretty terrible at social media. A cursory glance at Mike Huckabee’s tweeting habits will illustrate as much — the former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate was once described by Fast Company as “the least funny person on Twitter.” Even cool-ish, young-ish presidential candidates are sometimes bad at tweeting. Cory Booker has made the same joke — a bit of PG-13 wordplay about coffee and sleep — 14 times over the past decade.

There are now more avenues than ever for politicians to embarrass themselves online. Instagram, for instance, has gained popularity among politicians faster than any other social media platform over the past few years, and was also the site of O’Rourke’s now-infamous live-streamed dentist appointment.

Aidan King, a senior strategist at Middle Seat consulting who has worked on presidential campaigns for both Bernie Sanders and O’Rourke, says that there’s a certain degree of apprehension in approaching any new social media platform. If candidates don’t know precisely who they’re speaking to, their message can be warped into something else. “There’s nothing worse for a political campaign than going viral for the wrong reasons,” he says.

TikTok, with its legions of irony-steeped teens, presents a specific danger. “The zoomers can be pretty ruthless, and it’s also clear which candidates they like a lot,” explains King. “Young people are really into Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, Elizabeth Warren, so I can understand why other candidates in the 2020 races just don’t really want to mess with [TikTok]. Joe Biden going on a platform that adores Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a recipe for disaster. They know the audience well enough to know they wouldn’t really get along with the people there.”

The Washington Post’s TikTok, though, is a controlled environment where candidates have little to lose, even when the content is unlike anything a political PR team would have typically come up with. “There’s just this very positive feeling around TikTok. Even if they are self-deprecating, they’re pretty wholesome,” Jorgenson says. “While the text in front of Andrew Yang was deprecating, it’s very funny. How could that hurt you?”

Jorgenson hopes to get every 2020 Democratic candidate in a video and has reached out to multiple candidates, but there is one white whale in particular. “I think if we get Bernie, then we have done our job, because I don’t know how we’re going to. But I’d be very proud of myself,” he laughs.

There are concerns over TikTok’s ties to the Chinese government (its parent company Bytedance is based in Beijing) and its willingness to bow to conservative governments by censoring pro-LGBTQ content, but the app has always wanted its content to remain politics-free. It recently announced it would ban political advertising out of a desire to remain a “positive, refreshing environment.” While nothing is stopping politicians from using the app, they may be hesitant to engage with one that will soon be under investigation by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

It’s also likely it simply isn’t worth building a following on an app where a sizeable portion of its users aren’t even old enough to vote. For now, one-off sketches with the TikTok expert over at the Washington Post will do.

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30 Days Writing Challenge - Day 1 - 5 Problems with social media.

Hey, everyone, I am back with my writing thing. Because I haven't written something in a relatively long time I decided to do this 30 Day Writing Challenge starting from ... TODAY.

As seen by the title, on my very first day I will write about something that I am very confident about, and this is SOCIAL MEDIA. Now, don't get me wrong only judging by the title of this article. I love social media and I am a very frequent user of it, however, I do agree that there are a few problems that come from the use of it. Some of these problems I have faced them myself.

I would like to start with one social media that I truly don't like and that is MUSICAL.LY. ( To all of those who will get mad because of this, please relax and let me finish my point. ) Its idea is quite simple and seems like good fun, nothing more. The way it is used, not at all. As soon as you open this app all you see is kids lipsyncing to songs containing terms that shouldn't even be known at their age. Just let me give you some examples of these themes: sex, drugs and alcohol. Not only do those kids lip sync to these songs, they also act like that. Then we have the infamous people of the same type as Katja Krasavice who seem to be on the wrong site ( PornHub where you at? ). And also let's not forget people like Jacob Sartorius who just seem to be growing up way too fast. As the old saying says, in the end of the tunnel there is also a light, we also have those who do comedy videos and are actually quite good at it.

This next one is something that I have seen it happen so many times and even though everyone knows about it, everyone continues to do it. I am talking about Facebook, the website that brought a revolution on the way internet is used and for those who dislike social media, it is the one to blame. Facebook is a social media used to share content and communicate with friends and sometimes relatives and family. Up to here, everything is fine, and then the twisted side of it starts showing. A lot of people are posting only the good side of theirs. Judging by their photos, one could say that they are living the dream life, however, in most cases, this is not so. Facebook has now become a way of creating the perfect virtual life even though a perfect life might not be the best description for the real life.

Following this, we have self-esteem and body issues problems, fueled by networks such as Instagram. A lot of young girls are influenced by all of the glamorous and the attention that all of these beautiful models get. It gets quite tempting to start comparing ourselves to them often forgetting that there are a lot of things at play such as lighting, premium filters, exceptional makeup skills etc.

Another problem is the addiction created by them. It is quite possible to want to try all the new filters and get quite obsessed with them. ( Yes I am pointing fingers at Snapchat.) However, this one is more related to the fun side of social media.

This last one derives from what was mentioned above. Addiction leads to isolation and not just any kind of isolation. In this one, it is only you and your phone ( or laptop, it depends ). The others are just well quite literally speaking on the other side.

These were only a few problems that I have encountered while using social networks. By writing this article it may seem as if I am being a hypocrite as I am also a part of the problem, however, it is a good thing joining those who can easily identify all of these issues and more. But identifying it really is not enough. Something is needed to be done and WE the users of them are the only ones who can do something regarding this. If we only complain and complain, it is more likely that the only thing we will accomplish is put a bad name to ourselves.

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my-mystic-messenger · 7 years

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So like a lot of people like YouTube couples and stuff, right? What do you think how would RFA and Saeran react to MC turning out to be a YouTuber, maybe even inviting them into a video? Like what kind of video would they make and stuff like that. I'd really love to see your spin on things. Thanks for the hard work :3

Bless you, anon. This is the shit I am talking about! I tried to make this as diverse as possible, so the HC’s look quite different for each of them

|| REQUEST ARE (ALWAYS) OPEN!! ||

Zen

♬ asan actor Zen has to know how to handle media

♬ platformslike Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook have a big impact on his career

♬ theyalso give him the chance to see what his fans (and haters) thinkabout him

♬ still,all the time he was merely an observer

♬ henever even considered possibly going on YouTube and making videos

♬ untilhe caught you filming a video for your channel

♬ you’dbeen a little embarrassed about it, mainly because you’d kept it asecret for so long

♬ itjust sounded sort of…strange to say that you were a professionalYouTube

♬ butwith over 15 Million subscribers you were good in the game

♬ ittook Zen days to wrap his head around that number

♬ 15Million people just waiting for you to put up a video once a week

♬ whenyou told him just how much you earned on top of that, he was shook

♬ Zenwas obviously very happy for your success, but a small, ugly part ofhim was jealous

♬ he’donly dream of that big of a number of people admiring him

♬ youcould tell how much it was wearing down on him and you felt horrible

♬ youdidn’t have to work half as hard as Zen and still had the biggerfollowing

♬ thatis when you got the idea; you asked him to join you for a video

♬ aftertalking it over with his agency you set the video up

♬ thetwo of you still weren’t allowed to hint at the fact that you weredating, but you were allowed to be friends and continue to makevideos should they be a hit

♬ aftera while of discussing the two of you had decided on covering a songtogether

♬ youboth knew that a romantic song was out of question so the decisiondidn’t take long

♬ thetwo of you covered 7 years by Lukas Graham

♬ yousat beside each other, making the music together while singing at thesame time

♬ yourvoices sounded perfect together and neither of you could stop smilingand stealing glances

♬ onceup the video went viral extremely fast

♬ somepeople were fans of Zen, happy to hear him sing on YouTube, othersnow turned into fans

♬ hispopularity grew more and more with every day

♬ somuch so that people started demanding he start his own YouTubechannel or become a fixed part of your channel

♬ youwouldn’t have minded that at all and apparently Zen agreed

♬ whilehis agency didn’t allow him to start his own channel they did agreeto more collaborations

♬ so,you turned Friday into Collab-Day, posting a new song with Zen everyweek

♬ Zenpopularity reached it’s peak when producers and agency got more andmore drawn to him

♬ hecould barely fend off job offers

♬ abouta year after your first collab he was supposed to star in 5 moviesand had changed agencies

♬ morespecifically to one that was more acceptant of your relationship anddidn’t demand hiding it

♬ whenhe proposed to you he did it through song, during a video for thewhole world to know

♬ afterthat you started a second channel, just the two of you

♬ youposted everything on there, from music to vlogs

♬ butthe very first video was a little collage of your wedding and honeymoon

Yoosung

★ you see Yoosung is one of those people who follow Let’s Play type of channels, gamers like himself

★ the thing about those is though that a lot of them don’t show their faces (take Cry for example)

★ you were one of those so even after meeting you, he had no idea that you were a YouTuber

★ let alone the infamous SediLusiVici, one of the most famous gamers and the one he’d been following religiously for years now

★ he finds out in the – for him – most shocking and surprising way possible

★ SediLusiVici was having a collab with PewDiePie and the two of you decided to play LOLOL

★ PewDiePie suggested to attack the top three players of which two were none other than Seven and of course Yoosung

★ when he’d suggested that you’d laughed, telling PewDiePie that number one was one of your best friends and number two was your husband

★ Yoosung’s face had completely frozen as he stared at the screen, PewDiePie gasping in the background as you laughed your ass off

★ “You’re kidding, right?”

★ “No, man, I’m serious. I know both of them. I know their real names and what they do for a living and stuff like that and Yoosung is my real life husband.”

★ “Daaaamn…wanna ruin their top rankings?”

★ “You betcha, bro!”

★ so for about an hour Yoosung watched the two of you climb and climb in rankings until SediLusiVici had kicked HackerGod and SupremeYoosung from their respective spots on the top

★ it was as shocking as it was mesmerizing

★ by the time you came home from work Yoosung was still staring at the opened video

★ you greeted him cheerfully until you noticed what he was watching and blushed

★ “Fuck…I didn’t know you watched…that…”

★ you didn’t really fight about it, nor was he mad that you’d messed up his game, but he couldn’t believe that you never told him you were his absolutely favourite YouTuber?!

★ you were flattered and happy he liked your work and decided to invite him into a video

★ especially as a lot of people had requested a video of husband and wife together

★ of course Yoosung said yes and a couple of days later you started a Stream

★ you introduced your husband to your community and took the time to answer some of their questions

★ everyone was actually rather excited to get to know Yoosung as well!

★ Yoosung was shy about it at first, but very happy too

★ so many people actually admired him for his gaming skills!

★ in that video the two of you took the time to take down HackerGod together, laughing the entire time

★ it would be rather funny to read what Seven had to say about this once he saw he’d been defeated

★ twice…

★ with you on top and Yoosung back to second place you ended the stream

★ it was one of your most watched videos ever

★ after that you collab quite a lot, sometimes even Seven joins in

★ it’s usually you and Seven ganging up on Yoosung

★ he’s always grumpy about it

★ the fandom finds it hilarious

★ of course it’s all in good fun ;)

Jaehee

♨ shefound out in the probably most anti-climatic way

♨ youstraight up asked her whether you wanted her to post a little add onyour YouTube channel

♨ youthought that maybe it would bring in some more customers

♨ she’dagreed, of course

♨ theidea was brilliant and wouldn’t cost either of you any money

♨ whatshe didn’t really know was just how big your channel was

♨ andjust how much revenue it would bring to the cafe

♨ merelya couple of days after you told her you posted it, there wasn’t aminute the cafe wasn’t packed

♨ everyonewanted to try out that cafe you’d talked about in your latest blog

♨ whenit dawned on Jaehee just how popular you were she also realized thatyou must be putting a lot fo effort into your blog

♨ butwhen?

♨ youworked together and lived together

♨ youtold her that you used the nights to record as to not disturb her

♨ themoney you used mainly for bills or to invest into the cafe

♨ Jaehee’sheart melted when she found out

♨ sheinstantly asked you on how to make it up to you, do something for you

♨ youinsisted she didn’t need to, but she wanted it

♨ youthen suggested for her to join you in a video

♨ youhad an idea but needed help for it

♨ Jaeheehappily agreed

♨ thatis how the two of you found yourself in your kitchen at home, camerasaid

♨ youwere doing the cooking challenge

♨ whichin itself wasn’t a thing, but you made it one, since you couldn’tcook or bake for shit

♨ everythingstarted out fine, almost like a cooking tutorial

♨ Jaeheeand you had picked something simple to start with

♨ ifpeople liked it, you’d suggested making it a series

♨ thepasta actually turned out pretty fine and you were surprised

♨ youate it before continuing part two of the video and neither of you hadto throw up, so…

♨ parttwo is where it got really fun

♨ Jaeheewanted to teach you how to bake a cake

♨ thatis very complicated though

♨ itstarted when you accidentally tripped and flour was spread all overJaehee, you and the kitchen

♨ afterthat everything just turned into a little war

♨ bythe time you called it quits the video was extremely long, the cakewasn’t happening and the two of you were covered in everything andanything

♨ “So,if you want to learn how to destroy your kitchen in just a few easysteps feel free to follow this tutorial!”

♨ needlessto say that cooking challenge did turn into a series

Jumin

♛ Juminisn’t good with technology, he never was

♛ he’sincapable of using an IPhone camera and took ages to uncover all ofthe features of the RFA-app

♛ hedidn’t even really know what YouTube was, let alone how to use it

♛ hehad other things on his mind than silly little videos on the internet

♛ thatwas until he found out that apparently you were a professionalYouTuber

♛ anda very famous one at that

♛ atfirst he was confused and didn’t know whether to take it serious ornot

♛ butthen you told him you could work from home and he was extremelysupportive

♛ youstill had a job like you wanted, earned your own money like youwanted but never had to leave the apartment without him whichmeant you were safe and he didn’t have to worry – Perfect

♛ thatis until you ask him to join you for a video

♛ despitebeing a public figure, talking like that seems uncomfortable

♛ thatis until you explain what the boyfriend tag is and how it works

♛ heinstantly relaxes, happy to parade your relationship for everyone tosee and here

♛ thetwo of you sat down together, started the camera and you beganreading questions

Whendid we meet and where?

”Wemet in a special chatroom a couple of months ago”

“It’smuch sweeter than it sounds, really!”

Wherewas our first kiss?

“Atmy apartment.”

“Yeah,in front of Sarah.”

“You’restill mad about that?”

“Well,it sure wasn’t romantic, Jumin.”

Whosaid “I love you” first?

“Me,although you realized it first, I think.”

“Youwere very emotionally constipated when we first met.”

“Youstill chose me though.”

“Youwere rich.”

♛ whenhe looked at you unimpressed you laughed and stole a quick kiss

♛ theblush that spread on his cheeks was very pleasant to look at

Whendid you meet my parents?

“Atour wedding. They were very nice.”

“Thingswere very…quick, between the two of us…”

Whatis the one thing you wish I didn’t do?

“Putyourself in danger to help others all the time. I told you to be moreselfish.”

“Younever let me forget, honey, but you know I’ll still continue doingit.”

Wherewas our first date?

“Isyou sleeping at my place considered a date?”

“Jumin,that sounds perverted!”

“What?How? We didn’t even sleep in the same bed for most of the time”

“Jumin!”

♛ hewas the one to end the video by pulling you in for a passionate kisswhile reaching out for the camera to turn it off at the same time

Saeyoung/Seven

☼ Sevenobviously found out about your YouTuber activity when he did abackground check on you

☼ however,he never actually visited your channel or such

☼ hisprogram deemed it safe, so there was no need to do that

☼ untilyou started dating and he found out just how much money one couldmake off it

☼ allthese years he’d been busting his ass hacking and doing illegal shit

☼ constantlyliving in the shadows and hiding

☼ andthere you were, making funny sketches and skits for close to 20Million subscribers

☼ earninga whole chunk of money and doing so risk free

☼ hefelt a little betrayed by those circumstances, so he started his ownYouTube channel

☼ obviouslybeing a new YouTuber is hard, especially when there are so manyalready established ones

☼ sohe swallowed down his pride and asked you for help

☼ obviouslyyou said no at first

☼ youwere still paying him back for being a dick to you when you first met

☼ andall the pranks he pulled after

☼ whenhe’d dressed as a maid and begged you on your knees though, you had agood idea

☼ yousaid yes

☼ obviouslyafter taking a picture of him first…for research purposes

☼ thatnight he’d checked out as many of your videos as possible, making aprofile for himself

☼ he’dhad it all planned out, ready to film something funny andentertaining

☼ maybeeven a prank video

☼ insteadhe was met with a huge box of make-up waiting for him

☼ WTF?!You’d never done anything make-up related videos before

☼ didyou even know how to do make-up?

☼ the answer was no, Seven foundout soon after

☼ youwere doing the my boyfriend/girlfriend does my make-up thing

☼ you’dreally thought it would be funny, you really did

☼ youknew you were shit at make up, incapable of even so much as wingedeyeliner

☼ youthought Seven was the same and you’d both bullshit the whole thingfor jokes

☼ youthought wrong, because Seven took that shit serious

☼ hedid some mean contour, smokey eyes, perfect eyeliners and lips

☼ heeven did some magic on your eyebrows!

☼ youalmost felt bad when the two of you turned to the camera

☼ youeach looked at your reflection, then at each other, then back at thecamera

☼ Sevenburst into laughter first, you followed soon

☼ apparentlyhis crossdressing had taught him some valuable lessons

☼ “Subscribeto his channel my babies. He’ll give you some mean make-uptutorials.”

☼ you’dbarely gotten out the words between laughter before ending the video

☼ Sevendid actually give make-up tutorials

☼ notonly that but he also gave tips on cosplay, wig care and tips forcrossdressers in general

☼ sometimeshe also pranked Yoosung

☼ sometimestwice a week

☼ hegained followersvery quickly

Saeran

☀ youtold Saeran about your YouTube career relatively early on

☀ itwas during one of those days where he completely shut off and youfilled the silence with babble

☀ youtalked about how you’d started YouTube in the first place

☀ howyou used your channel to promote good causes and even raise money forshelters and stuff

☀ howyou wished you were good enough at make-up to do tutorials

☀ andhow you’d messed up even the most simple smokey eye in your eagerness

☀ sillystories in hopes of getting him out of his shell

☀ youhadn’t really thought that he’d listened to you

☀ notuntil one day, many many months later, he told you that he’d enjoyedyour latest video

☀ you’dbeen shocked for quite a while after, wondering how long he’d beenwatching

☀ whenyou’d finally gathered the courage to ask Saeran had blushed, leavingyou baffled

☀ headmitted that he’d been watching you way before you even told himabout it

☀ infact that is why he’d chosen you was because he’d known you from yourvideos

☀ somuch so that he’d desperately wanted you to join Magenta and Mint Eye

☀ whichfor Saeran is just a way of saying he found you cute

☀ afterthat you catch him watching your videos more often, always smiling tohimself

☀ heeven lurks around when you film them, obviously suppressing theexcitement he felt

☀ ittook you a while to invite him into your videos

☀ notbecause you were ashamed, but because you’d worried he’d hate theidea

☀ (youalso weren’t quite sure what kind of video he was okay filming)

☀ whenyou asked him he was extremely excited about the entire thing

☀ buthe did refuse to do anything boyfriend tag related

☀ youwere a little disappointed, but understood

☀ noteveryone liked that cutesy stuff and Saeran was one of those people

☀ insteadyou thought that following the trend might be a good idea

☀ ChallengeVideos

☀ the first video you filmed was a try not to cry challenge

☀ ittook you approximately two minutes and one video including a dog tobawl your eyes out

☀ Saeranmeanwhile just looked at the videos as if he was trying to solve ahard puzzle

☀ needlessto say he didn’t cry one

☀ “Do you even have a heart?!”

☀ “I thought we discussed this already, Princess. The answer is obviously no.”

☀ youjust stared at him for a while before ending the video

☀ peopleloved it

☀ thecontrast between you and what they assumed to be your boyfriend wasstraight up hilarious to them

☀ theyalso applauded him for not losing the challenge and asked for anothervideo

☀ thistime you took a different route; try not to laugh challenge

☀ youheld it in for as long as you could, but burst out laughing when theylooped someone falling on their nuts

☀ meanwhileSaeran had the same face again, frowning and focusing without asingle laugh

☀ “Dude,this is freaking grade A content how the hell are you notlaughing?”

☀ “Huh?The challenge said not to laugh. I’m good at that…”

☀ “…wow…thisgot really sad real quick

☀ “Wellit’s good then that this isn’t the try not to cry challenge then,right?”

☀ hesmirked at you and you frowned

☀ thedamn video got multiple million views

SediLusiVici means I sat, I played, I won in Latin, for anyone who cared…

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A laugh and Realistic Pill Apps for Seniors

Traditionally, we will be Rincon online to companion era with the more youthful technology, however, older adults are substantially talented with numerous generation. As an instance, fifty-nine% of Americans aged sixty-five and above cross browsing and 77% of this populace use cell telephones.

In fact, 23% of this populace actively play video games using cell telephones, computer systems or gaming structures.

No longer handiest do those figures suggest use, however, the numbers also are continuing to grow.

Particularly, tablets are an example of a modern-day era that many seniors can use very successfully.

The time period Tablet refers to touchscreen-based totally PC systems that tend to be light and without difficulty portable. The iPad is one of the extra examples of these, in spite of the fact that there are various others.

Because they may be a form of PC, capsules have their private operating device and can run a sort of programs (apps), which incorporates many one in every of a type video games.

capsules might also range from a display length of round 5 inches all of the ways as an awful lot of around 10 inches, with display screen sizes from 7 to ten inches being the maximum common.

maximum pills will run either an Apple or an Android working tool. Many apps could be the gift inside the stores for each sort of pills, however, a few will simplest be supplied through one of the stores. maximum of the apps I am discussing proper here are found in each shop, and that I specify the times wherein this is not proper.

The touch display screen interface of those devices has an inclination to be pretty clean for seniors to take a look at and a whole lot of them generally have a tendency to pick out up on what to do very without issue. capsules art work excellent for seniors, particularly those with terrible eyesight, as those have font sizes and the onscreen buttons on-line to be larger.

Many people try to find the first-class Apple or Android apps for seniors, but with such a whole lot of options available, it could be a quite complicated assignment.

THE Attraction OF tablets

For caregivers and for seniors, tablets may be attractive in a number of methods.

One essential aspect is that the video games on drugs can preserve seniors mentally active, especially as some video games can be hard. Studies have indicated that cognitive hobby can be one key component in assisting to lower the bad consequences of having old on cognition. some different Enchantment is that tablet games can offer seniors something to do with their spare time, preserving them entertained and engaged.

With so many particular styles of video games available for pills, you must be able to locate games that artwork for any senior, with a bit little bit of searching be in particular critical for caregivers who need a touch little bit of a destroy.

In a few cases, Pill apps may even be a way of preserving seniors socially engaged, as some games allow for more than one game enthusiasts or assist communication between people.Likewise, seniors can also play the same video games as every other, presenting them the chance to each extraordinary about the video games.

Education AND Learning

As you would in all likelihood count on, there’s a bit of a Studying curve with pills.

some seniors are probably able to pick up on the manner to use pills and video games without the problem. Others will want more Coaching.

The principle trouble that you can need to educate seniors is the basics of interacting with a Tablet.

capsules use contact monitors, which are clear to apprehend. but, seniors do want to learn how to touch the display to get the favored final results and examine the impacts that their movements have at the device.

Seniors frequently learn how to use the touching show pretty without trouble, but, may sometimes discover specific duties difficult.

For instance, one aged girl I recognize can use a Pill for a number of the video games with none help, but nevertheless, has the trouble unlocking the pill.

Likewise, you may discover that you have to train a few standards a couple of times.

a few seniors may be able to determine out video games intuitively, however, others may moreover want to learn a way to play specific games. be a be counted of sitting down with them and stepping them via any new game they begin.

at the give up of the day, this is something you may figure out on a case-via-case foundation. As seniors get higher at the use of tablets, you will discover that they pick out up new video games extra without difficulty and want much less help infamous.

Selecting pills APPS AND games For Seniors

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The form of apps and video games for tablets may be daunting.

For example, some of the kinds include puzzle, phrase, casual, card and board video games – and that isn’t always even counting the more realistic apps, like audio-book gamers and readers.

be pretty overwhelming even if you only want to discover a few appropriate apps. The suggestions in this text come from talking to seniors and their families, and moreover from searching on line, to decide out which apps are most suitable for seniors.

While many seniors can play any sport, the emphasis right here is on apps which may be distinctly clean to pick out up and research – to accommodate seniors who may also additionally war with a few factors of the use of a Tablet.

This publishes will gift some of the distinct entertainment and sensible apps for Android and Apple gadgets, and additionally, communicate the numerous abilities that make some apps more suitable than others for the senior in your circle of relatives. All apps referred to are unfastened till otherwise cited.

Even as there are numerous other apps accessible, this listing can act as a very good jumping factor for buying seniors into capsules.

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Angry Birds Rio (for Apple and Android) is a puzzling endeavor, however, the easy controls and amusing pictures make it a =”hide”>great=”tipsBox”> pick out for seniors. The number one aim of the game is to use a slingshot and knock down homes and there are numerous different games inside the Irritated Birds range, and they may be all pretty comparable. As with many video games, this app is hit or bypass over, a few seniors will find it irresistible, others might not be involved in any respect.

Farmville 2: Use Breakout (for Apple and Android) is a farm sport with an emphasis on developing crops and being profitable. Farmville has attracted audiences via Facebook and this specific app is Farmville’s tablet supplying. It is a recreation that calls for approach, studying and making plans, so it is able to not be suitable for all seniors. however, I recognize some of the seniors who experience the game and like the manner that it keeps them wondering. Furthermore, this undertaking has a social detail, allowing gamers to sign up for a co-op, wherein they could assist each other and chat to one another. I’ve seen game enthusiasts get so caught up inside the chat that they slightly touch the relaxation of the game.

Peggle Blast (for Apple and Android) is tough to offer a cause of, but, the game essentially includes the use of a ball to knock out pegs. Peggle appears complicated at the start, however, the game is easy to pick out-out up and may be numerous amusing without being confusing. Peggle Blast is the free version of the sport and has in-app purchases. The unique sport and its sequel (Peggle and Peggle Nights) are every additionally to be had on Android and Apple. those versions cost to buy, however, are higher in the prolonged run.

The Sims Freeplay (for Apple and Android) is a model of the Sims franchise, even though maximum seniors possibly have now not heard of the franchise. this is a venture-based completely recreation wherein users construct families and ship characters (Sims) on tasks. It requires less approach than Farmville, but both games require watching for responsibilities to finish. this is a not unusual approach in lots of similar video games and makes for enjoyable gameplay, wherein you region it up and are available lower back later.

Brain video games AND PUZZLES

Block Puzzle (for Android) is is a puzzling endeavor in which customers ought to suit blocks inner a form. It is easy to apprehend but can get difficult as people development via the sport. At the equal time as this unique app seems to be Android first-rate, there are various similar apps in each Android and Apple stores.

Clevermind ($2.99 for Apple) is mainly designed for humans with Alzheimer’s illness. It includes a range of capabilities for amusement, in conjunction with video games, trivialities, and a mag. Moreover, the app allows for voice interaction and may be used to browse the internet in an extra consumer-best way.

Jigsaw Puzzles Epic (for Apple and Android) is a great pill preference for puzzles, despite the fact that there are numerous comparable apps available. Jigsaw puzzles are the opportunity for seniors, and doing them at the Tablet is an easier choice than taking on the dwelling room with a puzzle. Jigsaw Puzzles Epic is a loose app that consists of a wide variety of puzzles. users can choose how many portions their puzzle is (from four to 400) and additionally whether or not the pieces of the puzzle can rotate or no longer. more puzzles may be purchased from the in-recreation shop, however, the free puzzles need to close most customers for a long term.

phrase Seek Puzzles (for Apple and Android) is considered one of many phrases Searching for apps obtainable. It has textual content and is straightforward to apply, making it a choice for seniors. but, it does now not have a setting for the trouble, so it might not artwork for anybody.

Terms With Buddies (for Apple and Android) is a turn-based totally social game that performs like Scrabble. The social element of the sport comes from the way that you play in opposition to other humans, taking turns with them. the sport moreover offers you the capability to the humans you are playing against, which can be right if seniors are gambling in opposition to Friends. The loose model has commercials, which may be a pain, but the social component of the sport may be attractive to seniors.

amusement APPS

APPS

Kindle (for Apple and Android) is one instance of a reader, even though there are various special apps with comparable functions. Kindle may be a very good preference, as looking for ebooks through the app (or on-line) is highly easy and the costs are often reasonable. In reality, you can purchase Kindle apps from the Amazon hold. most apps for analyzing have options to make the simpler to examine, which include developing front length or changing the assessment. the usage of this sort of app can be a manner for seniors to study and the app gives you the capability to make any right into a print e-book.

Audible (for Apple and Android) is certainly one of many apps for gambling audio-books. As with Kindle, this app makes it easy to buy ebooks, and each Kindle and Audible are tied into Amazon. The e-books may be a bit At the luxurious factor, however, Audible gives a monthly plan that gives clients one audiobook online a month and 30% off all exceptional audio-books. this is an alternative for seniors who’ve trouble analyzing (or do no longer need to).

Although it’s membership based totally ($7.99/month), Netflix is a way for seniors to look at movies and television suggests. Its competitor Hulu is likewise an awesome alternative ($7.99/month for Hulu Plus, unfastened for primary Hulu), as Hulu frequently has greater conventional suggests that Netflix gives. If you have community subscription, capable of getting entry to extraordinary apps, like HBO pass, which let you move content material from precise networks. both of these apps are for Apple and Android devices.

different APPS

Launcher ($10.00 for Android) creates a new domestic display for Android devices again Larger icons. decorate clarity for seniors who conflict to peer icons on gadgets, particularly on smaller gadgets. A demo model of the app is also available. this is one of the, especially few Apple or Android apps for seniors that has honestly In particular been designed for this populace, with CleverMind (above) being Every other one.

Choosing APPS

We’ve noted some of the particular apps right here, however, We’ve simplest scratched the surface.

each Apple and Android have gigantic shops which can be constantly updated with new apps. This means the options for Apple and Android apps for seniors are quite plenty countless.

Have a look at Training AND Interests

one of the first subjects to Have a look at while Selecting apps is to discover the type of app the senior can also experience.

As an instance, some seniors experience video games, At the equal time as others enjoy apps that ask them mentally.

Knowing the type (or kinds) of an app to search for let you to narrow down what you need. take trial and error, and staying power.

additionally, if you realize the kind of app, you could often use the search function inner the store itself to discover what you’re looking for. For instance, you would possibly pick to look ‘card games’ or ‘phrase Seek’, which would give you a listing of apps that fall beneath the one’s Phrases. The technique is not particular, as It is looking for Phrases in the title of the app, however, it works nicely for cutting-edge Classes of apps.

you could moreover Have a look at Classes and subcategories of apps.

As an example, within the Google Play shop (Android’s app keep), video games is one category and a number of its subcategories consist of a board, card, casual, puzzle, and word.

At the same time as choosing apps, the celebrity rating also can give an indication of the app .

usually, 4 or five well-known man or woman apps are really really worth attempting At the same time as something three stars or under is questionable.

In masses of cases, though, it could be a case of downloading apps and trying them out.

I do not advise this for paid apps, but there can be a wide variety of unfastened apps in the apps shops that you can select from.

Recall Physical AND Intellectual Obstacles

Many seniors might be restrained in what apps they might experience because of Physical or Highbrow issues.

Thinking about the one’s Barriers can help you to discern out what styles of apps might be most desirable for them.

As an instance, seniors who’ve issues with their eyesight might benefit from audiobooks as opposed to eBooks. Seniors who have to fail to listen to can use a headset with the Tablet (which makes things less stressful for you too). This makes it less complex for them to pay attention what is going on.

From the Intellectual angle, some seniors will war with video games which may be complex or difficult mentally, Whilst others may not have a trouble.

Which means you may want to look for video games which are easy to play.

that is specifically actual for humans with dementia, as they might emerge as irritated without problems. yet, they’re capable of revel in simple video games. For example, one test observed that bingo may want to boom Intellectual functioning in individuals with Alzheimer’s disorder.

different kinds of video games that could artwork encompass puzzle video games, simple matching games, and video games just like the Clevermind app I stated in advance.

At gift, there are few apps available that have been mainly advanced for seniors, but, that is converting. Studies are beginning to cognizance on growing video games for seniors. Optimistically, Which means greater video games may be to be had inside the future.

Despite the fact that, some of the games designed for extraordinary age are Nonetheless very appropriate for seniors.

Actually, seniors, In reality, can revel in video games on pills, regardless of the reality that their talent stages can range dramatically.

As an example, an aged woman I understand plays Indignant Birds, Due to the fact the controls are distinctly easy to use. despite the fact that she enjoys the game, she would no longer fully recognize the physics or approach behind it, so finally ends up repeating tires often.

In contrast, my dad has dementia, however, he is although able to play blackjack on-line (pretty successfully too, I’d add), which maintains to surprise the circle of relatives. It needs to be because of years spent playing blackjack in actual casinos – but it is a robust indication that seniors may be able to more than we consider.

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