If you’ve used TikTok at any point over the past six months, you’ve most likely heard this song. Whether it be the chorus, the first thirty...
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Sizing in Online Shopping
Recently, I’ve been searching for a pair of knee high boots for the winter. I looked around here in Leiden but couldn’t find anything I liked...
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Last week I wrote about a girl who created a non-existing movie, made it a trend and used it as a marketing strategy. This week I...
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The explosion of information has brought about the more obvious phenomenon of “information cocoon”. On the one hand, due to the explosion of information, it is...
Continue reading...No more olive oil ice cream + orange wine: how TikTok de-localized the local spots and ultimately, changed the way we travel.
A few weeks ago, while Face Timing my mother she showed me a package that my dad had ordered and it had just arrived at the...
Continue reading...Beyond the Blue Sky: the impact of Microsoft XP’s default background.
What is your digital first memory? For many, it’s hard to pin-point. But when it comes down to the first digital image I can distinctly recall,...
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Zepotha – An amazing 80s horror movie or..?
Have any of you seen that cult 80s horror movie called Zepotha? It used to be on some streaming platforms, but then randomly got taken down...
Continue reading...Parasocial relationships and fandom culture in the “digital” Age
Obsessing over a celebrity’s life has perhaps been, in my opinion, one of the most explicit proofs of how today the lines between the public and...
Continue reading...Viral Sensations of Aliens – Hoax or Scientific Discovery?
Mexico’s recent findings have sparked a huge online debate. It is about the two ‘alien corpses’ revealed by the Mexican congress on 12 September. For many...
Continue reading...The paradox of cancel-culture – Is it creating more toxicity rather than decreasing it?
Perhaps one of the most important parts of social media is finding the “person” we want to put out there. At the end of the day...
Continue reading...NFTs: Fad or the Future of Art?
The art world is no stranger to the increasingly rapid, and brutal, trend cycles of the digital age. Nonetheless, the desire to stick to our centuries...
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Digital Media as a stage filled with nothing but actors
All the world’s a stage’’ You might have heard that quote before, it comes from one of Shakespear’s plays, As You Like It, but what does...
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AI art generators are far from being unknown in this day and age, yet the place they are attributed in society is still up for debate....
Continue reading...Looking at the centralization of the web, could web3 possible help?
Web2 has shaped our digital society. It invited every person interacting with the web to subscribe, follow, share, consume, promote, invest and engage, often through a...
Continue reading...a few minutes of SOMETHING – liminal space vlog
Hello! I decided to try out as a last post here to make a vlog. It was fun, it went in too many directions, and a...
Continue reading...“Inside” is a time period defining masterpiece
No one really likes to talk anymore about the time period where Bo Burnham’s “Inside” came out. It came out on May 30th 2021 and was...
Continue reading...Why the shuffle feature on streaming platforms suck
This is probably something that happened to you. You have carefully created the perfect playlist for your mood and you love every single song that is...
Continue reading...How an artist with meme skills took advantage of the music industry
It broke record after record after record on the top music charts and it would be almost impossible to find someone who was alive during 2020...
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