Criticism that Kylie Jenner’s new “walnut face scrub” is unsafe only points to a symptom of the wider problem of social media influencers becoming mouthpieces for companies who don’t care about consumer safety.
A reality check for the selfie generation: “The subject of the photo doesn’t have any rights to the picture as long as it was taken in a public place.”
As the elders of the Millennial generation, ’90s kids were raised on cartoons with rampant racist stereotypes, bizarre animated gore, and blanket sexism. So what do we do about it?
Dramas based on true crime stories are fraught with contradictions–are these criminals or characters, stories or confessions, entertainment or exploitation?
The second half of this review contains SPOILERS. If you’re not emotionally prepared to know how Nick Fury’s cat defeats Thanos* or that Doctor Strange is actually a time-traveller from 3024*, please stop reading at Benedict Cumberbatch’s warning. *Fake Spoilers
In the nexus of celebrity, visual media, and fervent self-improvement, body-positivity promotes the strange ideal that being beautiful isn’t better, but feeling beautiful is.
From presidential debates to masturbatory stand-offs between self-aggrandizing personalities, we only tune in to public discourse to sate voyeuristic impulses, not intellectual ones.
By and large, franchises aren’t perceived as art. Yet, in the ethos of fan culture, many perceive themselves to be the sacred gatekeepers of their favorite franchises. In reality, it’s not that serious.