[ SECRET POST #2962 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2962 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Final Fantasy IX]


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03.
[Gaia Online]


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04.
(Guardians of the Galaxy)


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05.
[Batman: Arkham City]


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06.
(Ming Na Wen)


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07.
[Terry Pratchett]


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08.
[The Fall]


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09.
[Markiplier's Youtube Let's Plays]


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10.
(Karen Gillan in Guardians of the Galaxy)













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 014 secrets from Secret Submission Post #422.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[anonymous4]

I earned my living in advertising for years, both as an account manager and as a copy writer, so I do know a fair bit about advertising and social engineering, and I'm both fascinated by and disgusted by it... But I also know how often it misfires. Because advertising is only one of many -- competing, conflicting, complementary -- influences shaping culture.

I don't know if it's because I'm older or because I'm English and, therefore, from what I'm realising is a very different culture (divided by a common language, as they say), but, yes, I do have a more sanguine view of people than most members of F!S seem to have, and I can't see anything ever changing that. My family members do not have the training in media analysis that we have, and I can confirm that they consume TV and film critically. Newspapers, I find, they tend to believe; TV news, they question.

But people's reaction to 50Shades doesn't have to be analytical (in fact, I'm beginning to think that too much emphasis on meta has broken fandom's ability to consume stories as stories => fandom wank and bullshit, but that's another argument). All people have to do with 50Shades is laugh. Or think, "What a tosser!" Or, "Ewwwww!" Or, "My girlfriend would have my balls for that..."

[diet_poison]

Ok, fair enough. You certainly know more about advertising than I do if you've worked in it :)

But the 50SoG phenomenon still creeps me out and I hate that it's being portrayed as women's ultimate dream for romance. Whether or not it has a cultural effect (and I think it will), that still just makes me really mad, by itself.

And yeah, your family might consume media in a certain way, but everyone is different and many people blindly accept things they see on TV news and so forth. Sadly.