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In the past few months, the chip brand Doritos made a collaboration with popular skateboarding apparel and filming business called Illegal Civilization. This collaboration is primarily merchandise sold on the Illegal Civilization website that featured the chip brand. I believe that this connects with the "Merchants of Cool" video that was watched in class. This connects to the Frontline video in the section where they discuss how companies will try to access certain brands and companies and collaborate with them to gather an audience and expand their company. In the Frontline video, we saw how MTV tried to connect with the Hip-Hop community by hosting concerts with some local and big named artist at the time, to gather an audience to MTV that they might have not connected to. The same thing could be seen with Doritos collaborating with this small skateboarding company in order to tap into a community of skateboarders and gain extra revenue and supporters. I believe that ...

So this evening while opening the Instagram app, I noticed at the bottom of the app that it now says "from facebook". When reading I was completely surprised and I never even realized that Instagram was even slightly related to Facebook. Facebook and Instagram have two completely separate user demographics and I think I have an idea of why Facebook wouldn't try to force their app onto Instagram. It is apparent that the majority of Instagram users, or at least avid users, are the younger generation of children and teenagers. While Facebook is primarily adults and generation X. My idea to why Facebook stays a separate entity from Instagram is primarily influenced by our need for autonomy. When teenagers and younger adults are given a platform to express themselves mostly free from adults and parents, we are given a sense of freedom and our own individuality. While many older folks still use Instagram there are many settings like activating your account private and ...

Earlier this week, I watched the 2019 Youtube Rewind and the amount of hate it got was unbelievable. Although it didn't get as much hate as the previous Rewind, it still gathered way more negative feedback than positive making three million likes and almost eight million dislikes. The worst part was how Youtube tried to fix its mistake made in last year's Rewind but failed and only became a "meme" for not including any of its hard-working content creators.  The main reason for the hate on Youtube is for their elimination of their creator's autonomy. With hundreds of thousands of creators trying to make a living off of Youtube by making the content they like makes it almost impossible with Youtubes' strict algorithm. Their algorithm forces content creators to post content aimed towards younger audiences by demonetizing videos that have any adulterated humor, cursing or political opinions on anything. This makes their content creators feel oppressed by the st...

Today, I read an article about Instagram supposedly "taking away likes" in the future. This update would take away the number next to the post indicating the number of likes it received. The post would say "this post has been liked by hundreds of others, thousands of others or millions of others. Although this would take away the number of likes of the post, people would still have the ability to see the people who have liked the post. This update is still in speculation and can still be changed or canceled altogether.  If Instagram were to go through with the update this would give its users their need for affiliation. Some people aren't posting any content because of the likes they would receive, so by taking away the ability for people to not directly see the number of likes would let users feel less pressure to post content and create more of a community within Instagram. This update would also create autonomy for its users as people would not have to post ...

This morning famous rapper, Juice Wrld, was pronounced dead at the hospital due to a seizure. At this moment, a drug-related cause for his death is still in speculation, but some are assuming it was caused by a drug-related overdose. Along with his death, there are some rumors about what really happened. With all celebrity-related deaths, people always point to the "illuminate" and the government as to why celebrates and politics suddenly pass away. But Juice Wrld has some solid evidence of his death being orchestrated by an unknown force. One of his hints towards his death can be seen in the song "Legends" where he says, "We ain't making it past 21". What's odd enough about this lyric connecting to his death is that he had only turned 21 previously this year and died. In another song labeled "Lucid Dreams", he says "I'm a jealous boy, call me John Lennon". What's suspicious about this lyric is how John Lenon passed aw...

This video was on my recommended on youtube, and it had me thinking about how egotistical some Americans are. There are some Americans that think the United States is special for its freedom and the influence it has over the world. In this video, the main character giving the speech points out stereotypes and demographics within the United States. And points out the many flaws and weak points America has opposed to other world powers. For myself, I haven't really thought about this topic and it was an eye-opener to how great America was in its rise to power. Some of the techniques used by the main character when giving his speech were the enthusiastic approach and the tone switch to emphasis his main points. The speech was a majority of Pathos, with its emotional ordeal, but had a mix of Ethos and Logos, giving some statistics and ethics throughout the speech. Link to Youtube video- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3qYHWRIZk&feature=youtu.be

Last weekend I read an article about Elon Musk's approach to advertising. He decided that the least amount of advertisement would be the best course of action for tesla at least Television wise. The author notes how Tesla skyrocketed in popularity after taking its different approach, supporting Elon Musk's decision into canceling his advertisement. Some of the ways Elon Musk gives information about his vehicles and company updates are via tweets when responding to people for questions about the cars, and when presenting cars live like the Cyber Truck. This was interesting to me because it showed how much risk Elon Musk would take by not pushing out his product but in the long-run provided him with more car sales. Link to article- - https://medium.com/@cunninghamjeff/elon-musk-is-helping-p-g-break-the-advertising-habit-53b3ef51077