DAE feel a bit out of the pop culture loop using Lemmy as their primary social media?
DAE feel a bit out of the pop culture loop using Lemmy as their primary social media?
I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there's a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I've blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.
But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy's, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country's Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?
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Pop culture is mindless drivel to keep the masses complacent.
Create the posts you want to see.
As a CEO you may either attract more contents creators by paying them more or by lowering the quality of your editorial curation. It means you may either risk bankruptcy or knowingly foster depression at a global scale, unless like Mozilla's Pocket you chose to piggyback on a decentralized model and have no skin in the game.
People have brought up Kendrick Lamar but I'm sorry, he's never been recommended by my partner's Spotify account. Not even once.
I don’t know about that.
Pop culture allows people with a voice/audience to have their say which influences the cultural zeitgeist.
Take Kendrick Lamar since I’m a huge fan and OP mentioned him specifically.
In 2018 he earned a Pulitzer Prize for Music, making history as the first non-classical or non-jazz artist to win. The Pulitzer board praised the album Damn for its “virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African American life”. Essentially, the album was recognised for its deep storytelling, social commentary, and innovative musical composition.
It’s incredibly reductive to label all pop culture as mindless drivel. When if you look, there are actually many artists who have a message to spread and are socially conscious.
As long as that message remains profitable and doesn't challenge the status quo too much
Again, I’m not so sure about that.
Take Macklemore releasing songs in support of Palestine like Hinds Hall.
This does not get shown in recommendations on sites like YouTube and is only really shown to audiences that support Palestine. Macklemore could have chosen to ignore this topic like most main stream artists, but he believed in what he wrote about and made the song regardless of how well it would do.
This is a bit mean. Just because I want to talk about the WEIRDEST trade in the modern NBA (that has collusion vibes all over it), doesn't mean I am vapid and shallow.
I volunteer a lot in my community and mutual aid spaces, and things have gotten a lot worse since the pandemic. Talking about so called "vapid" social topics is how a lot of us avoid burnout.
Also if you watched Kendrick's Superb Owl performance, saw the message he was trying to portray about black empowerment, how ANGRY the establishment MAGAbros are over it, and still think of it as mindless drivel...maybe you're part of the problem.
Things don't have to be academic to matter.
Agree with you. Sports and pop culture should have their places.
I do miss /r/NBA. But I also miss my local NBA team being good. 😄
God forbid people enjoy light hearted and mindless entertainment. Do you think they must be focused on whatever you think is important all of the time?
I think society would be better if people focused on issues that actually matter and not The Masked Bachelor Miami Edition yes
That’s an unrealistic outlook. Mindless entertainment has its own value even if you cannot understand that.
It's sure valuable to keep the masses complacent, that's for damn sure