Maya's Media Arts

  Image from Buzzfeed.com      The social media apps for younger children sound like the media companies care for the younger generation, which is great to know, however, there are holes in the desired solution from bullying and such. It is pretty useless if children who have phones with freedom, constantly fake their age in the age confirmation when creating an account. But, looking at YouTube Kids, seems like it is working, because this product focuses on content that is for kids! Unlike the real media world where people communicate freely, children are curious to explore it and, so, become exposed to the harsh reality of it. Such as cyberbullying, harassment, or predation.      I do not think there is any merit in the apps for children. An example of this would be Facebook building an “Instagram for Kids.” Priya Kumar, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland who researches how social media affects families, had provided an opinion on this me...

    F irst of all, I don’t think celebrities should be held to a higher standard than others because there are various kinds of standards that are already presented to each celebrity. Opinions from society have already given peer pressure on celebrities, resulting in them to satisfy their audience by fulfilling their setted standard.    My personal opinion of the Oscar’s situation is that an out-of-hand action performed by some famous individuals can easily be the talk of the town, rather than acknowledging the well deserved celebrities. For this incident from Will Smith and Chris Rock; obviously they have known everything is going to be recorded and spread throughout the media, however, still continued to act this way but Chris handled that slap pretty well, he simply carried on. As they went on with this unintended performance; I wonder, what motivated Chris Rock to say this line along with out of all the jokes he had to say, Will Smith doesn’t tolerate it? It...

Woman Yelling at a Cat meme gained its popularity in mid-June 2019. All images are from knowyourmeme.com, later stated in the article refers of the images and format creators.        You have probably seen this meme with different captions over both images, according to knowyourmeme.com explains this format and creators behind them.     The image on the left includes a screencap of the actors, Taylor Armstrong and Kyle Richards, from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reality TV show. Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing and Kyle Richards trying to calm her down. This 14th episode "Malibu Beach Party From Hell" of season two premiered in the United States on December 5th, 2011.     The image on the right includes a confused cat sitting in front of vegetables. On June 19th, 2018, Tumblr user deadbeforedeath posted this picture with "he no like vegetals." The post gained over 50,300 likes and reblogs in a year. On ...