This week for Social Networking Services, I focused on communities that interested me the most. For Reddit, I chose to explore more deeply into BikiniBottomTwitter and Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe because how nostalgic they made me feel.
For Marvel, I thought it was rather interesting that someone found Wanda Maximoff’s fight scene in Edinburgh. It used to make feel very excited when there were movie filmings in Berkeley or San Francisco, especially when Ant Man had a scene at Sproul Plaza showing Sather Gate. Seeing someone else make these connections made me happy.
This Marvel Heroines post also caught my attention. Seeing the progression of all the women in the Marvel World made me feel inspired. I didn’t realize that there were so many different characters. It was interesting to note in the comments that people also had different opinions who should be in the middle or front. I was with the few who commented Black Widow.
On BikiniBottomTwitter, I found this post relating to coronavirus to be too funny and too relatable. The post displays the paranoria surrounding hand sanitizing and running out of toilet paper because of coronavirus. I found this post extra relatable because even at my house they passed around 1 toilet paper per person this week. Spongebob brought a lot of nostalgia to me in the past and this post gave me a great laugh.
For Tik Tok, I browsed for new hashtags to follow to find communities that interested me the most. #Petparent, #Fashionasmr, #Colorbomb sparked my interest because these hashtags made me feel nostalgic.
Browsing through #PetParent, I found a lot of videos of people doing different things with their pets. These videos made me nostalgic because I also had a puppy when I was young. A particular video I found touching is the one below in which the dad is initially opposed to the dog but later embraces it.
#Fashionasmr was another hashtag that really sparked my interest. I’ve liked fashion every since I was younger and listening to ASMR was a new interest of mine. When browsing through the hashtag, I would see ASMR sounds being applied to different fashion pieces. Seeing these two come together was a pleasant surprise.
#Colorbomb sparked my interest because there was so much color with this hashtag. Most of the posts were predominately smoke bombs shots (like below), which made me feel nostalgic because I used to photos as a photographer and smoke bombs are still something I want to do.
For Twitter, I continued to browse stories that interested me the most. The NBA and coronavirus attracted my attention because they reminded me a part of my past.
When I was browsing through the NBA stories, reading that the season was suspended was disappointing. Watching and following basketball was a part of my childhood growing up and having the season suspended made me feel as if I lost a part of myself. However, reading about different players donating money during such a difficult time was inspiring.
Reading that the coronavirus moved classes to online was upsetting because a part of me wanted to enjoy the last couples months of my senior year. It hurt even more because I couldn’t experience senior year in high school either.
Seeing this post about supermarkets brought me into reality of the severity of the coronavirus. I related to this issue because I also had difficulty buying groceries. While it’s disheartening, I am trying to stay hopeful.
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