Buckle up. This is going to be a dense one.
Social media dominates our lives. In the webcomic community, content is generally in the form of comics, however, we have podcasts, YouTube videos, Instagram accounts and of course Twitter. We immerse ourselves in the online world, broadcasting our efforts and ...
Twitter, outrage and the nature of parasocial interactions - A case study
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, April 16, 2021Breaking Eggshells
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 12, 2021
Silencing unpopular ideas, famous individuals with a large platform, and entire thought processes has been on the rise. Last week, forty-two episodes went missing from a well-known podcast’s archive leaving several listeners wondering why the episodes were removed.
Popular podcasts are a media form that carry a lot of ...
Saturday Night Live Finally Spoofed a Rap about Non-Fungible Tokens
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 29, 2021
The moment Pete Davidson dressed in a make-shift Robin costume asking a question about an NFT (one of the more recent buzzwords of the Internet) during a late night comedy show was shocking, but not entirely surprising.
The term Non-Fungible Token (NFT) has been thrown around on many podcasts by ...
What if Nobody Ever Sees It
Banes at 12:00AM, June 25, 2020
Early in my writing efforts, I mostly did short stories. Scenes, really. I'd imagine a whole story around the scene I wrote and drew. I did a series of scenes about two private detectives hired to solve a 20-year old murder. I had no idea who did it, why ...
A Former Child Soldier’s Story Will Be Told Through an Online Comic
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 10, 2020Controversial Comic Seized in Malaysia
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 28, 2019
A comic book in Malaysia titled “Road and Belt Initiative for Win-Winism” by Hew Kuan Yau has been banned by the Malaysian government last week under the Printing Presses and Publication Act. It is being seized after being accused of potentially spreading communist and socialist ideals and it could be ...
Star Wars' Rey May Be a Problematic Character
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 26, 2019
I know you are probably rolling your eyes right now, thinking I'm about to rant about the Star Wars sequels again. I'm not.
Ok, I might a little, but not in the typical manner. And I'm inviting you to hear me out because this isn't a ...
Gender Bending
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 12, 2019
So on occasion, there's a lot of controversy over gender bending characters- that is, to change the character's sex from male to female or vice versa.
I'm not going to talk about my take on this controversy. At least not in this article.
What I want to ...