{"id":9455,"date":"2017-04-17T20:28:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcoldstreams.wordpress.com\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2017-04-17T20:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:28:33","slug":"more-look-at-me-propaganda-memes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/04\/17\/more-look-at-me-propaganda-memes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;Look at me!&#8221; propaganda memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not the only one noticing this peculiar form of propaganda, now prevalent on Instagram and Youtube social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/04\/24\/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170424_r29833.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an undeniable aesthetic and demographic conformity in the vanlife world. Nearly all of the most popular accounts belong to young, attractive, white, heterosexual couples. \u201cThere\u2019s the pretty van girl and the woodsy van guy,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThat\u2019s what people want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>King clicked on the account\u2019s most successful post, which has more than eight thousand likes. In the image, the back seat of the van is folded down into a bed; King faces away from the camera, holding a sheet to her chest, her hair cascading down her naked back. The second most popular post was of King wearing a bikini, standing on the van\u2019s front bumper. In the next most popular, King is in a bikini, slicing lemons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople really want to see beautiful locations,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to see Emily in a bikini, they want to see a sun flare, they want to see the van,\u201d Smith said. \u201cOnes of Emily in the van waking up with Penny, they crush it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s real and it\u2019s kind of moody\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a naked female,\u201d Smith said&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/04\/24\/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement\">#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement &#8211; The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are cute enough and have enough followers, you can get paid promotional endorsements from advertisers. Which puts all this solidly in the realm of &#8220;celebrity endorsement&#8221; propaganda. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Hah! Here is how this post appears in my (the owner&#8217;s) Facebook news feed &#8211; I can even buy Likes for it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2782\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/voila_capture-2017-04-17_01-46-54_pm.gif\" alt=\"Voila_Capture 2017-04-17_01-46-54_PM\" width=\"483\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not the only one noticing this peculiar form of propaganda, now prevalent on Instagram and Youtube social media: There is an undeniable aesthetic and demographic conformity in the vanlife world. Nearly all of the most popular accounts belong to young, attractive, white, heterosexual couples. \u201cThere\u2019s the pretty van girl and the woodsy van guy,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThat\u2019s what people want to see.\u201d &#8230;. King clicked on the account\u2019s most successful post, which has more than eight thousand likes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/04\/17\/more-look-at-me-propaganda-memes-2\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-endorsement","category-in-practice","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}