In the modern day and age, we are bombarded by advertising and influenced by marketing in everything we do. From watching a YouTube video, to visiting your local corner store, brands are constantly trying to sell you their products, and outcompete other potential businesses for your attention, through the positioning of items, their packaging, and the ways those are promoted in the media. Overwhelming, right?
This week’s topical cartoon, illustrated by Kinza Nithianandan
Have a flick through this week’s top stories, curated by Isabella Zeidler
From fashion trends to personality traits, even down to how we eat, social media controls everything. In the 21stcentury, social media has been embedded in our society to such an extent that it is now slowly becoming impossible to function without it. Since the post-industrialisation aesthetic movement in the 19th century, the appearance of oneself has never been as significant as it is now. Although the beauty standards between then and now are of stark contrast, they are just as prevalent in the modern day.
If you were thinking about getting vaccinated, you might want to check out Nicki Minaj’s ‘science-based’ tweet. In case you missed it, she tweeted that her cousin’s friend in Trinidad had got the vaccine and this, she implies, resulted in him getting swollen testicles. While her intention was to inform her almost 23 million followers of the dangers of the vaccine, she seems to have only caused outrage and very unfortunately exposed her cousin’s friend.
