My Relationship With Media

     
      My interactions with media are mostly limited to video games, twitch, YouTube, and the occasional movie. Though I don't watch a lot of tv now, I watched tv all the time when I was younger.  Shows like Lab Rats, Kickin' It, and Jesse entertained both Jake and I for hours during summers and weekends. Though, this consumption of media was soon overshadowed by a new love, Youtube. I'll be real with you, I really only watched one kind of video when I was about 10-13… Minecraft videos. Hate all you want but I've used my Minecraft knowledge at least a handful of times each year of school. I think this phase of my relationship with media, if characterized into a human relationship, would be TOXIC. It would be the literal embodyment of that Taylor Swift song, "never getting back together." I mean, I was a total troll, leaving comments and terrible, terrible memes in their comment sections. I would vent my frustrations and angers in the comment sections of my favorite you tubers when I didn't like what they were doing. Yes, I was cringe. (don't look for it, somethings are better left untouched) 

     Speaking of the radio aspect of media, I can't. I don't listen to music. People ask if I'm really a teenager if I don't listen to music. And I respond, "no, I'm just 400 lizards squirming around in one human meat suit, I can't relate to you." Though, every once in a while, I'll hear a song just crazy and bizarre that peaks my interest. Such songs include Feel it still, and Baby Im yours. Call me a hippy but I think they sound pretty damn rad. Though my brother has a massive playlist that I occasionally
draft songs off of. Though, Jake's weird obsession with "ownership" of certain songs(you'll have to ask him) might've rubbed off on me because the idea that someone listening to the same songs I do, while not bad, is a strange thought. This is one of the main reasons me and media aren't together all the time, that is, that I don't listen to a lot of music. Though, the biggest divide comes from social media.

 I have never created a social media account for myself. I know, weird, right? Well, I'm not gonna try to pass this off as my strong moral compass not agreeing with the numerous bad consequences of social media, leading me to disconnect myself from family and friends in hopes of starting a revolution against the evil social media… while that would be a bomb reason not to have social media, I can't claim that. No, to put it shortly, parental controls. My Dad is the one trying the whole revolution thingy(its not catching on pops!!!) which is being conducted through my brother and I. yay! That's not to say you won't find me on social media, well, at least accounts that claim to be me. I think Stella and Ashland made Instagram accounts of me but I have no clue. Well, please, don't be fooled! Though, there is one category that forms most of my relationship with media, video games.

I wouldn't qualify my consumption of media as an addiction, though on occasion, I can be known to binge play a video game. As I said, I don't play or watch media out of need, I consume media to relax. Though I might not seek it out, through my family and environment, I'm exposed to other media. This was the case with the Impeachment hearings, which my mom plays during car rides to school. Prior to our recent and short review of media, I always thought that ads were stupid and ineffective at convincing me to support their product. If i ended up endorsing something,I felt that it was because I saw real value in it, not because the ad had deceived me. Now, looking back on some of my past purchases, I realize that media is an effective tool for business. So, in most regards, my relationship with media was shallow. To me, that means I felt that it didn't play a huge role in my life nor did it influence my decisions. Now, I'm not so sure...

Peace out blog friends!

-Rex