pop culture
Modern popular culture topics in the geek sphere.
Reflex Media and the Strange Content Phenomenon
If you and I grew up around the same time you might remember when Finn the Human found a pair of magic glasses and learned everything about the universe. Finn’s following words, “Everything small is just a small version of everything big,” is just one example of the number of truth bombs sprinkled throughout the wildly popular series, Adventure Time. The fact that my wife and I still watch this show and that it has become the favorite bedtime ritual of our 4-year-old son speaks to key pieces of what defines Reflex Media, this tidal wave of brand-new genres of content that are being devoured by masses of millennials and Gen Z-ers.
By Dillon Brady6 years ago in Geeks
How to Fall Down the Black Hole of Streaming Services
Though streaming services have created algorithms to match us with shows and movies we might enjoy, there exists a fairy, whose recommendations never fail (unlike the streaming services). The 98% match is not always a match Netflix..., but thank you for trying.
By Carissa Sato6 years ago in Geeks
The Hero and the Villian
Quick Facts -The hero and the villain cannot exist without each other, and the show they put on is absolutely incredible! -There are states of being that are beyond hero and villain, good and evil, and these states are very meaningful and worth living in!
By Gabriel Mohr6 years ago in Geeks
Little Ivory Black Book
Little Ivory Black Book Lenora sits in a room with no windows. They wouldn’t know this because the room is pitch black and she is perfectly silent, but she is there. They wouldn’t know she is there at all because They’re still tucked in bed, but here she is, in perfect darkness, in pitch-less silence, sitting ever so still. She does this every morning she wakes up here. She… sits. Legs crossed, palm cupped over her eyes creating darkness in the dark. She is art, and she knows it, which is why she feels her way to this pedestal every morning she wakes up here, in a dark silent room where so much lonely art lives. Pages flutter open, eager to find light, and Lenora, just as eager, takes them to it. She knows her way through the Auction House just as well as she knows the dark itself, and soon her favorite book is presented to the light of the restoration room.
By Nicole Honore6 years ago in Geeks
Goths aren’t necessarily THAT scary
You must’ve met one, right? Or heard of one maybe? Or at least seen one... at school, your local library, lurking or slinking around a space inhabited by humans... and thought, “WTH? Why all the black? What’s up with them? Are they weird? Mean?”
By Melissa Ingoldsby6 years ago in Geeks
Black Dinners and Red Weddings
Remember Game of Thrones? What a show that was, wasn’t it? The twists and the turns, the sex and violence, the amazing set pieces. Dragons! Zombies! Magic! Some of the most amazing TV of all time, spread over 7 seasons (season 8 doesn’t exist and if you disagree with me then I will fight you).
By Shaun O'Neill6 years ago in Geeks
Brick by Brick
I bought a green dinosaur: 174 bricks. Since when do they have 3-in-1 sets? T. Rex, Pterodactyl, and Triceratops all in one box. Back in my day, you would have had to buy each dinosaur and use miscellaneous green flat sheets from your Star Wars sets to foster their vegetive habitat. Asher talks about dinosaurs all the time; I’m sure he’ll like it. Of course, I shouldn’t pretend my donation isn’t soaked with selfishness and—I’m a little ashamed to say—envy.
By Mark Perkins6 years ago in Geeks
A curse via a black book.
A young blue-haired girl sat across from another girl with blond hair. In between them was what appeared to be a small table. With two clocks with buttons on the very top of them. This table was, in actually a Shogi board. These two girls were in the middle of a heated match – and it was the blue-haired girl’s turn. Come on, Yumiko, you can do this. This is the turn where you can make the winning move she thought. She takes a few minutes before moving one of her pieces and hitting the clock’s button. The look on her opponent’s face turned to shock as she realized there was nothing she could in response. “I resign, Sakura-chan”.
By Billy Covert6 years ago in Geeks
