Seduction of the Innocent. Why the internet is no longer a fan platform.
When we talk about comics, we use a simple format - a work. Starting from the beginning in the 40s, continuing with the expansion in the 70s, ending with the latest NFT-model today, we had exactly one rule. What you're holding in your hands is a DC comics. Such a simple model hides a much deeper and more important rule for the target audience.
These are lost boys and girls who want to escape from the world, running into a fantasy that successfully protects them with a cover. From the psychology point, the comic begins the story from the very first page. If the comic is open and you're reading this, you're already outside of your usual reality. Our fixation on the material creates a space for intimate dialogue. At this moment, the outside world is working exclusively in our personal comfort zone. These are the things that complement the established environment. If you feel a lot of impact when you reproduce the actions of the characters, move, I do not know, the arrows in the notebook to memorize dates and times, the notebook is also part of the environment. For most, this is the work of the brain, the process of immersion. That's why comics are becoming a universal thing. You can read it on the road, you can do it at night with a flashlight, we find comics under our textbooks during our lessons.
Later, it evolved into more complex models, but the method of watching movies is actually the same. The cinema allows you to take the seat you bought, and it depends only on your character how much the ordinary viewer next to you will complement or break your individual experience. The main idea here is a copy of the project = your mirror for the DC world. How did computers make it even more intimate? They stopped being homogeneous.
Since the electronic device is a whole repository of folders, uploaders, and personalization elements, the path to the work becomes much longer. The comics are in separate folders, but around them, for example, there are also folders with your games. Or personal photos. Sometimes job documents. Technically, it feels like the same paper. The difference is that the original format is not able to isolate or expand its own environment. But. When you close your first comics file, you return to the "computer world." In most cases, it doesn't seem wrong, because it's your own device. That is, you put [like the original format] the work exactly where you want it to be. Can we say that we have it today? No.
With the development of corporate rules and the attempt at government regulation, a trend of "non-ownership" of our own devices is developing around the world. News is increasingly being found in places where it shouldn't be. The number of accounts necessary for the simple operation of technology has long crossed the line of sanity in recent years. In addition, there is a growing trend towards controls that ban you from watching some adult content or playing video games without being linked to spy services. People use additional ways to live, and control over the computer is lost even more. It becomes a compromise. This topic works better in a socially significant environment. Why comics? Because we were created to avoid it. To remain Individuals where the world punishes...any Individuality.
If we go back to the 40s, it was a way to distract from the Great Depression. And even when comics began to be perceived as a more multidimensional platform, we maintained the "One comic for one person" concept. Undoubtedly, avoidance is also a way of knowing the world. This is a chance to learn about close experiences, find friends, share problems and dreams, and begin to comprehend this reality.
What we see today is violence against the Individual. Every time a person tries to use an electronic form, they face problems, from blocking websites to having to remove 1000000 promotional banners from Google, Windows, anyone else. I don't see any comfort here anymore. We should find new points, new ideas for broadcasting "picture books". Or comics, in their familiar form, will die forever.
