#common shiner

[ch-a-y]

[songuserbox]

for @seventhranger

[angels-in-overcoats]

Can we start a Social Mediasochist fandom?

[oliveempty]

Pin I made this morning

Fish pin fish pin

[angryblondechick]

30 Favourite Music Videos

Day 30: Social Mediasochist by Common Shiner - Dir: Zoran Gvojic

TW/CW: BLOOD AND MURDER

Cuz I know I need to say goodbye

To the version of you that lives in my head

[angels-in-overcoats]

Common Shiner's Social Mediasochist | Lowcarbcomedy | Teen Slasher Romantic Parody Music Video

WATCH THE SEQUEL: SOCIAL MEDIASOCHIST PART II - ON AND ON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgZSJk3BOM Our Kickstarter for Social Mediasochist 2 has ended, bu...

Y’all, if you haven’t watched Common Shiner’s music video for their song Social Mediasochist, please do. I haven’t been able to stop watching this and I found it 5 years late.

[thenativetank]

Common Shiner

(Image Source)

[instantmemoriesofavirtualworld]

“Social Mediasochist” and Online IP Theft/Plagiarism: 

The music video for  indie rock band, Common Shiner’s “Social Mediasochist” is a well made, clever re-contextualizing of horror icons into a 1980′s teen movie setting. 

Oddly though, I first became aware of it when I viewed it in a truncated form that circulating on Facebook. The music video had been cut down to 2 and a half minutes removing any reference to the band and replacing the song with a cheesy 80-ish theme. There was no information on who created the video, both in the edited cut and on the Facebook pages where it had been posted. A brief search revealed the original video and what had happened on Facebook became clear. 

IP theft is something quite common online, normally it's something heard about solely in reference to torrenting but it happens quite regularly in far more unassuming ways. "Social Mediasochist" is just one example of how individuals are robbed of credit for their creative work but within social media circles this type of plagiarism happens frequently in much simpler ways. 

Tumblr is one platform plagued with this phenomenon. It relies on a re-blogging system where each time a piece of work is shared, a note is added and it’s possible to see the original poster. However, many save content to their computer and re-post it with out attribution, claiming the work as their own. This happens quite often with art focused blogs and has been documented thoroughly by the curator of Jogging. Obviously this same problem also occurs on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms quite regularly. I think it's important that with the advancement and utilization of communication technologies we as a community of users pay close attention to online plagiarism like this.

This screen cap was taken with Fuji FP-100c pack film in a Polaroid 250 Land Camera. Rather than trying to explore online plagiarism through more expressionist means, I specifically used the Fuji film to capture a realistic image and preserve the high-quality work done for this video.