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Though plagiarism is a problem almost everywhere, I bring it up in terms of fashion because many fast fashion companies (think mall and online fashion) steal designs from people of color (POC), ethnic traditions, and small businesses. I chose to highlight the small businesses because it encompasses the other two. These businesses are often POC owned and their designs are often taken without credit and replicated cheaply. It can even come down to a matter of appropriation. 

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I cut together stock footage of a suburban house and part of the music video for MGMT’s song When You Die. “I’m not that nice” is the opening lyric. I wanted to sort of display the notion that things oftentimes aren’t what they seem behind closed doors. Somebody can seem like they’re doing perfectly fine when in reality they’re going crazy. 

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Guy Debord labels technology and media as a distraction, as the ‘spectacle’. Nowadays screens and technology worm their way into everyday items, including refrigerators. In Debord’s eye, mundane things can be considered art and are definitely part of the spectacle. Usually these everyday items just go kind of unnoticed, and I think it’s interesting to consider them as art. 

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THE GAME

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-game

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Q: Internet Memes: What if we’re not just gags

In how ever many years/decades/centuries, could memes become their own sort of language and way of communicating? Could these trends and patterns become something that people study and try to dissect when memes are something we (Gen Z, primarily) just sort of inherently know and understand? 

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Q: Keywords in Remix Studies

Are there different types of memes or has the evolution of memes and internet culture just created different versions of one general ‘meme’?