New trends - a good idea to be celebrated?
- we love the creativity of today. if we have to thank anyone for how we can communicate as fans in this day it can be whoever created the internet and social media
- embracing new positivities- we love to see sexuality acceptances, body acceptances, interest acceptances. we can actually not be called geeks or neeks for being fans. we can EXPRESS OURSELVES!
- the escapism - our minds go into theory and fiction mode after we’ve watched an episode of Euphoria. we don’t think about reality and that is completely okay because it’s so great sitting here and hearing the fans’ ideas.
- I feel as if the audience is quite divided and there is an issue of people younger than 18 watching Euphoria, which is the actual certified age for it. I’m not disagreeing that Euphoria is a cool show (obviously - this is a EUPHORIA blog), but what I am saying is that regulation in this digital age is very inevitable and Euphoria isn’t exactly a show for the young.
- I came across a blog on Vogue and the writer, Samuel Getachew, spoke about the actual issue with Euphoria itself- the glamourisation, the cause to reenact almost exactly what’s been shown on the show. Euphoria makes these halluncinations and this ideal feeling from a drug seem like its a norm and something we should all do to “be cool”. The aesthetic of Euphoria is pleasing to the eye but isn’t seeing the way Rue behave an eye opener? Bottom line is, drugs are not cool.
Not exactly the worst thing in terms of communication - I’m all for the online communities being so big and so able to talk about reactions to Euphoria episodes so easily, but I would love to see fan communities maintain the older forms of fandom - like the Comic-con events :)
The real question is: were fans so obsessed with recreating certain aesthetics, in the past? Would you agree that we are losing the concept of having our own mind? I’d love to hear your thoughts :)
