Pop culture #1 Blog post
While in todays pop culture lecture, one thing I realised is that in today’s day and age, new ‘pop culture/artefacts’ that are conceived, are short lived. Once a fad is mainstreamed, people tend to divide into three, those who don’t care at all and pay no mind to the new craze, those who join the popular craze and those who step back and make a point out of picking apart the craze and separating themselves from it, labelling it as “mainstream” and refusing to be a part of it. That’s why pop culture/artefacts are short lived, because people are now quick to reject them and others are more prone to reject them later on in fear of being ostracised.
This I believe in itself is almost another popular cultural thing, to point out pop culture texts and artefacts as quick as possible. After the success of twilight, the number of vampire fans grew and thus, more texts circulated as a result, but many people were focused on pointing out that they were not going to jump on this and that caused a snowball effect as other people did the same.
Similar approaches were made with the screening of 50 shades of Grey. Many people were quick to reject this craze and to make it know they are against that pop culture and quick to label and stereotype the people who were in this new craze.
Therefore I finish with this question;
Is a pop culture/artefact only considered so if it is approached positively?
Takacs, S. (2015). Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions, “What is Popular Culture?” (Chapter One), Routledge: New York, pp. 1-17
