Instagrams Double Standard Community Standards

Instagram, the photo-sharing platform who’s many users have come to have a love/hate relationship with. With over 150 million users at the end of 2013, Instagram is a well-known, often controversial social network. As with any online community…

Korean Food Porn Superstars: Mukbang

Known as the most wired place on Earth, South Korea has a new bizarre trend that many of us would be jealous of; eating delicious food and getting paid for it. No, it’s not the traditional food bloggers that tells you where to get nice and cheap food; this new…

The woman that I’ve been seeing, Samantha, she’s an operating system

Why are people spending hours on their smartphone and social media? It is because they feel lonely. According to a study, lonely people spend more time on Facebook than non-lonely people. People who are shy and…

Professions Over Appearance

Society has the reputation to categorise people into certain stereotypes on first impressions. A person who has stretchers, black make up and Doc Martens is identified as goth and possibly an aspiring tattoo artist, a Caucasian female that wears pink and has blonde hair is seen…

The Transformation from #Thinspo to #Fitspo

Social media has changed the modern day stereotype of an attractive woman from #thinspo to #fitspo. Trends have completely transformed from flab to abs. Women in particular no longer look to unrealistic 6ft something leggy blondes on the catwalk for…

Rape Jokes: #awkward!

It’s an issue that comes up again and again, spurred by journalists and social commentators alike. Can rape jokes ever be funny?

Rape: A topic that, in reality, isn’t pleasant to talk about. But it is something that happens, predominantly towards women.

German Airbus A320 disaster supports ‘reactionary theory’

On March the 24th of this year, the world was rocked by the mass homicide/suicide of German Airbus A320 co-pilot Andrea Lubitz. After encouraging his fellow pilot to leave the cockpit, Lubitz set upon a course of action that will…

The truth behind nothing

What better way to describe the excellent era of 90s sitcoms than with distinct solo sampled bass synthesizer riffs. Don’t know what I am talking about? Perhaps “no soup for you!” or “happy Festivus!” will ring a bell. If Seinfeld did not come to mind then sit tight because you are in…