8.Popular Culture

Popular is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus with the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.

I believe popular culture in these days changes everyday, whilst some may be a phenomenon

others may only last a day. The things I love the most about popular culture is that everyone is different and sees their personal popular culture differently. Whilst a vast majority may share same aspects of popular culture their may only be a few that view a different popular culture.

However what I dislike about popular is that sometimes, if it turns out to be a phenomenon it can heavily transform their life as they become obsessed and it somewhat controls their lives.

But popular culture can be both for the good and for the bad. However I do feel bad for those you are actually true fans and loved what ever the popular culture was before it became huge and crazy and everyone begins to like it just because everyone else does....

TWILIGHT SAGA

I know this is an old popular culture but the Twilight Saga, I believe was one of the biggest phenomenon's of my decade. I know myself that when this phenomenon began in 2008, it was just a sudden rush and sorta of like a tsunami as it just suddenly swept in and took the world my storm as everyone was either reading the books or all you would hear on television would be about the Twilight Saga. However I felt this huge fad went a bit too far as people all over the world was obsessed with the books and cast (even to a scary extent) as they would sleep outside their houses, stalk them + basically do whatever they could to get their hands of one of them (this was especially significant with women hunting after the male cast). But I believe a lot of media (movies, songs etc.) can transform into being one of the biggest popular cultures.

Twilight Saga books: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse + Breaking Dawn

The Twilight Movie Cast

TUMBLR

I new craze that I have noticed is Tumblr. The newest new blogging website. As an advantage it allows people express who they are, how they are feeling. But what I believe and have recently realised is that now tumblr's have just turned into images of fashion, creative pictures instead of taking your own pictures of where you are, what's happening and writing about what's going on in your life. I suppose though its just a place to express your mood and how your feeling onto cyberspace instead of saying it in real life.