We have made it this far, I hope you all have enjoyed my little pop culture posts, I really used this passion blog to voice my opinion on stupid things that y’all probably don’t care about, so thanks for sticking around…even though you technically had to lol. In honor of my last post, here is a list of my personal favorite blog posts I’ve written, it’s not a very long list: 

3. Donuts and America.

This was my very first blog post. It started out as a list, but then I kinda gave up and just wrote about Ariana Grande and that whole donut incident. I think the video of the little girl is so funny and it cracks me up every time I watch it. It also lowkey set the tone for my passion blog posts, they’re very casual because I genuinely just type whatever pops into my head, so y’all are basically just reading my thoughts.

2. Travis Swift and Taylor Kelce

This is my favorite couple ever. I’m sorry, actually, I don’t apologize. I am a huge Swiftie and I support this adorable couple. I hoped their relationship wouldn’t die out after I wrote that post, so I wouldn’t seem crazy, and It hasn’t! So hopefully y’all don’t think I’m crazy. Since I released that post, so many more cute moments of them have gone viral. My current favorite is when Miss Swift changed the lyric of her song Karma during her set of the Era’s Tour in Buenos Aires. The original lyric was “Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me,” she changed it to, “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me,” Like I am in love with them, and I couldn’t be happier for my queen.

1. Cody Ko ‘Button’ Appreciation Post

Respectfully, I love, I love, I love, Cody Ko. He has been my favorite person to watch on YouTube since I was 13 years old, and my love for his content has not diminished. He and Noel are literally such a hilarious duo, although they don’t post as much together now, they still have a place in my heart. It started with the “That’s Cringe” series that I binge-watched at age 13 from like 11:00 pm to 4:00 in the morning. Yes, I have taken breaks from YouTube, as I started to shift into Sitcoms and shows that fit that genre, but every time I go onto YouTube, it is to watch a Cody Ko video. I hope my post hyped him up for y’all to give him a watch, if not that’s okay, not everyone has taste (I’m jk).

Thank you for reading my posts, even though its a grade 🙂

Video games and violence is an idea my group came up with for a controversial topic idea. I think this topic has two clear sides, both with strong arguments. I think going deeper into both sides of the evidence will, 1) make us decide where we stand, and 2) provide us with a strong video. This topic has a plethora of statistics and opinion pieces that can help us.

I am not completely sure about a second topic, our group threw around a couple of ideas surrounding cancel culture and influencers. Cancel culture is a bit broad, maybe one specific focus, but still not dead set on anything. For the influencers, basically, they make so much money for putting up videos and I was thinking more about how they act separately from their accounts. Again, not very sure.

My brain is super foggy right now and after copious amounts of research, I have come to the conclusion that I cannot find anything interesting enough to post on here. So I am going to write an appreciation post for my king, Cody Ko, and his “The Button” reaction videos.

If you are not familiar with Cody Ko, he is a YouTuber who makes commentary videos on all types of videos. He’s most known for his “That’s Cringe” videos with his best friend also YouTuber, Noel Miller. About a year ago, Ko started doing commentary reactions on “The Button” videos. “The Button” is a segment on the ‘Cut’ YouTube channel. The channel gets two random groups of men and women and sets them up on these dates. If either person does not like the date, they can press the button when it turns red, and the other person leaves, and someone new filters in. With this type of formula, the videos can get quite boring and repetitive, Cut makes it so instead of the videos becoming boring, they include rules and challenges to spice things up. Like being blindfolded on the date or having earplugs.

Recently I have been on a binge of Ko’s commentary videos on “The Button.” Personally, I enjoy these types of videos, where someone provides funny commentary on a new concept like “The Button.” His videos became so popular that ‘Cut’ allowed Ko to be the voice of the button. If that sounds confusing, let me explain further. There is a voice behind the button in the “The Button” segment. The button asks questions to get the date started or honestly drops some instigating statements about either person to make the video more entertaining. Back to Ko being the voice, it got to a point where his videos got so recognized that they invited him on the show.

His videos on “The Button” are just absolutely hilarious and actually make me laugh out loud. I’d like to say me and Cody Ko have the same humor, he is definitely 100% funnier than me, so his videos are enjoyable to watch when you’re eating or just trying to waste some time. I started watching Cody Ko around the age of 13, and after a while, I stopped watching YouTube altogether, but I still come back to watch his videos, they never fail to crack me up lol. Down below I’ll insert my favorite videos of his (happens to be him voicing the button), and y’all can give it a watch! But who’s really to say if you’re going to watch it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgeZGYy5LEQ  (his reaction to voicing the button)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jwItpKb5T8BPa5KwBJ6RW14Do0dawxtZpPb1C9lipLE/edit#slide=id.p 

I was mostly thinking about the timeline, and what images to put. I want to go more into depth about the HIV/AIDS outbreak and how that affected sexual education. But these slides are mostly images that go along with the topic I’ll be talking about.

Okay, I’m going to be so real right now. I shouldn’t be invested in this, but I am. I love some good old diss track rivalry, it takes me back to the Logan vs. Jake Paul days.

Let me recap.

So Jaidyn and Blueface have been dating since high school, but if you know anything about Mr.Blueface is that he will double-dog you. He cheated on Ms. Jaidyn numerous times throughout their relationship, and she stayed, that’s not my business. Present day, he has two kids with her, and she seems to be happy with him, as happy as you can be when you’re common law married to a cheater.

One of the women that Mr.Blueface has cheated with, is Ms. Chrisean. Chrisean Rock used to be an all-star track girly back in her high school days. Like, I mean, girl used to win her meets all the time. But, you know, sometimes you get mixed in with the wrong crowd and you make some bad choices. So Blueface and Chrisean started messing and whatnot and eventually, she got pregnant. While this was going on, he was still dating both Jaidyn and Chrisean. It wasn’t like they didn’t know, I mean, I don’t know them or why they wanted to keep messing with him but it’s their choice. People would always comment on Chrisean and his relationship saying it was toxic and just really bad to be around and witness. It seems though shortly after Chrisean gave birth, the infamous couple split.

Here is where the real drama starts. Chrisean came out with a song called “Baby Father Drama” which was released on October 7th, 2023. Based on the title, you can tell what the song was about. It was her basically bashing her baby daddy, Blueface. Once the wind was caught by this song, Jaidyn came out with the song “Barbie” which was written and produced by Blueface and came out October 10, 2023. The song was a retaliation to the diss that Chrisean put out. Immediately, the song gained traction, and everyone on TikTok was posting videos to the song. This is where the NY artist, Lil Mabu, comes in. Lil Mabu, Matthew Peter DeLuca, is a college kid who makes drill rap. I don’t listen to a lot of drill, so I’m not about to give my opinion on his music. But, Lil Mabu and Chrisean made a song together called, “MR. TAKE YA B*TCH” and immediately that song blew up as well. This rivalry caused both members of each party to gain thousands of more followers and views. Blueface and Jaidyn are seen in interviews, talking about their relationship. Most hosts try to get some dirt out of them about the whole situation, even though they passively decline, we all know that is the reason they were invited to the shows.

This situation is so dumb, and I think the root of the problem is the man, Blueface, corrupting these women and putting them against each other. He was literally dogging them both like?

https://psu.voicethread.com/share/25265132/

This is honestly becoming a Taylor fan account, but I should’ve expected that cause she is literally my mother, she’s not my mother :(, but today’s blog post will be on the movie Ms. Swift released this past weekend. The movie in question, Taylor Swift: The Era’s Tour, was a hit! I cried five times during the film, it was so beautiful I wish I had been there IRL.

Let us start off with the fact that this film was a blockbuster. According to People Magazine, the movie made over 92 million dollars at the box office. Talk about lightwork, I mean she released a concert film and it like boosted the economy within three days. Every day, she’s eating it up constantly, I have no other words to describe her.

Okay, now let’s dive into the film and just the beauty of it. It started off with the Lover era. Some context for my non-Swifites: Lover is Taylor’s album that really mostly consists of the most beautiful songs ever written ever. So she started off with a song off of Lover in the most sparkly bodysuit I’ve ever seen. It was completely bedazzled with pink and white gems and she just looked so f-ing gorgeous in it, pardon my French. The first time I cried was when she actually was singing Lover, one of the best love songs ever created; it’s next to Margaret by Lana, not even ten minutes in and I was already letting the tears stream down. Obviously, since it is an eras tour film, she shifted from album to album in the duration of the film. If you know anything about Taylor it’s that she has a flair for the dramatic and knows how to put on a show. For almost every performance she had a whole dance crew backing her, it was either that or she’s just legit telling a whole story while singing her songs. Watching her play out tolerate it, the song is on her evermore album, was mind-altering. It was exactly how I imagined it when I listened to the song, like Miss Girl knows her audience. Her transitions were so fun and cool to watch, I forgot what album she was going to do but when she was transitioning to it, she dove into the stage like she was diving into a body of water and I really thought it was very well-played out. They had the sound effects and everything, the effects made it look like she was really swimming under the stage. Also, her costume changes were everything!! Her Midnights bodysuit was literally jaw-dropping, I will be adding a photo for reference.

I know that it’s just concert film, but I don’t want to reveal any more cause I genuinely think you guys should give it a watch. The songs and the visuals were beautiful, 10/10 recommend.

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Midnights bodysuit: photo link 

Trying to find a TED talk that interested me took a while until I stumbled upon the video by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. Pang goes into depth about why rest can make you better at your job, life, etc. He explains that even though we’re in a world where overworking and no breaks are rewarded, it is ultimately unsustainable and unhealthy. He goes further to discuss different types of rest, and how our definition of rest (watching TV on our laptops) isn’t going to make us productive. The video linked below will explain the types of hobbies and activities we can be doing to benefit us. I enjoyed this TED talk because it hooked me and kept me interested enough so I’d keep watching. I was all bout resting equalling better work production until it wasn’t the type of rest I thought it was, but as Pang went further into how we should pick up hobbies that exercise our brain, I realized he might be onto something. Watching him explain how in the modern day we work more hours than old military leaders did, and they were fighting in battle. They built their entire schedule on “downtime” and that interested me. How is it possible that we work more than ancient people when they were fighting for their lives? Overall, this TED talk was an interesting one to watch, it did not turn out to be the video I thought it would, but I’m glad I stuck around.

https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_soojung_kim_pang_how_rest_can_make_you_better_at_your_job/transcript 

Brainstorm Ideas

Sex Education

• Sex education is an important topic that I feel all teens should be aware of. In today’s world, sex is not as taboo as it was in the past. I think writing the evolution paper on this can highlight the evolution of sex education among schools.

Why libraries are so important

• I think a TED talk on the importance of libraries would be a nice topic. Libraries carry so much history that no amount of technology can compensate.

I cant think of anything else. Thank you.

I do not apologize for how in love I am with this couple. Okay, I definitely am getting ahead of myself, but they’re just so cute. And honestly, I’m just glad Taylor was able to escape from the shackle of the British man. She was first spotted at the Arrowhead with Travis’ mom watching the game. All the Swifties immediately knew something was up, cause of course we do. Before this whole Arrowhead debacle, it was known that Travis had been to one of Taylor’s Era’s concerts and wanted to give her a friendship bracelet, iykyk. Which is so freaking adorable like I’m obsessed.

So here’s what we know.

1. Kelce was spotted at the Era’s tour in the SAME ARROWHEAD that Taylor was in when watching his game. Coincidence? No. Fate.
2. After Taylor was spotted at his game, the entire internet went literally crazy. I mean like crazy. The NFL was chatting up Taylor on their Twitter, (Is it X? Idk I hate Elon Musk) the TikTok Swifties were posting so many fan edits. Like okay, I love them as much as the next chronically online person does, but calm down. I mean, imagine you just started talking to someone and all of a sudden everyone in your school is posting about how cute you guys are and how you guys are soulmates. Now that I say it out loud I kinda would like that…but again I love talking about myself so.
3. Patrick Mahomes interview. That’s literally it. The fact that he knew to pass the ball to Travis to impress Taylor, like that’s bromance goals, it’s adorable.
4. THE POST-GAME DINNER!!!! So there was this blind item that was heavily implying that Taylor and Travis were all cuddled up at this restaurant Travis rented out for them and his football friends. Like she was sitting on his lap, they were whispering in each other’s ear, the whole nine yards. Of course, who am I to believe this? I have no proof. UNTIL, a picture came out of them after the game, and she’s all up on his lap. This is the only time I’m grateful for TMZ.

5. The end. Okay, I’m being dramatic. This isn’t the end. Kelce was the one to address these rumors, he says that the headlines about them are “hilarious.” Can you please be more specific? Like a good hilarious? A bad hilarious? I need to know.

I’m sure this isn’t the end for them. I hope not. He’s really hot and they look good together.

I found Grace’s speech about performative activism very impactful. She was very clear in her speech and her words all meant something, none of it seemed to be fluff. She made it clear that performative activism is too common in today’s era of social media, and double-tapping a photo doesn’t do anything.

I felt as though for my own speech, it definitely could’ve been better. I had a script in my notebook that I kept looking down to read, and I had to film it on my phone because my laptop’s microphone doesn’t work anymore. I also felt as though I could’ve added more slides. I do think I explained the #LikeAGirl campaign well, and I tried my best when analyzing it. I should’ve gestured to my side more to emphasize what the video was showing, but I hope my description of it made up for that.

Thank you!