(Najlaa) When the internet was first known to the public, various hopes were pinned. One of them is as a place for meeting various views and ideologies. The internet is also used as a medium that can thicken human tolerance. However, the reality is indeed not as beautiful as the expectations. The more easily the internet is accessed, then opens up opportunities for every individual to communicate en masse. With a handheld device and a connection to cyberspace, we can already greet people from all over the world. However, behind the great potential, there is also the danger.
( ky ) These system are failing, the album where this song originally featured in, mainly encapsulate Moby wrangling frustation and anxiety on the current 2016 social and political climate. In this particular song, Moby visualize the world as dystopian catashrophe where people became slave to their own creation that is phone and social media. Needless to say, though we as a society still manage to differ from Moby’s extreme interpretation, we as a society also need to see that we are only seconds away from being the very absurd vision that Moby so ironically describe.
(Eca) Moby Wrangler music video uses a 60’s cartoon style animation to give it an oldie feel while still giving it a familiar yet dreary tone, the music video visualized society’s ignorance towards their surroundings and instead focusing more on their online persona, this could be seen a lot in the music video whether the people looking down at their phones are lining up to fall down a manhole nor walking off a giant chasm. But the one scene that sticks out a lot is a scene where a girl is taking a selfie in front of a burning building that had what seemed to be a person falling off it while cartoonish firetrucks with eyes try to put the fire down, this scene encapsulate a lot of the situation society is facing back in 2016 (when the music video aired) and now. One of which situation society deal is our identity, specifically how our internet persona has devalue our real persona, in the example before the girl is valuing her own internet persona by taking a selfie than caring about the burning building behind her oblivious to her own surroundings and practically only caring about herself. Though the real life example isn’t as to the extreme as the music video, but there are people out there willing to do things to increase their internet persona popularity by doing things a normal person would not do, Be it by going naked in the public or just doing life threatening stunts.
Moby Wrangler music video uses a 60’s cartoon style animation to give it an oldie feel while still giving it a familiar yet dreary tone, the music video visualized society’s ignorance towards their surroundings and instead focusing more on their online persona, this could be seen a lot in the music video whether the people looking down at their phones are lining up to fall down a manhole nor walking off a giant chasm. But the one scene that sticks out a lot is a scene where a girl is taking a selfie in front of a burning building that had what seemed to be a person falling off it while cartoonish firetrucks with eyes try to put the fire down, this scene encapsulate a lot of the situation society is facing back in 2016 (when the music video aired) and now. One of which situation society deal is our identity, specifically how our internet persona has devalue our real persona, in the example before the girl is valuing her own internet persona by taking a selfie than caring about the burning building behind her oblivious to her own surroundings and practically only caring about herself. Though the real life example isn’t as to the extreme as the music video, but there are people out there willing to do things to increase their internet persona popularity by doing things a normal person would not do, Be it by going naked in the public or just doing life threatening stunts.
(Azlifah) These days, our surroundings demand us to look on par to their standard. Beautiful faces, flawless skin, hourglass body, on-fleek eyebrows, and a plump lips it’s now a whole new “beauty standard“ today. Women usually put on full makeup to make them more confident about themselves. Lately, we’re familiar with the word “cat-fishing” in social media. Basically, cat-fishing is the act of deceptive where a person is faking their true identity on social media in general, usually targeting a specific victim for abuse, deception or fraud. For instance, Anna is a girl with short hair and has lots of scars on her face, but in her social media account, she changes into a “new person” with an entirely different look. With that advantage, she uses it to scam others. Cat-fishing mostly can be found in a dating app. In the dating app world, cat-fishing is a common thing. Why some people do that? Since the “beauty standard” is so important, we have to do all the things that make us meet the standard, although it is harmful to others. Lots of scamming are running around in a dating application, and people take it as a usual thing. The society makes us think scamming or cat-fishing is just “natural” when it comes to using a social media, but for me, we have to erase that kind of perspective. Because, it is making you demand more and more to yourself, such as, you’re not skinny enough, I have to go on a diet, I'm not beautiful if I have pimples on my face, etc. Those kinds of outlooks can affect some people's confidence. All I have to say, we need to accept ourselves as who we are. Last, Bruno Mars said, “Cause, girl, you're amazing, just the way you are.” and don’t forget to always love yourself.
(Ky) From the video we see that the girl get so many media attention and she got viral, however, this media attention paint her in a discomforting light. From the video, we see that the hate she got from social media somehow manage to pierce through the offline world, she is now known as the viral dancing girl, something she quite don’t ask for. The hate that she got pushed her to take her life, as she stands on the top of the building there is a split moment of hesitation but as she looked down she does not see worry eyes or frightened faces, instead she see beaming flashlight from seas of phone recording her inevitable doom. The most heartbreaking part is that when she did took her life and decide to jump, the camera cut off to the mass below lowering their phone to follow her body fall and right after she hit the ground the mass move on like nothing happen. While it might be of extreme cases, we can see this kind of interaction in everyday life, most common example is when a group of people having dinner and then ask the waiter to take a picture, but after the picture was taken everyone hurriedly ask for the picture so they can post it on social media. They once again become enslaved to their devices ignoring the moment they have in front of them. Another example is how we see viral videos of said someone get beaten up or an animal get abused, but instead of intervening and help they only post it on social media acting up as if a great crime has been done yet they are the one that let that crime happen rather smoothly
(Arya) We can see it clearly how technology affects us even in violence and humanity. From the music video that was shown, even a man beaten up by the police officers or by any group of violent man beating up another man is videotaped by the surrounding people. The humanity decreases as someone's social status is put forward. Trending videos that are made by a person is more important than helping fellow human being that are in need. Social media in technology may be a boost in science but it comes with a great cost. How ignorant people can be and how inhumane people have become has been clearly seen in the past few years. Ironically, we see animals becoming more humane than that of the humans. Or is it that we are becoming more inhumane that we see animals more humane? Social media comes with a great negativity. The more we exist, the less privacy we have. Back in the days before social media came, we used to have mutual cooperation between even people we don't know. But now, towards people we even know, it becomes less cooperation between one another. Social media has so many advantages, but seeing the world today, it is seen as social media having more disadvantages. So, is it that social media having a lot of disadvantages, or are the humans not ready to live in the world of social media? These things have to be a concern towards all of us.
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