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SOCIAL MEDIA
The love of an affirming community is very powerful. Using social outlets to spread love and postivitiy could’ve very possibly been the initial goal of social media. Of course the intentions got blurred quickly in the hands of a broken society, This project juxtaposes receving love on these platforms and letting it control you.
As much as self love is advertised, we cannot control our explore pages flooding with Instagram models, influencers with nice bodies, photoshopped images, good lighting and angles that flood our explore page. We instantenously project this image onto ourselves, worrying if we are enough. In light of this, I created this satirical self help book to portray the insecurity that inveitablity goes hand in hand with social media.
The number of unsolicited messages people receive on social media, especially women, will never be appropriate. These range from DMs, video calls, unsoliciated nudes, recruitments for pornos and sugar babies, to many more.
In this series, I am exposing the incessant flow of sexual harrassment I received from 2021-2023, in the perspective of an ordinary girl. When I compiled these screenshots, I had a following of about 2,500 people with a public profile.
To combat the cynicism I especially experienced firsthand about social platforms, I created an interactive project called Project: Love on Others.
This A0 size poster has a cut out that mimics a “post.” It has positive reinforcements written on it to display a supportive comment section, meant to build others up.
Our capacity of love is like a cup being filled. I believe that by loving yourself and letting yourself be loved, you fill your own cup. That way, you will have so much more love to pour out to others’ cups.
This project was created to directly challenge and break the cycle of cynicism by growing the source of love.
I carried this poster around campus, encouraging people to take pictures with it. I asked those who took their own photos to post it to their social media accounts with the hashtag, #Loveonothers.