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several screenshots of mobile social media apps displaying the Stories feature, but with the logos swapped around because it's all the same

Rip offs ranked: A look at social media Stories clones

Twitter’s new Fleets feature has a lot of people on my feed complaining, and very few people uh … fleeting? Posting Instagram Stories except on Twitter? Hardly anyone…

Post date November 20, 2020
Post author By Pat Reddick

An image of me lying in bed with headphones on. It's a parody of the cover art for Mouth Dreams.

Mouth Dreams is a masterpiece and a nightmare

Neil Cicierega makes music I would have played on Media Are Plural when it was a radio show. His Mouth series of albums (Mouth Sounds, Mouth Silence, Mouth…

Post date November 17, 2020
Post author By Pat Reddick

questionable content appears on an Instagram feed

Instagram’s algorithm doesn’t know anything about me

Back in the halcyon days when Media Are Plural was a radio show, circa 2013-14, I made some shows about the positive aspects of social media. This was…

Post date November 12, 2020
Post author By Pat Reddick

Yu-Gi-Oh cards, part of a trend, not a fad

Trends and fads are different concepts

This article on trends and fads first appeared on the old mediaareplural.ca in June, 2016. Last week I talked about how Pokémon is not a fad, sticking it…

Post date November 5, 2020
Post author By Pat Reddick

A promotional image for Pokémon Sword and Shield.

Pokémon wasn’t a fad, parents – here’s why

This article about Pokémon first appeared on the old mediaareplural.ca in June, 2016. When I was seven years old I was obsessed with Pokémon. That remained true for…

Post date October 30, 2020
Post author By Pat Reddick