This is a collage I made of my favorite band Twenty One Pilots, consisting of Tyler Joseph (the singer, as well as plays other instruments such as the piano and ukulele) and Josh Dun (the drummer). The process of creating this was quite simple, I gathered a few pictures that I thought were nice that represented their dynamic friendship. Then, I went into an app called ‘Polarr’ which is used for filtering images, and I messed around with the settings a bit on the middle right picture until I came up with something vibrant and low saturation that would mainly emphasize shades of blue, purple, and pink. Then once I was done, I applied it to the two other pictures I felt would look better with the filter, and then made the other three picture to black and white. After, I arranged them into an order I felt was aesthetically pleasing, and finished it off by overlaying a stardust image to add some bling to it as a whole.
Internet culture is definitely not easily known to be entirely good or bad, since there are many positive and negative effects and events that occur due to it. There is a lot of freedom, since you have the ability to post mostly anything you like onto any platform that has the ability for it to blow up and go viral due to exposure. However, due to how open the internet it, an original work can easily be copied or stolen without being noticed by the original creator, or in many cases a stolen work will go viral instead of the original creator getting that well deserved clout for it. An example of this is a TikTok dance that became viral, however many were getting clout and credit for the dance trend when the actual creator, a black female, received none. However, there is also empowerment in Internet Culture, since many times when, for example, diversity isn’t reflected in films or such, the media has the ability to bring attention to it and praise and recognize POC actors and actresses. Building further upon the previous example of the TikTok dance, once attention was brought about to the real creator of the dance, she was widely recognized and it was even used in a very popular song, Say So by Doja Cat, that she also had the opportunity to be a background dancer in using her own moves. Lastly, this example also displays the risks of internet culture, since you never know if someone will steal your work or ideas or if you can claim them back successfully if they do.
I think copyright in a sense does work, however it needs o be placed under different parameters due to how different Internet Culture is. For instance, there ae many times where I see accounts on twitter or Instagram that post clips from movies or songs and they get taken down due to copyright, however I don’t think they should be due to the fact that they are not attempting to take credit for it and simply want to share it. Overall, there should be better systems intact to determine the motivations behind sharing a piece of work to avoid overly harsh and strict copyright actions.
The license I chose for my work is Attribution, since I definitely would not mind someone taking inspiration from my edit to create their own version, perhaps with different celebrities or a similar filter/overlay, however I would like credit for the format since I did do it myself and found a unique style.
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