The creative content of the quarantine

We’re losing our collective minds out there in the in-there land. Indoors and self-isolating, we’ve rediscovered some of the tools we’ve come to know as burdensome as friendly reminders of our connection to others. In addition, there’s been a huge uptick in creative content that’s been attributed to the cloistering. Some of it is the usual fare, some of it is mild reworking of old jokes, and some are creative interventions to the new way of being digital.

Living digital and being socially isolated means that we can mindlessly scroll our feeds or we can participate in the environment. While we’ve started to figure out how to make Zoom backgrounds, many users are now becoming inadvertent multimedia producers.

I’m sure there’ll be a media studies phd dissertation in a few years that’s titled something along the lines of “Viral Media: An Analysis of Online Media During the Coronavirus” or something like that and honestly, I think that’ll be a great study. We’re in a time where we may be burdened by the need to stay home, but simultaneously, we have the privilege of creating distinct era-based…