Mukbang Videos and the War of Raging Appetites
The fundamental appeal of a mukbang video, then, is the promise of satisfaction through excess.
The fundamental appeal of a mukbang video, then, is the promise of satisfaction through excess.
Generational squabbles, while entertaining for a minute on social media, reveal not just discontent with financial security but expose our temporality on this rock.
The Christ and Pop Culture team highlights some of their personal favorite pop culture artifacts of the past 10 years in the Faves of the Decade series.
Memeing the classics can be a way to plant seeds of interest, sparks that make seemingly dull, intimidating, or difficult pieces of literature come alive with possibility.
We tinker and work slavishly as Dr. Frankenstein did, assembling our online creations with the parts we gather from various sources.
In so doing, Tinder taps into the soul’s quest for perfection while inviting the user to advertise themselves for mass consumption.
Hiding behind Ramsey’s statement is a subtle, unspoken moral declaration that wealth comes from good behavior and poverty comes from bad, and both financial conditions are the result of one’s character.
These six podcasts may make it easier for us to hear the stories of those often overlooked in our own community.
Every once in a while, the internet still manages to provide a bit of clarity to (semi-) important issues.
More often than not, information alone doesn’t change one’s mind. Stories do.
Is free will just an artifice of Christian theology, not a scientific reality?
Gen Z stumbled into social media blindly, but now we’re tasked with the responsibility of making sure that everything what happened to us doesn’t happen to our own kids.
All of this mediation draws us away from the actual Word of God and toward our minds and an awareness of our public identity.
In this ounce of Persuasion fast chat, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson assess the IHOP / IHOB’s failed online communication to a previous conversation discuss the need for better online engagement.
What if the mundane areas of your life are actually not quite so mundane?
The convenience of fake news (and current “time travel” stories) may have increased exponentially in recent years, but the tendency for wishful thinking to override our commitment to reality has always been with us.
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