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  ‘Life was like a pop song, and we knew all the words.’ – Julie From late 2016 to early 2018, before he completely went off the rails, I was somewhat obsessed with Logan Paul’s vlogs. I watched every single one of his videos which broadcast his LA antics to millions of viewers daily. I watched him prank his younger more notorious brother Jake Paul, be pecked at by his parrot Maverick, smash a copious amount of plates and vlog his days on the set of Valley Girl,  the remake of the 1983 romcom , in which Logan stars as Mickey  Julie’s boyfriend and  the most popular boy in his high school. I wouldn’t have known this remake had existed if it wasn’t for Paul. The original Valley Girl isn’t a film I’ve ever heard talked about nor do I think it is one that is shown on British screens ever. I’m sure when he was first cast, his social media success and international appeal were selling points for the Sneak Preview Productions and the others involved, but it was this ...

On the 22 nd of April, British YouTuber James Marriott uploaded a video where he made fun of the mainstream media's obsession and lack of information on social media platform’s particularly TikTok based on a BBC article . He then turned his attention to the ByteSquad, a new TikTok content house based in London that was the subject of the BBC’s article. He pokes fun at how much the ByteSquad’s house pales in comparison to the lavish LA mansions of their American counterparts, then suggests some of the group’s gimmicks are outdated. To finish James wishes the England’s newest content the best on their new endeavours. Despite the video being comedic and light-hearted, there were a few BtyeSquad supporters that insisted that James not critique the house because its members are ‘unproblematic’.  Comments under Marriott's video that praise the ByteSquad for being unproblematic. Unproblematic, a word that is now used regularly on social media when fans explain to others why who ...

‘She looked like a zombie. A zombie that has just been shot’ – Lorenzo Niccolò Ammaniti’s 2010   ‘Me and You’ novel stood out to me in the library but unfortunately the overall story did not. Although, Ammaniti’s name is obviously Italian, I initially didn’t know that the novel was translated from Italian but as I began getting into the story there were moments in the book where information was presented very literally, out of tone with the rest of the book, which caused me to disengage with the novel at times. Despite this, I was intrigued to begin with as a Lorenzo appeared like more than a child who just struggled to fit but someone who had deep issues that affected him, which was proved to be true. The time I started reading the novel coincided with the announcement of YouTuber Shane Dawson’s latest docu-series which investigates whether fellow YouTuber Jake Paul is a sociopath. Due to this, I have began playing the role of a psycologist and do somewhat question ...