WKU Herald - March 21-April 25, 2022

Volume 97, Issue 7

March 21-April 25, 2022

THE SOCIAL ISSUE How social media changes our lives and businesses

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‘I am a real person’: How social media shapes creative lives

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‘Social media is vital’: Campus organizations utilize social media to improve outreach to students

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March 21-April, 25, 2022

‘I am a real person’: How social media shapes creative lives

By Debra Murray

From pictures of vibrant colored flowers and bright smiles to photos at local businesses, Alexis Mueller shares most of her life with her 50,000 Instagram followers.

Mueller creates lifestyle and fashion content, while also studying marketing with a concentration in sales at WKU. “I started to post pretty consistently and have an overall aesthetic to my page,” Mueller said. “When I started to do that, that's when a few companies started to slowly reach out to me. Then I started to reach out and email companies on my own and that’s when it all really began.”

Despite this, Mueller finds that social media has negative impacts on her mental health.

According to a study by USwitch, Americans are spending up to 53 minutes a day on apps like Instagram, which is approximately 297 hours a year, a little over 12 days.

“I would say a con would be getting too wrapped up in it all, I like to set a timer on how much I’m allowing myself to be on social media and to instead read a book, workout, take a bath, make a meal and to be in the moment actually,” Mueller said. “It has to be a good balance.”

In order to manage content for her Instagram, Mueller has “batch content days” where she shoots as much content as she needs at once.

“A couple days before, I’ll plan out my outfits and try to find certain locations to compliment the outfit and to just have fun and get creative with it,” Mueller said. “Then when it comes to the content day, I’ll take around 6-8 pictures to have for the week. I also always love to get in-the-moment unplanned pictures too because those are always the best.”

Mueller currently studies marketing with a concentration in sales. She said being an influencer aligns with her

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALEXIS MUELLER

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALEXIS MUELLER

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALEXIS MUELLER

career aspirations within social media marketing and the fashion industry. She plans to continue growing her following after she graduates.

“It definitely is a challenge managing both content creation and schoolwork, I have to stay really disciplined about leaving time for both homework and social media equally,” Mueller said.

“But [I] wanted to be able to do both because content creating is my passion.”

Mueller said social media helps her find inspiration for content, outfits and many other aspects of her life, but it has also been a way for her to make friends

all over the world.

“I also have met so many friends from all over the world from social media who do what I do and we always hype up and support each other,” Mueller said.

Despite content creation being Mueller’s job, social media still takes a toll on her. Comparing yourself to what others post to social media is a habit Mueller and many others deal with due to seeing what people choose to share online.

“It definitely can have a negative and both positive impact on my mental

health, when it comes to social media everyone is usually only putting out their best moments and not the real stuff of what is happening behind the scenes, and you really have to keep in mind to not compare, it’s not a race,” Mueller said. “‘Whatever is meant for you will be yours’ is what I try and tell myself when I catch myself comparing my life to others on social media and where I’m at with it.”

According to the Pew Research Center, 69% of U.S. adults are social media users. Social media is especially popular among younger adults, as 86%

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of 18- to 29-year-olds are social media users.

Karl Laves, assistant director of the WKU Counseling Center, finds that the impacts of social media, both good and bad, vary based on the person.

“Social media could be a source of comfort or connection for some insecure students,” Laves said. “For others, it might be a constant reminder that they are not good enough. It really depends on what the students choose to view.”

Learning ways to limit time spent on social media is one way to lessen its impacts. According to Statistica, the global daily average of time spent on social media platforms in 2021 is 142 minutes, almost 10% of an entire day, but this number varies from person to person.

Studies have shown that adults who watch TV or use a computer for more than six hours per day are more likely to experience moderate to severe depression, according to the Center for Anxiety Disorders.

“I would argue that the problem is not social media, no more than the problem is alcohol,” Laves said. “The problem is the people that use social media or alcohol. Some people can use it responsibly, some can’t. But it is human nature to blame the thing, the object, the material instead of the person.”

Laves recommends reaching out to friends and family to discuss any issues regarding social media, or reaching out to resources including the WKU Counseling Center, the WKU Psychology Clinic and Graves Gilbert Clinic at WKU. Laves suggests that students should think about the motivations behind a person’s social media post.

“Ask yourself why someone would

post such a thing; what is their motivation, what is their reward, what are they selling?” Laves said.

More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults (86%) say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet “often” or “sometimes,” according to the Pew Research Center.

When people can’t use social media responsibly, misinformation spreads easily, through Twitter and Facebook specifically.

Out of former President Donald Trump’s 10 most popular tweets, four contained false claims related to the 2020 election results, according to CNBC. Of his 100 most popular tweets, 36 contained election-related falsehoods.

After the Jan. 6 insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump’s account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Trump had 88 million followers at the time he was banned.

A study by University of Colorado Boulder researched the relationship between spreading misinformation and one’s political ideology. In the Facebook sample, those self-identified as extremely conservative—7 on a scale of 1 to 7—accounted for the most fake news shared, at 26%. In the Twitter sample, 32% of fake news shares came from those who scored a 7, according to the study.

However, those who scored a 1, identifying as extremely liberal, also shared fake news regularly, accounting for 17.5% of shares on Facebook and 16.4% on Twitter, according to the study.

Some content creators focus on being informative, like Andre Swai who

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Swai – or @corneleast, as his 47,000 TikTok followers know him – is a junior at WKU who uses social media to share his thoughts on politics and film.

“I usually only make political Tiktoks

about stuff that I’m passionate about, or stuff that I am pretty well versed and that I know about, which is anti-black racism [and] American policy,” Swai said.

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Brittany Fisher Gatlin Milam buys clothes from a business partner for his store. Milam works full time to stock and build his business, using Instagram and TikTok to help advertise his hauls.

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March 21-April 25, 2022 creators experiencing lower engagement after posting about the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as racism on the platform in general.

“I’m an Afro-pessimist, which is a branch of theory that has to do with anti-Black racism. And that hashtag, literally, you’re not allowed to do it on TikTok,” Swai said. “You’re not allowed to put ‘hashtag Afro-pessimism’. You’re not allowed to put ‘hashtag white suprem-

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acy’, which makes sense, but it’s weird that they’re lumping Afro-pessimism with white supremacy.”

Despite these features, Swai finds TikTok an easier app to build a following than other video-hosting platforms.

“There’s plenty of alternatives to TikTok, whether it be Instagram or YouTube, but the fact is TikTok is not only the easiest platform to use, it is the platform that will get you the most engagement for the

Gatlin Milam, owner of Vette City Vintage, sits in his booth located at Consignment Corner on 31 W Bypass. Gatlin runs the store with his wife, Maddie.

least amount of work,” Swai said.

Platforms like TikTok – including Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook – have adopted the same principles that have made gambling addictive. Users regularly receive “hits” of dopamine while using the app, training them to come back time and time again, according to Forbes. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that impacts how we feel pleasure.

“The TikTok algorithm is designed to give you a hit of dopamine every eight seconds, and that has had a disastrous impact on my ability to focus - TikTok is so addictive,” Swai said. “People really underestimate how addictive TikTok as an app is.”

Swai said TikTok has had both negative and positive impacts on his mental health.

“For a lot of people, platforms like TikTok allow them a community of people that they’ve never been exposed to in their lives,” Swai said. “It’s the community they’ve been looking for their entire life, and then they finally have people who will accept them for who they are. But on the other hand, if you are a content creator, and one of your videos blows up, there’s a lot of negative feedback to it.”

Other kinds of misinformation relating to COVID-19 have spread rapidly due to social media.

At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a study was conducted by doctoral student Amir Forati and master’s student Rachel Hansen on the geographical impact of social media in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using statistical methods and geotagging, Forati found that locations with heavy Twitter misinformation in May and June 2020 later experienced a rise in the number of cases in July.

Their research shows that a running theme of tweets geotagged in Kentucky falsely compared the COVID-19’s severity to the flu.

Gatlin and Maddie Milam run Vette City Vintage. The couple have been selling vintage items since 2018, and in that time, their Instagram account has gained almost 13,000 followers.

Maddie is also an intensive care unit nurse at a local hospital in Bowling Green.

“When the pandemic was really at its peak and it was really affecting my wife, I felt really compelled to express how she was feeling,” Gatlin said. “...[I] tried to encourage people to get vaccinated and to be cautious, because of a lot of ignorance and people straight up just spreading nonsense [that] could hurt people. Opinions like that were affecting my wife at work. She was taking care of people because they refused to get vaccinated or didn’t take precautions or didn’t really think COVID was a real issue.”

Beyond just Instagram, Gatlin has started using TikTok as another platform to share his found items, clothing tryons and his sense of humor.

“Of course, I’ll make efforts to make it grow but it is growing organically,” Gatlin said. “I think I can get my Tiktok to start growing like my Instagram has, but I have never been focused on Facebook.

I do have a Facebook page for the store because you are required to have it in order to tag products.”

Gatlin has tried to remain positive and avoid posting about his personal problems, but has gotten more comfortable sharing his own life.

“I try to always keep it positive. Not always positive, but I feel like 90% of the time, I post positive things,” Gatlin said. “I’m not going to share anything I’m going through, like problems that I’m having, because people might care but I don’t want to bring that into the business.”

When Gatlin began the shop three years ago, he originally did not share aspects of his personal life because he felt social media followers on social media wouldn’t care.

“I really learned over the past couple of years that people are very interested in who I am and how I do what I do,” Gatlin said. “I want to share who I am. I like to give people a peek into my life. I am a real person. It’s definitely cool to see that people care about who you are and like to get to know you. Now it’s not just a store, it’s also me and who I am.”

Content Editor Debra Murray can be reached at debra.murray940@topper. wku.edu. Follow her on Twitter @debramurrayy

8 COMMENTARY

March 21-April 25

The bottomless pit of social media

By Christina West

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It has been said a million times: not everything you see on social media is real. People are only going to feature the best aspects of their life. Still, that doesn’t change how it can make you feel. In the same way, reality shows aren’t real, but the drama is just as entertaining.

Social media can make you laugh and feel like you are a part of something. It can also leave you questioning your self-worth and make you wonder if you are productive or fit enough. You are surrounded by engagements, accomplishments, marketing, bad memes and possibly-real, possibly-fake news. Social media is a bottomless pit.

So why does the bottomless pit matter? A lot of Gen Z grew up with social media. My start on social media was in my early teens. I remember attempting to make impressive, viral Vines. I remember the day a friend told me I “needed” to download Snapchat in 2014. I remember the pang of rejection I felt when I saw posts of my high school friends hanging out without me.

Social media and I had a parasitic relationship. It would remove my boredom, and in return, I gave it my self-esteem and precious time.

Social media is ironically isolating.

What is supposed to make you feel connected to others is a completely solitary activity. It is essentially sitting and watching the world around you through a screen—millions of egos crying out into the void.

A 2018 University of Pennsylvania study of 143 undergraduates found that limiting the amount of time spent on social media, in this case, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, decreased levels of loneliness and depression. The study was realistic in that it did not have the participants delete or completely dis-

continue the use of social media.

Instead, they cut back to 10 minutes per platform a day.

Even decreasing the amount of time spent on social media showed psychological improvements and a decrease in the fear of missing out phenomenon. This makes sense because it shirks that window of time for potential overthinking and comparison to others. Creating boundaries between you and social media may make all of the difference in reducing the negativity it can cause.

Another side effect of social media is the glorification of consumerism. From diarrhea diet teas to sweat-shop fast fashion, there is always someone peddling products on social media. This form of advertisement may be overt, but it could also be a subtle influencer partnership.

It can be very tempting to buy things online. It is harder to visualize the money leaving your hands when you click buy. In addition, many promotions on TikTok and other platforms are based on trends, meaning the items quickly go out of style and end up wasted.

Take “TikTok made me buy it” videos, for example. While it’s nice to hear product recommendations, it can lead to buying unneeded items becauseof the hype. Small businesses sometimes get featured, but unfortunately, giants like Amazon are more commonly touted.

Indeed, the climate on social media is materialistic and shallow.

Our culture glorifies “the grind,”

over working to make money, which in turn increases consumeristic buying power. People don’t hesitate to show off their possessions on social media in hopes to receive validation in the form of likes, comments and responses.

Social media may have its perks, but there are better things to devote time to. It is easy to scroll through feesd but difficult to focus on a hobby. I find myself scrolling through Instagram only to realize how much time I wasted with no clear reward.

Even watching a TV show seems like a better use of time, because at least there is a coherent story to follow rather than a disjointed cacophony of senseless noise.

Despite its issues, social media is used for positive change, like social activism. It allows information to be rapidly disseminated so a cause can gain traction. This can draw attention to societal injustice and hopefully improve them. People can more easily support other communities, such as when donations poured in from across the country followng the Bowling Green tornado.

With all of these factors, it can help to evaluate the role of social media in our lives. Reflecting on how different types of posts, platforms or interactions make you feel can reveal whether or not it is a positive component of your life. Consider if it is a fulfilling use of time, or if the reward center of the brain is merely convincing you that it is.

Social media is unequivocally bad, and this is by no means a hot take. I think we all know it deep down, but it seems too fundamental, essential even, to remove it.

Abandoning social media, however, was one of the best decisions I have made.

Commentary writer Christina West can be reached at christina. west588@topper.wku.edu.

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‘Social media is vital’: Campus organizations utilize social media to improve outreach to students

By Alexandria Anderson

For many campus organizations, social media is a primary way to reach students, and it has given campus groups a platform where they can gain an audience.

According to the Pew Research Center, Instagram is the most popular platform among college aged students, at 71% usage it is the main platform groups use to find this audience.

The WKU Mahurin Honors College uses social media to connect with prospective students and create a cohesive brand.

“I think the goal of any college or department social media is to relay who we are to prospective students, to current students, to our alumni and to friends of the college or department,” Zach Ryle, assistant director of enrollment and brand management, said.

“It's multifaceted in that sense. When making posts and discussing what we're going to be putting on social media, you kind of have to take into mind the different backgrounds, the different stakeholders that you're going to be talking to. We have different people in mind, potentially for each one."

MHC social media features student and alumni achievement spotlights, updates on various deadlines in the MHC and events planned for Honors students.

“As a student, it’s all about the social media platforms. That's where I go to get the news and learn things about the Honors College," Olivia Laws, a senior marketing major and social media specialist for the MHC Branding Team, said. "It's especially hitting on those prospective student targets. It's important because it's the main form of communication that we use for the news aspect."

Ryle has experience running WKU social media accounts and believes

these platforms are vital for connecting to students.

"Social media is vital. You have to be where students are,” Ryle said. “Because students are why any of us have a job, from a staff side. In the early days, everybody was on Twitter, then Instagram kind of morphed in. I've seen a lot of different iterations. If you're not where the students are, then your message of what we can provide students [...] none of that gets across if we can't actually show it to them."

A goal that Ryle and his team have is to continue to build a cohesive brand for the college after past branding changes.

“Our overall goal is to shine a spotlight on the good things that are happening at the institution,” Ryle said.“Social media has its good qualities, and it has its bad qualities. It can be competitive; our goal is to stay as far away from that as possible. From an organization standpoint, with any organization or college or department, that should be the overall goal.”

The Feminist Student Union, @wkufsu, utilizes social media to promote events and gain membership across the local community.

“Instagram is our main platform, because I know a lot of people that use it the most,” Lily Moore, a freshman marketing and sales major and social media manager of the FSU, said.“Personally, that’s the app I’m always scrolling so I see all this information. We post stories and posts about meetings and events we’re holding. We’re trying to get that aesthetic that we’re striving for to get members to want to be a part of our community.”

Moore said she wants viewers to be able to take part in the social media experience that FSU offers.

“I think just letting [viewers] know that they’re a part of something, by sharing those posts. It means it’s a part of them and a part of their profile,”

Moore said. “I think that social media is a lot of today’s society and culture and life, so by using that for our platform, it really helps connect with students.”

Social media has both benefits and drawbacks, specifically targeting how it affects mental health and body image.

As an organization with a feminist message, Moore uses social media in a positive way and plans to explore topics associated with social media’s drawbacks.

“I think that especially in today’s society, body positivity and things like that are really strong and hard-hitting topics that need to be discussed in these types of clubs,” Moore said. “I think that our social media will definitely be highlighting those sorts of topics.”

The WKU chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, @wkuafsp, was started as a fundraiser for the American Medical Student Association and is now using social media to recruit students for the Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Walk.

“I am trying my best to use social media in a way that allows me to spread awareness about the current state of the social construct surrounding suicide and mental health in general,” Gabe Heckerman, a sophomore biology with a concentration in pre-medicine and Spanish major, said. “This happens to fall in line well with the AFSP’s goal of raising awareness for the issue and implications surrounding the topic in today’s society. The goal is to provide hope for those who feel alone or unable to get the help they may need.”

A constraint of social media is that the content needs to be moderated and curated, especially for the accounts of organizations and professional groups.

“The foundation has done a great job providing me with resources and information that I can post and share, but I’ve also enjoyed doing my own research and advocacy since it allows me to emphasize things that I feel are

especially critical to address on a more local scale,” Heckerman said.

One of Heckerman’s goals for the account is to build the organization, and implementing social media platforms is a way to do so.

“As the organization grows, I hope that it becomes not just a fundraiser and advocacy event but also a group of people readily available to support each other as well as others and directly promote the mental health of those in our community,” Heckerman said.

News Reporter Alexandria Anderson can be reached at alexandria.anderson337@topper.wku.edu.

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March 21-April 25. 2022

WKU freshman showcases passion for photography with Instagram challenge

By Lucy Rutherford

If you ask Brett Phelps about photography, one thing quickly becomes clear: he has passion.

“I love it,” Phelps said. “I eat, sleep, breathe it.”

He studies the light on the back wall while reminiscing about the opportunities photography has given him. Which, for the Western Kentucky University freshmen, is many.

“I got started in videography first, my older brother started doing weddings and I started going along with

him and it just kept taking off from there,” Phelps said. “During high school, I was asked to do a project for our vocational school. I created a little video advertisement for them. I ended up getting a job based off of that working for our school system, where I had to create a bunch of promotional advertisements specifically for our workforce department that helps to pair students with co-op jobs.”

Phelps was given his own office and the chance to travel wherever students in the program were placed: factories, schools, offices. His time at

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRETT PHELPS

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRETT PHELPS

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRETT PHELPS

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRETT PHELPS

Western Kentucky University began after WKU professor James Kenney noticed his work and recruited Phelps to come study photojournalism on the Hill.

But Phelps’ love for photography isn’t just something he accesses for work or his college major. It’s a part of his everyday life.

“Most of the time, I will be carrying around the camera with me,” Phelps said. “I’ll just go ahead and I’ll [take] the photograph. I’m always looking for one. I’m always looking at what light just attracts me — we have beautiful sunsets here. But I’m always looking to see if I were photographing this, ‘how would I make this visually interesting? How would that make this appeal to people?’”

While innate ability has played a role in his success, so has practice.

Working for his school district was one such method he used to hone his skills, but so was another project that he started in 2021.

Phelps decided to challenge himself in a unique way. He set a goal for himself to post a new photo on Instagram each day for an entire year on an account he named Brett365.

His project is more than a reflection of his photography; It’s a time capsule of nearly a year of his, and others, precious life moments.

A silhouetted portrait of a father and son at the Nelson County Fair; A black and white shot of a man hosing off a horse; A lone figure on stage at the Bardstown Country Jam. Not only was Phelps able to preserve his view of the world, he was also able to document the lives of others in a visually striking manner.

“Pretty much the ultimate goal was to be able to improve my creativity skills simply with photography [and] videography,” Phelps said. “Practice every day helps me realize, ‘okay,

Kennedy Gott Brett Phelps, a freshman at Western Kentucky University, poses with his photography equiptment on March 10, 2022.

what am I doing wrong? What am I doing right?’”

He began to post less and less once he started college, having to adjust to a new life on campus. The project had to be put on hold until he got his bearings. His account went inactive, but his camera was as alive as ever.

“I didn’t stop shooting, that’s an important part,” Phelps said. “I just stopped posting. Now my plan is to get back to posting. Maybe not every day, but I would like to go back and continue to share my work and the progress I’m making.”

He has begun to do just that. But whether he posts his work or not, one thing is for certain: Phelps’ knack for photography is a gift that will take him far.

News Reporter Lucy Rutherford can be reached at lucy.rutherford302@topper.wku.edu.

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1. What food means 'immortal' when translated? (a) Ambrosia (b) Nectar (c) Curry 2. Which of the following foods is actually from Mexico? (a) Tacos (b) Fajitas (c) Burritos 3. Where is the oldest brewery in the U.S.? (a) Pennsylvania (b) South Carolina (c) Tennessee 4. What food is made from the same mold as penicillin? (a) Greek yogurt (b) Buttermilk (c) Blue cheese 5. In which city did iced tea first become popular? (a) Atlanta GA (b) St Louis, MO (c) New Orleans, LA 6. What does 'ravioli' mean in Italian? (a) Little turnips (b) Little pillows (c) Little pockets 7. The same gas that makes bread rise is also found in what? (a) Greehouses (b) Beer bubbles (c) Hot air balloons 8. What country consumes the most whiskey overall? (a) Belgium (b) Ireland (c) India 9. In Spain, what kind of food is a tortilla? (a) Flatbread (b) Omelet (c) Eggroll 10. If you are eating spaghetti alle vongole, you are eating pasta with what? (a) Meatballs (b) Mushrooms (c) Clams

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