So Human-Mom is getting the hang of posting on Instagram. And it turns out social media can be fun. It’s fun composing the post. It’s fun getting that first like, that first share.
Little Cat isn’t convinced. It’s not just that he distrusts social media, though he certainly does that. It’s more that he thinks that if you want to become a household name and face, you should do it the old-fashioned way: by running away from home.
Cinematography by Erika Grumet
Executive Producer: Rocket
Starring:
Frob as Big Cat
Widget as Little Cat
Description below.
Writing and Social Media
Time was, a writer could just write their works, right? And they were judged on their merits, right? Simpler times, right?
No, obviously not. We have fawning letters to potential noble patrons from John Donne, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Mary Wroth (All 16th-17th Century English) and many others. Not to mention from Chaucer (14th century), Catullus (1st Century BC) and who knows who else?
And those are just the poets who made it. We also have extensive letters from writers who were very good at writing and who wrote extensively to potential noble patrons… and died penniless. Look up Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe. Both excellent poets and novelists of the late 1500s. Both avid but unsuccessful self-promoters.
So no. Earlier times were not simpler. Nor were earlier writers purer. Part of the reason you know names like Charles Dickens, Flannery O’Connor, and Rabindranath Tagore is that they were avid public speakers in addition to their careers as writers.
Which Social Media do you Use?
So the real question is: where do you draw the line? Big Cat likes Twitter because it reminds him of his favorite snack. Little Cat is a bit more sophisticated. He likes TikTok because it reminds him of a cuckoo clock, which in turn reminds him of his favorite snack. And Middle Cat likes Facebook because he spent his kittenhood in a dumpster, and it reminds him of his first home.
What do you use? Is there a social media platform you won’t go near? Are you limited by time? Inclination?
Description
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Two panels. In each panel we see an identical photograph of two cats sitting on a cushion. A large orange on the left and a small grey on the right.
The large orange smiles down at the small grey and wonders: “Jeez! What’s with all the social media platforms?”
The small grey grumbles: “They help us forget that nobody knows what happens when you die.”
In the next panel.
The large orange marvels: “Damn. Shit’s getting dark in a big hurry, huh?”
The small grey smirks: “You just gave voice to every TikTok-er’s last thought.”
