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A year has passed since the pandemic has entered our world. The time that we divided separately, a time that only a corner of your room or house you can be in. This is also a generation where we are all dependent on the available technology that we used everyday. A digital world to interact with each other while we are socially distanced. 

As we see ourselves back to the same ordeal, we’ve missed a lot—friends, classmates, colleagues and such. We kept on surviving everyday by entertaining ourselves—watching netflix, getting together with family and social networks. By doing this, it makes us feel missed and loved for the meantime but sometimes, it’s exhausting. Everyday check up on friends, daily scrolling on social media and a loaded workload from the school. 

Given that, many students including me are demanding some much-needed breathing space amidst the unfavorable socioeconomic impact. To consider the intensified burden placed on the students affected. The quarantine implementation caused a great setback in the normal operational flow of the whole nation. Challenging the morale, mental health, and welfare of many. 

Digital publishing has unleashed innovative journalistic practices that enable novel forms of communication and greater global reach especially in social media. But on the other hand, disinformation popularly referred to as “fake news” is increasing and affecting the way individuals interpret daily news. Mostly influencers, celebrities and other personalities have a huge impact in spreading information through their own platforms. Information systems have become more polarized and contentious, and there has been an issue in public trust in traditional journalism. Also sometimes fake news affects those people behind that referring to the article that personalities are being judged by the Twinmark Media Enterprises which leads to fake news since personalities deny the issue.

It became viral because the game was so exciting where a lot of audience were focused on the game. A thousand people are actively screaming and supporting the team while one audience is calmly sleeping at the corner, this makes them feel funny because of how opposite his reaction is to other people. Netizens will start to judge him, bully him or make fun of the video by sharing and commenting to the post. Other people might feel related because a lot of people have lack of sleep, luckily this man is able to sleep even outside the house and noisy environment. Also netizens might feel amazed how brave he is even with a lot of cameras and it was live, he chose to follow his feeling of sleepiness regardless of the circumstances.

Compared to this man who earns dollars by livestreaming his sleep, he managed to engage netizens where people started to like him by donating dollars to him while sleeping. This video is intentionally unlike the first video which gathered judgements and negative reactions to him. While this man gives entertainment to the netizens and is curious what’s going on to him if they bothered his sleeping. The other video was people started to become curious if he snorted while sleeping. Of course, the more people are viewing, the more it becomes viral. If it became viral, other netizens would become interested in the video.

As the digital era shaped the world, people want to keep updated on what’s happening around the world or even just want to be entertained. Having said this, people nowadays focus more on trendy stories that might catch their interest easily. By not having a hard time to find a newspaper or buying magazines in a convenient store—mobile phone will be useful. This is the challenge in the part of a publisher, vlogger or influencer where the content is embedded onto a thin metal screen. If I would be a famous vlogger, the very challenging part is bringing creative works to the public eye. However, upon reading the article, it gives me more tips and good ideas to maintain your audience and attract new audiences.

As a famous influencer, there are many things to maintain the quality of your content as a content creator. Based on some advice in the article, I should engage myself to the audience to maintain the reach to be always fronted in the newsfeed of other users. Being an influencer or publisher you should be active on social media sites—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media sites. Showing positive attitudes to the viewers by simply replying to their comments will get a wider audience. Receiving positive feedback from the viewers will give me a high rating of my credibility.

These channels/influencers are popular because of their way of communication to the viewers. They share something so special, unique and so real that we want to share it with everyone we know. Especially during this time of pandemic where many people stay at home, they are having a leisure time to be entertained with learning and doing things. For example is the Rei’s makeover room which became viral because this is something relevant to the viewers. They can use their time at home in decorating a room or create something new to be more productive at home to improve the creativity in mind.

This is my first time listening to a podcast and this pilot episode about love scams really caught my attention and I find this interesting. In my personal view, the content, the technicalities and the power of voice can make this trend and will earn a lot in selling it—will be sold. However, i think the platform she used is not for all the people like not all the people are privileged enough to afford spotify unlike youtube and facebook who is mass budget friendly, also not all the people have the spotify app. It’s hard to make it trend if the platform is not the most used by the people. But as a first time listener of a podcast, it really caught my attention in the way she communicated by telling the story first about experiences, strategies of a love scammer then how to catch a scammer and give advice not to trust immediately especially in financial matters.

We should go for digital publishing because of its lots of advantages and practicality. It has a wider reach locally and internationally because of the flexibility of its post where anyone can share, react and comment. Also it is budget friendly, instead of expensing to papers, publications and such, in just one click, it will create new revenue to the company. It also helps the people to have easier access to market, to shop and to be informed on what’s currently happening.

This 2020 is the year we act as a new normal, a new normal with the use of technology in the digital age–most especially mobile devices. And now, 2021 is the year of transition, as I think most Filipinos prefer the trend is the rise of Mobile devices. This trend will boost engagement of your content and even help you to market your audience through push notifications and news feed most especially in the time where people mostly use phones scrolling and searching–the prime time. I believe this trend will be the foundation of news, markets and issues might arise in social media and even other platforms.