Internet volcabulary | Shipping, Fandoms & Fanfiction

Hello everyone! So after spending mass amounts of time on the internet these past 5 weeks (it's the summer holidays) I have realised how foreign the internet can be to so many people, especially the older generation. What I mean by this is that over the last 5 years, 'fandoms' have been created, by word of mouth, people, films, bands, TV series etc have now got a massive following. In these fandoms, new words have been created and more words now have different meanings. So with the ever-changing world, I thought I would go over some words which I & and millions of others use :-)

"Shipping"

This is a commonly used term on the internet which I have used in previous posts. It is normally used around two celebrities who are with each other a lot. Shipping means that the fans of those two people will pretend that they are in a relationship (hence 'shipping') & many people ship celebrities in an romantic way, however most likely that the pairing is two males as the people who ship the most are teenage girls, who are most known as 'Shippers'

An example?

For example, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson from One Direction are often shipped together because they always look at each-other in a certain way or have a very close friendship, that's all it takes for a fandom to say "oh they must be in love!". However instead of just saying the "Harry Styles & Louis Tomlinson shipping" You merge the two names together to create "Larry Stylinson" which is the name of the relationship, or 'Larry' for short. Another example would be 'Zalfie' the shipping of Zoe from Zoella and Alfie from Pointlessblog. 

Sometimes, people say "my ship has sailed" implying that two people who you ship are in an official relationship, like 'Zalfie' is genuinely real. On the other hand, some people might say "my ship has sunk" if the two people who you 'ship' have had a falling out or both married, something like that.

Can you only ship one couple at a time?

Absolutely not, many people have multiple 'ships'. However, there is something called an 'OTP' which stands for One True Pairing. This is the ship that you most believe in and put all your effort in to believe that it is real, basically your overall favourite ship.

*If you want to ship people, go wild but the internet (especially twitter and tumblr) are very sensitive over shipping. All you have to do is not offend anyone's OTP by saying "It's fake" because they will get mad at you 70% of the time and please respect other peoples views*

Ironic Abbreviation

This factor is so commonly used that I was blind to it until Mr Dan Howell aka Danisnotonfire cleverly pointed it out in a video called "Ironic Appreciation". Basically, in 2012 using the words 'lol' or 'brb' so was 'uncool' shall we say that you might as well be shunned to hell, that's how unaccepted it was. Then in 2013, people started Ironically saying things like "lol" and "brb" as a type of mockery to previous years. However over the course of the year, so many people are using text talk ironically that it has become serious and people, including myself, are genuinely using text talk seriously.

So as you know there are the common "Lol" which means laugh out loud and "brb" which means be right back, but now things have to developed into "s2g" which means Swear to god (for example, "s2g if my otp is real i will cry") or "ygm" which means "you get me" ("i s2g if my otp is real i will cry ygm")

The more most popular people in the fanbase use text talk the most, as it's funny and will get retweets.

Emotive Words

Seeing as there is a lot of emotion on the internet due to obsessions and bands etc etc, the use of capitals and adjectives has become very common. However, it is always very unclear which emotion the fangirl is trying to portray. For example, the use of upper and lower case can represent anger, excitement & humour ('I'm scREAMING)

Adjectives can also portray didn't emotions. "I'm crying" for example could mean happiness,anger,sadness or excitement. 'Crying' is the most common adjective however now people use words such as 'sobbing' or 'snorting' depending on how intense the feeling is.

Fandoms

oh god, where do I start? well, people who are fans of something are called fangirls as the majority of the fans are girls. (Also, fangirls are known to be excessively obsessed) A group of fangirls create a fandom, a magical place where you can rave about your favourite thing with many others like yourself without your parents telling you to "stop talking about that boy" or "you have already made me listen to that album 4 times". 

However, obviously in fandoms everything becomes more intense because more people see the same beauty it whatever you obsess over, and 'ships' are born, then obsessively wrote about in 'fanfictions'

Fanfictions are very creative I would say and are stories about your 'otp' forming a relationship. However, they are mostly horrifically sexually and I, personally don't read them because i will probably throw-up everything I had previously eaten within the last 9 years. 

((be careful when joining a fandom because they are ife destroying and you end up just on twitter for days on end, I come from personal experience))

Well there you have it, now you are ready to enter the internet! I hope you enjoyed this post, I tried to use a style of "act like being internet-obsessed is an actual art so that I have a talent" ha! 

Also, sorry if this offended you in anyway because I can see how it could be slightly patronising, but I wrote with the best intentions :-)

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Need inspiration?

We all reach these points during blogging where we lose inspiration and determination to post, I know I have! Sometimes, all it needs for me personally to get back into blogging is a big push. Not a literal push of course, just a big boost of inspiration. However, it's really hard to find an event or person that just changes my mood and makes me want to blog 24/7. I understand that something can be mind-blowing to someone, but to another person it can be pretty average. 

As many of you already know, I 100% adore the blogger/youtuber/goddess Zoe Sugg (or more known as Zoella) for many reasons, but this weekend she particularly inspired me to blog more and not give up.

On the 17th of February 2009, when I was in year 6, Zoe started her blog which was then called "Schoee" innocently as she enjoyed writing. 4 years down the line, She has nearly 2 million subscribers on youtube, 613k twitter followers and 50,000 google followers on her blog. 

"If someone said to me 4 years ago, when I started this blog, that in 4 years time, you'd be sat opposite one of the worlds biggest boy bands interviewing them, and getting to meet them and speak to them (and give them multiple hugs), I'd have laughed in their face" 

 (A quote from Zoe's blog post, "Meeting One Direction" )

Last Monday, Zoe interviewed One Direction, one of the biggest boyband's of all time. I'm personally not a fan of 1D but I know that they have a huge following and the fact that Zoe, who started off just like all of us, having a little fun on a blog, was invited to interview them and attended the world premiere of 1D's new movie "This Is Us" really blows my mind. 

This is Zoe at the 1D premiere!
[Taken from her Twitter @Zozeebo]

Zoe with the 1D boys!
[Pictures from Zoella.co.uk]

What i'm trying to say is that Zoe is a massive inspiration for me and probably many others reading this because she always drives me to do better and try harder generally in life, as eventually it will pay off somehow. Obviously, I'm not saying that I'm only blogging to 'get famous' or whatever, I blog because I have loads of thoughts and ideas that I weirdly think should be shared. I'm saying that I'm stunned by how far you can come from a simple hobby!

If you would like to see more about Zoe's trip down the red carpet, Here is her post!
Who is your inspiration?
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P.S I have Pinterest! I thought I should give it a go and I would love you to follow me on it! You get to see me trying to understand how to use it, that could be entertaining!

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'Mama' Horror film| Review

Hello everyone! So a couple of weeks ago, I watched the new horror release 'Mama' and I was really hyped up to see this because I love horror films and the trailer was thrilling, but i was really disappointed as it turns out all the best bits are in the trailer.

For half the film it was mostly storytelling and setting the mise-en-scene, which I appreciate however I felt like they dragged this out as it lasted about 50 minutes.

Then once the tension had reached maximum and you think "right about now it's going to get horrifically scary and I will regret watching this" the tension levels stayed neutral and it was a massive disappointment. The whole film is revolved around the aspect of 'Mama', a troubled ghost just trying to protect these girls and that is a very good idea however the way that they created the image of her just ruined it. In my opinion, they made her too animated and less realistic which means less scary and more disappointment. 
I also found that the ending of the film was very distressing and dramatic however at the same time it was more like a disney channel film as like I said, It was very animated and less believable which means you can't relate to it, which is the key to making a scary film as if you can relate to it, it becomes more real and hence more scary.
Overall, I think this film was decent as I was never bored whilst watching it, however it didn't live up to the massive hyped that was created about its release. But if you like thrillers that aren't necessarily scary, then this would be a great movie.
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*Some Background Info*
'Mama' is a horror/thriller film directed & co-written by Andres Muschietti. It is set in mid Winter where a man who seemed to have a mental breakdown although no real explanation was shown, and he drove himself and his two daughters off the edge of a cliff. They all miraculously survive with merely cuts or bruises, and they all discover a house in the middle of the woods. They enter & place themselves near a fireplace. After a jump-shot, the scene returns with the dad carrying one of the girls into a different room whilst crying, and holding a gun to her head. However, just before he attempts to ill her, a mysterious shadow takes the dad into the depths of the darkness and he never returns into the movie.
It then jumps to a CSI type of scene where the uncle of the girls rushes o the house because he heard the drama and for a couple years, the girls were never found. Then he receives some news that the investigation had succeed and they found the girls in this house in the middle of the forest. However, there is something not right about the girls, as if they are possessed. 
The uncle and his rock-obsessed girlfriend adopt the girls but throughout the film they are battling the grandma to keep them.
The two sisters start mentioning this "Mama" in consultations and slowly, people start to realise that mama is real and is very dangerous.
You later find out that Mama is just a distressed ghost with a very sensitive past and is trying to find her dead baby. 
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Have you seen this film, what do you think?
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