Ash Pickett is a Business Administration Senior and opinion columnist for Mustang News. The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Mustang Media Group. I deleted TikTok about four years ago. I got tired of the endless scrolling on the app and felt like it drained my energy more than anything […]
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College influencers at Cal Poly navigate brand collaborations and burnout
College student influencers face challenges such as navigating trends, maintaining authenticity, and dealing with unpredictable algorithms, while also being overlooked for brand ambassadorships due to their school’s size and sometimes facing fake results in ads.
Posted inOpinion
The PAC stage was Morgan Jay’s playground: A review
On Tuesday, Jan. 13, Jay performed at the Performing Arts Center, and he gave me the laugh I needed while gearing up for winter quarter. In the first five minutes of his performance, Jay walked into the audience with his cameraman and autotuned microphone, a staple of his performance students may know from viral TikTok or Instagram videos.
Posted inOpinion
Looksmaxxing is ruining social media
Do you have a positive canthal tilt? A weak brow ridge? Do you consider yourself an absolute Chad? Or would you say you’re more subhuman? These are terms coined by the trending looksmaxxing community, and it is promoting harmful, extreme ideologies to social media users, with teenagers and young adults being its primary targets.
Posted inOpinion
You’re saving your photos wrong and it’s costing you your memories
Especially in college, we should be more intentional about how we store the moments we’ll want to remember years from now. Scrapbooks, photo albums or even a flash drive are more secure and worthwhile ways to do this.
Posted inOpinion
Pics or it didn’t happen: Why do we need to constantly “capture the moment?”
Coined as “capturing the moment,” Gen Z’s addiction to taking photos is not a new point of discussion. Thousands of photos render their way into our digital albums, but the mentality behind our endless camera roll is not as deluded as some would assume.
Posted inOpinion
Instagram vs reality: college edition
The reality of college life exists in these unfiltered moments. It’s in the freshman who calls home crying after bombing their first exam or the sophomore who spends Friday night alone in their dorm room, scrolling through photos of their classmates dressed up and going out.
Posted inFeatures
Black, white and gray: The complex legacy of the Shades of Cal Poly Instagram account
Shades of Cal Poly is run anonymously. They have chosen to remain anonymous in this article. In their second year at Cal Poly, communications and ethnic studies major Rey Smith was in a survey of Africana studies class taught by a white professor. One day, when describing the oppression faced by a black man, Smith […]
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Keeping the culture: An Instagram page documents SLO’s indie music scene
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on KCPR.org, the website of Cal Poly’s radio station. A red Solo cup being held up to the night sky has become a familiar image for many music lovers in San Luis Obispo. This is the profile picture for @slo.underground, an Instagram account dedicated to spreading the word about […]
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Over 100 students rated their mental health at zero in an Instagram poll. Here are some of their responses.
Mustang News put out a poll on our instagram asking students to rate their mental health on a scale from 0-100. The poll received over 400 responses, with 124 of them rating their mental health at zero. The overall average rating was less than 50.
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Talking about stalking: Reports rise since start of “Stalking Awareness Month”
Reports of stalking to Safer have increased since Cal Poly began promoting “Stalking Awareness Month” on campus three years ago. “The numbers that we have aren’t necessarily indicative of all of campus,” Safer Coordinator Kara Samaniego said. “It’s very, very underreported, just like all forms of gender-based violence. We see just the tip of the […]