A Rhetorical Analysis Of I M Poppy

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I’m Poppy: A review of the creation and commentary of abstract YouTube media. Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has grown into the most popular video sharing platform in the world. With its easy to use platform and a massive perspective audience, YouTube connects many content creators with the audience they’re seeking, and introduces many individuals to content and creators they otherwise might have passed over. The sheer amount of content and variety on YouTube has created microcosms of fans, creators, and genres of content, all with their own specific conventions and popular YouTube Stars. One particularly interesting genre that had become popular is the abstract film. In this rhetorical analysis, the conventions of abstract film and storytelling will be reviewed, how one popular abstract artist, Poppy, fits into the genre, and how my own creation, “I’m Poopy” fits into the conventions of Abstract storytelling as well. Even within the conventions of abstract storytelling, variations and sub-categories exist within …show more content…

In her videos, she often criticizes the vanity, shallowness, and insignificance of today’s popular culture-- all the while attempting to engrain herself in it. My video follows her conventions through short, repetitive takes featuring an unsettling figure, simple props, and nonsensical imagery. Additionally, the commentary is thinly veiled for anyone familiar with the artist and her channel themselves, similarly to how Poppy ensured her meaning was easy to grasp for the public. Where I break convention of Poppy’s video is that it won’t be nearly as long, running about one minute instead of ten. I believe this will give the viewer plenty of time to grasp the message without being superfluous, and will be more palatable to the

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