Hi, roeddwn i eisiau gwybod eich pris.

At least the latter half.

So, In the '90s, there was a brief period where companies invested massive amounts of cash into artists that were seen as artistic or unusual. This had to do with the unexpected success off Grunge Music, Electronic Music and Hip Hop.

So because of this, companies thought that other adventurous, experimental artists could also make them money. It became a trend.

Many of these artists were decidedly anti-corporate so selling out to corporate interests made them conflicted. For example, famous actors didn't do commercials cause they considered it 'beneath them'. (Of course, they still wanted to make a living, so many of them did them in foreign countries.). Entertainers seriously thought that endorsing products was beneath them some thirty years ago.

What happened to that attitude? Well, in America (cultural headquarters of the World Empire), there used to be legislation on the books that prevented media corporations from forming monopolies. That legislation was gutted with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Everything in pop culture got massively stupid after that point quite demonstratably. Think about the rise of boy bands, girl groups, Britney Spears, braindead hip hop, reality shows, crap like Sex and The City. It led to the TRL era of shitty pop music. Social media and algorithms picked up from there.

So even before algorithms, corporate greed sort of killed the idea of large companies investing in raw, adventurous (actually good), artists.

There used to be like 75 major media companies, fairly quickly that went down to something like 3. I think this has more to do with popular culture stagnating than anyone realizes or acknowledges, to this day...

Ultimately a force for good, or for evil?

Something really hammered the point home. When my aunt told me my
grandmother is so isolated because all her friends are dead. She used
to have a vibrant social life and a LOT of friends. Out square dancing
several times a week, card games at her home or out etc. Damn, if I am
pretty much that isolated now, even with friends, what's it going to
be like when I am old?(;´Д`)(;´Д`)

I think it's the bass guitar. A good bassline can give an otherwise boring song some unexpected swagger. The drums are a close second-- they frequently help out the bass anyway...

HOW DO I DOTI

I was enrolled in middle school due to laws but i only went whenever the school called my parents After two weeks or something i would start skipping agian i I used to hide in the back of an broken car down the street at the end of the day Then pretend to come home with my bag and everything Afrer MS i got sent to trade school did the same thing there never graduated At 19 i found a job as street cleaner

Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space".
Grimace painfully while smacking you forehead and muttering: "Shut up, darn it! All of you just shut UP!"
Whistle the first seven notes of "It's a Small World" incessantly.
Sell Girl Scout Cookies.
On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
Shave.
Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: "Got enough air in there?"
Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarassed when they open by themselves.
Lean over to another passenger and whisper: "Noogie patrol coming!"
Greet everyone on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
One word: Flatulence!
On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
Do Tai Chi exercises.
Stare, grinning at an other passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"
When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: "Oh, not now -- motion sickness!"
Give religious tracks to each passenger.
Meow occasionally.
Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
Frown and mutter "Gotta go, gotta go," then sigh and say, "Oops!"
Show the other passengers a wound and ask if looks infected.
Sing "Mary had a little lamb" while continually pushing buttons.
Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.
Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
Stare at another passenger for a while then announce, "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
Burp and then say, "mmmm...tasty!"
Leave a box between the doors.
Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers "through" it.
Start a sing-a-long.
When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?"
Play the harmonica.
Shadow box.
Say, "Ding!" at each floor.
Lean against the button panel.
Say, "I wonder what all these do" and push the red buttons.
Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex to other passengers.
Bring a chair along.
Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: "Wanna see wha in muh mouf?"
Blow spit bubbles.
Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body."
Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers.
Stare at your thumb and say, "I think it's getting larger."
If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler, "Bad touch!"

I need some images for an assignment. I was supposed to take them myself, but it's too late for that now, so my only hope is to get together some stock images-- only, our teach is kind of a tech savvy guy and assured us that he would be able to tell if we scraped some images off of Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo or those stock image sites. Any ideas?（ ’～’）

By 'memes' I mean bad psychological/sociological ideas which get shared too much （ ’～’）

For me, the dumbest imageboard related one is that people have bad social skills from 'schizoid personality disorder'. This is basically dismissive avoidant attachment but supposedly unfixable, with a trendy 'schizo' name for narcs...