Sexuality; Tycco, Matthew, Pablo, Bryce, and Sami by Samir Halteh '26

Example: Ice Spice

tgiometti26 — 2024-11-18 18:02:55 UTC

Ice Spice is a rapper who has become a popular personality among Gen Z.
The reason of her popularity is not only her music, but the sexually explicit lyrics and videos that have garnered millions of views.
Focuses heavily on the sensuality aspect of sexuality.

Example: Jojo Siwa

shalteh26 — 2024-11-18 18:04:34 UTC

Jojo Siwa released a music video for her song “Karma” that depicts many themes of sensuality within sexuality
As the video went viral, allowing gen Z to become exposed to a very physical form of sexuality
Her videos also display openly homosexual relationships, widening the boundaries of sexuality

Music Videos: Nicki Minaj

shalteh26 — 2024-11-18 18:05:05 UTC

For many years, rapper Nicki Minaj has been a figure/personality associated with sexuality.
One famous example of this occurred with a music video made for the extremely popular movie “Barbie” last year.
- Because of this power coupling, this video gained massive attention, recieving over 150 million views on YouTube.

Effects of sexuality in digital culture

pgraciacaceres26 — 2024-11-18 18:06:06 UTC

The access to diverse perspectives has empowered people to explore sexual desires and needs more confidently.

pgraciacaceres26 — 2024-11-18 18:09:51 UTC

pgraciacaceres26 — 2024-11-20 02:16:18 UTC

https://www.wikihow.com/What-Emojis-Mean-Sex

Emoji role in sexuality

shalteh26 — 2024-11-20 04:15:13 UTC

Commonly used to show emotions of all types with the use of simple, yet symbolizing emojis
More memorable, iconic ones the are commonly used for purposes of expressing love, gratitude, and even sexual interest
- Love/Intimacy
  - ❤️
  - 😘
  - 😍
- Sexual interest/desire
  - 😈
  - 🍑/🍆
  - 🍒

Significance

tgiometti26 — 2024-11-20 04:30:58 UTC

These types of music videos mirror a changing cultural landscape, which shows off a change in societal attitudes towards sexuality, empowerment and gender norms.
Music videos often have a lot of symbols and imagery. For example, physical examples and bodies are shown. Close up and provocative clips/images are shown during the videos.
Commercial sexuality-In these music videos, sexuality is often used to gather attention and to make money. Since, these videos focus on perfect bodies, expensive places, luxurious cars, watches, etc.
Artistic Sexuality-This focus’ more on emotions and deeper thinking, like portraying a love story or sadness. As well as different sides of relationships.
There are many visual trends in music videos which can mirror female empowerment. Women like Cardi B, Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stalion portray themselves as women in power and in control. Which challenge the act of objectifying.

How do commercials and television have an influence on our sexuality?

bpacula26 — 2024-11-20 16:42:01 UTC

Olympic Ceremony Video

bpacula26 — 2024-11-20 16:45:16 UTC

This section from the olympic ceremony tries to normalize threesomes
Majority of young people in the United States watched the event
Presence in media pushes for more social acceptance.

Usher Halftime Show

bpacula26 — 2024-11-20 17:41:43 UTC

Usher and Alicia Keys danced in a sexual way at the Apple Music Halftime Show
Gen Z looks up to both of these artists, and the majority of people watching the show was Gen Z.
Promotes love and intimacy towards communities who look up to celebrities
Majority of these people are Gen Z

What are memes?

morosco26 — 2024-11-20 22:19:30 UTC

Definition: an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.

Diddy

morosco26 — 2024-11-20 22:21:28 UTC

Social media recently has been at an uproar due to the “Diddy incident”, this has sparked many memes including the “Diddler Starter Pack”. This is just one example of many highlighting how society views celebrities sexuality.

Rizz

morosco26 — 2024-11-20 22:25:00 UTC

Gen-Z has formulated a word known as “Rizz”. It means to attract someone based off of your style or charm. Rizz memes highlight the humor in modern dating culture. One of the key figures of the creation of “Rizz” is the Rizzler. He made such an impact on the media that he was even invited to the Jimmy Fallon show.

Example: Lil Nas X

shalteh26 — 2024-11-20 22:26:42 UTC

Rapper Lil Nas X has become notorious over previous music videos.
He has posted many different music videos that have become very popular on social media as a result of their sexual depictions.
He has also made an impact being a representation of homosexual relationships.

Skittles Campaign

shalteh26 — 2024-11-20 22:34:30 UTC

During Pride month (June), a popular campaign Skittles uses to appeal to gen Z is to get rid of the iconic rainbow colors of the candy.
Represents and calls to attention the importance of relationships to others, despite socially constructed ideas.