One important thing to remember with both Instagram and Snapchat when they're being used for GPS placement:
Pictures and videos do not mean real-time, live, late-breaking vids. Not when you can use pictures and videos uploaded from your cell phone or tablet with an app. Which means you can upload to Snapchat on a delayed basis.
A picture of the closeted bearding couple at an event, but posted by another individual in "the business" gives the Instagram post legitimacy? Not when you're dealing with the Hollywood closet. Favors beget favors. Or maybe it's about actually preserving the Hollywood Closet and ensuring that it remains intact.
Just my thoughts on a couple things to think about and question when looking at "snaps" and "Insta's".
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I remember when I first heard about Snapchat back in 2012. The high profile roll out was all about immediacy and the here and now. Marketed as real time storytelling and making a quick connection to recipients. A unique experience where the user could send photos and videos that only last a brief amount of time then disappear forever. The first person perspective: raw, real, and relevant. Supposedly.
Like all forms of media, snapchat is about branding, but soon begins to be exploited in ways that benefit public relations teams/firms and the carefully concocted images of their clients/products. In the beginning, snapchat was promoted as unique among social media in that all photos and videos only lasted a brief amount of time before they disappear forever, making the app ephemeral in nature, though the sender could take screenshots of snaps and save them in picture form. A publicist’s wet dream.
The truth behind the medium today, however, is that any user can upload video taken at another time and make the “experience” seem like the transmitted content is “in the moment”. That’s what Austin Nichols and his 2016 Snapchat Summer Fest with his embarrassing beard and now the complicit pair of Paul Wesley and Phoebe Tonka Truck (LOL!) are selling.
The illusion PR is attempting to create is that the “snaps” are short-lived, fleeting, brief, but all real time. Authentic and genuine moments between two crazy kids in luv. Except, of course, those snaps are neither factual or raw and real. The story is far different. Just like Jake and his green cargo pants popping up everywhere for years, Austin and his contracted appendage (or a behind the scenes lowly paid intern) can upload all the “snaps” they want. Ten seconds of nonsense that is about 9.99 seconds too long. Good try. But, sell it somewhere else.
I’m now waiting for the inevitable Pokémon Go king of the hill battle before September. You know the event is coming. The app is tailored made for the closet, after all. With augmented reality and the virtual play known to be a nuisance, the set-up is perfect. As we know, closet cases can never be too far away from the latest stunt. It’s their stock-in-trade, in fact. Pass the popcorn and put up your feet awhile. The show is far from over.
Well, I have to say that we had this big furnace blast of Jake all over the internet for a couple of days, but now it's back to quietsville. It was enough to give Austin an opportunity to lie low and be wherever it is that he is. If it ever changed, that is.
I did find out that a friend of his is in Georgia right now. Hilarie Burton, the co-star from OTH that Austin did several videos with, remember? Hopefully maybe we'll see something soon of them hanging out together IF Austin is in GA, that is. Her son is with her and he was born in 2010 so he's right there in the midst of the BT's ages.
I was checking on the missing twosome, Maggie & Peter, when I saw where Big Sis Maggie had RT'd this:
Frank Rich (@frankrichny)
7/21/16, 21:57
Yes, the GOP loves the gays. Platform calls for ending gay marriage, putting gay kids in “therapy,” and ending gay civil rights protections.
I mean, what in the HELL. I couldn't believe her. And what I mean by that, is she sure hasn't reflected that in her RL. Helping to line Jake up with Kirsten Dunst, acting like her brother's literal beard at the Met Gala, not even acknowledging in any way her brother-in-law Austin, and helping to hide children in the closet, including now her own.
All of those kids are in the closet, along with their co-parents, Jake & Maggie. This is why you don't see Maggie at all anymore. Peter? MIA. They've evaporated along with Jake.
Don't think Jake's old-timer fans have not noticed this - they just don't publicly ponder out loud. How could anyone not notice? The Gyllenhaal family set such a pattern of behavior for so many years and since Jake signed with WME, they've all gone under a witness protection program.
Sure, there are a few NYC appearances at premieres, fashion shows, charitable events etc. just to punch the clock a few times a year, but otherwise, it's like trying to see through a thick Kansas fog.
lol, we can get some pretty dense fogs around here.
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