How does pop culture relate to media?

This is 100 percent a homework question. “Explain by citing examples” is what a teacher says to young students who don’t already know how to write. I don’t have to cite anything, as I’m not here to help you cheat through school.

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Popular culture differs from the fine arts in that everybody does it, instead of just the cultural elite. Hunting humans for sport, for example, requires money and power to get away with that’s out of reach of the average person.

However, the idea of hunting people has long been popularized in the media. Movies like The Hunt, The Pest, Surviving the Game, Hard Target, and even The Hunger Games popularized the concept.

It’s a popular TV trope that often finds its way into the entertainment media. And of course, people have trouble differentiating between news media and entertainment media.

Based on your question, I assume you’re taking a low-level 101 Media class only explaining the very basics, so I’ll try to dumb everything down for your teacher.Hunting the Most Dangerous Game – TV TropesSubgenre of The Chase where the villains are hunters and the hero is the prey — the game — in a formalized hunting motif. Most action series have a Hunting the Most Dangerous Game episode as well as a Forced Prize Fight. Villains may …https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HuntingTheMostDangerousGame

The thing is – movies and TV represent both mass media and popular culture.

The most common pop-culture categories (per Wikipedia, which you can’t cite as a legitimate source in your school) are: entertainment (such as film, music, television and video games), sports, news (as in people/places in the news), politics, fashion, technology, and slang.

On social media sites like YouTube and TikTok, you can see exactly how popular your culture is. These videos are all well over one billion views and drove popular culture and media in the year they were released.

You’ve definitely heard one of the songs which make up the bulk of the top 10 most viewed YouTube videos ever.

When Baby Shark reached peak pop culture, it was referenced all over both entertainment media and news media.

The popularity of the song itself can be transcended by a pop cultural moment contained within it, which was the case with YOLO.

In 2012, Drake raps,

“Now she want a photo, you already know, though
You only live once, that’s the motto, nigga, YOLO
And we ’bout it every day, every day, every day
Like we sittin on the bench, nigga, we don’t really play
Every day, every day, fuck what anybody say
Can’t see ’em ’cause the money in the way, real nigga, what’s up?”

The phrase YOLO blew up and spread, with everybody from your baby to your grandma saying it. By the end of 2016, the term was added to the Oxford English dictionary.Moobs and YOLO added to dictionary – BBC NewsMoobs and YOLO are among hundreds of new words to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37336564.amp

This is an example of media driving popular culture.

Of course, there are also plenty of examples of media stepping in to stop pop culture. In 2018, for example, the Tide Pod Challenge reached full pop cultural relevancy. The media denounced it fully.Why people are (mostly) joking about eating Tide PodsPlanet Earth is brimming with millions of different objects. But in this young year, there is perhaps no single item that has moved the dangerous desires of the human spirit as much as the brightly hued laundry detergent capsules known as Tide Pods. One of several similar products on the market, Tide Pods are described by their maker as “small but powerful” alternatives to traditional laundry detergent that qualify as “more than just a liquid in a pouch.” These pods, Tide seems to promise, can revolutionize the way we wash life’s indignities out of our clothes. Squishy little soap nuggets, I guess, are someone’s vision of the future of doing laundry. Each small pouch contains brightly colored liquid, and if you take a sniff, you’ll observe notes of a floral, chemical-scented bubble bath. Comparisons between the pods and pieces of candy abound. But Tide Pods are also predictably poisonous to the human body — filled, as they are, with concentrated laundry detergent — and thus are not intended for consumption. Tide’s reliance on the powers of poison to help us enhance the brightness of our clothing isn’t surprising or abnormal. It should go without saying that laundry soap isn’t meant to be eaten, including Tide Pods. Nonetheless, this hasn’t stopped many people from wanting to bite into one. Indeed, the company’s website offers an extensive, multi-step guide to safeguarding children against the dangers of eating Tide Pods — according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers , there were 10,500 cases involving kids under the age of 5 being exposed to laundry detergent packets in 2017. Further, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission , two children and six adults died from consuming laundry pods between 2012, when they first hit the market, and 2017. And it’s in the pods’ strange combination of convenience, a candy-like appearance, and potential to kill you that one of the first full-fledged internet memes of 2018 — and eventually, the legitimately dangerous Tide Pod Challenge — were born. Admit it: don’t you kind of want to know what a Tide Pod tastes like? Over the past few weeks, creative citizens across the internet have trolled the idea of eating Tide Pods into comedic existence. People have imagined Gordon Ramsay praising their deliciousness , invented apocalyptic fantasy scenarios where fights break out in supermarkets over the last bag of pods on the shelf , and even tried baking Tide Pods onto a frozen pizza: The resulting meme — which effectively transforms Tide Pods into a sort of forbidden fruit — might seem silly, as it’s taken a simple joke to Gordon Ramsay-invoking extremes. At least a little bit, though, it’s an attempt to approach the odd, real desire that many people feel to eat these things. It also invites the question: Why would Tide design such a mundane but poisonous product to look like fruity candy? The fascination with consuming Tide Pods and other similar “laundry packs” isn’t new. This past July, thttps://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/1/4/16841674/tide-pods-eating-meme-tide-pod-challenge

The media approached this very carefully, because they weren’t sure what the reason was nor whether people were truly taking this popular challenge seriously.

Still, when mentioning it, instead of joining in to sing Baby Shark or scream YOLO, they made it very clear that eating Tide Pods is not cool.

People thankfully mimicked what they saw on mainstream media and not what they saw on social media.

Those blurred lines between social media, mass media, news media, and entertainment media will likely be covered in your next semester. Hopefully cheating on this assignment using Quora helped.