Supplemental Post #3 - Alexandria

 I truly did not watch much TV this semester, at least not in a traditional sense of watching complete episodes. I think what I’m realizing increasingly is how much my day to day experience of TV shows is actually through shorter clips posted on YouTube and memes and references on platforms like TikTok. Even though I don’t often sit down to commit to a show in its entirety and I tend to be much more of a movie person, I am constantly exposed to shows as they are referenced within a platform environment. Some of the audio clips I quote and have memorized are actually clips from reality tv that have been taken up by TikTok users. I am constantly exposed to memes that use characters from TV shows on Instagram. And when I think of a scene from a show that I want to experience again, I usually search for the clip on YouTube instead of locating the full episode. So my experience of TV is much more fragmented, but also more seamlessly integrated into the ways in which I use social media, which I suspect is something that a lot of people experience in our current digital environment.