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The Kids Club
An image sequence / 2’19”


YANG Long-lam, Markus 楊朗林
Student of SM2105 Narrative Strategies and Aesthetics of Time-based Media

  llyang3-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Abstract

We live in a digital age when most of our information is obtained on the Internet. However, the information we absorb is carefully calculated by sophisticated algorithms. If we keep ignoring this truth and take no action, we will be manipulated unknowingly by the system.

The Kids Club is one of the controversial on YouTube channels classified Elsagate. People take advantage of the algorithm to easily distribute disturbing contents to kids audiences. Its reaches already showed that these contents have permanent negative effects on children.

The narrative structure of this work is symmetrical. Therefore, the audience can start watching at any time point, forward or backward.

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