Youngsters (and adults) are often said to become more self-centred with the use of social-networking platforms, indulgent in their own feelings and ego projected by publicised personal speeches. Yet when you look at meme culture and how "personal" ideas are reblogged and commented on Tumblr, you realise these feelings and thoughts are not purely personal but shared, and these platforms bring people together instead of setting them apart. This "that's so true" sensation is that in the arts. (Some) art is often said to be masturbation because of its self-centredness, but only because of this self-centredness can it be so true to individual recognition of human(e) impressions and expressions, only then can we be inspired because of what we share. When the sensation of masturbation is experienced by a mass, it is not masturbation.
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