Vox Populi: Social Media as World Literature

During the pandemic, my love for reading has once again sparked. Since I was in my elementary years I have been reading on the mobile app Wattpad. I have decided to read books from one of my favorite authors in the app with a pen name "AnakniRizal" or what we her reader would fondly call her Ate Demi. While she has written a lot of books, most of them published under different publishing houses such as PSICOM and Bliss Books of Anvil Publishing, Inc. Two of her books stood out for me and I'll share with them today. The first one is entitled "So, this is Youth" first written in Wattpad in 2019 and winner of the annual of The Watty Awards in 2020 . It talks about a rich bar owner named Golda who was diagnosed of a terminal illness. Due to that, Golda wanted to accomplish something she wasn't able to do before she dies and that is to graduate high school.She bribed the principal of the school so she would admitted disguised as a teenager. There she met teen

Cassini’s Descent:  “What is Grief if not Noise?” Tongco, Janelle Jane P.                A writer from a small city surprised the public with his creative works and pieces of astounding literature that gained global acknowledgment from an international internet literary journal of Singapore.             The writer that achieved this milestone is Alfonso Manalastas, a native from Butuan City, Agusan del Norte. He is a published op-ed contributing creative non-fiction writer, an advertising copywriter, a touring spoken word artist and, a poet.              This 28-year old artist joyously announced that one of his poems was published on volume 19 of the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore that was released on the 2nd of April.                 His poem Cassini’s Descent evokes one’s deepest emotions creatively. From the onset of words that are thought-provoking to the way, he constructs each of his poems that always has his heart. This poem envisions and places the topic of NASA’s Cassini

  MENDOZA, Aileen Nicole S.      Yūgen Sundae is the brainchild of five aspiring artists from Albay, Philippines with five members each with their individual inspirations.  Karl (synths, vocals), John (guitars, vocals), Chiyo (bass, vocals),  Wahly  (guitars, vocals), and Lei (drums, vocals), work together to create music that is a dense mixture of thick vocal harmonies, fun hooks, and complex arrangements.  Their band started out on September 30, 2018 and was initially called Dreams of Yūgen Sundae and was later renamed into Yūgen Sundae.     In this blog, I will be highlighting two of their released songs so far which I think had the potential to become world literature.      The first one is called “ Pagsusulit ”,  the intro song to their EP entitled Yugen Sundae.  This EP was released six months ago, March 2021 and has a total of five songs .  Pagsusulit  is a song about online classes brought about by the pandemic  and its lyric video on  YouTube   showcases  a student who wakes u