(SUMMARY)

Today was mainly a stay inside and do homework day so most if not all of the media I encountered came through a screen, whether that be my phone or my laptop. I feel like 80% of my media comes from social media (consisting of facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, and twitch), and of that 80%, about 85% of the media I choose to come into contact with involves fifa and soccer in some way.

This can be seen through the journalistic summary of my day above this passage.

However, a lot can be said about the advertisements these media outlets decide to display to me. I realized that internet ads play a big role in what's consumed, but I never realized how much until today especially because I turned off adblock. Without adblock, there were ads for basically every youtube video I watched, as well as 'promoted/recommended' videos, tweets, and posts.

It's rather annoying how much media I see that was not specifically chosen by me. It'd be a different story if the majority of these ads/promoted videos/posts had any relevance to me or interested me but they don't. 

Thus, the I engaged with the videos and posts that interested me (which is exactly the desired effect of this), and ignored the rest as I usually do (which is exactly the opposite of the desired effect of this). However this time before ignoring it straight away, I consciously took note of it.