In today’s episode we uncover society’s hyper-realism through its prime example of the current #maincharacter trend. 

Does everyone really have the tools to romanticise their lives? Are we self-obsessed for broadcasting our lives on Instagram? And finally, is our online narrative-building getting out of hand or innately human?

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Our #maincharacter song picks: God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) and To Build A Home (The Cinematic Orchestra)

Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle

Social commentary on the #maincharacter trend by Leena Norms

Day in my life in Ukrainian bomb shelter

The Square by Ruben Östlund