Great british bake-off

The great British bake off is an odd TVs series to get such a large viewership despite being not even prime time TV. The success of TGBB could b me coming from the way the show manages to position its audience in a position of power above the contestants, where viewers see bakers struggling to bake properly which allows the viewers to view themselves as being glad they are not in the situation. Audience reception theory may be also related to the success of the great British bake off, this is seen in that who you are rooting for to win may become a topic of conversation between your friends, making it very social. British bake off also might be successful due to the wide Amount of audiences it manages to attract towards it, the contestants and presenters of Mary berry and Mel&Sue allow all the episodes of the bake off to attract middle age to elder people in because they are similar ages to the presenters running the show, but also because some of the contestants are very young, in the beginning of both episode 1 and 2 they clearly stated twice that their youngest baker was just 19 years old, this may be to attract the one audience it won't get right away with the presenters. The show also has a few minorities, but they are vastly out of proportion compared to the amount of white people, this may be important if another country uses this show as a representation of what Britain is like, as the show likes to flaunt a lot that it's a British baking show, with flags, references to things in Britain like the page 3 of the sun, and even the history of British biscuits and dunking them in tea, it could be seen as a problem that a proudly British show has mostly white members despite Britain being a multicultural society. In conclusion the success of TGBB is a mix of its strong representation to get lots of audiences, and some audience theory

Pepe the frog artist supports Hillary Clinton

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/14/pepe-the-frog-artist-supports-hillary-clinton This article is about an event during last week where President candidate Hillary Clinton made a claim about a character from an old webcomic series, a character named Pepe the Frog, was a representation of the white supremacist neo-nazi side of the Right wing supporters. This unusual claim has had many backlash and confusion as the comic and character have nothing to do with any political ideology and mostly contain silly jokes. This article talks about how the creator of the comic, Matt Furie is not only not a white supremacist neo nazi but also a supporter of Hillary Clinton, in this article he his interviewed and the transcript mentions how he finds the situation funny and nothing more, because its a "Damn Cartoon Frog". This article also talks about how despite this, Furie is still a Hillary Clinton supporter. This article caught my interest as before seeing this article I initially thought that the comic creator would not feel very happy that such an important figure would call their creation a supporter of a racist ideology, but this article shows that he not only takes it very well and it doesn't phase him, but it also shows that he straight up supports Hillary Clinton. Furie also says in this article that the comic that Pepe is in is "very diverse" as he lists of the variety of characters in his comic. This article was done by the Guardian, a left wing news outlet, as such it makes sense to put light in the situation and humanize Matt Furie who was wrongly accused of being related to facism, and is made to show that he is left wing, which is definitely a positive thing in a left wing newspaper.