New technologies changed the way we communicate and learn about the news a few years ago. Now the information reaches almost instantaneously to any part of the world and We can attend any event live.
The same thing is happening with the war in Ukraine: from there they reach us daily and through social networks images and videos of the barbarity that the Putin government is perpetratingor.
In the era of online challenges and short videos with TikTok music, there is also room for the narration of war. It is what we can find in the profiles of the social networks of valerisssha young Ukrainian with more than 80,000 followers on Instagram and more than 600,000 on TikTok.
Her narrates the day to day of the Russian attack through his videos: add music, join the trends, do challenges and season everything with a great sense of humor. It is the way that young people communicate. Until now, their social networks showed a normal life, like that of any young European, but now it adapts its contents to war.
In his ‘stories’ we can see what his life is like in a bunker, protecting himself from Russian bombs. There he shows how his father prepares him a coffee with a blowtorch or how he drinks it looking at the horizon in that room without windows. “I love my life,” he points out ironically.
The young woman too has posted videos in which explains “what to buy in the supermarket during the war”to which he adds a happy trending tune on that social network.
It also uses trend music to show how a russian bomb has destroyed a residential building. Or even shows her fleeing through the city when the air raid alarms sound with gestures of irony.
Humor spices up all its content, perhaps a way to escape from so much terror sown by Russia. So much so that, ironically, shows a destroyed building assuring that “Putin is reforming the city for us”.
The journalist Gina Tost, specialized in technology, has become echo of her particular way of communicating and, in a Twitter thread, has explained that it is “her language of communication, her and an entire generation”.
“It is recorded because it is what she has been doing for months on her account, with her friends, in her life… It’s their way of maintaining normalcy throughout this process.”he points out.
In one of his latest Instagram posts, and leaving aside his characteristic sense of humorValerisssh has confessed that lives “every day in the hope that tomorrow the war will end”, but “everything gets worse”: “I see how my city has ended up disappearing and how Russian troops have killed Ukrainian civilians.”
“It looks like World War II when the fascists killed the Jews. I feel like I am a Jew hiding from the fascists but I am a Ukrainian hiding from the Russians in a bunker. The most important thing for me is freedom, but unfortunately, I need to be a victim of a man who didn’t play enough tank game in childhood.”
Source: Lasexta
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
