I think maybe a big part of Dracula Daily’s success (and perhaps also the success of all those Netflix reality tv shows like Love Is Blind??) is that media has become so asynchronous. You can never really talk to your friends about any shows because either it’s “Oh, I haven’t seen that but it’s on my list” or “I watched that ages ago, I barely remember it, remind me who [character X] was?” or “STOP TALKING, I’m on Season 2, no spoilers!!”
And it’s kind of upsetting, because we cannot really discuss media anymore the way people were able to when a show was on TV and everyone kind of experienced it together. Synchronous media is an event, it’s fun, everybody can participate! Now we’re drowning in recommendations of what we “should watch”, and the list gets longer and longer, but even when we do get around to a particular show, we almost never properly discuss it with the friend who recommended it and it’s just frustrating.
So yeah. My take is that humans actually kind of really enjoy synchronous media consumption, which has been greatly reduced by streaming, and perhaps Dracula Daily is filling that gap for us right now, you know?
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Dracula was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
[ID: A fake penguin classics book cover for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The cover image is a screenshot of a tumblr post by BisexualCrabKing-Deactivated that reads: “(writing in my diary using a glitter gel pen) I am losing my sense of humanity.” End ID.]
[id: the handshake meme. the sides are labeled “tumblr” and “count dracula” respectively. they meet in the middle on “my friend jonathan harker”. end id.]
