Of all the classes I took in college, honestly the ones I find most useful in the "real world" were the ones on race, class, and gender in media.
Also I still appreciate that one 300-level class for actually getting me to do legit original research before I dropped out.
(I wrote about portrayals of women and queers in the five most popular webcomics. Turns out hit webcomics have audience sizes comparable to primetime television.)
@starkatt what were the comics, btw? I'm sure one of them was Sluggy Freelance... :P
@green iirc it was penny arcade, SMBC, Questionable Content, xkcd, and Cyanide and Happiness.
@starkatt no Homestuck? and tbh I didn't know QC was that big
@noiob I was going off of traffic numbers I found somewhere. iirc that's when Homestuck was in slow updates purgatory?
@starkatt idk much about Homestuck except that it has a massive fanbase ^^ but eh, I should've figured that there are no good numbers on that kinda thing
@noiob I've tried to read it twice and bounced off both times. It's kind of a mess. My ex said it "succeeds despite the author, not because of him."
@starkatt I tried reading it once and got stuck in some kind of text-based RPG before the story even started ^^
