As Content Creators and Influencers, should we set or follow the trends?

Wazzup Pilipinas!

As influencers or content creators, I understand we want to entertain. However, I noticed that majority of those well-patronized content are those that offer showbiz or entertainment, celebrity endorsements, pranks or scripted scenarios, pabebe and pakilig attempts to make people laugh, features on sexy models, beauty queens, and TikTok babes' exposing cleavages and dancing to sensual rhythms, sensationalized politics and current events,..matched with exaggerated and fake expressions on reactions to scandals and controversies (for video reactions). Same as how mainstream media is popular with the same set of content and formula...all with intriguing and sensationalized elements.

....while the significant and more important topics like documentaries, business and entrepreneurship opportunities, etc., get minimal engagements. 

Do you think it's about time we mix the two topics to make what we perceive as "boring" topics become more acceptable and interesting just as how weather girls are stripping out of their clothes at some news channels in other countries, or the Naked Bakers channel on YouTube where erect nipples are screaming to go out for a peek to the outside of the hindrance we call clothing?!

Don't you think we should change the mindset of people to pick the content that will make their lives more productive instead of being a "chismosa" about the latest gossips?

As they say, negative publicity is still publicity, and so if we meant to inform people how bad ... let's say Buknoy Glamurrr is as an Influencer, creating content about him only adds to the noise contributing to his popularity....and we know how some brands would take advantage of the commotion...which encourages more "influencers" to setup their own scripted  scandals.. and unorthodox behavior.

...and that is one example where at the end of the day, our audience got entertained but did it improve his life, or society as a whole, during that moment?...compared to creating a video where we show our audience how to .... let's say....  make a compost bin where they can put their kitchen scrap and turn into reusable compost for our soil and plants instead of adding our waste to our heaping garbage problem.

I'm guilty of the former but I also try my best to balance it out with the latter content. But if people are eating up the former making it the more well-engaged content, I may be tempted to keep following only the formula that works and stop making an effort to do the other ones.

So depending on our intentions, it's our choice if we want to either earn from our content while dumbing down our audience, or learn how to become more productive together with our audience.

We should all aim to veer away from the traditional by innovating the way we present our stories.

We know it may be difficult at first to attract and convince people to change their preference. But if we all make an effort together consistently, we will eventually succeed.

How can Adult First help with the DBS check

 

Wazzup World!

Everybody hates waiting. It is not easy, exhausting, and baffling. With regards to getting your DBS check handled you must be incredibly patient, as figures broadly detailed appeared in the London zone, which showed that candidates for enhanced DBS check (earlier known as CRB check) were sitting tight to a quarter of a year for their administrative work to return, far surpassing the administration's own objective of about fourteen days. 

These are individuals who are going after positions working with youngsters or vulnerable adults, so it's imperative to ensure that individuals with a genuine criminal past or have demonstrated bad conduct towards kids in the past don't sneak past the check. 

Yet, then again, it appears to be unreasonable to have people not able to begin work given postponements in the framework. The Adult First program was presented to do something about the holding up period and can be utilized in specific conditions.

 

The point of Adult First is to give a fractional checking service to help businesses get rid of the offenders, and permit representatives to begin work under certain limitations while they are sitting tight for the complete check. 

Adult First carries out checks for the subtleties given by the worker against the Barring List, an electronic information base held by the DBS containing the names of individuals sentenced for crimes who have been legitimately prohibited from ever working with youngsters or susceptible adults again. 

On the off chance that the name of the candidate doesn't show up on this rundown, they may be permitted to begin working, pending a complete check.

 

Adult First is a checking cycle for just the care sector, therefore, applies to organizations that are recruiting staff to work in a private care home, or to go into customers' homes and help them with day by day work or individual care. It doesn't work for other divisions, or to individuals who will be working only with youngsters, or with kids just as grown-ups.

 

Adult First is certainly not a different program from the DBS, it is the first phase of monitoring intended to give a quick check. While applying for an enhanced DBS check for another worker, the business may choose the Adult First option. 

DBS will at that point do a starter search of the records and will react with either asking you to wait for the DBS certificate or will notify you that there is no match on the barred list.

 

In the case you are asked to wait for the DBS certificate, it might mean that there may be a counterpart for the subtleties on the Barred Lists, however, that more examination is required. On the off chance that a competitor has a typical name, confusion could undoubtedly happen. 

Moreover, the "no match exists" doesn't imply that the up-and-comer has a reasonable criminal record. Managers are typically encouraged to make sure that employees are administered during the waiting period for their full enhanced DBS check.

Plantita and Plantito of the Year: The Immensely Growing Costly Interests on Collecting and Growing Plants

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Because of this pandemic, most of us became an 

- instant chef

- instant Plantito/Plantita

- instant online seller

- instant Tiktoker

- instant vlogger

Kahit anong instant pa yan, let's have a healthy and supportive environment. Walang basagan ng trip. However, remember that this supposedly pandemic stress relievers should never tempt you to spend so much that it becomes more than addicting.

The most prominent among the mentioned is being a plantito/plantita which even caused the rise of cost of plants, soils, pots, and gardening tools and supplies. It even increased the views refarding plant-related topics on social.media and websites...and lately even celebrities got into the trend.

In an ideal plantito/plantita world, we spend less in acquiring plants (because there's harbat with the neighbor) and spend more on pots. But I'm surprised to find out that there are people who buy expensive plants just to add to their collection and display at their home, indoors or at outdoors as part of their garden.

Personalities like Jinkee Pacquiao with her photo showing her precious plants at the background.

Ina Raymundo with her Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree versus Jinkee Pacquiao's Variegated Alocasia Elephant Ear was something to look at in amazement.

There are other celebrities like Valeen Montenegro, Kiray Celis, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Alice Dixson, Lyn Ching, Yeng Constantino, Kathryn Bernardo and Solenn Heussaff...and most probably more.... that showcased their gardening hobbies but there were no specific mentions of the plants they have and how much it costed them.

Anybody else running for the "Plantita of the Year"?

Whoa! 

Aubrey Miles has plants that cost a whopping 100k, 150k to the most expensive so far at 300k for a Variegated Billietiae?

"Plantita of the year" contender na ba to Ina Raymundo and Jinkee Pacquiao?

There should be another trending term that we should support and that is "vegetito / vegetita" to represent those whose interest is more on planting vegetables. Growing their own food source could be the more rewarding because you get to harvest produce than just nurturing plants that serves only as decors at home.

Marvin Agustin has posted some of his vegetables and herbs on his Instagram account.

He is a certified Vegetito working on his urban vegetable garden composed of ampalaya, okra, talong, basil, etc. But he has a spacious backyard beside his pool for a bigger and better trellis made from bamboo.

What he is holding here is a spray container containing organic pesticide but all he said was it contains "sili" , garlic and "tubig" mixture. He was using it to treat his veggies from pests specifically when he discovered his ampalaya fruits were infected by "wasps"? ...maybe he meant fruit flies. ...and he also covered the ampalaya fruits with plastic as an added protection. 

During wet season, aphids, fruit fly, leaf footed bug and leaf folder are destructive. During the dry season additional pests such as leafhoppers, thrips, white flies and leaf worms are equally destructive.

I'm not sure about "wasps."

He said he researched from the Internet.

So he has a videographer too. Bongga!

Now, I could relate to him as my interest in planting vegetables had also made me a "Vegetito"

I've also learned that you can grow seedlings or seeds directly from a simple hydroponics setup. 

I've tried styroboxes, containers, and PVC pipes as my "pots" to grow mostly leafy veggies like pechay, mustasa, lettuce, kangkong and kamote (just to harvest the leaves for "talbos") etc., and now experimenting on bell peppers and tomatoes. 

Instead of soil, you use water mixed with anutrient solution (nutsol) as the growing medium. May nabibiling mga ready-made nutsol commercially, pwede ring make your own para you can also make it organic. I'm still experimenting on my own nutsol before I write about it in full.

The beauty of this setup is you can literally leave it alone if you are able to provide the needed amount of nutsol and water it needs.....or less maintenance because you just need to refill if it's not enough until harvest time.

Pwede rin siya indoors if you use the appropriate lights to replicate sunshine.

Admittedly, as what our 2015 Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach has said "being stuck at home has led us to explore new hobbies. A lot of us have turned to making our spaces greener by taking care of plant babies. Aside from being a plantita/plantito, we have to remember to take care of the environment in our own little ways."

Sadly, there have been several news of "plant poachers" that has endangered our mountains flora and fauna because of this trend...or should we call.it a craze.

There are people who plant cuttings that  they either snatch from someone's garden or plant little uprooted saplings you ask from a plantito/plantita. Basically, plants you get for free. Lol.

While some would appreciate more planting from seeds and nurturing them until they are ready for harvest.

Remember that the Earth is needy, so don't be greedy. It's time to be greeny. 

Take a break and be grateful for our one and only Mother Earth. Celebrate World Environment Day by caring for Her like a plantito/plantita.

Nurture nature today for a better future.