The tragic event brought attention on the esports industry as a whole, which still sits somewhere outside of mainstream attention, despite Twitch having more than 2 million broadcasters and 15 million viewers who tune in daily to watch.
The tragic event brought attention on the esports industry as a whole, which still sits somewhere outside of mainstream attention, despite Twitch having more than 2 million broadcasters and 15 million viewers who tune in daily to watch.
What is more, arts such as tragic poetry rivet attention by engaging powerful emotions such as fear, enervating the virtues of a courageous person but paradoxically pleasing at the same time.
Tragic wisdom calls attention to the contingent, time-bound character of life and urges us to accept and affirm our entanglements in the inexorable flux of creation and destruction that gives shape to the world.
He is also the proud winner of "Most tragic display of attention-seeking neediness of the week", beating even Kate Moss posing in Playboy with a pom-pom pinned to her rear end – so you're already getting an idea of the depths of idiocy here.
For example, because we tend to focus our attention on tragic individuals rather than much larger populations that suffer, you may overlook worthy causes in favor of those that best grab your attention.
If the sad story of College La Promesse is to have a silver lining, however, we can hope that these tragic scenes bring more attention to the less visible disaster of Haiti's education system, which suffers from the same endemic problems that brought down College La Promesse: short-term thinking and a lack of expertise and oversight.
The tragic fire has brought attention to Romania's shoddy safety laws, and has revealed that the government doesn't actually perform proper inspections on any of the country's clubs.
This tragic incident received much attention in the media and brought on a heated debate about internet behaviour and what responsibilities participants, moderators and website owners have when individuals communicate risky and, in this case, life-threatening issues.
No jaunty voice-overs, no jumpy editing: Mr. Gee holds our attention with a tragic story, simply told.
