![]() ![]() Portions of all proceeds of merchandise have been donated to a plethora of causes, and every sale helps QQ make a difference. At this point, the account itself is far more about communicating as part of a network and validating others’ experiences as it is the entertainment of a meme itself. Research, fact-checking, thoughtful charitable contributions (based on merchandise sales), and genuine emotion have become more and more essential to QQ’s functioning. This evolution has not been taken lightly, and the account’s content continues to carry bigger weight and possible impact. The decision to abandon the original, “fun” idea and move toward something far more significant has been made seemingly on its own QQ followers and Instagram users more broadly have demanded a public platform used to, quite literally, influence. Somehow, some way, QQ has ended up with a distinctly vulnerable and open audience with an influence that must be leveraged morally and productively. The explosively-timed 2020 election became the crux of QQ’s content delivery and even its merchandising, and continues to be at the present moment. Thus, QQ actually materialized its own personality, and had to take a firm political stance and engage with content that was no longer “light” or “young” or “funny.” Soon, posts about terrible self-induced haircuts turned into sincere advocacy for human safety it was no longer appropriate to stand by and joke about skipping showers when the course of 2020 turned increasingly about societal ills, political risk, mental health crises, and the need for an informed-yet-calmed public. ![]() But soon the pandemic developed and intensely politicized, and the drive for that kind of commentary and reassurance-that the frustration, fear, and disbelief in some cases was more universal than not-drove the account’s following higher and prompted a more direct, polarizing, and fundamentally personal view. Track 1 on Quentin Quarantino Produced by Conner O’Kane Release Date ApView All Credits 1 viewer 1 Contributor Quentin Quarantino Lyrics verse 1 Got a bit of a nest as I. QQ first sparked precisely because it was relatable, offering some of the first online content about the confusion, the chaos, the darkness, and of course the singular pair of sweatpants that seemed to dominate life, especially living in NYC. He's also favorite to take home a third Best Original Screenplay Oscar this year.Īs Tarantino points out, there has been a slew of auteur-directed cinema in the past year, including Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," Sam Mendes' "1917," Taika Waititi's "Jojo Rabbit," Greta Gerwig's "Little Women," Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story," and Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" - all of them fellow Best Picture nominees.The vision for this Instagram account, created on March 13th, 2020, and the power of its impact, were entirely by surprise and serendipitously built - with the aims of superficial self-satire: jokes about sitting at home, eating a stockpile of Chef Boyardee, with a social network of Sour Patch Kids. One of those films, of course, is Tarantino's own - "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," which grossed $372.2 million worldwide and earned 10 Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture and a Best Director nomination for Tarantino. I'm really proud to be nominated with the other films that just got nominated." "That ended up becoming a really, really strong year. Quentin Quarantine is about a playful bunch of school children (and friends) who are having their lessons online during the pandemic. A lot of original movie comment came out and demanded to be seen, and demanded to be seen at the theaters," said Tarantino. Quentin Quarantine: With Edilberto Restino, Raphael Moran, Ping Ho, Jonah Paull. "It would have been the year that their world domination would have been complete. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt were both nominated for Oscars for "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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