For this Rhetorical Analysis the Instagram page of Anthony Adams, a former NFL lineman and current Instagram personality, (@spiceadams) will be used. The author of the page is himself as it is his personal page however, his page is also his public profile where he posts pictures and videos for his fans(he is Instagram verified). Anthony clearly is a very funny individual and he uses his posts to give people videos and pictures that are meant to bring out laughter. His posts have even been reposted by many other pages that may have fans that have never seen him before and now wish to follow him as they also enjoy what he does. Beyond an Instagram entertainer he uses his page to promote the few shows that he stars in as a co-host, a cooking show and a couple sports broadcasting related shows. But there is a very clear difference between his personal posts, advertising posts, and then his comedy posts. But even with these differences it still shows him as an outgoing and overall happy person, he never has any pessimistic things to say. Due to the word limit on posts, paragraphs cannot be posted so the best way to get the idea across is by using 1-2 sentences or even phrases and then hashtags to related ideas on the internet. He uses this as well as capitalization as the main way to relate and reach out to his fans in a way that brings out laughter. Having it be a social media page creates a way for these conventions to be used to further portray the emotions that he is using. Saying something in all caps and/or adding a gratuitous amount of exclamation points allow the reader to really understand that this is something that is funny to him and has the reader read a caption in an entirely different way. Emoji’s have gained so much popularity that they are regularly used after a post or even in one as a substitute for a word this is yet another way to portray his light hearted and outgoing personality and change how the sentence is understood. Something else that he utilizes is his frequency of his posts, it seems that he posts every day and frequently has more than one post per day. This allows his fans to get a steady stream of videos and never feel as though he doesn’t release enough or too much. Instagram recently brought about a story mode and livestreaming feature which he uses when he is out at an event. This provides some more content for those who are genuinely interested in what he does with his free time. All of this boils down to his use of pathos, way above the other two, to gain more fans and keep the fans that he already has. He uses his personality and sense of humor to reach out to people of all ages and they respond back to him in a mostly positive manner. He doesn’t have to make an attempt to present himself as something he is not, since all of the emotion and personality and effort put forth into all of the work that he produces is just the way that he is as a person. Hi effort was there as he grew up and made it to the NFL and now he just has changed his focus onto something else and has attacked it with the same drive.
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Amanda Norman
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