MidWood Nature

To start off, the platform, Medium is a member subscription-based article website where people can write about anything and everything that they would like to write about. So having Royte talk about “sex, trash, and nature in the city” is a particular type of topic that only a selected amount of people would like to read. Since it’s a subscription-based type of website, these are people who like to read topically, not just randomly founded articles that they might’ve scrolled by while looking for something interesting. So, not only does the website helps the writers to start somewhere but, it also helps the writers collect an audience. While reading the article, it was very personal. She wrote the article in a precise way that I don’t really see all that often. She starts off with something that we all have done in our lives, running. But, soon she slowly but precisely goes into public sex. She adds personal stories with people that she’s encountered with. And while the platform itself is helping writers just by subscriptions but, also by the different visual styles that each writer can use. Some articles that I’ve seen other than Roytes’ article, are mostly pictures but, she decided to use more than what I’ve seen throughout the website and its articles.  But, what’s particularly eye-catching is that while she progresses through the article, the pictures or visuals, are moving along with the story. For example, when she talks about confronting litterers, she puts a picture of a lubricant packet, there’s also a factoid along with it. “Plastic Litter Has Increased 165% since 1969. – KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL” Along with the pictures, the sizes also have different purposes. The smaller images that are wedged into the article itself are there to support the paragraph or point out things that people may or may not have known before reading the article. The larger images that are spaced out through the article, in my opinion, are ways to set the pace of the article. And while the larger images set the pace of the article, if you pay close attention to them, there are shadows within the image. What I think of that is that while we may have one perception of a topic doesn’t mean that we can’t see the other side. That while it may be unknown to us, it’s our job as readers to know the whole part of the story.