Social Media and Digital Media

Being born in 2002, Thomas grew up with the influence of social media like Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram, which after a handful of years post their invention, created celebrity and virality based off of quicker modes of communication like imagery or single sentences. She was in middle school in the prime of Youtubers becoming big stars from their fame such as Troye Sivan, and was overly concerned with her fashion taste and curation of her identity online due to the influence of these apps. ​

This concern as a tween and still today is a large part of what Thomas addresses in her work. She is also interested in the idolization of Celebrities and the increasingly more exacting ways people long to arrange their personal aesthetic like food choices or how their pinterest or instagram is sorted. ​