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Jacob SmithOpinions Editor I didn’t really get involved in The Southern until my sophomore year. I first learned about the newspaper from the former online...

Jacob Smith and Kennedy OwensOpinions Editor and Staff Writer From the big railroad boom in the 1800s to the advancement of AI in the 2020s,...

If you’re a well known figure in the on-line space and you don’t have a food product, book or music career you’re trying to sell, then are you really even an influencer? 

The lucky number is 36. That’s how many different variations of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has. The separation of content done by Swift is unprecedented, forcing fans to literally create google spreadsheets to keep track of how many different album versions there are.

On Sept. 30, OpenAI unleashed the latest terrifying advancement in generative AI technology. Sora is a new social media app meant solely to host AI-generated videos.

Going from working under his mentor to now working alongside him and acting as a mentor to other students, alumnus Charlie Fanning has returned to FSC as a professor in the history department. 

It feels like as more and more new pieces of entertainment are released, their quality just gets worse and worse. While in some cases this is due to the project itself not meshing well with audiences, the source of the other cases is oftentimes due to overworking. As social media has diverted our attention away from traditional media outlets, like film and video games, the titans of those industries have responded to the changing times by adopting an assembly line approach, when it comes to producing content. 

On any average night, line dancing flows with the life of boots hitting hardwood floors to a punchy country tune. People gather onto the dance floor ready to dance to their favorite song. But what if you don’t know how to line dance? 

When you’re a student at FSC, you aren’t just a member of the college community. Leaving the microcosm that is the historic Frank Llyod Wright campus reveals the city of Lakeland.

In 2024, the news organization Axios reported that Lakeland, Florida, is the country’s fastest-growing metro area.