Poppy, a pale blonde “character” portrayed by 23-year-old Moriah Rose Pereira, is masterminded by writer-director Titanic Sinclair. It’s a straight-faced pastiche of Instagram vacancy, of empty-headed sloganeering delivered as a nebulous art/satire/prank/commentary on internet culture. With her milkshake pastels and hyper-mannered speech, Poppy is grating but somehow compelling in small doses, but, when analysed in further depth, you feel the lens has perhaps cracked too wide, revealing . In a video accompanying the piece, art critic Jerry Saltz pauses between eyerolls to give his take on the phenomenon. And here might come the rub for an internet oddity like Poppy.

Source: The Irish Times February 11, 2018 04:52 UTC