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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 6 2o20 (Travel) Anna Karina Sennefelder | Revival of the cultural stereotype? 103 implies that these poor, black chil- dren are not only “great”, but are also especially warm, in fact warmer than most people. This positive evaluation serves the stereotype of a particularly “intense” life in Africa. Here, as the text on the farewell hug suggests, one has less fear of contact and more joy, despite the harsher living conditions in social comparison. After a four-week stay in Mauri- tania and the expiration of their visas, Wendt and Stirnat continue to Sene- gal. The troubles of crossing the bor- der are reported in a typical vlog for- mat once again. Wendt records herself sitting in the car, in a light top view, and comments on the obscure, obvi- ously rip-off-like events in an ostenta- tiously annoyed, singing and slightly ironic tone: “It was so obvious, now they want money, of course, and our insurance that we have is suppos- edly not valid...” (Wendt and Stirnat 2019a: 21:10–21:16). Here, the clothing also conveys the habitus of the casual traveller (Wendt is wearing a woolly cap with several buttons) who is polit- ically engaged and strives for cultural encounters [see Fig. 8]. Shortly afterwards, a sequence follows in which quick-motion images are cut hard behind each other and evoke another visual stereotype. A teeming ant trail is shown, which is then cut to a street full of cars and black people — a rather dubious anal- ogy in its statement, but one that is often used to represent life in metrop- olises such as Tokyo and New York or populous countries in documentary films. Similarly, the only quick-mo- tion sequence in Weit is also used to Fig. 8: Reiss aus, Wendt vlogging, 21:16 Fig. 8.1–3: Weit, contrasting noise and silence sequence, 54:30–55:45