Wow I didn’t realize something so innocent could lead to another so horrifyingly.

What is “Black Twitter”? If it is as it sounds then that is QUITE controversial.

Are you kidding me that’s ridiculous. You are in the dark because there is no hashtag...

What in the world would there be a need for a hashtag? Categorizing posts?

Hash symbol? I thought it was pound.

I tried to find a gif that is like "dun dun dunn" but it wont let me post it in the chat. I wanted to post a gif because it makes readers think like... well what's beneath the surface??

I honestly don't understand how in the world VSCO got popular. You cant see other peoples followers, who follows who, how many people have liked/ republished it, there are no comments. It is literally just the picture and a user, that's it. I would want to know how VSCO blew up because there is little to no interaction in that app.

"A lot more work" is really not a lot more work. You literally just click on something, you went on the app to read and click. I like this article but the wording is a bit much sometimes.

I feel like a lot of political/ high class people tweet a lot using the @ symbol. Its like they are calling out someone but not very hard because it is just on social media. Some people say that's the biggest way to throw at hit on someone but this just goes to show that almost everyone talks to people on social media like this. They wont directly talk to a person, but they will say @whoever and say what they want to say, publicly. The layout reminded me of this.

I would reply to that too. Whoever wears individually toed socks just screams that they love to be uncomfortable.

Did anyone else not know that there was such a thing called "Google Chat"?? News to me.

i think people do this because its faster them sending them the post or video at least i do anyways.

Me and my friends text like this all the time

Definition of “daddies”? Please feel free to explain what this is in class. 😉

That is absolutely insane this is so expensive I want to meet the people that pay this much and see what else they blow their money on.

Jesus that’s very forward. This site seems like it is specifically for hookups. Not so much an innocent dating platform. It’s like it’s looking for people only looking for sex and only sex.

Ew that is such weird wording I had a discussed look on my face when I read this sentence.

I don't think this is a bad thing at all. They are good at having a lot of stickiness to their site and that is their job. They made this app for work. The users shouldn't be upset at this because they are the ones choosing to stay on the app. An argument of "oh they convinced me to stay on the app their content was too good so I stayed and that isn't fair" is absolutely ridiculous. If the users stay on the app, the company is good at what they have produced.

Examples of this?? That's a lot to put on people and not explain what the posts are and why they bring out racist and hegemonically traits.

Can straight people not use these platforms? Are they saying that "queer for queer online spaces" are good or bad?

What is this?

What you be an example of a "straight" space?

Are they both gay? I am slightly confused

What is an SMI?

This word makes me cringe so hard. Whenever I think of someone hat is “instafamous” I just think of a person that is very attractive but is famous for literally doing nothing besides posting pictures of themselves.

I do this in my job all the time

Is this like when people see a celebrity, say Justin Bieber, start wearing crocs (just an example) around in public as a walking advertisement so other people then start wearing crocs because he did? His fans take on his habits to feel like they have something in common with him? And therefor the company who is sponsoring him gets more sales? Is that what this means as micro celebrity

I think it’s sad that so many brands sponsor bad habits and people who don’t encourage good things. Like in Tana Mongeau in her younger years of YouTube had a lot of sponsors when she was encouraging and talking highly of skipping school, doing drugs and underage drinking, etc. it’s surprising to see that brands will sponsor people like this but I guess it’s because their target audience watches that kind of person. I just always thought that was really strange

I never knew the exact reason why sponsors take away their sponsorship when something like this happens. It makes sense though because if a company is sponsoring someone and they do something bad, it would make the company look bad as well. So they defund the person who messed up to protect their own name.

I love learning about where words come from and what they mean and stuff like this. I’ve never thought about the word brand this way but it makes total sense.

I use this picture all the time when texting my friends and family. My parents have this rule that if we leave a light on we have to pay them a dollar, and whenever I get a text in my family group chat from my mom that says “who left this light on?” If it’s me I usually just send this picture back. Sometimes my mom thinks it’s so funny I don’t even have to pay the dollar

I have a severe hatred for this song. Now that I read the words I will have this song stuck in my head for days.

I also think that the simpler the video, the less there is going on the view were pays more attention and understands it better since there are less distractions.

I feel like a good example of this is the show the office

Are there political examples of this?

What does seeding mean?

I feel like this when I see those tik toks of people showing how small we really are. It takes say the USA and zooms out to show earth, then keeps zooming out to compare sizes and other planet and shows how small we really are.

I think of someone sent me more sad things then joking i would probably assume that they are really sad. Me and my friends usually share funny things with each other because we are usually in a joking and funny mood. I’m not surprised that people send jokes to each other more then any other category.

Love how the author gave us this little breakdown of why a meme is a meme and the parts of it. It will also be super helpful on the homework assignment we do!

This is very interesting I have never really thought about this before. Like you don’t just see a meme and think it’s funny people make a lot of different versions of memes and they get funnier because people just make jokes about the same thing in different ways. I always kind of have looked at memes as a single thing not a this one meme in a group of this kind of meme.

I’m slightly confused by this... do memes not HAVE to be funny? Just little bits of information?

This sent ace makes it a lot easier to understand what he means me “vehicles”

I am going to start calling memes this and when someone asks me “what are you talking about” I’m just going to go off about the history of memes

Are there examples of this?

Why does it mean when it says diffuse from person to person?

If this has been around for so long how do my parents have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about when I say the word meme then hahaha

That is really funny to me like it’s kinda awful that people would do this to someone visiting their site but it’s kinda funny. Because then nobody is going to want to go back on. Maybe they will stay on the site for a while but they aren’t on because they are looking at the content of the site, they are on it because they are trying to figure out how to leave. It’s very. Counterintuitive. Make a better product or website then people will want to willingly stay.

[this reminds me a LOT of tik tok for some reason, I know when I watch a funny tik tok I watch it a few times and it literally gets funnier each time I watch it. I think this means that paticular tik tok would have a lot of “stickyness” to it?

That’s a good example for a better understanding.

What is the difference between the two?

Was this the majority of computer use then?

I wonder who modifies these, what made them want to do it and what was there major in college?

That is very interesting I didn’t know that. I did a research project on Ford in high school so it’s always interesting to hear things I didn’t know about it.

What is the linguistic bias? What does that consist of?

Readers of what? If it’s talking about the readers of this article then it makes sense but if they are talking about users of the media then I don’t think most people would know the difference.

I don’t think there’s any right way to say this. It’s kind of like the potato potato tomato tomato kind of thing. This has clearly been a discussion for years in years and if there was a right way to say it then it would’ve been discovered by now. I think people just say it differently. I say it with a G and I think it’s strange if people say it with a j, but I wouldn’t necessarily think they are wrong. Same thing with the word caramel and pecan. People just say things differently

And essential part of a cultural conversation. It’s kinda sad lol. Gifs are so commonly used but cultural conservation seems like an extreme or maybe a strange reality to me.

It’s crazy how far we have come in updating technology

I have never heard of these words. Learning the history behind gifs is interesting. New vocab too!