Oh my god, I just got sent back to middle school. I used to use these to find people in the same fandoms as me.

This is interesting because hashtags are used for almost every "live-tweeting" event such as television show premieres or even sports games like the SuperBowl. Twitter even makes specific hashtags with icons on them for the bigger events (such as award shows) to encourage people to contribute.

I had no idea that this existed until this article. It's a service just to bookmark web pages...?

I remember before Facebook and Instagram had adopted the hashtags, my friends and I used to all criticize each other for accidentally using a hashtag on them instead of on Twitter because they didn't link to anything.

I feel like Sonya would be mortified by "stan twitter".

I never really thought of how low a level of privacy there is on twitter between two public accounts talking on the timeline

I've looked back on my archive for twitter before (I've had an account since 2012-ish) and I definitely noticed a shift in the amount of pictures and video content that I posted once I got my first smartphone compared to when I used it strictly through texting on my Pantech or my laptop.

Isn't this because "@" was just used as a shortened text language term for the word "at" at the time?

I remember being able to log into your twitter account via text if you didn't have access to internet through your phone. You always had to start the text with a specific SMS command code that would connect to the platform and send it to "40404". I actually still have the contact in my phone from when I didn't have a cell phone with internet.

Yeaaaah, I'm not agreeing with this one. This seems like a bit of stretch for comparison. I don't know of anyone who thinks into dating apps that far.

I wonder if local businesses have ever paired and worked with dating services like Grindr to become one of the top spots for safe meet ups between users.

Why did I not know that this word existed?

Definition: "of or consisting of a dyad; being a group of two."

(Source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dyadic)

This is absolutely mind-blowing to me. I've become so accustomed and isolated in how much more relaxed the US is than other countries with LGBTQ+ and didn't even consider how other countries who aren't as accepting would take advantage of platforms like Grindr

I find it off that the average people had "fan bases" due to their stories. I never really expected people to create fan bases around people like them. I always thought people just stay updated with their stories rather than devoting their time to a "fan base".

Isn't this a regular practice that people do just in everyday life? Such as acting different with friends compared to coworkers.

Not too sure I agree with this statement considering the amount of effort it takes to be able to be noticed in self-branding when you're just an ordinary person.

Turns out this isn't a made up word.

Definition: a small quantity of a particular thing, especially something considered desirable or valuable (Oxford Languages)

I've always wondered why people gravitate towards products that celebrities use. My first thought has always been that I wouldn't be able to afford the specific brands that they were endorsing.

I thought I read somewhere that the lyrics translated to a love song?

This feels like the most important attribution to Vine's success. The majority of the videos didn't take a lot of context or thinking in order to understand them. They were also only 6 seconds long so it didn't have to hold someone's attention for too long.

I feel that this is especially popular in the memes that circulate through the media in current day. I don't really see a lot of memes come from content that was intended to be humorous.

Doesn't this fall under being a logical fallacy?

I was immediately reminded of all the memes from the capitol storming

Do remakes/tributes also count as parodies?

This sentence really intrigued me because it's such a big topic with current day memes whether something was staged just for the meme or came from genuine reactions/behaviors.

I had this same question in my head when I was reading the previous chapters for the last reading

Should the longevity refer to how long the image is available to be seen or how long it remains popular and relevant? Most memes tend to be relevant for about a week or two before a new one comes along and the previous one becomes a thing of the past.

We sure have strayed far from the original meaning of the word...

My friends and I have noted this several times and came to the conclusion that we use memes as comic relief to deal with everyday life (especially during the pandemic)

Interesting that all of these fall under "memes". I've never really considered "meme" to be an umbrella term for all of the content and have always closely related it to the cliche set up of a picture with a caption on it.

I've been curious on how ratings are counted for things like this. I've wondered this especially in the music industry for streaming counts of songs since there's hundreds of youtube videos for one song and the song could also be used in other edited videos all over youtube. I've wondered this since I work in music promotion through an artist and have seen millions of different lyric videos for one song.

I think this is interesting because I know I have personally gone from one version of a video to another of the same content to look for either a different quality level or to be able to see comments from other users to hear their opinions and see if they noticed the same things that I did.

I thought this was due to coding issues. I had no idea that websites do this intentionally. I'm too impressed to even be mad.

This reminds me of a paper that I wrote about Celebrity Worship Syndrome. I'd be interest into looking further into the psychology of fandoms and how they come about.

This immediately reminded me of the lessons I learned in high school yearbook class and journalism classes about photography and how digital photographs are broken down into DPI (dots per inch)

This is really interesting considering the amount of graphs that are used within every photo editing program

Is this why there's a mobile and desktop version of some websites?

I thought this was interesting since Google Images has a function to allow you to search by image in order to find the same image in different qualities.

It's kind of crazy to see how this all started since I used Tumblr a lot when I was younger and saw that you could specifically filter out posts that had GIFs on them. It seemed to be a part of the culture of Tumblr, in a way. Especially for "fandom" pages.

I wonder at what point websites that are strictly GIFs starting popping up such as Giphy.

I wonder how the internet got ahold of this and just switched it to what they wanted it to be pronounced like

Don't have too much knowledge on this one