INFLUENCE I started the semester with 311 followers on my Twitter account I’ve had for a few years. Now, at the end of the semester, I have 386 followers, which is a 24% increase. Most of the followers I started off with were a lot of people I know from home and from here, but […]
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Ok. Boomers Don’t Like #OkBoomer
The opposing views in these tweets are obvious. #OkBoomer has become pretty divisive. Though it’s a meme and has become viral online, it is also used as an actual insult and depends on the connotation and conversation. The differing views on #OkBoomer are especially interesting given the generational context of it. This one is just […]
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BACKGROUND You don’t need prior knowledge or context to understand this tweet, but there is sort of a meme frame of younger people’s parents dressing up as them in a joking way or recreating their social media posts, so this meme kind of plays off of that. View this post on Instagram 1,000th POST! Hope […]
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There are a bunch of classic Texas foods that some people have never heard of. Watch to learn about puffy tacos, mangonadas, kolaches, and breakfast tacos. Next time you’re in Texas, you’ll know just what foods to try!
Read more "Have you heard of these Texas foods?"Everyone loves a good internet hoax. And that’s a problem.
Everyone loves a good internet hoax. If I hadn’t forwarded that email chain when I was nine, I would still be having my 30 years of bad luck. But why do people create these hoaxes? There’s no general answer, as people have different motives, but in general, Dr. Mark Griffiths says there’s five main reasons: […]
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