Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

As a member of Generation Z (Gen Z), or today’s 11- to 26-year-olds, I have been curious about the advice given to nonprofits on capturing younger audiences’ attention. But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. released its Compass platform, which lets individual users reality check or get greater context around suspicious claims made in social media posts, videos, links, or memes. In 2024 Blackbird.AI

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 There is more than a little of the mania that fueled this winter’s meme stock enthusiasm to be found on the crypto Discords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

This year’s Give Miami Day saw increased efforts on social media across funding categories, but the standout for Miami Foundation Communications Director Matthew Beatty came from Miami’s local arts and culture organizations. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

It’s a subjective and culturally influenced unconscious and involuntary response. Colors, when used in pleasing combinations, can attract attention and also make other elements easier or more difficult to comprehend – whether text, objects or images. Cultural nuances abound. Words : Language is tricky.

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TechNode

JANUARY 14, 2025

While TikTok users flocking to Xiaohongshu might seem like a coincidence, it could also be a sign that the apps community atmosphere and culture have already captured the attention of users beyond China. Why not Douyin? But it strikes me as the kind of thing that people sometimes remember, said Wihbey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Notice that the organization’s Facebook administrator hangs out in the comments and makes an effort to respond to each comment by liking or replying. Also, by hanging out a few extra minutes after you post to engage with your alumni network on Facebook sets up a culture of interaction. Make up your own nostalgia meme.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Messages that only get a “read” or a “reaction” feel like unacknowledged bids for attention. You’re typically sharing or saying something because you want to connect with a person over something you sent, whether it’s a link to a story, a meme, or a “what’s up.”. “A A reaction is equivalent to a head nod in response.”. Totally valid!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

I’m at home, staring at the future face of the metaverse and trying valiantly not to think about memes from a TV show known for its exploration of ethics and humanity. Fortnite ’s in-game purchases, for instance, reflect a very specific vision of a functioning metaverse economy that relies on cosmetic skins and topical pop culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I learned years ago that technology doesn't drive change as much as our cultural response to technology does." " He talks about the cultural shift from information scarcity to abundance. Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion. Raw links to the document.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Meme-based dating is here: Meet Schmooze. We’ve got big plans with a clear mission, to change a culture of how people date. Given the accelerated usage timeframe and the vanishing messages Thursday clearly needs to pay careful attention to user security. So what’s Thursday’s twist in a highly competitive space?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

And of course there are memes and TikTok videos. When Buwanka posted an IGTV video about cannabis and why it should be legalized in Sri Lanka about eight months ago, it caught attention. Because our society expects girls to be cultural, people think that cannabis is only for boys and girls can’t use it,” said Sanjana.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 2, 2023

In this case, he focused his attention on quick, tangible wins like partnering with marketing to improve campaign performance. Reach out to Barr on LinkedIn to air your frustrations, send data memes, or share your experiences navigating this crisis. The requirements at Drata were different. So, what road will you choose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Some more post conference write ups and live blog posts from smArts & Culture and Len Edgerly. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

It was a social, cultural stigma to doing it. So the first wave is more and more people joining, [and] the social, cultural, stigmas falling. I think social cultural cues matter a lot more. Joe Exotic is a much more meaningful cultural cue than where you went to coffee. It wasn’t a new idea from a technical perspective.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2022

She didn’t know much about Ukraine before the war began — a cultural blindspot she now deeply regrets. In fact, the tones range wildly, from purely informative to entirely meme-like. But being an average Ukrainian documenting the conflict has proven to be an effective way of reaching people around the world and holding their attention.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. Changes come through people and culture and not through technology. They work like memes, the speed people react and join in. Our attention span is ever shorter, time is relative. Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

But right-wing supporters have a wildly different view of events: figures like Tucker Carlson have portrayed the convoy as a working-class rebellion, and Trudeau’s response has been treated as enacting martial law, leading Elon Musk to tweet (and then delete) a meme comparing Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. Again, they’re not on the same page.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

At first, BuzzFeed focused mostly on quizzes and memes, but in December 2011, Peretti hired Ben Smith from Politico to build out a news division. Other media companies scrambled to catch up with how BuzzFeed was reinventing the culture of a newsroom. People shared news, too, after all — and sharing was the point.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

And, through analytics and a culture of testing, some of the best advocacy and activist organizations are transforming how they listen to their supporters online. A Twitter trending hashtag or viral video can put a topic on the media agenda, creating a spiral of attention that spreads your message far beyond its traditional audience.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But while Democrats are now calling for his expulsion from Congress and his accounts to be banned, the incident has drawn new attention to Gosar’s long association with far-right meme culture. The left don’t get meme culture. The video — captioned “Any anime fans out there?” They have no joy. It’s a cartoon.”.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Co-directors Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe infuse Katie's excitable perspective throughout the film by working in internet memes , social media-style reactions, and blitz of bonkers visuals. It’s a bold move that might alienate some viewers but has largely won the acclaim of critics and kiddos. * — K.P.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

He preluded that with the launch of a new $TRUMP meme coin, likely making millions in the process. It took a few years for people to start paying attention: In May 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz famously spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas; had he kept the bitcoins, they would be worth billions now. How are meme coins impacting Bitcoin?

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s a convenient way to get your memes, world news, and pop culture hot takes all in one place. But where will I get my news and memes now? There are certainly some toxic places on Reddit, but unlike Twitter, you’re not forced to pay attention to them. There’s no questioning the benefits of Twitter. Congratulations!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

Charity Jacking goes one step beyond “Social Media Meme Morphing.” ” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. Phase 1: Personal Challenges with Cold Water to Raise Money.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In part because it feels like doomscrolling — a constant in our lives thanks to COVID — but also because it felt so tied to the passive nature of people seeing some meme on a social feed and just believing it without any validation. I particularly love his attention to hands, which plays on the “idle hands” cliche.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For some time, meme coins have occupied a peculiar space in online culture. Beneath the fun, there are systemic issues that demand attention. Streamer MistaFuccYou died by suicide on an X livestream after allegedly losing his last $500 to a meme coin scam. warn that meme coin investors risk losing everything.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

The internet spun Duos passive-aggressive personality into a meme (including one much-circulated image of him holding a gun). Image: courtesy Duolingo] Move fast and break Duo In early January, the Duolingo product team began exploring ideas for an app icon change, looking for something next-level that would grab users attention.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Amid a flurry of interest lately in Apple’s anticompetitive behavior from regulators here and in the European Union, Apple’s obstinance in the Hey case drew outsized attention. The destruction of our cultural heritage is a tragedy but also I can’t stop laughing! But more than 1.5 Now, some are optimistic that real change could come.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Most of the attention has focused on the Facebook-related aspects of the boycott, so let’s start there: What exactly do the advertisers want? But while the attack has become a kind of resistance meme, it’s unclear whether the hoax actually worked. Adi Robertson / The Verge ). Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

While there has been plenty of cathartic venting and activist organizing around Schumer on Bluesky, many of the sites users have also been channeling their fury into savage memes. Some pop culture-themed digs at Schumer place him alternately in the worlds of Die Hard , Star Wars , and Liam Neesons avenging dad series, Taken. [if

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 23, 2025

Thank you for your attention to this matter ! Hes deployed the idiom so much, in fact, and in such unusual contexts, its now found a second life as a viral meme and multipurpose catchphrase. Hes deployed the idiom so much, in fact, and in such unusual contexts, its now found a second life as a viral meme and multipurpose catchphrase.

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