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Fitness influencers morning routine goes viral for all the wrong reasons

Mashable Tech

Over the weekend, the internet was captivated (read: deeply confused) by a resurfaced video from fitness influencer Ashton Hall, whose morning routine might be the most unhinged one to grace our feeds. Social media has been lit up with memes, stitches, and general bewilderment. This Tweet is currently unavailable. The reactions?

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? Many more groups joined in on the fun, recording videos and posting to YouTube. Why meme at all? It’s fun, for one.

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AMC is giving free popcorn away to meme stonk investors

The Verge

Look, when the internet learns a new trick — like it did in January, with GameStop — it’s a pretty safe bet that people will play the trick again. AMC, though, they’ve elected to really embrace the whole meme thing. I’m hoping there are more announcements where they get meme-ier. Meme enthusiasm essentially saved the company.

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Google and Nickelback really want you to look at your photographs

The Verge

In the ad, Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger mercilessly makes fun of himself, fully leaning into the “Photograph” meme and its usefulness in explaining all sorts of graphs and in illustrating framed copies of other memes , as Kroeger instructs viewers to “look at them” in his unmistakable, raspy voice.

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. 5) Whacky, Goofy, and Fun: “Stunt Philanthropy” has been around for years. It goes beyond what is known as “ newsjacking ,” to analyze public reaction and also have the agility to strike while the iron is hot. (2)

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YouTube removes PewDiePie diss track for violating cyberbullying, child safety rules

The Verge

In the video, Kjellberg attacks Cocomelon’s content and pokes fun at kids who watch the videos. Kjellberg disavowed the “subscribe to PewDiePie” meme after the phrase was used by the gunman who murdered more than 50 people in the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand.

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How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop

The Verge

The Reddit meme that bludgeoned a hedge fund There are three things to remember as you watch the chaos unfolding with GameStop’s stock price. Second, the internet is real life. These days, you can just buy video games over the internet instead of going to a soul-killing strip mall in Iowa City to buy a physical copy of the game.

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