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It Is What It Is: A fake app hyped on Twitter turned into a fundraiser for racial justice causes

The Verge

An inside joke about a TikTok meme among a group of friends on Twitter grew into a minor social media mystery before morphing into a fundraiser for anti-racism causes. On Thursday, the eye-mouth-eye emoji meme started appearing in people’s Twitter handles and almost immediately, the buzz started about what it all meant, Gizmodo reported.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

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Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. You can also send fun cards using Felt.

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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. There is a Reddit forum for this , r/WallStreetBets, which describes itself as being “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal.” If risk is your idea of fun, options are great!

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The GameStop stock roller coaster has come to the dip

The Verge

The idea of buying at $4 a share and selling for $400 obviously captured the public’s imagination , and millions rushed to give trading a try as the GameStop meme went mainstream — taking AMC and others along for the ride as investors realized they could pump those stocks too. If this was a roller coaster track, it’d be a lot of fun.

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Robinhood goes to Congress

TechCrunch

And that Reddit’s CEO has a nice suit. That said, there were some good memes and jokes, so, let’s have some fun instead of being annoyed with our elected representatives: "Did you buy GameStock because you were not aware of payment for order flow" is an incredible series of words to put one after the other.

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Robinhood’s in better shape than it looks

The Verge

Perhaps you recall last month, when GameStop stock shot up by as much as 500 percent, hitting a peak of $483 on January 28th, thanks largely to memes and a shitposting finance subreddit. This will be fun political theater, but it’s unlikely to have any kind of serious outcome. There is a paper already.)

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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Memejacking is simply a type of newsjacking that connects your communications to a meme — that is, a pop culture trend. Even though memejacking seems like little more than frivolous fun, it works.

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