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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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Does web3 need a venture bailout now that AI has all the hype?

TechCrunch

People are already memeing that venture capitalists have pivoted from crypto to AI, hunting, as they’re wont to, for the next big thing. Well, the data indicates that web3 companies’ ability to raise private capital has flatlined to a fraction of its former pace (perhaps by as much as 80% in Q1 2023 if trends hold).

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Friend.tech hype grows, Tornado Cash founders go for a spin and FBI’s monitoring North Korean hackers

TechCrunch

Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. But that’s ok, we dove deep into the hype and looked at what skeptics are worried about for the new application. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is free” meme. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 32% of online donors gave through Facebook Charitable Giving Tools in 2020. either way, Facebook organic reach is estimated to be an abysmal 2%.

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A Gen Z VC speaks up: Why Gen Z VCs are trash

TechCrunch

Let’s define some additional characteristics: Generally speaking, Gen Z is digital-native, meme-informed and progressive. In turn, these have become the “hyped industries.” The evidence is simple: Gen Z isn’t a real investment trend. I certainly qualify as one. ” Web3 received $27 billion last year alone.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

And what does this trend mean for nonprofits? And if you look at their website right now, you will find that some of their headlines are simpler and not the hyped up "and you won''t believe what happened next.". However, memes and videos should not be your only source of content. These numbers are still quite respectable.

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Charlie bit us all, if you really think about it

The Verge

It’s hard to describe the absolute chaos around NFTs (non-fungible tokens) right now; tech reporters’ inboxes are flooded with the latest and stupidest additions to this trend of digital certificates for memes and other pieces of digital memorabilia. Charlie, good going, my young friend. In the end, you bit us all.

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