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University of Arkansas: Socially Unacceptable Brand Mentions on Social Media Cause Disengagement

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University of Arkansas: Socially Unacceptable Brand Mentions on Social Media Cause Disengagement. “The researchers found that for highly connected consumers, socially unacceptable brand mentions on social media constituted a threat to their social identity. This threat in turn led to vicarious shame, motivating disengagement from the brand, a separation that can undermine the economic benefits of self-brand connection.”

Kevin James meme explained: why are people sharing ‘King Of Queens’ photo? (NME)

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NME: Kevin James meme explained: why are people sharing ‘King Of Queens’ photo?. “Social media users might have noticed an old photo of Kevin James doing the rounds on social media this week in the form of various memes. The photo shows the US actor pulling a sheepish smirk while shrugging his shoulders, which has been memed with various captions such as ‘when u accidentally like a selfie from 34 weeks ago’ and ‘Hey aren’t you that guy from that meme’.”

Reuters: With TikToks, memes and Musk comments, Argentina election battle goes viral

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Reuters: With TikToks, memes and Musk comments, Argentina election battle goes viral. “In a high-rise office in downtown Buenos Aires, a loose band of twenty-something influencers gather to plan how to propel Javier Milei to the Argentine presidency with TikTok videos, memes – and some help from Elon Musk.”

Mental Floss: 11 Social Media Platforms You Probably Forgot Existed (And Why They Failed)

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Mental Floss: 11 Social Media Platforms You Probably Forgot Existed (And Why They Failed). “For every Facebook and TikTok, there’s a Friendster and a Vine. We all probably joined some (if not all) of these websites and witnessed their meteoric rise and respective falls from grace. So why did some succeed while other once-popular social media platforms failed? Here are 11 now-defunct networks that you might have forgotten about, plus why they failed to gain traction with users.”

New York Times: Being 13🔥👍❤️

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New York Times: Being 13🔥👍❤️. “As eighth grade began, Anna was worried that she wasn’t very popular because her parents wouldn’t let her on Snapchat. London had a tough couple of days; she had been sent to the principal’s office for lashing out at a girl who had been mean to her by sending a text impersonating a boy that girl liked. And when Addi’s school had a lockdown later in the year, she spent the evening decompressing with her sister, reenacting a TikTok sketch — her mind far from the flashing police lights that had reflected in the windows.”

Hell Gate: The TikTok NPC Streamers of SoHo

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Hell Gate: The TikTok NPC Streamers of SoHo . “People attuned to the summer’s internet fads would have known what the brothers were doing—the Flints are NPC streamers, a genre in which a content creator will mimic a non-player character in a video game. During their livestreams, these content creators idle like a background villager in an Elder Scrolls town would, until a viewer interacts with them by throwing them a virtual token via TikTok’s reward system, in which case they’ll perform a line of dialogue and one of the animations they’ve come up with for their character.”

Engadget: Billboard’s latest top 50 chart pulls the biggest tracks from TikTok

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Engadget: Billboard’s latest top 50 chart pulls the biggest tracks from TikTok. “TikTok and Billboard are collaborating on a pop music chart. TikTok Billboard Top 50 Chart is a new weekly roundup listing the most popular songs on the social platform in the US. The list debuts with the track ‘SkeeYee’ by Sexyy Red taking the inaugural top spot.”

The Verge: Google’s emoji mashup maker is now available in Search

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The Verge: Google’s emoji mashup maker is now available in Search. “You can now create your own emoji combinations directly in Google Search. The company has launched its Emoji Kitchen feature on the web (via 9to5Google), which lets you mash up existing emoji to create different combinations, like an angry pumpkin or a panda wearing a cowboy hat.”

New York Times: The Fine Art of Naming a Group Chat

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New York Times: The Fine Art of Naming a Group Chat. “Mr. McLaughlin, 20, is part of so many group chats that each one has to have a name. There is a family chat (‘Wally World’), multiple friend chats (‘‘The’ group chat™’ and ‘The 4.5 horseman of the apocalypse’) and class chats (Clash, short for Clash of Clans, a game played during Critical Reading and Writing). ‘I would never have a group chat with no name and just numbers,’ he said. ‘How would you differentiate them?’ He added, ‘Leaving it blank would be like not naming a baby.'”

Vulture: The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes

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Vulture: The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes. “The Ophelia affair is a useful microcosm for understanding how Rotten Tomatoes, which turned 25 in August, has come to function. The site was conceived in the early days of the web as a Hot or Not for movies. Now, it can make or break them — with implications for how films are perceived, released, marketed, and possibly even green-lit. The Tomatometer may be the most important metric in entertainment, yet it’s also erratic, reductive, and easily hacked.”

The Verge: New YouTube face just dropped

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The Verge: New YouTube face just dropped. “The faces on YouTube thumbnails might start to look a bit different. A lot of thumbnails feature a person with an open mouth in shock, awe, excitement, or horror because of a belief that the open-mouth face entices people to click on a video. But MrBeast, the individual with the most subscribers on YouTube, said Wednesday that he’s starting to see longer watch times on videos where his thumbnail face has a closed mouth instead of an open one.” Decades from now, students are going to write their doctoral thesis on YouTube Face.

Crowdsourcing contests: Understanding what brings high rewards, low risk (Iowa State University)

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Iowa State University: Crowdsourcing contests: Understanding what brings high rewards, low risk. “[Professor Hui (Sophia)] Feng studies how certain marketing strategies affect a company’s financial outcomes, including stock prices. In a newly published study, Feng and her co-authors show that crowdsourcing contests are associated with high returns — but also high risks. The team suggests ways companies can strike the right balance and put investors at ease.”

Tuscon Sentinel: Tucson’s Molly Holzschlag, known as ‘the fairy godmother of the web,’ dead at 60

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Tuscon Sentinel: Tucson’s Molly Holzschlag, known as ‘the fairy godmother of the web,’ dead at 60. “Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed ‘the fairy godmother of the web,’ has died at age 60. Holzschlag, a longtime Tucson resident, dealt with a series of illnesses over the past decade, including being diagnosed with aplastic anemia. She was found dead Tuesday at her home, family said.”

CBC: That feeling when your grandma becomes a social media star

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CBC: That feeling when your grandma becomes a social media star. “In one of her recent posts, Joan MacDonald twirls on a beach and smiles radiantly into the camera. In another, the 77-year-old exhales heavily as she squats under a weighted bar in a gym. Among the so-called ‘granfluencers’ on social media, the Cobourg, Ont., native is something of a heavy weight who says she’s still getting used to flexing her social media muscles and notes that ‘not in 1,000 years’ did she see herself becoming an influencer in her 70s.”

Rolling Stone: Dionne Warwick Wants a Word With ‘Young Man’ Elon Musk About Changes to X

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Rolling Stone: Dionne Warwick Wants a Word With ‘Young Man’ Elon Musk About Changes to X. “DIONNE WARWICK IS not totally impressed with Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now known as X. Earlier this week, People asked the singer what she thought of Musk’s plan to remove the social media platform’s blocking feature. ‘I have yet to speak to that young man and I intend to because I am not quite sure what he’s doing or if he knows what he’s doing,’ Warwick replied. ‘So until that happens, I’ll reserve my answer to that question.'”