Anatomy of a Social Media Foofooraw

[TygrBright]

And DON'T say you've never seen this happen.

This is EXACTLY how it happens...

OMG... exactly...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/twitterstorm-2018

1. Somebody, somewhere, does something bad...



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8. People start sending angry messages to the wrong Twitter account.



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14. Then suddenly there are Nazis everywhere.



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16. For unclear reasons, somebody doxxes the person who got mistaken for the people who did the bad thing.



....oh, just go enjoy the whole thing.

Tonight's meta-meta in a lovely Buzzfeed nutshell.

weakly,
Bright

[PoliticAverse]

1. The Internet - where things didn't turn out quite like most of the social theorists predicted. n/t