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The Florida mass shooting is still a relevant topic across all social media platforms today. This tweet Hannah decided to post requires her followers to have detailed background knowledge on the tragic incident. Over 10 teens died in the school shooting, one of these teens was a young girl named Meadow. Alexandra, for some reason, decided to post a photo of Meadow’s father after finding out Meadow’s death and elaborated on the picture in the caption. The thread @/equalistic posted on instagram involved a stream of malicious comments that responded to this particular tweet. Liberals on twitter commented how his daughter deserved to die because he was wearing Trump shirt; many outrageous claims that were fueled by Trump hate demeaned Pollack by fallaciously linking his political views and his feelings towards the death of his daughter together. Hannah admonished the negative comments that targeted the grieving dad by giving a long explanation of how there’s a clear divide between political and emotional issues. Hannah wanted to post his because she wanted to express her thoughts on the situation and also jab at democrats.

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Today I had the chance to see Black Panther at the movies! Black Panther successfully met my expectations as a diverse and intriguing marvel movie that all the reviews raved it to be. After the movie was finished, I looked for funny references to the movie on tumblr with #blackpanther and this was the first post to show up. At the end of the movie, Black Panther quickly buys a whole block in America due to Wakanda’s enormous wealth. This joke refers to this scene in Black Panther, thus targeting tumblr users who have recently watched the movie. The owner of the account created this joke to share a connection with others who have watched the movie. Also, since Black Panther has just came out in theaters, the owner wanted to brag about being one of the few people to see the popular movie. Other tumblr users responded well to the joke since the post has over 100 notes.

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I first found out the tragic news in the morning through twitter. My feed still is filled with news about the shooting in Florida and condolences for the 17 lives lost because of the mass shooting. Because everyone else was posting #GunReformNow today, I was scrolling through the tweets with the hashtag and this particular user tweeted this hashtag. There are many people posting this hashtag, so the user was bandwagoning with the other tweeters on expressing  the idea of a gun reform to stop future mass shootings. @/mcspooky decided to screenshot a tweet relating the abortion and mass shooting issues to target Republicans since they’re in support of gun usage. The account was trying to express his/her feelings through another tweet while also gaining attention from other tweeters since this is a popular hashtag. I personally think it’s stupid to target the Republican lawmakers when referring to the mass shooting since the topic is irrelevant to abortion. The argument would be valid if the tweet used another subject to attack Republicans in general, but solely targeting Republican lawmakers won’t help solve the mass shooting problem.

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I was on Pinterest today and ran across this horribly photoshopped dress. Since the post had already caught my attention, I clicked on the link to the website and the dress apparently had only 22 dresses left in stock. I couldn’t stop laughing over the fact that someone bought the dress when the image is fake. How could someone fall for a clearly photoshopped dress and think it would turn out the exact same in person. The owner of the account clearly pinned this post to gain revenue off the dress from other followers on Pinterest. The fact that people actually bought the dress astounds me, but I’m more surprised that no one has yet to call out the owner of the account in the comment section of the pin.

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In order for someone to fully understand this tweet, they must be up to date with snapchat and the recent gossip that has been surrounding the media app. Recently snapchat has created an update that people across all social media platforms are currently complaining about. The statement made in this particular tweet is one of many negative comments that have been made about the recent snapchat update. From what I can tell from comments I hear about the update from the peers around me as well, I and everyone else agree snapchat is now an turning into an inconvenience to use since the layout is messy and makes the overall functionality of the app confusing. One of my followers on Twitter retweeted this particular tweet and the post instantly caught my eye since funny content usually comes from this account. @/flirtationship posted a relatable tweet over a controversial topic that could catch the attention of followers on Twitter looking through their feed. Not to mention, people have recently been complaining about the snapchat update, so the account owner was able to express his/her disaggreances with the update. 

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Like I’ve posted before on here, an account I often follow up on often is @/equalistic. Hannah, the owner of the account, has opinions on politics that are unlike the usual liberal views our generation typically displays on the media. Though Hannah usually posts triggering content that leads people to fight in the comment section, sometimes she surprisingly creates a few instagram posts that can relate to everyone else. I was scrolling through her account when I saw this satirical tweet calling out social media for turning any subject into a rant about President Trump. This post caught my attention simply since I pondered whether Hannah was going to rant or agree with the tweet. As shown above, Hannah strongly agrees with the message the tweet is trying to convey. I personally found her response funny since she’s really dramatic and elaborately responds to such a trivial topic. She wrote a theatrical paragraph that could’ve honestly been summarized in a sentence or two. Usually Hannah posts on instagram to share her opinions with others, but because of the contextual clues that i’ve gathered from her comment about the tweet, Hannah just wanted to rant about how everyone turns everything into a problem with Trump in this particular post. 

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On Pinterest, life hacks sometimes show up on my feed. I always enjoy learning something new from life hack posts and find them entertaining to read. When this post caught my eye in the morning, I screenshoted the hack and sent it to my friend who has a bruise on his neck that couldn’t be covered with makeup. Just as I shared this post to benefit someone else, the intentions of the user posting this pin was similar to mine. The owner of the Pinterest account, Nikolle, has a particular section in her account that’s called “Health “ and “Helpful tips”. She saved this life hack to these sections on her Pinterest to share this helpful tip with her followers. Nikolle also comments that the post links to 6 beauty hacks.

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Valentines is coming, and so are the lonely hashtags that come with the romantic holiday. Recently my friends on twitter have been posting amusing tweets with #WhyImSingle. I decided to click on the hashtag since there are usually hilarious, relatable comments that come with it. There were many tweets, but this was the first tweet to make me laugh. The user of this tweet tweeted a relatable story that went along with the hashtag to share the embarrassing experience with everyone else. It’s fun to post a tweet with a trending hashtag since it’s entertaining to participate in active tweets that post the similar embarrassing stories or relatable reasons of why they’re single. Usually tweeting with a popular hashtag results in positive comments on the tweet as well, which can be shown on the tweet above.

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The account posting this particular topic about Kian because he/she knew that the post would be clickbait for other potential followers that are scrolling through their feed. Kian Lawley used to be a well known youtuber, choosing to post a controversial topic about Kian was the account owner’s way to strategically exploit his fame for social media popularity. The last time I heard about Kian was in middle school, so to find out he recently got fired for saying a racist comment was a shock to me. A few comments on the post resemble my thoughts on the subject, I was surprised to find out from this post that Kian would put himself in this position since he showed such a caring image back in his youtube days. This post actually led me to do more research about the situation, showing just how controversial this news was for me and could've been to others that saw this on their timeline feed. 

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Yesterday, as the Super Bowl was playing out last night, Kylie Jenner decided to post a video called “To Our Daughter” on her social media and finally confirmed her pregnancy. Numerous media outlets have been speculating for months about Kylie Jenner being pregnant, so now that Kylie came out with the confirmation, many were astounded by the news and paid less focused to the  Super Bowl.  When I was going through Kylie Jenner hashtags to find funny memes, this was the first meme that was shown. The post got a lot of notes since the meme is relatable to others, including myself. Whenever I saw any mention of pregnancy news pertaining to her before, I was annoyed since i felt the topic was trivial and irrelevant. Yet when Kylie Jenner confirmed her pregnancy yesterday, I was surprisingly interested in about her baby and the content in “To Our Daughter”. The account probably posted the meme since it’s relatable and relevant to what others felt about the news. Also based on the amount of notes the meme received, the user did a sufficient job of using making funny content that gained her publicity.

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The post caught my attention because of the first picture of the thread. Since the first post said “Trigger warning: Weightloss”, I wanted to know what was so triggering about the post. I looked more into the thread and found healthy eating tips. I don’t feel that this topic should have been considered a trigger warning, if anything the thread would have been seen by others as helpful advice. Despite my opinions, I can see how the user of @/selfcarethreads might’ve not wanted to offend any followers and wanted to stay out of any possible controversy. For whatever @/selfcarethreads’s intentions were for posting the trigger warning will never be known, but the result of the trigger warning caused a ruckus in the comment section. As shown above, there were users siding with the account’s use of trigger warning while others deeming the warning as nonsense. The account unintentionally garnered publicity on this particular post with its use of the word “trigger warning” on a thread that wouldn’t have particularly caused any triggering. The account was being too cautious of others opinions.

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Today I was casually twitter-stalking my friends when I scrolled into this post. This post made me stop and reevaluate my life because I thought I was all stressed with my current college classes when one of my close friends is going through serious matters that make mine seem trivial. Since twitter has a word cap, James couldn’t even list all the copious problems he’s currently dealing with. With the way the tweet was typed and the fact that James added more threads to the post, James was trying to vent his feelings and worries through twitter. This could have also been an attention seeking move since he received reaffirming and positive comments. The way James tweet attracted my attention, caught the attention of his followers since the post automatically makes others feel sympathy towards his current situation.

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On instagram, I follow @/equalistic. Unlike the liberal mindsets our generation currently possesses, Hannah (the owner of the account) has what other people would call ‘controversial opinions’. The reason I follow Hannah is because she, unlike the social media nowadays, views all current events occurring in politics or the news with an analytical mindset. When I was scrolling down my feed, the SOTU hashtag caught my eye, so Hannah probably chose this specific tweet to gain the attention of her followers. The post shown is a tweet by Ron Paul and Hannah’s opinion towards the topic at hand. Hannah is agreeing with Ron Paul’s tweet, even saying the terminally ill should have the freedom of choice to kill off their bodies since freedom is what is given to every citizen in America. With this controversial statement, I’m sure she’s fully aware her words would gain a lot of attention -in a negative way. At the time when I made a screenshot of the post, the amount of comments almost exceeded the amount of likes. From what i’ve seen from her previous posts, she doesn’t care what others think about her opinions and freely expresses herself through the instagram platform. In turn, I believe she isn’t trying to start fights out of boredom, rather posting gives her an intrinsic reward since she is able to say what’s on her mind through a media outlet.

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Hi! My name is Kylee and this is going to be my first blog... ever. For the next two weeks I’m going to be posting daily about interesting posts, tweets, or whatever on social media that catches my eye and try to analyze the true intention being the post. Many social media users don’t realize the role rhetorical analysis plays when were simply posting, commenting, or reading a comment on different media outlets. I honestly haven’t fully grasped how rhetorical analysis and social media correlate, but by the end of these two weeks, I’m sure I will become an expert in analyzing how our generation uses social media outlets 🙂.