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Social Media... The Spread of Cool

Social media is the biggest way that trends are spread. Trends can travel the space of the world in only a matter of seconds. A popular account may post something, and minutes later, almost everyone has seen it. This quick spread has not only spread trends, but has made people popular. The biggest and most recent example is Mason Ramsden aka “the yodeling walmart boy.” It started with someone  video taping him. This video quickly went viral, and could be found on every social media platform. The next day, there were two remixes made of the short song he toddled in the walmart. People staged videos in which they went to their local walmart and danced to the remixes. Due to gained popularity on social media, and everyone talking about him outside of the screens, the kid went on to perform at Coachella. This kid became huge due to the quick spread of social media. A few weeks following his performance at Coachella, he real races a song that he wrote, and could be seen talking to celebrities such as Millie Bobby Brown, and Justin Bieber.  Because of social media dictating what is cool, Mason was found doing what no other 10 year old kid could likely dream of doing. Due to social media, he became a living trend. Social media defined what it was to be cool.


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  1. UnknownMay 23, 2018 at 6:56 PM

    I definitly see everything you are saying about how trends are spread quickly, and make a huge impact on the world of social media. However, I do wonder how this ability of simple things to quickly become famous affects all of us in the social media world.

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