Stephen Colbert vs. the Hashtag Activists
Stephen Colbert vs. the Hashtag Activists:
The weaponized hashtag also takes power from the people who are trying to mock it—Twitter doesn’t discriminate between earnestness and parody. People making fun of the humorlessness and bad faith of the hashtag end up keeping it in the “trending” column.
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