I'd like to stop your speg session right here and call bullshit. There is no way you had any idea that they were pushing 'its okay to be different'. It was a fucking cartoon. You turned it on, watched it and went about your day after that.
Fire up Netflix and log into a kids account. Every cartoon is with different colored people/monsters/cats/dogs/whatever. That idea is still being pushed in kids cartoons.
X-men TAS was the Harry Potter of the 90s, kids who watched it were markedly more accepting of 'different' people, and it wasn't subtle at all. It was just smart enough to never directly draw a line from mutants to 'oppressed minority of the day'. It let the kids do that for themselves. Kids cartoons definitely still got super preachy, but it never went much deeper than racism and environmentalism. I know, because I always got annoyed by how children show casts were 'rainbow' every time.
#OBAMAGATE, boasting over 2 million tweets has suddenly been removed from trending, and replaced with
#ObamGate.
Just the algorithm at work, nothing to see here, clearly not artificially manipulated.
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#Obamagate has been removed from my Twitter trending page entirely. I remember
@Allanon having something of an explanation for this kind of thing, where multi-million tweet trends suddenly disappear.
Late, but this is totally normal for Twitter. Everything to do with #obamagate was, actually.
1 - #obamagate started trending organically, and then it turned into a lot of the same people or groups of people talking about it, so it no longer qualified as 'trending' - to Twitter, 'trending' doesnt' = 'lots of people are talking about it' but 'lots of people are spontaneously talking about something new', very similar to youtube trending (it keeps really common phrases and stuff from trending, and ALLEGEDLY slows down trendbots)
2 - #obamgate trends instead because, while it has way less tweets, a bunch of people typo the trend, and Twitter recognizes it as a unique trend. People who force things to trend know this is how twitter works, and that's why you see lots of lame political crap with typos in them, so they can take up multiple trending spots and force it to continue to trend when it would normally fall off. (this is why the fake LGBT trend is different every sunday, too)
3 - When Trump tweeted out highlighting this, a whole lot of people who didn't pay attention to the trend in the past or bother tweeting it suddenly started tweeting (because way more people pay attention to the POTUS than the trends), causing the trend to jump up again and stay up for a long time as a lot of new people kept talking about it
4 - As it expanded, people started dropping the #, either because they were talking about it casually or because they were trying to avoid it trending, but Twitter also looks at phrases, not just hashtags. Thus, it shifted the trend to include both the mentions of obamagate with and without the #, that's what the "obamagate" trend means - it's how you search for something that's not a # in tweets
5 - they definitely kept trying to sabotage and manipulate it by tying it in with hit pieces, but obviously that just got more people to tweet about it, making it trend longer. Likely it's too much of a pain to tinker with their algorythm to 'disappear' trends, so they try to undermine them by hooking them up to things like the news pieces and stuff. Youtube does that kind of thing, too.
6 - Eventually, even though people are still talking about Obamagate,
new people aren't talking about it in an appreciable amount, so the trend drops off. Some other stuff is 'new' to Twitter, and they trend instead.
If you want Obamagate to trend again, just change it to #Obamaswatergate or something, and then get a bunch of people currently in #obamagate to tweet using exclusively #obamaswatergate instead. No other hashtags, no repeating of the hashtag. Basic and simple. It's how they trend 500 million TDS trends every day.
