Rural Juror

[Rural Juror @MaxBenson5]

Checking in!

[E @prosciutthoe]

How it felt stanning Charli in 2013

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[Chris Oldman @AlsikkanTV]

what the hell is she doing down there

[Rural Juror @MaxBenson5]

@ChrisJPatty @KyleTreasure We were all thinking it 👀

[DiscussingFish @DiscussingFish]

Grogu has found dead at the age of 53.

(Source: @TMZ)

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Rural Juror @MaxBenson5]

Pure evil

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Smoothie King and Grillo’s Pickles have partnered to release a limited-edition Pickle Smoothie.

[Rural Juror @MaxBenson5]

Going to the gym between 5-6pm

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

"I am in the business of writing long and complicated stories full of nuance. Yet I am at the mercy of platforms that want to turn my words into cortisol and endorphins, often for people who will never click the link to read what I wrote. Regardless of my intentions, my work can fuel the false division I despise."

@michaelscherer captures a core frustration of the modern journalist: https://t.co/gDbgSG01Tp

[Evan DeSimone @MediaEvan]

Almost all of these news influencers build their brand by commenting on reporting done by real journalists at legacy outlets.

[Dan LeFevre @dan_lefev]

Davis County, Salt Lake County, Utah County

[Rural Juror @MaxBenson5]

Wild to watch Mormons be culturally defined by soda and caffeine, knowing most members didn’t think they could really have it until 2017 lol

[adam patla @apat10]

Me at my next screening of Mother Mary

[⚚Sage @belikesagee]

twitter is cigarette for the eyes

[Rural Juror @MaxBenson5]

How it feels making plans for your own birthday

[Rural Juror @MaxBenson5]

@KyleTreasure Needed this!

[Kristen @Kica333]

Sorry I’m late. I was trying to open one of those plastic bags in the produce section at the grocery store.

[Phillip @MajorPhilebrity]

Lisa Kudrow is remarkable because her best The Comeback moments are her just like casually saying “your knee is bleeding”