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BLM Movement
The Black Lives Matter movement, though it officially began in July of 2013, began gaining real momentum in 2019 when facebook groups and hashtags really drew attention to it. In response partly to concurrent and continuing police brutality, the Black Lives Matter Movement seeks to draw the public's attention to racism against black people. -
Storming Area 51
A facebook event garnered over 1.5 million people interested in storming Area 51. The theoretical plan was for people to "Naruto run" into Area 51, and to, "See what they're hiding," or to "Save the aliens." after governmental interference, only 150 people ended up actually going to area 51, and 1500 went to parties and festivals in the cities round about. -
TikTok users troll Tulsa, Oklahoma Trump rally
On Saturday, June 20th, 2020, Donald Trump thought that he was going to a rally where a million people signed up, interested in participating. What he found though, was that hundreds of thousands of trolls on TikTok signed up to attend his free event with no intent on going. They did this in order to prevent as large of a gathering from happening while Covid-19 concerns were strongest. 6,200 people attended the event. -
Capitol Breach
On January 6th, 2021, supporters of Donald Trump who believed that the election results were falsified against him infiltrated the Capitol building. Facebook groups and Twitter threads alike perpetuated the idea that Trump's second term was stolen from him, and that he should either be avenged, or that there must be a coup d'état. Certain individuals stormed the building in an attempt to sway the congresspeople in their deliberation over the finalization of the presidential vote. -
Meme Stocks
In the beginning of 2021, stocks for GameStop skyrocketed. People on Reddit promulgated the artificial inflation of GameStop numbers in order to upset the status quo of certain hedge funds. These stocks, or "stonks," as the movement started to call them, were bought and sold making quite a few trolls loads of money.
