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ASL IceBucket Challenge
The ice bucket challenge went viral over youtube, facebook, instagram and any other video site back in 2014. People would dump buckets of ice on themselves to raise monet and not only did it work but people loved it. -
Bring Back Our Girls
In 2014 the hashtag Brign Back Our girls went viral over the abduction of 246 school girls in Nigeria. The world became outraged and in less then three weeks the hashtag had been used across all social media sites over 1 million times. -
#WomensMarch
The womens march in 2017 was one of the first and definitely made the biggest splash in the #womensmarch campaing as the hashtag went viral across facebook and twitter -
#METOO Movement
The movement started originally with a tweet from actress Alyssa Milano and went viral from there as the Harvey Weistein case took off. Th ehashtag went viral across twitter, facebook, and instagram and was used to create a sensze of support in those strugglin with what had happened to them. It also raised awareness to the seriousness of the problem -
Hong Kong Protests
The people of Hong Kong used social media to rally together and organize their protests. Not only that but a popular chinese social media site was used to communicate support to those in Hong Kong although it was being scrubbed by the government so they had to do so carefully.
