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#CallEnded is a hashtag featuring a screenshot of an iOS "call ended" screen accompanied by mock phone conversations in which one of the participants abruptly hangs up. While initially circulating among Black Twitter users in mid-March 2016, the posts subsequently spread to other platforms, including Instagram and the Lipstick Alley discussion forum.

Origin

On March 18th, 2016, several Twitter^[1][2][3] users began posting screenshots of the iPhone's "call ended" onscreen notification along with joke phone conversation transcripts (shown below).

Spread

In the coming days, other Twitter^[7][8][9] users began copying the tweet format, posting various joke conversations leading to the call being intentionally disconnected (shown below).^[7]

On March 21st, Lipstick Alley Forums^[4] member LovelyJaaee submitted a screenshots of the hashtag. The same day, the Internet news site UpRoxx^[6] published an article about the hashtag, highlighting several notable examples from the series. On March 22nd, Instagram user @gotcha^[5] submitted an image macro of a call ended screen with Pawpaw with the caption "Come over, I made burg…" (shown below). By the end of the day, over 8,000 posts featuring the hashtag #callended^[10] had been submitted to Instagram.

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