Cultural Impact

Cultural Impact

Updated Sep 12, 2019 at 11:37AM EDT by Adam.

Added Sep 12, 2019 at 10:51AM EDT by Adam.

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Cultural Impact refers to a series of tweets which make comically hyperbolic arguments that a frivolous song, moment, or artist has had more cultural impact than something which has been well documented to have a massive cultural impact. The tweets mimic a bar graph by having the frivolous object represented by four stacked black squares and the other object represented by a small line.

Origin

On June 9th, 2018, Twitter user @praisejeebus[1] tweeted a chart that said Miranda Cosgrove had more influence than Elvis, The Beatles, and U2. The tweet gained over 80 retweets and 600 likes (shown below).


Jon @prasejeebus Cultural Impact: Miranda Elvis The Beatles U2 Cosgrove 10:27 PM Jun 9, 2018 Twitter for iPhone

Spread

The format did not see much popular spread over the following year. It was not until September of 2019 that the format began becoming a trending meme. On September 6th, 2019 user @farringt0n posted an example that gained over 100 retweets and 700 likes (shown below, left). On September 9th, 2019, user @saddestcowboy_ posted an example that claimed the Trying Kombucha video was more important than The Beatles that gained over 15,000 retweets and 140,000 likes (shown below, right).


justin @farringtOn cultural impact: the sk8er beatles boi 4:33 PM Sep 6, 2019 Twitter for iPhone sad cowboy @SaddestCowboy cultural impact: Kombucha girl Brittany Broski the beatles 3:22 PM Sep 9, 2019 Twitter for Android

Other popular examples include a tweet by @skinkshame that gained over 7,300 retweets and 22,000 likes (shown below, left) and a tweet by @jaboukie that gained over 4,300 retweets and 26,000 likes (shown below, right). Jokes were covered by Mashable[2] and AV Club.[3]


absolute moron @skinkshame cultural impact: fairy godmothers holding out the national anthem for a hero from shrek 2 11:21 AM Sep 10, 2019 Twitter for iPhone jaboukie? @jaboukie cultural impact: manny wearing a thong on degrassi abstinence only sex education 2:17 PM Sep 10, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

Various Examples


Jorge Molina @colormejorge cultural impact: ABBA Mozart Translate Tweet 7:43 PM Sep 10, 2019 Twitter Web App rocket @tweetsbyrocket cultural impact: the that episode of the office beatles where ryan started the fire 3:21 PM Sep 9, 2019 Twitter for Android Genius @Genius cultural impact: beethoven's kid cudi's hums symphonies 3:38 PM Sep 10, 2019 Twitter Web App @BollyGaga cultural impact: lady gaga's the meat dress beatles 5:24 PM Sep 9, 2019 Twitter Web App Saddington 2e @hayley_hud cultural impact: The part in Star Spangled Shallow where Banner Lady Gaga goes HAhhhhhhh ahhhAAAH Ah ah, AAhhh Ahh АААННННААА AAAA 10:19 PM Sep 9, 2019 Twitter for iPhone blondie wasabi @blondiewasabi cultural impact: you telling me a shrimp fried the industrial revolution this rice 3:32 PM Sep 10, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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