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12018-06-14T17:52:28-07:00Tess McNulty96f102f9ac647a86948e9b5541d1aee70d84de4e306841On June 13 this vid was shared 1.1 M times on fbk. but why?????plain2018-06-14T17:52:28-07:00Tess McNulty96f102f9ac647a86948e9b5541d1aee70d84de4e
Hi. My name is Tess and I'm a graduate student in English at Harvard. I'm working on a dissertation that involves cataloguing and preserving some of the most popular content that circulates on social media daily - the external links, that is to say, that garner the most "shares," "likes," etc. on platforms like FBK and Twitter. Here is a small sample of some of the most shared content on June 13, 2018, the five most shared videos from the content distributor "Funny or Die." Enjoy them?