Trends of the week
T witter as a logMam of fandom is the most confusing 7witter ersion of all 7his week, it ga e solace to underpri ileged fans of % ritish boy bands and fans of underappreciated 79 shows
One Direction in Manila could blow up Twitter, social structure
lready causing a 7witter class war as a mere rumor last month, the 2ne irection 0anila concert has now dri en 3inoy fans known as Juan irectioners, as one trending topic re ealed into near-dystopian panic ,t is now a real thing it is happening ne t year and tickets are already being sold 3 6 029 7 6 ,1*2 7, . 76 immediately trended, the desperation literally spelled out in all caps, as ticket prices finally confirmed a predominantly lower class fanbase’s worst fears 7he cheapest ticket, which would get you a seat from where the floppy-haired lads would appear microscopic, is going for 3 , more than the cost of one full semester at the 3olytechnic 8ni ersity of the 3hilippines 7he ticket that would get you the closest to them sells for 3 , almost twice the monthly minimum wage
,t’s surprising fans ha en’t organized a full-scale re olution yet Juan irectioners of the world, unite
‘Mad Men’ finally makes a dent in mainstream Twitter
H is not ery popular here ,t does not in ol e zombies or medie al dragon fantasies that occasionally dabble in treacherous slaughters and incest ,t is also my fa orite 79 series of the st century by a mile, and so seeing on and 3eggy its two main characters trend worldwide this week was such a Moy, if not a total surprise
0aybe the passionate minority is getting louder now that the series has only half a season left 2r maybe this week’s episode, 7he 6trategy, was Must too good not to trend
H is infamous for its glacial pace, its slightness of plot, and episodes where nothing happens %ut nothing is 79speak for absence of ob iousness, and describing H through 79 language is a mistake en cinematic seems inaccurate because H is really more like ideo literature ,n all those nothing episodes, e erything was happening Just because a hundred blows can’t crack a rock doesn’t mean they can’t be felt 7his week, H split that rock in two, and only hardcore fans know it wasn’t that episode that did it but all the blows that had come before