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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Thursday, March 25th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird.

Have you ever wondered who or what comes up with the explanatory blurbs beneath trending terms on Twitter?

I've got your answer.

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when a word is just on the tip of your tongue. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

All right, so this is something that I have been wondering about for a while, partially

because I'm curious if it's something that's actually fun to do, as I've always thought

it might be, or if it's actually the worst.

I'm talking about being one of the people charged with writing the descriptions about why

something is trending on Twitter.

Now, if you're not on Twitter, or if you left a few years ago, or just never look at the trending topics, no matter how much they're shoved in your face on the interface, basically

in 2020, Twitter stopped letting the trends speak for themselves and started occasionally

adding short explanatory blurbs beneath the trending term about why something

was trending. Now, as Slate points out, this is especially useful when you see, for example, a town's

name trending, because here in the U.S., we would usually assume that means there's been a mass

shooting because our country is terrible. But sometimes it just means some popular streamer mentioned an old quote or meme referencing that town.

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