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Hashtag activism

This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

2011·The social era

Campaigning for a cause by posting under a shared hashtag.

At a glanceThe facts

Spread in
2011
Format
Phenomenon
Era
The social era
Where it started
Twitter, where the hashtag was proposed in 2007
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

Using a hashtag to gather a cause into one readable stream — a filing convention repurposed as assembly. Praised for reach and criticised as a substitute for action, and the argument between those two readings is itself part of the phenomenon.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    Tarana Burke first uses the phrase “Me Too”.1

  2. Took off

    The film Kony 2012 is released.1

  3. Took off

    #BringBackOurGirls follows the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria.1

  4. Took off

    Alyssa Milano makes #MeToo widely known.1

What people misrememberSet straight

Commonly remembered as#MeToo began in 2017.

ActuallyThe phrase was first used for the purpose in 2007, by Tarana Burke.1

LegacyWhat it left behind

RelatedMore like this

Records this one is explicitly related to — a copy, a remake, a parody, the same meme or the same maker.

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

What this was built on, each one a record of its own.

More from 2011You were there

More from the social eraMore of the archive

ConnectedFollow it further

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Hashtag activism

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