‘Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,’ Explained Update, September 20 2019, 11:03 AM: In the early morning hours of September 20 2019, “#Area51Storm” and “Area 51” began trending on Twitter. (We were unable to find a valid Storm Area 51 livestream as the event unfolded.) A popular image set shared both to the “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” Facebook […]
‘They Pushed Her’ Facebook Post On April 17 2019, a Facebook post (archived here) began circulating, purporting to tell the tragic story (“they pushed her”) of a young girl named Carmen Winstead, as well as the fates of the classmates responsible for her death: They pushed her After lunch, her teacher announced that the school was holding a fire drill. […]
Is Dell Hospital Collecting Donations for a Young Assault Victim Named Maria? A February 2016 Facebook post about Dell Children’s Hospital and a purported young rape victim (archived here) continued circulating several years after the fact. The post and its variations featured roughly the same all-caps text, with rotating images of a man as seen above: THIS GUY RAPED A FIVE YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL… HE RUINED […]
‘The Elevator Incident’ How various Black male celebrities got used to spread a "somewhat racist" bit of folklore.
