Hashtags are extremely common in any social media posts. They are often used in captions of videos or pictures. Since my first memories of using social media, I remember seeing those tags everywhere. It was even to the point where they were used outside social media.
Some of the earliest memories I have of social media hashtags, would be just people tagging posts with trending and other extremely popular keywords to boost your post to get more likes and shares. Such examples would be #trending, #funny, and more simple commonly used adjectives. A lot of these hashtags are still commonly used on newer social media platforms, like Tiktok.
Something that I mentioned in the introduction was the popularity of hashtags grew to the point where we started accommodating the literal word hashtag into our vernacular. This is a very common occurrence with social media and other words have experienced this same phenomenon. We would say hashtag in front of random words to add a sense of humour and to be trendy with the current internet. This same evolution of our English language is occurring still to this day. Southern Tide Media dives further into depth of how different phrases and acronyms are being adapted into our language and how the internet enacts this change.
It is fascinating how the simple symbol that represented a number or pound switched so drastically in the modern age. It was so popular that it is still being used today and even contributed to change in our language. While hashtags aren’t as commonly mentioned in conversation, they still hold the same purpose that they were used for; but they are slowly being phased out, some posts are not using hashtags and they still are able to gain a high number of views. Slowly just like with the introduction of hashtags, we will have a new form of symbolism to promote videos on social media.
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