The Fish Tube Meme
Alice Cao. A portion of Twitter users lost their collective minds last month after a video of a fish being launched through a ridiculously long tube originally from 2014 went viral again ( https://twitter.com/cheddar/status/1159076692691955712 ) . Built by Whooshh Innovations and dubbed the “salmon cannon”, the transport system that was built to help salmon travel over dams was given a far more popular name: “the fish tube”. Social media is often seen as something that poisons the minds of the younger generations and the source of infinite trouble for, and embarrassment from, the elder generations when they manage to access the site and then see your edgy 21st century jokes and pictures, but there is an upside that none can dispute. Social media can spread news quickly (not always accurately at first) and reach a far greater audience at a far greater rate than conventional newspapers can nowadays. This brings us to the main topic: the potential social media has t...