Members Eric83 Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Any particular pop culture moments and scandals you would have loved social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, message boards) to have been around for? I can only IMAGINE the memes and tweets that would have been born out of: Michael Jackson marrying Lisa Marie Presley DC4 break up Bill and Monica Lewinsky (release of Starr report) Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Lorena Bobbit Left Eye burning down Andre Rison's mansion Marion Berry smoking crack I realize all of mine are from the 90's. The internet was born a couple decades too late Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lovely_m Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 This is mainly for twitter. Some of the ones Eric83 listed are really good, so I won't list them again. OJ Tanya and Nancy The Real World Seattle, where Stephen slaps Irene Backstreetboys vs. NSync Steve Bartman trying to catch that foul ball Michelle Kwan losing at 2 Olympics. Titanic, the memes would probably be great Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera frenching Madonna Brittney Spears in her sparkling outfit at the vmas Tony Romo fumbling the ball duing a field goal attempt 2000 presidential election Marty Brodeur in the 2003 playoffs Mariah Carey's meltdown on TRL Tyson and Holyfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eric83 Posted July 13, 2014 Author Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Tanya and Nancy would've been a hot ass mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lovely_m Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Especially with that awkward ass kiss the vmas. Sorry I listed so many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eric83 Posted July 13, 2014 Author Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Dont apologize! The more the merrier. I will be back in the morning with some more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 lovely, that's so funny, I was thinking more message boards, but my first thought was the first two seasons of The Real World. I also thought, "NOT 9/11." I think we'd be an even more emotionally wrecked nation and it would have brought out the worst in a lot of people. I'm from the D.C. area and I have family who worked under Marion Barry, so yeah, we would've eaten that up. I saw him at a wedding once and he was sweating like the proverbial you know what in where. Social media would've destroyed Michael Jackson during those trials, Hugh Grant would've been doomed, and dear Lord, the Jeffrey Dahmer memes... In the eighties, "humor" wasn't all ironic and cruel yet, so I think the Challenger disaster would've been spared for the most part. God, imagine what Rock Hudson and Ryan White and Liberace would have suffered... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Chamberlain Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Challenger OKC Bombing 9/11 (So that people could have sent out last goodbye tweets to family etc.) OJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Instagram and Grindr during the disco era would have been a fabulous hot mess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Yes! I didn't even know there was a breakup till like the second or third time I saw Say My Name and realized something wasn't right Ill also add the 3LW breakup over a thrown chicken wing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoapDope Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Bob Barker and Dian Parkinson scandal. Geraldo get's his nose broke on his talk show. Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial fire. Jim &Tammy Faye Bakker fall from grace and Jim's affair with Jessica Hahn Gary Hart's Affair. Dan Quayles potato incident. Nancy Reagan sits on MR. T's lap. The Tylenol murders. Rock Hudson AIDS story, his kiss with Linda Evans and the cast of Dynasty freaking out. The creepy Max Headroom video intrusion incident of 1987. Ricky Nelson's death in plane crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Never heard of the Max Headroom incident. I had to Google that. Wow that happened in Chicago, how very random! I imagine that talk about AIDS in general would've been very heated in the 80's and early 90's. As well as speculation over which flamboyant celebrities are gay. I bet there'd be lots of "Who will die?" chatter after Dynasty's Moldavian Massacre season finale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 I think Dynasty might have been akin to Game of Thrones as far as social network reaction. Can you imagine the chaos on Twitter following Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 The L.A. riots of '92. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Geri Halliwell quitting The Spice Girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JellicleCat Posted July 13, 2014 Members Share Posted July 13, 2014 Not to mention "Who shot J.R?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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