Capturing the Madness
Who knew one slap could ricochet so long and so far? Well, if it’s coming from someone as notable as Will Smith, it’s bound to make a ruckus in the echo chambers of Twitter. The “wait, what?” moment had everyone and their mothers hitting send on their 280-character think pieces. This resulted in a forum of chaos that surpassed the initial act of passion.
The Quiet Before the Storm
Based on the activity captured on Paraqeet, the Oscars didn’t show much engagement besides a few hit tweets from Twitter jokesters before Smith’s slap of Chris Rock shook the globe.
The Delayed Response
In the budding stages of the Oscars incident, all of America was left with an incessant list of questions after the U.S. broadcast censored out the slap. This left everyone who watched the broadcast clueless to what they were looking at, yet somehow everyone knew they hadn’t witnessed the full story.
Getting to the Bottom of It
Only minutes later everyone was informed of the uncensored kerfuffle via Japan and Australia’s broadcast, but this led to a new set of questions. Who was in the wrong on the moral binary of correctness? Celebrities of every social status added their individual takes to the stewing situation.
Sorting Through the Rubble
This boom in conversation linked people from all corners of the United States to talk about what just transpired after watching the uncut clips shared on the internet. Shown on the Paraqeet screen capture below are large circles of interconnectivity linked by individual viral tweets. This shows the magnitude of the moment when everyone started sharing, retweeting and quoting one another.
Even though it has been days since the strike on comedy happened, the buzz has yet to calm down. Through the chaos, Paraqeet captured these moments and documented the impact Twitter has on the world. This tool continues to display what it means to have a singular action brew into a social storm.