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  • >> A young boy who was one of the 6.7 million starving Haitians says,

  • "I hate when I tell them no pickles, and they still give me pickles."

  • [ Laughter ]

  • When a man outside a dilapidated, tipping house says, "When my house is so big,

  • I need 2 wireless routers."

  • The irony seems ridiculous.

  • In February 2013, an organization called Water is Life

  • released a video entitled "First World Problems Anthem."

  • According to Social News Daily of February 5, 2013.

  • In this video

  • impoverished residents in Haiti recite the posts shared by tweeters

  • under the hashtag, "First World Problems."

  • A hashtag is

  • originally an organizational tool on Twitter which has evolved

  • into an odd description method in social media.

  • Hashtagging is when

  • someone uses a pound sign before a key word or phrase relevant to the topic of their posts.

  • Some examples being "hashtag Selfie

  • Sunday," an impulsive, ultra-narcissistic evening.

  • "Hashtag food porn" to describe their apparently luscious meals.

  • Likewise,

  • ""hashtag First World Problems," is using posts to describe a very minor complaint,

  • one that arises due to the complications of a first-world's convenience like Wi-Fi,

  • Starbucks, or Wi-Fi at Starbucks.

  • So "hashtag First World Problems" are not problems.

  • And when tweeters at the first world share these posts they understand

  • that their problems are not problems at all.

  • Yet The Guardian of October 9, 2013

  • explains that their up to 5 tweets per second under this hashtag.

  • It's like tweeters are saying, "Hashtag, yes, I know I'm a spoiled little brat for saying this.

  • Hashtag, but I'll say it anyway.

  • Which begs the research question, is stating posts under the

  • ""hashtag First World Problems" phenomenon an effective tool

  • to prove one's awareness of their privilege?

  • To answer this question, we must

  • first look to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

  • which is Yu Lin's research model, "hashtag Bigbirds Never Die,

  • Understanding the Social Dynamics of Merchant

  • Hashtags."

  • Then apply this to the "hashtag First World Problems" phenomenon before finally taking a

  • look at the rhetorical and social implications.

  • In order to answer the research question, let us first take a look at the 3 types of Lin's model.

  • The hashtag's topicality, interactivity, and prominence.

  • First the hashtag's

  • topicality is based on the number of re-tweets.

  • A re-tweet is an example of individual identifying a tweet that is so interesting

  • or relevant that they wish to restate it verbatim to their own followers.

  • When tweeters re-tweet other's posts it shows that the hashtag is timely

  • or have contextual relevance for ongoing conversations.

  • The second tenant is a hashtag's interactivity.

  • And this is indicated by the

  • number of replies to the hashtag.

  • Hashtags are more likely to grow and process when there are many users speaking directly

  • to each other while invoking the hashtag.

  • This shows that people are not only

  • paying attention to other's contents but are actively responding to one another.

  • And finally, the last tenant is the hashtag's prominence,

  • which emerges by the expected follow sites of the users who

  • tweet to the hashtag.

  • Essentially, as much as the audience exposed to a hashtag by a user mentioning it.

  • Hashtags that are mentioned by users with large audiences and many followers are more

  • likely to result in rapid growth and sustained activity.

  • Meanwhile, hashtags that are mentioned by users

  • with smaller audiences are less likely to grow in prominence.

  • So now that we understand the

  • research model, it is imperative to apply its tenants to the artifact.

  • First, the hashtags topicality is seen by the uses

  • of "hashtag First World Problems" as powerful constructions.

  • Because of Twitter's growing presence on the Internet, it exposes us to such constructions.

  • The [inaudible] 6, 9 revealed in 2012 that in 2011 Twitter had 100 million accounts.

  • And in 2012, it had reached had up to 400 million users.

  • Clearly, "hashtag First World Problems" fulfills the first tenant of the research model

  • as they're up to 5 tenants, 5 updates per second.

  • Next, "hashtag First World Problems" interactivity is indicated

  • by the extensive number of replies to the hashtag.

  • This hashtag is now not only used within Twitter but on TV shows,

  • marketing ads of the First World's Problems Anthem, and even in newspaper articles.

  • Published on the August 22, 2013 Time Magazine,

  • one reveals the breaking news the double-stuff Oreo,

  • it doesn't actually contain double the amount of stuff.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • And, indeed, below it at the thread of online viewers lamented

  • with the phrase "hashtag First World Problems."

  • Finally, the prominence of

  • "hashtag First World Problems" as seen by its expected follow size fulfills the last tenant.

  • With a growing prominence of its very origin,

  • the growth of "hashtag First World Problems" is easily foreseen.

  • Even this hashtag, hashtag's presence in this hashtag speech as a hashtag topic

  • of focus indicates its hashtag prominence.

  • If it seems hashtag annoying,

  • hashtag overused, hashtag get out of my life every time I say hashtag,

  • then this exemplifies the effect of the prominence

  • of the first world problems phenomenon.

  • So now that we

  • understand the research model and the application to the artifact,

  • let's now take a look at some rhetorical and social implications.

  • Because despite it's rather silly nature, this hashtag is

  • heavily impactful.

  • First on the rhetorical level, "hashtag First World Problems" grossly oversimplifies the

  • experience of living in a developing country.

  • It has effectively reduced the experiences of the

  • other into a caricature of poverty.

  • Yes, we are aware of our own privileges or at least aware that we should be aware.

  • But before we pat ourselves on the back for this recognition, we need to ask if living

  • in America gives us the exclusive claim over wireless Internet frustration,

  • on tap water, and on phone chargers.

  • Just because "hashtag First World Problems" has topicality, interactivity, and prominence,

  • it does not articulate the need to change the behavior or the attitude.

  • As stated on the Atlantic in the November 21, 2013,

  • the real first world problem is our inability to see that others are as wholly complex

  • and as keen on technology and pleasure as we are.

  • "Hashtag First

  • World Problems" also has important social implications.

  • It has the potential to harness the powerful force of the cyber-sphere.

  • And this force, along with its interactivity and prominence, can create an

  • interface between people of different geographic and socioeconomic situations.

  • This means that it can give us a multi-facetted understanding

  • of the developing world and facilitate

  • conversations so that there is potential for meaningful dialogue about inequality based

  • on mutual comprehension and humanity, just like this speech.

  • We don't see posts like I have a chronically ill child and no

  • health insurance under the "hashtag First World Problems".

  • But these situations exist in both first and third-world countries.

  • In this way first and third-world experiences are not incomprehensibly alien

  • to each other.

  • Actually, they are more similar than we realize.

  • So today, we have first explored 's Yu Lin's research model "hashtag Bigbirds Never Die,

  • Understanding the Social Dynamics of

  • Emerging Hashtags."

  • Then apply this to the "hashtag First World Problems" phenomenon before finally taking a

  • look at the rhetorical and social implications.

  • The answer to the question is daily posts under

  • the "hashtag First World Problems" phenomenon an effective tool to prove one's awareness

  • of the privilege as a definitive?

  • Hashtag yes.

  • But the people of the third world are not immune to "hashtag First

  • World Problems."

  • Though they don't live luxurious lives,

  • we need to see them past the poverty caricatures stereotype because connectivity issues

  • on your iPhone, how to sink the iPad, and what brand

  • of noodles to buy can also be third-world problems.

  • By looking past the caricature of poverty, this leads to a better understanding

  • of ourselves and people of the third world.

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