⚡️ Dimple's Digital Digest: 29 December ⚡️
As we go into the third year of a global pandemic, a reminder to all social media managers (and everyone else) to check in with yourself:
And if you need help:
🔴 For anyone in the UK, text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you’re struggling and a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. It’s completely free 24/7.
Some useful numbers to call:
🔵 Samaritans: 116 123
🔵 Mind: 0300 123 3393
🔵 LGBT Switchboard: 0300 330 0630
For 2021’s last digest, we cover moving Christmas films, what the Metaverse could mean, how Gen Z uses LinkedIn, this year’s best Tweets, trends to watch for 2022, and much more. ⬇️
READ ME (PART ONE):
🔮 Report: What could be 2022’s social media trends?
🤝 Must-read: An ode to digital friendships
💼 Must-read: How does Gen Z use LinkedIn?
👑 TikTok beats Google to become most popular website of 2021
🔢 Instagram publishes its own trend report for 2022
🥇 The 25 best brand adverts of 2021…
👍 The most Liked Tweets of 2021…
💙 And here are 2021’s best Brand Tweets
⚡️ THREAD ALERT ⚡️
Hot take: Is everyone wrong about the Metaverse?
READ ME (PART TWO):
🤔 WTF are NFTs? Here’s a handy infographic
🏳️🌈 Trans women are finding safe spaces on Twitch & YouTube
🇨🇳 China uses influencers to spread propaganda
🍄 TikTok foragers are making sustainability accessible
💸 Where’s the money for women-led creator startups?
HEY THAT’S COOL:
🔴 Andy Burnham launches #IsThisOk to call our sexual harassment
💧 WaterAid’s stop-motion shows how lack of clean water affects girls
🏠 Shelter releases moving 1 minute film on homelessness for Christmas
WINS OF THE WEEK:
🇺🇦 Russia vs Ukraine conflict moves into headache meme territory
✈️ Ryanair mocks UK government with its own COVID alert levels
🚗 Ford’s hilarious Twitter thread aims to educate on electric vehicles
🎭 Bristol Old Vic recounts cringiest historical Christmas disasters
UH OH:
🚫 How Twitter’s high profile users get VIP treatment against trolls
🚓 Met Police slammed for 12 days of Christmas crime appeal
⚠️ A QAnon con: the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids
🤳 New study highlights racial pay gap in influencer marketing
🌱 The online plant community has a hoarding problem
BONUS!
💬 Meet the therapists using AI to make treatment better