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Global Trends

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Memes have been popular since the 2000's and have become a rotating global trend. A new meme catches heat and becomes the preferred format for a few weeks. While doing a proper search it isn't hard to find "meme calendars for years past. These show the respective memes that were highly popular in that month. There are also types of memes that are job, location, and fandom specific. The wide array of topics make memeing a form of comedy almost anyone who can come up with a caption can participate in. As you can see the memes from 2019 were globally based and had a wide variety of subjects from an egg to the unveiling of the Cybertruck. Recent meme trends for 2020 have been World War Three , Coronavirus , and Tom Brady's departure from the Pats. While some of the memes produced are intentionally edgy and offensive, many of them can be enjoyed by just about everyone. I myself have spent much more time in my dorm lately and have experienced the rush of new meme c...

Surveillance and Law Enforcement

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  With all the advances made in surveillance there's an ever present technological pair of eyes following you at virtually all times. In many cases this provides insight into various crimes and misdoings. It can even lead to clues as to missing people's whereabouts. Other times it leads to someone committing the most entertaining of crimes, C.W.S. or the act of crime while stupid. Would be robbers and other miscreants are some of the best at creating viral videos of bodily injury. Almost all police officers are equipped with body cams so many times we get to see this tomfoolery from their point of view. Every now and then the victim of these viral incidents is just an innocent bystander and with products like the Ring Doorbell , Google Nest Doorbell  , and the nationally recognized ADT Security  it makes capturing these videos so much easier. In addition the widespread use of smartphones means anything is two clicks away from being captured a...