Name: "First World Problems" - An Informative Speech
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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."

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

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.

impoverished residents in Haiti recite the posts shared by tweeters

under the hashtag, "First World Problems."

originally an organizational tool on Twitter which has evolved

into an odd description method in social media.

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

Sunday," an impulsive, ultra-narcissistic evening.

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

""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,

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

to each other while invoking the hashtag.

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

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.

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.

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

with the phrase "hashtag First World Problems."

"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.

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

then this exemplifies the effect of the prominence

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