Google Trends, the search platform's window into the relative search volume for a given term, is a reliable indicator of society's collective consciousness. You can see that every March there is a spike for "green food coloring" searches and every spring an increase in queries for "baseball rules."
But why did a search for the term "hit or miss" begin to surge exponentially in October of 2018? The answer, of course, is a meme. It's a meme four years in the making that grew, mutated, and accelerated as it crossed back and forth through the digital-irl membrane, findings its beginnings on PornHub and arriving where it is now: In the aisles of your local Walmart.
2014
Our story orbits around retired porn star Mia Khalifa. Khalifa reigned as Pornhub's top-ranked performer in 2014. Earlier that year she had attracted controversy and even death threats after appearing in a Pornhub video wearing a hijab.
But why did a search for the term "hit or miss" begin to surge exponentially in October of 2018? The answer, of course, is a meme. It's a meme four years in the making that grew, mutated, and accelerated as it crossed back and forth through the digital-irl membrane, findings its beginnings on PornHub and arriving where it is now: In the aisles of your local Walmart.
2014
Our story orbits around retired porn star Mia Khalifa. Khalifa reigned as Pornhub's top-ranked performer in 2014. Earlier that year she had attracted controversy and even death threats after appearing in a Pornhub video wearing a hijab.
- 12/20/2018
- by Reed Kavner
- Tubefilter.com
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