

Please find the top lists below and the full Year in Review here: Year in Review. In addition, the ‘most reblogged relationships’ keeps One Direction mania alive with Louis and Harry’s bromance topping the list. This story originally appeared on has released its annual ‘Year in Review’ – a list of the top blogs, posts and topics featured on the site in 2015, revealing that ‘Pepe the Frog’ was the most reblogged meme of the year.Īccording to Tumblr data, Zendaya has topped the most reblogged actress list (stealing Jennifer Lawrence’s crown) and Chris Evans came in first place for the actors taking over from Benedict Cumberbatch.

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The savviest teens already know how to ensure their scores remain uncanceled: just hide the memes from prying adult eyes by annually blocking on Twitter. It’s almost a little hopeful-an example of the Internet bringing people together for casual fun in a time of stress, rather than creating new areas for public cruelty.īesides, the youngsters show no signs of stopping. Nationwide teenage levity at the expense of a dull standardized test (that potentially reinforces economic disparity) is quite a bit better than other teenage trends, like slurping Tide Pods or bullying their peers. What are you making the teens read?)Īs someone not employed by the College Board, it’s hard to begrudge the teens their fun as long as they’re not explicitly handing out answers. (That last one seems very weird out of context, College Board. If this year’s PSAT were a movie, I’d remain unspoiled-all I know is that mathematical constants and ambiverts came up, that somebody named Ruth read Nao’s diary, and that babies will get dirty if their mothers leave the house to vote. Truthfully, none of the students’ memes seems like it's an especially helpful covert cheat sheet. The posts are no deterrent for test takers, who have flooded Twitter with #psatmemes this past week. The College Board’s efforts are a bit of bizarro, “how do you do, fellow kids?” corporate memeing-not much better than the cringey clunkers people have come to expect from fast food companies' Twitter accounts. AdvertisementĪgain Job- College Board October 16, 2019 The College Board has made it clear that it disapproves, sometimes posting stern messages warning test takers about the potential consequences and making frequent requests for students to delete tweets pertaining to the test. The earliest signs of PSAT meme movements likely date back to 2014, when users on subreddit r/teenagers decided to “illegally discuss the PSAT,” and others took to Twitter and Tumblr to post their own reactions to test questions. The College Board has been on meme watch for years.

So the organization has taken to Twitter to try to salvage some semblance of their normal testing conditions. Posting memes about them could lead to teens getting hints about their contents. The contemporary trouble for test administrator the College Board is that the test’s ubiquity, the age of participants, and the high emotional stakes these days make the details of the exam guaranteed meme fodder-and, well, standardized tests are standardized. Thanks for your support 🖤 /PlwG5s6c0j- College Board October 15, 2019Īll over the US, high school juniors and sophomores are now taking the PSAT, which has been the norm for the past half-century.
