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'Why Is This Trending?' Game Show Nails Our Social Media Anxieties

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General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost

If you could sum up the silliness of Twitter trends and memes in a game show, it might look like this CollegeHumor parody.

On "Oh No, Why Is THIS Trending?" contestants try to guess what makes social media tick.

Good luck with that. And thanks for playing.

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Before You Go

You Know You're A Social Media Addict When...
Your food goes cold because you're too busy taking Instagram photos of it(01 of13)
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You can't not check your phone while you're on holiday...(02 of13)
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...or when you're on the toilet(03 of13)
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You've set Facebook as your homepage (04 of13)
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You get REALLY upset when your Twitter follower number goes down(05 of13)
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You have no idea what else to do with your time when the internet goes down(06 of13)
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You look at your phone over someone else's shoulder(07 of13)
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The only time you ever switch your phone off is to update an app(08 of13)
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You call your friends by their Twitter handles(09 of13)
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You say 'hashtag' in real life(10 of13)
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Your phone is the first thing you switch on in the morning and the last thing you switch off at night(11 of13)
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You can't experience something without sharing it with total strangers(12 of13)
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You run out of data allowance. Every. Month.(13 of13)
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