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#MeToo
The #MeToo movement originally started after different women stepped forward to share their sexual abuse concerning Harvey Weinstein in 2017. From there it grew to a giant movement where women felt safe posting their stories with #MeToo and finally seeking justice from their abusers. While the hashtag isn't used quite as often anymore, the movement is still going strong. -
Dreamers
In 2017, the Trump administration sought to abolish the DACA program and the DREAM Act that the Obama administration had passed just a few years earlier. These programs and policies allow for children who immigrated over to the US when they were young to continue living in the US legally. Many celebrities who themselves are Dreamers, took to social media to encourage citizens to act and to stop the Trump administration from reversing it. -
Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is typically attached to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because of how she used her social media platform to spread the word. AOC is the youngest congresswoman in history and had a great social media presence leading up to her political career. In 2018, AOC held a "twitter 101" session with her followers where she answered any questions anyone may have had about the Green Deal through her personal twitter and helped spread awareness to hundreds of new voters who read her tweets. -
March for our Lives
In 2018 after a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, the students decided to band together and create a movement to prevent gun violence called March for our Lives. The actual protest took place in Washington D.C., while social media was flooded with support and calls to action in alignment with the March for our Lives movement, many of which using the hashtag #NeverAgain. -
BLM
Black Lives Matter was a movement started back in 2013 when a black named George Zimmerman was killed by a white police officer. The movement had a resurgence in 2014 and then again in 2016 after many black people had been killed at the hands of white officers. The most recent resurgence was in 2020 after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer. Social media was flooded with posts calling for reform and pressuring politicians to make a change.