MINI TECH SCROLL: The Great Meme drought, users plan to flood YouTube Shorts with brainrot + Meta community notes

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The biggest tech & social media trends on the internet from March 12th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:04 Meme drought

5:33 TikTok users are planning to flood YouTube Shorts with brain rot

9:06 Meta is rolling out community notes 

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Sources:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/march-2025-meme-drought 

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/juggtok-slimetok 

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/youtube-shorts-colonization 

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oracle-leading-contender-help-run-tiktok-new-deal 

https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly 

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-03-18/community-notes-on-x-and-meta-can-t-save-social-media-from-itself 

https://www.platformer.news/meta-community-notes-launch 

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/03/testing-begins-community-notes-facebook-instagram-threads/?ref=platformer.news 

https://www.tiktok.com/@aidanetcetera/video/7481762860326980886