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from groundbreaking ideas to
world-changing stories it was a
memorable year online welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 web
moments of 2016 for this list we’ve
looked at the most important famous and
defining moments trends and/or
developments for the world wide web in
2016 number 10 snapchat spectacles
September 2016 proved a significant
month for the image sharing company
snapchat firstly it rebranded as snap
Inc and then it made its first Forge
into hardware gadgets described by the
company as sunglasses that snap snapchat
spectacles are wearable shades with a
built in camera they allow the user to
record up to 30 seconds of video footage
in 10 second increments directly from
their own perspective before
automatically importing to memories in
snapchat a pioneering concept but not
without its controversy snapchat placed
its spectacles on limited release
initially to get your hands on this
gadget you need to locate specialist
snap bot vending machines which are
constantly on the move so this is the
first snap bought machine that
mysteriously landed today number nine
Verizon and Yahoo 2016 is not likely to
be remembered with fondness by anyone
connected with Yahoo in July 2016
it’s 21 year history as a standalone
company looked set to end when Verizon
agreed to purchase it for four point
eight three billion dollars considering
the digital pioneer was once valued at
almost 30 times that figure hitting a
125 billion high point at the turn of
the century the sale should have marked
the end of its dwindling fortunes but
September brought revelations of a
massive data breach at Yahoo with
reports that at least 500 million user
accounts had been compromised in 2014
following one of the largest tax in
internet history and this is the largest
number of records stolen in any breach
in the history of well the internet
presumably in the wake of the scandal
the Verizon deal faltered with some
expecting it to fall through completely
in Yahoo’s rise and fall story 2016 was
a definite low point
number eight Nintendo switch reveal with
Xbox and PlayStation dominating the
console market in recent years and after
the relatively lackluster reception for
Nintendo’s last major release the Wii U
some have labeled the Nintendo switch as
a make-or-break console for the company
an official first look at the hybrid
handheld home entertainment system was
given in October when a slick promo clip
showed a myriad of gaming possibilities
users can play from the comfort of their
sofa but can also switch to a portable
device with apparent ease thanks to an
innovative controller the titles list is
set to grow but the big reveal did give
some hints Mario’s appearance excited
many but The Legend of Zelda got Top
Billing with a glimpse of the
long-awaited breadth of the wild number
7 creepy clown videos now on to one of
the strangest and scariest crazes of the
year the creepy clown trend economist
jump out here now ok the 2016 clown
sightings started in the US with the
first reports received in South Carolina
in August but then copycat cases spread
to other states and other countries
police officers in the UK who are
investigating several reports of people
dressed up like clowns
while many reported simply seeing
someone in a clown costume standing in
an unexpected place some clowns are
linked to criminal activity including
robberies and assaults arresting this
man for running around and scaring women
the hysteria led to a flood of creepy
clown videos on the Internet and
although many of them turned out to be
hoaxes they still sparked an ongoing
discussion about the reasons behind the
trend aren’t you going to say
hello one thing’s for sure it was a real
tough time for those in the professional
clowning business don’t you wanna be
number six Instagram versus snapchat
when Instagram released its new stories
feature in the summer of 2016 it caused
a considerable reaction namely because
the service almost perfectly mimics
snapchat allowing users to upload photos
and videos that disappear after 24 hours
and giving the option to modify those
images with text and filters some
onlookers were up in arms over what
seemed to be a blatant copycat move of a
bitch stole my idea with snapchat
clocking reported 150 million daily
users for the first time in 2016 and
therefore becoming more popular than
Twitter Instagram stories set out to
share in its model of success the
initially heated response cooled once
users got used to the similar setups but
the snapchat versus Instagram debate is
set to rumble on for some time yet haha
pop-pop-pop-pop number 5 The Suicide
Squad trailer as it was one of the most
eagerly anticipated movies of the year
if not the decade every sneak peek
released for Suicide Squad caused a
cinematic stir but the first official
trailer of DC’s worst heroes ever was
the most-watched YouTube movie trailer
of 2016 with 77 million views and
Counting by the end of the year
featuring an ensemble of awesome bad
guys including Will Smith’s Deadshot
Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Jared
Leto’s Joker it’s all set to a
deliciously disjointed rendition of
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody
in among all the weaponry one-liners and
military-grade helicopters Viola Davis
labels the squad as the worst of the
worst they’re bad guys worst of the
worst but in terms of trailers it’s the
best of the best in the words of Freddie
Mercury it sends shivers down your spine
was this a cheerleading tryouts number
four the crackdown on fake news we had a
funeral for a bird I’m pretty sure none
of that’s real
you’re not real man following Donald
Trump’s victory in the US presidential
election in November 2016 debate erupted
in America around fake news exposure on
social media and the impact it did or
didn’t have on the election result maybe
you saw articles in your Facebook
newsfeed that the Pope and Denzel
Washington were endorsing Trump or when
you googled who won the popular vote the
search engine promoted an article saying
Trump had bullshit all fitch before the
votes had even been completely counted
sorry to keep you waiting complicated
business either way
the role of social media in shaping
public opinion came under scrutiny she
told me that she and her friends were
already talking about the race was it
just seen by their computers in response
Google is set to tighten up its Adsense
network while Facebook updated its own
policy on the matter clarifying that
fake news will not be displayed in ads
on the site while neither move addresses
the sharing of fake news from user to
user analysts have welcomed the
developments as a step in the right
direction all right
and the crackdown came none too soon as
the widely circulated yet debunked
conspiracy theory Pizza Gate made the
rounds online in December 2016
causing violence and even a shooting
this is a lie we all know the only
people who are trapped in a pizza place
are those robots at Chucky Cheese number
three Facebook live though it was
launched in 2015
Facebook live first entered into public
use in January 2016 when it was
incorporated into the Facebook iOS app
over the year it established itself as
one of the most exciting new concepts on
the social media landscape although
similar services like periscope had
existed before Facebook live lets users
livestream video to whichever of their
friends decides to tune in it’s a fresh
although sometimes controversial way of
interacting on the site where users
often have an established friends list
and a sizable potential audience the
growth of Facebook Live has also gotten
businesses excited given the
opportunities at poses for innovative
real-time advertising strategies and
unique management solutions gone are the
days when live broadcasts were reserved
for TV news and sports events now anyone
can be the star extreme closeup Wow
number two the end of vine when vine
launched in January 2013
having been acquired by Twitter just a
few months before it gave the internet
something quite unique and definitely
addictive
yeah but that backflip though its
ever-growing collection of short meme or
the video clips offered a kaleidoscopic
view on life to satisfy even the
shortest of attention spans a vine is a
6.5 69 seconds so it’s a six-and-a-half
second film but in October 2016 Twitter
announced plans to axe the app which
critics say hadn’t been developed at a
quick enough pace while vine does not
intend to delete pre-existing Clips
initially at least users will no longer
be able to post new material as the
service will gradually be shut down yeah
you’re not going to do this forever
right but we’ll always remember the cute
animals funny injuries sports highlights
and six seconds singing auditions never
forget but really guys you can find me
on Instagram snapchat
nope nope your career is over no before
we unveil our number one pick here are
some honorable mentions that’s step one
everywhere
by the way in every crack very hard to
wash off they don’t love you like I love
you slow down they don’t love
back up they don’t love you I got you
step down they don’t love you like I
love you the thing is even then even
with the price coming down fundamentally
the business rationale is not there it
doesn’t make sense for them to have
Twitter number one donald trump on
twitter our winner is rather a series of
moments all played out on Donald Trump’s
Twitter feed the eventual victor in the
2016 US presidential election was very
active on social media throughout his
campaign creating often controversial
posts demanding attention and
criticizing his rivals I didn’t start it
that I didn’t show to Sir with all due
respect that’s the argument of a five
year oh I didn’t start it no it’s
nothing again the argument 5 year old is
he started which Trump was famed for his
Twitter tirades even before he decided
to make a run for the White House but
some polls show that Americans would
rather he closed down his personal
account once he’s inaugurated Trump has
said that his social media use will be
more restrained during his reign as
commander-in-chief but its prominence on
his journey to the top of US politics
was an ongoing story throughout the year
whether you follow mr. Trump or not his
tweets made headlines the Supreme Court
said there is a constitutionally
protected right to burn the American
flag it is protected under the First
Amendment do you agree with our list
which moment did we miss
for more internet inspired top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
love don’t
[Music]
from groundbreaking ideas to
world-changing stories it was a
memorable year online welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 web
moments of 2016 for this list we’ve
looked at the most important famous and
defining moments trends and/or
developments for the world wide web in
2016 number 10 snapchat spectacles
September 2016 proved a significant
month for the image sharing company
snapchat firstly it rebranded as snap
Inc and then it made its first Forge
into hardware gadgets described by the
company as sunglasses that snap snapchat
spectacles are wearable shades with a
built in camera they allow the user to
record up to 30 seconds of video footage
in 10 second increments directly from
their own perspective before
automatically importing to memories in
snapchat a pioneering concept but not
without its controversy snapchat placed
its spectacles on limited release
initially to get your hands on this
gadget you need to locate specialist
snap bot vending machines which are
constantly on the move so this is the
first snap bought machine that
mysteriously landed today number nine
Verizon and Yahoo 2016 is not likely to
be remembered with fondness by anyone
connected with Yahoo in July 2016
it’s 21 year history as a standalone
company looked set to end when Verizon
agreed to purchase it for four point
eight three billion dollars considering
the digital pioneer was once valued at
almost 30 times that figure hitting a
125 billion high point at the turn of
the century the sale should have marked
the end of its dwindling fortunes but
September brought revelations of a
massive data breach at Yahoo with
reports that at least 500 million user
accounts had been compromised in 2014
following one of the largest tax in
internet history and this is the largest
number of records stolen in any breach
in the history of well the internet
presumably in the wake of the scandal
the Verizon deal faltered with some
expecting it to fall through completely
in Yahoo’s rise and fall story 2016 was
a definite low point
number eight Nintendo switch reveal with
Xbox and PlayStation dominating the
console market in recent years and after
the relatively lackluster reception for
Nintendo’s last major release the Wii U
some have labeled the Nintendo switch as
a make-or-break console for the company
an official first look at the hybrid
handheld home entertainment system was
given in October when a slick promo clip
showed a myriad of gaming possibilities
users can play from the comfort of their
sofa but can also switch to a portable
device with apparent ease thanks to an
innovative controller the titles list is
set to grow but the big reveal did give
some hints Mario’s appearance excited
many but The Legend of Zelda got Top
Billing with a glimpse of the
long-awaited breadth of the wild number
7 creepy clown videos now on to one of
the strangest and scariest crazes of the
year the creepy clown trend economist
jump out here now ok the 2016 clown
sightings started in the US with the
first reports received in South Carolina
in August but then copycat cases spread
to other states and other countries
police officers in the UK who are
investigating several reports of people
dressed up like clowns
while many reported simply seeing
someone in a clown costume standing in
an unexpected place some clowns are
linked to criminal activity including
robberies and assaults arresting this
man for running around and scaring women
the hysteria led to a flood of creepy
clown videos on the Internet and
although many of them turned out to be
hoaxes they still sparked an ongoing
discussion about the reasons behind the
trend aren’t you going to say
hello one thing’s for sure it was a real
tough time for those in the professional
clowning business don’t you wanna be
number six Instagram versus snapchat
when Instagram released its new stories
feature in the summer of 2016 it caused
a considerable reaction namely because
the service almost perfectly mimics
snapchat allowing users to upload photos
and videos that disappear after 24 hours
and giving the option to modify those
images with text and filters some
onlookers were up in arms over what
seemed to be a blatant copycat move of a
bitch stole my idea with snapchat
clocking reported 150 million daily
users for the first time in 2016 and
therefore becoming more popular than
Twitter Instagram stories set out to
share in its model of success the
initially heated response cooled once
users got used to the similar setups but
the snapchat versus Instagram debate is
set to rumble on for some time yet haha
pop-pop-pop-pop number 5 The Suicide
Squad trailer as it was one of the most
eagerly anticipated movies of the year
if not the decade every sneak peek
released for Suicide Squad caused a
cinematic stir but the first official
trailer of DC’s worst heroes ever was
the most-watched YouTube movie trailer
of 2016 with 77 million views and
Counting by the end of the year
featuring an ensemble of awesome bad
guys including Will Smith’s Deadshot
Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Jared
Leto’s Joker it’s all set to a
deliciously disjointed rendition of
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody
in among all the weaponry one-liners and
military-grade helicopters Viola Davis
labels the squad as the worst of the
worst they’re bad guys worst of the
worst but in terms of trailers it’s the
best of the best in the words of Freddie
Mercury it sends shivers down your spine
was this a cheerleading tryouts number
four the crackdown on fake news we had a
funeral for a bird I’m pretty sure none
of that’s real
you’re not real man following Donald
Trump’s victory in the US presidential
election in November 2016 debate erupted
in America around fake news exposure on
social media and the impact it did or
didn’t have on the election result maybe
you saw articles in your Facebook
newsfeed that the Pope and Denzel
Washington were endorsing Trump or when
you googled who won the popular vote the
search engine promoted an article saying
Trump had bullshit all fitch before the
votes had even been completely counted
sorry to keep you waiting complicated
business either way
the role of social media in shaping
public opinion came under scrutiny she
told me that she and her friends were
already talking about the race was it
just seen by their computers in response
Google is set to tighten up its Adsense
network while Facebook updated its own
policy on the matter clarifying that
fake news will not be displayed in ads
on the site while neither move addresses
the sharing of fake news from user to
user analysts have welcomed the
developments as a step in the right
direction all right
and the crackdown came none too soon as
the widely circulated yet debunked
conspiracy theory Pizza Gate made the
rounds online in December 2016
causing violence and even a shooting
this is a lie we all know the only
people who are trapped in a pizza place
are those robots at Chucky Cheese number
three Facebook live though it was
launched in 2015
Facebook live first entered into public
use in January 2016 when it was
incorporated into the Facebook iOS app
over the year it established itself as
one of the most exciting new concepts on
the social media landscape although
similar services like periscope had
existed before Facebook live lets users
livestream video to whichever of their
friends decides to tune in it’s a fresh
although sometimes controversial way of
interacting on the site where users
often have an established friends list
and a sizable potential audience the
growth of Facebook Live has also gotten
businesses excited given the
opportunities at poses for innovative
real-time advertising strategies and
unique management solutions gone are the
days when live broadcasts were reserved
for TV news and sports events now anyone
can be the star extreme closeup Wow
number two the end of vine when vine
launched in January 2013
having been acquired by Twitter just a
few months before it gave the internet
something quite unique and definitely
addictive
yeah but that backflip though its
ever-growing collection of short meme or
the video clips offered a kaleidoscopic
view on life to satisfy even the
shortest of attention spans a vine is a
6.5 69 seconds so it’s a six-and-a-half
second film but in October 2016 Twitter
announced plans to axe the app which
critics say hadn’t been developed at a
quick enough pace while vine does not
intend to delete pre-existing Clips
initially at least users will no longer
be able to post new material as the
service will gradually be shut down yeah
you’re not going to do this forever
right but we’ll always remember the cute
animals funny injuries sports highlights
and six seconds singing auditions never
forget but really guys you can find me
on Instagram snapchat
nope nope your career is over no before
we unveil our number one pick here are
some honorable mentions that’s step one
everywhere
by the way in every crack very hard to
wash off they don’t love you like I love
you slow down they don’t love
back up they don’t love you I got you
step down they don’t love you like I
love you the thing is even then even
with the price coming down fundamentally
the business rationale is not there it
doesn’t make sense for them to have
Twitter number one donald trump on
twitter our winner is rather a series of
moments all played out on Donald Trump’s
Twitter feed the eventual victor in the
2016 US presidential election was very
active on social media throughout his
campaign creating often controversial
posts demanding attention and
criticizing his rivals I didn’t start it
that I didn’t show to Sir with all due
respect that’s the argument of a five
year oh I didn’t start it no it’s
nothing again the argument 5 year old is
he started which Trump was famed for his
Twitter tirades even before he decided
to make a run for the White House but
some polls show that Americans would
rather he closed down his personal
account once he’s inaugurated Trump has
said that his social media use will be
more restrained during his reign as
commander-in-chief but its prominence on
his journey to the top of US politics
was an ongoing story throughout the year
whether you follow mr. Trump or not his
tweets made headlines the Supreme Court
said there is a constitutionally
protected right to burn the American
flag it is protected under the First
Amendment do you agree with our list
which moment did we miss
for more internet inspired top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
love don’t
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