Hillary Clinton may be losing the support of the under-30 set to Bernie Sanders, but she has a plan to get young voters back on her side — by campaigning on a platform that’s about as old as they are.
As explained by Stephen Colbert on his show Monday night, Clinton’s campaign is reaching out “with an ad on the youth-friendly social network, America Online.”
“Her new campaign slogan,” Colbert explained, is the series of screeches, beeps, and boops familiar to anyone to remembers what dial-up sounds like.
“AOL is where all the cool teens go,” Colbert quipped. “They go there to update their Geocities page.”
Clinton still playing catch-up with Internet culture is nothing new: Last week, the candidate indicated that she still didn’t know what “going viral” meant.
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Clinton not knowing what ''going viral '' meant
Poor Hillary Clinton; first she didn’t know how to work a fax machine, then she didn’t know how to email from a computer, and now on Tuesday she seemed to admit she doesn’t know what “going viral” means.
The anecdote comes to us courtesy of The New York Times.
When a voter approached her at a polling station at Parker Varney School in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday to ask for a picture, he explained that his friend had taken a selfie with the former first lady on Monday and he was jealous because the shot “went viral.”
“You went viral?” Mrs. Clinton said to the man’s friend. “That sounds like some kind of disease.”
The use of the word “viral” to describe fast-spreading content dates back to the dawn of the Internet Age. The idiom “gone viral” was used by Newsweek in a 1999 article, for example.
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