Duke's Loss Escalates on Twitter

     Basketball fan or not, millions of people in the world participate in college basketball by completing their March Madness brackets. As many of you know, these games call for unexpected upsets and a whirlwind of emotions. On Sunday, number two seed Duke shockingly fell to SEC number seven seed South Carolina. In college basketball, Duke is the team that every person loves to hate, similar to the New England Patriots of the National Football League. Despite this hatred, 7 million people had Duke winning all of March Madness. With that being said, fans everywhere were saying goodbye to their brackets and escalating the Duke loss on Twitter.

                

     The real-time power of Twitter has allowed news to be shared more quickly and to people worldwide.  Twitter, and other social media platforms, have changed the world of sports. Even for people who do not enjoy sports, Twitter memes or gifs are created and launched on the platform, and can't be ignored. In the world of sports, Duke memes are created all the time because the love to hate relationship with team, due to their "privileged" attitude. However, Twitter even took it a step further and made general jokes about the pictures of the players, appealing and engaging to audiences who do not even watch sports. Moreover, this activity on Twitter then will be shared to millions and continue to be used as it now has become a trendy meme or gif. Twitter has almost become a place of news for sports, while also providing humor to keep up with pop culture and other users in general.