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Socially conscious hashtags dominated the headlines this year, as they should. The #MenAreTrash and #MeToo tags received global attention, both revealing the reality of sexual assault on women in a patriarchal world.
Locally, one of the lighter tags we saw was #JustBuyATicketBroer. Besides rapper Cassper Nyovest’s “sha-sha” ad lib on the hit track Tito Mboweni, this may have been his other high point of the year. Fellow rapper AKA reached out to the self-proclaimed king of Motswako after Nyovest alerted the country to the fact that he was a little cash-strapped and needed help to get over a few remaining hurdles on his path to fill the FNB Stadium. AKA suggested they put aside any differences and “do it like Watch the Throne” (Kanye West and Jay Z). Cassper’s response? “Just buy a ticket to #FillUpFnbStadium broer ...” It had Twitter in hysterics, and #JustBuyATicketBroer began to trend.
Most followed South Africans on Twitter: Elon Musk (16.4 million), Trevor Noah (8.28 million) and Troye Sivan (7.46 million).
