Will Smith is the Angel of Death for Social Media Platforms

When the Fresh Prince hits your platform, you know you’ve made it — and jumped the shark

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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5 min readNov 6, 2019

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The 1977 episode of Happy Days “Hollywood: Part 3” is a cultural touchstone to most YouTube users (the episode alone is more than twice as old as YouTube itself), but the phrase it gave birth to may be better known…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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