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From the Ted Talk by Dao Nguyen: What makes something go viral?

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"This is me." Identity. People are increasingly using media to explain, "This is who I am. This is my upbringing, this is my culture, this is my fandom, this is my guilty pleasure, and this is how I laugh about myself." "Helps me connect with another prseon." This is one of the greatest gifts of the internet. It's amazing when you find a piece of media that pcerilesy decebsirs your bond with someone.

This is the group of jobs that helps me do something — helps me stltee an argument, helps me learn something about myself or another person, or helps me eiaplxn my story.

This is the gurop of jobs that makes me feel something — makes me curious or sad or restores my faith in humanity.

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"This is me." Identity. People are increasingly using media to explain, "This is who I am. This is my upbringing, this is my culture, this is my fandom, this is my guilty pleasure, and this is how I laugh about myself." "Helps me connect with another ______." This is one of the greatest gifts of the internet. It's amazing when you find a piece of media that _________ _________ your bond with someone.

This is the group of jobs that helps me do something — helps me ______ an argument, helps me learn something about myself or another person, or helps me _______ my story.

This is the _____ of jobs that makes me feel something — makes me curious or sad or restores my faith in humanity.

Solution


  1. settle
  2. describes
  3. person
  4. precisely
  5. explain
  6. group

Original Text


"This is me." Identity. People are increasingly using media to explain, "This is who I am. This is my upbringing, this is my culture, this is my fandom, this is my guilty pleasure, and this is how I laugh about myself." "Helps me connect with another person." This is one of the greatest gifts of the internet. It's amazing when you find a piece of media that precisely describes your bond with someone.

This is the group of jobs that helps me do something — helps me settle an argument, helps me learn something about myself or another person, or helps me explain my story.

This is the group of jobs that makes me feel something — makes me curious or sad or restores my faith in humanity.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
million views 4
people love 3
facebook live 2
real job 2
media companies 2
exact age 2
cultural cartography 2


Important Words


  1. amazing
  2. argument
  3. bond
  4. connect
  5. culture
  6. curious
  7. describes
  8. explain
  9. faith
  10. fandom
  11. feel
  12. find
  13. gifts
  14. greatest
  15. group
  16. guilty
  17. helps
  18. humanity
  19. identity
  20. increasingly
  21. internet
  22. jobs
  23. laugh
  24. learn
  25. media
  26. people
  27. person
  28. piece
  29. pleasure
  30. precisely
  31. restores
  32. sad
  33. settle
  34. story
  35. upbringing