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Why Dolly Parton is a hero of the pandemic
The country legend, philanthropist and literacy champion is tackling vaccine hesitancy – with her trademark wit and cheerfulness
3 March 2021 • 5:13pm
If you happened to be waiting in line for a vaccine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Tennessee yesterday, then you may have been lucky enough to witness a spontaneous serenade.
Jolene – but with a twist, singing: “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, I’m begging of you, please don’t hesitate. Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, because once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too late.”
Pure genius, and surprisingly catchy too – so don’t be surprised if you hear others warbling it in vaccine centres over the coming weeks.
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It is one of the most popular emojis on the internet, but Gen Z users have declared the crying with laughter face dead .
Over recent weeks Gen Z users (born post-1996) have taken to Twitter and TikTok to declare they don t use the crying with laughter face because it s for millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) or parents .
In a recent blog post, Emojipedia, an authority on the use of emojis online, explained: It s common wisdom on TikTok that the laughing crying emoji is for boomers . And by boomers , I mean anyone over the age of 35.
Instead Gen Z favour the skull or coffin symbol to express their amusement. The reasoning being that the joke or situation is so funny it s caused them to die of laughter.