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As with most new years, people entered 2020 armed with plans and full of expectations. However, as the year comes to an end, the world is yet to recover from the blows it dealt.
The modus operandi of many things changed during the year because of the coronavirus, with social media habits also affected as more people spent time online following pandemic-induced lockdowns.
And partly because of this, new trends emerged on different social media platforms forming part of the year’s highlights. Here’s an inexhaustive list of hashtags that went viral during the year.
#WorldWarIII and #WWIII
2020 started on quite an interesting note. Just three days into the year, #WorldWarIII and #WWIII were trending on Twitter. After President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike that killed General Qasem Soleimani Iran’s second-in-command, the trend caught fire.