WTS? — Don’t Meet Your Twitter Friends IRL

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WTS?, shorthand for Why’d That Slap?, is a content series dedicated to the how and why behind viral content on Twitter. It is written through a mid-millennial lens and sometimes dabbles in communication theory, sociology, psychology, and current events.

This Tweet below has gone a different kind of viral than I have previously discussed — it is called getting “ratioed”, for those who don’t…