Cher

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About

Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian) is an American actress and singer (born May 20th, 1946). She has had an extensive career both on screen and in the studio, and has won an Emmy, Academy Award, Grammy, and several Golden Globes. In the 21st Century, she has remained in the public eye thanks in large to her eccentric Twitter account, where her idiosyncratic way of typing with all capital letters, shoddy spelling, and emojis have made her extremely popular on the microblogging website.

Career

Cher first reached public attention in 1965 as one half of the folk-rock husband-and-wife duo Sonny & Cher when their song "I Got You Babe" reached number 1 in America and England.^[1] Despite a rocky relationship with soon-to-be-ex-husband Sonny Bono, Cher continued her music career through the 1960s and 1970s. During the late 1970s, Cher broke through on television with The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and musically experimented with disco. However, by the late 70s, her popularity was declining. In the 1980s, Cher returned to a more rock-based sound and began a successful acting career. In the 80s, she starred in films including The Witches of Eastwick (below, left), Mask, Silkwood, and Moonstruck (below, right), for which she won the Academy Award for best actress.

In the late 80s, Cher had become a bonafide movie star, and returned to music with the smash hit "If I Could Turn Back Time" (below Left) in 1989. She did not have a hit of the same level until 1998, when she released her album Believe. The title-track of that album (below, right) became one of her all-time most popular hits.

Online Presence

Cher is extremely popular on social media, with over 2 million Facebook^[2] likes and 360 thousand Instagram^[3] followers.

Twitter Presence

Cher's Twitter^[4] has proven her most popular social media account. She has 3.11 million followers as of August 18th, 2016. Her idiosyncratic mix of disregarded grammar, outspokenness, caps-lock tweets, emojis, and left-leaning politics have captured the attention of Twitter users.

Cher's Twitter has been celebrated by The New York Times,^[5] who commended Cher as "perhaps the last unreconstructed high-profile Twitter user to stand at her digital pulpit and yell (somewhat) incomprehensibly, and be rewarded for it." Buzzfeed^[6]^[8] has written several times about Cher's tweets, once calling every one a "small masterpiece." The Huffington Post^[7] compiled a list of times Cher "dragged" Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Twitter. Other publications that have written about Cher's tweets include Harper's Bazaar,^[9] Complex,^[10] NME,^[11] Gawker,^[12] Elle,^[13] and many more. The Daily Dot^[14] declared Cher "the best person on Twitter."

Hi Again

On July 25th, 2018, Cher tweeted^[15] "Hi again," which became the punchline to a series jokes, operating as reaction to various setups. The post (shown below) received more than 9,900 retweets and 59,000 likes in six days.

Over the next few days, people began captioning the tweet by quote-retweeting the image. The next day, Twitter^[18] user @joeshw tweeted, "me returning to my friends on a night out after being missing for hours" The tweet (shown below, left) received more than 9,200 retweets and 39,000 likes in five days. On July 27th, Twitter^[16] user @emilyeasson tweeted, "Me in the group chat after being ignored three times." The post (shown below, center) received more than 28,000 retweets and 113,000 likes in four days. Two days later, Twitter^[17] user @_ayosworldd tweeted, "Me checking the fridge after just just checking it 2 minutes before." Within two days, the post (shown below, right) received more than 5,900 retweets and 29,000 likes.

On July 28th, Twitter^[19] published a Moments page about the tweet.