The meme comes at a very interesting time for Twitter and internet culture at large. I SAID STAN TWITTER DO YOU KNOW THIS FUCKING SONG /eUAAwQ86cN- zach August 21, 2018 New memes are changing that, like intertwining hands or a recent personal favorite, “Stan Twitter, do you know this song?” We understand why people participate in Stan Twitter - excitement over finding others they can geek out with over a show or celebrity they truly love is a universal feeling - but rarely do independent Stan Twitter fandoms intersect. Anyone can find a fandom they support, but trying to understand a totally foreign online culture is difficult without heavy investment. Stan Twitter by its very nature is both accessible and inaccessible. Film Twitter collects cinema devotees Games Twitter sparks conversations about games and circulates strange memes Weird Twitter is home to Twitter’s strangest personalities whose oddball remarks cherished by Very Online people Gay Twitter is a celebration of queer people, pop culture and pride and Stan Twitter is an overarching collection of various fandoms. Twitter unified people on one platform, but people quickly divided themselves.
Twitter is divided into microcosms, and each little ecosystem comes with its own etiquette practices, language and jokes.