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Time frame of the viral Ice Bucket Challenge on Instagram

The phenomenon of this summer was (and it’s undeniable!) the Ice Bucket Challenge. Initially went mainstream when Matt Lauer (TV anchor of Today) did it on live tv on the 15th of July 2014. This challenge being a video, its virality on Instagram was not a surprise.

Thanks to our hashtag tracking tools, we tracked the number of mentions of #icebucketchallenge and #alsicebucketchallenge, to a total number of  3,017,321 posts.

Let’s compare the #alsicebucketchallenge vs the #icebucketchallenge

Let’s compare these two hashtags, #alsicebucketchallenge and #icebucketchallenge and check their evolutions. (we’ve put aside all the private accounts, deleted content and mentions in comments)

Our Tracking Hashtag features counted 694,950 #alsicebucketchallenge posts and 431,171 for the #icebucketchallenge posts.

Instagram statistics of the #icebucketchallenge Vs #alsicebucketchallenge

The spike started on the 19th of August 2014 for the @icebucketchallenge (43,137 posts) whereas #alsicebucketchallenge (48,823 posts) had already started the day before.

Even thought the #icebucketchallenge started before on Instagram (and on the web in general) the #alsicebucketchallenge took off much more quickly due to the celebrities involved in the challenge. People understand the importance of a hashtag, and a lot of people wanting to promote the fight against ALS posted in majority with the #alsicebucketchallenge hashtag.

This means approximately 95 million of potential audience, this is huge for Instagram, and for a brand in general. If you’re promoting a fight, a good cause and not a product, people will tend to follow the movement easier and the #alsicebucketchallenge shows it very well.

Let’s take a look at the geolocalized data on #icebucketchallenge and #alsicebucketchallenge

#ICEBUCKETCHALLENGE global stats

#ALSICEBUCKETCHALLENGE global stats

Thanks to this data, we can confirm that this challenge was in a vast majority an American one. It shows us also that the #alsicebucketchallenge is really situated to the North-American continent (88% of the geolocalized activity), with  where it all began. Whereas the #icebucketchallenge is more international with Turkey on the second place with 8% of the geolocalized activity, but the USA leading far away with 62% of mentions.

The ALS association realeased the donations number this morning. – “as of monday 25 of august 2014, $79.7 million in donations compared to $2.5 million during the same time period last year (July 29 to August 25).”  This is a +3,000% rise! – Since the begining of this challenge, the ALS Association has gained 1,7 million new donors.

What about the brand “ALS Association“? As written on their website, they do not have an Instagram account. After a quick check, only fake accounts are present on the visual social network, this is too bad for the brand as they were not present when demanded.

Top 3 “most likes” #icebucketchallenge posts on the 19th of August 2014 @leomessi 462,181 Likes @itsashbenzo 318,854 Likes @katyperry 277,422 Likes

Top 3 “most likes” posts #icebucketchallenge on the 20th of August 2014 @zacefron 232,036 (it’s actually the actor Robert Pattison in the video) @ikercasillasoficial 179,293 @romeosantos 170,278

After a very slow start, the #icebucketchallenge mention began, on the 18th of August with 22,034 posts,  5 uninterrupted days of exponential evolution, until the drop on the 22nd of August 2014, reaching a maximum of 78,821 posts.

On the other hand, the #alsicebucketchallenge mention started on the 17th of August with 25,132 posts and continued to rise until the drop on the 21st of August 2014, reaching a maximum of 114,180 posts.

5 brand exemples of the #icebucketchallenge

Top shop Employes  20th August 2014 59 033 Likes MTV  24th of August 23,431 Likes Nike CEO Mark Parker 19th August 2014 113 645 Likes Michael Kors CEO Michael Kors 24th of August 53,835 Likes Dolce & Gabbana CEO Stefano Gabbana 20th of August 2014 19 540 Likes

A few tips when going for your own challenge or contest :

1 – Jump on the occasion We cannot emphasize on how important it is for a brand to “create the moment” on the social networks in general. Most of the brands have to create the challenge and promote it. Sometimes, as in this case, the #alsicebucketchallenge went way much faster than what the brand expected, and they did not create their own official account… So when the occasion presents its self, as a brand, jump on the wagon to gain much more attraction and followers at zero cost.

2 – Make it easy for your community. Nobody wants a difficult challenge to accomplish. On the other hand, a fun and easy one like the ice bucket challenge is the most effective way to engage your community. Keep the rules simple, and you’ll have sparks of creativity from your followers, creating a User Generated Content that will encourage more to post and with our moderation tool, the UGC is protected, and your contest not spoiled.

3 – Importance of the video Vs the picture Videos are taking more and more importance on the visual social platforms. The Ice Bucket Challenge showed us that with a video  persons communicate and send messages through it. It allows us to feel more connected and closer to each other. It is also easier to share on other social media platforms, thus expanding your brands message.

4 – Have an inspiring story The Ice Bucket Challenge showed us once more the importance of a real cause. The story behind the ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and it touched a lot of people thus the sharing. Next time you think of a contest or an idea to share, try to find the most interesting and inspiring story for your followers. It works.

About the author

Anthony Clasen

Anthony is Customer Success Manager at Iconosquare, based in Limoges. He spends his days helping Iconosquare users get the best out of the platform by guiding them through the different features and matching them with their specific needs. He is originally from Cyprus and speaks (more than) four languages fluently.

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Photoshop Fail Of The Week: The ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Posters Are Full Of Lies Betches

In our weekly Photoshop Fail, we choose one celebrity or influencer Instagram that’s been edited poorly and show you what the tells are of a botched Photoshop job. This is to show you that the bodies you see on Instagram aren’t real, and pretty much every celebrity is editing their pics—even the people you wouldn’t expect. Moral of the story: don’t trust anybody on social media.

This week’s Photoshop Fail is one I mentioned previously, and a ton of you guys wanted me to analyze it. This is what’s so scary. To me, the second I saw this Pretty Little Liars poster years ago, I was like, “oh God, kill it with fire.” It’s a horrendous mutation of what women—even these drop-dead gorgeous women—look like. But So. Many. People. saw this poster (and others) and thought, “Wow they’re so beautiful, how can I look like that?” Spoiler: you can’t. Even the women in the poster do not look like that. It’s not real, nor should you want to look like this poster. When you consider that most of PLL‘s fanbase is young women/teenage girls, it’s straight-up irresponsible to put out posters like these, and even the cast agreed.

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Wow @itsashbenzo I couldn't agree more. Very cool concept as always. But aren't we attractive enough women as we are? Why can't we just look like us. Once.

A post shared by Troian Bellisario (@sleepinthegardn) on Dec 12, 2013 at 6:41am PST

Now, all of PLL‘s posters were problematic, but this one was absolutely the worst. I mean, you expect Photoshop in professional ads/photoshoots. Hi, I do it as a side gig for quick cash because it takes a lot of education to be good at it but not a lot of time to do. To me, that means evening out lighting, fixing minor imperfections (stray hairs, lines in the clothes, etc), color adjustments. It does not mean making alien mutations of already insanely beautiful women. Seriously, does it get more attractive than this cast? And it still wasn’t good enough?

Both Ashley Benson and Troian Bellasario publicly commented that the poster was scary and looked nothing like them, and they both found it super disappointing. And according to Ash, these were actually photos taken four years prior. Instead of just taking new pics, they digitally amped up their makeup to Bratz doll levels and made their hair giant. Why do I somehow suspect the photo editors were men? Like, “Hm yes, bigger hair, automatically sexy.”

The part of this that is most insulting is that the PLL costume designer is goddess Mandi Line, who I am obsessed with. The outfits in the show were to die for. I just want Mandi to dress me like Aria every single day. The show could have easily paid for and styled an amazing photoshoot that didn’t make them all look like the aliens from Dude Where’s My Car?. SO weird how these huge budget shows keep doing this, like that one season of The Real Housewives of Orange County. Bad Photoshop is not a solution to skipping a photoshoot!

So, how much work was actually done here? I don’t know where the original photos were from, but let’s just compare based on what the stars really look like.

Lucy Hale

Firstly, it’s so weird that they all have half of a face. Lucy and Shay apparently weren’t good enough to have a full nose, either. But aside from the strange cropping, I tried to match it up with a real pic of Lucy at a similar angle. Aria was always my favorite (I had secretly hoped she would be A… such a good twist!). However, you can see from the photo that there’s a big difference between a gorgeous woman with makeup on and an airbrushed-to-sh*t ad. Her skin texture is completely gone, she’s smoothed out like a plastic doll, they went crazy with the burn tool all over her eyes to make them sunken, and pulled them bigger. They cleaned up her brows, and my favorite part—the hair. They gave her some kind of bulbous skull deformity that is the only excuse for why her hair reaches back four extra inches from where her actual head is. This is what I don’t understand about extreme editing. It would have looked better just as an actual photo that was posed that way!

Ashley Benson

Sooooo they removed Ashley’s other eye. It’s so funny because it’s such a close call. It’s almost possible that the wasp’s nest on Lucy’s head could have covered up Ash’s eye. Almost. However, the comparison photo I grabbed is a straight-on shot. As we can see, in the edited poster one, she’s slightly tilted to the side, which in perspective, would push her eye more towards the nose. They literally just took it out. When you have these weird close calls in editing, you just fix it. Like either expand the hair even more (what difference would it make at this point, honestly) OR leave a little bit of eye showing. But no. It’s been removed for the sake of beauty. And just look at that hair. She looks like she’s going to star in a Vegas drag show after this. In addition to the plastic smoothing and eye job Lucy got, they clearly shaved down Ash’s nose and blurred it into her face. She got to keep her full nose unlike the other girls, but it still was not good enough for ~*beauty*~. Also? Ashley Benson is the epitome of the hot girl, just ask her girlfriend, supermodel Cara Delevingne. She! Does not! Need! Nose shaving! Or an eye removal. Who knew we’d be taking fashion tips from The Handmaid’s Tale?

Troian Bellasario

This just speaks volumes to how good of an actor Troian is—it’s been years and I still can’t accept that she isn’t Spencer IRL. Like, it feels wrong calling her another name. Soooo this one was really interesting. First of all, Troian definitely got the worst hair. It’s actually twice the size of her whole head. But I actually had trouble getting the faces to line up, which means they edited her entire face. Some of it could be the angle—I’m matching up different pictures, years apart of course, but Troian’s jawline is clearly just straight-up in a different spot than it appears in the ad. Which is weird because I feel like having a perfect, defined jaw like that is normally coveted? They moved it, softened it, murdered Troian’s nose, and even stretched her eyes into more cat-eye shapes, and her eyebrows are in a completely different spot. Some of that is just her expression, but it’s really, really far away from the actual shape. They even diminished her high cheekbones—also a supposedly attractive trait. I can see why she was so offended—these women don’t even look the same when you see the side-by-side. And real Troian is way prettier (and less terrifying).

Shay Mitchell

Okay, this one was harder, because Shay was posed at a weird angle and I couldn’t find an *exact* pose to match. So I flipped a photo of her. So if you’re like but “omg Shay has a mole on this side,” yes, you’re right, because I flipped it. Anyway. Um, the first horror with this photo is they bleached Shay’s skin, which I never noticed in the original. I guess I just figured it was the lighting, but you can clearly see that regardless of color tone, her skin is way, way too lightened in the edit. Horrible. While it’s not an exact angle match, I will say they seemed to have shaved her chin a bit, and got rid of her cheekbones (again… why?), and diminished her nose. In addition, of course, to the big hair, scary plastic skin, and sunken eyes, of course. If you’re messing with Shay Mitchell, you obviously don’t think any woman is attractive.

I hope this shows you how horrific Hollywood is. Every poster you see is edited to this extent—some just are better at hiding it. Kudos to the women of PLL for calling it out themselves. They help get rid of the toxicity associated with this level of quasi-perfection. But really, does anyone find this attractive? I think it looks crazy.

In happier news, I am pleased to say that Katie Maloney did something that I found both hilarious and body positive.

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K bye. Lol . I dongivafuck

A post shared by Katie Maloney-Schwartz (@musickillskate) on Aug 9, 2019 at 5:50pm PDT

She posted an UNEDITED video zooming in on her ass, with the caption “I dongivafuck”, which, respect. I generally don’t care for/seek out ass videos, but for how much flack this woman gets about her body, I appreciate that she’s owning her shape, her ass, and telling you to GTFO. We need to see more female celebs and women on TV that own their shape at any size. Good for you, Katie! Your body looks awesome, and people pay a lot of money for asses like that—just ask the Kardashians. More of this, please!

Images: Instagram (@sleepinthegardn); Giphy (2); Getty Images (4); Instagram (@musickillskate)

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