Cat Arambulo

You’ve heard about her from a previous list, but she was trending on the first couple of days of lockdown thanks to her outburst, telling people to stay at home, except she didn’t use “people,” but a decidedly less charitable word.

Out of all the non-political celebrities who earned the ire of PH Twitter, Ms. Arambulo probably caught the most heat. It’s okay, she’s got her posse watching her back. Her Gucci Gang, if you will.

#MochaUsonIsOverParty

Proving that when given with a lot of time on their hands, people can be capable of great things, it looks like the daily routine of mass reporting Mocha’s page for sowing “hatred, discord, and lies” (their words, not ours) has become a party for PH Twitter since around last Friday. Since then, this game of Whack-A-Mocha has been going on, with her unpublishing her page and jumping to Banat By’s page (a co-admin of her blog and also allegedly her boyfriend) in quick succession everytime people rallied to have her page taken down.

Here’s the good news for Mocha: being deplatformed from Facebook doesn’t take away any of her free speech! She can still say whatever she wants, just not on Facebook. Who knew, right?

#TaylorToldTheTruth

It’s quite amazing to note that in the middle of random celebrities both local and foreign trending here and there, The biggest celebrity-related trend in PH Twitter is still the revelation that after all these years, Taylor Swift was indeed telling the truth about her discomfort regarding being on Kanye’s song, “Famous.”

We’d ask Kanye west for his side, but we’re pretty sure he’d rather be excluded from this narrative.

#Vivico

Yes, everyone (who’s not a monster) is currently all agog over Vico Sotto, but the sheer amount of thirst that came with this hashtag was literally palpable. It’s not enough to #ProtectVico, they also had to proverbially mark their territory.

Only goes to show that what turns us on is not a hot body or a pretty face, but good freaking governance. Oh yeah, give me some of that fiscal responsibility, baby. That calculated risk assessment and responsive disaster management feels soooo good!

Mang Boyong

Don’t look now, but we definitely stan anyone who’s willing to pitch in and help out our frontliners. Mang Boyong, the longtime taho vendor who was giving out his wares for free to the people in the frontlines early last week, trended for this very reason.

We were pleasantly surprised to see this hashtag, given that the last time a “Mang” was trending on the internet, it wasn’t exactly SFW.

Coviduvidapdap

In the middle of this health crisis, someone decided to name their kid after COVID-19, and a Willie Revillame hit song. Can you come up with a more terrible duo? And here we thought Covid Bryant and Covid Rose had it bad.

#NoToVIPTesting

Trending over the weekend, we really don’t need to explain why this has been the most important (but only second most fascinating) hashtag trending online so far, given that four medical frontliners have already passed away due to COVID-19, and several more are fighting for their lives while we speak. With the exception of the president (for very obvious reasons), anyone who jumps the line just to get their test results despite not even showing any symptoms should be ashamed of themselves, because that is one less test that people with symptoms, or said frontliners, can use.

No jokes here, except the people we elected who betrayed our medical frontliners. The saddest kind.

#JoomZakol (But not spelled that way)

More than SOBRANG WILD, PH Twitter’s first day of lockdown will be marked by this hashtag. Because heavens to betsy, if people are this thirsty on Day 1 of the lockdown, how would they be near the end of it?!?

People were using the hashtag to, yes, invite each other to go on Zoom and to, well, do the second word, when spelled correctly. No video, just audio, according to the rules (so we heard). We here at the 8List don’t judge people for what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms, but we feel obligated to inform these people that aside from Zoom’s highly questionable terms and conditions with regards to privacy, the app is also highly susceptible to being eavesdropped on by hackers. Whoops!

What are some of the most interesting social media hashtags you’ve seen recently?