POP CULTURE

1. RICHARD DAWKINS coined the term meme. In his 1976 bestseller “The Selfish Gene,
Dawkins defined meme as an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person
within a culture.

2. BTS is the first Kpop group that made history when their “Love yourself” album entered
the top 10 of the billboard 200 chart. It reached number 7 in the charts.

3. LUIS FONSI AND DADDY YANKEE’s “DESPACITO” is the first Latin music video
reached 4 billion views in YouTube and up to date it has 7B views.

4. BABY SHARK DANCE most- viewed YouTube video of all time with more than 7.2
billion lifetime views surpassing the former record holder “Despacito”

5. PSY’s “GANGNAM STYLE” video remained on the top spot for longest (1 689 days or
4.6 years) before ceding its spot to its successor.

6. T – SERIES, Indian music network had the most YouTube subscribers in the world in
October 2020, with 156 million users following the channels. Next, the Swedish video
game commentator PewDiePie ranked second with over 107 million subscribers.

7. RAFFY TULFO IN ACTION is the most popular YouTube channel in the Philippines of
approximately 11.8 million subscribers as of June 2020.

8. TALA by SARAH GERONIMO is the most viewed Filipino music video on YouTube
which reached 162 million views.

9. SHAPE of YOU by ED SHEERAN is the most streamed song on SPOTIFY with over
2.6 billion streams.

10. VINA MORALES and KJWAN – the Filipino acts won the solo and band categories
respectively at the regional talent competition IKON ASEAN held in Malaysia in 2007.

11. KYLIE JENNER is the youngest “self-made billionaire ever” according in Forbes 2019.

12. PARASITE- first non-English-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

13. WINGS – the first official movie won the Best Picture Academy Award.

14. STARBUCKS CUP the modern-day item made a cameo in the final season of Game of
Thrones.

15. SMH stands for “Shaking my head”

16. BECOMING is the name of Michelle Obama’s 2018 memoir.

17. JOHN LEGEND is the first African-American man to achieve EGOT status

18. 2007 the first premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians 

19. BILLIE EILISH is the artist made history in 2020 as the youngest winner of the
Grammys’ four main categories.

20. GAGAMBOY is Filipino movie called “a low-rent Filipino cousin to Spiderman.”

21. AGA MUCHLACH & EUGENE DOMINGO performed as voice actors in the animated
movie “RPG Metanoia”

22. DAVID ARCHULETA is the American idol alum is the lead actor in the TV5 series
“Nandito Ako” which starred Jasmine Curtis Smith

23. KEN CHU is the F4 member starred in a 2007 Filipino movie produced by GMA Films.

24. “THE ECHO,” starring Jesse Bradford is the American adaptation of Filipino horror film,
“SIGAW”

25. TOM is everyone’s first “friend” on MySpace. It was the first social media site to take off
with millennials. Tom Anderson is the co-founder of the platform. He sold the company
to News Corp for 580million dollars in 2005. These days he’s a travel photographer.