Sherry Taylor

What’s Trending This Week

What went viral and what is everyone talking about?

1)#TheDress is still a big topic this week, but the salvation Army in South Africa is using it to turn our attention to domestic violence. Check out the story here #TheDress

2)Love Has no Labels ~ It’s the latest PSA from the Ad Council for their “Diversity and Inclusion” campaign to make people aware of implicit bias. The video had up to 14 million views in just 48 hours.

3)Can I get A Fish Sandwich?~ This is definitely the funniest one of the week. A Baltimore news station was doing a traffic report when they go LIVE to Traffic Jam Jimmy to get road conditions during the snow storm.  Well, Traffic Jam Jimmy didn’t care that they were LIVE! He was hungry and when they cut to him he was in a McDonald’s drive through ordering a fish sandwhich. The big question though is, “Why is his beard orange?”

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