Yearender 2015: Top 10 social media events

Editor's note: Throughout 2015, social media continued to dominate the Internet as users posted and shared stories and photos that captured the world's attention. Events involving celebrities, everyday people were shared millions of times with a click or a touch. Now that it's the end of 2015, let's have a look at the top 10 social media events of the year.

Spring Festival meme

During this year's Spring Festival holiday, a photo showing a couple of street cleaners holding up a sign to ask young people to buy fewer firecrackers so they could return home earlier before the holiday went viral. The couple's plea kicked off a meme online and the original photo gathered quite a following. And the topic has since been viewed more than 1.38 million times on Sina Weibo.

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