Candystorm

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Candystorm [ ˈkændɪˈstɔː (r) m ] is a composition of the English terms candy ('sweetness, bonbon') and storm ('storm') and, as an antonym to Shitstorm in German-speaking countries, describes a wave of popularity in social media . The term was first used on November 12, 2012 by Volker Beck ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) on the short message service Twitter , who described a support movement for the then party chairman Claudia Roth .

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In November 2012, the members of the party chose Alliance 90 / The Greens means of a primary election their top candidate inside for the general election in 2013. Claudia Roth, at this time the incumbent party leader, finished with a vote share of 26.2 percent, only fourth. The result, which was disappointing for them, gave rise to speculation about their withdrawal from the party leadership, whose new election was imminent. Claudia Roth's sympathizers then reported on the short message service Twitter with encouragement and recognition and the Green politician Volker Beck used the term on November 11, 2012 with his appeal for “Candystorm for Claudia” on Twitter, for the first time in the public German-speaking area Candystorm as a name for this advocacy movement and as a description for the "opposite of a shitstorm". On November 12, 2012, Roth announced that she would run for re-election as party leader. At the federal delegates' conference on November 17, 2012, alluding to the Candystorm , she was thrown candy by the delegates at the end of her application speech and confirmed in office in the subsequent election with a result of 88.5 percent of the votes. Roth said: "I was particularly touched because I hadn't known that before, a Candystorm in which I was asked to run for office directly."

Numerous German-language media report on the conceptually revised internet phenomenon , for which terms such as Flausch , Flauschstorm and Lovestorm had already been used in advance in German-language internet jargon . The term established itself in the media science discussion.

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Within a short time, the term developed into a neologism and was also used outside of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party congress and without reference to the sympathy rallies for Claudia Roth. Die Zeit noticed that the "cuddling attack", which "despite his botched start as a candidate for Chancellor " "at the Juso Congress in Magdeburg" in November 2012 " acted on the candidate" Peer Steinbrück ( SPD ) for half an hour , from the meeting " Candystorm “was called. The Donaukurier titled its report on Marlene Mortler ( CSU ), who was elected candidate for the 2013 federal election with 99.3 percent of the delegate votes of the CSU district associations Roth and Nürnberger Land , with "99 percent plus an attack in the Candystorm" Die Neue Zürcher In the course of the sexism debate triggered by an article in Stern magazine, the newspaper reported that the FDP " prepared a New Years reception for its much-scolded member" Rainer Brüderle "at the weekend in Düsseldorf, which grew into a real candy storm". In the same context, the online industry service Meedia reported a "story between Shit and Candystorm", the WDR spoke of a "Liberal Candystorm for the top man". The gay - lesbian news portal queer.de remarked to the member of the Bundestag Michael Kauch , who failed in the preliminary nomination of the FDP-Ruhr for the Bundestag candidates of the NRW state list , that he was now hoping for "a candy storm".

The term Candystorm was also used in the German-language press outside of politics. Die Welt titled its article on the discontinuation of the publication of the business newspaper Financial Times Deutschland with “'Financial Times Deutschland' in Candystorm”, Die Welt Kompakt with “'Financial Times Deutschland': Candy-Storm for parting”. The Handelsblatt spoke on November 21 of a "'Lovestorm' for the Financial Times Deutschland".

According to the WAZ media group , supporters of the controversial museum director Raimund Stecker , who was criticized for the impending insolvency of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg , organized defective small electrical appliances in December 2012 under the motto "It doesn't work without a plug" the museum the construction of a “barrier of sympathy”, “as a huge sympathy rally”, as a “candy storm”.

The magazine Stern adapted the term Candystorm in relation to the sweets distributed to all children in the country under the age of ten on the occasion of the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on January 8, 2013, one kilogram per child. The magazine commented: “The state news agency claims to have registered 'explosions of joy' after the delicacies were brought to the people by helicopter and plane. For parts of the population, the 'Candystorm' should be the first real calorie boost in a long time. "

The Austrian business daily Medianet reported in February 2013 on the “outbreak” of the “probably largest Facebook candystorm” so far with around 41,000 participants “on the German-speaking Internet”, a “wave of solidarity” for the Walter Niemetz confectionery factory in the Facebook group, which had run into financial difficulties "Save the Niemetz Swedish bombs ". The Austrian cult ice cream of the 1990s Tschisi was produced again by the Unilever subsidiary Eskimo after a Candystorm and a lot of media attention. The company minimized its own risk as much as possible by cleverly participating in the discussion on the Facebook page “We want the Tschisi ice cream back” and waiting for a critical mass of around 90,000 fans.

After reports of two incidents in March 2013 in which Autonome threw white jam jars on Til Schweiger's house and his girlfriend's car burned down, the actor's Facebook page received a flood of supportive comments, referred to in media reports as Candystorm . The wave of sympathy increased even more after the newspaper “ Bild ” reported on its cover of March 27 about the “Facebook consolation for Til Schweiger!”.

Supporters of whistleblower Edward Snowden entered a petition on June 9, 2013 through the White House website entitled "Pardon Edward Snowden." A petition must find more than 100,000 supporters in 30 days for the White House to respond. The required hurdle was passed in June. The newspaper "Bild" reported with the headline: " Candystorm for Edward Snowden ". The “Twitter candystorm for Snowden Asylum”, which appeared in July 2013, referred to Section 22 of the Residence Act under the hashtag snowstorm22 , on the basis of which, according to the participants, Snowden could be granted asylum in Germany.

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On November 12, 2012, Die Zeit commented under the heading Prominent Ignored : “It is conceivable that in the distant future no one will know that Claudia Roth was green. But that she was cute and invented the "candy storm" will go down in history. "

Thomas Oppermann , Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group, said on November 13, 2012 on Twitter: "@Volker_Beck has made Twitter history: #candystorm is a word creation that lasts."

Axel Hoffmann, Deputy Chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , which is closely related to the FDP, even sees the phenomenon as paradigmatic for the digital society: “The end of a liberal civil society is in sight. The shit or candy storm rules. "

Holger Schmale from the Frankfurter Rundschau criticized: “Now everyone can express themselves as they like. What is fatal, however, is that this infantile form of communication, which has become a mass phenomenon via Facebook, has an effect on politics, which are always receptive to mass trends. Who should take a politician and her concerns seriously who, like Claudia Roth, justifies the continuation of her political career as Greens leader with a candystorm, i.e. a wave of exuberant, positive, caressing letters on the Internet? And whose followers translate this virtual affection into reality and, after their re-election, shower them with candy like on a children's birthday party? "

Inge Kutter commented in Die Zeit on a study by the Australian Swimming Association that highlighted the effect of social media on competitive athletes: “But a discomfort remains. The study makes it clear that direct public attention on virtual channels can have noticeable side effects. It is similar to that of television fame, but is reinforced by the fact that there is no longer a filter between a star and his audience. Every reaction is immediate and direct. And those hit are alone, in Shitstorm as in Candystorm. "

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  1. ↑ a b Der Spiegel : Green Party Congress: Delegates confirm Roth and Özdemir as party leaders , November 17, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Tagesspiegel : Candystorm instead of Shitstorm , November 12, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  3. ^ A b Süddeutsche Zeitung : Candystorm for Claudia Roth , November 12, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  4. ↑ Focus , Tatjana Heid: Re-election as the Greens leader. Greens fondle Claudia Roth after the primary election disaster , November 17, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  5. ^ Die Zeit , Tatjana Heid: Claudia Roth's Mini-Comeback , November 17, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  6. ^ Die Tageszeitung , Enrico Ippolito: Die kleine Wortkunde - "Candystorm". The new #flausch , November 12, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  7. ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Netzgemeinde Claudia Roth and the first Candystorm , November 13, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  8. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau : Netzgemeinde - Claudia Roth and the first Candystorm , November 13, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  9. ↑ netzpiloten.de, Jörg Wittkewitz: Shitstorm vs. Flauschstorm , December 19, 2011, accessed February 21, 2013
  10. ↑ Tagesspiegel, Sonja Álvarez and Joachim Huber: Protests against the ZDF presenter. “Lanz stands for flat land entertainment”. , January 22, 2014, accessed January 24, 2014
  11. ↑ Die Zeit: Bundestag election campaign. The 25,000 euro question , November 30, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  12. ↑ Donaukurier : 99 percent plus one attack in the "Candystorm". CSU district associations stand behind Marlene Mortler , November 25, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  13. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Ulrich Schmid : Brüderle busy media and politics , January 29, 2013, accessed on February 21, 2013
  14. ^ Meedia : Press comments on the Brüderle portrait of the star. “The story is journalistically dubious” ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), January 25, 2013, accessed on February 21, 2013
  15. ↑ Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Martin Teigeler: Brüderle visits NRW-FDP: Liberal Candystorm for the top man , January 27, 2013, accessed on February 24, 2013
  16. ↑ queer.de, Micha Schulze: Michael Kauch hopes for a candy storm , November 13, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013
  17. ↑ Thomas Heuzeroth: "Financial Times Germany" in Candystorm. In: welt.de . November 21, 2012, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  18. ^ "Financial Times Deutschland": Candy Storm for goodbye . In: Die Welt Kompakt , November 22, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013.
  19. ↑ Tina Halberschmidt: A "Lovestorm" for the Financial Times Germany. In: handelsblatt.com . November 22, 2012, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Stefan Endell: "Candystorm" with electronic scrap for Lehmbruck boss connector. In: derwesten.de. December 18, 2012, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  21. ^ Niels Kruse: North Korea under Kim Jong Un: Change through emaciation. In: stern.de . January 10, 2013, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  22. ↑ medianet , Volker Moser: A Candystorm on Facebook  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11.5 MB), February 19, 2013, p. 11, accessed on February 24, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.medianet.at  
  23. ↑ DiePresse.com : Fans are hoarding Sweden bombs from Niemetz , February 4, 2013, accessed on February 24, 2013
  24. ^ DiePresse.com: "Schwedenbombe": Solidarity for Niemetz on Facebook , February 4, 2013, accessed February 24, 2013
  25. ^ N24 : Austrians fight for sweets online , section: Candystorm for "Tschisi" , March 30, 2013, accessed January 13, 2013
  26. ↑ Fans' own Facebook page: Til Schweiger is in the middle of the Candystorm after the attack. In: Focus Online . March 27, 2013, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  27. ↑ Candystorm for Til Schweiger. In: tagesspiegel.de . March 27, 2013, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  28. ^ After posting: Candystorm for Til Schweiger. March 27, 2013, archived from the original on March 30, 2013 ; accessed on February 13, 2015 .
  29. ↑ The White House : Pardon Edward Snowden ( Memento June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , June 9, 2013, accessed June 28, 2013
  30. ↑ Candystorm for Edward Snowden: America's No. 1 public enemy divides the country. In: bild.de. June 11, 2013, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  31. ↑ Max Ponert: Twitter-candystorm for Snowden-Asyl ( memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , July 2, 2013, accessed on January 14, 2014
  32. ↑ wahl.de: Topic "snowstorm22"
  33. ↑ Ulrich Greiner: Prominent Ignored: Candy Storm. In: zeit.de . November 15, 2012, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  34. ↑ Twitter account Thomas Oppermann Twitter ThomasOppermann ( Memento from December 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  35. ^ Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung , Klaus Füßmann: Museum-Koenig-Forum: Power at the click of a mouse? ( Memento of January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), November 26, 2012, accessed on February 12, 2013
  36. ↑ Holger Schmale: Politicians and the media: Politicians and their (bad) reputation. In: fr-online.de . January 7, 2013, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  37. ↑ Inge Kutter: Sport: Twitter or win. In: zeit.de . February 28, 2013, accessed February 13, 2015 .