‘Entanglement’ tops South African Google searches
Hundreds of thousands of South Africans entered the search term in their Google browsers between Friday and Saturday.
Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith on Red Table Talk | Image: Twitter
Following Friday night’s episode of Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk, where celebrity couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith discussed allegations made by her former lover August Alsina, the word ‘entanglement; found itself topping the list of trending searches on Saturday.
With a whopping amount of over half a million searches, ‘entanglement’ far surpassed searches for the days’ soccer matches which often dominate search results over the weekend.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 – Trending Google searches in South Africa | Image: Screenshot (trends.google.com)
The interest in the term spiked after Pinkett-Smith referred to her relationship with Alsina as “an entanglement.”
Sat, 11Jul 2020 – Entanglement was the most searched term in South Africa | Image: Screenshot
Many had no idea that the term is also used to refer to a complicated or compromising relationship or situation.
Jada was kinda right though.
An "entanglement" could also mean…See dictionary below👇 pic.twitter.com/ChrxbFe33G
— Adééééééé (@Ms_dewumii) July 10, 2020
Other lamented how they feared it would become the new dating buzzword.
Me trying to figure out what tweeps mean by entanglement 😩😅 pic.twitter.com/yewOC717ZA
— Saintl.e.s.s 🇺🇬 (@_saintless_101) July 11, 2020
“Entanglement” is that what you want to call our love? pic.twitter.com/jTAiyJiH2u
— Crocodile Cam⚡️🇨🇻 (@CrocodileCam) July 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/Jupinapapi2/status/1282142982486065152?s=20
Essentially Jada's whole red table talk can be boiled on to one thing:#entanglement pic.twitter.com/5ty7m1kpti
— BeckPandaKim (@panda_beck) July 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/mukigainrukiga/status/1282187551705575424?s=20
The word even got a trap music remix which you can listen to below:
The internet wastes no time at all ???????? pic.twitter.com/k709hsEGis
— ???????? (@rahm3sh) July 11, 2020
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