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Source: Smash hits: How viral memes conquered piñata design

Summary
Mexican piñatas have evolved from traditional seven-point stars to modern representations of pop culture trends. Piñata makers are now inspired by memes, emojis, TV series, gaming-related characters, and even tech companies. These new designs have transformed the piñatas into symbols of modern global culture, used not only for collective celebrations but also as individual markers for background decor in social media videos.

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🎉 Piñatas have become a reliable indicator of popular cultural trends in Mexico.

🤳 Piñatas are being used as individual markers for background decor in social media videos.

🧑🏻‍🎨 Piñata makers are finding new ways of reaching customers by keeping up with the memes and internet culture.

🔥 Piñatería Ramírez created a piñata inspired by the Arjen Robben meme during the 2014 FIFA World Cup that became a huge hit.

💡 The new designs have helped a centuries-old tradition of craftsmanship survive.

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The SQL-Standard ISO/IEC 9075-2 does not define functions to calculate MD5 hash values.

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🔍 The SQL dialects may return the hash value differently, sometimes as a binary value or hex encoded character string in upper or lower case letters.

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