The Republican party's sweeping majority gains across-the-board in the U.S. midterm elections this week has prompted an unusually "in-your-face" hashtag campaign aimed at Hillary Clinton and her allies from Kentucky's U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Twitter.

Today's unveiling of the presumably official title for Star Wars VII, "The Force Awakens," triggered a slew of alternate title suggestions from the fans on Twitter under the hashtag #RejectedStarWarsTitles.

Federal agents have arrested 26-year-old San Francisco resident Blake Benthall as the alleged operator of the online drug marketplace Silk Road 2.0, which is estimated to have facilitated upwards of $8 million in sales as of September this year.

The founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based startup Breakr, which helps "connect fans and fandoms," claims his company played an instrumental role in perpetuating the #AlexFromTarget hashtag on Twitter.

The Internet's latest obsession with attractive retail service workers continues onward with a slew of spin-off characters both based in real life and fiction, like Kieran from T-Mobile and T-Bo from Groovy Smoothie (iCarly).