Mac McCann

I’m Mac McCann, a social media expert and writer based in Austin, Texas.

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Currently, I’m the social media strategist for Pluckers Wing Bar. For my work with Pluckers, I’ve been interviewed on Time Crisis, an Apple Music Beats 1 radio show hosted by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. I was also featured in an article in Vox about “professional meme makers.” I’ve had the privilege of speaking with multiple journalism and advertising classes at The University of Texas at Austin. My work for Pluckers was highlighted in Vulture’s history of Brand Twitter written by Nathan Allebach. The content I create and curate reaches hundreds of millions of impressions organically on various social media platforms.

Views expressed here are obviously my own etc etc.

According to BuzzFeed, some of my Tweets are “literally hilarious.” You may have seen my memes on the front page of Reddit, or on Instagram accounts like MiddleClassFancy, Men’s Humor, TheFunnyIntrovert, CatsDoingThings, RadDad, TheDad, TFLN, BroBible, MoistBuddha, BoysWhoCanCook, BuzzFeed, theCHIVE, Huffington Post, Nugget, and a bunch of other accounts that might already be lost to the sands of the internet. I’m still working on how to market my more,, uh,,, sophomoric takes that go super viral. But I am a professional shitposter; I understand the nature of the internet. I’ve interviewed fellow Plan II Honors alum Mike Godwin, who was the first to define internet memes as we know them today. I’m even cited by Know Your Meme. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the time my tweet made Wendy’s final four roast battle and showed my post in Times Square.

Remind me to get around to editing this.

I’ve gotten to do tons of cool things and interviewed mayors and politicians and musicians and actors etc etc update the links on these i’m probably being too informal. oh oh oh I gotta include the Mac Miller interview. I haven’t updated this thing in years and I’m honestly surprised I still knew the login. It’s a work in progress. So am I.

Previously, I created and curated content for theCHIVE’s social media, which had a following of 3.8 million on Facebook, 1.4 million on Instagram, and over 570 thousand on Twitter. Our content reached millions upon millions of people each month.

I’m passionate about news, politics, history, religious studies, music (especially hip-hop) and comedy. I need to update my About section too.

I’ve written hundreds of articles on a wide variety of topics. My work has been published in more than a dozen publications, including The Dallas Morning News, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, Complex, The Charlotte Observer, Sun-Sentinel, The Austin American-Statesman, Reason, Austin Chronicle, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Dallas Observer, OC Weekly, The La Crosse Tribune, The Intelligencer, The South Bend Tribune, Phoenix New Times, and more.

My reporting and research has been cited by NPR, The Washington Post, The Atlantic as well as The Atlantic’s City Lab, Reason, The Daily Dot, and Rap Genius.

I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2016 with a Plan II Honors, Religious Studies Honors, and History triple-major, and a minor in American Studies. I earned a Certificate in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, which hasn’t directly impacted my career but I loved those classes. I wrote my thesis about hip-hop and religion, and I’ve been cited for my research on hip-hop and lean.

Check out my “About” section for more information. You can contact me here.

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Phone: 214.460.3490