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Good morning, PR pros:

If you think throwing shade is only for Wendy’s social media team, the Ohio State Fair’s digital communicators would like a word:

Sir this is a Fair
We are not https://t.co/JfVUm0KWHy https://t.co/RSB1mrFqKW

— Ohio State Fair (@OhioStateFair) July 28, 2019

Snapchat is riding high since revealing that 13 million daily active users joined its platform in the past quarter, and it took aim at Facebook-owned Instagram with its “Real Friends” campaign.

Snap partnered with Instagram influencers and flooded the app’s hashtags #friendshipquotes and #realfriends with friendship quotations splashed across Snapchat’s iconic yellow background and logo:

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