10 Pretty Important Things You Missed During The Llama Chase Of 2015

Llamas >.

On the afternoon of February 26, two llamas on the loose captured the hearts of America. The entire country stopped to follow the harrowing live feed.

vine.co

Twitter was alit with llama tweets. It was —AND STILL IS — the number one trending topic nationwide.

While it may be hard to believe, during that time, other important news happened too. Here is everything you missed while you were fixated on the livelihood of llamas.

1. A breakthrough in science.

nydailynews.com

2. A 2.5 magnitude earthquake rocked Virginia.

nbc12.com

3. Four new cases, and strains, of measles confirmed in California.

abc7news.com

4. A senator literally grabbed and threw a snowball to make a point about global warming.

vine.co

5. Twitter released new rules about abusing and impersonating people.

Twitter / Via buzzfeed.com

6. Kanye West had a new interview with Zane Lowe in which he shortened the "future" into "futch".

youtube.com

7. And admitted he was probably wrong for dissing Beck.

"I never said he wasn't an artist ... Maybe I might have been wrong."

8. Lupita Nyong'o's $150,000 all-pearl Oscar dress was stolen.

Jason Merritt / Getty Images

9. The masked ISIS militant, who's appeared in the videos of beheadings of Western hostages, has been named.

bbc.com

10. And the FCC approved a historic policy for an "open internet".

npr.org

Right before llamas happened, the FCC ensured that "no one — whether government or corporate — should control free open access to the Internet."

AKA the right to a live llama chase feed.

Anthony Quintano @AnthonyQuintano

#Llamas 220K tweets vs #NetNeutrality 260K tweets #priorities

10:26 PM - 26 Feb 2015