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Here’s what ‘Game of Thrones’ would look like in Silicon Valley

Google+ is coming.

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Who do you support in the battle to sit on the Internet throne?

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The folks over at social media client Hootsuite evidently think they’re the perfect candidates to unite the divided kingdoms of social media. They’ve designed a gorgeous Game of Thrones parody video to let us know how creative they can get when it comes to wielding power over unruly social networks.

In this impressive 90-second video, Hootsuite seamlessly unites advertising with fandom while managing to give us a new and interesting what-if metaphor for social media companies. The production features gorgeous art design and a special theme song, which Hootsuite told AdWeek came from animator Clément Morin and composer Etienne Forget. The concept follows up the company’s “Game of Social Thrones” infographic from last June.

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It’s not perfect, of course—it’s hard to think of LinkedIn as a real social network and not “that thing you never update unless you’re job-hunting,” and no one actually takes Google+ seriously except Google+.

Meanwhile, we can only imagine that the approaching northern ice zombies are off somewhere being portrayed by Reddit and 4chan.


Screengrab via YouTube

 
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