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Mourning disco queen Donna Summer

A curated look at how the Web paid tribute to the late singer and icon of an era.

Fruzsina Eördögh

Updated on June 2 2021 4:59 pm CDT

The Queen of Disco, Donna Summer, has had her last dance.

Summer succumbed to cancer on Thursday morning. From celebrities to cancer survivors, the Web collectively mourned the announcement.

On social news site Reddit, 25 threads with “Donna Summer” in the title were created in under an hour. According to Topsy analytics, “Donna Summer” was mentioned on Twitter roughly 300,000 times in less than two hours.

The most tweeted article was the TMZ piece that broke the story of Summer’s death, which received 16,000 mentions.

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Fruzsina Eördögh

Fruzsina Eördögh was the Daily Dot’s first YouTube reporter. In addition to working as a producer for the now-defunct digital channel TouchVision TV, Eördögh has been published by Vice, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, Variety, and Slate.