This was the week of Sharknado 3, what else do you need to know?

SyFy’s Sharknado 3 first created a shark-infested social storm and then followed that up by winning Twitter. On Wednesday, July 22, Sharknado 3 was the night’s top trending topic, with 360,000 related tweets reaching an audience of 4.5 million and creating some 2 billion impressions. On YouTube, clips of the film were viewed more than 6 million times.

Meanwhile, a real shark storm/sort-of attack was happening in South Africa, where people very stupidly held a surfing contest in the middle of a Great White-infested sardine swim. Surprise, surprise, Australian surfer Mick Fanning had a run-in with a Great White, but brushed it off with a lick of his surfboard’s leash.

In the week’s very rare piece of non-shark-related news, Stephen Colbert is dying to get back on TV. For now all he has is YouTube so why not join him there?

ABC also created a whole series of shows we wish we could watch, including How to Get Off the Boat and Grey-ish.

And UFC, with the help of Troika, rebranded, softening up its logo but not its content.

Before you head off to the beach or the mountains, here’s a Hot Spot to keep you dancing all weekend long.

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