About

Look at This Fucking Hipster is a single topic blog that specializes in curating snapshot photographs of people dressed in stereotypical hipster fashion. Launched at the height of media obsession with hipsters in 2009, the Tumblr blog quickly established itself as an early trendsetter of anti-hipster humor and single topic blogs on the web.

Origin

Look at this Fucking Hipster^[1] was created by New York City-based stand-up comedian and writer Joe Mande in April 2009 as a way to help his dad in understanding the concept of a hipster. According to Gawker’s interview, Mande initially thought of starting a blog called IsThatAHipster.com after being asked the question “is that a hipster?” by his dad during his visit to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a Brooklyn neighborhood well-known for its indie music scene.

Precursor

Similar critiques of wacky hipster fashion have been explored prior to the creation of Look at this Fucking Hipster, with the most notable example being the “DOs & DON’Ts” series run by New York-based arts and culture magazine VICE. The first compilation of the DOs & DON’Ts was published as a book on September 1st, 2004.

Spread

Throughout the months of April and May in 2009, the blog was featured on various New York City-centric news sites like FREEWilliamsburg and The Gothamist, music news blogs NME and Absolute Punk, as well as internet culture sites BuzzFeed and Laughing Squid among many others. On May 8th, Gawker published an interview with Mandes on his thoughts on the viral reception of the blog. In June 2009, Mandes announced that the Tumblr blog has acquired a book deal with St. Martin’s Press. After a year of compiling and acquiring rights to the images, the book was released on March 30th, 2010.

Notable Examples

Derivatives

Mande’s blog also went on to inspire a series of spin-off sites based on the snowclone “Look at This Fucking X” and typically centered around other subcultures and fandoms that may be perceived as obnoxious. Some of the most notable examples include Look at this Fucking Juggalo, Look at this Fucking Teabagger and Look at this Fucking Bro.

Styleblaster

In October 2012, New York City creative agency employee Jules Laplace launched Styleblaster, a website that provides real-time image feed of random pedestrians in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. According to Gawker’s article, Laplace and his roommate Jack Kalish set up a webcam pointing out the window of their house and programmed the camera with a motion sensor to take a picture whenever someone pass by and upload to the website. Similar to other beauty and fashion rating sites, Styleblaster features a voting function that allows its visitors to upvote any image of their liking and a collection page showcasing the most popular images on the site.

Search Interest

External References

About

The Birther Movement refers to fringe theorists known as “birthers,” who believe that United States President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible for presidency.

Origin

According to an article in Politico^[2], in the spring of 2008 during the Democratic presidential primary, Hilary Clinton supports began circulating an anonymous email questioning Obama’s United States citizenship (shown below).

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth”

Spread

On June 12th, 2008, the Chicago Tribune^[3] published an article titled “Is Barack Obama a US Citizen? Yes.”, which reported that a new version of the theory argued that since Obama was born in Hawaii with a Kenyan father and 18-year-old mother, he could not be recognized as an automatic citizen based on immigration law. On June 9th, the National Review^[4] published a blog post urging Obama to prove his United States citizenship by providing the public a copy of his birth certificate. Several days later, the Obama campaign responded by posting a scanned image of Obama’s birth certificate on the website Fight the Smears^[5] (shown below).

On August 21st, former Pennsylvania deputy attorney general Phil Berg filed a complaint in the federal District court, alleging that Obama carried multiple citizenships forfeiting his eligibility to run for President of the United States. On July 28th, 2009, a Wiktionary^[1] entry for the term “birther” was added, which defined the noun as "a believer in one of more conspiracy theories, holding that President Barack Obama is not a “natual born” citizen of the United States." On August 4th, Gawker^[6] published an article titled “Happy Where’s the Birth Certificate Day, Barack Obama!”, which featured several satirical birth certificate photoshopped images (shown below).

In October of 2009, anonymous emails began circulating that the Associated Press had identified Obama as “Kenyan-born” in June of 2004. An entry titled “Trip Wire” on the rumor-checking website Snopes^[7] debunked the claims, proving that the Associated Press never identified Obama as Kenyan-born.

Birth Certificate Rejections

Following the release of Obama’s birth certificate in June of 2008, conspiracy theorists asserted that the document had been photoshopped and that it lacked the Hawaii seal of the state. Author Jerome Corsi asserted on Fox News that the campaign should produce the “original birth certificate,” claiming that the released version was “fake.”

On August 21st, the website Fact Check^[8] reported that they had analyzed the document in person, and determined that it was an authentic birth certificate. After continued pressure from political opponents, Obama asked the director of the Hawaii Department of Health for certified copies of his original Certificate of Live Birth on April 22nd, 2011. The following week, White House staffers disseminated copies of the certificate and posted a PDF version on the White House website^[9] (shown below).

The certificate had been scanned into a PDF using optical character recognition (OCR), which uses an algorithm to separate characters in an image into their own layer, allowing readers to interact with the raw text in the file. On April 27th, YouTuber joebrooksme uploaded a video titled “President Obama’s Birth Certificate PDF Has ‘Layers’,” with a screen cast of the document opened in photoshop (shown below). The same day, The National Review^[11] published a post titled “PDF Layers in Obama’s Birth Certificate,” which explained how OCR technology creates layers in PDF documents.

Donald Trump’s Involvement

While billionaire Donald Trump was attempting to make a bid for the republican nomination for president in March 2011, he began looking into the validity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate^[12], stating that the “Certification of Live Birth” the White House released did not bear a signature of authenticity.^[13] He also claimed that the release of Obama’s birth certificate was because of his involvement in the process.^[14] He continued to question Obama’s birth certificate throughout 2012, tweeting^[15] on August 6th, 2012 that the produced certificate was a fraud.

An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that <a href="https://twitter.com/barackobama">barackobama</a>'s birth certificate is a fraud.</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2012

On October 22nd, 2012, Trump asserted he would be making a “very big” revelation about the president within two days.^[16] On the 24th, Trump released a video stating he would donate $5 million dollars to the charity of the President’s choice if he provided his college applications and records as well as his passport records by October 31st to the billionaire’s satisfaction. Many news sources including CBS News^[17], Business Insider^[18] and the Huffington Post^[19] claimed the announcement fell flat of his Twitter hype. In response, satirical news host Stephen Colbert made a counter offer to Trump, saying he would donate $1 million to the charity of his choice if he would allow Colbert to “dip his balls his in mouth.”^[20] The same night, Obama responded on The Tonight Show^[21], joking that his feud with Trump dated back to when they were growing up together in Kenya.

Search Interest

External References

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About

TheAmazingAtheist is a Youtube Celeberity and Ex-Reviewer for the site That Guy With The Glasses. He is known for his controversial videos about Religion, as well as a number of other subjects. Despite gaining a lot of hate, he has also managed to gain a large fanbase also.

Online History

TheAmazingAtheist released his first video in around 2006, titled “Rant #1”, in which he discussed other religions and his standpoint on atheism to mixed reception. Many people grew hate for the video, due to the amount of racism in the video. Despite this, the video managed to gain a fanbase, and The Amazing Atheist kept making videos

Time on TGWTG

In 2009, TheAmazingAtheist joined the reviewers on That Guy With The Glasses, where he took the alias of TheDistressedWatcher. Among his contributions to the site were Trailer Failure, where he would review numerous trailers, and Sour Note, where he would Riff on various music videos. He was poorly received by the userbase, as well as his fellow reviewers, with numerous petitions being made to get him removed from the site. He was finally removed from the site in September of 2011, and soon posted a video stating that he did not hate the TGWTG community for letting him go.

Reputation

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Search Interest

About

Madness Combat is an award winning Adobe Flash series by Newgrounds user Krinkels. The series has gained recognition through it’s many animated parodies, episodes, and non-canon animations.

Origin

Madness Combat was made after Krinkels failed at gaining recognition though his old series, Breadman, a series about a man being killed in various ways, first being killed by eating a slice of bread. The first episode, “Marshmallow Madness” was submitted to Newgrounds by the creator, Krinkels. The episode has over 4000,000 views.

After Krinkels witnessed how famous the first episode became, he decided to make further episodes. The ratings changed from T to M throughout the series. The newer episodes had less views than Marshmallow Madness, yet the series has thousands of views and even more parodies and tributes.

Marshmallow Madness

Story

The story of Madness Combat takes place “Somewhere in Nevada” and is about a man named Hank J. Wimbelton who longs to kill the Sheriff, who is known for stealing pie from Hank. The storyline has changed throughout the series but still has the same main protagonist, Hank J. Wimbelton. Hank also kills several “grunts” throughout the series, he also gets killed by most antagonists, such as Jebus and Tricky, yet he randomly reappears in various forms in newer episodes after dying.

Hank has currently killed two of the main antagonists in the series, known as the Sheriff and the Auditor.

Spread

The animated series spread across various sites, well known for being on Youtube, Newgrounds, and having several fan-sites. Madness Combat is familiar mostly on Youtube because of it’s fan animations, in-animation process videos, Madness: Project Nexus gameplays, and the original series.

Episode 11

There are currently only 13 episodes of Madness Combat including episode 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5. Yet on an unknown date, deviantART user TheDeath1 asked Krinkels (Krinkels-R909) when episode 11 would come out, Krinkels replied “Soon.” to TheDeath1. The episode hasn’t yet been released but it has gained recognition from MadnessWiki, only showing the conclusion of episode 10 in the article, which was when the Auditor exploded after he absorbed Tricky into his body.

Madness Day

Madness Day is one of the many internet theme days, yet the theme is celebrating Madness Combat itself. The theme day is on September 22 every year, and is celebrated with fan art and animations.

About

Just go on the Internet and tell lies? is an online image expression and phrase, commonly used in response to blatant lies and fake information

Origin

The phrase originated from the episode “Buster the Myth Maker” on the children’s television show Arthur.^[1] In a conversation about Siberian Tigers, Arthur tells Buster that it could all be just a myth:

Spread

On January 19, 2012, an image of Yaranaika face in the Computer Reaction Faces template with the caption “You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?” was posted to Funnyjunk.^[2] Since then, the image has been reposted to Tumblr^[3], Reddit^[4], and threads on 4chan.

Notable Examples

External Links

^[1] Tv – Buster the Myth Maker

^[2] Funnyjunk – You really think someone would do that,

^[3] Tumblr – Lies tag

^[4] Reddit – Advide Animal repost

Work in Progress

About

First World Metal Problems is an advice animal image macro series focusing around on a young man wearing a black S.O.D. (Stormtroopers of Death) t-shirt, with a worried expression on his face, sitting on a park bench. The series revolves around problems relating to the Metal genre and music in general.

Origins

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The first examples of this image macro series appeared on Quickmeme in November of 2011.^[2] It was subsuquently spread to the /r/metalmemes^[1] subreddit on December 23, 2011. The image shared on reddit (shown below) featured the caption “I really like this song / but I can’t show anyone because it’s not brutal enough.”

Spread

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On March 27, 2012, the Twitter account @metalproblems^[3] was created, often tweeting out problems that are related to the Metal genre.

Had a drum lessons for five years just to find out that girls love guitar players

— Metal Problems (@MetalProblems) March 28, 2012

Notable Examples

Search Interest

External Reference

^[1] Reddit – First World Metal Problems

^[2] Quickmeme – First World Metal Problems

^[3] Twitter – @metalproblems

Hurricane Sandy is a Category 1 hurricane that formed in the western part of the Caribbean Sea and quickly gained strength. So far, it has made landfall in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and Florida. The hurricane is quickly approaching the east coast, which includes D.C. and New York. State of emergencies were quickly issued.

What makes this storm unusual, however, is that the hurricane is approaching a winter cold front, which may cause the hurricane to gain strength and/or stall over the Eastern Seaboard for several days. Similar events like this have occured in the past, such as the 1991 Perfect Storm.

Bufflalaxed or Bufflaxing is when a song in a non English language has been given subtitles based on what the foreign words sound like, not the defenition is said to have been Buffalaxed. This word comes from a YouTuber whose username is Buffalax. Currently, he was banned in 2011 for copyright claims, and all his videos were deleted.

It is typically said that buffalaxing stared here. The common languages which are buffalaxed are Punjabi, Hindi , Japanese and Russian . Here is a little taster of what a Buffalaxed video is like. WARNING, some of the lyrics may be offensive. Please watch with caution.

Here is a Russian buffalaxed video – again PLEASE watch with caution as some lyrics are offensive and NSFW.

About

Total Drama is a Canadian animated television series produced by Fresh TV, which also makes the related and similar shows 6Teen and Stoked, which airs on Teletoon in Canada and on Cartoon Network in the United States. There are currently four seasons of the show: Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, Total Drama World Tour and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. The Total Drama series is supposedly intended for tween audiences, but contains some highly questionable content for such young audiences and is very popular with older teenagers and adults. The show is known for its highly prominent online fanbase, which is characterized primarily by character worship and shipping, and has produced innumerable pieces of fan art and fan fiction.

Plot

The series is a faux–reality show based mainly on Survivor, particularly in the first season, with highly exaggerated situations. It depicts a fictional reality show hosted, directed, created and run almost singlehandedly by the sadistic sociopath Chris McLean, in which many teenage contestants compete in various and increasingly dangerous challenges for a large sum of money. The contestants are all loosely based on common teenage archetypes, but have distinctive traits beyond this, are more than simple caricatures. Various romances, friendships and conflicts develop between them over the course of the show, and character development is strong for a comedy–based cartoon. True to the title, genuine drama often occurs in the series, though it always takes a backseat to the sadistic slapstick comedy. Notable characters prominent in both the show itself and in the fandom include Gwen, Heather, Courtney, Cody, Noah and Ezekiel, among others.

Recognition of Fandom within the Show

In keeping with the “reality show” theme of the series, the show has attempted to acknowledge its audience within itself, to a greater extent than most other cartoons of its nature. In early 2010, the special known as Celebrity Manhunt’s Total Drama Reunion Special aired, depicting a fictional TMZ–like show chronicling the lives of the contestants following the ending of Total Drama Action. This special introduces the character of Sierra, an obsessed stalker of Cody who is based on the show’s obsessive fans as well as the fan characters they create (which are extremely common in the Total Drama fandom), as is apparent in her overall design. Her character would be prominent in the show’s third season, Total Drama World Tour, as would other characters including Cody and Noah, both of whom were absent in the second season but were brought back as major characters in the third, in what is believed to be due to their fan popularity. On the other hand, the character Ezekiel, the first contestant to be eliminated in the first season and, by all realistic accounts, a complete loser, was brought back as a contestant in the third season as well… only to not only be eliminated first again, but subsequently proceed to go insane and degenerate into a feral monster, in a direct insult towards all of his fans, who had given Ezekiel positive and prominent roles in fan works such as Total Drama Comeback (the title of which is also referenced in the aforementioned special) and had petitioned for him to receive such a role in the show itself.

The idea of a musical version of Total Drama angered many fans, and as a response to these complains, the title of what was intended to be called Total Drama the Musical was changed to Total Drama World Tour, though the musical premise and the content of the season itself was not changed. At the end of the Celebrity Manhunt Reunion Special, Chris McLean announces the next season as “Total Drama the Musical” and starts to sing about it, only to then state that the title won’t work, as a nod to the controversy.

Fandom Memes

Heather’s Boobies

In the thirteenth episode of Total Drama Island, titled "X–Treme Torture, the character Heather, who is the main antagonist of the season aside from Chris, has her breasts accidentally and briefly exposed during a challenge, which is seen onscreen but is blurred. The character Harold, who witnesses this, exclaims “Boobies!” This word was edited in the Cartoon Network version of the show, which made many content alterations, although it is still said elsewhere in the episode. Encyclopedia Dramatica called these scenes “the greatest moments ever in a children’s animated series”.

Lindsay Curses Out Heather

Another notable and “inappropriate” moment from later in the first season, in which the character Lindsay, who had been manipulated by Heather throughout the season and had just been indirectly eliminated from the competition because of her, snaps at Heather, giving her the middle finger (which is censored) and shouting a long, obscene, censored phrase at her. This is changed to “No good, selfish, heartless, pushy, bossy, mean, bully of a girl!” in the Cartoon Network version, which has been harshly criticized. The scene has inspired many parodies on Youtube.

Gwen’s Shovel

In episode seven of Total Drama Action, titled "The Chefshank Redemption, Gwen, the former main protagonist of the show who had recently dumped her love interest, Trent, is pressured my minor antagonist Justin to sabotage her own team in order to “repay” Justin’s team for the challenges Trent threw for her. Towards the end of the episode, as the team is tunneling out of prison, Gwen, desperate for a way to make her team lose, claims to have a claustrophobia–induced anxiety attack and bashes her teammate Harold over the head with a golden shovel that was part of the challenge, breaking the shovel and knocking Harold out. This directly leads to Gwen’s elimination.

The Love Triangle

By far the most controversial issue of the show involves a “love triangle” between the characters Gwen, Courtney and Duncan, which had been hinted at and picked up on by fans as of the first two seasons but came to a violent climax in Total Drama World Tour. To make a long story short, Duncan, who had historically been Courtney’s boyfriend throughout the series up to that point, cheats on her with Gwen, who had recently become Courtney’s friend, at the end of the thirteenth episode, at the midpoint of the season. This leads to much severe drama, including the permanent and conclusive “sinking” of the “ship” that was “DxC”, and much suffering on the part of Gwen, who is made the target of Courtney’s unbridled wrath to the point that a musical number is devoted to condemning her and is ultimately eliminated under humiliating and ironic circumstances, but still ends up with Duncan. These events caused the largest “fan–war” in Total Drama’s history, with thousands taking sides between Gwen and Courtney and their respective relationships with Duncan. The fact that the show itself sent mixed messages as to which of the three involved characters were meant to come across sympathetically did not help either, and all three gained many haters. Gwen and Courtney in particularly have become the two most polarizing characters in the series as a direct result of this drama.

When the show was broadcast in foreign countries, after its run in both Canada and America, an extra scene was added to the end of one episode, after all three of the characters involved in the love triangle have been eliminated, confirming the continuation of Gwen and Duncan’s relationship.

In July of 2012, the creators of the series finally addressed the issue of the love triangle directly in a video in which multiple fan–submitted questions were answered. Series creator Tom McGillis claimed that, while he preferred “DxC”, the executives at Teletoon forced him and the writers to break them up because they wanted the show to portray the dynamics of teenage relationships realistically, in the sense that first crushes rarely if ever stay together.

DeviantArt Memes

The Total Drama fanbase has a great presence on deviantART, where thousands upon thousands of fan art pieces exist. Multiple “memes” related to the show, consisting of templates which others are prompted to fill out according to their thoughts on the series, exist on DA, such as the “Total Drama Controversy Meme” and the “Total Drama Shipping Meme”. Both of these memes in particular have received hundreds of responses.

About

Descriptive Noise refers to a line of text used to describe various noises heard in the background of a movie or television show in closed captioning mode. Screenshots of such scenes are often shared on Tumblr to point out the absurd nature of these descriptions when taken out of context, similar to YouTube Automatic Caption Fails

Origin

On June 13th, 2011, the single topic blog Descriptive Noise^[1] launched with a still shot from the History Channel’s show Larry the Cable Guy (shown below). In the image, Larry and five teenagers are shown holding up frogs and smiling while the caption reads [indistinct mumbling].

Precursor

The closed captioning feature has been subject to numerous parodies prior to the emergence of the single topic blog, beginning with a photoshopping thread submitted to FARK^[2] on November 7th, 2006. Fuck Yeah Subtitles^[8], a Tumblr blog dedicated to humorous subtitles but not limited to those of sounds, was launched in September 2009. Additional instances of comically closed captioned photos, which may have occurred as a result of errors during real-time captioning or mistranslation from another language, have appeared on humor sites including Smosh^[3], Uproxx^[4], World Wide Interweb^[5] and the Chive^[6] between December 2011 and September 2012.

Spread

In September 2012, Buzzfeed^[7] posted a series of images with descriptive sound subtitles. Within a month, the post was viewed more than 140,000 times. Additional instances appear on Tumblr with the tag “subtitles”^[9], although they are mixed in with other subtitled images.

Notable Examples

Muffled Rap Music

On October 20th, 2012, a single topic blog titled “[Muffled Rap Music Playing in the Distance]”^[10] was launched, pairing a descriptive noise caption from a scene in the first episode of Breaking Bad to a still image from the animated series Dan Vs. (shown below, left) ^[11] in its first post. Other Tumblr users began to place this caption on to other still images, collected on the tags “muffled rap music”^[12] and “muffled rap music playing in the distance.”^[13]

Search Interest

External References

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About

Repost means copying the same post on the Internet. An act that often happens on message boards where the reposter will not read far into the archives and will post a link, an image or a story that has already been posted and discussed throughly.
However, it is possible to interest of the repost is more than the OC (original content).

Origin

Researching

Search Interest

Editor’s Note: This entry is currently being researched for additional information. Please request editorship to improve the quality of this article.

About

The Internet Archive is a digital library and archival site dedicated to permanent documentation of and free public access to a wide variety of digital artifacts, ranging rom websites and music to videos and nearly three million books registered under public domain.

History

The Internet Archive^[1] was founded in 1996 by American computer engineer and Internet activist Brewster Kahle^[2], who also co-founded the web crawling service Alexa Internet around the same time. It initially began as Kahle’s personal project to archive the World Wide Web, Netnews Bulletin Board System and other publicly available software and webpages, but by late 1999, its scope had been expanded to include other worthy archive collections like the Prelinger Archives and the NASA Images Archive. Kahle’s collection was largely kept private on digital tape throughout the 1990s, only allowing researchers and scientists to access the database on special occasions. Despite its lack of public access, the Internet Archives was met by press coverage from several U.S. news publications upon its launch, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired Magazine and National Public Radio (NPR).

The database eventually became available for public access on the fifth anniversary of the project in 2001 with the launch of The Wayback Machine^[3], a digital time capsule that allows its users to browse multiple versions of web pages archived over time. According to Kahle^[4], he was inspired to create the Machine after visting the offices of now-defunct search engine service Alta Vista and witnessing the company’s ambitious plan to store and index everything that was on the web. Throughout the 2000s, the Internet Archive continued to expand its collection by merging pre-existing databases as well as building new ones.

On January 18th, 2012, the Internet Archives blacked out its website for twelve hours in protest of the controversial U.S. Internet bills Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, similar to many other resource websites and databases like Wikipedia. In mid-October 2012, the project reached an important milestone^[5] of 10 petabytes (10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) worth of digital materials in preservation, including millions of digital books, music, movies and webpages.

Features

The Internet Archives is mainly comprised of its free online services Wayback Machine and Archive-It, in addition to a number of specialized media collections that have been acquired over time, most notably the Prelinger Archives, NASA Image Archives, Open Library and Live Music Archive. [this section is currently being researched]

The Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is the Internet Archive’s “three-dimensional index” service that allows its user to search, browse and access snapshots of the World Wide Web archived through its database over time. Since its launch in 2001, millions of websites and their associated data and media have been archived by the service, which can be used to learn more about what previous versions of certain websites used to look like, to grab source code that have disappeared from websites or to visit websites that no longer exist on the web. Often considered a crucial academic research tool in studying the history of the Internet, its popularity has also led to the synonymous usage of the terms “Wayback Machine” and “Internet Archive” in some online communities.

Archive-It

Archive-It is a web archiving service that enables individuals and organizations to harvest, catalog and preserve specialized collectons of digital media content in the archive format. All of Archive-It partners’ collectons are also made publicly available with full-text search and some of them may be periodically indexed into the Internet Archive’s general archive. As of mid-2011, the service had reached more than 180 partner institutions in 44 U.S. states and 14 countries with over 2.7 billion URLs and 1,534 public collections.

Open Library

The Open Library is a free, open-source software project which can be used to create a web-based database for every book ever published and archived. It holds at least 23 million catalog records of books and approximately 1.6 million fully-readable and downloadable books in the public domain.

Traffic

According to its FAQ page and Alexa, the Internet Archives receives approximately 2.5 million daily unique visits and currently stands at the 278th place in U.S. rank and 222nd place in Global Rank.

External References

About

Clock Crew^[2] is a flash crew from Newgrounds.com^[1] and ClockCrew.cc^[3]. This group is ruled by a user name StrawberryClock.

The Beginning

The Clock Crew saga all begin on August 15th, 2001. A Newgrounds user name Coolboyman, age 14, is spamming poorly made flash animations only to piss off Newground viewers and getting blammed. He suddenly had an idea to piss off more Newgrounds viewers, by spamming a flash file with the letter A. But he won’t post it as Coolboyman. Instead, he post it as StrawberryClock, self-claimed king of the portal. The flash file of the letter A is posted and it got a ton of negative reviews plus a blam.

The Birth of “B”

While StrawberryClock laugh at the negative reviews, he thought it would be a good idea to try it again, but this time with the red iconic letter B. Again he got negative reviews except this time something else happened. A week later, Newgrounds founder Tom Fulp awarded the B flash file Turd of the Week.

Gathering Up The Crew

On September 2001, three users related to StrawberryClock’s name appear to get together to start a group. These users/clocks are OrangeClock, RasberryClock, and AppleClock, which OrangeClock is credited for creating the group and making StrawberryClock their king. Together they call themselves The Clock Crew. PineappleClock, joined later after The Clock Crew is created and became one of the original 5 fruit clocks. Later, KnottsberryClock arrive to help the Clock Crew host the Clock Crew website. With the website created, endless clock members follow StrawberryClock’s footsteps and join the Clock Crew, and spam Newgrounds with their flash animations.

Clock Day

Every August 15th, Newgrounds celebrates Clock Day in honor of the Clock Crew to be the first crew to be recognised by Newgrounds. In this celebration, every flash animation is a Clock Crew related flash. Posting it on Clock Day will be voted 5 a lot.

Spin-offs & Rip-offs

In 2003, small groups of Newgrounds users think it’s a good idea to form their own spin-off groups and spam Newgrounds like Clock Crew did. Not only that, but groups like the Lock Legion, the Dock Division and the Glock Group are rip-offs and rivals of the Clock Crew with different faces. Other spin-offs spamming Newgrounds with crappy animations include the Star Syndicate, the Uzi Union, the Block Band, the Barney Bunch, and the Plastic People.

External References

Editor’s Note: Please, don’t use the comments section to debate about WWII and Holocaust.

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About

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Hitler have a notable spread on the Internet, especially on some sites, like 4chan.

Online history

Reputation

Personal life

Search Insights

Chris Bores, better known as The Irate Gamer, is a YouTube personality and video game reviewer who is known for his similarity to the Angry Video Game Nerd, who he clearly draws inspiration from, the dubious quality of his videos, and the disproportionate “Hatedom” that he has gained, consisting of people, dubbed AVGN Nazis, who not only proclaim Bores to be a ripoff (which is, more or less, halfway true) but dislike all of his videos, ridicule him and leave hateful comments to an excessive degree. Many derisive parodies of him have also been made. Chris Bores’ responses to these criticisms have also been controversial and have earned him more haters.

History

Chris Bores released his first “Irate Gamer” video on April 28, 2007. It was about Back to the Future for NES, which was among the games previously reviewed by AVGN. This was followed by several other video game reviews, some of which had also previously been reviewed by the AVGN. Flaws in these videos noticed by many included mediocre humor and a lack of skill displayed by Chris while playing the games, rendering some of his complaints about their alleged difficulty invalid. Minor but numerous factual mistakes also appeared in the videos, showing a lack of research.

Later, Bores launched “Irate Gamer NEO”, a spinoff series in which he reviews modern games, as well as other material such as “Haunted Investigators”, which resembles the television series Ghost Hunters, “IRate the 80’s”, in which he reviews pop culture items from the 1980’s, and History of Video Games, in which he discusses the history of video gaming starting from the very beginning (and at a very slow rate; jokes have been made that the series will take many, many years to complete). These videos have not generated as much attention as the main Irate Gamer videos, though they have spawned a few memes (see below).

In response to the hate aimed at him, Chris Bores disabled ratings and/or comments on many of his videos, blocked many users, and had many parody videos taken down under copyright claims, including some that didn’t actually use any footage from his channel. Again, this only caused even more criticism.

As of late, Bores’ work has deviated significantly from that of James Rolfe, although many argue that it is still mediocre.

Examples of Hatedom

Parodies

There are several mean–spirited parodies of the Irate Gamer Show on YouTube, including several accounts dedicated solely to hating on Chris. These videos exaggerate the flaws of his videos to ridiculous proportions. An example of this is the “Isuck Gamer Show”. Many other videos depict the Angry Video Game Nerd killing the Irate Gamer.

Nostalgia Critic Mention

In 2008, shortly after the launch of Thatguywiththeglasses.com, the Nostalgia Critic released a video that was part of his faux feud with the AVGN in which he mentions the Irate Gamer. In it, he claims that AVGN has become the “Irate Gamer” to his creative genius. This is followed by canned booing, and the Critic apologizing and saying that that was going too far. Note this this was after the Critic had just called the Nerd an extremely long series of vulgar insults.

James Rolfe Mention

In 2009, at a convention, James Rolfe acknowledged the Irate Gamer for the first time. When asked about him, James said: ’’"I’ll answer that as quickly as I can. Uh, I have no reason to answer it, I mean he pretty much pretends that I don’t exist so why would I even need to say anything about him?"’’

Linkara Parody

In April 2011, Linkara of TGWTG.com released a joke video parodying the Irate Gamer and his flaws, in which he reviewed an issue of the “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers” comic in Chris’ “style”, exaggerating his common mistakes.

Associated Memetic Jokes

Bores n’ Doors

In late 2008, Irate Gamer uploaded his review of the obscure NES cult game “Monster Party”. In the plot of the episode, the Gamer is upset that he has not been invited to a Halloween party that is occurring across the street from his home, and that people are coming to his door thinking that he is hosting the party. Multiple times during the episode, the Irate Gamer’s doorbell rings and he is greeted by strange guests at his door thinking that he is having a party. These scenes spawned the “Bores n’ Doors” video fad, in which various characters from other works, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, are depicted visiting Irate Gamer, usually using scenes in which said characters visit doors.

Breakfast is Ruined!

In late 2007, Chris Bores posted a video in which he ranted about the cereal Lucky Charms and how the marshmallows had changed from the original ones since the cereal’s introduction. To summarize this frustration at this, Chris said “Face it. Breakfast is ruined!” This line has become a small meme unto itself, and is often used in parody videos as a quintessential example of complaints by the Irate Gamer that could be considered irrelevant, exaggerated nitpicking.

About

Ghost Blowjob! is a 4-pane comic about a guy getting head from a ghost, enthusiastically expressing his delight by screaming “Gh-ost Blowjob! Woo Woo Woo!” to the point of the last panel showing his roomate angrily failing to get some sleep in the next room because of the noise. It inspired fanarts of the same comic involving well-known characters from different shows.

Origin

The original comic was made by famous webcomic artist KC Green, in a sub-section, called Droop, of his former blog^[1]. He put all the Droop comics in a file directory at comicwithoutviolence.com along with another section of comics called Bee power^[2]. Because no archive has been made as for now, it is impossible to tell when exactly he drew the 4-pane comic simply titled “Ghost Blowjob”^[3]:

However, one of its earliest repost on the web dates back as far as September 1st 2006 in a WTF.com forum thread^[4].

KC Green

KC Green is an influential webcartoonist whose dark humor has gained cult status among fans, enough to spawn many memes in the form of multi-panes comics. The most notables are Staredad, Dickbutt and I’m OK with this.

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Notable examples

External References

^[1]KC Green’s initial website

^[2]Comic Without Violence

^[3] Comic Without Violence – Ghost Blowjob

^[4]WTF.com forums – Ghost Blowjob

W.I.P.

important things/spread:

-internet meme crossover/mashup
-Real-life “Where’s Wally?” phenomena

About

Don’t Want to Go to Bed? (Japanese: ねないこだれだ, Nenai Ko Dareda) is a picture book for children written by a Japanese picture book author Keiko Sena.^[1] This picture book became to the first icon of the Japanese imageboard site Futaba Channel (2chan), and numerous kind of its photo collages had been created by the users.

Origin

“Don’t Want to Go to Bed?” has been a long-seller picture book which has been sold more than 2 million copies since it was first published in 1969.^[2] Its story is quite brief and simple: a child who don’t want to go to bed gets taken away to somewhere far night sky by a ghost. Quite a few Japanese people who have read it in their childhood have a strong impression, similar to a trauma, of this book in their memories due to its cruel story and unique artwork made by collage of pieces of colored paper.

Child who don’t want to go to bed must mutate to ghost.
Fly away to the ghost world
Mutate to a ghost and fly away

In the predawn of Futaba Channel, its users began to use the cover art of this book as a sort of a Reaction Face to themselves who didn’t want to go to bed and were chatting on the threads till late in every night.

At that time Futaba hadn’t had the /b/ (Nijiura) board yet. So, “Don’t Want to Go to bed?” is considered as the first fad on Futaba Channel in the history of the Japanese web .

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The development of a photo collage fad for this Futaba’s iconic picture book was led by the rise of the photo collage movment triggered by The Majesty, Waha~ and other earliest fads in the /b/ board in early 2003. In particular, they not only made collages of a ghost in the cover art but also liked to modify its 7-letter title in hiragana characters (Ne-Na-I-Ko Da-Re-Da) to something funny by matching rhyming words.

Those classic works are salvaged in Futaba user’s private archives and tell the atmosphere of good old days of that imageboard site. In addition, this picture book is counted as one of the “Nijiura Magnificent Ten” as same as The Majesty and others because of this popularity.

Notable Examples

Photo Collages

A girl I had sex the other day.
(Ko-Na-I-Da Ne-Ta-Ko_)
I have a sty in my eye.
(Me-Ba-Chi-Ko De-Ki-Ta_)
Nerunerunerune
I’ve got a girlfriend.
(Ka-No-Jo-Ga De-Ki-Ta)
I AM the man who doesn’t want to go to bed!
(Ne-Na-I-Ko O-Re-Sa)
Say NO to Drugs!
(Sha-Bu-Wa Da-Me-Da)

Compilations

Appearance in Other Media

The cover art of this picture book had a cameo appearance in the 15th episode of a Japanese TV anime series for Ken Akamatsu’s manga Negima! Magister Negi Magi^[3] in 2005. This TV anime series is also known for a cameo appearance by Senkōsha in its 1st & 3rd episode.

Search Interest

External References

Editor’s Note: Futaba relating websites basically prohibit people from introducing their URLs in the external. Do not write the URLs in articles or comments. Please use search engines.

Stub entry! Somebody take over. Sorry. Don’t have time for this. Why don’t we have an entry on it yet!?!?

This is a snowclone used to describe anonymity on the Internet. References a 1993 New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner.

On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Bot
NSFW: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Journalist

About

Torg is the name affectionately given to a vested red-haired man with Downs Syndrome photographed in various poses, including appearing to do clerical or data entry work.

Origin

The man’s identity remains unknown, but the earliest seen pictures of Torg were seen posted on the internet comedy/news site FARK as early as 2007.

Spread

Torg is used to represent that the quoted post was written by someone of low intelligence, commonly replacing outcomes or crucial points with potato – a reference to the phrase I can count to potato which also features a person with Downs Syndrome. Torg is quite a charming and knowledgeable fellow, chiming in on various issues, and has been used as an implied representation of a user, commonly in response to an ill conceived or trollish post, sometimes using images of through bubbles to encapsulate the quoted post, making it appear as Torg is thinking what the troll user has posted – insinuating that the person who posted is also mentally deficient. However, Torg is usually used in relation to ridiculous right-wing news site American Thinker. Torg has also been known to weigh in on current events, politics, and currently moderates the FARK.com politics tab. While his knowledge continues to impress, he is quite haunted by his ever-present foe – potato.

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