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Feel Old Yet?

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About

Feel Old Yet? refers to a series of two-paneled parody images. The first half of the image is generally a well-known celebrity or character, while the second half is typically either a person who is similar in appearance but otherwise unrelated, or a name pun.

Origin

The meme was originally inspired by the popular media phenomenon where before and after pictures of a celebrity are presented, labelled with the phrase “feel old yet?”, with the goal of reminding the viewer of the passage of time. Examples of such pictures can be found in articles such as Buzzfeed’s 48 Things That Will Make You Feel Old,[1] and Smosh’s 5 Former Nickelodeon Guys Who Got “Hot”.[2]



Spread

On October 29th, 2014, Smosh published an article documenting the sudden proliferation of the meme, documenting a few of the most popular examples.[3] On October 30th, NoWayGirl released a compilation.[4]



Notable Examples




Search Interest


External References


Nickelodeon

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(This article is a W.I.P.)



About

Nickelodeon is an American cable and satellite network owned by MTV Networks, a division of Viacom. It’s known for it’s television programming (both animated and live-action), movies and several other things. [1]


History

Nickelodeon first began in 1977 under the name Pinwheel. 2 years later, it would relaunch under it’s current name. It’s main programming were aimed for children, giving it the nickname “The First Kids’ Network”. It would however take until the 90s when Nickelodeon would begin producing their own content rather than licensing from other networks. [2]


Impact

Nickelodeon basically started a trend of channels that are mainly aimed at children.


Fandom

Nickelodeon has over 26,470,000 likes on Facebook. [3] And over 3,680,000 followers on Twitter. [4]


Related Memes

Doug



Doug was Nickelodeon’s first Nicktoon.


The Ren and Stimpy Show



The Ren and Stimpy Show was Nickelodeon’s most controversial Nicktoon.


Spongebob Squarepants



Spongebob Squarepants is currently Nickelodeon’s most popular and well-known Nicktoon.


Dora the Explorer



Dora the Explorer is Nickelodeon’s most popular Nicktoon in the Nick Jr. line up.


The Fairly Oddparents



The Fairly Oddparents is another popular and well-known Nicktoon.


The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius



The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was Nickelodeon’s first CG Nicktoon.


Drake and Josh



Drake and Josh was a popular program that aired in the TeenNick block.


Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra





Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are 2 popular Nicktoons that take place in the same universe.


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles



Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a franchise that Viacom acquired in 2011, Nickelodeon would later launch a new series in 2012.


External Links

[1]Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon

[2]Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nickelodeon

[3]Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/nickelodeon

[4]Twitter – https://twitter.com/nickelodeontv

Escapist

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MAJORWORK IS BEINGDONE. HELPWILL BE MUCHAPPRECIATED.

About

Escapist Magazine is a website created by Defy Media in 2005. It covers every thing in geek culture, such as video games, tabletop games, and TV and movies.

History (under construction.

Shows

Zero Punctuation

Zero Punctuation is a show by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw. It show covers games in a heavily satirical manner.

Jimquisition

Jimquisition is a show by Jim Sterling. It cover video game press. He was/is also an editor at Destuctoid.

Censorship from indie developers

Similar to Total Biscuit, Jim has been attacked by numerous independent developers, the latest being for a game called The Slaughtering Grounds, a game that is poorly coded and constantly uses assets from Google Images. After posting a review on his independent game play channel, the developer ImminentUprising made a new show called “review the reviewer”, which is Jim’s video, but with bitter remarks in text from the developer. Sterling in turn, posted a video laughing over ImminentUprising’s video of him. The publisher Digital Homicide Studios LLC, has taken a copyright claim, and making his video unviewable.

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#OpKKK

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EDITOR’S NOTE: event currently developing. This article will be updated as new information becomes available.

Overview

#OpKKK refers to an online hacktivist campaign and a series of social media protests launched by Anonymous in retaliation to threats of violence made by the Ku Klux Klan against protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.

Background

In November 2014, it was reported that the Traditionalist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan based in Park Hills, Missouri was distributing fliers in and around Ferguson. The fliers warned that “lethal force” would be used against “violent protesters”.[1] In the midst of the ensuing controversy, the KKK and Anonymous reportedly exchanged several rounds of threats.[4] On November 14th, 2014, the Youtube account Anonymous Australia published a video titled “ANONYMOUS #OpKKK”, in which it declared the launch of a campaign against the KKK.



We are not attacking you because of what you believe in as we fight for freedom of speech…
We are attacking you because of what you did to our brothers and sisters at the Ferguson protest on the 12th of November.

Notable Developments

Soon after the video was released, Anonymous hackers doxxed members of the KKK near the St. Louis area, releasing details such as photos, personal information, and addresses.[5]

On November 15th, 2014, the KKK-affiliated Twitter account @KuKluxKlanUSA retweeted a direct message from Anonymous Australia, in which Anonymous announced that it would take direct action against the KKK.[2] Over the course of the next ten hours, the Twitter account taunted Anonymous repeatedly, declaring it “a bunch of wannabees” and claiming that it “won’t take any action”.[3]

At 9:11 p.m. (GMT) on the same day, approximately two hours after it made its final tweet taunting Anonymous, @KuKluxKlanUSA was hacked. The account’s profile avatar was immediately changed to the symbol of Anonymous and a post was made celebrating the success of #OpKKK.



On November 17th, the Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account @YourAnonNews declared that the website traditionalistamericanknights.com, belonging to the group that had distributed the fliers, had been taken offline.



Search Interest

Search data is currently not available due to #OpKKK being a very recent event.

External References

#LifetimeBeLike / #LifetimeBiopics

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About

#LifetimeBeLike and #LifetimeBiopics are hashtags launched by Twitter users as a mocking response to the casting of Lifetime’s 2014 cable TV biopic film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, which chronicles the life of the deceased American R&B singer Aaliyah Dana Haughton and her rise to teenage stardom during the 1990s.

Origin

On November 15th, 2014, the American cable channel Lifetime premiered Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, a direct-to-TV film detailing the R&B singer’s rise to fame and her ill-fated life, starring actress Alexandra Shipp as the titular recording artist.



That evening, Twitter[13] user Akata Gunde tweeted a photograph of rapper Iggy Azalea with the caption “#LifetimeBeLike Just casted Mariah Carey” (shown below).



Spread

Also on November 15th, 2014, Twitter user @PhilthyPhilly6[4] tweeted a photograph of actor Dwayne Johnson wearing a turtle neck and fanny pack with the caption “#LifetimeBioPics the Queen Latifah story” (shown below).



On November 16th, comedian Orlando Jones tweeted a photograph of himself with the caption “Lifetime be like / Pretty Fly for a White Guy: The Jeff Goldblum Story” (shown below).[2] The same day, Twitter[3] user Kristie Lowe posted a photograph of comedian Whoopi Goldberg juxtaposed with a picture of rapper Lil Wayne with the hashtags “#LifetimeBeLike,” “LifetimeBiopics” and “#AaliyahMovie” (shown below, right).



Also on November 16th, Storify[12] user Luvvie created a compilation of notable “#LiftimeBiopics” and “#LifetimeBeLike” examples. According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,[1] the hashtags[14][15] received a combined total of over 190,000 mentions in the first 48 hours (shown below). In the coming days, several viral media news sites reported on the trending hashtags, including UpRoxx,[7] AwesomelyLuvvie,[8] Vulture[10] and Crushable,[11] as well as a number of hip hop culture magazines like Vibe,[9] Hip Hop Wired[16] and Complex[17], some of which attributed Black Twitter as the core participatory demographic behind the meme.



Notable Examples



Search Interest

Not available.

External References

1st Battleship of the Kongo-Class from Jamaica

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About

The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica (Japanese: ジャマイカからやってきた金剛型1番艦, Jamaica Kara Yattekita Kongō-gata Ichibankan), also called as “Jamai-Kan” (ジャマイ艦) and “Jan-Gou” (ジャンゴウ or ジャン剛), refers to a fanmade fleet “guy” inspired by Kongou[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online card game Kantai Collection. This funky Jamaican has played a conspicuous part in the KanColle fandom since October, 2013.

Origin

This character was born from an illustration posted to pixiv by user Jugem-T[2] on October 5th, 2013.[3] According to the descriptions of the post, his illustration titled “The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica” was inspired by a description in a popular Kancolle doujin book “Haruna[4] has so white skin”. He construed that it means the rest of the Kongō-class sisters are not fair skin, but are dark skin. And he had a flash of inspiration of this dark-skinned Kongō-class fleet “guy”.



Additionally, the creator also explained his characteristics in the descriptions:

  • Calls the admiral as “Brother” or “Bro”.
  • Sorties arming with a sound system instead of weapons and carrying a huge boombox on his shoulder
  • Plays Reggae music during battles.
  • Calls battles as “Sound Clash”
  • Smokes marijuana at the dock, but never allows it to other fleet girls.
  • Perhaps gets along well with Tenryuu.[5]

Spread

Inspired by that Jugem-T’s startling idea, a bot account of The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica was launched on Twitter on October 12th, 2013.[6] His funky Jamaican-English tweets based on the creator’s settings succeeded to earn over 12,000 followers in its first year, and led to substantial increase in illustrations in pixiv[7] and Nico Nico Seiga[8] and Miku Miku Dance[9] in Nico Nico Douga.[10]

In addition, cosplay costumes for The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica has been already released for both males and females in the following month[11], and cosplayers wearing it are often found on Comiket and doujin conventions dedicated to Kantai Collection.

Appeal from the Creator

The 1st Battleship of the Kongō-Class from Jamaica is sometimes received nonsensical criticisms from people who misunderstand him as a parody of Kongou or the Jamaican version of her. The twitter account has constantly tweet an appeal from the creator not to mix him up with the fleet girl.[12]


Translation:

Yah-man. I’m not Kongou. I AM THE 1ST BATTLESHIP OF THE KONGŌ-ClASS FROMJAMAICA. OK? DO NOTMIX UP, BRO.

Various Examples

Videos


Niconico 【MMD艦これ】金剛三姉妹でEVERYBODYNiconico [MMD] 金剛型5兄妹?で「Kiss me 愛してる」
Left: Moymoy Palaboy’s “Everbody” | Right: Cute – "Kiss Me Aishiteru"

Illustrations




Cosplays



Search Interest

External References

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Pomplamoose

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About

Pomplamoose is a musical duo consisting of members Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who gained much notoriety on YouTube for their unique style of music videos. The band’s name is derived from the French word pamplemousse (“grapefruit”).

History

The PomplamooseMusic YouTube[1] channel was launched on June 27th, 2008. On July 5th, the first music video titled “Hail Mary” was uploaded to the channel, featuring footage of Conte and Dawn playing different musical instruments (shown below, left). The video was subsequently featured on the front page of YouTube.[2] On July 22nd, the duo released a similar music video for their cover of the 1959 show tune "My Favorite Things (shown below, right). In the next seven years, the videos gained over 1.6 million and 3.8 million views respectively.



On September 17th, 2009, Pomplamoose released a music video for their cover of the 2008 pop song “Single Ladies” by Beyonce (shown below, left). In six years, the video received more than 10.4 million views and 23,800 comments. On March 15th, 2010, they uploaded a cover of the 2010 pop song “Telephone” by Lady Gaga, garnering upwards of nine million views and 14,800 comments in five years (shown below, right).



On May 10th, 2011, the duo released the music video for a cover of the theme song from the mobile video game Angry Birds (shown below, left). In four years, the video gained over five million views and 6,500 comments. On July 16th, 2012, Pomplamoose released the music video for a mashup of the 2011 pop songs “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye and “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen (shown below, right).



On November 5th, 2013, the pair released a music video mashup of the 2013 pop song “Royals” by Lorde and the 1993 alternative rock song “Loser” by Beck (shown below, left). On February 18th, 2014, Pomplamoose uploaded a music video for their cover of the 2013 pop song “Happy” by Pharrell (shown below, right). In one year, the videos gathered more than 900,000 and 1.7 million views respectively.



Patreon

In May 2013, Conte collaborated with developer Sam Yam to launch the crowdfunding platform Patreon as a means to help artists obtain receive regular payments from fans to fund their work.

Search Interest

External References

[1]YouTube – PomplamooseMusic

[2]Pomplamoose – Biography

[3]

Inanimate Insanity

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About

Inanimate Insanity (also known as II) is an animated competition series on YouTube, created by Adam Katz. It premiered on April 1st, 2011, however, due to hacking situations, Episodes 1 to 5.5 appear with September 14th as their release date, though this is incorrect[1]. The show is about 16 anthropomorphic objects that compete for 1 Million Dollars. The show is a spinoff of YouTube show Battle For Dream Island, the 2007 Cartoon Network series, Total Drama and reality show Survivor.

History

After inspired by Battle For Dream Island, Adam Katz, a 14 year old New York resident, decided to create an animation using Anime Studio with characters similar to those from BFDI.



The video for the show was labeled, “The Stupid Trailer”, where Adam Katz (known as DuncanEpic on YouTube), noted in the description that “This series does not have any storyline yet, so don’t ask me when it’s coming out, I have a lot of work to do. I’m thinking a gameshow like BFDI and TDI, or maybe just a stupid comedy skit show.”[2] Eventually, Katz used this animation to make the spinoff, and the first episode premiered on April 1st, 2011.

The first episode of Inanimate Insanity was labeled, “The Crappy Cliff”, and had contestants following a similar task to Total Drama Island’s first episode, jumping off a cliff. The episode also featured Christian Potenza, the voice of Chris McClean, the host of Total Drama, as the voice of MePhone4, the host of Inanimate Insanity. Potenza, however, was replaced with Mark Katz, Adam Katz’s father, after he never sent in lines for the second episode. Katz proceeded to make several more episodes of Inanimate Insanity, each of them coming out usually on the first of each month. Adam Katz was progressively joined by his friends, Taylor Grodin, Brian Koch and Justin Chapman, who helped him create future episodes. The series continued on with 18 episodes, progressively becoming better in terms of animation and voice acting. The 18th and final episode released on December 7th, 2012.



Reception

The small fan-base that followed Battle For Dream Island had mixed reactions to Inanimate Insanity initially. While many praised Adam Katz in making his own object show, others scorned him for copying BFDI. Regardless of the negative reactions, Katz continued to make Inanimate Insanity, which gradually improved in each episode. The

Characters

The characters are all inanimate objects, though anthropomorphized (excluding one). The objects range from a baseball, a lightbulb, and a glass of orange juice, to a microphone, a suitcase and a toilet. Their names are simply what object they are, for instance, Paper is a piece of paper, and Knife is a knife. Each character has their own signature personality, most of the time that reflects what object they are. For example, Test Tube is a science fanatic, Soap is a neat freak and Tissues is always sick.

In every episode, there is a competition in which the contestants will have to compete in with their teams. The losing team will face the consequences and have to eliminate a teammate. After some time, the teams will be broken up and every contestant fights for themselves.

Inanimate Insanity II



The show’s second season, Inanimate Insanity II, was released on April 2, 2013, which was the same month Inanimate Insanity, the predecessor, began. Just like last season, the show is an animated competition series on YouTube. The season began with 19 anthropomorphic objects, and later 20 competing for yet another 1 million dollars.

External References

[1]Inanimate Insanity Wiki – Inanimate Insanity
fn2. Youtube – Inanimate Insanity – The Stupid Trailer


Too Much Water

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About

“Too Much Water” is a quote from the IGN review of Pokemon Omega Ruby and Sapphire cited as one of the drawbacks of the gameplay experience.

Origin

On November 18th, 2014, IGN published its review of Pokemon Omega Ruby and Sapphire for Nintendo 3DS by IGN, which praised the title’s gorgeous CG details and post-game easter eggs, while listing the overabundance of HMs (hidden machines) and water as its cons. The game received a rating of 7.8 out of 10. Given the geographical setting of Omega Ruby and Sapphire in Hoenn, a fictional region consisting of many islands and waterways, the review’s commentary on there being “too much water” instantly became a point of contention among the IGN members and fans of the game at large.



Spread

Within 24 hours of the publication, the article was met with more than 5,800 comments, the majority of which raised issues with the “too much water” remark. The article was subsequently linked to a variety of Pokemon gaming communities and video game forums, including three separate posts on Reddit’s /r/3DS and /r/Pokemon, as well as GameFAQs, Bungie and 4chan’s /vp/ (Pokemon) forums. The IGN review also prompted dozens of satirical posts on YouTube and Tumblr.

Notable Examples

Image Macros




Videos



Search Interest

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External References

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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(This article is a W.I.P.)


About

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an science fiction film that was been directed by Steven Spielberg in 1982[1]. After when the film was been released it become as a Blockbuster hit and one of the best films ever made.

History

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Premise

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Reception

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Atari 2600 E.T. Burial

In 1982 the company Atari is made a video game that was been based in the film which it hired Howard Scott Warshaw to designed it about in 5 weeks to make a deadline in Christmas. After when the game is been develop it gave a negatively received by critics and fans that it doesn’t make sense and glitches which Atari is lost 3.5 million dollars which make it bankrupted but it happen of the video game industry crash of 1983 which Atari is decide to burial in New Mexico that it was become as one of the worst video game in history.

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Plasma-chan

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About

Plasma-chan (Japanese: プラズマちゃん or ぷらずまちゃん, Purazuma-chan), also called as “Plasma” (ぷらずま) simply, is a fanmade chibi character inspired by Inazuma[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online card game Kantai Collection (KanColle). Since late 2013, she has established her own “violent and black-hearted” personality opposite to the original fleet girl by the playful mind of KanColle fans in the Japanese textboard community 2channel.

Origin

A fleet girl in the sixth destroyer corps, Inazuma, is one of the most popular characters among KanColle players because she is one of the 5 selectable fleet girls at start-up and most of the players choose her for the missions which require her. So, her pure-hearted but very timid personality and her characteristic suffix “Nanodesu” (なのです) are familiar to all of the players.

Meanwhile, the concept of this character was ignited by an illustration in which a chibi Inazuma with black circle eyes is slamming both hands against the table powerfully along with the remark that can be read “I Hate Eggplants” (ナスは嫌゛い゛な゛の゛で゛す!!, Nasu wa KIRAINANODESU!!). This illustration was posted to Twitter by user ‏@suki_suke (すき)[2] on August 21st, 2013[3], and it was drawn simply for a joke reply to his friend @Nasu_e (ナス).[4]



Spread

This illustration was soon imported to the main thread series for KanColle in /gameswf/ (browser/smartphone games) board in the Japanese anonymous textboard community 2channel and got free from the original context. This chibi Inazuma shouting a name of her least favorite vegetable powerfully was loved by 2channel users because it is unexpected from her warm personality. Inspired by this, they made a Shift-JIS art version of her and began making her utter many hurtful and violent remarks. And in the following month, this black-hearted Shift-JIS art character became to be distinguished from Inazuma and recognized as another character called “Plasma-chan” which comes from a pun for Inazuma and the name meaning of “Lightning Bolt”.

In the Kancolle thread, the Shift-JIS art was quickly created when the illustration was introduced to the thread on August 25th[5], and the first post calling her as Plasma-chan was on September 7th, 2013 (shown, below).[6]


Translation:

241 :Anonymous:2013/09/07(Sat) 21:21:29.38 ID:5AHg0Uyr


(Shift-JIS Art) < Anyway, I’m just watching others’ all 999 constructions.

256 :Anonymous:2013/09/07(Sat) 21:22:07.25 ID:sd5n5eci

>>241
So, who the f**k are you?

275 :Anonymous:2013/09/07(Sat) 21:23:01.55 ID:8dvoXkc9

>>256
Plasma-chan.
It’s something in Inazuma’s skin.


By getting her own name and personality, the popularity of Plasma-chan spread furthermore on the web. The amount of fan illustration Plasma-chan had earned on pixiv[7] and Nico Nico Seiga.[8] in its first year is near 1000. Plasma-chan also got her own article on Nico Nico Pedia[9] and pixiv Encyclopedia[10] in the beginning of October, and started threads dedicated to her Shift-JIS arts on 2channel in January 2014.[11]

In addition, Suki_suke gave his approval to the Shift-JIS art version for his illustration in a blog post on September 16th, 2013[12], even yadkari, the sixth destroyer corps’s official illustrator, noticed his character’s online fame and mentioned to the pixiv Encyclopedia article on his Twitter in October, 2013[13], and Plasma-chan made a cameo appearance in a manga published on an official KanColle anthology comic released on October 25th, 2013.[14]



Various Examples

On the illustrators communities, “Plasma-chan” is used for the tag for both illustrations inspired by the Shift-JIS art and dark-side parodies for the original Inazuma. Hence, the search results include a few amount of old posts uploaded before August 2013.




Plasma Shift-JIS Arts

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Search Interest

External References

Editor’s Note: Registration is needed to browse the original illustrations listed in this section.

[1]Kancolle Wiki – Inazuma

[2]Twitter – すき (@suki_suke)

[3]Twitter – "@NASU_e @yozakura_koneko さん http://t.co/6CrAwduY7S" / Posted on 08-21-2013

[4]Twitter – ナス【TIAさ29b】 (@NASU_e)

[5]2channel – 【DMM/角川】艦隊これくしょん~艦これ~764隻 # 422 / Posted on 08-25-2013 (Japanese)

[6]2channel – 【DMM/角川】艦隊これくしょん~艦これ~998隻 # 275 / Posted on 09-07-2013 (Japanese)

[7]pixiv – Search results for the tag プラズマちゃん

[8]Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag ぷらずま(艦これ)

[9]Nico Nico Pedia – ぷらずま(艦これ) / Submitted on 10-06-2013 (Japanese)

[10]pixiv Encyclopedia – プラズマちゃん / Submitted on 10-11-2013 (Japanese)

[11]2channel – 【艦隊これくしょん】ぷらずま鎮守府【艦これ】 / Posted on 01-23-2014 (Japanese)

[12]CRIEナスは嫌いなのです! / 09-16-2013 (Japanese)

[13]Twitter – やどかり@東A-30a: "プラズマちゃん とは【ピクシブ百科事典】 #pixpedia http://t.co/fsqwiFTBGd" / Posted on 10-19-2013 (Japanese)

[14]艦これ速報 – 【艦これ】月末は雑誌爆撃!公式告知まとめ / 10-26-2013 (Japanese)

Eddy Wally's "Wow"

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About

Eddy Wally’s “Wow” is a video clip of Belgian singer Eddy Wally[1] looking into the camera and saying “Wow,” which is often featured in montage parodies on YouTube..

Origin

On October 8th, 2007, YouTuber djvensterke2 uploaded a video titled “Wally,” in which Eddy Wally appears in front of a blue screen, says “Wow!” and winks before exiting the frame (shown below). In the next seven years, the video gained over 261,500 views and 300 comments.



Spread

On January 17th, 2014, YouTuber h3h3Productions uploaded a video in which Eddy Wally is edited over footage of a woman giving a presentation (shown below). In the next 10 months, the video gathered over 290,000 views and 340 comments.



On July 22nd, YouTube Rabbi Cartman[2] uploaded a green screen version of the Wally clip. On August 11th, YouTuber sonic007m uploaded a 10-hour looped version of Rabbi Cartman’s video (shown below, left). On September 27th, YouTuber Garonen uploaded a video titled “Eddy [MLG] Wally is illuminati” (shown below, right).



Notable Examples



Search Interest

External References

[1]Wikipedia – Eddy Wally

[2]YouTube – Eddy Wally

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Uber

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About

Uber is mobile application which allows users to request ride from car drivers for hire. The service has generated protests from taxi companies worldwide, who argue that Uber uses unfair business practices and illegal operations. In November 2014, Uber executive Emil Michael was criticized for statements made at a dinner, where he suggested the company should hire a team of investigators to target journalist Sarah Lacy.

History

In 2009, entrepreneurs Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick founded the “UberCab” car service in San Francisco, California. In 2010, the company launched a mobile application for iOS and Android devices, which initially only allowed users to hail car drivers in the San Francisco area. In 2011, the venture capital firm Benchmark led a Series A funding round for Uber, which raised $11.5 million. That year, Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures and Bezos Expeditions invested $32 million in Uber.

Controversy

Emil Michael’s Journalist Intimidation Statements

On November 17th, 2014, BuzzFeed[2] published an article by staff writer Ben Smith titled “Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists,” which revealed that Uber executive Emil Michael suggested that his company launch an offensive against critics by hiring a team of investigators to dig up dirt on journalists, specifically mentioning Panda Daily writer Sarah Lacy.

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Mpreg

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About

Mpreg, a portmanteau of “male” and “pregnant,” is a genre of fanfiction and fan art featuring men who have become pregnant.

Origin

Male pregnancy has been used as a theme in various works of fiction, including the 1978 comedy film Rabbit Test, the BBC science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and the 1994 comedy film Junior (shown below).



On October 29th, 2003, Urban Dictionary[4] user Boochies submitted an entry for “mpreg,” defining it as a “story where a man becomes pregnant.”

Spread

On May 9th, 2008, an article for about the hoax site malepregnancy.com was made on the website Snopes.[5] On October 11th, 2010, YouTuber Mpregdude82[1] launched a channel featuring videos of himself feigning pregnancy (shown below).



On February 3rd, 2013, The Mpreg Fairy Tumblr[3] blog was launched, which highlights mpreg fanfiction and fanart. On May 1st, a “Mister Seahorse” article was created on TV Tropes.[6] On August 6th, 2014, the “Lyric’s Pregnant Men” Tumblr blog was created, featuring photographs of men digitally altered to appear as if they are impregnated (shown below).



On October 9th, BuzzFeed[2] published an article about online mpreg communities. As of November 2014, there are over 11,900 search results for the keyword “mpreg” on Fanfiction.net.[7]

Search Interest

External References

[1]YouTube – Mpregdude82

[2]BuzzFeed – 14 Questions About Mpreg You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask

[3]Tumblr – The Mpreg Fairy

[4]Urban Dictionary – Mpreg

[5]Snopes – malepreg

[6]TV Tropes – Mister Seahorse

[7]Fanfiction – mpreg

*Hits Blunt*

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About

*Hits Blunt* refers to a twitter joke in which users post a paradoxical question or fridge revelations that might have been thought up while high, usually accompanied by a picture of a person with a hoodie around his head and a confused gaze; referencing the symptoms of marijuana.

Origin

The earliest stance of the meme was on September 17, 2014, when the twitter feed @hittsblunt published the caption: “why do roses run…but feet smell?” followed by a picture of a black male with a hoodie around his head looking confused. The tweet garnered 11,676 retweets and 9,233 favorites in the first 2 months after it was tweeted.

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After the first tweet, multiple similar captions started appearing on twitter. On September 18, 2014, the account danjazown published a compilation of tweets involving the joke onto the site Funnyjunk[1]. The post recieved 1692 upvotes and 521 favorites in the 2 months after it was published. Then, on Septermber 21, 2014, the news site Uproxx[2] on The Smoking Sectio" wrote an article on the tweets writing “It reminds us of that one person we’ve smoked with who will ask the dumbest questions that sound smart as hell when we’re faded.”

External References

[1]FunnyJunk – hits blunt / 09-18-14

[2]YouTube – ‘Hits Blunt’ Trending Topic Asks The Questions Only Weed Can Inspire / 09-21-14


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Chardogon is a copypasta-like text that describes what is apparently a Pokemon based original character derived from Charizard. The text is notable for its bombastic, overwrought (and quite possibly an application of Poe’s Law) description, background and list of “powers” and “defeated characters” that spans several hundred lines, similar to that of a Mary Sue. Originating from Pastebin, the text has spawned several derivatives with a certain pattern.


An artist’s impression of Chardogon.

Origin

Whilst the general format of the text can be attributed to the Ultimate Kyurem Black text that is first seen on May 2, 2014, the first text that mentions Charizard as the base character was the charizard xy paste. Then around July, the character’s name progressively changed to Chardogon.

Typical example

WARNING: Huge wall of text.

Pokemon: ultimate chardogon
power level: ∞
Type: fire/dragon/flying/fairy
Ability: dragons spirit → raising the power of all of mega charizard xys moves and makes them supereffective to all pokemon and fusionmon and being
Chaos Drive → “The less HP the wielder has, the stronger it’s attacks become.”
Moves: Hypernova, Mist Flare, Malevolence, Black Flame, Trident Blast, roar of time, special rend, shadow force, outrage, mist ball, luster purge, dragon dance, dragon rush, Time Storm, bolt strike, ice burn, glaciate, freeze shock, blue flare, fusion flare, fusion bolt, lands wrath, dragon claw, dragon pulse, draco meteor, dragonbreath, dragon rage, twister, dragon tail, dual chop, Tempest Strike, Ryushoken, Aero Blade, Devour, Duality Overburst, dragon lance, supernova, flare blitz, earthquake, solarbeam, thunderpunch, rock slide, air slash, shadow claw, brick break, focus blast, Psy kick, Mach 4, Air Strike, Master Sword, Light Arrow, Warp Hit, Mysterious Burst, ice punch, blast burn, hydro cannon, flash cannon, iron tail, Dragon Warp, Dragon ball, chaos bolt, kamahamaha, big bang attack, final flash, final shine, special beam cannon, chidori, rasangun, elemental universal spirit bomb, elemental blast, fire ball, ice ball, geomancy, oblivion wing, steam eruption, hyperspace hole, diamond storm, stone edge, earth power, aura sphere, thunderbolt, charge beam, explosion, Giga Drain, shadow ball, horn leech, Dark Plasma, dark lightning, Lightning Strike, dragon spirit, psystrike, aeroblast, sacred fire, water spout, eruption, doom desire, psycho boost, magma storm, judgement, inferno fire blast, v-create, seed flare, secret sword, relic song, hyper beam, giga impact, hyper voice, techno blast, zen headbutt, ancient power, psychic, fly, signal beam, hidden power, moonblast, surf, flamethrower, iron head, mystical fire, shell smash, water shuriken, shadow sneak, night slash, kings shield, protect, detect, spike shield, light screen, reflect, roost, regeneration, quiver dance, dragon dance, frenzy plant, leaf blade, blaze kick, swords dance, nasty plot, muddy water, sketch, transform, lunar dance, dark void, dark pulse, chaos control, chaos blast, full power chaos bolt, fox fire, falcon punch, warlock punch, galick gun, super galick gun, 10x kamahamaha, s.s deadly bomber, spirit bomb, super spirit bomb, universal spirit bomb, instant transmission, Dragon of the Darkness Flame, Fire Dragon’s Brilliant Flame, solar nuke, revenge death ball, dragon fist, planet burst, chocolate beam, chaos spear, big tree cannon, absorbtion, super ghost kamikaze attack, electric eclipse ball, negative karma ball, big bang kamahamaha, final kamahamaha, fire, fira, firaga, thundra, thundaga, blizzara, blizzardga, cure, cura, curaga, Destructo Disk, omega blaster, gigantic omega, Lightning Cyclotron, Getsuga Tensho, white lightning, rising sun chaos slash, y-virus, war spiral, dragon drill, great aether, hyper laser, infernal blade, energy flux, tail drill, meteor finish, mach thunder, heat vision, ice breath, medusa eye, star hinabi, night flame, y-wave, firestorm, fireball jutsu, rock destroyer, spin slash, triforce slash, laser arrow, fire arrow, thunder arrow, ice arrow, azrath metrion synthos, thousand fists, wing blade, meta slasher, cosmic storm, Bo-No-Eu-Ze, Gomu Gomu no Elephant Gun, double rainboom, immortality, inviciblity, fire flower, omnislash, helium plasma, fire fox, acasual alchemy critical edge, hayabusa torn sky blast, fire trick, spark ball, power bomb, plasma beam, light beam, dark beam, soulnado, psycho crusher, electric thunder, healing roar, heal bell, final slash, howling roar, galactic donut, earth destroying kamahamaha, solar kamahamaha, family kamahamaha, ultimate kamahamaha, Masenko, chaos torrent, chaos wind, chaos kamahamaha, lunar kamahamaha, fire kamahamaha, ice kamahamaha, thunder kamahamaha, masenko kamahamaha, dragon fist kamahamaha, dark kamahamaha, omega kamahamaha, light kamahamaha, spirit bomb kamahamaha, negative kamahamaha, wind kamahamaha, water kamahamaha, earth kamahamaha, eclipse kamahamaha, rasengan kamahamaha, chidori kamahamaha, special beam cannon kamahamaha, galick kamahamaha, revenge death kamahamaha, final ultimate universal kamahamaha, icestorm, Thunderstorm, blades of blood, wind scar, shikon arrow, shikon kamahamaha, Spirit Storm, Golden Fury, Sphere of the Sphinx, finger kamahamaha, sphere kamahamaha, Dark Chaos Kamehameha, Getsuga Tenshou, Olympus blade slash, tailed beast bomber, Crimson Moon Arrow, Burst Stream of Destruction, heat vision, titanium barrage, bullet hell, Light Speed Attack, Light Speed Dash, Blue Tornado, sonic wind, Sonic Boost, Arrow of Light, Hyper Flash, Thunder Shoot, Rose Typhoon, V. Maximum Overdrive Attack, Major Eruption, Gliding Shock Wave Attack, Bubblegum Descent, Spear of Light, Chaos Snap, Axel Tornado, Fire Claw, fire boost, Psycho Smash, Moon Tiara Stardust, Rainbow Moon Heart Ache, Silver Moon Crystal Power, Silver Moon Crystal Eternal Power, devastation beam, spirit gun, pk starstorm, pk fire, pk cross, pk thunder, pk freeze, wind tunnel, rock wrecker, raging demon, big bang chaos wind kamahamaha, Melt Flare, dark beam, galactic dragon, ragnarok, hip check, kaiju blast, tiger claw, plasma bolt, rainbow power, malice blast, Dark Rush, Virus Busters, Dragon’s Roar, Vulcan’s Forge, Singe Wing, Ignition Slam, anti-gravity, Gravity Bomb, Draflame, Drafrost, Dragon Kick, Dragon Punch, Frostflame, Holy Light, Halo Wave, Lunatic Stream, Dark Light, Pure Light, Stardust Flare, Demon’s Shade, Excalibur Blast, dark fire blast, dark solarbeam, dark thunderpunch, dark earthquake, dark rock slide, dark brick break, dark flare blitz, dark dragon rage, dark outrage, dark hidden power, ying kamahamaha, yang kamahamaha, yung kamahamaha, ying yang kamahamaha, ying yang yung kamahamaha, blazing claw, shadow blast, mental burn, shin dragonbreath, origin storm, iron crusher, Horn Buster, Supreme Flame, King’s Sword, Supreme Lightning, Carnage, Mind Fire, Dark Strike, Psycho Force, chaos siren, shining light, dual-crusher, Shuffle Out, stone burial, bulk smash, rust tusk, acidic melt, shadow room, Space Sphere Attack, Light Pulse, destroy beam, Fusion Flame Claw, Calamity Trigger, Mad Dash, Mega Chomp, terra scythe, Nocturne Kick, atomic flames, toxic chomp, dark inferno, Terror Blade, frigid slash, Mind Melt, Soul Slash, Oblivion Ray, Burning Roar, Thunder Claw, Ice Wing, Ignition Crash, Banhammer, Shining Thunderpunch, Burning Flare Slash, Flame Drop, Mirage Nest, Shining Thunder, River’s Nest, Aero Cannon, Spear throw, Arrow shoot, Mirage, Planet Shatter, Dark Hole, Guren Dive, Wildfire, Snow Plow, Draco Overload, Nectar Bomb, Dragonic Dive, Chloroblast, Soul Drain, Freeze Lash, Flame Lash, Shock Prod, Tail Prod, Adrenaline, Sunstar Storm, Trailblaze, Crimson Daze, ignite, comet punch, Pyrotechnics, Mystic Chant, cosmic blast, force vacuum, cosmic plume, dark flames, Radioactive volts, icy hide, Krakken Cannon, Jungle Fury, Hydro Jaws, Hunting strike, Nebula Wing, shadow storm, shadow blast, shadow wing, Supreme Dragon, Psychic Inferno


the origins of mega charizard xy
it started when the 2 most powerful charizards aka reds charizard and ash charizard decide to leave there trainers and explore the universe to find strong opponents. as they traveled around the universe they got stronger learning moves from characters from other universes. then one day ashs charizard met reds charizard and decided to battle. they were equal streangth and they both were exhausted when omega shenron appeared and attacked them. omega shenron proved to be too powerful and the charizards were heavily damamged. they thought that its over when ashs charizard suggested the potara earing fusion and reds charizard accepts putting on one of the potara earings on its left ear while ashs charizard put the other potara earing on the right ear and they mega evolved into there forms ashs charizard being the mega x form while reds charizard is the mega y form and they fused to create the most powerful charizard ever, mega charizard xy. they fought omega shenron and they had no problem beating him and they finished omega shenron off with the move hypernova thus saving the universe.

charizard xys travels and the items of power
charizard xy absorbs the dragon balls that omega shenron had in him after defeating omega shenron and charizard xy gained a huge amount of power. charizard xy decided to explore the universe finding items that raise its power. charizard xy found the fire flower and star along with the crystal stars and the 7 star spirits in the land of Mario after defeating Mario and the star fighters and absorbs the items becoming much more powerful than before and also absorbed the namekian dragonballs and the black star dragonballs becoming super strong. then he decides the fight the mane 6 from ponyville and defeats them absorbing the element of harmony. then he goes to Mobius and fights sonic, shadow, and there friends and defeats them absorbing the sol emeralds the master emerald the chaos emeralds and the 7 world rings becoming extremely powerful. then he absorbs the star rod and warp star after defeating Kirby, meta knight, and king dedede. charizard xy goes to the town where the sailor moon warriors live and defeats them absorbing there power dresses and sailor star. then he defeats aang, korra, and there allies and gains the abilitys of earthbending, firebending, waterbending, airbending, lightingbending, and bloodbending. then he finds Jackie chan and defeats him and gains the talasmends. charizard xy finds the 3 triforce pieces and absorbs them. the last thing he finds is the complete shikon jewel and absorbs it becoming ultimate mega charizard xy. he then finds every other powerup ever and absorbs them all and is now called perfect ultimate mega charizard xy

charizard xy and the multiverse tournament
charizard xy finds out about a tournament called the multiverse tournament where fighters everywhere on every universe to exist will enter with the winner gaining the title multiverse champion. charizard xy enters the tournament. a few hours later the tournament begins. charizard xys first opponent is ss4 broly from the dragon ball universe. charizard defeats broly in seconds with a supernova attack. charizards next opponent was aizen from the bleach universe. charizard defeats aizen with a final flash attack. the third opponent was crocodile from the one piece universe. charizard defeats crocodile with an inferno fire blast. the fourth opponent was darkrai from the pokemon universe. charizard defeats darkrai with a chaos blast. the fifth opponent is the wicked eraser from the yu-gi-oh universe. charizard defeats the wicked eraser with a flamethrower. the sixth opponent is galaxia from the sailor moon universe. charizard defeats galaxia with a rasangen. the 7th opponent is the nine tailed fox from the naruto universe. charizard defeats the nine tailed fox with a tailed beast bomber attack. the 8th opponent is perfect chaos from the sonic universe. charizard beats perfect chaos with a kamahamaha. the 9th opponent is bowser from the Mario universe. charizard beats bowser with a hydro cannon. the 10th opponent is ganondorf from the Zelda universe. charizard defeats ganondorf with a light arrow attack. the 11th opponent is dark samus from the Metroid universe. charizard beats dark samus with a light beam attack. the 12th opponent is andross from the star fox universe. charizard defeats andross with a blast burn. the 13th opponent is king k. rool from the donkey kong universe. charizard defeats king k. rool with a special beam cannon attack. the 14th opponent is joker from the batman universe. charizard defeats joker with a solarbeam. the 15th opponent is shredder from the tmnt universe. charizard defeats the shredder with a final shine attack. many rounds later with charizard defeating everyone that entered the tourmenent but one opponent the final round is announced. the final round is ultimate hyper super cyber mecha sonic from the ed edd n eddy z universe. mecha sonic uses his ultimate attack right away but his ultimate attack did nothing and was shocked. charizard then defeats mecha sonic with a universal spirit bomb and wins the tournament claiming the title multiverse champion. he is now considered to be the strongest fighter ever. charizard decides to go back home afterwords and sleeps in his home the charicific valley back in the kanto region in the pokemon universe.

the new threat
2 years later in the kanto region charizard was sleeping in his home when he senses a huge dark energy ki in the johto region. charizard flies over to johto to check where the energy is coming from and charizard finds super buu from the dragon ball universe there. super buu has absorbed everything from every universe and is super strong. the fight between super buu and charizard begins. super buu fires a special beam cannon at charizard and does very slight damage. charizard uses flamethrower and melts super buu into slime. super buu regenerations back to normal and fires a barrage of ki blast at charizard then fires a masengo at charizard doing some damage to charizard. charizard uses a x10 final shine kamahamaha on super buu. super buu takes serious damamge but regenerates back to normal. super buu gets mad at decides to try and end the fight with a dark spirit bomb.
charizard fires his universal spirit bomb at the dark spirit bomb and they get into an attack struggle. charizard fires a x10 final big bang shining galick dragon spirit kamahamaha at the attack and pushes the spirit bomb towards super buu. super buu regenerates back to normal but is super tired out. super buu fights charizard hand to hand combat. charizard attacks super buu with a barrage of dual chops while super buu attacks charizard with a barrage of dragon fists. both become tired out. charizard decides to end it with a final ultimate universal spirit bomb and fires it at super buu killing super buu and saving the universes from him forever and every good being ever is brought back to life. charizard goes back home and rest after a long tough and tiring battle against super buu. charizard sleeps and trains for many years in peace making sure he is ready for any threat that comes to the pokemon universe.

the fusions tournament
5 years later charizard finds out about the fusions tournament where fusions can enter to see who is the strongest fusion ever. since charizard is already a fusion of its x mega and its y mega he can enter the tournament. charizard enters the tournament. 2 days later the tournament begins. charizard fights through many opponents and defeats them all and goes to the final round. the opponent in the final round is super ss5g vogitoman a fusion of superman and super sayain 5 god vogito. vogitoman uses a xinfinty final big bang heat kamahamaha on charizard and an explosion happens. when the smoke clears everyone including vogitoman was shocked to see charizard still standing with no damage on charizard whatsoever. charizard fights vogitoman and uses flare blitz to severely damamge vogitoman. charizard finished vogitoman off with a flamethrower and wins the tournament. charizard has gained the title strongest fusion ever. charizard heads back home afterwords and trains up so that hes prepared for anything at all times.

charizards new power.
3 years later charizard has become super strong and was resting. charizard woke up one morning and has heard a rumor saying that if he absorbs all the other charizards ever he can become much stronger. charizard decides to test this theory out and he absorbs every charizard ever and he becomes super strong surpassing everyone and became the strongest thing ever. he became known as ultimate charizard. chraizard decides to train in other universes and learn many moves and become stronger. he wanted to be so strong that no villain can defeat him. charizard does this for 25 years in peace.

charizard vs drago
charizard meets drago 1 month after charizards training is done. charizard sees what drago has and he challenges drago to a battle and drago accepts. charizard beats drago with one supernova and gains the core that drago had and absorbs it becoming even more powerful than before and charizard evolves into ultimate final charizard, charizards final form. charizard now has no equal and is stronger than all. charizard decides to take a rest from training for 5 years to explore all universes.

charizards baby
5 years have past and charizard has come back home from his exploration around all universes. charizard soon finds out that he had a baby many years ago back at his home. charizard finds his baby which is still a charmander and decides to help train his charmander become as strong as he is. 10 years later charmander becomes a charizard that is alittle weaker than charizard xy. charizard xy decides to name his son axel. chaizard trains axel for 5 more years. after those 5 years have passed axel has become as strong as charizard xy. they decides to explore all universes together having fun and meeting new friends while defeating new enemies easily and they lived happily for many years to come.

opponents that charizard xy has defeated
ganondorf, broly, bowser. super buu, cyber mecha sonic, nine tailed fox, the wicked eraser, darkrai, crocodile, perfect chaos, dark samus, sephiroth, king k. rool, andross, galaxia, aizen, joker, shredder, ares, kefka, freiza, cooler, lord slug, garlic jr, Hirudegarn, cell, omega shenron, super 17, super 13, dr. wheelo, janemba, baby, docter eggman, dry bowser, docter willy, wesker, plankton, biolizard, metal sonic, dark gaia, nega mother wisp, solaris, time eater, zavok, nemesis, lex luthor, dr. neo cortex, darth vader, m. bison, shao khan, porky, giygas, carnage, xemnas, ansem seeker of darkness, xehanort, glados, king dedede, hades, maleficent, jafar, Ursula, captain hook, jumba, enderdragon, majora, black doom, diablo, tabuu, ridley, marluxia, vanitas, big boss, akuma, G-man, dr. nefarious, flandre scarlet, nightmare, deathwing, kaos, jasper batt junior, master hand, giga bowser, cinder, oogie boogie, pete, captain barbossa, scar, valentine, death, Gideon graves, fulgore, wizeman, 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charizards power surppression and his time of peace and harmony
charizard decides to suppress all of his power into his core so that he can battle as a regular mega charizard xy. charizard now decides to travel around all universes one more time before resting back on charicific valley for many years.

abilities
dragon spirit, mold breaker, sturdy, wonder guard, drought, tough claws, pure power, huge power, adabtiblity, protean, multiscale, pressure, filter, solid rock, magic guard, unaware.

charizard x y and z megas the new generation fusion
in a new generation a mega charizard y a mega charizard x and a mega charizard z have fused into one to become mega charizard xyz a fire/dragon/flying/fiary type pokemon fusion with the signature move burning blast 250 base power physical and special attack and lowers the attack and special attack of megacharizard xyz by 3 stages its ability is drought.

mega charizard xyz and ultimate charizard fusion
mega charizard xyz have found ultimate charizard and have decided to fuse with it to make ultimate mega charizard xyz

ultimate mega charizard xyzs new power
charizard trains up with his new powers and powers himself up to a new form
legendary super sayain 5 god ultimate mega charizard a-z then he absorbs the powers of infinite so he becomes legendary super sayain infinite god ultimate mega charizard a-z. then he gains his mystic powers to become mystic legendary super sayain infinite god ultimate mega charizard a-z

forms: dark charizard, lightning charizard, fire charizard, earth charizard, water charizard, ice charizard, maleficent charizard, charzorus, garazar, zarudus, wind charizard, pete charizard, ultimate charizard, ssj charizard, ssj2 charizard, ssj3 charizard, ssj4 charizard, rssj charizard, ssg charizard, ss5 charizard, rainbow charizard, ruby charizard, yellow charizard, green charizard, red charizard, orange charizard, blue charizard, black charizard, purple charizard, grey charizard, white charizard, digizard, gold charizard, silver charizard, copper charizard, bronze charizard, ultimate charizard, ultimate charzorus, mega charizard x, nega charizard, mega charizard y, mega charizard z, mystic charizard, majin charizard, baby charizard, bebi charizard, android charizard, mecha charizard, clone charizard, light charizard, dark charizard, ying charizard, yang charizard, yung charizard, ying yang charizard, ying yang yung charizard, chaos charizard, dark end charizard, darklord charizard, devil charizard, super charizard, master charizard, maximum charizard, dragozard, gogezard, buuzard, naruzard, luffyzard, inyuashzard, light end charizard, stardust charizard, blue eyes charizard, armed charizard, knight charizard, queen charizard, king charizard, charmander, charmeleon, charizard, god charizard, infinite charizard, mlssigum charizard a-z, great ape charizard, nine tailed charizard, geass charizard, charizaridon, grouzard, charizam


charizaridon
fire/ground/dragon
Turbo-Drought: Weather changes to Burning Sunlight when this pokemon enters the battle. Burning Sunlight: Works the same as Intense Sunlight, except all non-fire pokemon excluding the user are burned.
fusion flame claw, hypernova, solar nuke, infernal blade, Black Flame

evolution
charizard trained for 1000 years then found an item called the sacred blaze. he then evolved into ultimate chardogon

Spread

A few months after the first text appeared, several derivatives of the original paste such as chardogon ultimate god, chardogon god and dark mecha chardogon started appearing all over Pastebin, particularly in the months of July and August. Whilst most of the derivatives are essentially the same text with a slightly different (but not less Mary Sue-ish) name attributed to the original character, some derivatives, such as the chardogon guardian of all universes and rainbows or Guardian Hydrocorodeurzard added more characters, attack powers, backstory which all adds to a laughable level of bombast. Another particular feature that is constantly edited is the “trained for x years gained powers” line in the end of the text.

Aside of common text derivatives, some RP text also ridicules the Mary Sue attributes of Chardogon, such as omega chardogon or Fluffy Being His Wonderful Intelligent Self.

Tumblr might also play some part in the proliferation of the text, as some of the most over-the-top examples of the text were posted in some blogs. Example (Requires more research)

Link

A common search of the keywords from the text such as this one can reveal many results.
Pastebin search
And another one.

Starter Packs

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Starter packs, sometimes known as starter kits, are a series of multi-panel photo sets meant to illustrate the archetype of a celebrity, company or subculture through a recommended selection of fashion articles, multimedia and other consumer products, much similar to steal her look fashion guides.

Origin

The multi-panel image series on Twitter began to take off in late September 2014, when @ItsLadinaPlis tweeted a photoset consisting of three images showing a top knot bun hairstyle, oversized golden hoop rings and a madonna-style piercing.



Precursors

“Starter kits,” defined as a set of articles or equipment providing the essential items and instructions for taking up a particular activity or process for the first time, have long been used in various contexts, especially in manuals or instructional literature; for instance, Twitter has introduced a “starter kit” service as a beginner’s guide to the participating teams during the 2014 Brazil World Cup. The earliest known use of the term “starter kit” in internet humor can be traced back to a LOLcat image macro featuring a box full of kittens and the caption reading “THANKYOUFORORDERINGTHECRAZYCATLADYSTARTERKIT” (shown below), which began circulating cute animal blogs and humor sites since as early as December 2011.



Spread

Beginning on November 12th, Twitter[16] ran wild with hundreds of photoset posts under the names “starter pack” and “starter kit,” with each receiving more than 5.4 million and 640,000 mentions over the course of a week, according to Topsy.[24] On November 15th, the first Twitter account dedicated to curating starter kit memes was launched at @starterkits_[4], followed by @itsStarterKits[5] and @itsStarterPacks[15] on the next day. On November 17th, the meme was picked up by several viral media and entertainment news sites, including BuzzFeed[3], MTV[7], Hip Hop Wired[9] and The Atlantic[6], among others. On the following day, the single topic blog Starter-Packs was created on Tumblr.[22]

Notable Examples




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Moderately-Damaged Myoukou

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Moderately-Damaged Myoukou, also known as “Myoukou Pose”, refers to a series of parody photoshopped images utilizing an illustration of Myoukou[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online card game Kantai Collection (KanColle). A vast amount of parody images had been created on Twitter with its own hashtag between October 2013 and early 2014.

Origin

In KanColle gameplay, dedicated illustrations of injured fleet girls are inserted when they suffer small/moderate/massive damages during the battles, and most of them are sexually suggestive illustrations depicting their condition after being caught the blast. However, those of several fleet girls drawn by a Japanese illustrator bob[2] are known for its non-standard rendition which depicts the moment of explosions dynamically. Among them, the moderately-damaged Myoukou getting blown from the behind is known as the the most epic one.



Left: Typical Damaged Fleet Girl (eg. Kongou[3]) | Right: Moderately-Damaged Myoukou

Spread

In the Japanese anonymous textboard community 2channel, many photoshopped images parodying fleet girls have been continually posted to the main thread series for KanColle in /gameswf/ (browser/smartphone games) board since the summer of 2013. Moderately-damaged Myoukou acrobatic pose and tortured expression which can be construed as sexual ecstasy was sometimes used as a resource in 2channel as well as many other fleet girls illustrations, but it wasn’t particularly notable one.



Early Photoshopped Myoukou Images in 2channel

What made moderately-damaged Myoukou parody increase explosively was a hashtag “#Myoko-ClassCrappyCollageGrand-Prix” (#妙高型クソコラグランプリ)[4] which came to circulate on Twitter around the middle of October 2013. Many ordinary internet users came to notice the epicness of her by the hashtag and joined onto it by their own “crappy” photoshopped images. This Twitter trend was soon covered by affi-blogs dedicated to the online game[5][6] and naver matome pages.[7] Additionally, dozens of parody illustrations inspired by moderately-damaged Myoukou were created on pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga tagged under the hashtag[8] and other names such as “Myoukou Mode” (妙高状態)[9] or “Myoukou Jump” (妙高飛び).[10]

However, this fad of Moderately-Damaged Myoukou on Twitter didn’t last so long because people soon got tired of the fleet girl who was overused in so many boring photoshopped images in a quite short period. It began losing its momentum gradually around the spring of the following year, and ended when people’s concern moved to her “Kai 2” version in July, 2014.

Various Examples




Search Interest

External References

Editor’s Note: Registration is needed to browse the original videos/illustrations listed in this section.

[1]Kancolle Wiki – Myoukou

[2]びよんびよん堂 (bob’s official page, Japanese)

[3]Kancolle Wiki – Kongou

[4]Twitter – Search results for the hashtag #妙高型クソコラグランプリ

[5]艦これまとめ主義 – 【艦これ】あなたが選ぶ!輝け!第一回 妙高型クソコラグランプリ!!【画像100枚】 / Posted on 10-24-2013 (Japanese)

[6]艦これまとめ主義 – 【艦これ】あなたが選ぶ!輝け!第2回 妙高型クソコラグランプリ!!【画像182枚】 / Posted on 01-04-2014 (Japanese)

[7]NAVER matome – 【艦これ】 #妙高型クソコラグランプリ が破壊力高すぎて草不可避w / Posted on 10-22-2013 (Japanese)

[8]pixiv – Search results for the tag 妙高型クソコラグランプリ

[9]pixiv – Search results for the tag 妙高状態

[10]Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag 妙高飛び (Japanese)

Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer Parodies

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Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer Parodies are mock versions of the children’s book Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer by Susan Marenco, which was accused of perpetuating sexist stereotypes in November 2014.

Origin

On November 17th, 2014, blogger Pamie Ribon published a post titled “Barbie Fucks It Up Again,” which argued that the children’s book Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer promoted sexual stereotypes in the story. In the story, Barbie sets out to create a game for her computer class and ends up enlisting the assistance of two boys to fix her computer and create the video game she designed.



Spread

On November 19th, programmer Kathleen Tuite[2] launched the “Feminist Hacker Barbie” web application, which allows users to make their own parody versions of the Barbie book (shown below). That day, several news sites published articles about remixes that were created using the app, including The Daily What[4]

Mattel’s Apology

On November 19th, 2014, the official Barbie Facebook page posted an apology for the children’s book.

“The Barbie I Can Be A Computer Engineer book was published in 2010. Since that time we have reworked our Barbie books. The portrayal of Barbie in this specific story doesn’t reflect the Brand’s vision for what Barbie stands for. We believe girls should be empowered to understand that anything is possible and believe they live in a world without limits. We apologize that this book didn’t reflect that belief. All Barbie titles moving forward will be written to inspire girl’s imaginations and portray an empowered Barbie character.”

Search Interest

Not available.

External References

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[2]Super Fire Truck – Kathleen Tuite

[3]Facebook – Barbie

[4]The Daily What – Rewrite of the Day

Bill Cosby Rape Allegations

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Overview

Bill Cosby Rape Allegations refer to a series of sexual assault claims made against comedian Bill Cosby from 16 different women. Following the circulation of a viral stand-up clip in which comedian Hannibal Buress called Cosby a “rapist” in October 2014, several women came forward to provide their account of their alleged assaults.

Background

In January 2000, a police report was filed by actress Lachele Convington, who claimed she was inappropriately groped by Cosby at his home in New York City. The Manhattan district attorney’s office dropped the case after determining no crime had been committed.[2] In November 2006, Cosby settled a civil lawsuit with former Temple University employee Andrea Constand, who claimed he had drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2004. By the end of the settlement, 13 other women had come forward claiming he had sexually assaulted them.

Notable Developments

Hannibal Buress Stand-Up

In October 2014, comedian Hannibal Buress called Cosby a rapist during a stand-up performance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in reference to the 2006 lawsuit.



“He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”

Barbara Bowman’s Allegations

On October 27th, The Daily Mail[5] published artist Barbara Bowman’s account her experience with Cosby, claiming he drugged and raped her over a two-year period starting when she was 17-years-old in 1985.

“He is a monster. He came at me like a monster. My hope is that others who have experienced sexual abuse will not be intimidated into silence by the famous, rich and powerful. If I can help one victim, then I’ve done my job.”

#CosbyMeme

On November 10th, 2014, Cosby tweeted featuring a photograph of himself with the caption “Happy Monday!” along with a link to a meme generator website inviting Twitter users to make their own Cosby image macros with the hashtag “#CosbyMeme”[1] (shown below).



Twitter users subsequently began tweeting photos of Cosby with captions referencing assault allegations against the comedian along with the “#CosbyMeme” hashtag (shown below). That day, the original Cosby tweet was deleted.



Additional Allegations

On November 16th, 2014, the entertainment news blog Hollywood Elsewhere[3] published an account written by journalist Joan Tarshis, who claimed Cosby raped her when she was 19-years-old in 1969. On November 13th, Bowman appeared on CNN, where she discussed her past experiences with Cosby with anchor Don Lemon (shown below, left). On November 18th, Tarshis was interviewed by on CNN by Lemon, who was criticized for asking her if she had considered biting Cosby’s penis (shown below, right).



That day, model Janice Dickinson was interviewed on the entertainment news program Entertainment Today,[4] where she claimed Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982 (shown below).



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