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eddy malou is the first intelligence of all the democratic republic of Congo. He is really off topic !

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He has been interviewed by an annoter guy of Congo.

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Don’t Starve is a real-time strategy survival game made by Klei Entertainment^[1]. It is available through Steam and the PlayStation 4. It features multiple playable characters with special attributes in a wilderness-like setting. The ultimate goal of the game is to survive as long as possible until death.
Backstory
A video released on Klei Entertainment’s YouTube channel titled Don’t Starve Cinematic Trailer: Forbidden Knowledge shows one of the characters, named Wilson, being transported from his house by a portal, placing him into the game’s environment.

History
Don’t Starve was first released to the public around late 2012^[2], being updated periodically up until October 22nd, 2013. There was then DLC entitled Reign of Giants announced officially on January 15th, 2014^[3]. The DLC was released on April 16th, 2014.
Multiplayer
Many debates have spawned about the game’s possibility of having a multiplayer mode, some claiming that it would either make the game better or ruin the game’s survival aspect. On May 5th, 2014, Don’t Starve Together, the game’s official multiplayer mode, was officially announced on Klei forums^[4].

As of now, the multiplayer is still in development, only being accessible to people who have signed up for the closed-beta^[5]. Gameplay videos of Don’t Starve Together were posted by Klei Entertainment.

Reception
Don’t Starve has gotten mainly positive feedback, receiving a 79 on Metacritic^[6], a 79.06% on GameRankings^[7], and an 8.5 on Armchair Empire^[8]. It was also a finalist for the grand prize and “Excellence in Design” subcategory in the Independent Games Festival awards ceremony, as well as being honorably mentioned for “Excellence in Visual Art” and “Excellence in Audio”^[9].

Don’t Starve was Indie Game Reviewers #1 best indie game of 2013^[10].

Search Interest
Don’t Starve gained a popularity boost when Valve requested^[11] Klei Entertainment to submit promotional items for Team Fortress 2. People who purchased Don’t Starve before April 23rd, 2013 were given items in genuine quality.

YouTube celebrities such as Markiplier and Yogscast have uploaded videos of them playing Don’t Starve, also giving the game a noticeable rise in searches.

External References
^[1]Klei Entertainment official website
^[2]Don’t Starve Early-Access Beta Trailer
^[3]Don’t Starve: Reign of Giants DLC– Autumn Teaser
^[4]Don’t Starve Together -- Multiplayer Alpha Officially Coming Summer 2014
^[5]Don’t Starve Together form
^[6]Don’t Starve Metacritic review
^[7]Don’t Starve GameRanking review
^[8]Review: Don’t Starve PC
^[9]Independent Games Festival awards finalists revealed
^[10]IGR’S Top 10 Best Indie Games of 2013 and Honorable Mentions
^[11]Klei Entertainment Steam Workshop
^[12]Don’t Starve Wiki

Overview

On the Japanese web, November 28th is known as the Good Knee High Socks Day (Japanese: いいニーハイの日, Ii Nīhai no Hi), an unofficial anniversary day for over-knee socks, usually called “Knee High” (ニーハイ). Since 2013, it has been an annual event among Japanese Twitter users to upload “Knee-High” photos, illustrations or selfies with a hashtag.

Background

In Japan, there are many unofficial but widely-known anniversary days designated by companies, organizations, industrial groups or persons for their promoting/awareness campaigns.^[1] And many of them enacted by a simple wordplay of dates numbers, which manner comes from a Japanese language’s characteristic that Kanji characters including numbers usually have multiple pronunciations. Additionally, “wordplay” anniversary days tends to be designated in November because “11” can be read as “I(1)I(1)” which is meaning of “Good”, “Nice” or “Happy”.

Examples:

• 3/10: “Suger Day” → 3[Sa] + 10[Tou] = Suger
• 3/19: “Music Day” → 3[Myū] + 1[(Z)i] + 9[Ku] = Music
• 5/30: “No Garbage Day” → 5[Go] + 3[Mi] = Garbage & Zero(0)
• 6/9: “Rock (Music) Day” → 6[Ro] + 9[Ku] = Rock
• 8/7: “Nose Day” → 8[Ha] + 7[Na] = Nose]
• 10/2: “Tohu Day” → 10[Tou] + 2[Fu]
• 11/22: “Good Married Couple Day” → 1[I] + 1[I] = Good & 2[Fū] + 2[Fu] = Married Couple
• The 29th of each month: “Meat Day” → 2[Ni] + 9[Ku] = Meat

In the same manner, Good Knee-High Socks Day is desinated on November 28th since the numbers can be read as “1[I] + 1[I] + 2[Nī] + 8[Ha(i)]” which is meaning of “Good Knee-Highs”.

Meanwhile, the dawn of this anniversary day hadn’t came till late 2000s because it inherited a famous moe concept “Zettai ryōiki”^[2], or a fetish for the area of bare skin in the gap between over-knee socks and a miniskirt, that was established in the otaku culture in first half of 2000s.

Development

In the early days, “Good Knee-High Socks Day” was circulating on the Japanese web as a minor joke. It took off as an actual anniversary day associated with user activities by the help of the social networks after entering 2010s. At first, Japanese illustrators community pixiv users began posting illustrations under the tag “Good Knee-High Socks Day” on this day of 2011. The amount of illustrations is increasing yearly.^[3] On the day of the following year, a few of female Twitter users began posting their own “Knee-Highs” selfies or cosplay photos with the hastag “#GoodKneeHighSocksDay” (#いいニーハイの日).^[4] In that year, this online event was reported by a gossip web news site for the first time.^[5] And, the explosive increase of the photos on the day of 2013 finally established itself as a real anniversary day for many Japanese internet users.^[6][7]

Since then, A flood of Knee high photos swallows up the social web in Good Knee High Socks Day in every year.

2014 Timeline

Editor’s note: This Twitter timeline may include mature contents.

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External References

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

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Mom, Get the Camera! is a memorable quote & reaction uttered by C8 Swap, a participant of the Call of Duty games. The phrase is most often used as a reaction in montage parodies and/or a generalized reaction.

Origin

On June 29, 2011, YouTuber JustAnotherCinema uploaded a short clip of the reaction^[1] after he had killed an opponent by rotating 360 degrees in mid-air and hurling a knife at KcE II NiNjAZz, an opponent. Since June of 2011, the video has acquired 460,000+ views and 6,000 likes (shown below).

C8 Swap:gasp Oh…! Oh my god! OOOHHHH! OH MY FUCKINGGOOOOD!!! OOOOOHHHHH! (WE) GOTTHATFUCKER, OOOHHH! MOM, GETTHECAMERA!!!

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The reaction started to gain online traction after the first variation of the reaction was posted online. On February 15, 2012, YouTuber badSmarties uploaded another variation of the clip and has gained 753,000+ views and 10,000+ likes as of November 2014 (shown below).

On February 12th, 2014, YouTuber Candy Coke uploaded a montage parody using the reaction. However, it has only gained around 900 views and 11 likes as of November 2014.

About a month later, YouTuber Furretful uploaded another video featuring the reaction with video footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Since then, it has acquired 56,000+ views and 800+ likes.

It has also gained viral use outside of YouTube as well. There are 119 search results on Tumblr for posts and profiles containing “mom get the camera”^[2]. It has also been added to MontageParodies^[3], a site containing multiple sound effects often found in MLG videos. On MemeCenter, there are almost 20,000+ results of images on the site containing “mom get the camera” after user bakoahmed referenced the quote in one of his/her posts in September 2014.^[4]

Notable Examples

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Searches for “mom get the camera” started picking up in February 2014, but has increased drastically since then.

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That’s Pretty Brutal, alternatively Metal as Fuck, is a popular online expression that is used to denote approval of something that has been deemed “extreme” by comparing it to heavy metal music, or by evoking heavy metal themes. It is employed both legitimately, in a similar manner to Me Gusta, and sarcastically.

Origin

Heavy metal, a genre of rock music, rose to prominence in the 1970s. Featuring aggressive lyrics, instrumentals, and aesthetics, it quickly gained notoriety for being an “extreme” musical genre, a reputation which has remained to the present day. Fans of the metal genre are generally referred to as “metalheads”.^[3]

In August 2006, the animated television series Metalocalypse premiered on Adult Swim. Intended to be both a parody and a celebration of heavy metal culture, it features larger-than-life stereotypes of metalheads and exaggerated dark humor.^[1] The original variation of the meme, quoted as “that’s pretty brutal”, is a catchphrase of the character Nathan Explosion, the frontman of the fictional band Dethklok.

Spread

On November 26th, 2012, LA Weekly published a blog post titled “How to Determine if Something Is Metal as Fuck”, in which the post’s author provided a chart that distinguishes between perceived metal and non-metal themes in a satirical tone.^[2]

On November 6th, 2013, Buzzfeed published an article titled “The 26 Most Metal Things That Have Ever Happened”, showcasing several displays of heavy metal themes.^[4]

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This is based off the controversy behind the lightsaber held by the hooded figure in the newly released Star Wars teaser trailer. The first mention of the lightsaber is in a website article by Voc^[1].

“While we don’t get to see series newcomer Lupita Nyong’o or the series’ legendary stars like Harrison Ford, we do get to see
quick shots of spacecraft zipping around the galaxy, John Boyega in a storm trooper uniform, a cute robot, and this take-your-breath-away moment of a broadsword-like lightsaber.”

T.C. Sottek, an editor of ‘the Verge’, has criticised the lightsaber in his twitter page, going as far as suggesting his own designs to JJ Abrams.

I designed a better lightsaber than J.J. Abrams while I was in line for coffee http://t.co/93eWXcxKb5pic.twitter.com/DsSy6wRWPr

— tc (@chillmage) November 28, 2014

1/ simple solution to this design would be to add some hand guards under the crossguard that would bounce off you pic.twitter.com/tLO4DGB981

— tc (@chillmage) November 28, 2014

2/ better solution would be to offset + angle the crossguard so the energy blades sit flush in a "V" shape. pic.twitter.com/F1k9QK8JlE

— tc (@chillmage) November 28, 2014

3/ check this shit out pic.twitter.com/ShZIxaKdZX

— tc (@chillmage) November 28, 2014

Despite controversy, the Cross Guard lightsaber has appeared in the Star Wars franchise before^[2].

tl;dr pic.twitter.com/NnqU3bsj5J

— tc (@chillmage) November 28, 2014

A meme awakens. #TheForceAwakenspic.twitter.com/qZMCzd5HeT

— Dustin Sandoval (@DustinMSandoval) November 28, 2014

Well-played RT @doingitwrong: pic.twitter.com/hFIeJO3taY

— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) November 28, 2014

External References:

^[1] Vox – Star Wars: The Force Awakens has a trailer and a new lightsaber
^[2] Wookieepedia – Crossguard lightsaber
TechCrunch – Here, Star Wars, I Fixed Your ‘Force Awakens’ Lightsaber Crossguard For You
The Verge – I designed a better lightsaber than J.J. Abrams while I was in line for coffee this morning
The Verge – Let’s talk about the new ‘Star Wars’ lightsaber
the Washington Post – Lightsaber critics say the one in the Star Wars teaser could never work. They’re wrong.
the Daily Dot – Internet freaks out about new lightsaber in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ trailer

Top Imgur submission, top Reddit submission. Seen frequently on Facebook.

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart that stars Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, the eccentric owner of a whimsical chocolate factory.

History

The idea for a film adaptation for Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came when Mel Stuart’s then 10-year-old daughter read the book and asked her father to make it into a film with producer David L. Wolper. Both Stuart and Wolper agreed that it should be a children’s musical and that Roald Dahl should write the screenplay.

Reception

Film review website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an 89% with the consensus stating “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is strange yet comforting, full of narrative detours that don’t always work but express the film’s uniqueness.”^[1] The film currently holds a 7.8/10 rating from 104,055 users on the user generated film review website the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).^[2]

Impact

Wonkadotcom, a fansite dedicated to the film containing quotes, music lyrics, and a transcript of the film, has been online as early as February 1 2001.^[3] On April 29, 2004 YTMND user Kess created a site containing a black and white portrait of Gene Wilder as Wonka and an audio clip of Wonka loudly proclaiming So you get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY sir.^[4] On April 18, 2005 an entry for Wonka Wash was created on Urban Dictionary. ^[5]

Related Memes

You get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY sir!

“You get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY sir!” is a quote from near the end of the film where Willy Wonka loudly berates Charlie for stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks. As mentioned above, the earliest instance was a YTMND site created on April 29, 2004.

Condescending Wonka / Creepy Wonka

Condescending Wonka / Creepy Wonka is an advice animal image macro series that features a screen capture of Gene wilder as Willy Wonka with captions that are usually condescending or sarcastic in nature.

Search Interest

External References

^[1]Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – Rotten Tomatoes

^[2]Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) – IMDb

^[3]Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie, script, t-shirts, links

^[4]ytmnd – you’re the man now dog!

^[5]Urban Dictionary: Wonka Wash

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Garfielf refers to an intentionally poor quality parody video of Garfield, made by Jim Davis. The popularity of the original video spawned a number of remakes and parodies.

Origin

On the 4th of April, 2013, YouTube user PilotRedSun uploaded a video entitled “Garfielf”. The video consists of the characters being poorly drawn and Text-to-Speech narration.

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On the 28th of February, 2014, YouTube user Nano reuploaded the same video, but with his voice replacing the Text to Speech.

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The phrase Gosts are REAL. Gosts are EVEEWAIR. (“Ghosts are real, ghosts are everywhere”) was the text of a note passed around among pupils of reddit user Cogitotoro, who told about this experience in a thread on AskReddit.

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The phrase was quickly adopted as a sort of surprise twist when telling longer stories, in a similar way to the popular Bel Air meme.

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“Bae come over” is a meme revolving around a girl inviting her boyfriend over to her place, in which the boyfriend comes over in a humorous fashion. The meme starts with the titular phrase “bae come over” (occasionally ‘bae’ is replaced with ‘babe,’) to which the boy will reply that he is busy, until the girl usually mentions that her parents aren’t home, then a comedic image or gif is used to represent how the boy proceeds over to the girl’s place; it is done in a manner similar to a knock-knock joke.

Origin

[W.I.P.]

Spread

Mandatory.com has made a list of the staff’s top picks of the meme on June 13, 2014^[2]. The meme is popular on Tumblr^[1] and Vine with multiple people from the latter website making their own iteration of the punchline rather than just adding a gif at the end of the meme.

On June 21, 2014, Buzzfeed published a compilation article featuring multiple examples of the meme taken from twitter, titled “22 Boyfriends Who Knew Exactly What To Do When They Got The Call From The Bae”.^[3]

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Dubsmash is a video messaging application for iOS and Android. Dubsmash allows users to use audio recordings of well known quotes from shows and other media and dub them through a selfie video. Following the application’s official release in November 2014 it quickly gained notable attention on social media, becoming a top downloaded application in certain areas on both Apple and Android devices following that period.

Origin

Dubsmash^[1] was created by German application designers Daniel Taschik, Roland Grenke en Jonas Druppel^[2] throught their company Mobile Motion. A beta for the application was already avaialable in late October through the official site^[3] and as shown through test videos on Youtube.^[4][5] The application was officially released on Apple devices^[6][7] on November 18th alongside a promotional video(shown below), and followed with an Android release^[8] on the 27th that same month.

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Sea-Lioning is an Internet slang term referring to intrusive attempts at engaging an unwilling debate opponent by feigning civility and incessantly requesting evidence to back up their claims. The term was coined in September 2014 by anti-GamerGate Internet users to mock perceived online discussion tactics employed by GamerGate supporters.

Origin

On September 19th, 2014, artist David Malki published a comic titled “The Terrible Sea Lion” on his webcomic site Wondermark,^[1] which features a sea lion who intrudes on a private conversation to debate a woman saying she “could do without sea lions” (shown below).

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On October 9th, Redditor Plaguearist submitted the Wondermark comment in a post titled “New term for GG behaviour – Sealioning?” to the /r/GamerGhazi^[7] subreddit. On October 20th, Kotaku writer Patricia Hernandez tweeted^[5] that she informed someone that had been “sealioned” in real life (shown below). On October 23rd, Wondermark^[6] published a blog post titled “‘Sea Lion’ Has Been Verbed,” highlighting several tweets containing the term.

On November 20th, the anti-GamerGate blog Simplikation^[2] published an article titled “Why Sealioning is Bad,” which argued that responding to “demands for evidence and answers to questions” was an “insidious trap” to waste people’s time. On November 23rd, Redditor TheThing submitted a post to the /r/AMRsucks^[4] subreddit titled “Sea-lioning: A hip, new term to describe that teribble, horrible circumstance when you have to actually back up your statements with evidence.” On November 25th, Twitter^[9] user Richard Olsen criticized the term as a means of killing a discussion when asked a challenging question.

Sea Lion Fund

On November 25th, a #GamerGate donation page was created on the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) website, calling for GamerGate supporters to donate money for sea lion conservation. That day, the page was posted on the /gg/ board on 8chan, where a user suggested the sea lion be named “Ethics” and his habitat named “Games Journalism” (shown below).

On November 26th, Redditor catpor submitted the page to the /r/KotakuInAction^[8] subreddit. By the following day, the page received 100% of its $5,000 goal.

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Trigun (Japanese: トライガン Toraigan) is a manga series created by Yasuhiro Nightow and was published by Monthly Shōnen Captain until 1997 after three volumes, followed by a sequel called Trigun Maximum (Japanese: トライガンマキシマム Toraigan Makishimamu) which lasted until 2007.

Premise

Trigun revolves around the story of a dangerous but kind hearted outlaw named Vash the Stampede and two members of the Bernardelli Insurance Society, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson on the planet Gunsmoke. Who follow him around in order to minimize the damages due to his nature and a bounty for 60 billion double dollars on his head where he would receive the name, “The Humanoid Typhoon”.

Origin

The series was first published by Yasuhiro Nightow in April of 1995 where regular serialization commenced until it was cancelled early in 1997. Where Nightow later approached publisher Shōnen Gahōsha in favor to continue the story under a new name called “Trigun Maximum” in their magazine, Young King Ours later that year. Maximum continued off two years after the first series, but in a more serious tone in favor of the demographic change from shonen to seinen. The series was later adapted as a 26 episode anime series produced by Madhouse in 1998 & a movie, Trigun: Badlands Rumble in 2010. Twelve years after the anime ended. An English dub was later produced in early 2000, and made it’s North American premiere on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block in March 2003. The dub was also known as the first anime role of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers actor Johnny Yong Bosch as Vash the Stampede.

Fandom

The series garnered a fan base during it’s North American run, and as of 2014, it’s Facebook page has over 38,000 likes and 600 subscribers on Reddit.

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“There are Two Kinds of People” is an expression used online to preface a statement that generalizes and juxtaposes people into two polar opposite groups based on their personal behaviors or preferences. On Tumblr, the phrase is typically inserted as a comment on an image post or ongoing conversation to highlight the discussion topic as the definitive indicator of which of the two groups each reader belongs to.

Origin

The earliest known usage of the expression on record can be found in a quote attributed to the 19th-century American novelist and writer Mark Twain:^[3]

The first widespread humorous derivation of the expression and arguably the origin of the meme as it exists today was the popular mathematics joke “there are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”

Spread

On April 27th, 2013, BuzzFeed ran a compilation of examples, most of them taken from Tumblr conversations, in an article titled “There Are Two Types Of People In This World”.^[1] On September 17th, 2014, boredpanda published an article titled “There Are Two Kinds Of People: Do You Recognize Yourself?”, consisting of a series of minimalist infographics outlining common dichotomies in everyday life.^[2]

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Manzieling is a photoshop meme based on an exploitable cut out image of Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel laying down on his back with his arms crossed over his chest during the game against the Buffalo Bills in November 2014.

Origin

On November 30th, 2014, the Cleveland Browns quarterback laid motionless on the field after losing the ball due to a failed snap during the team’s regular season match against the Buffalo Bills (shown below, left). That day, Twitter user Robby Kalland^[1] posted a photoshopped image of Manziel laying on the ground with several other professional athletes (shown below, right).

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That evening, the novelty Twitter account @CockyWesWelker^[6] tweeted several photos of people mimicking Manziel’s pose with the hashtag “#Manzieling”^[5] (shown below, left). Many Twitter users subsequently posted photoshopped images of Manziel laying on the ground in other base pictures with the “#Manzieling” hashtag. On December 1st, Redditor violentrob11 posted an edited photo of former professional boxer Muhammad Ali standing over Manziel in a boxing ring to the /r/buffalobills^[4] subreddit (shown below, right).

The same day, the local news site Cleveland.com^[2] published an article about the photoshop meme, highlighting several notable examples from Twitter. According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,^[3] the hastag #Manzieling was tweeted over 1,300 times in the first 24 hours.

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#GivingTuesday is an annual charity event launched and organized by the 92nd Street Y community center in New York, which encourages charitable giving each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

Background

Giving Tuesday was founded in 2012 by New York’s 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation as a way to promote charitable donations during the first week of December immediately following the observation of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which mark the unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season in the United States.

Notable Developments

2012

On October 23rd, 2012, Mashable^[1] published an article announcing that the first #GivingTuesday^[3] event would be held on November 27th the following month, urging people to donate to charities for the holiday season. Several business and organizations promoted the event, including the United Nations Foundation, Crowdrise, DonorsChoose.org, Blackbaud, Charity: water, GlobalGiving, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Kiva, Darden Restaurant Group, Groupon, Unilever and Venture3Philanthropya.

2013

In 2013, #GivingTuesday was promoted in Australia, Canada and Mexico, including participation by Discover, eBay, Kenneth Cole, Juvenile in Justice, Connecting Up, Mobile Giving Foundation Canada, Filantrofilia and the United Nations Developments Program.

2014

In 2014, the United Kingdom-based organizations The Charities Aid Foundation and Blackbaud promoted #GivingTuesday in the media, provided various resources and launched networking initiatives for the event. That year, the 92nd Street Y, the United Nations Foundation and Crowdwise collaborated to creat the #GivingTower mobile application,^[2] which features a large virtual tower created out of “bricks” representing #GivingTuesday donations (shown below, right).

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Ik neuk jullie allemaal de moeder is a Dutch phrase said by a Dutch-Moroccan student on Dutch television.

Origin

The phrase originates from a PowNews video coverage from October 8, 2013 about “Docentendag”, a teacher appreciation day, where a student shows his appreciation by saying “Ik neuk jullie allemaal de moeder” which is incorrect Dutch for “I fuck all of your mothers”.

Spread

On November 1, 2013, YouTube user “Party In Backyard” uploaded a mash-up of the phrase with a remix of Pitbull’s “Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)”.

On November 8, 2013, PowNews uploads a new video coverage where a student repeats the same line.

On November 10, 2014, PowNews uploads new video coverage where a child repeats the same line.

On Twitter

Tweets about ik neuk jullie allemaal de moeder

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Devil May Cry is a series of video games set in the modern day, developed by Capcom and created by Hideki Kamiya, who is also the creator of Bayonetta. Originally intended to be the fourth instalment in Capcom’s Resident Evil series, Devil May Cry has been cited as the beginning of a sub-genre of action games by the name of “Extreme Action”.

As of 2013, there are five games in the series, though DmC: Devil May Cry is a reboot rather than a continuation. A compilation of the first three games, Devil May Cry HD Collection, was also released on March 28, 2012.

Series Origins

In 1998, after the completion of Resident Evil 3, preliminary work on another instalment of the Resident Evil series began under the direction of Hideki Kamiya. However, it proved to be a radical departure from the original Resident Evil formula and survival horror in general. Rather than abandon the project entirely, the premise was changed and it eventually became the first
Devil May Cry.

Although the series is, without a doubt, different from its original inspiration, its lineage is still apparent, from the recurring boss characters and tendency towards grotesque adversaries, the need to solve puzzles to proceed, to the “This Game Contains Scenes Of Violence And Gore” warning at the opening sequence and “You Are Dead” game over screens. The attacks some of the monsters can perform are also reminiscent of its lineage.

Gameplay

The gameplay of the series focuses primarily on fast and “stylish” combat; gaining a high style ranking requires long attack and evasion strings while avoiding damage. In later games, the system was slightly modified so players had to vary the attacks used, so as to raise and maintain the style rank. The style rank is tracked during combat with letter grades, from worst to best: D, C, B, A, S. They are also represented by words that start with the first letter of the class (or phrases, in the case of Devil May Cry 2), “Dull” for D for example, in the first game. The third game introduced “SS” and “SSS” ranks, which were also used in the fourth. Each level, or “mission”, is also ranked using these letters. The player’s overall grade is computed as a result of his or her total Style along with time and amount of items collected and used.

The game also features puzzle-solving and exploration elements retained from its survival horror beginnings, but these are very downplayed; Devil May Cry games put emphasis on action.

The Devil Trigger ability enables the player’s character to transform into a devil-like form with additional powers, while the character’s strength and speed increase and health is slowly restored.

Dante is generally the playable character in the games, though Devil May Cry 2 featured two other characters, Lucia and Trish, the Special Edition of Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening allowed players to play as Vergil, and Devil May Cry 4 features a new protagonist named Nero, however Dante appears as a supporting character and is playable through some missions.

Plot

The series centers on Dante’s goal of avenging his mother’s murder by exterminating demons. In the process, he encounters and is challenged by his twin brother, Vergil, who Dante thought was dead. As the series progresses it is revealed that the demon emperor Mundus is responsible for the loss of Dante’s mother and the corruption of his brother.
The chronological order of the Devil May Cry series does not follow the release order of the games. Devil May Cry 3 takes place first as a prequel to Devil May Cry, which is followed by Devil May Cry 4, and then finally Devil May Cry 2. The anime series is set sometime between Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 4.

Devil May Cry 3

WARNING: SPOILERS

The story of the series begins in Devil May Cry 3 on Dante’s as-of-yet unnamed shop as a mysterious man named Arkham appears to offer an invitation from Dante’s brother, Vergil. An immense tower erupts from the ground a short distance away from the shop and Dante takes the situation as a challenge. Following numerous battles, Dante arrives at the tower’s summit and encounters Vergil, who defeats Dante in combat and departs. Dante eventually catches up with Vergil in the control room located in the tower’s basement. The brothers battle again until they are interrupted by Lady, then Arkham, who has been manipulating them all to reactivate the tower. Arkham intends to steal the Force Edge, Sparda’s sword, and adquire all of his Power.
Dante crosses over to the demon world and catches up with Arkham, and he and Vergil work together to bring him down. Dante and Vergil fight yet again, and Dante is victorious. Returning to the human world, Dante meets Lady outside the tower where she coins the phrase “devil may cry” while trying to comfort Dante over the loss of his brother. They form a friendship and a partnership in demon-slaying, and he names his shop “Devil May Cry”.

Devil May Cry

WARNING: SPOILERS

Devil May Cry 1 begins with Dante being attacked in his office by Trish. He easily brushes off her assault and she claims that the demon emperor Mundus is planning a return. Dante explores Mallet Island, encountering a variety of powerful demons, including one named Nelo Angelo.

Dante is defeated by Nelo Angelo in combat, but Nelo Angelo flees at the sight of Dante’s half of the Perfect Amulet.

Other encounters with Mundus’ demon generals serve to indicate that Dante has become even more powerful than his father since his initial awakening. Nelo Angelo attacks twice more in later missions, and is eventually revealed to be Dante’s twin brother, Vergil.

Dante enters the underworld in pursuit of Mundus, where Trish sacrifices herself to save him. Dante uses the emotions triggered by Trish’s actions to release the power of Sparda that Vergil sought in Devil May Cry 3. Dante and Mundus then battle on another plane of existence. Trish returns and lends Dante her power. Dante then defeats Mundus, and he alongside Trish escape as the island collapses, and later work together in the renamed shop, “Devil Never Cry”, although the name was reverted later.

Devil May Cry 4

WARNING: SPOILERS

In Devil May Cry 4, Lady calls upon Dante to investigate the Order of the Sword, a cult-like group that worships Sparda and has been collecting Devil Arms.

Dante is originally uninterested, but Trish goes on ahead and takes the Sparda sword with her. Later, Nero witnesses Dante assassinate the Order’s leader, Sanctus. Nero attacks Dante and awakens his Devil Bringer arm, only to find that Dante was not taking their fight seriously.

Nero pursues Dante, and along the way comes to realize that the Order is opening gates to the demon world in order to harness its power. After a battle against Agnus, Nero discovers and magically restores the Yamato, which the Order had found broken in several places. Sanctus is revived through demonic power, and he sets in motion a plan to capture Nero and absorving him into the Savior by kidnapping Kyrie, Nero’s love interest.

Nero pursues and fights Sanctus, but is ultimately captured and used to form the core of The Savior, a giant demon in the form of a god.

Dante steps in and destroys all the Hell Gates that the Order has opened, then fights against the Savior. Unable to destroy it from the outside, he leaves that task to Nero to defeat it from the inside. While inside the Savior, Nero kills Sanctus and rescues Kyrie, and ultimately destroys the Savior. Dante entrusts Yamato, which formerly belonged to Vergil, to Nero, and leaves with Trish. Later, at the Devil May Cry shop, Lady pays Dante and Trish for their work. Then, a customer with the password phones in, and the three head out to take on another mission.

Devil May Cry 2

WARNING: SPOILERS

Devil May Cry 2 begins with Dante entering a museum where an important item called the Medaglia is stored. There, also, Lucia, a member of the clan that has for ages been charged with protecting the faithful of Vie de Marli from all incarnations of evil, invites Dante to Dumary Island. Lucia’s mother, Matier, asks Dante to help fight Arius, a businessman who studies and wields demonic power. Dante decides to help.

Lucia confronts Arius, who reveals that she was his creation. Shortly afterwards, Lucia gives Dante the last of the Arcana before leaving. Dante then encounters Matier again and she asks Dante to take the Arcana to save Lucia. Lucia attacks Arius, though he captures her. Dante arrives and trades the Arcana for Lucia, then attacks Arius, who escapes. A large stream of energy strikes the Uroburos tower and a portal to the demon world is opened. Dante and Lucia argue over who will enter, but ultimately it is Dante who enters the portal to deal with Argosax.

After Dante departs, Arius returns, though Lucia goes on to defeat him. Within the portal, Dante fights and defeats the partially summoned Argosax. Finding the portal closed, Dante instead drives further into the demon realm on a motorcycle. In the aftermath of the battle, Matier insists to Lucia that Sparda returned from a similar trip.

Sometime later, in Dante’s shop, Lucia muses about Dante. Outside, the sound of a motorcycle echoes, and Lucia leaves to investigate. The player is not shown whether or not it is Dante.

Similarities With Bayonetta

Being two games developed by the same creator (Hideki Kamiya), Bayonetta has several references to the Devil May Cry series. You can see a list of these over here: http://devilmaycry.wikia.com/wiki/Bayonetta#Devil_May_Cry_references

Also, Bayonetta plays very similarly to the Devil May Cry games in that the player is asked to string together long and stylish combo attacks to defeat foes. Bayonetta is able to double jump, destroy background objects, switch her weapons during play, shape-shift into different and more powerful forms, and slow down time. Gameplay is broken down into multiple chapters. There are also several difficulty modes, ranging from “Very Easy Automatic” (reference to the “Easy Automatic Mode” in DMC1) to “Non-Stop Climax”, and a scoring system that grades the player’s stylishness.

Additionally, both series have separate gauges for player vitality and magic, with magic being required for special techniques and replenished by executing stylish combos and taunting. Health and magic are extended separately by collecting pieces of different items either purchased from stores or found during gameplay. Healing items of both series follow a similar color pattern: Green items heal health and purple items heal magic. Enemies in both games drop items which are used as currency for purchasing items and new techniques. Also, both series feature unlockable alternate costumes.

Anime

An anime for Devil May Cry also exists. Know as Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, It debuted on the WOWOW TV network in Japan on June 14, 2007, and ran 12 episodes.

The show was produced by the anime studio Madhouse and was directed by Shin Itagaki. Bingo Morihashi, one of the writers for the second, third and fourth games, was also on the writing staff.

A teaser-trailer, released on the show’s official site, featured pre-production artwork of Dante, the primary protagonist and playable character of the video games, and confirmed him as the show’s main protagonist.

A second trailer released at the 2007 Tokyo International Anime Fair showed actual animation from the show and included a character and cast list, featuring new characters, such as Patty Lowell (a young orphan girl Dante saves in the first episode, who also lives in Devil May Cry) and Morrison (Dante’s liaison), and other characters from the games, such as Trish and Lady.

Reception

The series has been a marketing success, selling over 13 million copies as of September 30, 2013 and all five entries being awarded the “Platinum Title” award by Capcom.

The success of the series has led to the creation of comic books, manga series, three novelizations, an anime series, guides, collectibles, publications, and a variety of action figures.

However, Devil May Cry 2 was considered a huge disappointment because of its easy difficulty compared to the original Devil May Cry. Also, Dante’s personality was changed a lot. He became a lot more serious, and that was also not well received by fans and critics.

Online Presence

There is a lot of fanart in Tumblr and Deviantart. The Facebook page for Devil May Cry has over 1.800.000 likes. The Twitter page has over 32,000 followers.

A Devil May Cry Wiki also exists, having over 612 pages about the games, characters (main ones, lesser demons and bosses), items, weapons, locations and music.

Fanart

Cosplay

Related Memes

Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series

Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series is a phrase taken from a seal placed on the cover of the European release of the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer’s Call to promote the addition of Dante, the main protagonist from the Devil May Cry series into the game. The addition of the seal on the European release, which wasn’t present on the releases of the game elsewhere, became a target of mock by the gaming community due to Dante’s rather trivial part in the game’s plot.

Example

Ur a Faget

Ur a Faget is a bastardized form of the phrase “You’re a Faggot”, an insult used towards another person’s belief or behavior. The phrase first became popular when it was used in a MS Paint comic featuring the main characters from Devil May Cry 3, Dante and Vergil, and has since been used in exploitable images with the viewer looking disgruntled.
The comic itself shows a crudely drawn MS Paint style featuring Dante sending a note reading “ur a faget” to his brother Vergil in an over the top manner.

DmC Dante / Donte

DmC Dante, also nicknamed as Donte, is the name given by the Devil May Cry fanbase to the New Dante seen in the 2013 reboot, DmC: Devil May Cry. This character is notable for its vulgar and agressive personality, which differs greatly from the original Dante’s more calm and cocky attitude.

The nickname Donte is mostly used by longtime fans of the series, due to the fact he doesn’t look or act like the original Dante. In some forums, it is listed as short for “Don’t call him Dante”.

During the game, Dante always shows an agressive behavior and swears on almost every opportunity. When he doesn’t, he tries to be “cool” and appeal to the player, failing most of the time.

The quote “Fuck You!” also became a notable part of the character because of how many times he says it during the game. One notable scene (before a boss battle) is shown below.

This version of Dante also appeared as a character in the PlayStation 3 game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, a fighting game similiar to Super Smash Brothers, only that fighters need to use super moves to rack up KO’s and features historical Playstation characters.

While fans reacted negatively to Dante’s look at first, they were surprised as they found out that, while he was still the DmC Dante, his personality from the previous DMC games was left intact, acting and talking like the classic. However, people still wanted the original Dante as an alternate costume or a completely separated character, which never came to be.

References

- http://devilmaycry.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_May_Cry_%28series%29
- http://devilmaycry.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_May_Cry:_The_Animated_Series
- http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/salesdata.html

About

“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” is a slogan closely associated with the ongoing anti-police protests in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s Death in Ferguson, Missouri.^[1] The phrase is meant to illustrate the circumstances of Brown’s death as initially reported in the news media and later in the grand jury testimony, during which Brown declared that he was unarmed and told Darren Wilson, the police officer involved in the shooting, to “stop shooting” with his hands raised.

Origin

The phrase stems from the account as provided by Dorian Johnson, a friend of Brown who was with him that day, initially to the news media outlets in August 2014 and later before the grand jury in September. According to Johnson’s account:

Wilson approached them by the sidewalk in his police SUV and told them to stop, to which Brown and Johnson replied that they were close to home and would shortly be out of the street. Wilson then blocked their pathway and attempted to detain Brown through the window of his vehicle, leading to a physical struggle between the two, during which Wilson drew his weapon and said “I’ll shoot you” or “I’m going to shoot” before firing his weapon at Brown. As Brown and Johnson began to flee from the police car, Wilson fired several more rounds at Brown, who then turned around with his hands raised and said, “I don’t have a gun. Stop shooting!” Wilson then shot Brown several more times, killing him.

The slogan “hands up, don’t shoot!” was coined by St. Louis protesters, including Hands Up United, a police watchdog activist group based in Ferguson, Missouri formed in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, and spread across the country in the following days of the week.^[2]

Spread

Throughout August, the phrase was featured in many headlines of news articles covering the protests across the country, as well as reported in the news^[3] as a powerful protest symbol against anti-police brutality. On August 15th, 2014, Fast Company published an article^[5] titled “‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ and Growing Power of Protest Memes,” which highlighted the instrumental role of visual media in activism and compared the “hands up” gesture to a number of other protest memes, including “We are All Trayvon Martin” and the hoodie images in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death in February 2012. On August 19th, USA Today ran an article^[4] titled “Ferguson protests give new meaning to ‘hands up’ sign,” showcasing photographs of protesters with hands in the air.

St. Louis Rams’ “Hands-Up” Entrance

On November 30th, several members of the St. Louis Rams,^[6] Tavon Austin, Kenny Britt, Stedman Bailey, Jared Cook and Chris Givens, entered the field with their arms raised in solidarity with the protesters in Ferguson Missouri, before their match against the Oakland Raiders.

The NFL athletes’ stunt instantly became the talking point of the game, and by the next morning, it blew up into the social media controversy of the day after the St. Louis Police Officers Associations denounced the display by calling it “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.”^[8] The NFL later replied they would not adhere to a request from the St. Louis Police Officers Associations to discipline the players.^[9] The St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman later said Chief Jon Belmar “believed it to be an apology,”^[10] but this claim was later denied by the St. Louis Rams.^[11]

Walk Out Protests

On December 1st, the phrase became widely used as the official slogan among the participants of walkout protests in towns across Missouri, as well as several major U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Chicago, among others. In Washington D.C., several Democratic members of the Congress, New York’s Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clarke, as well as Texas’ Al Green, performed the gesture on the House floor in support of the protests.^[7]

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