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Death Grips is an experimental hip hop^[1] band from Sacramento, California consisting of Drummer Zach Hill^[2], producer Andy Morin and vocalist and frontman Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett^[3], the group has been popular^[4] for their combination of Noise Music, Industrial Music and Hip Hop, the group rose to popularity is mainly acredited to the 4chan board /mu/, who considers their work to be an essential must listen based on the high number of discussions they spawn there.

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Death Grips released the first single of their mixtape “Exmilitary”^[5] (which then would be released on April 25, 2011) titled “Guillotine(It Goes Yah)” on August 3, 2011

The Single received positive reviews due to MC Ride´s aggresive nature and violent lyrics, and the group’s odd, loud and erratic glitchy production, giving the feeling of a guillotine descending, critics also cited the simplicity of the video, consisting of MC Ride rapping while sitting in the passenger seat of a car in motion on a transited road with the seat belt on as static sorrounds him, sometimes screaming the word guillotine as the music gains momentum and the video distortions and slows down.

The Video has received 2,563,303 views and 14,516 likes, also becoming their most popular song up-to-date, launching them to internet popularity.

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“I Crave That Mineral” is an expression stemming from a captioned photograph of an ibex licking salt off the side of a mountain that was submitted to Tumblr in late October 2014.

Origin

On October 27th, 2014, Tumblr^[2] user sixpenceee posted a photograph of an Alpine ibex licking salt deposits off a mountainside with the caption “They crave that mineral” (shown below). In the first two months, the post gained over 283,000 notes.

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On December 14th, 2014, Tumblr^[3] user Meladoodle submitted a text post saying “Me giving head: I crave that mineral,” which gathered more than 4,400 notes in 72 hours. On the following day, YouTuber Suicide Balloons uploaded a parody of the 2011 pop song “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction titled “Crave That Mineral” (shown below).

On December 16th, a Wikipedia^[1] page titled “I crave that mineral” was created, which was subsequently selected for deletion. The same day, Tumblr^[4] user floozys declared that the catchphrase was “the most unexpected, late entry meme of 2014.” Also on December 16th, Tumblr user Mikasa-Ackerman posted a screen capture from the anime Attack on Titan with the caption “she craves that mineral,” garnering upwards of 9,400 notes in 24 hours (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Tumblr^[5] user santakuroo uploaded a photoshopped version of the original ibex image featuring That Feel Guy and Sad Frog, gaining more than 21,300 notes over the next day (shown below, right).

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“About a week ago” is a lyric from the rap song “Hot Nigga” by Bobby Shmurda. The lyric and the “Schmoney Dance” featured in the video became famous through Vine and later became a meme through this.

Origin

The song was released on July 25, 2014 and the video was posted to Youtube through Shmurda’s VEVO account on August 1 of the same year ^[1].

Vine Origin

The earliest Vine posted featuring the meme was one posted by Viner DontéMacc who posted his Vine the same day as the single’s release ^[2].

Impact

In early August, the popularity of the line and dance exploded in popularity on Vine ^[3] and helped the song itself peak at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 ^[4].

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^[1]Youtube – Bobby Shmurda – Hot N*gga

^[2]Vine – About a week ago

^[3]HotNewHipHop – Bobby Shmurda Confirms Chris Brown & More For “Hot Nigga” Official Remix

^[4]Billboard Hot 100 – Bobby Shmurda – Chart history

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Cinema is a 2011 electronic dubstep song performed by Italian DJ and record producer Marco Benassi, better known by his stage name Benny Benassi. The song is used most often in humorous YouTube videos and usually at the climax of most montage parodies, where the song is right about to drop the bass.

Origin

On March 28, 2011, music producer company Ultra Music uploaded the official music video of the song to their YouTube channel^[1], acquiring 8 million views and 36,000 likes. (shown below)

Reception

After the song’s original release, Review-Fi^[2] praised the song for having catchy lyrics and being sung in soprano, claiming the song itself was “overly addicting”. However, they said that this couldn’t be said for all the remixes of the song, including Skrillex’s. The last sentence exclaimed, “If you’re going to get any of them[remixes], get Benassi’s.”

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On June 9, 2011, American electronic dance music producer, DJ, and singer-songwriter Sonny John Moore, best known by his stage name Skrillex, remixed the song and uploaded it onto YouTube^[3], gaining 8 million views and almost 60,000 likes as of December 2014. (shown below)

In September 2011, YouTuber Sqrillex (a play on the word “Skrillex”) uploaded another variation of the tune^[4], gaining 58 million views and knocking in 310,000 likes. (shown below)

The earliest known video parodying the song was a montage of YouTuber MrPredatorzHD playing Call of Duty 4 uploaded only days after Sqrillex’s upload of the song; MrPredatorzHD’s video^[5] got 5,000 views and only 68 likes as of December 2014. (shown below)

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Bootlegging is the act of selling illegal items,usually video games or toys. It happens mostly in east Asian countries (mostly in China.)

History

In the 1880s the word was first used to denote the practice of concealing flasks of illicit liquor in boot tops when going to trade with Indians.Since then,the word has been used to signal an illegal item being sold,Mostly being copyrighted material^[1].

Impact

Generally, bootlegging left a negative impression at the general public, As some are copyrighted material. However, It still remains one of the most biggest fads as it continues to grow. Along with that, A website was created to document all the bootleg games and consoles named bootleggames wiki.

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Sense of Right Alliance

A bootleg of the justice league, this toy appeared in tumblr and exploded in popularity due to its bizarre factor.The team consists of: Lighting Mcqueen,Yellow/blue/red power ranger,superman,batman, spiderman and shrek.

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Another famous bootleg, made in early 1994 ,this bootleg is a combination of Sonic the hedgehog and Super Mario. Made by a company named Hummer team.The Game is widely known by both communities.

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^[1]Wikipedia – Rum-Running

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Hatred is an upcoming third-person shooter PC video game in development by Polish studio Destructive Creations and scheduled for release in 2015. Due to the highly controversial premise of the game, in which the protagonist embarks on a “genocide crusade”^[1] to murder innocent civilians and law enforcement officers, Hatred immediately became a hot topic of controversy within online gaming communities upon its Greenlight reception on Valve’s Steam in December 2014.

Background

On October 16th, 2014 Destructive Creations announced its first title Hatred by releasing a teaser trailer on YouTube. The premiere of the trailer, which features in-game screenshots and footage of the protagonist picking weapons and killing people in grimdark settings, was characterized as “controversial” by multiple video game bloggers.^[2][3]

Gameplay

In the game, the player assumes the role of a villain protagonist who begins a massive genocide mission to “cleanse” the society by killing innocent civilians, as well as law enforcement and military personnel. According to the developers’ description, Hatred was conceived as a reactionary experiment to the current zeitgeist in the video gaming industry that focuses on vivid colors and political correctness.

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Epic Games’ Statement

On October 16th, 2014, Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, issued a statement requesting Destructive Creations to remove its logo from the trailer and other promotional materials for the title.

“Epic Games isn’t involved in this project. Unreal Engine 4 is available to the general public for use ‘for any lawful purpose,’ and we explicitly don’t exert any sort of creative control or censorship over projects. However, the video is using the trademarked Unreal Engine 4 logo without permission from Epic, and we’ve asked for the removal of our logo from all marketing associated with this product.”

Steam Greenlight

On December 15th, Hatred was submitted to Steam Greenlight, where it quickly began climbing up the charts to the top ten list, but later that same day, a Valve employee confirmed that the title wouldn’t be approved for release in an e-mail to the video game news site Polygon.

“Based on what we’ve seen on Greenlight we would not publish Hatred on Steam. […] As such we’ll be taking it down.”

Shortly afterwards, Hatred was removed from Steam Greenlight, due to its violent content. In response, Destructive Creations released a statement to address the removal of the title.

Dear Hatred Fans,

As you know today we’ve launched our Steam Greenlight campaign for Hatred. Unfortunately after couple of hours Steam shut it down giving the below as reasons behind their decision:

“We wanted you guys to know that based on what we see on Greenlight we would not publish Hatred on Steam. As such we’ll be taking it down.”

Even though games like Manhunt or Postal are still available on Steam we of course fully respect Valve’s decision, as they have the right to do so. In the same time we want to assure you that this won’t in any way impact the game’s development, game’s vision or gameplay features we’re aiming for. The game is still to be released in Q2 2015 as planned.

Moreover we don’t treat this as a failure because yet again this showed us a huge community support we’re totally overwhelmed with. After only a couple of hours Greenlight campaign being live, Hatred gathered 13,148 up votes and ended up on a #7 on Top 100 list.

This is the best proof for us that there are diehard Hatred fans out there, waiting for this game to be released. And that we need to keep going to deliver them a game that offers exciting and challenging gameplay.

The whole situation only pushes us forward to go against any adversity and not to give up. It also makes us want to provide our fans Hatred pre-orders sooner, as many of you have asked for them.

At the end of the day you, gamers will judge if we were able to do a game that’s simply fun to play.

Destructive Creations Team

Reinstatement on Steam Greenlight

But on the following day, Hatred was reinstated on the service with a personal apology from Gabe Newell]

“Yesterday I heard that we were taking Hatred down from Greenlight. Since I wasn’t up to speed, I asked around internally to find out why we had done that. It turns out that it wasn’t a good decision, and we’ll be putting Hatred back up. My apologies to you and your team. Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.”

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The Swiss Army Knife is a multi-purpose tool invented by Switzerland for use in WWII. The knife has become iconic in being more than just a knife. This characteristic of the Swiss Army Knife is often parodied and exaggerated online.

Origin

During the late 1880s, the Swiss Army decided to purchase a new folding pocket knife for their soldiers. This knife was to be suitable for use by the army in opening canned food and disassembling the Swiss service rifle. In January 1891, the knife received the official designation Modell 1890^[1].

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According to Carl Elsener, head of Victorinox in 2009, US soldiers bought Swiss Army knives in huge numbers at PX stores on military bases following the conclusion of the Second World War. As German: Schweizer Offiziersmesser was too difficult for them to say, they called it the “Swiss Army knife”, the name by which the knife is now most commonly known worldwide^[1]. The design of the knife and its versatility have both led to worldwide recognition.

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^[1]Wikipedia – Swiss Army Knife

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Achievement Hunter is an ongoing series created by Rooster Teeth staff member Geoff Ramsey, in which staff members and contributors from the community demonstrate how to earn achievements in various games and enjoy them in various ways.

Origins
Achievement Hunter was born from Pattillo and Ramsey’s interest in gaming achievements and the realization that there wasn’t a community-based achievement website. In turn Achievement Hunter was created, which shares the design, user profiles and forums of the main Rooster Teeth website. The site regularly releases achievement guides, Easter egg videos, and select volunteers from the Rooster Teeth community to help moderate the website. The Achievement Hunter Twitter handle is @AchievementHunt.

The most frequent videos come from the six most prolific employees and top golden Achievement Hunter cast members: Geoff Ramsey (RT co-founder / AH co-founder), Jack Pattillo (Achievement Hunter’s first employee), Gavin Free (RvB Season 7 director / Host of The Slow-Mo Guys), Ray Narvaez, Jr. (Community Hunter turned full-time employee), Michael Jones (Host of Rage Quit), and Ryan Haywood (Game Fails manager). Unlike any other dedicated-achievement website, Achievement Hunter is highly dependent on public contributions and has guides across different games and platforms, allowing the site to expand its focus from Xbox 360 games to those on PC, PS3, Steam, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7. Along with the main Rooster Teeth website, Achievement Hunter has achieved great popularity since its inception.

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“Rape Culture” is the concept that sexual assault and rape is normalized or encouraged by society through biases regarding sex and gender, including forms of victim blaming like “slut shaming.” The theory has been hotly debated within and outside of feminist academic circles over what constitutes rape culture and whether it is overemphasized as a cause of rape in Western society.

Origin

According to Wikipedia,^[1]“rape culture” was initially coined by second wave feminists in the 1970s to raise awareness about the prevalence of rape in American culture, which some argued was a result of widespread misogyny and sexism in society. On October 31st, 1974, the book Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women by New York Radical Feminists was released, which contained the first published use of the phrase. In 1975, the documentary film Rape Culture was released, which investigates the concept cultural normalization of rape of men and women (shown below).

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Critcisms

On October 25th, 2013, The Amazing Atheist uploaded a video titled “There’s No Rape Culture,” which criticized the way Internet feminists use the phrase “rape culture” (shown below, left). On May 19th, 2014, the American Enterprise Institute YouTube channel uploaded a “Factual Feminist” video titled “Rape culture panic is not the answer,” in which host Christina Hoff Sommers argued that feminist activists at universities were overwmp

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Holdin’ On, also known as My Hope Will Never Die, is an electronic dance song performed by the British electronic music band group I SEEMONSTAS. The song is best known as appearing in various YouTube videos as a buildup to the climax in montage parodies often after the main character fakes death or just a generalized buildup where the song is about to drop the bass

Origin

On September 6, 2012, I SEEMONSTAS released the official music video on YouTube^[1] which gained 722,000 views and 5,000 likes as of December 2014. (shown below)

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On October 1st, 2012, American electronic dance artist and DJ Sonny John Moore, better known by his stage name Skrillex, and fellow producer artist only known by his stage name Nero remixed the song^[2] and uploaded it onto YouTube, acquiring 3 million views and 33,000 likes since December 2014. (shown below)

The song was laid to rest until late 2013, when YouTuber VEXDrum&Bass uploaded Skrillex and Nero’s remix of the song, only this time the title was branded with Dr as the artist. As of December 2014, the video^[3] has earned almost 485,000 views and 7,000 likes. (shown below)

In February of 2014, a montage parody of the new Sonic Boom trailer was uploaded onto YouTube featuring the song after joking about Skrillex’s pseudo death, describing it as a “spooky motorboat accident”. As of December 2014, the video^[3] has earned 26,000 views and 300 likes. (shown below)

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Jon Stewart is an American comedian, political humorist, and host of the satirical Comedy Central news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has also written several books on a range of topics, and has experience as an actor, director, and producer.

Online History

Episodes of The Daily Show are hosted by the program’s official website, thedailyshow.com,^[1] which also includes exclusive content reserved for online viewers, such as extended interviews and one minute episode summaries.

Reputation

Stewart began his career as a professional humorist by performing stand-up comedy, which he did exclusively for three years, from 1986 to 1989.^[2] From 1989 onward, he helped to write and host several comedy programs, marking his entry into television work.^[3]

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Press F to Pay Respects is an action prompt from a quick time event featured in a first-person shooter Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, released on November 4th, 2014.

Origin

In the opening scene of the second mission, the player – Private Jack Mitchell attends the funeral of his best friend who died on a mission in South Korea. The player is then asked to “Press F to Pay Respects” (or holding X, depending on what gaming platform the game is running).

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The scene has met criticism from the fact that instead of setting the tone and letting the scene play out, letting emotions to develop, the game trivializes all this to a button prompt^[1].

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Big Rigs Over The Road Racing is a 3D racing game developed in 2003 by the video game company Stellar Stone. In which the player is supposedly described to have haul illegal cargo while avoiding police, all of which is NOT at all in actual game-play.

The game is notorious for it’s broken unfinished game play, lack of physics, pre-alpha game-play, and it’s engrish catchphrase “YOU’RE WINNER !”.

Origin

Californian video game development company Stellar Stone founded in 2000, making many poorly designed video games. The company usually outsourced games to Russia with low-budget.

They published Big Rigs, along with many games such as:

• Taxi Racer,
• Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt,
• Ultimate Civil War Battles,
• Total Pinball,
• Midnight Race Club Supercharged!,
• Total Mahjongg.

The company became defunct in 2006, with Big Rigs being their most-known title.

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In 2004. Gamespot reviewer Alex Navarro published a review of the game, stating it’s it’s broken game-play and poor design. Which led to many finding out about the game. A Youtube video review of the game was uploaded in 2012 by ClassicGamespotRevs.

In 2010, Youtube user Penguinz0 uploaded a game-play and commentary video of Big Rigs. Which as of today, has over 1 million views

In 2011, the sarcastic website “You’re Winner” was created for ironic Big Rigs fans and many others who ironicly play horrid video games.

in 2014, internet reviewer The Angry Video Game Nerd uploaded a long-awaited review of Big Rigs to Youtube. Stating it’s poor design, and lack of game-play.

The AVGN also uploaded a fake commercial taken from the review on the same year.

Ironic fandom.

Big Rigs is known for it’s ironic fandom known as BROTTRs, which tend to post on the You’re winner website, and talk positive about the game for ironic reasons.

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YOU’RE WINNER !

“YOU’RE WINNER!” is an engrish typo used on the game’s winning screen in which the game shows a three-handled trophy with the catchprhase “YOU’RE WINNER !”. The term tends to be used as an alternative version of “A winner is you”.

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Roll Over Cat is an exploitable four panel comic illustrating an individual attempting to have their cat roll over. The comic soon became a parody typically used to convey individuals with an attitude of aggravation toward another for a result to happen.

Origin

The original comic was created by user lol_comics posted on their live journal blog ^[1], on April 22nd, 2009, before eventually being re-posted anonymously on the daily comics site LOL-COMICS^[2] run by illustrator Chris Torres, also known as prguitarman, creator of Nyan cat. The comic depicts a person attempting to get their cat to roll over with no result (shown below).

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Tumblr artist ^[3]user k009 uploaded a parody of the comic featuring an illustration of Commissioner Gordon attempting to have Batman save gotham (shown below,left). On August 15, 2011 deviant user ^[4] khatera submitted their version of the comic in response to k009’s rendition of the comic featuring characters from assassins creed(shown below,right)

External References

^[1]LiveJournal – lol-comics

^[2]LOL-COMICS– ???

^[3]Tumblr – Batman Parody

^[4]Deviant Art- Uguu Altair

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“Manspreading” is a slang term referring to the practice of spreading one’s legs far apart while sitting, which is often criticized online for being inconsiderate of other passengers.

Origin

On May 8th, 2013, the Tumblr^[1] blog “Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train” was launched, which highlights photographs of men sitting with their legs spread wide while sitting in New York City subway trains (shown below).

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On November 25th, 2013, the “One Bro, Two Seats” Tumblr^[2] blog was created for photoshopped images of a young man sitting with his legs spread on a train (shown below, left). On May 19th, the “Saving Room For Cats” Tumblr^[3] was launched, which features images of men sitting on trains with cats superimposed between their legs (shown below, right).

On August 7th, 2014, the women’s interest blog Bustle^[5] published an article titled “Why Do Guys Spread Their Legs When Sitting on the Subway?” On October 6th, 2014, the New York news blog AM New York^[6] published an article titled “‘Man spread’” a widening blight on public transportation," marking the earliest known use of the term. On November 17th, AM New York^[7] reported that New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) was launching an awareness campaign to discourage manspreading. On December 18th, the New York City news blog Gothamist^[4] published a video featuring a woman confronting manspreading men on the subway by asking them to measure the distance between their legs with measuring tape (shown below).

On December 20th, the New York Times published an article about the new MTA awareness campaign. The same day, Gawker highlighted several comments from the New York Times article. On December 22nd, the conservative news site Breitbart^[9] published an article about manspreading by staff writer Milo Yiannopoulos, who criticized the manspreading backlash for being “pathetic feminist pipsqueakery.”

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Trust Nobody Not Even Yourself refers to a viral tweet consisting of an image of a kid pointing a gun at himself with the caption “Trust nobody, not even yourself.”

Origin

The original tweet was first posted by Twitter account @MohamedKamoul on june 8, 2014, it has however been deleted

although multiple reuploads can be found on other accounts, the most popular being the one uploaded by account @CHILDHOODRUINED gathering 1574 retweets and 1477 favorites

Trust nobody, not even yourself pic.twitter.com/qnZftenPBD

— CHILDHOODRUINER (@CHlLDHOODRUINER) June 9, 2014

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on December 4, 2014 a 4chan thread was posted with an image of the tweet asking for more, the thread spawned multiple photoshops of the original picture, although the thread was deleted a compilation of all images there were later posted on the 4chan subreddit r/4chan ^[1]

after the thread the image became popular on 4chan, specifically on the board /b/, and its normally posted on You Laugh You Lose threads

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2 Guys 1 Fish is a viral video featuring two Romanian men standing in a lake who lure a large carp to perform oral sex which began circulating on the Internet in May 2014.

Background

On May 3rd, 2014, Redditor Supashibe submitted a YouTube video featuring a man receiving oral sex from a fish to the /r/WTF^[8] subreddit. The video was subsequently deleted.

Notable Developments

Identity

On December 19th, the Daily Star^[3] reported that the Facebook user who originally uploaded the video claimed that the man receiving oral sex was the 27-year-old gypsy singer Florin Rada. Rada denied the claims and revealed that he threatened Romanian television that he would sue if they identified him as the man in the video.

News Media Coverage

On December 20th, The Metro^[1] published an article titled “Bizarre video of man having sex with fish goes viral,” which reported that the video clip had circulated “hundreds of thousands of times.” In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the video, including UpRoxx,^[4] The Daily Dot,^[5] Gawker^[6] and Pulse.^[7]

Online Reaction

Also on December 20th, the new site Metro posted an article about the video to their Facebook^[2] page, where it gained over 500 likes and 390 shares in the first 72 hours. On December 22nd, Redditor mikerylander submitted the video to the /r/nsfw_wtf^[9] subreddit.

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“You look like a mufucking uhhhhh” is a quote from a Vine by user Rozay. In the video clip, a group of friends are roasting another friend when the quote is said. The video has gone Viral, and has spawned many remixes do to the comedic tone in which the line is uttered.

ORIGIN
On October 28, 2014, Viner Rozay posted the vine where one of his friends said “You look like a mufucking uhhhhhhh”. As of December 2014, the vine has gained over 2.2 million views and 1,000 comments.

On Novemeber 4, 2014, Youtuber devonte brooks posted the full video, which has only gained a little over 9,000 views since it has been posted.

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On December 13, 2014, Viner [DB]DAMN_B uploaded a remix of the vine, where a motorcycle drives by accompanied by the “uhhhh” sound.

In just 10 days, the vine was received over 3.6 million views and 2,000 comments. It also prompted several other remixes which have gained popularity as well.

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Snipars is a YouTuber known for creating popular montage parody videos which are frequently submitted to the /r/montageparodies subreddit. Snipars is mostly being recognised with Lenny face avatar on the montage parody subculture.

History

The “Snipars” YouTube^[1] channel was created on January 1st, 2011. The first video was uploaded to the channel on September 16th, 2012, which features singer Isaac Ordeniran’s cover of the song “Great is Your Faithfulness” captioned with phonetic translations of the lyrics (shown below, left). On February 17th, 2013, Snipars uploaded his first montage parody video titled “#Pandascope420 xXMonkeySh0tZZXx #SW4G” (shown below, right).

On April 27th, Snipars released a montage parody featuring footage from a juggling competition (shown below, left). Within two years, the video gained over 145,000 views and 200 comments. On June 20th, Snipars uploaded a video titled “Jesus Take the Wheel,” featuring an animated car that travels across the planet to the 2005 country song “Jesus Take the Wheel” by Carrie Underwood (shown below, right).

On July 1st, Snipars uploaded a montage featuring clips from various public service announcements about cyberbullying and file sharing (shown below, left). On February 13th, 2014, Snipars uploaded a testimonial video by Gordon Hurd in which he reads a script containing references to montage parody cliches (shown below, right). Over the next year, the video gathered upwards of 1.2 million views and 1,400 comments.

Social Media Accounts

As of December 2014, Snipars has more than 41,000 Facebook^[2] likes, 19,000 Twitter^[3] followers and 3,800 Instagram^[7] followers.

Reception

Many of Snipars videos have reached the front page of the /r/montageparodies subreddit.^[4] On August 17th, 2013, the /r/snipars^[5] subreddit was launched for discussions about his YouTube videos. On July 23rd, 2014, Urban Dictionary^[6] user TheRealFranklinV2 submitted a entry for “snipars,” defining him as “the being that makes life beautiful.”

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& Knuckles is a phrase originating from the title of the1994 Sega Genesis game Sonic & Knuckles. In recent years it has been used as a joke among the gaming community, often mocking special crossovers or editions of games, similar to Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series.

History

Sonic & Knuckles is a 1994 installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog series featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and the then-newly-playable Knuckles the Echidna. ^[1] Notably, the physical game cartridge could be connected with Sonic the Hedgehog 3, creating a combined release entitled Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles.

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On May 18, 2014, an anonymous user of 4chan’s video game board /v/ made a thread asking other users to add “& Knuckles” to other video game names through image manipulation. ^[2]

On September 26, YouTuber Triple-Q uploaded an video with an edited version of “Unknown from M.E.”, Knuckles’ theme from Sonic Adventure, with several of the words replaced with “Knuckles”. ^[3]

On October 26, Redditor douknogreg posted an edited version of the cover for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U under the subject “And knuckles.” ^[4] The post received nearly 3000 upvotes.

Notable Images

uploading pics brb

References

^[1]Wikipedia – Sonic & Knuckles

^[2]archive.moe – /v/ – Video Games

^[3]YouTube – Knuckles from K.N.U.C.K.L.E.S. & Knuckles: Knuckles in Knuckles the Echidna feat. Knuckles…

^[4]Reddit – And knuckles.