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Myers Briggs Personality Types are a group of 16 distinct classifications of personalities individuals could exhibit. The Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator has gained popularity in fandoms and has been used to identify characters to each of the personality types in the chart. Moreover, the personality types themselves have received their own iterations, symbols, and justifications from fans.

Origin

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. These preferences were extrapolated by Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers from the theories proposed by world renowned psychologist Carl Jung. The indicator was invented during World War II in the 1940s with the belief a knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering the industrial workforce^[1].

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The earliest known instance of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator surfacing online is in a blog post published by Malcolm Gladwell on September, 2004 titled ‘Personality Plus’ at Gladwell.com which criticized the M.B.T.I. that it ‘has a large problem with consistency’ and its founders ‘did not actually understand Jung at all’^[2].

The earliest known instance of characters being associated with the 16 personality types was found in a blog post published by user Peter on June 14, 2006 titled ‘Myers-Briggs typology: I’m an ENFP’ on blog.forret.com ^[3]. The blog post was supportive of the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator and comments that it is more or less a more credible form of astrology, and presented an image of the MBTI chart that showed female actresses that befit their given personality type.

On April 6, 2013, the blog A Little Bit of Personality was made. The blog is currently active and is dedicated to the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator, often posting summaries and explanations to how fictional characters are apt to belong to one personality type or another^[4].

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On My Way to Steal Yo Girl, alternatively On My Way to Fuck Your Bitch, is a popular online expression which is often paired with images of characters using odd or unfitting means of transportation. In some variations, the character is also shown dressed in comically overdone clothing, or striking odd poses while moving. It is similar to another popular online expression, Swiggity Swooty, I’m Coming For That Booty.

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On July 25th, 2013, CollegeHumor published a compilation article featuring various examples of the meme, all of which were sourced from Tumblr blogs.^[1] On September 15th, the novelty Twitter account “YA LITTLEBOYBILL” (@YABOYLILB) tweeted an image of Kermit the Frog on a scooter with the expression as the accompanying caption, receiving over 4,100 retweets and 2,400 favorites as of December 2014.^[2]

on my way to steal yo girl pic.twitter.com/OndfZOXqom

— YA BOYLITTLEBILL (@YABOYLILB) September 15, 2013

The single topic Tumblr blog “Fuck Yeah On My Way To Steal Your Girl”^[3] hosts a large number of examples and variations of the meme.

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Robbaz is the alias of the Swedish YouTube videogame commentator and lets-player Robert Öberg.
His alias came from a nickname Öberg was called at school, as a common nickname for the name Robert in Sweden is Robban and by turning the N on its side you get the name Robbaz. He is most well known for his Skyrim, Sims 3 and Kerbal Space Program videos. His style of lets play differs between either roleplaying as the player character of the game (Skyrim, Mount and Blade) or as a standard commentator (Kerbal Space Program, Sims 3).

Online History

Robert Öberg started his YouTube account on May 31st 2006, he began by uploading short videos of him testing video-games at different levels of quality and short lets-plays of Fallout, Mass Effect and Dead Rising 2. Öberg’s Youtube channel began to gain large amounts of viewers with the release of his Dead Rising 2 ending video which has gained over one million views and his “Welcome to moonbase alpha” video which has achieved over 400000 views since being released in 2010.

Shortly after this, his modding videos of minecraft managed to also receive huge viewer numbers. In 2011 Robbaz took his channel in a new direction with the release of his “Duke Nukem Forever Whiteboard – Operation: Homo Moose” video in which Robbaz fully voiceovers the video instead of using captions. This video was very well received and has since gained 1.1 million views.

Since then Robbaz started doing multiple lets-plays which include his Viking Commentary series of lets-plays using the title of “Robbaz King of Sweden” playing games like Fallout, Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Call of Cthulhu and Kerbal Space Program.

Popular Series

Skyrim Viking series

One of Robbaz’s first series, here he roleplays as the Nord “Badass” in which Robbaz plays through Skyrim’s story using his fists as primary weapons along with his trusty Walrus named “Walrus” and Polar Bear “Oslo”

Viking Space Program

Robbaz’s play-throughs of Kerbal Space Program. This series is one of Robbaz’s longest running series where Robbaz creates and sends different types and complex crafts into space, these range from a Ship Tanker, a Massive Cube and other unusual creations.

Sims 3 RedNeck Brothers

In this series Robbaz plays the Sims 3 and roleplay’s a stereotypical American redneck family living in the lap of luxury. This lets-play has given rise to fan favourite creations such as King, Clyde and Bertram and currently this series is on the 25th episode making it the longest Robbaz series.

Popular Creations

Robbaz King of Sweden

When Robbaz first started his Viking commentary series, his starting phase for all videos was Robbaz King of Sweden. He continued this until late 2012 however stopped saying this phase along with his King of Nipples phase as he started to feel it was becoming childish and boring, and that there were other you-tubers who used these type of phases and Robbaz wanted to do something new.

Glorious!

Robbaz’s catchphrase, a frequent line which Robbaz uses to compliment his video game situations, it has also been taken and used by fans Robbaz due to its uniqueness to his videos.

Goat Island

A collection of Videos in which Robbaz has modded Far Cry 3, 4 and Arma 3. In the videos Robbaz role-plays as a soldier who is tasked with taking down the goat army of goat island and their pig allies.

Cooking With the Kock

This is a series of cooking videos where Robbaz cooks unusual meals and tastes them. He did these videos due to his Chef experience and from popular demand from his fans, it was originally done for a 400 video special but turned into a occasional series.

Personal Life and Trivia

Robbaz has created over 500 videos and has amassed over 950,000 subscribers as of 2014.

He currently lives in Northern Sweden and has a gymnasium (High School) degree as a chef. Before becoming a YouTuber he has had to deal with depression and anxiety due to his father passing away. However he has since recovered and stated that doing YouTube has helped greatly and that by talking to other people got him through, hence he tells others who where in his situation to to the same.

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And then there’s THIS asshole is a catchphrase often used to mock someone introducing remarks or opinions one does not agree with or may find preposterous, in a condescending manner. Its popularity as a catchphrase was coupled with image macros to express the same condescending reaction, featuring characters pointing at thing and people.

Origin

The catchphrase itself is a recurring segment from Penn & Teller’s tv show Bullshit in which Penn usually uses it to introduce someone whose position he won’t support in his interviews. A video example can be found below:

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As early as October 7th 2012, the catchphrase was reused as an image macro featuring the Penn & Teller duo in a The Patriot Perspective blog post allegedly reporting on a scam regarding the microstamping debate and gun laws^[1].

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^[1]The Patriot Perspective – What’s Missing in the Microstamping Debate – It’s a Scam by Patent Owner Todd Lizotte

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Airhorn remixes are music parody soundtracks remixing musics with the popular EDM/trap music sample airhorn. It most likely became a parody fad to mock its extensive usage on the trap musics and mostly being featured on the Montage Parody videos.

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“Copy that” is a phrase used in a EB Games advertisement for Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It is said by an employee with a long neck and strange voice. It quickly grew popular on 4chan and Tumblr

Origin

16th December 2014 EB Games Canada released their commercial for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

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Meme Run is a controversial video game by Ninja Pig Studios for the Nintendo Wii U; downloadable from the Nintendo eShop. It has caused immense derision in the gaming community for its use of memes and its low quality gameplay. It has been used as an example of the commercialization of memes and “cancer”, as the game uses many memes that are considered outdated and unfunny, such as Rage Comics.

On their website it is claimed that the game includes the following features:

-Simple, addicting gameplay
-Two sections featuring tons of puzzles
-Funny cute characters and sound effects
-Beautiful HD graphics
-You will LOVE watching your friends FAIL!

Origin

The game was announced in September of 2014. It is based wholesale off of quite an arrange of memes, (dominantly those commonly associated with MLG montage parodies), including:

Rage Comics
360 No Scopes
WOMBOCOMBO
Illuminati confirmed
GETOUT Frog
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) / Lenny Face
U WOT M8
Airhorn Remixes
Swag

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The game was released on the Wii U’s Nintendo eShop for $5.00 on December 18th 2014. Since it’s release, it has received massive amounts of negative responses from the gamer community, specifically video game related forums. It’s also garnered many bad reviews from sites such as Nintendo Life^[1], Nintendo Enthusiast^[2].

Here are a few reactions/reviews to the game itself:

even with the bad reaction “meme run” still is the 5th best selling game on the Eshop

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^[1]Nintendo Life – Meme Run

^[2]Nintendo Enthusiast – Meme Run Review Wii U

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GAME OF THEYEAR 420 BLAZE IT is a video game developed by Andy Sum. the game features content from MLG Montage Parodies videos, and is a parody of AAA commercial games.

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Iggy Azalea Freestyling refers to a video of hip hop singer and rapper Iggy Azalea attempting to rap freestyle in 2013. It resurfaced in late 2014, resulting in widespread online criticism and mockery of her perceived lack of skill.

Origin

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In 2013, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea was interviewed by radio deejay Sway, in which she was asked to give a spur-of-the-moment performance. A video of the rap that she gave was posted to Youtube by Sway’s official account on June 18th, 2013.

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In December 2014, a clip from the freestyle was posted on Vine. Following the video, social media users took to websites such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Vine to poke fun at Azalea’s performance.

On December 28th, 2014, celebrity news site That Grape Juice published an article^[2] about the reaction of social media to the video, featuring a compilation of Twitter users satirizing Azalea’s choice of lyrics (example below).

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AncientReality is a YouTuber known for making Montage Parodies. He started making Montage Parodies in 2014 and is still making them. He is known for his really overedited style and ARIALBOLD W/ GLOWEFFECTANDFLASHINGTINTSHAKINGTEXTMEMES.

His first montage parody was uploaded on the 3rd of January 2014 under the name “THIS IS MLG”.

The Montage gained over 500,000 views and was really popular.

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“Selfie Stick” is a term for a monopod device that is used to support a mobile device or camera to take a “selfie” photograph from an extended distance.

Origin

Monopods^[2] were initially used to provide support for cameras, binoculars, firearms and variety of other objects. The earliest known use of a monopod to take a selfie photograph was sent to the BBC News^[3] by Whitehaven, England resident Alan Cleaver, showing his grandfather taking a photo with his grandmother with a extended pole (shown below). On April 18th, 2011, the “HDE Extendable Selfie Telescopic Monopod” was placed for sale on Amazon.^[4]

Spread

On November 25th, 2013, the Australian electronics retailer Kogan^[1] began selling a “Zuckerberg Selfie Stick” device, which contains a camera mount and mirror at the end of a long stick to take selfie photographs. On December 24th, the ClipCritics YouTube channel uploaded a video featuring women in bikinis taking video of themselves running on a beach with a selfie stick, which received upwards of 2.07 million views and 300 comments in the next year (shown below).

On May 6th, 2014, YouTuber Alex Chacon uploaded a montage of video clips from his travels around the world taken with a camera mounted on a selfie stick (shown below). Within seven months, the video accumulated more than 11 million views and 7,200 comments.

On December 3rd, CNN aired a news segment on “South Korea’s ‘Selfie Stick’ Crackdown,” which reported that officials in South Korea were discouraging citizens from using the monopod devices (shown below). On December 11th, BuzzFeed^[5] highlighted several examples of selfie stick photographs uploaded to Instagram.

Search Interest

According to Google Trends, searches for “selfie stick” started picking up in Jakarta, Indonesia toward the end of 2013.

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“Salty” is a term meaning “Upset” or “Bitter” and is commonly used in PvP and Fighting Game communities to mock players for their frustration.

Origin

The term thought to originate from Chicago, and has thought to have spread to use in Fighting Game communities like Skullgirls.

Spread

The term has spread to be used in Fighting Game and PvP communities to mock players for their bitter attitudes after losses. The term has also been paired with U Mad? to mock players.

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Le Wrong Generation, and related phrases such as Only 90s Kids Will Get This, is an online term used to describe the behavior of certain people who nostalgically believe that things in the past used to be significantly better than they are today. The phrase is most frequently utilized to satirize people who hold reactionary attitudes towards popular music or culture.

Origin

The term “Born in the wrong generation” was used by internet people, normally teens, as a way to express their disdain for today’s popular culture, and love for things of the past, especially music. The term received criticism for its perceived narrow-mindedness and oversimplification of the past, and was quickly parodied on sites such 4chan’s /mu/ board and satirical subreddits.

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The term was heavily used on /mu/, especially on cringe threads, to poke fun at posts by people who believed that the music of the past was objectively superior.

The /mu/ supported subreddit r/lewronggeneration^[1] was created to compile images characterized by this behavior. It is described as “satirically mocking those people who, blinded by their own nostalgia, believe certain things in the past to be unequivocally better than today”. Such behavior is referred to with the slang term “defening” by users of the subreddit.

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“Grey Little Cat’s Theme” is a meme spawned on Tumblr, the microblogging site, it consists of a song, usually from the score of a Zelda game and a picture of a thematically linked cat.

Origin

The first known instance of a “Grey Little Cat’s Theme” is from Tumblr user Cashewmonster in late October who made a post entitled
“abundance of little grey cats theme” with a now defunct song.

Notable Examples

The posts using the same formula quickly spread across the site, several accumulating thousands of notes. Such as:

“Purposeful little grey cat”

“Troublesome grey cat”

lifeanddecay:

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Including some spinoffs such as “Seductive Brown Cat”

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Leelah Alcorn’s Suicide refers to the suicide of transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn, born Josh Alcorn, who committed suicide by stepping into traffic on December 21, 2014 and left a suicide note on her tumblr queue which was published one day after her death. She was hit by a tractor trailer on Interstate 71, 4 miles from her Ohio home.^[1]

The Suicide Note

The suicide note^[2] attributed the reasons behind her depression and eventual suicide to the rejection from her family who, according to Leelah “reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn’t make mistakes, that I am wrong,” took her to Christian therapists who told her “that I was selfish and wrong and that I should look to God for help.” After being isolated by her parents from her peers for 5 months, she began to have suicidal thoughts. The note ends with a plea for her property to be sold and her money to be put to “trans civil rights and support groups,” and for her death to mean something. The post gained several hundred thousand notes on tumblr.

Online Reaction

News of Leelah’s death spread quickly on tumblr and twitter garnering solemn sympathy and outrage, with transgender activists such as Laverne Cox, Andre Pejic, Janet Mock and indy video game developer Brianna Wu^[3] commenting, and posts about the circumstances of her suicide gaining upwards of 200 thousand notes.

Transgender activist and writer Janet Mock, had her tweet widely shared on twitter, including being retweeted by Laverne Cox, actress from “Orange is the New Black” and transgender activist.

The story was picked up by several news outlets including Time^[4], ABC news^[5], The Daily Mail^[6], Buzzfeed^[7], USA Today^[8], the Mirror^[9], International Buisness Times^[10], and Cincinnati.com^[11].

“Rest in Power”

Rest in power is a phrase that’s been associated with support for Leelah and her request that her death matter. Attributed to a tweet made by twitter user “Lionesse” it was mentioned in an article by the Washington Post^[12] and has been adopted by many of the supporters and grievers since.

#RealLiveTransAdult

#RealLiveTransAdult is a hashtag started in the wake of Leelah Alcorn’s suicide for transgender adults to share their stories and encourage younger transgender people. The phenomena was mentioned in an article by NBC news^[13].

Change.org Petition

On December 30th a Change.org petition was started by the “Transgender Human Rights Institute” calling on President Obama and the US Congress to pass a law “to immediately seek a pathway for banning the practice known as ‘transgender conversion therapy’” in order to protect transgender youth, and that they name it “the Leelah Alcorn Law.”^[14]

The petition gained over 100,000 signatures after one day.

remembering-lazerprincess

“remembering-lazerprincess”^[15] is a tumblr blog dedicated to the remembrance of Leelah Alcorn and the support of transgender causes. It’s url and name are in reference to the Leelah’s username on tumblr and it’s background theme is also the same as her original blog. It is run by two Australian based mods, a self-described bi-gendered individual and a trans man and has gained upwards of one thousand followers in the days after the suicide note came forward.

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^[1]Wikipedia – Leelah Alcorn

^[2]Tumblr – Leelah Alcorn

^[3]Twitter – Brianna Wu

^[4]Time – Transgender Teen’s Death Sparks Outcry From Advocates

^[5]ABC News – Leelah Alcorn: Transgender Teen’s Reported Suicide Note Makes Dramatic Appeal

^[6]The Daily Mail – Transgender teenager, 17, leaves heartbreaking suicide note blaming her Christian parents before walking in front of tractor trailer on highway

^[7]Buzzfeed – A Transgender 17-Year-Old Left A Suicide Note On Tumblr Pleading “Fix Society”

^[8]USA Today – Transgender teen: ‘My death needs to mean something’

^[9]Mirror – Transgender teen who committed suicide left heartbreaking note saying she would “never be happy”

^[10]International Business Times – Leelah Alcorn’s Transgender Suicide Prompts Response From Laverne Cox, Andreja Pejic, Janet Mock

^[11]Cincinnati.com – Transgender teen: ‘My death needs to mean something’

^[12]Washington Post – Transgender teen who died of an apparent suicide: ‘Fix society. Please.’

^[13]NBC News – ‘Fix Society’: Transgender Teen Leelah Alcorn Posted Plea Before Suicide

^[14]Change.org – Enact Leelah’s Law to Ban Transgender Conversion Therapy

^[15]Tumblr – remembering-lazerprincess

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“Trollpastas" are humorious stories which mostly are satire to one or more certain creepypastas, creepypasta-clichés or creepypastas in general. They are known for often using bad grammar, badly edited pictures, excessive using of memes and clichés and other (self-)ironic components.

History

The first Trollpasta is considered to be “”" />And then a skeleton popped out“. Later, ”http:" />John Wojcik started writing intentionally bad pastas on Creepypasta Wiki to troll the community. Other people followed. Finally, these pastas were moved/recurrected to a spin-off wikia called “Trollpasta Wiki” where not only Trollpastas can be published but also creepypastas like Sonic.exe get moved, which are that bad that they don´t even match the standards of Spinpasta Wiki or even are unintentionally funny.
On Trollpasta Wiki, there are two monthly awards: The trollpasta of the month and the fail of the month. Sadly, there is a flood of trollpastas which try to be funny just throught purposely being bad.

W.I.P. article. I could use some help.

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The NMRiH (No More Room in Hell) Child Controversy event occurred on the Steam Discussion forums. NMRiH’s project lead, Maxx, posted a response to reaction to the child zombies in the game. Maxx, states that child zombies are one of NMRiH’s core component of its game design, and philosophy. The forum post was later posted on reddit. The poster approved the way the dev team handled to situation.

Background

The post originated on the Steam Discussion forums, on, November 1st, 2013.^[1] A reddit post followed, gaining over 4,000+ overall upvotes.^[2]

Notable Developments

Community Moderator, Bubka3, updated the post, on, December 19th, 2014, stating that zombified animals will not be put into the game.

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“The Supernatural Anon Hate Panic” is an event in late December 2014 where various tumblr users claimed there was a raid targeting users in the Supernatural fandom who had depression or social anxiety by perpetrators sending anonymous hate messages. Several popular posts spread through the micro-blogging site describing how the messages had driven users to self-harm and suicide, describing how to retrieve an IP address from anonymous messages, expressing sentiments of support for the alleged victims, and warning others of incoming anonymous hate.

These allegations were later found to have little basis, and the tag #affectedbyhate, set up to support those affected by the anonymous hate, was flooded with doubt about the existence of a raid.



The group behind the alleged attack was reported to be from 8chan or 4chan, invoking memories of the 2014 Tumblr-4chan Raids. While a raid was planned by the 8chan board /firstday/ against tumblr, it’s methods didn’t match reports of anonymous hate messages. Users from 4chan’s /b/ board, however, went to omegle under the tag of 4chan and simulated the planning of a raid. There, they passed along the usernames of supernatural themed blogs, and their “triggers.” Tumblr users acting as “spies” screen-capped the exchanges and shared them on tumblr. Other 4chan users spread a rumor that hackers from 4chan had planted a virus called s32 and advised others to delete it from their computers in a ploy to convince them to delete system 32.

Supernatural Cast Tweets

Several stars of the tv show “Supernatural” sent messages of support to the fans, including Felicia Day, Misha Collins and Mark Sheppard.

Change.org Petitions

Soon after the allegations of a raid, two Change.org petitions were made, one^[1] which gained over 11 thousand signatures that asked for yahoo and tumblr to find and press charges against those responsible, and the other^[2] only petitioning for tumblr to “Prosecute and investigate anonymous cyberterrorists” and gained nearly 2,500 signatures.

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^[1]Change.org – Find and Press Charges Against the IP Addresses Responsible for the Hate Campaign against Supernatural Fandom Members

^[2]Change.org – Prosecute & investigate anonymous cyberterrorists on Tumblr

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Glitched SSB4 Characters is a one-off glitch only on one copy of the game Super Smash Bros for Wii U. All the characters’ textures or/and models are distorted or corrupted.

Origin

T-man, a user on Miiverse, bought a copy of Super Smash Bros for Wii U. but he had no idea he had a bad copy of the game. When T-man booted up the game and started a match, all of the player models showed up all distorted and flattened as shown on one of his Miiverse posts:

To prove this is real, T-man posted a short clip of the glitch in action:

All of his photos are originally posted here.

Spread

T-man’s disturbing photos had also been posted to 4chan as well as Miiverse. He also made a Miiverse post saying if a youtuber named Etika could help spread this event a bit more, so Etika made a video here:

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Bath Bombs refers to an image fad of people putting a random assortment of items in their bathtubs as a parody of Bath bomb images circulating sites like tumblr.

Origin

Through december, multiple users received Bath bomb gifts, this caused the number of people uploading images showcasing the items in their bath tubs to increase on social sites.

As a reaction to this, on December 30 of 2014, tumblr user idkitstommy^[1] made a post of him putting a shopped image of a bomb on his tub, followed by an image of a destroyed bathroom with the caption “i love my new bath bomb from lush”, on the next days the post gathered 104,721 notes.

On december 31 the official tumblr twitter linked to the post with the caption “Is this the last meme of 2014? #BathBomb”

Is this the last meme of 2014? #bathbombhttp://t.co/aCYqWPIT6B

— Tumblr (@tumblr) December 31, 2014

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On the days following the post, multiple images following the same vein of the first one started appearing on sites like tumblr and twitter with the hashtags #BathBombs.

On Dec. 31, 2014 the internet news site Buzzfeed^[2] posted an article recompiling the most famous tweets involving the meme, as well as the site TheDailyEdge.^[3]

Controversy

The fad caused a negative reaction from feminists on sites like tumblr for its apparent attacks towards the hobby and people who post the pictures.

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