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The Brady Bunch was a 1970s American sitcom about a large stepfamily consisting of three girls and three boys.

History

The Brady Bunch premiered on September 26th, 1969 on the ABC television network, featuring the family of Mike Brady (played by Robert Reed) and Carol Ann Martin (played by Florence Henderson), a remarried couple who live with their children from previous marriages. Brady, a widowed architect, has three sons Greg, Peter and Bobby, while Martin has three daughters Marcia, Jan and Cindy who take Brady as their surname. The family lives in Los Angeles, California in a two-story home, which they share with their live-in housekeeper Alice Nelson (played by Ann B. Davis).

Satirical Comedy Films

On February 17th, 1995, the comedy film The Brady Bunch Movie was released, in which the 1970s Brady family is placed in a 1990s setting, unaware that their style and behavior is anachronistic (shown below, left). On August 23rd, 1996, a sequel titled A Very Brady Sequel was released, in which a man claiming to be Carol’s long lost husband returns in an attempt to con the family out of a rare statue (shown below, right).

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Westport Car Dealership Tipping Fiasco refers to the online backlash against the staff at F&R Auto Sales, an automobile dealership located in Westport, Massachusetts, that erupted after a surveillance video footage of sales associates hassling a pizza deliveryman to return a small sum of $7 in change was uploaded to YouTube in January 2015.

Background

The video footage, originally recorded on a security camera installed in the office of the dealership, was initially uploaded to YouTube by Frank Correiro, the manager of F&R Auto Sales, with the title “irate pizza driver” on January 10th, 2015. In the video, several sales associates are seen confronting and accusing a pizza delivery man of taking $7 in “change,” to which the courier responds by insisting that he had assumed the money was gratuity for the service.

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Zero Punctuation is a weekly video review game web series on The Escapist made by English-Australian comedy writer and video game journalist Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw in 2007. Episodes consist of Yahtzee criticizing a game for five minutes, giving insightful thought on the game… or smashing it to pieces.

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The first known Zero Punctuation episode was posted Jul 24, 2007 it was a first impressions video on the demo version of The Darkness

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This is an exploitable meme that was made in the review/first impressions ZP of The Witcher:

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This was a quote from the review of Prince of Persia sand of Time. It makes fun of quick time and is as a joke on many sites like TvTropes, Urban Dictionary, and many game journalist sites.

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This a term in the used in web series to describe generic, America loving, war games.
This term first came in is Medal of Honor Warfighter Review

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Teen Titans is a comic book superhero team who appear in comic books published by DC Comics, often in an eponymous monthly series. It has also has an animated series with the same name.
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Kazoo remixes are parody soundtracks covered with the old toy stylish instrument kazoo. These covers are often created due to satire its instrumental usage similar to the airhorn remixes.

History

According to the internet site nationalkazooday.com^[1], it’s invention has been made by the Alabama Vest in the 1840’s America and presented nearly 10 years later at the Georgia State Fair. Since its creation and presentation, the instrument have been used as a popular instrument on various country musics.

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On December 30, 2014, Lacey Noonan’s A Gronking To Remember: Book One in the Rob Gronkowski Erotica Series, became available for the Kindle on Amazon. It was written as a satire of the erotica genre. In an interview with Slate Magazine, Noonan stated, “I’ve really been trying to write a 50 Shades of Grey bodice-ripper this whole time, but I haven’t been able to. I just can’t bring myself to do it. The erotica genre is just so self-serious that I have to come at it at a funny angle.”

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In the weeks following Noonan’s publication, Slate jokingly released previews for several new books. Gilbert Gottfried has also done a dramatic reading for it.

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As linked above, Slate Magazine has run a couple of articles on Lacey Noonan’s novella. The Boston Globe ran an article about its removal from Amazon. It has since been put back up.
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Terrible Tiger is an advice animal series featuring an image of a tiger resting its head on a rock and gazing lazily towards the viewer. The captions typically follow a bait-and-switch model to the opposite effect of Successful Black Man; a seemingly innocuous, amiable, or admirable top caption, followed by a dark twist in the bottom caption.

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On August 6th, 2012, Redditor Zachcvh submitted the first known example of the meme, with the caption “I ate that bear” in reference to Confession Bear, in an /r/AdviceAnimals post titled “Confession Tiger.” Subsequent early variants made the tiger a rival of, or alternative to, Confession Bear, although often with an added humorous or meta twist.

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The 2013 Shahbag protests, associated with a central neighbourhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, began on 5 February 2013 and later spread to other parts of Bangladesh, as people demanded capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, and for others convicted of war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal. On that day, the International Crimes Tribunal had sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah to life in prison after he was convicted on five of six counts of war crimes. Later demands included banning the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party from politics and a boycott of institutions supporting (or affiliated with) the party.

Protesters considered Mollah’s sentence too lenient, given his crimes. Bloggers and online activists called for additional protests at Shahbag. Tens of thousands of people joined the demonstration, which gave rise to protests across the country.^[14] By mid-April, their numbers had declined, and the original protest site is now clear.

A counter-protest, demanding release of those accused and convicted, was launched by Jamaat-e-Islami as its leaders were the majority of those first identified for trial. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) initially expressed its support for Jamaat-e-Islami, a principal political ally. But, the BNP cautiously welcomed the Shahbag protest, while warning the government not to make political mileage from a movement demanding capital punishment for war criminals.

During the protests, Ahmed Rajib Haider, a pro-Shahbag blogger, was brutally killed outside his house by machete-wielding youth.^[18] On 2 March, five Jamaat-Shibir activists were arrested; they ‘confessed’ involvement in Rajib’s killing, though independent verification and investigation is not possible at this stage. On 27 February 2013, the tribunal convicted Delwar Hossain Sayeedi of war crimes and sentenced him to death. Jamaat followers protested and there were violent clashes with police. About 60 people were killed in the confrontations; most were Jamaat-Shibir activists, and others were police and civilians.

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In 1971 Bangladesh was the portion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan known as East Pakistan. In the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh, East Pakistan fought West Pakistan for nine months. During this period the Indian Army which provided guerrilla training to freedom fighters of Mukti Bahini, joined the war on 3 December 1971 in support of the liberation of East Pakistan. Armed conflict ended on 16 December 1971 through surrender of the Pakistani Armed Forces to India, resulting in the formation of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh as a free, secular and independent state.

According to the famous Blood telegram from the United States consulate in Dacca to the State Department, many atrocities had been committed by the Pakistan Army and its supporter Razakars and Al-Badar militia. Time reported a high-ranking US official as saying, “It is the most incredible, calculated killing since the days of the Nazis in Poland.” Estimates are that one to three million people were killed, nearly a quarter of a million women were raped and more than ten million people fled to India to escape persecution.

A paramilitary force known as the Razakars was created by the May 1971 Razakar Ordinance promulgated by Tikka Khan, the governor of East Pakistan. The ordinance stipulated the creation of a volunteer force, trained and equipped by the provincial government. Razakar (Bengali: রাজাকার) comes from رضاکار (razākār, the Urdu word for “volunteer”). However, it became a derogatory term in the Bengali language due to the widespread killings of civilians and atrocities committed by the paramilitary during the war. The war criminals, mostly young men, were never brought to trial, since Bangladesh needed to bargain with Pakistan for the return of 200,000 Bengalis stranded in Pakistan at the end of the war.

The majority of East Pakistanis supported the call to create a free and independent Bangladesh during the Liberation War. A small number of Pakistani supporters and members of fundamentalist political parties, particularly Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) and its student wing Islami Chatra Sangha (ICS, Bengali: ইসলামী ছাত্র সঙ্ঘ Islami Chhatro Shônggho), the Muslim League, the Pakistan Democratic Party (PDP) Council and Nejam-e-Islami, collaborated with the Pakistani army to resist the formation of an independent Bangladesh. The students belonging to Islami Chatra Sangha were known as the Al-Badr force; people belonging to Jamaat-e-Islami, Muslim League, Nizam-e-Islami and similar groups were called Al-Shams, and the Urdu-speaking people (generally known as Bihari) were known as Al-Mujahid.

Since 2000, there has been an increasing demand in Bangladesh for justice related to war crimes committed during the 1971 struggle; the issue was central to the 2008 general election.The Awami League-led, 14-party Grand Alliance included this issue in its election manifesto.Its rival, four-party alliance (which included the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami) had several leaders alleged to have committed war crimes.The former freedom fighters and sector commanders of the liberation war pleaded with the public not to vote for alleged war criminals in the election.

The Grand Alliance won the election (held on 29 December 2008) with a two-thirds majority, based in part on its promise to prosecute alleged war criminals. On 29 January 2009 the new Parliament unanimously passed a resolution to prosecute war criminals. The government intended to use the 1973 law: the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act. The government worked to amend the law, updating it and incorporating other nations’ experience. The amendments provided for the trial of individuals and political parties that had worked against the liberation of Bangladesh. The government was empowered to appeal tribunal decisions.

On 25 March 2010, the Awami-led government announced the formation of a three-member tribunal, a seven-member investigation agency, and a twelve-member prosecution team to conduct the trials under the ICT Act 1973.The panel of three judges included Fazle Kabir and Zahir Ahmed, with Mohammed Nizamul Huq as chairman. Abdul Matin, Abdur Rahim, Kutubur Rahman, Shamsul Arefin, Mir Shahidul Islam, Nurul Islam and M. Abdur Razzak Khan were appointed to assist the state prosecutors. Golam Arif Tipu was named Chief Prosecutor. Others prosecutors were Syed Rezaur Rahman, Golam Hasnayen, Rana Das Gupta, Zahirul Huq, Nurul Islam Sujan, Syed Haider Ali, Khandaker Abdul Mannan, Mosharraf Hossain Kajal, Ziad Al-Malum, Sanjida Khanom and Sultan Mahmud Semon.

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Nekopara is a kinetic visual novel by doujin artist Sayori based on a hentai doujin by the same artist and released on December 29th, 2014. Following its release, the game’s appeal and use of an E-mote System managed to gain a lot of praise on Steam and other sites.

The novel follows main protagonist Minaduki Kashou as he moves out of his parents’ place to start a patisserie while he also unwillingly has to take care his two pet catgirls, Chocola and Vanilla. Kashou attempts to raise the duo with the help of his sister and their four other catgirls, all while a romance between the three is slowly developing.

History

Nekopara^[1] is based on a hentai doujin titled Neko Para (shown below) by doujin artist Sayori,^[3] which was first released on August 11th, 2013.^[2] Although the doujin was released in 2013, Sayori already created original character content of the title’s due, Chocola and Vanilla, as early as 2008, with the earliest tracable piece on the English being found on Danbooru from April 15th of that year.^[5] However, the main website of Sayori’s studio, Neko Works,^[4] was already created in February 2003,^[6] making it unclear when the characters were first created.

On November 11th, 2014, an unannounced trial version of Nekopara was released to the public.^[7] The next month, on December 29th of that year, the complete version of the game was released and made available for purchase. Although the main site^[1] featured the complete game, other areas, such as Valve’s Steam store,^[8] only offered a version with the explicit content removed.

Reception

Following its release, the game was met with a large amount of praise. 3 weeks after the release, the game had a positive feedback of 97% out of more than 1,500 reviews on Steam.^[8] Gametactics^[9] gave the game a score of 7.3/10 and HardcoreGamer^[10] reviewed it at 3.5/5. The game stands at a Metacritic^[11] score of 7.5 as of January 19th, 2015. The doujin also has a score of 7.58/10 on MyAnimeList^[2] and more than 3,200 favorites on Fakku.^[12] A game feature that was quickly made fun of was the “chest bounciness” option made available through the game’s E-Mote system (shown below), which allowed its players to determine how often the chests of the female cast would bounce.

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Prior and after the game’s release, fanart of the characters was already shared on image sharing websites. The game features more than 40, 55 and 70 images on Danbooru,^[13] DeviantArt^[14] and Zerobchan^[15] respectively, although most of these images are official artworks such as CG art and wallpapers. The official DeviantArt page^[16] for Neko Works, which was created in September 2010, has more than 430 members and 68,000 pageviews as of January 19th, 2015.

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#DeflateGate refers to the controversy surrounding the New England Patriots’ alleged use of deflated footballs towards the team’s advantage during their American Football Conference (AFC) Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts in January 2015. The accusations of foul play has prompted an investigation from the National Football League (NFL).

Background

On January 18th, 2015, the New England Patriots won a landslide victory (45-7) against their long-time rival team Indianapolis Colts at one of the two conference championship games that determine which two teams will complete at the upcoming Super Bowl XLIX on February 1st. With their victory, the New England Patriots secured their place at the annual NFL championship game, along with the defending champions Seattle Seahwks. The following day, the Indiana news site WTHR^[1] reported that a source inside the NFL revealed the Patriots were being investigated for intentionally deflating footballs during the game to gain a competitive advantage over the Colts. While the measurement of the pressure of the ball used in the game remains unknown, the pressure of the regulatory-compliant football must be within the range of 12.5 to 13.5 pounds per square inch and weight between 14 and 15 ounces.

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On January 19th, sports columnist Bob Glauber tweeted^[3] that NFL spokesman Michael Signora confirmed that the Patriots were being investigated (shown below).

That day, many Twitter users posted jokes and photoshopped images mocking the investigation with the hashtag #DeflateGate, including CBS Sports radio host Jim Rome,^[4] Bleacher Report writer Tyler Brooke^[5] and the retail store chain Bed Bath & Beyond^[6] (shown below). According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,^[2] the hashtag was tweeted over 7,800 times in the first 24 hours.

Patriots’ Reaction

Also on January 19th, the Boston Herald^[7] reported that Patriots coach Bill Belichick announced the team was cooperating with the NFL’s investigation but had no knowledge of deflated footballs prior to that morning. Meanwhile, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady called the accusations “ridiculous” during an appearance on the Boston-based radio show Dennis and Callahan.^[8]

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In the coming days, several news sites reported on the investigation and accompanying hashtag, including Fox Sports,^[9] Washington Post,^[10] Twitchy,^[11] Christian Science Monitor,^[12] Mashable^[13] and The Daily What.^[14]

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Glenn Beck is an American conservative television and radio host. Like political commentator Ann Coulter, Beck is often described as resembling an Internet troll due to his perceived attempts at intentionally generating public outrage.

History

In 1983, Beck began his career in radio at the station KZFM in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1985, Beck moved to Louisville, Kentucky to be the lead DJ of the morning-drive radio show “Captain Beck and the A-Team” on the station WRKA. From 1987 to 1989, Beck hosted a “morning zoo” program in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was criticized for mocking a rival radio show host’s miscarriage live on the air. In 1995, Beck’s radio station WKCI was forced to apologize for a racist segment in which Beck mocked a Chinese-American caller by performing a mock Chinese accent and playing gong sounds. In 2000, Beck launched the Glenn Beck Program on the WFLA station in Tampa, Florida. In 2006, Beck began hosting the nightly news-commentary show Headline Prime on CNN (shown below, left). In 2009, Beck left CNN to host the show Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel.

Online Presence

Beck’s website GlennBeck.com^[1] features content from his podcast, his television news network TheBlaze, videos, merchandise and a clothing store. On November 23rd, 2008, Beck launched an official Facebook^[2] page. That same month, Beck created the @glennbeck^[3] Twitter feed. In the next seven years, the Facebook page generated over 3.2 million likes and the Twitter feed garnered upwards of 933,000 followers.

Blenn Beck Rape & Murder Hoax

Did Glenn Beck Rape And Murder A Young Girl In 1990 is an Internet hoax and grassroots smear campaign which began as the satirical website GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com in September of 2009. The hoax began as a parody of public perception of Glenn Beck’s over-the-top interview antics on his self-titled television show Glenn Beck, wherein he frequently asks his guests to disprove highly speculative and often outrageous assertions.

“Restoring Honor” Rally

On August 28th, 2010, Beck promoted the “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to promote religious faith and patriotism. In response, satirical news hosts John Stewart and Stephen Colbert launched the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” held on October 30th (shown below, right).

Boston Bombing Statements

Following the Boston Marathon bombing that occurred on April 15th, 2013, Beck identified Saudi national Abdulrahman Alharbi as a participant in the attacks and claimed the United States government was engaging in a cover-up. On March 28th, 2014, Alharbi filed a defamation suit against Beck for the claims.

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Beck has earned a reputation for being an outspoken critic of the Obama administration and progressive politics, for defending traditional American values and for promoting conspiracy theories. Critics have accused Beck of using incendiary rhetoric to increase ratings and for being culturally insensitive to minority groups.

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Aesthetic refers to a series of abstract images, photos and art that are known for feeling oddly perfect, either by having a running theme, following certain patterns or having color palettes that blend well with each other, it is normally described by outsiders as 2deep4u due to the abstract natures of it.

Aesthetic images tend to have a nostalgic underwater pattern, often including objects from the past (specifically he 80´s, 90´s) like videogame consoles, windows 98´s icons and desktop, as well as busts and columns with japanese letters and 80´s filters, however this is only one form of aesthethic (as well as the most common one) popularized by the music movement Vaporwave

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The earliest instance of the use of the word aesthetic in that certain context dates back to 2010^[1] with the start of the vaporwave music movement, a genre that includes 80´s elevator music slowed down, as well as certain covers that consist of japanese characters, busts and windows icons,which were then called aesthethics.

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After the increase in popularity of vaporwave, multiple blogs on tumblr appeared^[2][3], taking pictures within the same branch of vaporwave covers, soon they started to branch off to create their own types of aesthetic images, which could be described as oddly satisfactory and nostalgic.

This popularity was seen as more types of music outside of vaporwave would take on to its trends and bear similarities, one of which would include swedish rapper Yung Lean (shown below, left)

Soon after, multiple images parodying the original aesthethic started appearing on 4chan and tumblr^[4][5], mainly where the vaporwave movement started, normally mocking it with an overload of its own characteristics

On Jul 21, 2014, Youtube user FrankJavCee uploaded a satirical video on how to make Vaporwave, in which he heavily mentions the use of aesthetics, and describes it as a “pretentious hipster way of saying beautiful” (shown below).

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“That’s Enough Internet for Today” is an expression typically used in comment sections of online communities to emphasize the disturbing, bizarre or offensive nature of a particular media content uploaded by the original poster, in similar vein to the use of the phrases like what has been seen cannot be unseen and I’m in that weird part of YouTube.

Origin

While the exact origin of the idiomatic expression “that’s enough for today” remains unknown, the earliest recorded use of the phrase in the context of Internet browsing can be found in the title of a video uploaded by Vimeo user Ionut Puiu on August 20th, 2009. Dubbed “Trust me… You had enough Internet for today,” the video shows a cat pawing its owner’s typing hand on the keyboard in the style reminescent of Stop Posting reaction images (shown below).

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On September 21st, 2011, Redditor GodOfAtheism launched the /r/EnoughInternet^[2] subreddit for bizarre NSFW images and video. On November 9th, 2012, Redditor Lugozi submitted an animated GIF of Jerry Seinfeld with the caption “Well, that’s enough Internet for today” to the /r/funny^[5] subreddit, where it received more than 1,100 votes (82% upvoted) before it was archived.

On September 11th, 2013, BuzzFeed^[1] published a compilation of animated GIFs titled “68 GIFs That Prove You’ve Had Enough Internet For Today.” On February 22nd, 2014, a photoshopped image of Side Eyeing Chloe and Doge titled “Enough Internet for today” was submitted to the /r/funny^[4] subreddit, where it gained over 2,800 votes (87% upvoted) prior to being archived (shown below).

On June 20th, a Facebook^[3] page titled “That’s Enough Internet For Today” was launched, which garnered upwards of 180,000 likes within the next year. On December 12th, 9gag^[6] user Tobelebo9 submitted a webcomic titled “Enough Internet for today…,” in which a man demonstrates how to perform various types of farts (shown below).

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Captain America: Civil War 4-Pane (also known as Captain America vs Iron Man) is an exploitable, vertical comic that attempts to predict the events that will lead to the upcoming Marvel film, Captain America: Civil War, normally trought mundane or trivial occurances.

Origin

On October 28, 2014, Marvel producer Kevin Feige announced “Captain America 3: Serpent Society” during the Marvel cinematic keynote at Comic Con] After teasing the audience, Feige announced the name for the movie would actually be “Captain America: Civil War” and brought out actors Chris Evans (Captain America) and Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) to quarrel as a teaser for the movie (shown at 21:00 below).

After the hype of the announcement, the 4 panel comic was created in early 2015 from a quarrel scene between Captain America and Iron Man in the original Avengers movie (shown below).

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on January 16, 2015 the site Memecenter posted a compilation of the comics following the first format made for it^[7]

After multiple images of the comic surfaced tumblr and 4chan, it gained popularity 3 days later when multiple news sites like Smosh^[2], International Business Times^[3] and Uproxx^[5], as well as Hypable on the following day^[4] started writing about it, as well as making their own compilations

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in january 18, 2015, a thread was posted on 4chan comics and cartoon´s board /co/^[8] asking for more comics of the meme, trought the thread a new template was formed, using the same format. the comic will go hulk saying an unpopular opinion, as to which the avengers will look at him in a condescending manner, which would be followed by an image of planet hulk, a story in which hulk gets exiled from earth.

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#BillGate refers to the controversy surrounding the Microsoft entity Bill Gates, and the authenticity of his existence. The accusations have led Microsoft to the suspending of hundreds of Twitter users in late 2014.

Background

On October 29, 1955, Bill Gates, a well-known Microsoft mascot and spokesperson, was supposedly born. Legend has it that as a child, Bill was a prodigy with computers, and often got in trouble for his computer mishaps. In 1975, Gates founded Microsoft, now a multi-billion dollar computer enterprise and original creator of the Windows operating system and Xbox line of consoles.

In November of 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0, a multi-window operating system based off the MS-DOS infrastructure. Since 1987, new editions of Windows have been released, as recent as Windows 8.1 in mid-2013. With the release of Windows 95 in 1995, many people blamed Bill Gates for the slow operation of the OS and the poor performance.

The Melinda & Gates Foundation charity was “formed” by Melinda Gates and Bill Gates in 2000, now with an endowment of over 42.3 billion USD as of November 24, 2014. According to the Forbes 500, Bill Gates was ranked as the 7th richest person alive in 2014.

On October 2, 2014, during a Microsoft key event, Bill Gates did not show up. Over the next 24 hours, over 7,800 tweets were posted about Gates’ absence.

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On October 5, Microsoft posted a tweet in retaliation of the #FakeGates and #BillGate hashtags, including a picture of Bill Gates at his computer reading Twitter.

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Bill Gates’ Reaction

On October 31st 2014, Bill Gates responded by posting a tweet about his stance in the scandal, considering it almost downright ridiculous.

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