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Sample Text is the default preset of generated text media for video and film editing software Sony Vegas Pro. It is most popularly used in montage parodies and is likely added for no convenient reason.

Origin

On January 25th, 2003, Sony Creative Software released version 1.0 of Sony Vegas Pro, along with text media. The default preset of the text media upon attempting to generate new text in the video happens to read “Sample Text”.

Spread

On November 21st, 2013, YouTuber iTheRainbowDash uploaded a montage parody including the sample text before quickscoping another player in Call of Duty. Since February 2015, the video has garnered 15,000+ views and 100+ likes. (shown below)^[1]

Since February 2015, there have also been 1,000+ search results for Tumblr posts tagged “sample text”.^[2] On June 27th, 2014, YouTuber Fapplet uploaded another montage parody featuring the sample text, which has scooped up 148,000+ views and 2,100+ likes. (shown below)^[3]

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Snail Mutsu (Japanese: り陸奥たか, Rimutsutaka) is a fan-made creature inspired by Mutsu^[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online trading card game Kantai Collection (KanColle). As well as Plasma-chan and The 1st battleship of the Kongou-class from Jamaica, this funny-looking creature has been one of the famous fan-made characters in the KanColle fandom since the end of 2013.

Origin

In the KanColle players community, Mutsu’s horn-like headgear, which represents the original Nagato-class battleships’ booms for maritime signal flags, is sometimes compared to a snail or slug due to the resemblance. Even on the English-speaking web, she’s sometimes called as “Mutslug” among fans. Inspired by this iconic item of her, an amateur illustrator blew^[2] posted an illustration of a snail version of Mutsu to both Nico Nico Seiga^[3] and pixiv^[4] on November 17th, 2013 (shown below, left). Then, this creature was named “Rimutsutaka” on his next post (shown below, right) in the following month^[5], which name comes from a pun for a backward reading of “かたつむり” (Ka-ta-tsu-mu-ri), a Japanese word meaning of snail, and the name of the battleship girl “陸奥” (Mu-tsu).

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This funny-looking creature soon became to a popular character in the KanColle fandom, and many fan illustrations and Miku Miku Dance videos for it has been posted to pixiv^[6], Nico Nico Seiga^[7] and niconico Douga^[8] since early 2014. Meanwhile, explanations in Rimutsutaka fandom sometimes takes the appearance of documentary like SCP Foundation because those following works depict it like a giant monster or UMB (Unidentified Mysterious Battleship) living in Rabaul waters in Papua New Guinea.

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Niconico 【MMD艦これ】「陸奥」「り陸奥たか」でNyanyanyanyanyanyanya!Niconico 【MMD艦これ】うちの泊地でも増えてた【り陸奥たか】
Left: Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! | Right: smooooch ・∀・

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Terra Formars Censorship refers to a controversy caused by the crude removal of gore scenes in the anime adaptation of the manga series Terra Formars, which consisted of poorly edited black screens and circles^[1][2][3]. This caused negative reactions from fans of the manga, and subsequently a series of photoshops mocking the crude censors.

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Terra Formars (Japanese: テラフォーマーズ Hepburn: Tera Fōmāzu) is a manga series written by Yū Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana, known for its extreme depictions of gore and violence. The manga features a fight between humans with special powers and humanoid roaches with extreme hatred for human beings as main antagonists called “Terraformars” in a struggle for the planet Mars. The anime adaptation first aired on September 26, 2014, which was heavily criticized for its poor censorship.

One of the most iconic scenes features a Terraformar ripping the head off the russian soldier Elena Perepelkina, which was censored on the anime version with 2 black circles. This and other poorly made censorships like blacking the screens lead to multiple photoshops mocking it.

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After the release of the episode, sites like Kotaku^[3] wrote articles criticizing the poor censoring, as well as feature the many exploitables made of it.

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Baskin Robbin a 8chan based meme used commonly in a YLYL thread or just a random picture for good use. Commonly known on 8chan and 4chan it has also made appearances as well on tumblr and twitter. The edgy nature of this meme caused mass spread on the internet as well used by trolls and just common edgy people.

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Deriving from the ice cream franchise the purpose of this meme is to tease about the death of Robin Williams a common way to be edgy on most of the internet. Although not commonly used in text or statements the picture has mass meaning and hysteria to those who like edgy things find this a complete overhaul on easy based edgy memes.

Spread

On February 2nd, 2015 the first known sighting of this meme was on 8chan and cause mass spread all over threads and the website in general, finding its way on tumblr and 4chan. Although most people who don’t go onto 8chan and 4chan probably won’t know this picture the little that do will exactly confirm its hilarity.

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Fat Logic (sometimes written as Fatlogic) is a term used online to describe notions often used by overweight individuals to justify certain lifestyle choices. In popular culture, the term is often used for “fat shaming” and in opposition to the Fat Acceptance Movement

Precursor: Fat Acceptance and Health At Every Size movements

Main entry: Fat Acceptance Movement

Fat Acceptance Movement (often abbreviated as FA) is a social movement to combat “fat shaming” (or “fatphobia”) from popular culture such as social media and gaming. The movement was deemed controversial, sparking the creation of groups going against the movement in social hubs like reddit.

Origin

Although the actual origin of the term “fat logic” is unclear, the earliest known instance of the term is found to be with the creation of the reddit subreddit /r/fatlogic in April 2013^[1].

Spread

On the 19th of May, the Twitter handle @FatLogic submitted its first tweet, “It’s my THYROID!!!!”^[3]

Urban Dictionary user Galanity submitted a definition for the term “fatlogic” on the 21st of July 2013, defining it as “The astounding mental gyrations obese people use to justify their size. Fatlogic never, ever includes eating too much and exercising too little.”^[2]

On the 30th of July 2014, /r/fatlogic created an Imgur album called “fatlogic reposts” listing various images that are posted often on the subreddit^[4].

The hashtag #fatlogic is often used on social media sites like Twitter and Tumblr to tag images and posts relating to fat logic^[5][6].

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^[1]reddit – /r/fatlogic. Disabling the subreddit’s CSS reveals that the subreddit was created on the 17th of April 2013.

^[2]Urban Dictionary – Fatlogic

^[3]Twitter #FirstTweet – @FatLogic

^[4]Imgur – fatlogic reposts

^[5]Tumblr – #fat logic

^[6]Twitter – #fatlogic

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Love Live! – School Idol Project is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise, and encompasses a number of different media, including an anime, manga and Light Novel series. After the series was first created, it spawned a notable fandom online, spawning a number of fan works and meme

Premise

Love Live! follows the story of Honoka Kōsaka, a schoolgirl at Otonokizaka Academy. After the academy is threatened with the possibility of closing down, due to a lack of applicants, Honoka and her friends form a school idol group in order to prevent this, called μ’s. After they successfully stop the school from closing down, the girls decide to take their idol group a step further, taking part in the ‘Love Live!’ competition, competing with fellow idol groups from across the country.

History

Love Live! began as a multimedia franchise, co-developed by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The first in the project, a manga series written by Sakurako Kimino, first circulated in Dengeki G’s Magazine starting in January 2012, and is still ongoing. This was later followed by an anime series, produced by studio Sunrise, also known for their work on shows such as Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass and Gintama, which first aired from January 6 to March 31, 2013, followed by a second season from April 6 to June 29, 2014, each lasting 13 episodes. As well as this, there have been a number of other Love Live! related media, including a movie, light novels and music CDs.

Online Relevance

In North America, the Love Live! anime is licensed by NIS America, with the series available for streaming on Crunchyroll^[1]. The series has gained a large online following on many sites, including on Tumblr^[2], Reddit^[3], 4chan’s /a/ (Anime and Manga) board^[4], Fanpop^[5], My Anime List^[6], and DeviantART^[7]. There are numerous sites that provide episodic information about the series, such as the Love Live! wiki^[8], TV Tropes^[9] and Anime News Network^[10]. In addition, the Love Live! Facebook page also has over 72,000 likes^[11].

Fandom

The Love Live! series has spawned a significant online fanbase since it’s creation, which has created much fanart and fanfiction. On the Japanese fanart site Pixiv, there are over 77,000 images tagged under “ラブライブ!”^[12], as well as over 14,000 videos on the video sharing website Nico Nico Douga^[13]. On DeviantART, there are also over 82,000 images tagged related to the series^[14].

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Kotori Photobomb

Kotori Photobomb refers to a series of exploitable images featuring Love Live! character Kotori Minami photobombing a photograph. The scene grew in popularity, spawning a number of parodies featuring a number of other characters from other anime series performing the pose.

Umi Card Select

Umi Card Select refers to a number of video parodies featuring character Umi Sonoda making different facial expressions while playing a game of cards. The scene grew in popularity with fans, spawning a number of parodies on Nico Nico.

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Vertical Posting is a spam and shitposting practice consisted on writting a message horitzontally and vertically at the same time, making them extremelly wide. It’s specially popular on 4chan’s /s4s/ (shit 4chan says) board.

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Meido Outfits or French Maid Outfits are a type of uniform based on that of a typical housemaid from the 19th century. Traditionally serving as a type of fetish uniform, pieces of fanart depicting female anime and video game characters in the outfits are common.

Origin

Meido outfits are loosely based on that of a typical French housemaid.^[1] They often consist of a black dress with white trim, an apron, a lace headdress, stockings, and high-healed shoes. The outfit is extremely popular in Japan, due in part to the maid cafes often found in cities such as Tokyo which appeared around the turn of the millennium,^[2] as well as popular characters who sport similar uniforms such as Sakuya Izayoi from Touhou Project.

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A TV Tropes page on Meido was created in 2006.^[3] An Urban Dictionary definition of the term was created in 2008.^[4] The visual novel Nekopara was released in 2014, which popularly featured two catgirl meido as the romantic interests.^[7]

One popular practice of fanart artists is to create images of characters wearing the outfits, even if they were never seen doing such in their original portrayals. Over 30,000 images tagged “maid” can be found on both Pixiv and Danbooru.^[5][6]

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Doritos Hair is a Photoshop meme where characters, usually anime or vocaloid ones, have the color of their hair replaced with the packaging of junk food. Doritos are mostly commonly used

Origin

The earliest known version of this meme was posted by Tumblr user Glitchicorn on February 4th, 2015^[1]. Glichticorn uploaded an Image with Love Live! character Nozomi Toujou. Her hair was replaced with a pattern of Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos.

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Though out the month of February Glitchticon more versions of other Love Live characters, as well as making ones of other anime characters. In Addtion, this user also reblogged other ones other people had made.
On February 20th, a single topic Tumblr blog “Doritosanimehair” was created and began to post some versions^[2].

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“Needs More JPEG” is a sarcastic expression used to mock low resolution or coarsely compressed^[5] images and videos, in a similar vein to the use of phrases like “recorded with a potato” or “my left ear enjoyed this very much”.

Origin

On August 30th, 2006, Newgrounds Forums^[7] member Ginogino13 replied to a post containing a poorly compressed sprite image with the phrase “Hmm… needs more JPEG” (shown below).

Etymology

The ironic use of the phrasal template [X] Needs More Y stems from the well-known catchphrase “Needs More Cowbell”, a memorable quote said by Christopher Walken in a 2000 Saturday Night Live sketch parody of VH1’s “Behind the Music” documentary on the studio recording of the 1976 song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult. Some of other notable variants include “Needs Moar Sauce” and “Needs More Lense Flare”.

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On July 24th, 2008, user Misery Gloom on the imageboard Plus4chan^[8] commented “Needs more jpeg artifacts” in response to a lossy rule 34 illustration. On February 13th, 2009, Fark^[9] user scavenger replied to a post with the phrase “Needs more jpeg artifacts.” On December 25th, 2010, DeviantArtist^[10] Quivin commented “Needs more JPEG artifacts” on a Minecraft illustration submitted by user xSaria. On December 15th, 2011, Java-Gaming Forums member theagentd replied to a post about Java video playback with the phrase “Needs more JPEG compression artifacts” (shown below).

On April 4th, 2012, a poorly compressed image with the caption “Needs More Jpeg” was uploaded to Imgur,^[11] which gathered upwards of 57,000 views over the next three years (shown below, left). On June 28th, Redditor TooBrokeToGiveAShit linked to the image in a comment on the /r/funny^[1] subreddit (shown below, right).

On February 14th, 2013, the domain for the site NeedsMoreJPEG.com^[3] registered, which allows users to upload images to be compressed with a large number of artifacts. On May 27th, YouTuber RobJohn37 uploaded a video titled “For when someone posts a compressed image/uses Windows XP to save a jpeg,” featuring poorly compressed video footage of the King of the Hill character Hank Hill saying “Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?” (shown below). In the next two years, the video gained over 1.8 million views and 1,000 comments. On May 14th, 2014, YouTuber Типичный сисадмин reuploaded RobJohn37’s King of the Hill video with the title “Needs More JPEG.”^[6]

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Monsoon is one of the primary antagonists in Platinum Games’ hack and slash action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Monsoon’s in-game opinion regarding memes as a unit for carrying cultural ideas or practices lead to fans associating him with internet memes.

Origin

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was first released on February 19th, 2013. During the campaign, in which the player takes control of the cyborg Raiden, the player eventually has to fight Monsoon.^[1] Prior to this battle, during a conversation between Monsoon and Raiden, Monsoon shares his view on memes, explaining to him that he finds them the only thing that mattered besides war and even going as far as calling them “the DNA of the soul.” Although Monsoon talks about memes as the essence of a culture or a person,^[2][5] fans quickly associated the speech with internet memes.

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Although other characters in the game also mention memes, it was Monsoon’s speech that made him stand out the most. On February 3rd, 2014, Tumblr user Suddenlywolf posted a collection of quotes made by Monsoon as an image (shown below, left), which managed to gain more than 29,000 notes over the following year.^[3] On March 3rd, 2014, Youtuber Turkish Phantom posted an edited video showing Raiden’s reply after Monsoon’s defeat and describing Raiden as “the hero we need” (shown below, right), which managed to gain over 15,000 views in the following year and more than 440 likes (against 10 dislikes). The character also became a common recurrence in ironic meme threads on 4chan.^[6][7]

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Elsword is a Free to Play South Korean based 2.5D Action MMORPG developed by KOG Studios. The game is a predecessor to it’s earlier work, “Grand Chase.” The game features skill-based combat, and has gained a cult following in South Korean, Japanese, and North American audiences respectively.

History

In 2007, KOG Studios released the Free to Play game Elsword in South Korea, as a reboot to it’s earlier work, Grand Chase. Since then, it has been released in Japan (2010) and North America (2011). It was introduced in Steam Greenlight on 2012.

Features

The game currently features 10 characters, each with 3 available job classes with two jobs each, with a total of 60 total character combinations. The game also features PvE and PvP with PvE being with a party of up to 4 players, and PvP being with up to 8 players.

Fandom

The game has gained a fandoms in North America and Japan, spawning fanart on Deviantart, Pixiv, and Tumblr, and several forum communities,

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Umi Sonoda Poker Face (Japanese: 海未ちゃん顔芸シリーズ, Umi-chan Kaogei Series) refers to a series of parodies featuring funny facial expressions struck by Umi Sonoda^[1] from an anime adaptation for Japanese multi-media project Love Live!. Shortly after the episode aired in May 2014, many parodies were spawned on the web.

Origin

In the anime adaptations, Umi-chan has been well-known for her expressive face among fans since the 1st season (shown below, left), and screen shots of her funny faces have been sometimes utilized in photoshopping parodies on Futaba Channel (2chan) since before. Meanwhile, the source footage of this fad is weird facial expressions strucked by Umi during a trump game scene in the 5th episode in the 2nd season “A New Me” originally aired on May 4th, 2014 (shown below, right).

Similar Cases

According to comments in Nico Nico Pedia’s article^[2], this kind of poor poker face during playing old maid is one of the cliches in school anime/manga depictions. Similar scenes are found on Ranma1/2 in 1980s as well as Yuru Yuri, Nisekoi and Invaders of the Rokujyōma!?.

Left: Ranma1/2 Ep. 85 (1989) | Center: Yuru Yuri Season 2 Ep. 2 (2012) | Right: Nisekoi Season 1 Ep. 9 (2014)

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Her impressive poker face soon became to a subject for MAD videos on niconico Douga^[3] and parody illustrations on Nico Nico Seiga^[4] and pixiv.^[5] In addition, a photoshopping fad featuring it also caused on Futaba as well as in Crappy Collage Grand Prix trend on Twitter.^[6]

Finally, the illustrations for Umi’s poor poker faces were officially released on LINE stamps in August of that year (shown below).^[7]

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Niconico 変顔海未ちゃんでしゅぎょうNiconico ボム兵の海未ちゃん
Left: Rhythm Heaven Remix | Right: Bob-Omb Battlefield
Niconico ことりちゃんにババ抜きで完全敗北した顔芸海未ちゃんUCNiconico 【ラブライブ！】海未ちゃんのババ抜きできゅっきゅっきゅっニャー
Left: Slow Loris' Victory Pose with UC | Right: Kyu! Kyu! Kyu! Nya~! dance

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In Japanese language, striking funny facial expressions is called “Kaogei” (顔芸; lit. “Face Performance”).

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3PAC is an American rapper and YouTuber known for his amateurish music videos and ‘disses’ directed at figures such as Eminem (whom he refers to as ‘feminem’) and Pewdiepie. He is often featured on websites such as WorldStarHipHop and has even been mentioned in the Washington Post. His name is a play on the infamous rapper ‘2Pac’.

Online History

3PAC has two channels, 3PACTV and 3PACTVHD, with the latter channel still active. 3PAC’s most viewed videos as of March 2015 are ‘RAPGOD’ with over 500,000 views, ‘RICHWHITEMANMARKCUBAN’ at over 300,000 views and finally ‘I DON’T GIVE A HOOT’ with almost 300,000 views. Several of 3PAC’s videos have been taken down in the past for violating YouTube’s terms and conditions, including his music video entitled ‘PEWDIEPIE IS A CHILDRAPIST’ which was subsequently uploaded onto WorldStarHipHop^[1] and currently has over 350,000 views.

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3PAC often uses the term ‘hoot giver’^[2] as a derogatory insult in his ‘disses’ and in public discourse with people who criticise his work. 3PAC prides himself on ‘not giving a hoot’, and his fanbase describe themselves as ‘the Zero Hoots Gang’.

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^[1]WorldStarHipHop – WorldStarHipHop
^[2]ZeroHoots.com ZeroHoots.com

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XD (sometimes satirically pronounced as “ecks dee”) is an emoticon to express laugher pretty similar to the LOL slang term. These letters simply symbolising a face with crossed eyes and wide opened mouth.
The emoticon can also be used to mock the often usage on the internet or typically to shitpost forum or imageboards.

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Mariah Anderson Cyberbullying Controversy refers to the online backlash surrounding a series of insensitive tweets poking fun at a photograph of a two-year-old baby born with Chromosome Two Duplication Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. The tweets became a subject of national controversy after the baby’s mother, Kyra Pringle, spoke out against the harassment of her daughter in late February 2015.

Background

On October 22nd, 2013, a GoFundMe^[1] page was created by South Carolina resident Kyra Pringle to raise money for her daughter suffering from complications due to the genetic disorder Chromosome Two Duplication Syndrome.

In February 2015, Pringle posted a photograph of her daughter Mariah Anderson on Facebook (shown below).^[9]

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Online Reaction

That month, Instagram^[3] user young.yayo highlighted the photograph of Mariah. The post was subsequently deleted. On February 22nd, Twitter user @ArroqantTae^[2] tweeted a screenshot of the Instagram post with the joke “This baby soooo ancient. Mf came out the womb 50 & paying a mortgage,” receiving more than 220 retweets and 90 favorites within two weeks (shown below). In the coming days, several other Twitter users poked fun at the photo, including @___daisha,^[4] @Shawndizzle1122,^[5] @aira_alday^[6] and @ShutYoDumbAssUp.^[7]

News Media Coverage

On February 28th, Pringle was interviewed in a segment on the South Carolina news station WCBD News 2, in which she expressed her dismay with those who insulted her child on the Internet (shown below). In the coming days, several other news sites published articles about the online trolling controversy, including BuzzFeed,^[9] The Root,^[10] NY Daily News,^[11] The Daily Mail^[12] and Metro UK.^[13]

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WeaselPecker, a portmanteau of “weasel” and “woodpecker,” is a photoshop meme based on a well-timed photograph of a weasel riding on the back of a flying woodpecker bird. Since entering online circulation through Twitter in early March 2015, the photograph has given way to a series of photoshopped parodies in which other subjects and fictional characters are shown riding alongside or in lieu of the weasel.

Origin

On March 2nd, 2015, East London photographer Martin Le-May took a photo of a juvenile weasel riding on the back of a woodpecker in Essex, England (shown below). On the same day, wildlife photographer Jason Ward posted the photograph on Twitter,^[1] where it gained over 9,900 reweets and 7,400 favorites in the first 24 hours.

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Later that evening, BuzzFeed^[2] published an interview with Le-May, in which he described the events surrounding the photograph. Also on March 2nd, Twitter user @darth^[3] tweeted a photoshopped version of the image with a red panda dressed as the antagonist Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise riding the weasel and bird (shown below).

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On March 3rd, Twitter user Rebecca Lewis^[4] tweeted a photoshopped image of Vladimir Putin riding on the back of the weasel, gathering more than 140 retweets and 90 favorites that day (shown below). Meanwhile, many other photoshopped versions of the image were posted on Twitter under the hashtag “#WeaselPecker”^[5] (shown below, right).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the photograph, including The Daily What,^[6] Mashable,^[7] The Huffington Post^[8] and The Telegraph.^[9]

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Stop Das Gay, alternatively Do I Smell Watermelon, refers to an image macro series typically involving two characters, with one pressing their face up against the other and making unpleasant remarks, and the other responding with “stop das gay”.

Origin

The earliest known popular example of the meme was posted by Tumblr user tomatoneedles on June 5th, 2011,^[1] gaining over 14,000 notes as of March 2015. It features a captioned image cropped from a painting depicting the kiss of Judas,^[2] the scene in the Bible in which Judas Iscariot betrays the identity of Jesus to the Romans by kissing him.

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On October 30th, 2011, Youtube user punkiit uploaded a dramatic reading of the original image’s captions, titled “stop Judas that’s gay”,^[3] garnering over 26,000 views as of March 2015.

On May 23rd, 2013, FunnyJunk user jesusucksmydick posted a photoshopped Kanye West image with the meme’s conventional captions to the site,^[4] receiving over 1,200 net karma.

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Semen Demon is a term used to refer to attractive anime characters. The term is also related to the catchphrases “Who is that semen demon” and “What anime is this semen demon from?”, often used as a shitposting practise on anime discussions, and normally being associated with Sherlock “Sharo” Shellinford,^[3] a character from the manga and anime series Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

Origin

The term comes from the medieval legend of the sucubbus (plural sucubbi), demons who take the form of attractive woman to seduce men and draw energy from them, often until the point of exhaustion or death of the victim.^[4] According to the Malleus Maleficarum, a book about witchcraft which was banned on 1490 by the Catholic Church, succubi would collect semen from the men they slept with, which incubi (demons who take the form of attractive man) would then use to impregnate women.^[6]

On June 17, 2013 a 4chan user made a thread on /a/, the anime and manga board, asking “what anime is that semen demon from?”, featuring an image of Sherlock Shellinford from the manga and anime series Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.^[1]

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On July 11, 2013, another thread on the same board was created, featuring the same question and another image of the same character.^[2] On July 17, 2013, another thread asking for Sherock featured the first change of the words, saying “lactic harlot” instead of semen demon.^[9] This was later used as spamming practice.

On December 24, 2013, a thread on /s4s/, the shtiposting and spamming board, featured a poorly vectorized version of Sherlock Shellinford with the caption “Le Semen Demon”.^[7] This image, also know as “semon demon”, is often used as a spamming and shitposting practice on the same board.^[8]

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I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter is a copypasta about a male who dreams to be a helicopter. that parodies absurd gender and sexual identification often found on pages like Tumblr, featuring references to social justice like check your privilege.

Origin

This copypasta was originally written by TF2 user Guuse^[1] in 2014 on March 17th, which was added to his pastebin^[2]

I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I’m fucking retarded but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

Guuse originally wrote it to spam it using binds in chats whilst playing after an argument about gender identity politics.

Note the video comment “props to Guuse for his amazing writing skills”. Dated March 21st as the earliest time on the internet. Uploader is a friend of the original writer.

Guuse posted this in December:
http://etf2l.org/recruitment/201940/

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After the original stream, the copypasta was submitted to /r/sidehugs ^[3] and /r/copypasta ^[4] on reddit. on various live streams, as well as 4chan. It can now be seen attributed to youtube comments and various chans, variations continue to be created.

On May 18, 2014, a definition titled “helisexual” was submitted on Urban Dictionary^[5], featuring multiple references to the original copypasta

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