Shadow X shrek is fan shipping of the fictional character shrek with the edgiest hedgehog alive, shadow

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About

Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen is a background character from the animated comedy series Spongebob Squarepants, known for wearing a soda drinking cap with a “#1” written on it. During the years, the character gained some following, being related with the catchphrase “He was number one”

Origin

Smitty’s first appereance in the show was on the episode One Krabs Trash, the 5th of the third season and 46th overall, premiered on February 22nd, 2002.^[2] In the episode, Mr.Krab sells Spongebob a soda drinking cap without knowing it’s extremelly valuable, so he decides to recover it by telling Spongebob the hat is cursed and it must be returned to it’s original owner, making up a name for him. But his plans backfires when turns out to be a dead person with that name, so he have to get back the cap from the grave Spongebob buried it.

Spread

On February 21st, 2010, a Yahoo Answers user asked who was Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen, getting two replies.^[4] On April 7th, 2011, youtuber DorbyBorby uploaded a scene from the episode where Spongebob tells Mr.Krab he buried the cap, and cries “He was the number one!”. As March 18th, 2015 the video has arround 600,000 views.

On May 20th 2013, a Facebook page named “Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen – He was #1” was created, having 800,000 likes as March 18th, 2015.^[5] On Tumblr, Smitty related material can be found by the tags “he was number one”^[1] and “smitty werbenjagermanjensen”.^[2]

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Shadow X Shrek, sometimes shorten to Shredow is a popular crack ship between Shrek and Shadow the Hedgehog, each character being from the Shrek series and The Sonic the Hedgehog series respectively. Due to the rather bizarre pairing, it has often known as a cringeworthy ship.

Origin

On January 17th, 2010, DeviantArt User Cmara uploaded a comic^[1] depicting Shrek and Shadow the Hedgehog (Pictured Below).

Spread

Every since the original art, the duo became popular in DeviantArt. Numerous artwork were made of the ship, with about 429 results as of March 2015 in DeviantArt^[2]. On Tumblr^[3], the ship was also widespread.

On September 7, 2013, Youtuber Berry Punch^[4] uploaded a Source Filmmmaker animation titled “[SFM] Buttlicker”. (Shown Below)

The video portrayed Shadow the Hedgehog standing in a forest in the middle of a blizzard. Shrek then appears behind him, then they romantically embrace each other and kiss. Multiple characters from different franchises are seen in backround, some cheering while are others are in disgust. As of March 2015, the video has 4,195 likes, 1,096 comments, and 324, 976 views.

On January 10, 2014, Chloe Cole, staff member of Dorkly, uploaded a post^[5] on the aforementioned site. The post, titled “The Most Upsetting Shrek and Shadow Fan Art On the Internet”, showcased several examples of Shrek x Shadow fanart.

Various Fanart

External references

^[1]DeviantArt – Shadow begs Shrek by Cmara

^[2]DevianArt – shrek shadow search results

^[3]Tumblr – Post tagged with shrek x shadow

^[4]Youtube – Berry Punch

^[5]Dorkly – The Most Upsetting Shrek and Shadow Fan Art On the Internet

Overview

#RaceTogether is a promotional Twitter hashtag launched by the American global coffeehouse chain Starbucks to encourage its customers to engage in conversations about the state of race relations in the United States. Upon its launch in March 2015, the campaign immediately became a target of criticisms and mockeries online for its provocative nature.

Background

On March 16th, 2015, Starbucks, in partnership with USA Today^[1], announced a new co-op initiative called “Race Together,” which aims to tackle the issue of race in the United States by encouraging its employees at 12,000 locations to “spark customer conversation on the topic of race." According to the USA Today’s article, Starbucks baristas at participating locations will serve drinks in cups bearing the hashtag #RaceTogether, along with a “Race Together” pamphlet co-written by the coffeehouse chain and the daily newspaper.

Notable Developments

On the morning of March 17th, dozens of Starbucks customers took their reactions to the #RaceTogether campaign on Twitter^[9], with many poking fun at the company’s less than subtle attempt at incorporating the ongoing racial tension into their latest PR campaign, while others jeered that the company should instead focus on getting the customers’ names right. According to Topsy^[6], the Twitter hashtag garnered more than 67,000 mentions within the first 48 hours of the campaign launch.

MSNBC Segment

Later that evening, CBS Sunday Morning commentator Nancy Giles and New York City radio DJ and music blogger Jay Smooth appeared in a split-screen debate segment on MSNBC’s nightly news program All In with Chris Hayes to discuss the Starbucks campaign and race relations in the United States, during which Giles insinuated that Smooth had co-opted black culture, unaware of the fact that Jay Smooth is half black.

“It’s also interesting because I’m actually black, but you assumed otherwise. And this is the sort of awkwardness that we can look forward to at Starbucks across America.”

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#OkayMovement are a series of Vine remix videos featuring a clip of a grinning man timidly saying “okay,” which is often used as a comedic device in conjunction with various footage from TV shows, music videos and films.

Origin

On December 29th, 2014, Viner Lilianna Hogan posted a Vine clip taken during her vacation at the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, which begins with a panoramic view of the vista before panning over to her Rwandan tour guide who replies “okay” with a smile after she says “hi” in greeting (shown below). In the first three months, the video received over 25 million loops, 520,000 likes and 294,000 revines.

Spread

On February 21st, Viner xpacNino uploaded a mashup of the music video for the 2012 hip-hop song “Mercy” by Kanye West with the man saying “okay” (shown below). In one month, the video accumulated upwards of 23 million loops, 529,000 likes and 373,000 revines.

On February 22nd, Redditor blackshad-o submitted the Vine to the /r/videos^[4] subreddit, where it gathered more than 5,200 votes (91% upvoted) and 1,200 comments in the first month. The same day, YouTuber TheVinetopia uploaded a compilation of notable #Okaymovement Vines (shown below).

On February 25th, the @OkayMovement^[2] Twitter feed was launched. On March 5th, the Best Celebrations Instagram^[3] feed posted a video of a football player scoring a touchdown with a song using a sample of the “okay” audio clip playing in the background (shown below). Within two weeks, the clip gathered upwards of 19,000 likes and 680 comments.

A video posted by Best Celebrations (@bestcelebrations) on Mar 5, 2015 at 4:18pm PST

On March 17th, the pop culture blog Fusion^[1] published an interview with Hogan about the Vine meme, in which she revealed that the Rwandan man’s name was Jackson and that she found it “flattering that someone so sweet was attracted to me.”

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Terror Squad by Zomboy is a song released in 2013 and has been very popular collecting more than a million views on Youtube and Soundcloud.

Many people accused other artists, including Zomboy that “the drop” was stolen. People believe Zomboy also may have stolen the Drop from other artists, example skrillex.

There are numerous comments suggesting that the drop was stolen on soundcloud and Youtube. On several other songs on soundcloud and Youtube, there are comments saying that it “sounds like terror squad”, or “zomboi obvs copyed it from skrillex” even though date proves that Zomboy was first. Any Dubstep that sounds remotely like Zomboy-Terror Squad is commented on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6eER7elUPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JYIGclVQdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JYIGclVQdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3uq4Y0M88M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avqPFwpRfTA (All Is Fair In Love And Brostep prototype)
https://soundcloud.com/zomboy/terror-squad
credit to this video that helped me in my investigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnTEt9SOqz0

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About

With Great Power also know as “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” is a quote spoken by Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben, used in forums to indicate a post that will feature a Spider-Man meme. When not used in direct reference to Spider-man, it can express that a person has so much skill that they only need to demonstrate it in order to win an argument or competition.

The phrase can be used in its whole form, but often the word “responsibility” is swapped out for something that rhymes or completes an alternate joke. It is especially suited for use in image-macro form because of its dual-part construction.

Precursor

The quote “With great power comes great responsibility” is variously attributed to the Oevres de Voltaire, Volume 48 (1829)^[1], Thomas C. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates (1827)^[2], and a variety of other sources and other derivations. The first instance of the quote in Spider-Man was Amazing Fantasy #15, August 1962, otherwise known as the first Spider-Man story.

Origin

While the earliest use of the phrase on the internet is unknown, many memes point to either an original Spider-Man reference or a video when in the 2002 version of the film Spider Man, Peter Parker’s uncle Ben speaks the line during a heartfelt scene. This clip was posted to March 10th, 2010.

The first known applications of the phrase to images was with Demotivational Posters. The image on the left is probably circa 2004; The image on the right was created May 16th, 2008.

Spread

Two years after the video clip of Uncle Ben speaking to Peter was posted to YouTube, in August 2011, users began to create image macros, sometimes called “Uncle Ben’s Words of Wisdom” using variations on the phrase over a screen capture from the film.

The phrase and its snowclones spread to images of Spiderman around the same time, including lots of crossover with ’60s Spider-Man.

In addition, the phrase and its variations are commonly used as bait-and-switch forum post titles. There are 129 posts across Reddit^[3] with the exact phrase “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” and thousands of others with variations or substituted words.

On July 24th, 2010, With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story^[4] was released, using the famous phrase to tell the story of Spider-man’s creator.

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^[1]Goodreads – Voltaire

^[2]Wikiquote – Responsibility

^[3]Reddit – Search: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

^[4]IMDB– _With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

About

“It’s My First Time” is an image macro meme that revolves around images of large gaping holes with the phrase captioned on them. The meme is sarcastically referring to women who lie about being virgins.

Origin

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WARNING: This entry can contain spoilers

About

Hunter x Hunter is a manga and anime series created by Yoshihiro Togashi, also known for YuYu Hakusho, and published by Shueisha. The story follows the adventures of Gon Freecss, who dreams of becoming a Hunter in order to find his father who is also a Hunter.

History

The manga began its serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on March 3, 1998. On October 16, 1999, the manga got its first anime adaptation produced by Nippon Animation. It lasted 63 episodes until March 31, 2001^[1], covering the manga up to the middle of Yorknew City arc. Several series of original video animations were later released, continuing the story up to the end of Greed Island arc^[2].

In July 2011, a new anime adaptation was produced by Madhouse, lasting until September 23, 2014 after 148 episodes^[3]. A pair of anime film adaptations named Phantom Rouge^[4] and The Last Mission^[5] were released in 2013.

Online Presence

[Work In Progress]

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Gon-san

Gon-san is a nickname given to an adult form of Gon Freecss, the main protagonist of the manga. This muscle monster with glazed look filled with deep despair has been a popular subject for parodies since its shocking arrival in 2010.

Hiatus x Hiatus

Hiatus x Hiatus is a fan nickname given to the manga, due to its frequent and long periods of hiatus. This has become a subject of parody and various jokes.

Neferpitou

Neferpitou is a cat-humanoid Chimera Ant and one of the three royal guards. As the manga never reveals it’s gender, Neferpitou’s gender discussion are a common topic, also used as a joke when someone refers to it as a female.

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Post-Anesthesia Videos are amateur footage of people acting intoxicated or rambling incoherently while recovering from the effects of anesthesia after surgery. Since the viral reception of David After Dentist in 2009, at least a dozen of similar homemade videos have been shared on YouTube and other video-sharing platforms.

Origin

In May 2008, David DeVore took his seven-year-old son David DeVore Jr. to a dental surgeon to take care of an extraneous tooth that was caused by hyperdontia. After the surgery was completed, DeVore filmed David’s reaction, in which he asked various questions including “is this real life?” “why is this happening to me?” and “is this going to be forever?” After sharing the video with his family and friends on Facebook, DeVore uploaded it to YouTube with the title “David After Dentist” on January 30th, 2009 (shown below). Within six years, the video gained over 128 million views and 100,000 comments.

Spread

On May 20th, 2010, YouTuber Unicornpp uploaded a video titled “Unicorn After Wisdom Teeth,” in which a woman claims she feels like “a unicorn just took me on a ride to a magical place” when emerging from anesthesia after a wisdom teeth removal procedure (shown below, left). On June 30th, YouTuber Kelly Claire uploaded footage of herself talking to her mom in a car following a wisdom teeth surgery (shown below, right). Within five years, the videos garnered more than 9.9 million and 4.1 million views respectively.

On October 16th, 2011, YouTuber brittmellish09 posted a video in which a young man laughs hysterically after being injected with anesthetic while having a broken arm bandaged (shown below, left). In four years, the video received upwards of 13 million views and 32,000 comments. On April 5th, 2012, YouTuber Sam Kitling uploaded a video featuring a girl who thinks she is at the magic school Hogwarts from the Harry Potter franchise after having her wisdom teeth removed (shown below, right).

On May 25th, YouTuber TheDizzays8^[3] uploaded a video of a child emerging from anesthesia after having arm surgery, which gathered upwards of 6.9 million views and 5,100 comments in the first three years. The following day, Redditor capt_yesterday submitted the video to the /r/videos^[4] subreddit, where it gained over 1,900 votes (86% upvoted) and 270 comments prior to being archived. On April 29th, 2013, YouTuber Jack Barth uploaded a video of a young man crying in a car after having his wisdom teeth removed (shown below, left). On August 30th, 2013, YouTuber Jason Mortensen uploaded a video of himself seeing his wife after surgery, in which he tells her she is “eye candy” and asks her if she is a model (shown below, right). In two years, the videos gathered upwards of 4,2 million and 15 million views respectively.

On October 21st, 2014, YouTuber Stephen Underwood uploaded footage of his wife Jayci expressing her desire to look like Nicki Minaj and her appreciation for Ellen Degeneres (shown below, left). In five months, the video gained over 4.3 million views and 1,000 comments. On November 5th, Jayci and Stephen Underwood appeared on The Ellen Show (shown below, right).

Various Examples

As of March 2015, there are over 100,000 search results for the keywords “after wisdom teeth” on YouTube.

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About

One-Punch Man (also written as One Punch-Man and OnePunch-Man; Japanese: ワンパンマン) is an online webcomic by manga artist One which was later remade into a stylized digital manga illustrated by Yūsuke Murata, as well as an anime adaptation animated by the production studio Madhouse.

Premise

The story of One-Punch Man follows Saitama, a powerful hero who easily defeats his opponents with one punch. However, because of his strength, Saitama ends up becoming bored of his powers, as no opponent poses a challenge for him. Along his journey, Saitama meets various other heroes, battles many monsters, and gains his own diciple in the cyborg Genos. Even with his strength, howevet, Saitama struggles to gain respect and recognition by society, eventually leading him to join the Hero Association, an organization which oversees and ranks all of the world’s heroes.

History

One-Punch Man^[1] was first published on June 3rd, 2009, when the manga artist known by his online pseudonym One^[2] began posting the series on his personal homepage Galaxyheavyblow.^[3] On June 14th, 2012, Young Jump Web Comics’ website began publicating a stylized digital manga remake of One-Punch Man^[4] illustrated by Yūsuke Murata^[5] after Murata approached One on his Twitter^[7] to discuss a possible collaboration. The English serialization of the manga is currently published in Viz Media’s Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.^[9]

<sup>One’s Original Webcomic

Murata’s Manga Remake</sup>

Reception

One-Punch Man quickly went viral, and One’s homepage has since surpassed 10 million hits, with an average of 20,000 hits per day. In November 2013, the manga had 2.2 million printed copies in circulation, which increased to 3.4 million in May 2014 and 4.5 million copies in November 2014.^[6] The manga was nominated for the Manga Taishō in 2014,^[8] an annual Japanese manga award limited to manga with eight or less collected volumes.

2015 Anime Adaptation

On March 10th, 2015, Shueisha’s Young Jump magazine announced that an anime adaptation of One-Punch Man had been green-lit, although this news was already available the week prior to that.^[10] The cast and staff of the manga were announched through a promotional video at Bandai Visual’s booth at the Anime Japan 2015 event on March 21st and 22th, where it was revealed that the anime would be animated by Japanese animation studio MADHOUSE Inc.^[11]

Fandom

The story and humor of One’s original webcomic, combined with the high-quality art of Murata’s manga remake, quickly gave the series viral spread and notability. Since then, many pieces of fan art inspired by the series has been shared on illustrator communities, both on the Japanese web and the rest of the Internet. As of March 21st, 2015, the Japanese illustrator social network Pixiv^[12] contains over 5,500 images tagged “ワンパンマン,” the online artist community DeviantART^[13] has over 14,000 submissions submitted under the keyword “One Punch Man,” and the /r/OnePunchMan sub-Reddit^[14] has over 1,100 subscribers. The fandom’s presence can also be found on Tumblr^[15] and the OnePunch-Man Wiki.^[16]

Several scenes present in the manga feature multiple panels overflowing into each other to make the scene appear animated. These scenes became highly popular among fans due to their visual appeal, with animated GIF versions of them often being made and shared.

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About

Fist of The North Star (also known as Hokuto No Ken) is a shounen manga written by Buronson and illustrated by Tetsuo Hara. It also received an animated adaption produced by Toei Animation.

Plot

The story revolves around a powerful warrior named Kenshiro,who knows a deadly martial art style known as Hokuto Shinken, defending good from evil in a post-apocalyptic world.

History

The manga premiered on Weekly Shōnen Jump in year 1983 and it ended in year 1988. It was adapted into weekly anime series by Toei animation. It aired on Fuji TV from year 1984 to year 1987. It was later followed by the sequel series untill February 18, 1988.

Reception

Fist of the North Star is one of the best selling mangas. It sold more than 100 million copies. The series received positive reception from critics and fans alike. The series influenced many works such as Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure..

Fandom

Sub memes

Hokuto Hyakuretsu-ken / “AH TATATATATATA”

Hokuto Hyarskuretsu-kenis a famous attack used by Kenshiro which consists of rapid punches.

You Are Already Dead / お前はもう死んでいる (Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru)

You Are Already Deadis a catchphrase used by Kenshiro when he declares the opponent’s death.

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VIP Teacher (Japanese: VIP先生, Bippu Sensei), also called “Mariotropolis” (マリオトロポリス), refers to a series of parodies and remixes inspired by phonetic translations in a flash movie featuring a fan-made Super Mario RPG song. On the Japanese web, this was one of the most famous memes originated in 2channel’s /news4vip/ board, and it also had a large affect on the early days of the video remix culture in niconico Douga (niconico).

Origin

In around the beginning of May 2005, a Spanish blogger Javi Agenjo, also known as tamat, uploaded a flash movie titled “Mariotropolis” on his website.^[1] It is consisting of a weird dancing robot acted by German actress Brigitte Helm^[2] in 1927 silent Sci-Fi film Metropolis^[3] and a ROBOVoice remix version for Super Mario RPG Song. The flash creator cited the audio track from a YTMND page submitted in April 2005^[4], but it was originally posted to Newgrounds by DJ XBrav in June 2004.^[5]

Spread

This cheap but addictive flash movie caught an attention among users in 2channel where phonetic translations, or Soramimi^[6], had become a popular flash movie trend by the hits of “Numa Numa” and “Moskau” in those days. And the biggest reaction was drawn from the /news4vip/ board since the phonetic translation for a phrase “Peeps Insane”, “Bippu Sensei” (lit. “VIP Teacher”), win the hearts of the board users usually called VIPPER. Just after the first thread for this flash movie was submitted to /news4vip/ board early on May 8th, 2005^[7], heavy traffic surged at tamat’s server. According his blog post on the evening of the same day, the number of access from Japan in that day had reached over 20,000 and he had to take down it to avoid exceeding the transfer limit for that month.^[8] Many parody flash movies and pictures for VIP Teacher were quickly created by getting inspirations from silly phonetic translations given from VIPPERs, and those are archived into a portal site for VIP Teacher which was launched on the following day.^[9]

Besides, tamat revealed in another blog post in the following year that his “Mariotropolis” also caught some attention in France as well.^[10]

niconico

VIP Teacher brought back into the spotlight in the first half of 2007 by the launch of niconico. The “Mariotropolis” flash was reprinted to niconico from the very beginning of the service^[11], and VIP Teacher has become one of the classics in niconico’s video remix culture as shown by the song being included into “Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga”, the second track in the original Nico Nico Medley series released in June 2007.^[12] On November 30th 2013, it made a headline on the Japanese web that a niconico user shota made the HD Remastered Version for VIP Teacher (shown below) from the blu-ray edition for Metropolis released in 2010.^[13]

Niconico 【HDデジタルリマスター】VIP先生【高画質高音質】

VIP Teacher also brought a large online popularity to the original song “Beware the Forest’s Mushrooms” (森のキノコにご用心) composed by Yoko Shimomura.^[14] Since after the hit of a Lucky StarMAD video in the summer of 2008 (shown below)^[15], this song has been sometimes utilized in MADs.^[16]

Various Examples

Flash Movies by VIPPERs

Parody Videos in niconico

Niconico HIP先生　【兄貴ｘVIP先生】Niconico ZIP先生
Left: Billy Herrington from the Wrestling Series | Right: Bruno Bucciarati from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Niconico VIP先生　☠ウッディverNiconico VIP ZONE【VIP先生×RED ZONE】
Left: Revoltech Woody | Right: REDZONE

“Beware the Forest’s Mushrooms” MAD Videos

Niconico 【ドナルドMAD】森のハンバーガーにご用心Niconico 【人類は衰退しました】 森の妖精さんにご用心
Left: Donald McDonald – Ran Ran Ru | Right: Humanity Has Declined

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Terra Formars (Japanese: テラフォーマーズ) is a manga and anime series written by Yū Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana, published on Young Jump.

Premise

Terra Formars is set on 26th century. On 21st century, scientists sent modified seeds of algae and cockroaches to Mars to start a terraformation of the planet, so future Earth inhabitants could go to another planet in case of lack of resources. But the first manned ship to Mars sent 500 years later is attacked by mutant humanoid cockroaches, called Terraformars, who exterminate the entire tripulation. Decades later, a multinational expedition is sent to exterminate the Terraformars, but this time the members undergo genetic modification to to inherit the characteristics of other organisms. This time only two members survive and go back to Earth, but when a deadly virus from Mars strikes humanity a third expedition is assembled.

History

Terra Formars^[1] started his serialitzatzion on 2011, at the magazine Weekly Young Jump from the company Shueisha. At first, it was going to be a short series, but the reception of the chapters made that on 2012 the series continued. The series also has various spin-offs and a series of novels.

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Anime Censorship

Terra Formars Anime Censorshiprefers to the controversy caused by the crude removal of gore scenes in the anime adaptation of the series, which consisted of poorly edited black screens and circles. This caused negative reactions from fans of the manga, and subsequently a series of photoshops mocking the crude censors. One of the most controversials censorships include Elena Perepelkina’s death, censored with two black circles.

Terraformars

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Terraformars design has often been controversial for being seen as a parody of African American people. As a joke, the Terraformars are sometimes refered as African American people, often with stereotypes.

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#GOPHatesPoorPeople is a Twitter hashtag used to criticize the American Republican Party for policies that are hostile to the lower class. It can also be used sarcastically to criticize Democrats for the same behavior. Related hashtags include #uniteblue.

Origin

The first tweet to use the hashtag was posted on July 7, 2011 by user @tesstoro:

The hashtag was sporadically used across twitter before it became popular on March 18th, 2015^[1].

Spread

On March 18th, 2015, a series of popular tweets were posted by a variety of users using the hashtag. Each tweet was different, but they alluded to a series of arguments going on in Congress over the federal budget, the annual farm bill, and a recent Senate work delay over a bill that would fairly recompense sex workers. The last bill had bipartisan support before reaching the Senate floor, causing many to complain that the delay was generated by partisan politics.

Users began to tweet using the hash tag, often accompanied by image macros detailing political points.

The hashtag spread quickly; at its peak, during the night of March 18th and throughout the following day, it was used by 55,206 users and was the top trending hashtag in the United States.

Twitter Analytics for #GOPHatesPoorPeople

Many conservatives used the tag to defend themselves against the criticism, including famous commentators like Michelle Malkin.

Search Interest

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External References

^[1]Twitter – Twitter Search: #GOPHatesPoorPeople

^[2]Kicker – Twitter is having a huge catfight over whether the #GOPHatesPoorPeople

About

Tokyo Ghoul is a 2011 manga series first written by Japanese mangaka Sui Ishida and serialized by Shueisha, followed by an anime series animated by Studio Pierrot in 2014. The series has garnered a notable following online, spawning a number of fan works.

Premise

Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate version of Tokyo, where a race of monsters known as Ghouls exist, who survive by eating humans. The story follows Ken Kaneki, a boy who, after being attacked and almost killed by an infamous ghoul known as Rize, is transformed into a ghoul after Rize’s organs are transplanted into him by a corrupt doctor. Because of this, Kaneki is forced to learn to live with his new Ghoul powers, working at a Ghoul-run coffee shop by the name of Anteiku..

History

Tokyo Ghoul first began as a 2011 manga series written by Sui Ishida and circulated in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump, which ran for 14 volumes before ending on September 18, 2014. A sequel manga, titled Tokyo Ghoul: re was also created following the ending of the original series, beginning publication on October 16 of the same year. A prequel manga focusing on the character of Kishō Arima, titled Tokyo Ghoul: JACK, also began publication in August 2013, running until October of the same year. An anime series based off the original Tokyo Ghoul manga, animated by Studio Pierrot, also known for their work on popular series such as Bleach and Naruto, was also created and ran from July 4 to September 19, 2014 for 12 episodes. A second season featuring an anime original storyline, titled Tokyo Ghoul √A was also created, and first began airing on January 8, 2015.

Reception

Upon release, Tokyo Ghoul became the 27th best-selling manga series in Japan for 2013, selling around 1,666,348 estimated copies that year. As of January 2014, the manga had sold around 2.6 million copies^[16]. For 2014, Tokyo Ghoul became the 4th best-selling manga series in Japan of the year, selling around 6,946,203 copies that year alone^[17].

Online Relevance

In North America, the Tokyo Ghoul anime is licensed by FUNimation, available for streaming on their website^[1], with the manga adaptation being licensed by Viz Media^[15]. 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 Tokyo Ghoul wiki^[8], TV Tropes^[9] and Anime News Network^[10]. In addition, the Tokyo Ghoul Facebook page also has over 190,000 likes^[11].

Fandom

The Tokyo Ghoul series has spawned a significant online fanbase since it’s creation, which has created much fanart. On the Japanese fanart site Pixiv, there are over 29,000 images tagged under “東京喰種”^[12], as well as over 2,000 videos on the video sharing website Nico Nico Douga^[13]. On DeviantART, there are also over 25,000 images tagged related to the series^[14].

Notable Sub-Memes

Shuu Tsukiyama

Shuu Tsukiyama is a character within the Tokyo Ghoul series, portrayed as an eccentric Ghoul who has an obsession with the main character, Ken Kaneki. Due to his over the top demeanour and actions, he received a notable fan base, spawning many fan parodies based on his outbursts within the anime.

Banana Haise

Banana Haise is a meme originating from the sequel series to the original Tokyo Ghoul manga, Tokyo Ghoul:re, in which the character of Haise Sasaki is seen with a poster of Bananas in his room. The scene gained notability among fans, causing many fan parodies featuring the character paired with Bananas.

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WWE Bitter Over Young Bucks Turning Them Down.

- In a post on the Wrestling Observer message board, Dave Meltzer wrote that the line from Mark Henry to Roman Reigns on Smackdown about the “young bucks” never being anywhere was a direct shot by WWE officials on the Young Bucks tag team.

The remark is a result of WWE officials still being apparently bitter because the Young Bucks turned down a tryout for the company last year. In addition, the recent “Superkick Party” edition of WWE Fury from last month on YouTube was also meant to be a subtle shot at the Bucks, as it is a term associated with the tag team.

http://411mania.com/wrestling/wwe-bitter-over-young-bucks-turning-them-down/

Backstage Latest On WWE Taking A Shot At The Young Bucks, “Superkick Party” Talk

It appears WWE is really still bitter over The Young Bucks turning down a tryout in 2014. We’ve noted how WWE has applied to trademark the “too sweet” hand gesture, which is used by The Young Bucks and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s popular Bullet Club stable.

http://www.pwmania.com/backstage-latest-on-wwe-taking-a-shot-at-the-young-bucks-superkick-party-talk

About

Expectation Vs. Reality refers to a serie of images and videos featuring, commonly, two borders comparing the expectations of a task and its poor realities, similar to What I Watched / What I Expected / What I Got.

Origin

The first usage of Expectation Vs. Reality is from a scene of the movie (500) Days of Summer (shown below, left), wich was released on January 17th, 2009. On February 22nd, 2010 the user jemapellenedge posted a video titled “Expectation vs. Reality” (shown below, right), wich is the earliest known usage of Expectation Vs. Reality online.

Spread

On April 2011, the Expectation Reality^[1] Tumblr was created. Currently it has has over 190 pages of posts featuring various examples of Expectation Vs. Reality.

On February 15th, 2013 the youtuber nigahiga posted a video called “Expectations vs Reality: Romance” (shown below, left). In 2 years, the video has gained over 8.000.000 views and 29.000 comments. On July 8th, 2013 the youtuber IISuperwomanII posted a video with notable examples of Expectation Vs. Reality. In 10 months, the video has gained over 4.000.000 views and 9.900 comments .

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^[1]Tumblr – Expectation Reality

About

The Lebron James Vine is a Vine featuring a young child repeating the name Lebron James repeatedly. It received wide popularity in the Vine community, as well as multiple remakes.

Origin

The original Vine was recorded and uploaded on June 27th, 2014 by Vine user, DARius^[1], whose little brother was featured in the video. It recieved 661.2K Likes, 472.7K Revines, and 42.8K Comments.

Spread

The clip recieved a huge spike in popularity in late January of 2015. On January 22nd, 2015, User William45^[2] posted a vine featuring a scene of Taylor Swift’s music video, Blank Space, replacing a piece with the clip. It received 256.7K Likes, 181.2K Revines, and 13.8K Comments.

There have been multiple remakes of the Vine, the most popular being a Vine posted on January 22nd, of a remake of the original Vine, but with an adult black man, posted on January 20th, 2015.

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I need help with this entry and I honestly can’t find the exact source of when this first started so help would be highly appreciated.

About

Pokemon Variants is a series of fan art depicting what a Pokemon would look like if it was of a different subspecies or breed of the said Pokemon.

Origin

(researching)

Spread

On Feburary 22 2015, the dedicated Tumblr blog “Pokemon Breeds, Subspecies & Variants” was created.

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