About

Silvermania is a Youtube channel directed towards comedy skits and lets plays which is led by Justin Silverman and Jarrett Courtney and more recently Bob Magrann most famous for their Vegeta vs mewtwo death battle parody

Origin

On Aug 31, 2012 Justin Silverman and Jarrett Courtney created Silvermania the self dubbed "THE MOSTHATED“SHOW” ON THE INTERNET". On Oct 4, 2012 Silvermania created Gamer Girl, Booth Babe, or Attention Whore? about Justin showing the viewers what gamer girls are. They also say that models dressing up as superhero will attract viewers. The short was filmed by the Youtube channel YouMightLikeThisShow

On Oct 11, 2012 the video Mega Man Cheesesteak Challenge was released showing Justin and his roommate Joe
talking about what their favorite Mega man games were then ordering a cheesesteak and trying to eat it blindfolded. Afterwords they were making Jarrett do the challenge as of May 2015 it has gained over 18,000 views

Related memes

Vegeta vs Mewtwo

Vegeta vs mewtwo is about Justin making a childhood dream of Jaretts come true by animators after Bob discovers a drawing magneted to Jaretts fridge that Jarett drew when he was 10 years old. The episode it self is a parody of Death Battle which is a show of Screwattack.com which makes pop culture characters fight to the death.

The video got so popular that Screwattack.com fought back with a death battle of Vegeta vs Mewtwo which involves Vegeta and mewtwo destroying the HQ of Silvermania

Video for silverman

Video for silverman is one of the animated videos made for Vegeta vs mewtwo made by YouTuber PilotRedSun featuring a style very similar to Ms Paint with a dessert as a backround and backround music from the Runescape login screen and very bad lip syncing. The winner of the battle being Secondmew instead of Mewtwo

Gabe Newell interview

The video was posted on Feb 22, 2013 showing footage from inside Valve HQ in Bellevue,Washington with Justin saying that they will interview Gabe Newell who is the Valve founder. Gabe newell turns out out to be Bob in a wig eating Mcdonalds chicken nuggets. He also makes remarks about the game industry saying “The video game industry sucks” and “In 10 years it will be in the shitter”

Did You Know Taco Bell? Feat. Andrew W.K.

Did You Know Taco Bell? Feat. Andrew W.K. is a video meant for Youtube channel DYKgaming for April fools day featuring CN celebrity Andrew W.K. telling the history of the fast food company Taco Bell such as the creator and the companys mascots.

Justin Silverman is my friend

Justin Silverman is my friend also known as Justin Silverman is my acquaintance originated from a black T-Shirt sold on Spreadshirt.com the shirt also had Justins face appearing to be laughing. The quote can also be seen a separate page on Spreadshirt.com

Buy T-Shirt here

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External References

^[1]YouTube – YouMightLikeThisShow

^[2]YouTube – Vegeta vs Mewtwo

^[3]YouTube – Vegeta VS Mewtwo? | DEATHBATTLE vs SILVERMANIA! | ScrewAttack!

^[4]YouTube – Video for silverman

^[5]Twitter – Andrew W.K

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Bunny Suits are a sexualized form of rabbit costume, typically associated with the Playboy Club, compromised of a corseted teddy, bunny ears and tail, a collar, cuffs, black pantyhose,and high-heeled shoes. In Japan, the costume has become a popular example of a sexy costume, both in real life and with fan artists.

Origin

The Bunny Suit was originally developed for the Playboy Club, a chain of nightclubs run by Playboy Enterprises, where the cocktail waitresses on staff would wear the costume.^[1] The costume, inspired by Playboy’s bunny logo, was designed by Zelda Wynn Valdes, and was first unveiled on the television show Playboy’s Penthouse in 1959. It was implemented into the clubs soon after in 1960.

In the West, the costume, though iconic, is not as popular as it is in Japan, due to copyrights on the form of the costume in the United States. In Japan, the costume has much wider spread as the copyright is not enforced, and is a common cosplay; as such, it is portrayed in many popular Japanese media such as anime and manga. A girl wearing the costume is usually referred to as a bunnygirl (バニーガール, banīgāru).

Spread

A TV Tropes article on the costume describes the uses of the costume in popular culture.^[2] Both pixiv and danbooru have over 10 thousand images tagged as having the suit.^[3][4] It is a common practice for fan artists to draw female fictional characters in the outfit, even if they never appeared as such in their original media. Common characters to portray in the costume include Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya and Kallen Kōzuki from Code Geass, as both had popular and official portrayals in their original series.

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Bunnygirl Armin / Usamin

Bunnygirl Armin is a fanart trend involving the character Armin Arlert from the series Attack on Titan dressed as a bunnygirl. The joke came about after the creators of the series released a 4koma strip which proposed a joke “what-if” situation where a crate which contained weaponry in the original storyline is instead filled with school play props. The nickname Usamin came about as a combination of the character’s name and usagi, the Japanese word for rabbit.^[5]

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Editor’s Note: This entry contain spoilers.

About

Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction movie directed by Christopher Nolan and Starring Matthew McConaughey.

Premise

The story takes place in the near future where due to global famine and climate change, humanity is in danger of becoming extinct. Meanwhile, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered near Saturn which is seen as an opportunity by NASA to travel beyond the solar system and search for a new habitable planet so that the human race can survive.

History

On December 14th, 2013, the official Interstellar Youtube channel uploaded a teaser for the movie, which gained over 5.2 million views and 3.300 comments within a year (shown below, left). On May 16th. 2014, the first official trailer was uploaded, which gained over 1.5 million views and 1.100 comments within a year (shown below, right).

On November 4th, 2014, Interstellar was released across theaters in the USA. The movie grossed over 47,5 million dollars on its opening weekend.

Reception

As of May, 2015, Interstellar holds a score of 74 on Metacritic^[1], a 72% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes^[2], and an 8.7 user rating on IMDb^[3]. Interstellar was nominated for over a 100 awards, including an Oscar win for best achievement in visual effects^[4].

Online Presence

On April, 2013, the Interstellar Twitter account was launched and within 2 years gathered over 55.180 followers^[5]. On December, 2013, the Interstellar Facebook page was launched which gathered over 1.3 million likes within a year^[6]. On June 6th, 2014, the Interstellar Wiki was created and currently holds 110 pages regarding the movie as of May, 2015^[7]. The Interstellar subreddit which was launched to discuss about the movie currently has over 10.600 readers as of May, 2015^[8].
On November 13th, 2014, the Business Insider Youtube channel uploaded a video in which fame Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the ending of Interstellar (shown below, left). In 5 months, the video gained more than 1.1 million views and 1.998 comments. On November 18th, 2014, the Fox 5 NY Youtube channel uploaded a video which Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about his views on the movie, remarking how realistic the science behind the movie compared to real life (shown below, right). In 5 months, the video gained over 1.1 million views and 4.669 comments.

Notable Memes

Interstellar Docking Parodies

Interstellar Docking Parodies are a series of YouTube spoof videos featuring the climactic docking scene in the movie.

Matthew McConaughey Reaction Videos

Matthew McConaughey Reaction Videos refers to a series of parody videos based on a scene wherein the main protagonist Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey) reacts emotionally while watching a backlog of video messages sent from his family over the course of decades.

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[W.I.P. Work will happen soon-ish. Please do not complain.]
Editor’s note: This entry contains spoilers for the School Days anime

About

School Days is a Japanese adult visual novel produced by 0verflow, released in 2005, and later adapted into an anime by studio TNK in 2007. The series has garnered infamy online, due to the dislikeable characters and controversial ending, leading to a number of parodies.

Premise

School Days follows the story of Makoto Ito, a first-year high school student who begins to take notice of Kotonoha Katsura, a soft-spoken schoolmate who also happens to share train rides with him to and from campus. However, his new desk partner, Sekai Saionji, takes a special interest in Makoto’s newfound crush for Kotonoha, helping the two to get together. In spite of her efforts however, Sekai starts to become jealous of the new couple, as it is revealed she has also liked Makoto since the beginning of high school.

History

School Days first began as a PC visual novel, created by company 0verflow, and released on April 28, 2005, and later ported to the PlayStation 2 and PSP. Since it’s release, a number of other visual novel spin-offs have been released, including Summer Days, an alternate retelling of the original visual novel, Cross Days, a side story taking place within the same universe, and Island Days, a 3DS Tower Defence spin-off. A manga adaptation of the original visual novel was also created, running from May 26, 2006 to September 26, 2007. The anime adaptation of the School Days franchise was created by studio TNK, also known for their work on the Highschool DxD franchise, and ran for 12 episodes from July 3 to September 27, 2007.

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Nice Boat

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“Seduce Me!” is a memorable quote from the character Spy on the Team Fortress 2 animated short Expiration Date. The quote inspired various parodies.

About

Tidal is a high fidelity streaming service owned by rapper and entrepenuer Shawn “Jay Z” Carter. The service received a negative reaction for being overpriced and only sponsoring bigger artists including Kanye West and Nicki Minaj among others.

History

The original owner, Aspiro first launched Tidal in the UK, US, and Canada on October 28, 2014, along with a sponsorship with electronics company Sonos.^[1] The service later opened in Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.^[2] Later in January, Jay Z’s Project Panther Ltd. purchased the company for 56 million dollars.^[3]

Criticism

Upon release, the site received mixed to negative reception, saying that although the site will likely lead to the further payment of artists^[4], many writers and independent artists critiqued the lack of difference between audio quality, high price, and overall corporate vibe.^[5][6]

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Note: the high peak in 2005 comes from an unrelated Chinese tidal wave that killed 14,000

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About

Better Nerf Greninja is an expression used by the smash bros community as a response to the nerfing of the Pokemon character in the game Super Smash Bros. 4 for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS

Origin

Work in progress

Precursor

Better Nerf Irelia was a catchphrase said by the League of Legends community after the champion Irelia received various patches that decreased her damage.

Work in progress

Notable examples

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^[1]Reddit – What happened for the “better nerf Greninja” meme to be created?

^[2]Smashboards – Greninja Nerfed?

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Rappin’ For Jesus (Otherwise known as Jesus Christ is my Nigga) is a hip hop music video featuring two pastor and his wife rap about Christianity. The rap has gotten notability for it’s use of the N-Word, tacky lyrics, and bad producing.

Origin

The original video was posted by Brian Spinney on February 2nd, 2013. The description stated that he helped make the video in high school, and he uploaded it for kicks. The video received 10 million views, 135,000 likes, and 11,000 dislikes.

Spread

Along with the video itself, the video has received mashups from producers on Soundcloud. The most notable of the remixes was created by MajorLeagueWobs, which mashed the song, with Bobby Shmurda’s Hot Nigga. The remix got over 100,000 plays, and 3553 likes.

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The 2015 Protests in Brazil are a series of mass demonstrations against the government of the re-elected president Dilma Roussef (Worker’s Party, PT).^[1] The protests erupted after a economic crisis hit the country and the popular discontent against corruption came to a unbearable level. The majority of the protesters demand the impeachment of Rousseff.

Background

The left-wing Worker’s Party (PT) is the ruling party in Brazil since the 2002 general elections. In that occasion, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated the center-left candidate José Serra.^[2] In 2005, a mass corruption scandal dubbed mensalão erupted. The scheme consisted in the misuse of public funds to buy the support of the parliament. Massive payments were given to deputies and senators from the allied base in exchange of support to Lula’s government.^[3] Despite the scandal, Lula still managed to win the 2006 presidential run, defeating the opposing candidate Geraldo Alckimin^[4] and to elect his successor, former Chief of Staff of the Presidency and Minister of Mines and Energy Dilma Rousseff, in 2010.^[5] Her first mandate witnessed a series of mass protests in 2013, that were not, however, directed against her. In 2014, an even bigger corruption scandal came to the surface, this time involving the state-owned oil extraction company Petrobras.^[6] Dubbed Petrolão (big oil), the scheme involved the moving of billions of dollars from the company to political parties from the allied base, including Rousseff’s and Lula’s Worker’s Party.^[7] Despite everything, Roussef still managed to win a second term in the 2014 elections, defeating Aécio Neves.^[8] In less than a month after the elections, right-wing protestors started demonstrations against her, calling for the start of an Impeachment procedure. Allegations of electoral fraud were not unheard.^[9] Roussef’s second term started in 2015, and her popularity dropped massively thanks to the economic recession and developments in the investigations of the Petrobras corruption scandal.^[10] A nationwide series of mass protests was scheduled by right-wing internet groups for March 15, 2015.

Notable Developments

The first “Panelaço”

On March 8, 20:00 pm, the Brazilian TV channels aired a presidential speech celebrating the International Women’s Day. In the speech, Rousseff tried to calm down the population by saying that the crisis was temporary. The 16-minute speech did not ended up well for Rousseff, since the population reacted with a massive and loud protest: after a call from the social networks, thousands of people, from their homes, banged cooking pots, blew horns, flickered the lights and shouted insults against the president and the ruling party.^[11] The new form of protest was dubbed Panelaço, and occurred in all major cities of Brazil.^[12] In that occasion, John Oliver from Last Week Tonight mocked Roussef and sympathized with the protesters:

March 15 protests and two more “Panelaços”

Days after the first “Panelaço” a giant street protest against Rousseff’s government took place in every major city of the country.^[13] The demonstrations were scheduled by internet right-wing groups like Revoltados ON LINE (On-line Revolted), Vem Pra Rua (Come to the streets) and Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Movement). People were dressed in the national team uniform and in national colors, carried flags of Brazil, horns and posters, and shouted “Out, Dilma!”^[13] According to the Military Police, around 2.4 million people attended to the marches, one million people only in São Paulo.^[14] The protests were the biggest in the democratic history of Brazil.^[15] The demonstrations ended with the organizers scheduling a new street protest for April 12. Later in the day, an address by two of Rousseff’s ministers the promised anti-corruption measures was aired nationwide, and sparked another Panelaço.^[13] On March 16, the third Panelaço took place when a recording of Roussef’s speech about the protests was aired during the main television news show.^[16]

April 12 Protests

Less than a month after the March 15 protests, hundreds of thousands Brazilians returned to the streets in April 12.^[17] This time, according to the Military Police, over 700,000 people attended in the nationwide protests.^[18] The protestors mainly called for the Impeachment of Rousseff.^[19] A survey from the same month showed that 63 percent of the population supported the start of impeachment procedures against the president, and only 13 percent approved her.^[17]

The fourth “Panelaço”

A national program of Rousseff’s Worker’s Party was scheduled to be aired on May 5, at around 20:30 pm. Early in the day, the same internet right-wing groups called for another Panelaço against it.^[20] Even though Rousseff did not appear on the recording, the appearances of former president Lula and the party’s leader Rui Falcão, as well as the general distrust in the party, sparked a new Panelaço in 22 states of the country.^[21]

The March for Freedom

After announcing it in April 12, members of the libertarian group Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Movement) departed from São Paulo on April 24 to a 600 miles walking march to Brazil’s capital Brasilia. The journey was named “March for Freedom” by the group.They are expected to arrive at May 27, and they plan to rally 100,000 protestors to demand the Impeachment of Rousseff.^[22]

Notable Examples

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^[1]Fox News – Fresh protests break out across Brazil as thousands seek president’s impeachment

^[2]NYTimes – Leftist Handily Wins Brazilian Presidential Race

^[3]BBC– Q&A: Brazil’s ‘big monthly’ corruption trial

^[4]NYTimes – Brazil’s President Re-elected in Landslide

^[5]CBC News – Brazil’s first female president

^[6]BBC– Petrobras scandal: Brazil’s energy giant under pressure

^[7]Reuters – Brazil prosecutors say Petrobras scheme moved $2.1 billion in bribes

^[8]LATimes – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff narrowly reelected

^[9]Vice News – Protesters Waste No Time Calling for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment

^[10]Reuters – Brazil’s Rousseff popularity plunges amid scandal, bad economy

^[11]Mercopress – Rousseff’s message deafened by pot-banging, horn-blowing and messages calling for her resignation

^[12]Brasilwire – Mapped: The Panelaço balcony protest

^[13]CNN– Brazil protests demand impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff

^[14]Globo – Mapa das manifestações no Brasil, domingo, 15/03

^[15]Veja – Dilma enfrenta o maior protesto popular da história democrática

^[16]Folha – Dilma aparece no ‘JN’ e provoca novo panelaço

^[17]Bloomberg Business – Hundreds of Thousands March Against President Across Brazil

^[18]Globo – Mapa das manifestações no Brasil, domingo, 12/04

^[19]CNN– Protesters in Brazil push to impeach President Dilma Rousseff

^[20]Folha – Brazil Workers’ Party Program Is Targeted by “Pot-Banging” Protests in at Least Eight States

^[21]UOL– Programa do PT na TV é acompanhado de panelaço e buzinaço

^[22]The Guardian – Brazil activists to walk 600 miles for free markets, lower taxes and privatisation"

About

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つAMENO༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ is an emoticon often used in chats on Twitch in reference to the 1997 new age song “Ameno” by Era.

Origin

In 1996, Era released their eponymous debut album, which included the song “Ameno” (shown below).

In early 2014, the song was popularized on Twitch by streamer Noxious, who would repeatedly play the song during while playing the game Hearthstone, with the viewers spamming the emoticon “༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つAMENO༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ”.

Spread

On May 6th, 2014, the /r/Ameno^[1] subreddit was launched. On May 8th, engineer Adam Bronte published a post on his personal blog Brontesaurus,^[2] which listed the Ameno emoticon as the 48th “most shared message” on Twitch. On May 19th, Redditor jumpinjahosafa submitted a post to the /r/OutOfTheLoop^[4] subreddit asking about the “Ameno” spam on Twitch. On July 18th, the SeriousGaming Twitch^[3] channel posted a video of streamer Chair Vic singing “Ameno.” On July 29th, YouTuber greennin uploaded a mashup of “Ameno” with the song “Sandstorm” by Darude (shown below).

On March 9th, 2015, SoundCloud user DankMemes420Boner posted a Thomas the Tank Engine remix featuring “Ameno” (shown below).

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Wofl is a poorly made MS drawing of a wolf that was created by an anonymous user via 4chan’s random section. The drawing became an exploitable and a “new meme” after Pepe’s spread.

Origin

On 05/18/15(Mon)13:10:26, a user posted a thread stating that “Pepe is dead, what is the new meme that we trade and deal?” Due to the fact that 4chan’s beloved “Pepe” meme was getting too mainstream and outdated.

To this thread replied another anon, who replied with an original drawing of “wofl” drawn on microsoft paint, with the quote “and on this day wofl was inventend.”

The community quickly warmed up to this “new meme,” and different anons began making/posting their own versions. It can usually be found where it originated, on /b/.

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Here is a giant album of WOFL by some redditor.

http://imgur.com/a/6vlbm/

Notable Examples

WIP

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Editor’s Notes: Needs a lot of work, or at least some. Feel free to request editorship.

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The Struggle is Real is a phrase usually said to imply hardship. However, the phrase can also be said comically when associated with a small problem or task^[1]. The phrase is also mostly used in rap lyrics to depict a hardship called “The Struggle”.

Origin

It’s speculated that the phrase originated from rap lyrics, talking about the hardships of living in the ghetto (usually mentioned in the rags-to-riches genre). This means the phrase might pre-date the Internet itself. When the Internet came around, people started using the phrase as a meme, like in the picture above.

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^[1]Urban Dictionary- The Struggle is Real Definition

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4chan Board-tans are anthropomorphized versions of the different boards of the imageboard 4chan. Board-tans exist for nearly every 4chan board and are used to symbolize the different politics between them.

Precursors

Before the idea of the board-tan became popular, several characters were popularly used to represent 4chan in visual media. These included the character Yotsuba Koiwai from the manga Yotsubato!, a cat used to represent founder moot, a blonde girl used to represent former admin W.T. Snacks, and a green-skinned, no-faced figure in a suit to represent the site’s anonymous posters as a collective.

Origin

The origin of using specific characters to represent different 4chan boards can be traced back to “4chan House”, an image of a house occupied by stick figures representing the boards that were active at its creation in 2008, to the then-new /r9k/ board (see below). In October of 2008, a comic by a 4chan user by the name of “Three Angled Blue” created a comic which featured several anthropomorphized boards and playing out the story of a raid on /v/ by /b/ that had happened around the time.^[1][3] This comic is considered seminal to the board-tan subculture as it was the first established work that used boards as characters, as well its establishment of /v/-tan’s appearance.

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Also in Autumn of 2008, the idea to create a series based on several anthropomorphized boards was proposed, with /a/, /v/, /co/, and /tg/ all having some say in the project at one time or another. The project was later deemed too off-topic for the site, prompting the website 4chan House to be created, taking its name from the original image on which the anthropomorphized board idea came about. The site hosts a booru-like gallery (refered to as a shimmie) for images of the different board-tans, as well as several boards of its own.^[2] Several wikis made for different boards on the site, such as /co/‘s Conservatory and and /tg/’s 1d4chan, feature detailed pages on most of the board-tans.^[4][5]

Notable Board-tans

/co/-tan

/co/-tan, sometimes refered to as /co/nrad, is the board-tan representing 4chan’s Comics and Cartoons board. He is portrayed as masked figure wearing a blue coat and a blue fedora with a slip of paper reading “/co/” tucked into the band. He is often seen acting as a detective, and is usually seen as married to /ck/-tan, the board-tan representing the Food and Cooking board. /co/-tan is one of the most popular board-tans, appearing in the highest number of images on the shimmie.^[6][7]

/x/-tan

/x/-tan is the board-tan for 4chan’s Paranormal board. She is a pale-skinned young woman with messy black hair, a black skull tank top, and rainbow-colored tights. Most notable of her appearance, however, is her left eye, which is shown to be either a glowing red or black with a red pupil. She is considered shy and intelligent, but also paranoid, and dabbles in witchcraft and conspiracy theories. She is commonly shown to be afraid of /b/ and is said to have been in a relationship with /tg/-tan.^[8][9]

/v/-tan

/v/-tan is the board-tan for the Video Games board. He is one of the oldest board-tans, debuting in the Three Angled Blue comics, and has maintained a fairly steady appearance. His design is fairly simple, being that of a young man with a round head derived from the appearance of Rage Guy wearing a t-shirt. He is seen as vitriolic and misanthropic, to the point that his rage allows him to perform many incredible feats of strength. He is occasionally seen alongside Vivian James, who is established to be his daughter, in comics about the GamerGate controversy.^[10][11]

/mlp/-tan

/mlp/-tan is the board-tan representing /mlp/, 4chan’s board dedicated to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She is usually drawn as wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and glasses, alongside a My Little Pony t-shirt. She also occasionally wears a hat to cover up a plastic unicorn horn she is said to have permanently glued to her forehead. She is commonly hated by many other board-tans, especially /v/-tan, though she is usually shown as friendly towards everyone, has a stable friendship with [s4s]-tan, and is currently in a relationship with /d/-tan.^[12][13]

/d/-tan

/d/-tan is the board-tan representation of 4chan’s Hentai & Alternative board, and as such is an amalgamation of popular fetishes found there. She is portrayed as either a busty woman with black hair or, more commonly, a monster girl with tentacle hair, three eyes, and horns; both forms are known hermaphrodites. She has the power of transformation, though can only do so at night when her third eye is open. She is said to rape many of the other boards, as proven by the large number of lewd and pornographic pieces of artwork involving her and the other board-tans.^[14][15]

[s4s]-tan

Sometimes called Keksandra, [s4s]-tan is a young girl used to portray 4chan’s dedicated shitposting board, Shit 4chan Says. She is often seen with two pigtails, a Top Gun Hat, and an ankle-length dress with an image of a meme on it. Though occasionally drawn realistically, her most popular form is a super-deformed version with noodle arms. She is usually seen carrying Topkek cakes and checking dubs and GETs. She is one of /mlp/-tan’s few friends and, after a raid on [s4s] by /pol/, has been commonly seen harassing /pol/-tan.^[16][17]

/a/-tan

/a/-tan is the board-tan used to represent 4chan’s Anime and Manga board. Originally appearing as a girl with black hair in the Three Angled Blue comics, /a/-tan changed over the years into a trap with glasses, flower hair pin, and an ahoge. He is typically portrayed as a tsundere with an elitist attitude toward the other board-tans, especially /v/-tan.^[18][19]

/pol/-tan

/pol/-tan is the board-tan who symbolizes 4chan’s Politically Incorrect board. Originally starting as /new/-tan, based off a now-defunct board for News, he was first seen as a typical reporter; after the deletion of /new/, however, he was commonly portrayed as homeless. After /pol/’s creation, he took to wearing a typical Nazi uniform with a black suit and a red Nazi armband. He is often seen as angry and stubborn, and is shown to hold racist, sexist, and anti-Semetic views. /pol/-tan is known to clash with other boards-tans, especially /v/, though his reception is generally mixed as opposed to primarily negative. Known daughterus include Ebola-chan, who may also be related to /x/-tan, as well as Christ-chan more recently.^[20][21]

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Man Beef^[1] was a hoax website run by Chris Ellerby and Joseph Mallett under the pseudonym Joseph Christopherson that purported to sell human meat as well as provide recipes on how to prepare it. Human meat was not actually available to purchase on the website, in order to keep the hoax up the owners of the site explained that this was because they “prefered to deal with our customers on a more personal basis”.

History

The domain ManBeef.com was registered on July 25, 2001^[2] and at it’s peak received around 500,000 hits daily. It became so popular that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched an investigation into weather or not it actually sold human meat. The investigation was dropped when they found out it didn’t.^[3] on July 14, 2001, the site’s founders came forward and exposed the website as a hoax.^[4]

Features

While it was online, ManBeef.com featured an “About” section that claimed “ManBeef International Meats” was founded on April 20th 1982, expanded to over 15 countries and has 3 main locations in the United states^[5]. The sites “Products” section contained links to other sections such as “Human Meat Products”^[6] which claimed to offer various cuts such as boneless rump roast and brisket as well as a section for specialty items such as sausage and jerky^[7]. The Recipes section contained fictional recipes such as chili, meatballs, stews, soups,manburgers, goulash, and ribs^[8]. The FAQs (frequently asked questions) section contained various answers to questions about storage, shipping, and preparation^[9]. The “Contact” page contained a form to presumably contact the owners, as well as a list of email addresses for submitting questions and recipes^[10]. The “Policies” page contains information such as a privacy policy and a terms of service agreement^[11]. The websites “Merchandise” section contained the only items sold through the website, namely t-shirts, sweaters, mugs, and mousepads^[12].

Traffic

As the website has been defunct since 2005, the traffic has been quite low. As such it currently has an Alexa ranking of 15,483,025^[13].

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Masturbating Spider-Man is a series of image macros of an edited screenshot taken from the 60’s Spider-Man series, showing Spider-Man sitting on a desk. In similar vein to other advice animals like Bear Grylls, the bottom caption normally remains consistent, being “And I’m Just Sitting Here Masturbating” the one featured on most of the macros.

Origin

The first instance of the picture can be found on a template submited to Meme Generator on October 18th, 2011, although the image macro did not use the caption “And I’m Just Sitting Here Masturbating” that the fad has come to be known as today^[8]. On August 14th, 2012, Redditor yakkers09 submitted a post titled “This is how I feel when ever I scroll down my newsfeed,”^[3] which featured an image of Spider-Man seated a a desk with the caption “Wow people have such interesting social lives / And I’m just sitting here masturbating” (shown below). Within one month, the post received over 12,800 up votes and 215 comments.

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On the same day, other Redditors began creating image macros with the bottom caption reading “And I’m just sitting here masturbating” on the “Spiderman Desk”^[2] Quickmeme page. On August 31st, Redditor goodbyegun submitted a post to the /r/SpideyMeme^[4] subreddit titled “Obama’s AMA”, including an image macro with the caption ""Everyone is very interested in Obama’s AMA / and I’m just sat there masturbating" (shown below).

On September 3rd, a Quickmeme page titled “Masturbating Spiderman”^[1] was created, which featured the same image of Spider-Man desk image. On the following day, Redditor xwing11 submitted an image macro to the /r/SpideyMeme^[5] subreddit with the caption “Everyone is asleep / and I’m still awake masturbating” (shown below, top, left). On September 14th, Redditor lewk-07 submitted an image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[6] subreddit with the caption “I broke both my wrists / and I’m just sitting here” (shown below, top, middle), to which Redditor SnowingSwede replied “Ask your mom for help, I’m sure she’s willing.” The SnowingSwede comment was made in reference to a controversial AMA thread^[7] created by a man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with his mother after injuring his arms. The image macros continued to spread on Reddit and the “Masturbating spiderman” Quickmeme page accumulated over 600 submissions within two weeks of creation.

On September 11th, 2012, a template variation of the image macro was submitted to Meme Generator^[9]. On September 25th, 2012, Funnyjunk user arognirg posted an image titled Exciting life OC which gained over 55.000 views and 2.486 upvotes within 2 years^[10].

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Goosebumps is an children horror fictional novel by R.L. Stine and published by Scholastic Publishing^[1], All the stories follow all the children protagonist, who find in scary situations by monsters or spirits, In July 1992, the books have gained highly popularity and commercial success worldwide. In February 2014 it starts to creating an film adaptation featuring Jack Black as R.L. Stine^[2].

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Prequel, also known as Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure is an ongoing interactive webcomic created by “Kazerad”.^[1] Set in The Elder Scrolls’ universe, the story follow a Khajiit^[2] named Katia Managan, who has come to Cyrodill from Hammerfell to start a fresh new life.

History

The webcomic first started off as a thread in the “MS Paint Adventures” forum, but due to it’s high popularity it had gotten it’s own site. It’s high popularity had also caused some performance issuses and downtime for the website.

Features

The website lets the readers act as Katia’s subconscience, gives us the responsibility to make decisions for Katia, whether they are good or bad. But some times Bad orders are written off by Katia herself, as she is trying to make sure that readers don’t stray off from doing anything off topic, or something that doesn’t suit Katia’s personality. The website also gives mini games and animations to play as the reader progress further into the story to cover all the action. The site is also known for breaking the fourth wall from time to time, making it feel as if the reader is part of the story.

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Cat Jokes Set Everything Ablaze

Due to the Katia’s cat like appearance, she has been a subject to racist cat jokes, which usually either makes Katia cry or sets something within the area ablaze. The running gag became so popular that it became one of Katia’s defence method and inspired her to become a mage. The joke originated when two Elven “brothers” made a racist cat joke so sick that it lit up a candle.

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According to Alexa the site has a global rank of 189,870, and an American rank of 61,624.

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Atheist Arya is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of the character Arya Stark^[6] (played by Maisie Williams) from the HBO television series Game of Thrones, accompanied by captions mocking religions and supernatural beliefs.

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On November 2nd, 2013, Tumblr^[1] user halfprincesshalfgoddess posted an image macro featuring a photograph of actress Maisie Williams portraying the character Arya Stark in Game of Thrones with the caption “Did you just use your bible to warn me about hell? / May I quote from ASOIAF to warn you about Joffrey?” (shown below).

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Over the next year, halfprincesshalfgoddess posted additional variations of the image macro to her Tumblr blog. On May 14th, halfprincesshalffgoddess uploaded five Atheist Arya examples, which garnered upwards of 630 notes over the next year (shown below).

On May 14th, a compilation of Tumblr^[5] user halfprincesshalfgoddess’s Atheist Arya were posted on The Bot Forums.^[4] On the following day, the same image macros were highlighted on Cheezburger.^[3] On May 18th, Redditor MandrewJackson submitted an Imgur gallery of the image macros to the /r/AdviceAtheists^[2] subreddit.

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Metal Slug is a series primarily of run and gun video games created by SNK. Spin-off games include a third-person shooter and a tower defense game. Originally created for Neo-Geo arcade machines and game consoles, the original games have also been ported to other consoles, with several later games created for various other platforms. The games focus on the Peregrine Falcon Squad, a small group of soldiers who fight against a rebel army, aliens and various other forces intent on world domination^[1].

History

Made by Nazca Corporation and published by SNK, Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 (The full name of the first game) made it’s debut for the Neo Geo arcade system on April 18, 1996. The story takes place in 2028, when General Donald Morden and his rebel army launched a coup d’état on the world’s governments and the Regular Army. His most recent attack has given him access to a new form of all-terrain combat tank dubbed “Metal Slug”. In a last effort to stop Morden, Cpt. Marco Rossi and Lt. Tarma Roving of the Peregrine Falcon Strike Force are sent to locate and eliminate his powerbase, as well as reclaim or destroy any Metal Slugs they can find so as to keep the technology out of Morden’s hands^[2] .

After the success of the first game, SNK bought Nazca Corporation and made a sequel, Metal Slug 2 on April 2, 1998 and it’s upgrade, Metal Slug X on March 18, 1999. The story takes 2 years after the events of the first game, General Morden manages to escape custody and attempts another coup d’état, this time Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving III from the Peregrine Falcon squad are joined by Eri Kasamoto and Fio Germi of the Sparrows Intelligence Unit^[3].

The game series is composed by 9 main games and several spin-offs.

Reception

The series is widely known for its sense of humor, fluid hand-drawn animation, and fast paced two-player action. Most games of the series have received extremely positive reviews. Many of the subsequent ports and re-releases have received mixed reviews.

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Despite being small, the fandom has created a wiki site^[4], fan-art and several flash games.

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Nobody likes Tarma

Nobody likes Tarma is common term among fans about Tarmicle “Tarma” Roving III for being the less used character, fans also use this term on characters that are almost never used in other games.

Weapon mispronunciation

Weapon mispronunciation is about the announcer mispronouncing the weapon’s names by doing a bad impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, the most notable case being Rocket Lawnchair.

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Rocket Lawnchair

Rocket Lawnchair, as mentioned above, comes from announcer’s mispronunciation of rocket launcher.

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^[1]Wikipedia – Metal Slug Series

^[2]Wikipedia – Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001

^[3]Wikipedia – Metal Slug 2

^[4]Wikia – Metal Slug Wiki

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Brendan Fraser’s Alimony refers to a series of jokes regarding the American actor Brendan Fraser and the high amount of money he has to pay as alimony to his ex-wife, starting a series of rumours about Fraser being depressed and suicidal and giving up with his life. The jokes are normally associated with an edited photo of him with Gino DiGiannantonio’s hair and the catchphrase “Just Fuck My Shit Up”, which is often used as forum game in similar vein to Lankyposting.

Origin

On December 27th, 2007, Brendan Fraser announced that he would divorce from his wife, Afton Smith, after nine years of marriage.^[4] In early 2013, Fraser petitioned the courts for a reductions of his alimony, asserting he was unable to meet the annual obligation of $900,000.^[1] On February 16th, 2015, a thread featuring an edited picture of Fraser with Gino DiGiannantonio’s hair and the post “I-is he gonna make it?” was submited on 4chan’s /tv/ board.^[5] As DiGiannantonio’s original image included the catchphrase “Just Fuck My Shit Up”, it began being associated to Fraser.

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The phrase “Just Fuck My Shit Up” has been used as a forum game on 4chan, with one poster starting with “JUST” and others trying to follow in a combo, similar to Lankyposting. On April 11th, 2015, 8chan’s board /just/ was created.^[3] On March 30th, 2015 youtuber Beavan Cotterhill submitted a video titled “Latest Brendan Fraser 2015 #savebrendanfraser #unfuckhisshit”, featuring a song about Fraser and promoting the hastags #savebrendanfraser^[8] and #unfuckhisshit.^[9] The next day a twitter account named “SaveBrendanFraser” was created, posting edited photos featuring Fraser.^[7] On April 3rd, 2015 youtuber Justin Cuck uploaded a video titled “Just Fuck My Shit Up – Help to save Brendan Fraser’s career”, featuring various scenes of Fraser with the song Bring Me Back To Life at the background.

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