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Rosemary Lisa Wolfe Gotto, better known as Rose or randytaylor69, is an British Internet personality known mainly through her channel on the video hosting platform YouTube. Despite a long period of absence from social media, she developed a cult following following the discovery of her videos on the imageboard 4chan.

Internet Presence

Rose was born on April 5, 1986.^[1] Her earliest known Internet activity comes from 2003, which includes profiles created on sites such as LiveJournal and DeviantArt] In 2007, she began to upload videos to her YouTube channel, randytaylor69.^[4] In 2011, she created a gaming channel under the name roseplaysgames.^[5] Both accounts ceased activity in 2013.

Fandom

In the summer of 2011, Rose’s video “how to build a pc.” (see above) was posted to 4chan’s /g/ (Technology) board, where it also spread to /v/ due to the work of a certain follower described in some accounts as a “stalker”. Said stalker later doxxed both her and her family’s personal information, prompting her to remove much of her personal information from her social media sites. As a side effect of this doxing, threads about Rose were banned on both /g/ and /v/, prompting later threads to be made on boards such as /b/ and /r9k/, as well as on other websites.^[6]

A subreddit for Rose, /r/randytaylor69 was created in August of 2012 as a place for followers to congregate.^[7] An archive of her videos made for the website Vyou was created in 2013.^[10] A board for Rose was created on the imageboard 8chan in 2014.^[8] A fansite for her was created at an unknown time, archiving some of her photos as well as fan art.^[9]

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WIP. Feel free to be an All Star get your game on, go play

About

All Star is a song by the American rock band Smash Mouth, known for being the main theme on the movie Shrek. Online, the song has often been used on mash-ups and its lyrics have been parodied.

Origin

“All Star” was released as a single on May 4th, 1999 for their album Astro Lounge, and video was released on 2001. The song had positive reviews from critics and was on top of the music charts.^[1]

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Daniel G.L. Bull is a rapper and songwriter from England, popularly known for his Epic Rap series of videos on YouTube, which primarily focuses on songs and lyrics based on video games and the culture surrounding it. He is also known for his political activism, in which he vocalizes through his music. Dan has also launched a Let’s Play channel under DBGames channel which was started in 2012.

Early Career

Dan launched his YouTube channel in 2006, getting a start by archiving his first album Safe alongside various singles and cultural raps addressing prominent individuals, such as Anjem Choudary and Peter Mandelson, and also his position on current events such as the ACTA treaty,

Gaming Raps

In November 2011, Dan uploaded “GTA V trailer: Rap Review”, the first in a series of songs made for popular and upcoming video game titles. Other titles in this series include The Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, Assassin’s Creed, and Borderlands. These series of videos has seen much success, with the most popular “Skyrim Epic Rap” gaining over 11-million views.

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Sonic For Real Justice is a Tumblr Blog featuring Sonic characters and anti-SJW messages. The blog reached over 2,000 followers within the first day after one of the mods was banned, starting a campaign (both ironic and unironic) to bring him back.

Origin

Sonic-For-Real-Justice is a Tumblr blog created on May 30th, 2015 by a group of friend’s on Skype, who are anonymous.^[5] They each took persona’s of Sonic characters and used them to spread Anti-Social Justice.^[1] The blog started gaining a following after Mod Shadow’s introduction, which got over 6,400 reblogs under a day.^[7]

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The Blog increased its popularity after one of the Mods, Mod Silver, was removed from the blog for closing the ask box. Mod Amy had pointed out that it was against the rules to close the box, so he was later banned. Many users from the Sonic fandom (original currently unknown) responded to this negatively and sarcastically. Most realized quick that the blog wasn’t parody and started making jokes based of the posts made by the blog. Tumblr user mi0da created a post combing Sonic For Real Justice and Down With Cis, “a bunch of people with “down with mod amy” shirts got out of a bus,.” The post received 2,000 notes within just a few hours.^[3]

Tumblr user radicalruster was requested multiple times to create parody voicing’s of Mod Shadow, all of them playing some form of rock in the background. His most popular received 2,500 notes in a few hours.^[4]

On May 31, 2015, Mod Tails resigned from the blog after receiving harassment from Mod Amy.

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Doujinshi ( also known as Dōjinshi, or simply Dōjin) is a self-published work that usually ranges from novels, to magazines, but the most common form of doujinshi is manga. ^[1]. However, some professionals do make doujinshi. The term is derived from two other terms: 同人 dōjin, “a group for the same interest” and 誌 shi, “a magazine or a pamphlet” ^[2].

History

The earliest display of doujinshi originated in the Meiji Era of Japan. “Meiroku Zasshi” was published since 1874, often being called the pioneer of doujinshi. The first magazine to publish doujinshi was Garakunta Bunko ^[3]. After the peak of popularity in the Shōwa period, doujinshi’ popularity dropped in postwar years due to literary journals being published ^[4]. In the 1970s, doujinshi’s popularity began to rise again. This is speculated to be because of a new technological method, photocopying. In the early 90s, doujinshi started being sold at comic book stores. In the 21st century, doujinshi is very prominent. Websites like DeviantArt are where most of them are published. A majority of doujinshi also tend to be hentai.

Reception

Doujinshi, for many years, has had a split reception with Western culture and Japan. As previously stated, doujinshi was very prominent in early Japan, and still is today. However, creating doujinshi is not as popular in America. Although, reading doujinshi is a hobby for many people around the world.

Fandom

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One of the-- if not, the largest-- comic/doujinshi convention is called Comiket. It is hosted in Tokyo and last took place in late December ^[5]. There, the doujinshi fandom cosplays, sells and buys doujinshi, and other activities.

On July 3, 2003, an official club called the Doujinshi Club was created on DeviantArt ^[6]. However it’s not very active.

On February 4, 2006, a group was formed named doujinshi-artists. It has over 400 members as of May 2015 ^[7].

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Hentai Quotes

Hentai Quotes are risqué quotes that tend to come from doujinshi, usually in the midst of sex.

A Cat is Fine Too

A Cat is Fine Too… is another phrase from a hentai doujinshi. After a pedophile chases a loli succubus, she turns into a cat. The pedophile proceeds to unzip his pants saying, “A cat is fine, too.” It is frequently used on imageboards and forums.

Mega Milk/ Titty Monster

Mega Milk/ Titty Monster is an iconic picture of a teenage holding her breasts in her arms in a mocking way. The phrase comes from a hentai/incest doujinshi where a teenager experiences a massive growth in her breasts.

Multi Track Drifting

Multi Track Drifting is a phrase that comes from a parody doujinshi that replaces cars with trains. As said in the title, the phrase comes from a scene where a train is “Multi Track Drifting”, similar to drift with cars.

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W.I.P. I’ll finish it later. Maybe.

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Humblebrag is a term referring to the act of making a self-deprecating statement, with the actual purpose of drawing attention to something of which one is proud, in a similar vein to First World Problems. The term gained popularity in 2010, after the creation of a novelty twitter account dedicated to retweeting humblebrags was created.

Origin

The term Humblebrag first appeared as part of a novelty twitter account^[1] created by late comedian Harris Wittels^[2] in November 2010, dedicated to retweeting other tweets which could be seen as Humblebrags, first starting with a tweet by model Kate Upton referencing an upcoming celebrity sporting tournament she was taking part in (shown below).

The twitter account continued to run until March 1 2013, when the account finished updating. As of May 2015, the account has over 248,000 followers.

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YourMovieSucks (real name Adam Johnston), typically abbreviated as YMS, is a YouTube based movie reviewer and Let’s Player known for his reviews of both “high brow” movies as well as low budget films. He also has a website where he posts all of his reviews, including several which do not appear on his YouTube channel.^[1]

Origin

On June 20, 2006, The YouTube channel, DarkOceanFilms^[2] was created, which Adam was a member of, appearing in the first video which was uploaded the same day (shown below).

Later in 2010, Adam created the YourMovieSucks website, with the YouTube channel YourMovieSucksDOTorg following soon after on June 1, 2010.^[3] The first video was uploaded the following day (shown below).

Online Presence

YMS is frequently discussed on 4chan’s /tv/ board,^[4][5] with the first thread discussing him being created on April 21, 2012.^[6] On Reddit the official subreddit has over 8,000 readers.^[7] The official Facebook page has over 10,000 views.^[8] On TumblrYMS is tagged under the YourMovieSucks tag.^[9] As of May 2015 the most viewed video on the YMS channel is his Amazing Spider-Man 2 review uploaded on May 3, 2014 (shown below). As of May 2015, the video has nearly 1 million views.

On February 28, 2015, YMS uploaded the first part of his review of the anti-bullying film Cool Cat Saves the Kids (shown below left), with the second part being uploaded on March 28, 2015 (shown below right). The popularity of the review influenced director Derek Savage to re-edit his film in order to correct several of the flaws featured in the review. Those who purchased the film after seeing the review noticed these changes and commented on it on the YMS subreddit.^[10] Adam later talked to Savage, whom later released both versions for purchase under the titles of “Original Cut” and “Director’s Cut”.^[11] As of May 2015, the only site where one has the choice between the two versions, as well as the option to but them together, is on the furry sex-toy site Furry Dakimakura^[12]

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Shia LaBeouf’s Intense Motivational Speech is a video featuring actor Shia LaBeouf intensely shouting inspirational messages to the camera while gesturing bizarrely. The clip, filmed in front of a green screen, inspired numerous parodies, remixes and reaction videos.

Online History

User Mike Mohamed uploaded a video to YouTube titled “Shia LaBeouf delivers the most intense motivational speech of all-time”^[1] on May 27, 2015, accumulating more than 1.4 million views in its first five days online. The video is a segment from a collaborative video project between LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Luke Turner and Central Saint Martins BA Fine Art 2015 students, originally uploaded to Vimeo by Rönkkö / Turner with the title “#INTRODUCTIONS”^[2].

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On May 30th, 2015, Redditor ridris submitted a post linking to “Shia LaBeouf delivers the most intense motivational speech of all-time” to the /r/videos^[3] subreddit, which gained more than 3,700 upvotes in two days. After the upload, many users began creating parody videos. YouTube user Michael McNeff uploaded “Shia LaBeouf TED Talk” (below top left) on May 30th, 2015, and within two days the video had more than 1 million views. Another remix, titled “Damn It Shia”(below top right) and uploaded on May 31st, 2015 by YouTube user millerwa4 has over 775,000 views in one day.

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Kageyama Shigeo (a.k.a. “Mob”) is a 8th grader with psychic abilities. He could bend spoons and lift objects with his mind from a young age, but he slowly began to withhold from using his abilities in public due to the negative attention he kept receiving. As he grows older, Mob realizes his psychic power is dangerous. To avoid the power getting out of control, he constantly lives a live under emotional shackle. Mob wants to live just like others, but a barrage of troubles come to him. With the suppressed emotions growing inside Mob little by little, his power threatens to overspill its bounds.
He spends his days working with Reigen Arataka, his master and self-proclaimed psychic. He is good at all kinds of fraud and skills of speech, perceptive, clever and agile, claiming himself has a greenbelt of Shaolin boxing.

History

Mob Psycho 100 is a Japanese webcomic created by ONE, which began publication on Weekly Shonen Sunday Web Comics on April 18, 2012.

Reception

As expected from the creator of onepunch man, mob psycho 100 is a webcomic which epicness and fun is only rivalized with it’s awful art. Nevertheless, its been met with almost the same popularity as its other comic counterpart. Manga and anime reviewing sites like Milkcanime, Tay.Kinja and popular forums like Arlongpark praise the charm and originality of the story and characters.

Impact

Fans of the original onepunch man (Drawn by ONE) are the main readers of mob psycho 100, due to the familiar aspects of the art. New readers are sometimes put off at the first glance of the comics drawing. The fans that continue reading are treated to spontaneous moments of decent artwork, which only happen in crucial moments of the comic.

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Nicholas Foxworth Fedorov

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Nicholas Foxworth Fedorov, sometimes referred to as Lord Foxworth or WindowsMillenium2000, is an anime obsessed weeaboo, animator, musician, and collector of 1990’s PC hardware who has gained internet fame through his obsession with the female characters from the Nichijou anime. He originally started with Mio Naganohara, but moved on to both Yuuko Aioi and Nano Shinonome. Unlike other weeaboos, Nicholas expresses his anime-driven feelings by creating 90’s inspired media relating to his anime obsession. He is most well known for his photo edits where he crudely edits the characters in with himself. He likes 1990’s internet culture, worships Windows ME, and is obsessed with anime girls. He is now a mascot for “waifuism”, the term for a romantic interest in an anime character.

DeviantArt

His DeviantArt account is held under the name WindowsMillenium2000. This is where the crudely edited images of him and his waifus originate from. The images all look like they were made in 1995 and are often mistaken for actual pictures from the 1990s by people who aren’t familiar with his internet fame. On the account, there are numerous edits with him and his waifus as well as many other miscellaneous pieces of art. There are lots and lots of images that he has made. View the ent

YouTube

He has a YouTube channel filled with creepy animations and edited videos that he makes. These videos are usually CGI animated or filled with cheesy 1990’s video effects and transitions. It is believed that Nicholas works on ancient hardware to make these videos. His most notable work is titled “Franklin and Beyond”. This is a CGI show that he made which is about a depressed kid named Franklin and his anthropomorphic CRT monitor friend, Mr. Computer. The show seems to parody slice of life anime and the fact that it is made by a weeaboo is very obvious. Surprisingly, Nicholas is also an accomplished musician who writes the background music in all of his animations. Here is an example of his work:

Discovery and Spread

The discovery of Nicholas Foxworth Fedorov and his strange antics started in January 2015 when anons on 4chan found his images uploaded to DeviantArt, and later his YouTube and other resources. These images were posted in cringe threads and later all of 4chan, and caught on as a popular 4chan meme. The images and videos then spread to several cringe related subreddits, kiwifar.ms, Encyclopedia Dramatica, lolcow.wiki, tumblr, and other notable websites. It is now impossible to refer to the Nichijou anime on 4chan without getting Foxworth posts in response.

Waifu Timeline

Over his discovery on the internet, Nicholas has gone through three waifus from Nichijou. His first waifu was Mio Naganohara. He then left Mio for Yuuko Aioi. After declaring Yuuko as his official waifu, he also included Nano Shinonome along with Yuuko Aioi as his two official waifus. In the video below, he marries himself to his current waifu Yuuko through 3D animation software:

Target by Trolls

Soon after he started creating content about his waifus, trolls from Encyclopedia Dramatica and 4chan caught on. An article on ED was made about him as well as other articles and documentation on his life. In response to this, he attempted to deflect their interest in his antics by telling them that he just took his feelings and blew them out of proportion to get a laugh. After this somewhat worked, he went right back to what he had been doing before which proves this as false. Realizing they knew this, he then “built up the courage to overcome new trolls” and is continuing to create strange images and videos about his anime obsession to this day.

External Links

Skype: lordfoxworth
DeviantArt
YouTube
ED Article
Twitter
Examples of his photo edits
SoundCloud
Official Message Board

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Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Cover refers to the cover photograph for the American magazine Vanity Fair featuring Caitlyn Jenner, the transgender identity chosen by Bruce Jenner, an American Olympic-winning track-and-field athlete and as the father of Kim Kardashian). *Since its unveiling in the June 2015 issue, the cover attracted much attention due to Jenner’s new look and her achievement of being the first transgender woman on the cover of Vanity Fair.

Background

Jenner had expressed transgender feelings since at least the 1980s, but she did not come out to the American public until April of 2015.^[1] On June 1st, 2015, Jenner and Vanity Fair released an photograph of the magazine cover on a newly created Twitter, @Caitlyn_Jenner; this Twitter post received over 200,000 retweets and 220,000 favorites.^[2]

The image was taken by famous celebrity photographer Annie Liebovitz and was accompanied by several other photographs and an in-depth article, titled “Introducing Caitlyn Jenner” about Jenner’s experience transitioning.^[5]

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Online Reaction

Four hours after Jenner created her Twitter, she had gained 1 million followers, breaking a record previously held by United States President Barack Obama.^[4]

Following the announcement, the name Caitlyn Jenner and the hashtags #CaitlynJenner and #CallMeCaitlyn were all trending worldwide.^[6]

Drake Bell Controversy

Hours after the initial tweet, actor and former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell posted a tweet saying he would still refer to Jenner as “Bruce”. The tweet, which was later deleted, received extremely negative feedback.^[3]

Jessica Lange reaction

Upon the release of the cover, many Twitter users remarked that Jenner looked very similar to American film actress Jessica Lange. So many people noticed the similarity that Jessica Lange was trending alongside Jenner on Twitter. When told about the comparison by a reporter at online publication The Daily Beast, Lange reportedly said "That’s so wonderful.’ It was also reported that Lange had to be told what Twitter was and what it meant to be trending. ^[7]

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Gamera is a fictional flying turtle kaiju, first appearing in his own movie of the same name. Created by Daiei to rival Toho’s own Godzilla in the kaiju boom of the 60’s, Gamera grown on to be an icon for the kaiju genre and Japan itself, like Godzilla, although he is not as acknowledged as the king of monsters by people around the world

History

In the 1965 film directed by Noriaka Yuasa, Gamera was gigantic beast with an appearance of a turtle awaken by a nuclear dogfight between the American and Russian forces. At first, he was thought to be a mindless monster who destroyed everything in his path, but was revealed to truly be a sympathetic sentient being who was just misunderstood when he saved a young boy from falling lighthouse. His love for children progressed film after film as he fought dangerous creatures who put the planet in peril. Showa Gamera’s life finally ended when he sacrificed himself to save the Earth by destroying the evil Zanon’s ship which killed him and the alien’s forces in the process.

The Gamera films were rebooted with the release of the Heisei series. This incarnation of shelled hero potrays him as a bio-engineered Atlantean creature created for the purpose of protecting the planet from any imminent threats. In 2006 Gamera was rebooted once more, where another Gamera is shown to be fending off a random group of Gyaos, a bat-like predator. The Gyaos seem to have the upper hand until Gamera self-destructs, killing them all and saving the village who were under attack. This causes a Gamera egg to spawn, where in 30 years a child will find it and keep the Gamera pet until he grows up to fight.

Presence on the Internet

Gamera may not be as famous as Godzilla, but does have a large community. On July 9, 2009, a wiki dedicated to Gamera called the Gamera Wiki was opened.^[1] ScrewAttack uploaded a new DeathBattle episode about Gamera vs Godzilla on August 16, 2014.^[2] As of June 2nd 2015, the video has reached over 9 million views.

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“Ahorita No, Joven” (translated as Not now, young man or Not now, boy) is an image macro series that features dogs in comical poses, including gestures, or making human activities, in similar vein to Lucho’s macros. It’s commonly used as response to publications, in order to express indifference, or to despise it, in a similar way to GTFO or Stop Posting.

Origin

Ahorita no, joven is a common expression in the Spanish language, therefore at the beginning it was not strictly linked to an image of a dog. It was until later when they merged and started spreading. The origin of the meme is considered to be a video posted on YouTube on April 24th, 2014 by the user yu k, in its original language Japanese. In the video a man goes to a cigar shop and is attended at first by a shiba inu dog, later know to be called Shiba-Chan, which opens the shop window as soon as the man arrives.On August 11th, 2014 YouTube user kanadajin3 posted a video about the same dog in English.

After that video, some images of Shiba-Chan at the store window with the caption “Ahorita no joven” were posted on Spanish speaking sites and started spreading. It is still unknown the exact date of the first meme, but according to Google Trends, the first searches of the phrase started on October, 2014.

Soon internet users started using other images of dogs accompanied with the phrase, among the examples Yes, This is Dog, Cool Dog, Lawyer Dog, Doge.

However an older video posted on YouTube posted on March 16th, 2011, already used the expression “Ahorita no, joven” and showed a dog dancing, but up to 2015 it only received less than 700 views and only 2 positive votes. It never gained enough relevance.

Spread

The meme have been widely used on social networks, especially in Latin America. A big number of related pages were created on Facebook with the most famous having more than 11.000 likes, and a second one with more than 10.000 likes, both of them created around the beginning of 2015; as well as accounts on twitter. The hashtag #AhoritanoJoven reached a total of 315 tweets since May 24th, 2015. The image is often seen as comment responses and has had an increasing search frequency on Google, having so far it’s highest peak on May 24th, 2015. Forum pages as well includes several posts, and blog pages telling about the origin and meaning of the meme.

A trend in reddit shows a dog standing on its back legs at the door of a small metallic hut, with a comment saying “No joven, ahorita no”. This is image is used as well for the meme.

Among the oldest related posts that could be found, there is one on an ask.fm profile, posted on October 27th, 2014. A generator has an image about *Ahorita no, Joven" but with TV presenter Laura Bozzo, posted on October 16th, 2014. Another example comes from a pets blog shows an small article posted on October 9th, 2014 about the meme.

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TBH is an initialism for “to be honest,” a colloquial expression used to preface a statement of candor or confession in everyday conversations. The abbreviation is almost exclusively used in the context of SMS conversations and online discussions.

Origin

Although the exact origin of the abbreviation is unknown, it may have arisen as a form of text speak with the rise of SMS messaging in the 1990s. On June 23rd, 2003, Urban Dictionary^[6] user Suzuki submitted an entry for TBH, defining it as an initialism for “to be honest.”

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On December 23rd, 2006, the initialism was added to the wiki-based online dictionary Wiktionary.^[4] On July 4th, 2008, Urban Dictionary user alexwearspradaa submitted an entry for “cbf tbh,” defining it as an abbreviation for the dismissive expression “can’t be fucked, to be honest.” On November 14th, 2011, the tech news blog MakeUseOf^[9] published an article listing the “‘TBH’ word game” as an aggravating Facebook practice in which a user invites friends to like their status in order to receive an honest opinion. On December 17th, 2013, the virus software blog McAfee^[5] published a post about Internet slang titled “TBH (To Be Honest) and More Slang Parents Should Know.” On April 17th, 2014, YouTuber BeautyLiciousInsider posted a video titled “To Be Honest.. ‘I Hate my body’”, in which she uses the abbreviation TBH in a discussion about body image issues (shown below).

On September 2nd, The Atlantic^[7] reported that Instagram users were using the hashtag #TBH in confession videos uploaded with the app. As early as June 2015, the abbreviation became associated with children known as “summer fags” on the /v/ (video games) board on 4chan, where those who used the initialism were subsequently mocked.^[3]

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IOSYS is a Japanese doujin circle who are best known for their remixes of music from the Touhou Project series of “bullet curtain” shooters. Many of their songs have become popular due to their accompanying animated music videos.

History

IOSYS was formed in 1998 in the city of Sapparo, Japan.^[1] Their website was launched in 2001.^[2] In 2006, they released their album Phantasmagoria Mystical Expectation which was also their first foray into the world of Touhou remixes. To promote the release of this album, their first Touhou-related music video was released featuring the song’s titular track.^[3] Over the years, the group created channels on various websites, including Nico Nico Douga, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SoundCloud.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Notable Works

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (2006)

“Marisa Stole the Precious Thing” is a remix of Alice Margatroid’s theme, “Doll Judgement – The Girl Who Played With People’s Shapes” from the seventh Touhou game, Perfect Cherry Blossom. The song and it’s accompanying video became a hit on early Nico Nico Douga, and has been used in many mashups and MADs.

Overdrive (2006)

“Stops at the affected area and immediately dissolves ~ Lunatic Udongein”, better known as “Overdrive”, is a remix of the song “Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon” from the Touhou game Imperishable Night. The song is known for popularizing the “Easy Modo” meme in the Touhou fandom.

F O E! (2007)

“F O E!” is a remix of the song “A Sudden Gust of Wind Before Your Eyes” form the soundtrack to the role-playing game Etrian Odyssey. The song, which characterized the minor enemies as dangerous, due to appearing at the worst possible times, became popular enough to influence fan’s perception of the enemies, and, due to the group’s strong Touhou affiliation, the enemies began to appear in fanworks of that series, despite the lack of a connection of the two.

Usatei (2007)

“Usatei” is a remix of the Stage 5 theme from the Touhou game Imperishable Night and the character Tewi Inaba’s theme from the same game.

Kero ⑨ Destiny (2007)

“Kero ⑨ Destiny” is a remix of the song “Native Faith” from the Touhou game Mountain of Faith. The song references many popular memes from the time when it was released, and despite not having an official video, a fan-made one reached popularity similar to that of an official release with over 2 million views on YouTube.

Cirno’s Perfect Math Class (2008)

“Cirno’s Perfect Math Class” is a remix of the Touhou character Cirno’s theme “Beloved Tomboyish Girl”. The song is IOSYS’ most famous work, with over 6 million views on both YouTube and Nico Nico Douga.^[9][10] The song also became a popular choice to dance to.

Okuu’s Nuclear Fusion Dojo (2009)

""Okuu’s Nuclear Fusion Dojo"" is a remix of “Nuclear Fision” from the 11th Touhou game Subterranean Animism. The song contains many references to memes.

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Chief Keef^[1] is the stage name of Chicago-born rapper and producer Keith Cozart, who rose to fame with his single “I Don’t Like” and “Love Sosa” off his debut album “Finally Rich”^[2] under the label Interscope (which he would later be dropped off), he is currently signed to 1017 Bricksquad Records, as well as being the CEO of his own label Glo Gang. Chief Keef has been notable for developing the Drill^[3] subgenre of trap music, defined by its dark, grim, violent lyrical content and ominous trap-influenced beats, manly from Chicago.

Online History

On 2009, Chief Keef started a Twitter account as @ChiefKeef^[12] (which now has the tag AlmightySo) as well as a YouTube channel the following year as KeithCozart^[13], where he uploads all his mixtapes’ songs. During 2011, Chief Keef would release 2 mixtapes, which would cement his popularity in Chicago. On March 2012, while under house arrest for weapon possession, he would release his mixtape “Back from the Dead” featuring the song “I Don’t Like” (shown below).

Besides posting music videos on his YouTube accounts (Bang, 3hunna), Chief Keef’s popularity increased when a video was posted on Worldstarhiphop featuring an ecstatic fan screaming over Chief Keef’s house arrest release^[5], which would increase Chief Keef’s popularity and achieve more views on his videos. In 2012, a remix of “I Don’t Like” made by Kanye West and featuring G.O.O.D Music^[4] rappers Pusha T, Jadkiss, and Big Sean was released and later became a viral hit with 30 million views. His internet popularity would increase after his debut album released, featuring his single “Love Sosa”, which achieved 40 million views on YouTube.

A fan Subreddit for Chief Keef, /r/ChiefKeef, was created in 2012.^[11]

During 2014 Chief Keef’s Internet cult following began to increase as his mainstream appeal dissipated as he starts experimenting with his production, self producing most of his mixtapes, as well as including a bigger variety of beats on his projects and a heavy use of autotune and effects, with most of his next albums being available digitally only

Reputation

Chief Keef has received heavy criticism of his work mostly by some music critics, mostly due to his sloppy delivery, intentionally simplistic lyrics, intense use of autotune, weak singing and relying mostly on the production to sell^[6][7] which is often attributed to his constant abuse of narcotics such as marijuana and purple drank^[8], the effects of these would be more notable as chief keefs voice gets deeper and sloppier on later albums

Due do his extremely violent and aggressive lyrics, he has often been called a bad influence, and the reason murder rates skyrocket in Chicago^[9], he has also caused controversy over his lack of compassion over the death of other Chicago citizens^[10].

Personal Life

Chief Keef was born in Chicago on August 15, 1995, he started his rapping venture at the young age of 15, and released his debut album at the age of 16, he was born in an area called “O’block” Marked by the intersection of Normal Ave. and 63rd St. in Englewood, it is known as the most dangerous street in Chicago, and much of the violence seen there appears in chief keefs lyrics.

Chief Keef has been in numerous legal issues, mostly with drug and weapon possession as well as alleged murder cases over other Chicago gang members.

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Little Einsteins Theme

Little Einsteins Theme is the opening theme song for the Disney animated TV series with the same name. On Vine, many users have shared video clips of themselves dancing to a trap remix version of the song. The first and most popular clip was that of Chief Keef in his music video “I Dont Like”

Chief Keef Makes Music for Niggas That

Chief Keef Makes Music for Niggas That… is a joke that aims to insult Chief Keef’s intelligence by attributing the music he makes to a demographic that does actions that can be seen as foolish, dense and laughable, such as holding the pencil with your entire hand, typing with 1 finger at the time or put their finger on the word they are reading. The joke is common in /r/LeWrongGeneration and a Twitter holds a similar theme, with 8,000 followers^[14]

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Towergirls is an online forum game in which the player is given the choice to save a princess. The game has gained a following, due in part to the myriad of available princesses and the ease of creating an original princess type.

Origin

Towergirls was partially inspired by a comic exploitable featuring a knight bursting into a tower in the first panel followed by a blank panel allowing others to fill in what comes next. In a 2014 thread on 4chan’s /v/ (Video Games) board, which featured this exploitable in its opening post, an anonymous user asked other users which of four princesses they would save: a kobold princess, an insect princess, a human princess, or a skeleton princess. This question was later illustrated. Later versions of the image would expand on the number of princesses available.^[1]

Gameplay

In Towergirls, the player takes on the role of a knight, who much save a princess of his choice. Each princess comes with a number of advantages and disadvantages, as well as rankings for Love, Lust, Wealth, and Power. Princesses typically come with some other form of benefit in the form of dowries, which give miscellaneous boosts, or Idols and Companions. “Lewd” versions of the game also exist, which feature the princesses’ different fetishes and items which give sexual advantages. The player is allowed to take as many princesses as he wants, but choosing more princesses dilutes their advantages. The game has progressed through several generations, which differ in story, choices, and mechanics.^[2]

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Towergirls is very popular for its large number of available princesses, which are also easily able to be expanded on. /tg/’s wiki 1d4chan holds a large number of information on the game, though as of June 2, 2015 most of the information has been deleted. A booru for fan art was created in February of 2015.^[3] An imageboard for the game was created on 8chan in March of the same year.^[4] The game also has a notable following on Tumblr.

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The Gravity Gun is a fictional tractor beam-like weapon featured in the Half Life series. Since its appearance in 2004, the weapon has gain popularity by fans which spawned videos, fan made replicas, and mods.

Origins

The Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator or Gravity Gun made its first appearance in the 2004 first person shooter game Half Life 2. Originally designed to transport hazardous material, the gravity gun is mainly use for heavy lifting purposes. In-game, The gun becomes main protagonist Gordon Freeman’s signature weapon which is used to solve puzzles, clear obstruct paths, and to defeat enemies by tossing objects (such as explosive barrels or razor blades) at them. The weapon has also made an appearance in Half Life 2: Episode One and Half Life 2: Episode Two.

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Since its appearance, the gravity gun has become the subject of discussions in a number of sites such as the Steam forums^[1], ValveTime^[2], IGN^[3], GameBanana^[4], and HardForum^[5]. On September 13th, 2008, Urban Dictionary user Nanxaimer submitted an entry regarding the Gravity Gun^[6].

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force (plus alternative titles) is one of Adult Swim’s first programs and it’s longest running program thus far. The show follows the surreal adventures of Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad. Initially a spin-off of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, the show became instantly popular when it first aired, leading to over 130 episodes and a feature length film. For it’s last four season the show was also known as Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1, Aqua Something You Know Whatever, Aqua TV Show Show, and for it’s final season Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever. ^[1]

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Yo, Fryman!

Yo, Fryman! is a series of exploitable images that involve a popular character looking like Carl Brutananadilewski, a recurring character in Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

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^[1]Aqua Teen Hunger Force Wikipedia

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Pakalu Papito is the name of a fake account of an Indian man, which appeared on Twitter in 2013. Since then, it has appeared on a number of different sites including Facebook. The accounts generally consist of small quotes and phrases, with several different fads trending from them.

Origin

The first known account of Pakalu Papito was created on July 10th 2013 on Twitter. It has since recieved over 700,000 followers. Several different Facebook pages were created, the most popular of which has over 400,000 likes.

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Despite being around since 2013, it wasn’t until May 2015 that the pages started to become notable.

Ongoing jokes

Pakalu is said to work in Seven Eleven, an international chain of convenience stores. It is said to be his only job, and he spends most of his time in there, waiting for a woman to come by.

He also owns a camel. The ongoing joke is how it is his only friend, and the only love of his. He is also known for his bad English, by saying things like “i crash camel into bridge i no care i love it”

Search Intrest

Search results for Pakalu Papito only started to trend in May 2015, being a very minor fad before that.