Overview

Otakon (a portmanteau of Otaku and Convention) is an annual anime convention that takes place at the Baltimore Convention Center located in the Inner Harbor District. It takes place over three days during July/August and first started in 1994 ^[1]. It is the second largest North American anime convention to date.

Otakon’s Logo

Background

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The first time of Otakon started on July 29, 1994 to July 31, 1994 in Days Inn Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania. It was organized by Otakorp, Inc.

Notable Developments

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Starting 2014, Otakon created another convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also it was announced in 2013, as of 2017, Otakon would move to Washington D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center ^[2].

Notable Memes

Ice Cold Water Man

The Ice Cold Water Man is a street vendor who is notable for his slogan, “I got that ice cold water, and it’s only one dollar.” He appears at Otakon throughout the years attempting to sell water.

Search Interest

External References

^[1]Wikipedia- Otakon

^[2]Anime News Network- Otakon Moving to Washington D.C. in 2017

About

The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle (also known by the longer phrase ‘Give Em’ The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle’,) is an image macro series highlighting images of various characters that seem to be performing a dance routine. Often the images depict the subject with one of their legs outstretched.

Origin

While the term ‘razzle dazzle’ has been coined since the 1950’s, the most likely origin of the meme is from the award-winning 2002 Musical film Chicago (a remake of the 1975 theater musical of the same name,) where a song titled Razzle Dazzle featured bold, flashy dance sequences and the specific lyric “Give em’ the ol’ razzle dazzle,”

Spread

W.I.P.

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References

^[1]Wikipedia – Razzle Dazzle

^[2]The New York Times – Chicago – Cast, Credits, and Awards

Started at a site called tanburu.com, a tumblr parody of the site, it’s the site’s first big joke meme war. Piss vs. Lexicon. Those who do not support the “piss” are called pissphobes and, vice versa, the rest is called lexiphobe. Generally the war is just fought by shitposting the other team. Main users who were often seen shitposting are tanburu users (put their names in front of “.tanburu.com” to visit their blogs);

- idol (pro-lexicon)
- dongs
- pee
- satrns (commentator of the war)
- furuderika
- faggot
- riposte

It started from the “piss” meme by tanburu user pee, and the whole site started shitposting about piss (especially tanburu user satrns, who seemed to have an idea for a shitpost every single minute) before tanburu user idol announced that the piss meme was boring and lexicon should take over as the site’s new fad instead.

Then shit happens.

About

“Who’s A Silly Pony?” is a phrase associated with the character of Applejack from the Hasbro animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, often paired with images of her acting clumsily or making odd faces.

Origin

The phrase is taken from media from the first generation^[1] of the My Little Pony franchise, made by Hasbro between 1981 and 1992. A compilation of MLP-related songs^[2] including one titled “Applejack’s Song”, released as a mail order disc or cassette in the United Kingdom, spawned both the phrase and the music typically associated with it.

Spread

The MLP image hosting site Derpibooru has a tag associated with the meme, with other 210 images as of August 2015.^[3] DeviantArt returns over 3,400 results when searching for “who’s a silly pony”.^[5] The MLP fan works wiki cites it as an example of a meme associated with Applejack.^[4] Many examples of the meme consist of a crossover featuring G1 Applejack interacting with G4 Applejack (examples below).

The original complete song has also been parodied, often in the form of videos consisting of G4 animations coupled with the G1 music (example below).

Notable Examples

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We Bare Bears is a Cartoon Network original series created by Daniel Chong and first premiered on Cartoon Network on July 27, 2015. The series is based on Chong’s short-lived webcomic, “The Three Bare Bears”. Before its’ television debut, the eponymous pilot episode premiered at the KLIK! Festival on November 6, 2014. It is the first Cartoon Network show to be based on a webcomic.

History

Daniel Chong is a former Pixar and Illumination Entertainment employee who is the creator and executive producer of this series.

The Three Bare Bears

Chong created the webcomic, “The Three Bare Bears”, and posted the first page on Blogspot on September 7, 2010.^[1] The webcomic was originally a parody of the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” where there were three different species of bears instead. But later pages moved away from the parody and became it’s own original story. Much of the personalities of the bears were left intact in the series but much of the content was toned down for children’s television because the webcomic contained violence, swearing, and alcohol use. Out of all the bears, Panda has the most radical difference because he becomes more a nervous wreck and a romantic in the series.

We Bare Bears

“We Bare Bears” premiered on Cartoon Network on July 27, 2015 with two 11-minute episodes, “Our Stuff” and “Viral Video”. The series is much more lighthearted and family-friendly than the webcomic where the art style was cleaned up and the bears given a cuddly and rounder look. The designs of the bears now look straight out of “Adventure Time”, another Cartoon Network show.

Opening Theme – “We’ll Be There” by Estelle

The opening theme for the show, titled “We’ll Be There”, was performed by singer Estelle, who is well-known for portraying the character Garnet from the hit Cartoon Network show Steven Universe.

Reception

The premiere of “We Bare Bears” was well-received with a little over 2 million viewers in the United States. Before the premiere, reception on the Internet welcomed the show with open arms. The premise of the show was found to be endearing by many and a fanbase developed shortly after it was announced.

Fandom

On the Internet, the show is very popular on the website tumblr where hundreds of fan art and images can be found by searching “We Bare Bears”. The subreddit /r/webarebears was created by the user Olfbir on May 10, 2014.^[2]

Relations to Steven Universe

Much of the show’s popularity comes from Steven Universe fans who were excited for new Cartoon Network shows after the success of that series. As noted above, the opening theme of the show is sung by Estelle, who plays the character Garnet. Chloe Park, a young girl who is a child prodigy that got admitted into college at a young age is voice by Charlene Yi, who also plays the character Ruby. And, the parallels of three main adult characters and a young child were found to be uncanny. The three bears are compared to the Crystal Gems and Chloe is compared to Steven. What’s funnier is the characters are genderswapped.

Related Memes

#bearstack

On June 17, 2015, the Cartoon Network channel on Vine released a short promo titled “#bearstack” which was used to promote the show. Shortly afterwards, the promo went viral and many variations of the stack were made with other characters.

Chloe Park

Chloe Park, voiced by Charlene Yi, is a young girl who is a child prodigy that was admitted into college at a young age. She first debuted on the 4th episode, titled “Chloe”. Chloe is a smart, adorable, and socially awkward girl who is uncomfortable talking and interacting with humans, but she enjoys spending time with animals and as a result gets along with the bears and feels more comfortable around them. Before her debut, she was popular on Tumblr but soon after her episode premiered, the reception was very well-received with the episode having the most views so far. Her “adorkable” personality and appearance was found to be very endearing by Internet users and she became widely popular.

Search Interest

External References

^[1]Blogspot – Goldy & The Three Bare Bears

^[2]Reddit – /r/webarebears

^[3]Wikipedia – We Bare Bears

About

Нет! or the No! Poster is a Soviet Russian anti-alcohol propaganda poster depicting a man refusing a shot glass by making a dismissive motion at a hand holding holding it.

Origin

The poster was originally made in 1954^[1] by a poster artist Viktor Ivanovich Govorkov (1906-1974)^[2], as part of an anti-alcohol campaign following Stalin’s death.

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Various Examples

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Facebook Comment generated a lot of criticism when suggested activist should stop activism because it’s a distraction from “the cause”. This ignited a storm of meme variations of “Angie” showing up at historical events telling everyone to stop activating because it’s a distraction to the cause. Other memes included attaching known memes to a screenshot of the actual post.

About

The Mission Impossible Theme Song is the signature tune from the Mission Impossible media franchise, which has been widely remixed, parodied and covered since its original creation in the 1960s.

Origin

In September 1966, the American television series Mission: Impossible premiered on the CBS network, which featured an original theme song composed by Lalo Schifrin. In 1967, the theme reached the #41 position on the Billboard Hot 100.

Spread

In 1996, the Irish rock band U2 members Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. composed a remake of the theme for the film Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise (shown below, left). On July 31st, 2000, the nu metal band Limp Bizkit released the song “Take a Look Around,” which uses the melody from the Mission Impossible theme (shown below,right).

On July 1st, 2009, YouTuber thunderkinghell uploaded a tutorial for playing the song on a piano (shown below, left). On October 3rd, YouTuber Isaac Aguilar uploaded footage of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing the theme song in London (shown below, right).

On December 20th, 2011, the Goldentusk YouTube channel uploaded a parody of the theme, which gathered upwards of 300,000 views and 620 comments in the next four years. On January 7th, 2013, ThePianoGuys YouTube channel uploaded a cover of the song featuring violinist Lindsey Stirling (shown below, right). Within three years, the video gained over 9.8 million views and 13,000 comments.

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Snoop Dogg Instagram Meme are a series of images posted by Californian rapper Snoop Dogg on social media site,Instagram, with the captions involving the term meme, and asking whether or not the pictures can become “memes”. The images are often posted on cringe threads and act as examples of lack of knowledge of meme culture.

Origin

On November 1st, 2014, the rapper posted a selfie to his Instagram^[1] with the caption “meme”, followed by more similar selfies with snoop dogg making faces. In February of 2015, Imgur user hashtagyoureit posted an album featuring all the selfies with the caption “meme??” On January 28th, 2015, news site The Berry made an article featuring all of the photos titled “Snoop Dogg really wants to be a meme”.^[2]

Spread

Although the images had little exposition when they first appeared, they quickly gained popularity in 2015 on sites like Tumblr^[3] with multiple photoshops of his face in the selfies on images related to memes.

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About

North Korea is an Asian country which constitutes the northern half of the Korean peninsula. Although the country claims to be a socialist state, it is closer to a totalitarian dictatorship with a notable cult-of-personality around the Kim family of rulers. As international tensions between the country and other nations rose in the 2010s, the country became the subject of many jokes and memes.

History

In 1894, the First Sino-Japanese War was fought between China and Japan over rule of Korea, and in 1910 Japan officially took over the Korean peninsula. In 1945, Japan gave up their rule on the peninsula following their loss in World War II and Korea was split into two halves, with the Soviet Union occupying the northern half and the United States occupying the southern. North Korea was officially formed in 1948 with Kim Il-Sung as its leader. In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War and prompting the formation of a demilitarized zone between the two halves. North Korea slowly became more independent following the war. In 1994, Il-Sung died and was replaced by his son Kim Jong-Il. In the 2000s, the country began to involve itself with nuclear technology following the United States’ new consideration of the country as a threat. In 2011, Kim Jong-Il died and was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-Un. In 2013, North Korea attempted to create intercontinental ballistic missiles, which sparked an international crisis.^[1]

Internet Presence

North Korea’s official presence on the Internet at large is extremely limited, as most of the country’s populus uses an Intranet system named Kwangmyong; most Internet connection in the country is limited to government officials as well as hackers hired by the government. The North Korean government runs the website Uriminzokkiri, which is connected to the government’s Central News Agency.^[2] Uriminzokkiri also runs profiles on sites such as YouTube and Twitter.^[3][4] Several North Korean websites also exist for those outside the country, though many of them are blocked in their own country.^[5]

Outside of its official Internet presence, many websites are dedicated to North Korea. Some websites, such as 38 North, have the intent of informing about the reclusive country, others approach more niche subjects; the website such as Pyongyang Traffic Girls, for example, focuses on the country’s female traffic conductors.^[6][7]

Notable Memes and Events

Kim Jong-Il

Kim Jong-Il was the second leader of North Korea, succeeding his father Kim Il-Sung in 1994 and ruling until his death in 2011. Although he was not as popular a subject of memes as his son Kim Jong-Un, he inspired at least one meme in the form of Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things.

Kim Jong-Un

Kim Jong-Un is the third leader of North Korea, coming into power after his father’s death in 2011. Due to his portly appearance and youth, Un has been the subject of various jokes and memes online, which include Hungry Kim Jong-Un, Kim Jong-Un Bent Over, and Kim Jong-Un Looking Through Binoculars.

Justin Bieber to North Korea

Justing Bieber to North Korea was a 2010 attempt by users of the imageboard 4chan to send the popstar Justin Beiber to North Korea through rigging a contest on the singer’s website. North Korea was crowned the winner of the contest, although Bieber did not have a tour date in the country.

Operation North Korea

Operation North Korea was a series of 2013 breeches and hacks on various North Korean websites and social media profiles carried out by the Internet vigilante group Anonymous.

2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack

The 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack was a cyberattack on the computer network of the company Sony Pictures Entertainment by North Korean hackers, which lead to the leak of a large number of confidential documents surrounding upcoming movies and employees of the company. The hack was carried out by North Korean hackers in response to The Interview, a film in which a journalist is sent to the country to assassinate Kim Jong-Un.

Best Korea

Best Korea is a phrase used ironically praise North Korea as the superior country of the two Koreas. The phrase derives from North Korea’s infamous and widespread use of idealistic propaganda about itself.

/r/Pyongyang

/r/Pyongyang is a satirical subreddit which claims to be an official arm of the North Korean government. The subreddit is infamously known for its strict censorship and ban policies on those who speak negatively of North Korea.

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You better not be watching any porn, dasar mesum~!

About

Ipo-chan is a moeanthropomorphized character for the Indonesian web filtering service Internet Positif.

Origin

Internet Positif is a web filtering service developed by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics. The service was created for the purpose of blocking certain websites and content that has been deemed inappropriate for users to access and is used by several prominent internet service providers in Indonesia.

On July 26th, 2015, the Indonesian doujin circle Spring Roll posted 2 drawn images of the humanize version of the service which was given the name “Ipo-chan” on their Facebook page.^[1] Ipo-chan’s designed is credited to illustrator Rouzille Erzabalna.^[10]

According to an interview on Jurnal Otaku,^[2] Rouzille explained that the idea behind Ipo-chan has been around for about a year prior to her unveiling. The character was inspired when the Minister of Communication and Informatics who created Internet Positif stepped down from office back in September 30th, 2014.^[9] Rouzille later decided to unveil the character after seeing the positive feedback over another gijinka of two Indonesian instant noodle brands that was created by pixiv user Valoreins.^[3]

Ipo-chan prototype design

Spread

The popularity of Ipo-chan was picked up by several Indonesian news sites such as Alfido,^[4] Duniaku,^[5] MetroTV,^[6] and Kaori Nusantara.^[7] On July 30th, 2015. a thread regarding Ipo-chan was submitted to the Indonesian forum site Kaskus.^[8] The thread subsequently gained over 680 posts and 423 shares in less than a week. On July 31st, 2015, Jurnal Otaku published an interview with Ipo-chan creator Rouzille Erzabalna.^[2] On August 2nd, 2015, Youtuber Ace Yoen uploaded an MMD video titled “Ipo-chan – Marine Dreamin’” (shown below) which gained over 19.000 views in less than a week.

Various Examples

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Pone entry in progress…

About

Desktop Ponies refers to both an application and the animated sprites which said application uses. When using the application, the sprites, which are mainly characters from the Hasbro franchise My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP: FiM) roam around the screen, occasionally display a message, and can also provide some sort of interactivity – similar to the desktop agents like Bonzi Buddy and the numerous “Virtual Desktop Girls” which were popular in the Early 2000s.

Origin

In April 2011, the fangame “Derpy Delivery” by Grit was uploaded to his now-defunct Hamalonesandwich website, and showcased on fansite Equestria Gaming ^[1]. The original Derpy sprites from this game ^[2] would serve as the basis for the sprites of Desktop Ponies. The Desktop Ponies project began on Ponychan’s /collab/ board later that year, before temporarily moving to its own website, and also spawning a DeviantArt ^[3] group run by the application’s main developers and artists.

Spread

As of this writing, the group’s DeviantArt page has over 248,830 pageviews since it was founded on June 23, 2012 and on Ponychan ^[4] where it began, the people posting about the project managed to fill up 9 threads to their maximum post limit , and are now on their 10th and current thread on the new /fan/ board. Desktop Ponies are released under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, meaning people cannot charge money or receive it (via donations or voluntary payment) at all in exchange for custom-made Desktop Ponies sprites or anything related to the project.

In the Google Hangouts mobile and desktop application, saying “/ponies” or “/ponystream” resulted in Desktop Ponies running across the screen ^[6]. It is currently unknown when or if this feature has been removed. A similar easter egg was added to YouTube for their Geek Week in August 2013 ^[7].

Notable Examples

As of August 5, 2015, on Derpibooru, the search term “desktop ponies” yields 765 results and 8,084 results on DeviantArt, although some of the results on the latter site are just desktop wallpapers.

Browser Ponies

On May 25, 2012, Desktop Ponies was reimplemented in javascript under the name Browser Ponies ^[5], allowing web developers to embed Desktop Ponies into any site through the site’s code. On any site (that enables iframes) without the Browser Ponies code, they are still viewable on that page by using a bookmarklet (shown below).

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Sneakerhead is a proper term to refer to a person who collects or admires sneakers, often to elaborate extremes. Sneakerheads have a large, multifaceted online fandom.

History

General sneaker fandom came to popularity along with the general fashion associated with hip hop, but many sources often pinpoint the release of Nike’s first edition of the Air Jordan sneaker, in 1985, as the beginning of sneaker collecting.^[1] This shoe was produced originally for Michael Jordan, and when they were released to the public they sold well, and continuing partnerships with athletes and other celebrities has given sneaker culture.^[2] In 1986, Run DMC released the song “My Adidas,” an homage to the brand the group favored as part of their regular style, cementing the link between hip hop and sneaker fandom.

According to Mental Floss, some estimates said that by the early 1990s, one in every 12 people in America owned a pair of Air Jordans. Nike worked hard to release more versions of the shoe so that people could collect different types, and many other brands attempted to imitate Nike’s success by working with celebrities, athletes, and artists to release high-concept, limited edition sneakers.^[6]

Resurgence

While the term sneakerhead was in occasional use throughout the 1980s and 1990s, it rose to prominence in the early 2000s, when sneaker collecting came back into style and brands began reissuing retro 1980s sneakers. According to a 2004 article in the New York Times, the relaunch of the sneaker trend originated in Lower Manhattan, but was also immediately popular online.^[3] An early and popular online forum for sneakerheads was NikeTalk, which was launched in August of 2000, and had over 23,000 users by 2003.^[4][5]

Various editions of various sneakers can fetch thousands of dollars on eBay and other auction sites, and Nike and other brands release limited runs to ensure that collections are high-value. Several times in the history of sneaker collecting, riots have broken out at shops set to sell rare or limited edition sneakers; often a new shoe release can inspire fans to camp out overnight outside of stores set to have it for sale, like Supreme in New York City, which is well known for carrying the newest, most desirable rare sneakers.^[6][7]

Online Presence

Sneakerheads have a variety of websites where they trade news about sneakers, including (in order of member size) Sole Collector (over 402,000 members), SneakerFreaker (over 211,000 members), NikeTalk (over 130,000 members), and the Hypebeast sneaker section. Forums remain an active way to communicate, where news and shoes are often discussed and traded. In addition, many hip hop and basketball news sites have a tag or section for sneaker news.^[10]

Sneakerheads also maintain a presence on other social media sites, forming closed groups on Facebook, often centralized around a specific locality, for discussion and trading; many of the groups in larger metropolitan areas have thousands of members.^[8] The subreddit /r/sneakers has over 53,000 readers, and other subreddits, including /r/kicksmarket and /r/sneakerdeals, specifically for buying and selling, have several thousand more readers.^[9] Popular sneaker-themed Tumblrs include kicksoncards, airville, and kickzzondeck, but there are hundreds of different tumblrs devoted to sneaker collecting or exhibiting personal collections.^[11][12][13]

Sneaker Collecting in Popular Culture

Sneakers have a large influence on hip hop, with many songs explicitly devoted to the love of shoes.

In addition, there have been several exhibitions of sneakers as art objects, including “White Dunk: Evolution of an Icon,” a show devoted to artist takes on the Nike Dunk shoe, which toured to Paris, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, in 2004,^[14] and “The Rise of Sneaker Culture”, which was a historical retrospective shown at the Brooklyn Museum in 2015.^[15]

Sneaker Fetish

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Related Memes

What Are Those?

“What Are Those?":http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-are-those is a video remix and parody series stemming from a short clip of a man loudly asking a police officer “What are those?” while panning to his black work boots. The phrase is a reference to a manner of disrespect for a sneakerhead.

Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz

“Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz,”:http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tip-toe-wing-in-my-jawwdinz sometimes referred to as “Tiptoeing in My Jordans,” is a 2014 hip hop song written and performed by Houston, Texas rapper Riff Raff. On Vine, the titular chorus of the song inspired a series of video clips in which people or animals are shown literally dancing on their tip toes.

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About

HitchBOT was a non-ambulatory talking robot designed to make a cross-continental trip across Canada entirely by hitchhiking through a relay of road trips. After beginning its maiden journey in July 2014, the robot completed its original mission within a month and continued to travel across parts of Europe and the United States, sending geolocational information from various places en route. In August 2015, the robot was destroyed by unknown vandals in Philadelphia during its cross-continental across the United States.

History

In 2014, Canadian professors Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University and David Harris Smith of McMaster University created HitchBOT as a social experiment to see if the immobile robot could complete a cross-country journey by hitchhiking. Despite its barebone appearance of a cartoon-like robot, HitchBot was equipped with a camera, GPS device and 3G connection to chronicle its journey online in real time, as well as solar panels and a cigarette lighter socket for power sources. In addition, the robot could carry on basic conversation and provide "Wikipedia ":/memes/wikipedia facts to serve as a traveling companion while in vehicle with a driver.

Milestones

• On July 27th, 2014, HitchBOT embarked on its first cross-country journey across Canada from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia; the robot successfully completed its trip of 6753.63 miles (10,868.92 km) in 26 days consisting of 19 rides, arriving at its destination on August 21st.

• In February 2015, HitchBot made its first intercontinental journey to Europe, traveling for days by hitchhiking in the Netherlands and Germany.

• On July 17th, 2015, HitchBOT began its cross-country journey across America from Boston, Massachusetts to San Francisco, California. On August 1st, the trip came to an abrupt end after the robot was found maimed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Online Presence

On April 29th, 2014, the website HitchBOT.me^[3] was launched, which contains information about the robot, blog posts, news articles and a media gallery. In June 2014, a HitchBOT Instagram^[6] feed and Facebook^[2] page were launched, which gathered upwards of 25,400 followers and 105,000 likes in the next two years.

Destruction

On August 1st, 2015, Twitter user @AndreaWBZ^[7] posted a photograph of a destroyed HitchBOT on the ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (shown below). In the first 72 hours, the tweet gathered upwards of 500 retweets and 200 favorites.

Surveillance Camera Hoax

On August 3rd, 2015, YouTuber YNGKillers uploaded a video titled “HitchBoy Surveillance Video,” purportedly showing surveillance camera footage of the robot being destroyed by a man while being obscured behind a garbage can (shown below). That day, the tech news blog Gizmodo^[4] published an article titled “Here’s Video of the Jerk Who Killed HitchBOT.”

On August 4th, Gizmodo^[5] reported that the video was likely faked by YouTube pranksters Jesse Wellens and Ed Bassmaster, due to the lack of surveillance cameras at the filming location. While the article speculating the video was a fake, it noted that it was unclear whether the robot had actually been destroyed.

Social Media Presence

In June 2014, a HitchBOT Instagram^[6] feed and Facebook^[2] page were launched, which gathered upwards of 25,400 followers and 105,000 likes in the next two years.

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About

Sad Satan is a deep web horror game featuring distorted music and audio. It has been called the creepiest game of all time and is played by many lets-players.

Origin

The date of when the game was made is unknown but the first lets play of the game was on Jun 25, 2015 by a YouTube channel called^[1]Obscure Horror Corner. the channel is ran by a user named Jamie. He played the game after a anonymous viewer of his was checking the deep web and found the game. The game was talked about on the website ^[2]Kotaku on Jul 1 2015 by a user named Patricia Hernandez who said that the internet is a vast, unknowable place. The parts you and I interact with on a daily basis are a very small sliver of what’s actually floating around out there. The web can go deep, and it can get dark. In the deep corners of the internet, a video is said to game exist. It’s called “Sad Satan,” and it’s a horror game unlike any other I’ve come across.

Spread

On Jul 4 2015 Popular YouTuber ^[3]DrossRotzank did a discussion of Sad Satan on the Deep web the video has 2,000,000 views as of August 2015 and has become the most popular video that is related to Sad Satan

Sad Satan was featured in a YouTube video called Top 15 Disturbing REAL Deep Web Sites on July 30 2015. The video was made by YouTube channnel ^[4]Top15s. The game ranked the 15th spot. The video has 120,000 views as of August 2015

Gameplay

The games title screen does not show the name of the game at the top of the screen all it says is Game title and plays the song ^[5]I Love Bejing Tianamenn reversed and has a distorted image in the backround.

The game starts in a dark hallway walking forward, it’s hard to make out what’s waiting for you in the distance. The only thing you can hear is your footsteps, one after the other, acting as a reminder that something tangible exists within these shadows. The walking continues for a while. It almost seems as if they are walking in place, eventually, the player does get closer to the flickering light. This is where the strange, muffled sounds start. The voices turn into a growl. The player simply keeps walking forward. Eventually, the character finds themselves in the initial hallway once more, only this time, it’s corrupted, unstable. A yellow line flashes on the ground every few seconds. One of the creepiest part of the game is that notepad files constantly open saying 666

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About

Foku me is phrase used in appearance of a young gypsy slovakian boy. The boy starts beatboxing and rapping in Slovanglish with using of some slovakian words.

Spread

The video of himself started to appear on czech and slovak social pages and websites^[1] during the year 2010, where became popular among internet users.

First four years was foku me only known in Czech and Slovak Republic, where people made hundreds of remix songs. Suddenly, in 2014 new video appeared^[2], which has been “ice-breaking” into the internet. People started to ask for more videos and they were still coming from random users among the internet. Probably the third popular video ^[3] started to spread even in abroad countries. The Hardcore DJ from Prague, know as Hungry Beats made in july 2015 a record with Foku me background.

Lyrics

Sokomemofee, mona pitsa geňo foku mé
Mon foku méé, moj rep yaeh fucking ne more tchikepaju foku méé
A teraz:
“beatbox”
yeah yeah onumerugo yeah yeah, ma pfeezy, ehm ehm
ma lov you, ehm ehm, ma pfeezy, ehm ehm, in the bottle ehm ehm

Monu foku méé tsu, wua feez zum so, sitting on my baby
amen um so, tsu maj feat man, I’m fuck on, beef fuck me, fuck so
I’m true man, mon fokut sea, more rap jyeah fuck sea, I’m true me, more tchunky peau
True me, true me, true me
Dobre?

Related videos

Original video can not be inserted, the original can be found here^[4]

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Remixes

Just few examples of a strong fan community of this young boy.

Search Interest

^[1]An article in czech newspapers – Blesk.cz

^[2]Second popular video – YT.com

^[3]Third popular video – YT.com

^[4]Originial video on YT.com

work in progress. using this stub for media uploads for now.

Overview

Trophy Hunting Controversies are the online backlashes against the hunting of wild game animals, many of which were spurred by the circulation of trophy photographs on social media websites.

Background

In Africa, trophy hunting is legally practiced in many countries and is considered a major part of the tourism industry. According to a 2009 report by the World Bank, trophy hunting generates $201 million per year on the continent.^[2] In March 2012, several trophy hunting photos featuring Donald Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr. began circulating online from the hunting website Hunting Legends, with many criticizing the brothers for killing the wild animals (shown below).

On March 14th, Donald Trump Sr. told Access Hollywood^[8] that he did not approve of hunting and would be talking to his sons about the incident:

“I’ve never liked it (hunting). I’ve never liked that they like it… I’m going to talk to them about it. I’m not a fan of the whole situation.”

Notable Developments

Melissa Bachman’s Lion Hunting Photo

On September 30th, 2013, Minnesota-based TV show presenter Melissa Bachman shared a photo of her smiling and posing with a dead lion via Facebook and Twitter^[1], adding “an incredible day hunting in South Africa! Stalked inside 60-yards on this beautiful male lion…what a hunt!” (shown below). After being initially met with positive feedback from her Twitter followers, the photograph was widely criticized after being posted by comedian Ricky Gervais.

Kendall Jones’ Hunting Photo

In February, 2014, an online backlash rose against Kendall Jones, a student and cheerleader at Texas Tech University, for posting souvenir photographs of herself posing with endangered wild animals killed during a safari hunting trip in Africa.

Rebecca Francis’ Giraffe Photo

On April 13th, 2015, comedian Ricky Gervais posted a tweet criticizing a photo of hunter Rebecca Francis posing next to a dead giraffe (shown below). In the first four months, the tweet gained over 49,000 retweets and 40,000 favorites. On April 14th, The Independent reported that Francis had received a “barrage of death threats” regarding her hunting images. As of August 2015, the Facebook^[6] page she used to share her hunting photographs has been deleted.

Cecil the Lion

On July 1st, 2015, Cecil, the treasured lion of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, was found dead on the outskirts of the habitat, skinned and beheaded after being fatally wounded by a hunter with an arrow and rifle bullet. The news of Cecil’s gruesome death was met with public outrage in Zimbabwe and the international conservation communities overseas, as the lion was well-known for his natural flair in human interactions. In the ensuing investigation by the Zimbabwean officials, two men were charged with poaching, Theo Bronkhorst and Bushmen Safaris, the owners of the bordering properties where the lion was killed. On July 27th, The Telegraph published an exclusive report identifying Cecil’s killer as Walter James Palmer, an American dentist and avid hunter from Bloomington, Minnesota. Palmer subsequently went into hiding following his identification as Cecil’s killer and Zimbabwe placed an indefinite ban on big game hunting in the region.

Sabrina Corgatelli’s Photos

On July 26th, 2015, Idaho resident and hunter Sabrina Corgatelli posted several photographs from her recent trophy hunting trip in Africa to her “ItalianHuntress” Instagram feed. The posts received many negative comments from those who found the pictures distasteful.

On August 3rd, Richard Dawkins posted several tweets mocking Corgatelli for claiming to love and respect the animals she killed (shown below).^[5] On August 4th, Corgatelli became a trending topic on Facebook.^[3] By August 5th, her fan page^[4] on the site gained over 24,000 likes.

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Worm Dancing to Music, also known by the hashtag #WormDancingtoMusic, is a video editing meme where a video of a violently spasming worm is combined with different songs so that the beginning of the spasm coincides with the song’s drop or climax.

Origin

The worm video was first posted to Tumblr sometime during the spring of 2014. The original post has been deleted, but a post by user unacclimated, reblogged from the original poster, received over 75,000 notes by August 2015.^[1]

Spread

The video was used in several smaller YouTube videos and posts on Reddit and Imgur throughout the beginning 2015.^[2][3] One such post on Imgur was captioned with “When I try to make something in gmod” and received 3,092,447 views between its post date on May 2nd, 2015 and August 5th, 2015.^[4]

On August 3rd, 2015, users began repurposing the video on Vine, pairing it with different types of music to create a humorous effect. In two days, there were over 1,000 of these types of videos, many with more than 100,000 loops.^[5]

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Hideki Kamiya is a Japanese Video Game developer, as well as one of the original founders of games studio Platinum Games. As well as this, he is also known for his work as director on a number of Video Game franchises, such as Bayonetta, Devil May Cry and Wonderful 101. Online, he is also known for his interactions with fans over social media site Twitter, as well as his alienating treatment of some fans.

Biography

Early Career

Kamiya’s work as a game director first started in 1994, when he was hired by Capcom to work as a planner for the first instalment in the Resident Evil franchise for the PlayStation. Later, he went on to work as the game director for the game’s sequel, Resident Evil 2 , helping to make the game feel more cinematic in order to boost the game’s popularity. As well as this, he also went on to work as director on the first instalment in the Devil May Cry franchise, and then later the first game in the Viewtiful Joe franchise.

Work at Clover Studio

After the release of the first Viewtiful Joe, the studio behind it’s release, known at the time as “Team Viewtiful”, was changed into the Capcom funded Independent game studio Clover Studio. While at the studio, Kamiya worked on a number of titles, including writing the story for the two sequels to the original Viewtiful Joe, titled Viewtiful Joe 2 and Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble, released in 2004 and 2005 respectively. His last work at the studio was as director on the Playstation 2 game Okami, which was released in 2006, before the studio was shut down by Capcom in the same year.

Work at Platinum Games

After the closure of Clover Studio, Kamiya along with a number of his co-workers went on to found studio Platinum Games, then named Seeds inc on August 1, 2006, before being renamed to Platinum games. The first game Kamiya directed while at this studio was hack and slash game Bayonetta, which was published by Sega in 2009 as a spiritual successor to the Devil May Cry series. As well as this, Kamiya also went on to direct games such as The Wonderful 101, which was published by Nintendo in September 2013 for the Wii U, as well as Scalebound, which is planned to be published by Microsoft Studios in 2016 for Xbox One. As well as this, he also served as supervisor to the sequel to Bayonetta, which was published by Nintendo for the Wii U in October 2014.

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On Twitter

On Twitter, Hideki Kamiya is known under the handle @PG_kamiya^[1], first joining in February 2010, and has over 90,000 followers as of August 2015. As well as this, he is also well known for his tendency to block and berate other users frequently, garnering much controversy. A tumblr blog dedicated to posting a number of Kamiya’s tweets, titled “Kamiya Tweets” was also created^[2].

On 4Chan

On January 11, 2014, Kamiya began making a series of posts on 4chan’s /v/ Video Games board^[3], under the name pg_kamiya, in a thread dedicated to getting his attention^[4], sparking a significant fan reaction from the community. He later confirmed that this was him via Twitter^[5],

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