Overview

4chan User’s Suicide Attempt refers to a livestreamed video in which a 4chan user known as “Steven” sets his college dorm room on fire in a self-professed attempt to take his own life in November 2013.

Background

On November 30th, 2013, an anonymous 4chan user started a thread claiming he would be ending his own life on a live video feed.

Tonight I will be ending my own life. I’ve been spending the last hour making the preparations and I’m ready to go through with it. As an oldfag who’s been on 4chan since 2004, I thought I would finally give back to the community in the best way possible: I am willing to an hero on cam for you all.

The user subsequently joined a video chatroom on the website Chateen, which quickly filled up to 200 viewers. In front of the online audience, he swallowed several unidentified pills with vodka and set a fire in the corner of the room before crawling under his bed. At the end of the video,^[1] firefighters can be seen entering the room and pulling him out to safety.

Notable Developments

Identity Speculation

On November 30th, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette^[4] published an article that a man had been pronounced dead at the scene of a fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On the following day, the @YourAnonNews Twitter feed posted a link to the article, speculating that the deceased man was the suicidal 4chan user.

Suicidal 4chan user killed himself yesterday by setting his room on fire. Event streamed online. 200 people watched http://t.co/vYgi9lFlw5

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) December 1, 2013

Also on December 1st, the Guelph Mercury^[2] reported that a 20-year-old man had been injured in a dorm room fire at the University of Guelph campus in Ontario, Canada. The same day, CBC News^[3] published an article about the incident, quoting the university’s vice president of student affairs who revealed the fire had been deliberately set by the injured student.

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, several news sites published article about the livestreamed suicide attempting, including The Daily Dot,^[5] The Independent,^[6] The Daily Mail,^[7]Gawker,^[8]IBI Times^[9] and Complex.^[10]

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Overview

Black Friday is an annual shopping event observed in the United States on the Friday after Thanksgiving, during which most major retailers open early and offer a variety of promotional sales and discounts, to mark the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Since 2005, it has remained the busiest shopping day of the entire year.

Background

The earliest known use of the term “Black Friday” in the context of the holiday shopping season can be found in a December 1961 newsletter describing the heavy traffic jam in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[1] as a result of the sudden influx of shoppers in the area.

Notable Developments

Black Friday Fights

On November 24th, 2006, YouTube xkatykx uploaded a video titled “Black Friday Fight,” featuring several shoppers fighting over computers in a retail store (shown below, left). In the first seven years, the video gained over 850,000 views and 1,300 comments. On July 17th, 2007, YouTuber kopret uploaded a news segment about a Black Friday stampede in which several people were injured (shown below, right), gathering more than 790,000 views and 2,200 comments in the following six years.

On November 26th, 2010, YouTuber talltravis79 published a video showing a fight taking place at a Target shopping center on Black Friday (shown below, left). In the first three years, the video gained more than 870,000 views and 2,600 comments. On November 26th, 2013, the RSVLTS YouTube channel uploaded a montage of Black Friday fighting videos (shown below, right). In the first week, the video garnered more than 1.98 million views and 8,300 comments.

On November 28th, YouTuber TheBlackhawk715 uploaded a video showing women fighting over a television in a Walmart store on Thanksgiving day (shown below, left). Meanwhile, YouTuber So IDecidedTo uploaded a video showing Walmart shoppers shoving each other while waiting in line (shown below, right). In the first five days, the videos gained over 6.4 million and 13 million views respectively. During Black Friday the following day, the hashtag #Walmartfights began trending on Twitter with reports of violence occurring at Walmart stores across the United States.^[2]

Black Friday Pranks

On December 8th, 2008, YouTuber Brad Carter uploaded a prank video in which customers are harassed on the phone at a Walmart shopping center (shown below, left). Within five years, the video accumulated upwards of 960,000 views and 2,000 comments. On November 28th, 2011, the MediocreFilms YouTuber channel released a prank video in which employees at Target are asked for help in finding nonsensical shopping items (shown below, right), gathering upwards of 4.96 million views and 4,200 comments in two years.

On November 23rd, 2012, YouTube PrankvsPrank uploaded a video in which two men pretend to be Target employees (shown below, left). On November 26th, the Improv Everywhere YouTube channel uploaded footage of a group of pranksters camping out in front of a dollar store for Black Friday (shown below, right). In the first year, the videos accumulated over 13 million and 5.1 million views respectively.

Black Friday Death Count

For Black Friday in 2013, the single serving site Black Friday Death Count^[4] was launched, which features a counter that updates with the total number of deaths and injuries associated with Black Friday sales (shown below).

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About

Expand Dong is a series of images featuring Nintendo character Donkey Kong with the text at the bottom, similar to Tony Kornheiser’s “Why”. Many similar images have been made, with a common theme between them being a sexually suggestive caption.

Origin

The original image comes from the North American box art of a Nintendo 64 game Donkey Kong 64^[4] released in 1999. Many years later, the image of Donkey Kong’s head with the text at the bottom “Expand Dong” was created, though it’s uncertain where the image first surfaced. The earliest documented usage was in January 6th 2013 on 4chan /vg/ (Video Games – General) board^[1].

Spread

Over time the image has spread on other sites. On April 2013 it found it’s way to Funnyjunk^[2], and on June the image surfaced on Tumblr^[3]. Similar images have surfaced over time and videos related to the meme have been made. The images might necessarily be unrelated to Donkey Kong but they all share the same sexually suggestive naming theme.

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About

Amazon Prime Air is a future product delivery service using unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver small packages within 30 minutes from a fulfillment center for the online retailer Amazon. After the service was announced in November 2013, it quickly became the subject of numerous parodies online.

Origin

On December 1st, 2013, the Amazon Prime Air drone-based delivery system was announced by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the American television news program 60 Minutes as a service in development which can ship any product weighing five pounds or less to a customer within a 10 mile radius in less than 30 minutes. The same day, the online retailer released a promotional video featuring a drone test flight on YouTube (shown below). In the first 72 hours, the video gained over 7.9 million views and 6,800 comments.

Precursor

On June 3rd, 2013, the Domino’s Pizza restaurant chain released a video showing an unmanned aerial vehicle delivering a pizza to the walkway of a residential home (shown below). In the following six months, the video gathered more than 1.45 million views and 1,200 comments.

Spread

On December 1st, 2013, Redditor suckingalemon posted the Amazon Prime Air promotional video to the /r/videos^[1] subreddit, where it received upwards of 24,100 up votes and 4,000 comments in the next 48 hours. The same day, comedy blogger Tim Siedell^[2] tweeted a “that awkward moment” joke about an Amazon drone, the @AmazonDrone^[3] Twitter feed was launched and several Twitter users posted photoshopped images featuring Amazon drones.

That awkward moment when your Amazon delivery drone just hovers there, waiting for a tip.

— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) December 2, 2013

No, I won't bring you tacos, stop asking.

— Amazon Drone (@AmazonDrone) December 2, 2013

You knew this was coming: Amazon Prime Air Drone Hunt. Playable HTML5 game. https://t.co/gJv22Q4Y4vpic.twitter.com/uu831WHAx6

— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) December 2, 2013

On December 2nd, the marketing blog HubSpot^[4] published an article about Amazon’s announcement, which accused Prime Air of being an elaborate promotion for the Cyber Monday online sales event. The same day, YouTuber FinalCutKing uploaded a parody video for a service which delivers packages via rockets within five minutes (shown below).

Also on December 2nd, Redditor cheeseypoofs_ftw posted an Insanity Wolf image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[5] subreddit about Amazon using missiles to deliver packages (shown below, left). In the first 24 hours, the post gathered over 1,900 up votes and 20 comments. On December 3rd, Redditor fish500 submitted an image macro to /r/AdviceAnimals,^[6] joking that his cat would destroy drones landing on his property (shown below, right). In the following nine hours, the post accumulated more than 28,500 up votes and 900 comments.

Notable Examples

Tweets

60 Mins devotes show to "concept" that's: 1. Currently illegal 2. Involves sending 1000s of spinning blades thru residential communities

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 2, 2013

So many problems with Amazon drones. How will they navigate the various FAA regs, hackers, populated areas, crashes, giants nets, etc.?

— Drones (@drones) December 2, 2013

Bezos news really overshadowed the White House’s announcement that Obamacare insurance cards will be delivered by Segway sometime in 2023.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 2, 2013

Driverless trucks unload at warehouses sorted by robots to ship Chinese-made goods by unmanned drones to the last middle class family.

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 2, 2013

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Overview

“Diane in 7A” Livetweet Hoax refers to an in-flight feud that purportedly took place between Elan Gale, a producer of ABC’s reality TV series The Bachelor, and a female passenger only identified as “Diane” on Thanksgiving Day. During the course of the flight, Gale began live-tweeting his passive-aggressive encounter with the woman, which instantly went viral on Twitter over the holiday weekend, though it was soon revealed to be a hoax entirely staged by Gale.

Background

On November 28th, 2013, Elan Gale, a producer for ABC’s reality dating show The Bachelor, began tweeting^[1] about a woman allegedly complaining about her delayed flight schedule on an airplane.

Our flight is delayed. A woman on here is very upset because she has Thanksgiving plans. She is the only one obviously. Praying for her

— elan gale (@theyearofelan) November 28, 2013

During the course of the flight, Gale approached the woman with a handwritten note criticizing her for being self-centered, which immediately triggered a back-and-forth exchange of passive-aggressive remarks between the two (shown below, from left to right), and continued to bring the latest developments in real-time via Twitter.

Notable Developments

On Twitter

Gale’s live-tweeting operation instantly went viral as it happened, and in the following hours, his Twitter following skyrocketed by 140,000 people while his tweets racked up several thousands of retweets and favorites. According to the Twitter analytics service Topsy, Gale’s handle @theyearofelan was mentioned more than 66,000 times and the hashtags #TeamElan and #DianeCanEatMyD were mentioned at least 9,900 times and 4,100 times, respectively. In addition, Gale’s tweets were also compiled into a Storify article titled “This Man is Hilariously Live-Tweeting His Flight-And-Feud With The Woman in #7A,” accruing almost 5.5 million views in less than a week.

Online Reactions

Many on Twitter were in awe of the producer’s willingness to stand up to “Diane” (“you are my hero” tweeted one fan), while others called him a bully (“that’s creepy and sad”). Gale became defensive and even wrote a blog to explain his actions. “I know I can come across as abrasive. I know I can seem harsh,” he wrote. “But what I’ve never done is be unkind to a person in a service position.”

News Media Coverage

By 4 p.m. (ET), BuzzFeed had picked up on the story in an article titled “This Epic Note-Passing War On A Delayed Flight Won Thanksgiving,” and throughout the rest of the day, Elan’s tweets continued to make rounds across many Internet news sites and mainstream news publications, including ABC, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle and E! Online, among many others.

Diane’s Rumored Cancer

On the following day, someone claiming to be a cousin of Diane came to her defense by posting a comment in the Storify article, which chastised Gale for harassing a stranger without knowing her circumstances and revealed a shocking detail that their reunion was going to be the last chance for Diane to spend time with the entire family due to her stage IV small cell lung cancer.

Diane is my cousin. I want to thank you for not pressing charges against her for slapping you. She would have been arrested for that, and spending a few days in jail would have been a particularly cruel irony under the circumstances. I am a bit surprised you said you could hear her breathing, because Diane has stage IV small cell lung cancer. This would have been her last Thanksgiving with us. I say “would have” because she did miss her connecting flight. She arrived this morning, having spent the night in a hotel in Phoenix. Admittedly, Diane hasn’t been handling her imminent death very well, but she really was looking forward to being with us and the rest of her family- all of whom were flying in for one last Thanksgiving with her. In her defense, she was very contrite and upset about her behavior on the plane. Certainly everybody wanted to get where they were going, but perhaps she can be forgiven for thinking that her need was more pressing than most. Thanksgiving has always been Diane’s favorite holiday, and her comment about the stuffing is true- she was the “keeper of the family recipe” and all of her nieces were planning to be instructed (one more time) in the mysterious ways of Auntie Diane’s stuffing. Since she missed her connecting flight, this did not occur. We are going to try to get as many of the family together as we can tomorrow, but that is up in the air. The plans were all for yesterday. I wish you had known her before she got cancer. You would have loved her. She was bright, funny, and compassionate, and had a self-deprecating sense of humor. She taught elementary music. She loved kids. She loved to laugh. She was everybody’s favorite aunt. Actually, she still is.

Hoax Revealed

Then on December 2nd, Elan Gale tweeted a picture of an empty chair with the message “Here is Diana sitting in a chair,” implying that the woman he tweeted about had been an elaborate scheme.

Here is Diana sitting in a chair pic.twitter.com/OE5q7j8dhr

— elan gale (@theyearofelan) December 3, 2013

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About

Live-tweeting refers to the practice of reporting on a developing story through a series of real-time status updates on the microblogging network Twitter. While the term “live-tweeting” can be used to describe citizen journalism in the event of a crisis, it has become increasingly associated with eavesdropping on private conversations for the purpose of comedy and entertainment.

Origin

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The earliest known instance of “live-tweeting” can be attributed to Pakistani IT specialist Sohaib Athar, who tweeted about a helicopter flying near his residence in Abbottabad, Pakistan as the United States special forces prepared to raid the compound of Osama bin Laden on the early morning of May 2nd, 2001.

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

— Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) May 1, 2011

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Rooftop Breakup

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^[1]TIME– Man Live-Tweets U.S. Raid on Osama bin Laden Without Knowing It

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Ugly Children Lawsuit Hoax is a fabricated story about a Chinese man who divorced and successfully sued his ex-wife for birthing ugly children. The story began circulating online as early as 2004 and saw a significant resurgence in November of 2013.

Origin

According to the hoax investigation website Snopes,^[1] a story about a Chinese man named Jian Feng who sued his wife for bearing unattractive offspring was published as early as June 2004, when it was published in the Heilongjian Morning Post,^[2] a newspaper known for publishing urban legends without verification. The article claimed that Feng won a lawsuit against his wife after she confessed to having plastic surgery following the birth of their “ugly baby daughter.”

A Chinese man has divorced and sued his wife for £55,000 after discovering she’d had plastic surgery before they met. Jian Feng, 38, was said to have been “horrified” when she gave birth to an ugly baby daughter. He suspected her of having an affair. His wife then confessed to having plastic surgery costing £70,000 in South Korea before they met and showed him a picture of how she used to look. He filed for divorce two years after marrying her following a whirlwind romance. The Heilongjiang Morning Post said Jian successfully sued for deceit.

Spread

On May 17th, 2012, the Japanese news blog Rocket News 24^[3] published an article about a ad for a plastic surgery center in Taiwan featuring a photograph of a family accompanied by the tagline “The only thing you have to worry you about after plastic surgery is the explaining you’ll have to do to your children.”

On October 31st, the Irish Examiner published an article titled “Chinese man sues wife after ‘ugly’ baby born,” which reported that a man named Feng won a $120,000 settlement from suing his wife and featured before and after plastic surgery photographs of the woman (shown below).

In early November 2013, the story resurfaced on several news sites, including The Daily What,^[4] the New York Post,^[5] The Daily Mail^[6] and the Mirror.^[7]

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Tuna is a chihuahua-dachsund mix known for his prominent overbite and lower jaw dysfunction, who gained notoriety online after his owner launched an Instagram feed in November 2011.

Origin

On November 22nd, 2011, the “TunaMeltsMyHeart” Instagram^[2] feed was launched, featuring photographs of Tuna, a chihuahua-dachsund mix with an “agressive overbite/lower jawline-dysfunction” (shown below). Within the first two years, the feed received more than 603,000 followers. According to Tuna’s owner Courtney Dasher, the dog was adopted at a local Farmer’s Market where his rescuer claimed he was found on the side of a road near San Diego, California.^[8]

Spread

On September 16th, 2012, the Tuna MeltsMyHeart YouTube channel uploaded a video of Tuna trying to walk while wearing dog shoes (shown below).

On December 10th, the domain for the site TunaMeltsMyHeart^[3] was registered, which features a store and links to press coverage related to the dog. On the following day, the tech news blog Mashable^[6] published an article about Tuna, noting that he had received upwards of 46,000 Instagram followers. On December 12th, a Facebook^[7] page titled “Tuna Melts My Heart” was created. On January 9th, the women’s interest blog Darling Magazine^[8] published a piece by Dasher in which she recounted Tuna’s rescue. On January 18th, 2013, Tuna appeared on the American morning talk show Today (shown below).

On June 3rd, The Daily Mail^[10] published an article about Tuna. On June 5th, MSN^[9] highlighted several notable photographs of the dog. On June 7th, the GeoBeats News YouTube channel posted a video about Tuna’s Internet fame (shown below). On August 1st, the viral content site BuzzFeed^[5] highlighted several of Tuna’s notable Instagram photographs in honor of his third birthday.

Notable Examples

Phteven

On September 25th, 2013, Redditor Eli2cute submitted a post titled “Phteven? Is that you Phteven?” to the /r/funny^[1] subreddit, featuring a two-pane image containing a photograph of a note with the name “Stephen” misspelled as “Phteven” followed by a picture of Tuna (shown below). In the first two months, the post gained over 11,200 up votes and 270 comments.

On September 29th, the two-pane image was reposted to the Internet humor site 9gag.^[4] Beginning in October, other photographs of Tuna began circulating on the microblogging site Tumblr,^[11][12] with captions phonetically written to sound like a speech impediment caused by an overbite (shown below).

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Former South Africa president & anti-aparthied icon Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95 years old… R.I.P (Work in progress.)

Editor’s note: This article describes not the song itself, but a MAD video fad for the song which is deeply influenced by dirty gay porn videos.

About

Big Blue MADs refers to a series of MAD videos featuring the song “Decide in the Eyes”, better known by the course name Big Blue, a popular soundtrack in Nintendo’s video game series F-Zero.^[1]

This hard rock tune featuring shred guitar sound has been suffering a cult following from annoying Japanese internet users, Inmufags or fans of the Japanese gay porn meme A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream, and has been set to a subject for their favorite dirty MAD videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) since 2010.

Origin

“Big Blue” first appears as the second course of the original F-Zero released in 1990. Its theme song, “Decide in the Eyes” written by Japanese game composer Naoto Ishida, is one of the most famous tunes representing this video game series, and its arranged versions have continued to be included in almost all of subsequent F-Zero series. This stage and the song also have made guest appearances with Captain Falcon, the main character in the series, in Super Smash Brothers series and 2013 game Nintendo Land.^[2]

Spread

This song had been occasionally set to a subject for musical covers by guitar freaks, or used in handful of MAD videos on NND. But the increase of unwanted popularity to the song was suddenly triggered by MAD editors addicted to the gay porn meme, A midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream, and the video “Big Yajue” (shown below, left) which featured the SSBB version of “Big Blue” and their favorite actor Yajuu Senpai (野獣先輩, lit. Beastly Senior). It was posted on August 10th, 2010^[3], where “8.10” can be read as “Hatten”, a Japanese slang meaning of “Gay Sex”, and “Yajuu” in Japanese. This video has derived to a series of bait and switch videos pretending beautiful four seasons videos, which is called “Four Seasons Video Series” (四季の映像シリーズ). And its form of beauty was completed by the Cookie☆MAD titled “Big Cookie” posted on April 24th, 2011 (shown below, right). This video itself also has tens of followers tagged under “Big Cookie Series” (BigCookieシリーズ).

【ニコニコ動画】【復活】Big Yajue【モザイク追加】【ニコニコ動画】Big cookie
Editor’s note: This “BigYajue” is not the original, but a censored version.

Since after, over a hundred of “Big Blue” MAD videos influenced by the dirty gay porn tastes are uploaded to NND.^[4] Moreover, even normal game videos for F-zero series or “Big Blue”^[5] has also been suffering on dirty in-jokes by Inmufags. This Inmufag’s rude behavior in the outside of their commune is one of the reasons why they have continued earning hatred from many Japanese internet users.

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】BIG SHAKE【ニコニコ動画】Big Yulue【再修正増量版】
Left: Nichijou | Right: Yuruyuri
【ニコニコ動画】Big Blueberry【ニコニコ動画】【艦これ】Big Fleet【音MAD】
Left: Strike Witches | Right: Kantai Collection

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Shining Spiral Shit (Japanese: シャイニングスパイラルウンコ, Shining Spiral Unko, abbr. SSU) is a catchphrase coming from phonetic translations in “Heavenly Star”, a song for PlaystationPotable’s puzzle game LuminesII^[1] released by Q entertainment in 2006. It was written by a music and visual project Genki Rockets^[2] organized by Japanese game desinger Tetsuya Mizuguchi^[3], and nominated for the best song category at the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Awards.^[4]

In the middle of 2008, a glitch ocurred on the daily popular video chart in the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND), and it accidentally led a cult following from Japanese internet users to the song, who were addicted to the phonetic translation lyrics coined by comments in the official music video on NND.

Origin

The music video for “Heavenly Star” was uploaded to NND not only by a user in July 2007^[5], but also by the official in November of that year^[6] as the part of a partnership campaign of NND and Japanese recording company AVEX, NND’s largest stockholder where Genki Rockets had been belonged to in those days. And the phonetic translation line “Shining Spiral Shit” had been mentioned in both of videos in before, but it was a minor in-joke.

On June 10th, 2008. NND’s daily popular video chart occurred a glitch of displaying video rankings not by popularity but by alphabetical order of video’s ID.^[7] In this accident, top 100 in the chart were hijacked by AVEX’s official videos since those had IDs beginning from “ax”, different from that of usual NND videos beginning from “sm” or “nm”. And because the video ranked into the 1st place by this glitch was “Heavenly Star”, it forced to become the target of criticism against the glitch, and drew much negative attention.

Meanwhile, it also made many NND users be inspired by that silly one liner. Then they quickly created the complete version of funny phonetic translation lyrics on the floating comments of the video on the same day.

Spread

By the help of NND’s floating comment feature working like subtitles, the lyrics of “Shining Spiral Shit” immediately spread to the whole over the web site. This story was soon summarized into a video posted on the following day.^[10] Then, the video finally had gathered more than 30 thousands comments of praising the silly lyrics within that year, a single service website “ShiningSpriral.com”^[11] was launched, and even niconico staffs showed an approval to the song in their blog posts.^[12]

In addtion, dozens of parodies for the music video^[13] were created under the influence of this MAD videos titled “Tokachi’s Shining Spiral Shit”^[14] by Wakamura-P, the famous creator in THE iDOLM@STER meme (shown below). And this weird popularity among NND users has put this song into many niconico medleys including “The 7 colors of Nico Nico Douga”.^[15]

However, all comments on the video was hidden when avex launched its official channel on NND in December of that year.^[16] Now, there is nothing left on NND that tells us the frenzy for the video.

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】おじいさんがシャイニングスパイラルウンコ　ＰＶ風【ニコニコ動画】ゲイドルマスター あにきのシャイニングスパイラルウンコ GV風(G2)
Left: Werther's Original | Right: Billy Herrington
【ニコニコ動画】テロリストは便所に追い詰めてシャイニングスパイラルウンコしてやる【ニコニコ動画】シャイニングスパイダーウンコ
Left: Vladimir Putin | Right: Toei Spider-Man
【ニコニコ動画】修造がバーニングスパイラルウンコ【完成版】【ニコニコ動画】Windowsの効果音たちがスパイラルウンコ
Left: Shuzo Matsuoka | Right: OS Sound Effect Remixes

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“Mori! Mori!” (Japanese: ┌(^o^)┘モリ!┌(^o^)┘モリ!) refers to a weird movement with a strange call for Karate practise in a TV anime series for Japanese manga Kotoura-san.^[1] It became to a subject for MAD videos in the Japanes video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) in the beginning of 2013.

Origin

The TV anime series aired 12 episodes from January to March of 2013. And “Mori! Mori!” appeared in the 2nd episode, where people were training at a Karate Dojo run by the parents of the protagonist’s classmate called Moritani.

This weird exercise which isn’t seem at all to a karate training is a homage to the original manga. In the anime, Moritani family’s business has been changed from a new religious group to a karate dojo for various reasons. And, the original “Mori! Mori!” posing in the manga was that religious group’s solicitation poster in past (shown, below, left) and its catch copy was “Mori Mori Hairou Moritani-kyo!!” (モリモリ入ろう 森谷教!!, lit. “Let’s heartily join onto Moritani group!!”). This ridiculous posing in the solicitation poster was also parodied into the dojo’s poster in the 5th episode (shown below, right).

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This quite short scene caught an attention among anime freaks and several MAD editors who were seeking new resources for their works in that season. Then, a MAD video fad was triggered by a Masked DeDeDe remix video posted to NND on January 20th, 2013 (shown below). And over 130 videos parodying the scene had been uploaded to NND during the running period of the anime series.^[2] Especially, this call has been often associated with forest songs in Pokemon because Moritani’s “Mori” means “Forest” in Japanese.

【ニコニコ動画】vsマスクドカラテ

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】┌(^o^)┘マル!┌(^o^)┘マル!┌(^o^)┘モリ!┌(^o^)┘モリ!
Left: “Viridian Forest” from Pokemon^[3] | Right: J-pop song “Maru Maru Mori Mori”^[4]
【ニコニコ動画】どうぶつの┌(^o^)┘モリ!【ニコニコ動画】危険な┌(^o^)┘モリ!┌(^o^)┘モリ!
Left: Animal Crossing | Right: Dangerous Series

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Kill Me Dance (Japannese: キルミーダンス) is an incoherent choreograph dance invented in a Japanese 4-panel manga Kill Me Baby.^[1] This crazy dance became to a subject for dancing covers and hand-drawn animated videos on the Japanese web in 2012.

Origin

The first appearance of “Kill Me Dance” was on the first comic book cover’s backside which was released in January 2009. It shows 16 “discontinuous” movements with the caption “Let’s make a flipbook by clipping each panels and sorting them along the numbers! Make an anime by yourself!”.

Then, the TV anime series for this manga aired from January to March of 2012 visualized this joke into the real dance in the ending movie with the theme song “The True Secrets of the Pair’s Feelings” (ふたりのきもちのほんとのひみつ Futari no Kimochi no Honto no Himitsu) sung by voice actors Mutsumi Tamura^[2] and Chinatsu Akasaki.^[3]

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By given the animated version, “Kill Me Dance” succeeded to catch an attention among anime otakus. They soon began mimicking this crazy dance by hand-drawn animation or Miku Miku DanceCGI characters. In addition, some challengers had tried dancing “Kill Me Dance” in real. The momentum of those fanworks was triggered by these earliest instances posted to the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) in late January/early February of that year.

【ニコニコ動画】【手書き】キルミーダンスを描いてみた【けいおん】【ニコニコ動画】【M☆B】キルミーダンスを踊ってみた【漢二人で】
Left: Hand-drawn animation feat. K-ON! | Right: IRL Dance Cover

During the anime period, about 100 videos for “Kill Me Dance” had been uploaded to NND, and those fan works have continued been posted occasionally since after that.^[4] The Japanese illustrators community pixiv has a hundred of parody illustrations for the dance.^[5] Besides, several “Kill Me Dance” videos by non-Japanese people can be found on YouTube.^[6]

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】まどマギでキルミーダンス【ニコニコ動画】【ゆるゆり】　あかりと京子でキルミーダンス　【キルミーベイベー】
Left: Puella Magi Madoka Magica /w "We have no choice but to die!" | Right: Yuruyuri
【ニコニコ動画】【第8回MMD杯本選】キルミーヒーロー
Left: MMD cover by Tiger & Bunny | Right: IRL Dance Cover

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Xepher is a popular soundtrack from a Japanese arcade music rhythm video game beatmania IIDX, which is produced by KONAMI as a part of BEMANI line. This song had been featured due to its funny phonetic translations, and also utilized as a musical resource for MAD videos in the early days of the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND).

Origin

Xehpher is written by a Japanese compoer Tatsuya Shimizu, the creator of another popular BEMANI song REDZONE and better known as his alias Tatsh. This song was first included in beatmania IIDX 12 Happy Sky^[1] released for Japanese arcade in July 13th, 2005. As shown by its genre “MEDIEVALCHOIR”, the feature of this song is its solemn chorus sung by Japanese singers Junko Hirata and Tomomi Natori.

This song has been also imported to other BEMANI titles: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA, Toy’s March 2 and Sound VOLTEX.

Spread

When the song caught an attention on the web for the first time, its subject was the funny phonetic translated lyrics coined by a website mundane BM.^[2] That nonsensical lyrics spread on the web via a flash movie made by an amateur flash creator hecipu in November 2005.^[3]

After NND’s launch in 2007, this song was closed up again as a musical resource for MAD videos that had been rapidly growing up on that video sharing service in those days. That momentum was led by “Xepher-WAWAWAMix”^[6], a MAD video in a catch phrase fad WaWaWa Wasuremono that was derived from Japanese TV anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Since then, Xepher had been one of the well-used musical resources in MAD videos till around 2009.^[7]

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】Xepher-SHUZOMix【ニコニコ動画】【みさおMAD】Xepher-VAVAVAMix　らき☆すた
Left: Shuzo Matsuoka | Right: Lucky Star
【ニコニコ動画】Hepher【ニコニコ動画】Xepher TAKENAKA Mix【のびのびサロンシップ】
Left: Japanese Fart Porn[NSFW!!] | Right: Japanese TVCM for a Poultice

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About

Japanese Fart Porn MADs, known as “Puri-Puri-Pu! Series” (Japanse: プリップリップーッ!シリーズ), refers to a series of MAD videos sampling a fetish fart porn video of Japanese ladies farting to a man looking like an American. Those kinky MAD videos are also called by “Dr. Nishikawa” (西川先生) on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND), which name comes from a nickname given to an actress in this video.

Origin

The fart porn video, Farting Punishment, was released by a Japanese minor porn production company Fart FeTish Club (FTC) on August 18th, 2004.^[1] In the story, a man looking like an American tried to steal a lady’s pantie, but got found and subdued by ladies. Then he forces to smell their fresh farts for punishment. The well-known footage in this video is a part where a lady calling herself Lisa is straddling onto his face and mercilessly continues farting with refusing his pleading. A Lisa’s remark in this scene, “Puri-Puri-Pu!”, is a Japanese onomatopoeia for farting sounds.

【ニコニコ動画】嗅ぎなさい！大好物のプリップリップーッを！！！

Transcript

Lisa: Smell your favorite… your favorite Puri-Puri-Pu! Smell it!
(Fart)
Man: Ohaa… Please Stop it!
Lisa: Stop it? I can’t stop it! Go! Go!
(Fart)
Man: Oh, it’s terrible.
Lisa: You like this, huh?
(Fart)
Man: I want to go home…
Lisa: No, you’re far from over. Oh, it’s getting more fragrant. You like this fragrant thing, right?

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This video came to light when it was uploaded on January 8th, 2008^[2], though it had appeared on NND for the first time on May 20th, 2007.^[3]NND users were fascinated with its strange combination of a quite kinky fart porn and a foreigner actor, its situation where they establish a conversation even though speaking different languages each other and Lisa’s punchline “Puri-Puri-Pu!”. Lisa got a nickname “Dr. Nishikawa” from NND users since she resembles to a Japanese celebrity doctor Ayako Nishikawa^[4], and became to one of the icons in the early days of NND. In addition, she is also called by an alias “The Fairy of Wind” (風の妖精), which is given in the same manner to Billy Herrington‘s “The fairy of Forest” and Shuzo Matsuoka’s “The Fairy of Fire”.

Then, this video became to a popular visual resource for MAD videos in the spring of 2008.^[5] However, those instances in the early exciting days have been lost since FTC had removed those NND videos by claiming copyright or portrait right infringements in the middle of that year.

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】西川先生のお尻がボンバーマンの曲に合わせて爆発したようです。
Left: Bomberman MAD | Right: REDZONE^[6]
【ニコニコ動画】屁戦【ニコニコ動画】【合作】ファミコン放屁玉
Left: "Decisive Battle" from Final Fantasy VI | Right: Collabrationg MAD feat. “Famicom Genkidama” by Prof. Sakamoto

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Creeparka (Japanese: クリーパーカー; Kurīpākā) refers to a hoodie decorated with Creeper, an iconic mob in the video game Minecraft. The hoodie is usually worn by sexy characters in most of illustrations on the Japanese illustrators communities pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga. They are called as a moegijinka version of Creeper, “Creeparka-san” (クリーパーカーさん) or “Crepaka-san/chan” (クリパカさん/ちゃん) for short.

Origin

The idea of Creeparka, a blended word of “Creeper” (クリーパー; Kurīpā) and “Parka” (パーカー; Pākā), comes from the Japanese language that expresses hoodie by a borrowed English word “Parka”. And that Creeparka hoodie was first visualized by a Japanese amatuer illustrator called 221. His illustration named with “Creeparka” was uploaded to pixiv on April 9th, 2011^[1] and Nico Nico Seiga on 18th of that month.^[2]

Spread

The trigger that led to a substantial increase in popularity of the hoodie was the other illustration. It was drawn by niconico user otomix who is also a popular uploader of "Let’s Play" videos for Minecraft in the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND). That illustration titled “Reeper-chan” (リーパーちゃん) was first appeared on his video posted on July 14th, 2011^[3], and then uploaded to Nico Nico Seiga on the following day.^[4]

The hoodie finally succeeded to reach to a large audience by the help of his popularity among Minecraft fans on NND. Illustrations for Creeparka began explosively increasing in Japanese illustrators communities Nico Nico Seiga^[5] and pixiv.^[6] Throughout those following works, Creeparka became to be associated with moe characters, mainly sexy girls wearing only the hoodie. Those characters are usually called “Creeparka-san” or “Crepaka-san/chan” for short. Creeparka-san is also active in dozens of parody videos on NND.^[7] Creeparka-san is sometimes dubbed “Meister” (匠; Takumi) by linking his/her exploder nature to a specialist of house remodeling.

Meanwhile, Creeparka had been already exported to the outside of Japan within its birth year. The amount of Creeparka illustrations on the English illustrators community deviantART is more than 800^[8], and those have continued to be posted since the late of 2009.

Official Creeparka

The official Creeper zip-up hoodie was released by Jinx in July 2012 (shown below, left).^[9] And Creeper hoodie avatar items for X360 were released in September^[10] and December^[11] of 2012 (shown below, center & right).

However, it seems that there are no relationships between these official goods and the Creeparka meme on the web.

Notable Examples

Videos

【ニコニコ動画】【マインクラフト】クリーパーカーさんでブリ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ハマチ【ニコニコ動画】【マインクラフト】Husyusyusyusyusyusyusyu!【クリーパーカー】
Left: Buri(ﾟ∀ﾟ)Hamachi | Right: Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!
【ニコニコ動画】クリーパーカーさんがコーラを振るだけじゃなくなった【ニコニコ動画】おなかすいた/クリーパーカー
Left: X Shakes Cola | Right: I’m Hungry

Illustrations

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I’m Hungry (Japanese: おなかすいた; Onakasuita) is a song written by a famous Vocaloid composer Lamaze-P (ラマーズP).^[1] The cute music video for this song has been set for a subject for hand-drawn animated videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND).

Origin

The song “I’m hungry” was uploaded to NND on February 2nd, 2010. Different from his previous works that featured UTAU or Vocaloids, this song, just repeating the phrase “I’m hungry”, was sung by a female utaite^[2] or NND singer Hachimitsu Inu (はちみつ犬; lit. Honey Dog).^[3] And as same as his previous works "Get Down" and "Fukkireta", the video for this song is a simple loop animation made by the creator himself.

【ニコニコ動画】おなかすいた/犬

Spread

This Lamaze-P’s song quickly spread on NND as well as his other works. Moreover, some people inspired by the video began reproducing it by their own rendition partly due to its quit convenient editing style that required only 3 frames for reproductions. One of the triggers of this hand-drawn animation fad was Touhou Project character Sakuya Izayoi’s version that was posted to NND on the same date as the original video uploading.

【ニコニコ動画】おなかすいた/咲夜

About 100 of videos in this series had been posted to NND in its first month and the amount of those videos has been still increasing gradually.^[4]

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】おなかすいたそらる【ニコニコ動画】おなかすいた/うどんげ
Left: Sung by famous utaite Soraru (そらる) | Right: Reisen Udongein Inaba from Touhou Project
【ニコニコ動画】おなかすいた/クリーパーカー【ニコニコ動画】【手描きジョジョ】おなかすいたあんち
Left: Creeparka | Right: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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About

Professional wrestling is a form of entertainment that combines athleticism and theatrics. It portrays itself as a combat sport taking place for wrestling championships while predetermining the outcomes of the matches to focus on providing the most entertainment possible for the audience. Placed alongside the matches are promos, or skits that are meant to attract interest or develop a story-line put in place. The professional wrestling industry formerly portrayed itself as a legitimate sport, though when it became harder to hide the secrets of the business, it became an open secret for audiences. The choreographed nature of professional wrestling is not discussed during shows in order to help sustain a willing suspension of disbelief.

History

Professional wrestling began in France around 1830, when showmen presented wrestlers under names such as “Edward, the steel eater”, “Gustave d’Avignon, the bone wrecker”, or “Bonnet, the ox of the low Alps” and challenged members of the public to knock them down for 500 francs.

The modern style of professional wrestling, popularized by the United States and United Kingdom during the late 19th century, is called the catch-as-catch can style. Originally thought of as unorthodox and more lax in style, catch wrestling differs from Greco-Roman in its allowed grapples; Greco-Roman strictly prohibits grabbing below the waist, while catch wrestling allows holds above and below the waist, including leg grips. But, from the late 19th century onwards, a sub-section of catch wrestling changed slowly into the sport known worldwide as pro-wrestling, recognized as much for its theatrical antics and entertainment as wrestling ability. However, this change did not become predominant until following the Second World War, and there are still forms of Shoot wrestling existing in professional wrestling, in the present day.

The most notable foreign countries that have a rich history in professional wrestling are Mexico and Japan.
Luchadores, the common name for Mexican wrestlers, are known for their high-flying acrobatics and intricate submissions while puroresu was the genre of wrestling headed by Japan. Mexico indulges in some of the over-the-top antics of modern-day American pro wrestling while Japan is distinct in its psychology and presentation of the sport. It is treated as a legitimate fight, with fewer theatrics; the stories told in Japanese matches are about a fighter’s spirit and perseverance. In strong style, the style most typically associated with puroresu, full contact martial arts strikes and shoot submission holds are implemented. Both styles of wrestling implemented by these two countries, lucha libre and puroresu, have influenced American wrestling in presentation and in-ring ability, with stars such as Antonio Inoki, Rey Mysterio, and Eddie Guerrero having matches with American wrestlers or wrestling in United States promotions.

Antonio Inoki and Muhammad Ali in an exhibition bout.

Impact

Professional wrestling began to flourish in the 1950’s, during the introduction of television. The man considered responsible for popularizing modern wrestling in American television was George Raymond Wagner, better known as “Gorgeous George”. In 1941 in Eugene, Oregon, Wagner debuted in his Gorgeous George persona, playing the role of a heel (or villain). He drew the ire of fans in attendance thanks to his exaggerated “pretty boy” behavior, quickly drawing in crowds in subsequent shows all wanting to see and ridicule Gorgeous George. Wagner developed his persona to be more antagonistic by cheating at every possible chance during his matches and having a snooty, pompous personality. When television was looking for programming to fill time slots, they looked toward professional wrestling. Gorgeous George made his first television appearance on November 11, 1947 and he immediately commanded the same star power as Lucille Ball and Bob Hope, revolutionizing professional wrestling from being just about the action to the theatrics and characters. George could also be credited with singe-handedly establishing television as a worthy entertainment medium in the United States.

Gorgeous George headshot and autograph.

In 1942, the famous Mexican hero known as El Santo (The Saint) made his debut in Mexico City, dressed in silver tights and wearing a silver mask. El Santo won an 8-man Battle Royal and the public became heavily interested in the masked wrestler. His career went on for five decades, his popularity rising to the point of becoming a folk hero for the common man. El Santo appeared in comic books and over fifty-two movies, with the public interest becoming so great that El Santo was always wearing his trademark mask, wearing different masks that was designed for a specific scenario, even for sleeping. Much like Gorgeous George, El Santo brought much attention and profit to professional wrestling programming all over Mexico.

A movie poster for one of El Santo’s films.

Search Interest

Background

On December 6th, 2013, Campbell Soup Company^[1] tweeted an illustrated drawing of its SpaghettiOs-brand cartoon mascot holding an American flag with a message commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor (shown below).

Notable Developments

Cambell’s ill-matched pairing of a national tragedy that claimed more than 2,300 American soldiers’ lives, and the smiling mascot of SpaghettiOs was instantly met by backlash on Twitter, with thousands of American users^[2] expressing disappointment and disgust at the company’s poorly conceived event, while others quipped at the company’s social media blunder using the jingle “Uh oh, SpaghettiOs,” including comedians like Wil Wheaton and Patton Oswalt (shown below).

"Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs</a> the humanity!&quot; <a href="http://t.co/FMY5AbYIvy">pic.twitter.com/FMY5AbYIvy</a></p>&mdash; Patton Oswalt (pattonoswalt) December 7, 2013

What the actual fuck is wrong with you people? RT @SpaghettiOs: Take a moment to remember #PearlHarbor with us. http://t.co/U52nS5oq9Y

— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) December 7, 2013

Thoughts and prayers go out to the @SpaghettiOs social media team, spending the weekend in the Punishment Tub: pic.twitter.com/mwz2NsYwm1

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 7, 2013

According to Topsy^[2], @Spaghettios was mentioned nearly 20,000 times on the memorial day of the Pearl Harbor invasion.

Apology

On December 7th, Campbell Soup issued an apology^[5] via its SpaghettiOs-branded account on Twitter.

We apologize for our recent tweet in remembrance of Pearl Harbor Day. We meant to pay respect, not to offend.

— SpaghettiOs (@SpaghettiOs) December 7, 2013

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“Your mother jerks off pigs.” is a non-sequitur rebuttal for an argument that concluded a 2 day long flamewar within the comments of a reddit submission posted early December of 2013.

Origin

The argument arose in the comment section of a submission titled “Blindfold dildo prank…in da hood.”^[1] One of the residents of the area clearly gestures that he is going to punch the prankster and the incident appears in the video in the span of 2 or 3 seconds. User “Fartingsunshine” refers to the man drawing back to punch the prankster as a “violent degenerate” and is replied to by another user who insinuates that Fartingsunshine came to that conclusion due to the race of the person involved. A 2 day flamewar ensues with accusations of racism, and denials and assertions of the gestures exhibited in the video.

The argument concludes with the following exchange.

User fb95dd7063:

I even screenshotted it for you and the man is clearly not drawing his arm back. You see what you want to see. You want to see him as a violent degenerate.

I see a guy upset at being taunted and mocked on camera.

In any case. I’m sorry (not really) that you think a white guy (me) is racist for saying “white people”

We have reached an impasse and as a result anything else I post here is gonna be pasta.

FartingSunshine:

Yeah because you screenshot something that doesn’t show any motion. The video shows him drawing back as if he is going ot punch the guy.

Your mother jerks off pigs. She gets down on her knees and crawls through the pigpiss mud slop and snuggles up to the pig, her fingers tracing along it’s belly until she finds it’s cock. She begins tugging and stroking as her twat moistens, her breasts swelling and her nipples begin to stick out like erasers on a fresh #2 pencil. She grunts with satisfaction as the pig begins eagerly thrusting into her hand, her grip now tightening to maintain control of the pig’s greasy corkscrew cock. She lowers her head to watch the cock work in her hand, groans with satisfaction and begins working her clit with her other muddy hand, her hips gyrating with the rhythm of the pig’s thrusting.

“Oh fucking jesus god yes..” she gasps. She changes positions, still maintaining control of the feverishly thrusting cock as the pig’s squealing intensifies. She leans forward and with her lips almost touching the pig’s ear, she whispers your name and begins to shudder. She turns her attention again to the pigs swollen member rocking in her hand. She presses it between her hand and her face, the pig thrusting it against her cheeks as she drools. With a massive grunt and a high pitched squeal, the pig’s balls explode, beginning a massive shower of hot, sour pig jizz. You mother cups one hand under the fountain of steaming genetic material gathering it in her hand as the thrusting comes to an end. The pig shudders and begins to walk to the trough of slop in the corner of it’s pen, but your mother tackles it to the ground. She lifts it’s tail and smears the handful of pig load into the pig’s own fetid butthole, turning flakes of crusty pig shit into a pigshit-pigjizz mud slop on the pigs ass. Now she tilts her head to the sky and screams your name, not once, not twice, but three times. She slams her face full force into the pig’s butthole and it’s wreath of shitsemen pudding, her tongue machine gun flicking the rim and then burying itself to the hilt inside the pig’s hot colon. Your mother works her tongue around the inside of the pigs ass, and then as a few incoherent syllables escaped her now brown lips, spurts of female ejaculate spurt from her pulsating cunt. Exhausted, she collapses in the mud, rolls over onto her back, and lights a cigarette. She takes one long drag, looks again to the sky, and speaks your name one last time before she drifts off to sleep.

That’s your mom. Your mom does that.

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The comment thread initially ended there for a day or more before being found and submitted by a member of the /r/subredditdrama.^[2] The post quickly ascended to /r/subredditdrama’s front page. The users of /r/subredditdrama rushed to the thread and despite largely downvoting most of u/fartingsunshine’s comments, the climactic “Your mother jerks off pigs” comment had received as of the writing of this article 150 upvotes and one month of “Reddit Gold”,a gift with a U.S. $5 value. SRD commentators heralded the the 2 paragraph insult as “brilliant”, “pure shock and awe”, “a spellbinding narrative”, and “the nuclear option of arguing”.

Copypasta Usage

Within 2 days ’Your mother jerks off pigs." appeared as copypasta in several places on Reddit. One Askreddit Comment of the copypasta, answering the question “If you could only post the same one sentence to everything you wanted to reply to on reddit, what would your sentence be?”^[3] received over 1,000 comment karma within a day. The copypasta also began appearing outside of Reddit at approximately the same time, including uses and references by Dutch twitter users, appearance on funkyjunk.com,^[4] a message board for fans of the band “Phish”^[5] and even the Facebook group Spooderman,^[6] where users reported and requested removal of the post in under 5 minutes.

References

^[1]reddit – Blindfold dildo prank…in da hood [NSFW]

^[2]reddit – ‘She slams her face full force into the pig’s butthole’ – A 2+ day argument – first about racism… [NSFW]

^[3]reddit – If you could only post the same one sentence to everything you wanted to reply to on reddit, what would your sentence be?

^[4]funnyjunk – pokemon

^[5]Phish – A quick essay about your mother.

^[6]Facebook – Spooderman