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White with red (also known as the keyhole creepypasta) is a fictional horror story that takes a place on an old and mysterious hotel, which the pragtagonist noticed a weird room that has an interesting story.

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The use of Renaissance Art as an Image Macro, Meme, or Parody.

Origin

The Renaissance marks the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the Modern world. Early Renaissance, mostly in Italy, bridges the art period^[1] during the fifteenth century, between the Middle Ages and the High Renaissance in Italy. It is generally known that Renaissance matured in Northern Europe later, in 16th century.

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Renaissance Art memes have been showing up on the internet since around 2009 with memes like The Last Supper Parodies,Joseph Ducreux, and Give Her The Dick. Since then many other image macros and parodies of Renaissance Art have surfaced. Even though Renaissance Art didn’t become popular on the internet until much later, Terry Gilliam of Monty Python’s Flying Circus^[2] was using Renaissance Art in his cartoon sketches in the late 60’s. The famous foot in the opening credits is taken from Agnolo Bronzino’s “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time”.^[3]

Notable Examples

Renaissance Celebrities

The site Worth1000 has had contests^[4] for modern celebrities in old art and has produced many of the Renaissance Celebrity images.

Chinese State TV Censorship

In 2012 CCTV censored the private parts of Michelangelo’s David during a newscast about an exhibit at the National Museum of China.^[5] Because of the government’s anti-vulgarity Internet censorship campaign and their decision to censor the content of TV and online photo albums. Images of Renaissance paintings where censored on the grounds of indecent display of nudity. The Chinese internet reacted by photoshopping garments over nudity in classical artwork.^[6]

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This entry is W.I.P. due to Easter Day & 4/20. Please be patient.

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Easter 4/20 is a holiday event of both Easter Day and 4/20 on Sunday, April 20th, 2014. It’s the only one day and year of possibly a lifetime that will flood a massive amount of jokes and memes about the combined holidays.

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Thomas the Tank Engine is a British children’s television series, which had its first broadcast on the ITV network on 4 September 1984. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry. These books deal with the adventures of a group of anthropomorphised locomotives and road vehicles who live on the fictional Island of Sodor.

History

Before the airing of the first episode of Thomas & Friends on 4 September 1984, previous attempts had been made to adapt Awdry’s stories for television. The first occurred in 1953, when the editor of the Railway Series books Eric Marriott was approached by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who wished to use live-action model trains to re-create two stories from Awdry’s first book, The Three Railway Engines. The engines were portrayed by 00 gauge Hornby Dublo models, and authentic sets produced in the styles of the original illustrations were produced; the first episode, based on ‘The Sad Story of Henry’, was broadcast live on the evening of Sunday 14 June 1953 from Lime Grove Studios.

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O Face

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‘oh shit nigger what are you doing’ is a phrase frequently used throughout the prefectures of 4chan, Reddit and other popular image boards. The phrase is used to delineate a feeling of bafflement to another users questionable or bewildering actions. It is commonly accompanied by a reaction face expressing confusion, though it is most commonly used over an exploitable image of a man poking a nail into his forehead.

Origin

The earliest discernible use of the phrase was on the image database chan4chan, in this image uploaded by user iprobablyhateyou on January 12, 2010.

The image itself originated on iStock photo on the 16th of August, 2004.

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Awkward Moment Seal is an advice animal image macro series featuring a seal with a wide-eyed, closed mouth expression that seems to imply embarrassment. The captions describe common awkward situations that would cause someone embarrassment or a feeling of social discomfort similar to socially awkward penguin.

Origin

On April 17th, 2014, Redditor walrusmeats^[1] submitted the photo featuring a seal which appeared embarrassed with the caption, “I need to shit but my girlfriend won’t go home,” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] subreddit. Walrusmeats titled the image “Introducing squeamish seal,” and in less than a week the image gained over 400 comments and over 17,000 upvotes.

The next day Redditor Honorato_^[7] posted an example of the meme to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[8] subreddit titled “So are we doing a Awkward/Bad Moment Seal?” The submission received over 4,000 upvotes in less than a week.

Spread

On April 18th, the meme was covered by Mashable^[4] and UpRoxx^[5]. The same day examples of the meme were also featured on the Tumblr blog TastefullyOffensive^[6]. In less than a week the post gained over 13,000 notes.

An example of the image macro landed on Reddit’s front page on April 21st. It received more than 3,000 upvotes in less than 24 hours.

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Song Lyric Flowcharts are a series of graphic charts and diagrams that visualize the lyrics of popular songs in a sequential order, in similar vein to the use of LOLgraphs.

Origin

On August 17th, 2009, Tumblr^[6] user Jeannr posted a flowchart outlining the lyrics for the 1983 soft rock song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler (shown below). In the first five years, the post gathered upwards of 2,700 notes.

Precursor

One of the earliest known online projects devoted to flowchart visualization of popular song lyrics was launched as a single webpage under the domain Jamphat.com in November 2007. The site featured a series of Microsoft Office charts breaking down the semantics of hip hop & rap song lyrics.

Spread

On August 18th, 2009, BuzzFeed^[2] reposted Jeannr’s flowchart. On December 11th, the “Total Eclipse of the Heart” flowchart was highlighted by the Internet news blog Urlesque^[1] in an article about notable Internet flowcharts. The same day, Tumblr user loveallthis^[3] posted a flowchart for the 1968 rock song “Hey Jude” by The Beatles, which credited Jeannr’s original chart an inspiration (shown below). In five years, the post gained over 16,800 notes. On July 13th, 2010, a flowchart for the 1980 new wave song "Whip It’ by Devo was submitted to the /r/pics^[4] subreddit (shown below, right).

On October 20th, YouTuber lyricalflowcharts uploaded a video showing the creation of another flowchart for The Beatles’ song “Hey Jude” (shown below). In the next four years, the video garnered more than 180,000 views and 150 comments.

On January 24th, 2011, the webcomic Xkcd^[5] posted a flowchart illustrating the lyrics for several songs with repetitions of the word “na” (shown below).

On January 31st, 2014, the Redbull^[7] music blog highlighted a flowchart illustrating the lyrics for the 1971 rock song “Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin (shown below). In the following three months, the post gathered more than 2,000 Facebook likes and 280 tweets.

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Yarosh’s Business Card (Ukrainian: ВизиткаЯроша) refers to a business card for the Ukrainian presidential candidate Dmytro Yarosh^[4] that was purportedly discovered at the scene of a deadly shootout in Slovyansk, Ukraine on April 20th, 2014. In the hours after the incident, reports of the shootout and the discovery of Yarosh’s business card quickly circulated throughout Russian news media, while Ukrainians on Twitter responded to the accusations of Yarosh’s involvement by creating photoshopped parodies of the so-called crime scene evidence.

Background

On April 20th, 2014, the Russian news outlet Life News reported that a business card belonging to Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist political party Right Sector and a candidate for the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election, was discovered in the aftermath of a shootout in Sloviansk, Ukraine (shown below). The incident, which occurred at a checkpoint controlled by pro-Russian activists at approximately 3:00 AM, claimed the lives of three people and left three injured. Following the alleged discovery of the business card, the Russian Foreign Ministry officially blamed the attack on members of Right Sector Ukrainian political party.

Notable Developments

Right Sector Response

On the same day, Right Sector spokesperson Artem Skoropadskiy called the allegations of Yarosh’s involvement in the shootout “absurd” and a “staged act of provocation” targeting far-right groups in eastern Ukraine.^[2]

On Twitter

Shortly after Life News released a photograph of the business card, Twitter users began posting photoshopped images with superimposed cutouts of the card accompanied by the hashtag “#ВизиткаЯроша” (shown below).

More lucky owners of Yarosh's business card in ukrpravda's selection: http://t.co/Ytrlh7ItZ7 |EMPR#ВизиткаЯрошаpic.twitter.com/fZoP0UHmrC

— Euromaidan PR (@EuromaidanPR) April 20, 2014

#ВизиткаЯрошаpic.twitter.com/nJB1HBLlX5

— Nikita Khairudinov (@nickson_9) April 20, 2014

pic.twitter.com/CerbAEv7wn

— zhgun (@zhgun) April 20, 2014

Meanwhile, the novelty Twitter account @vizitkayarosha^[3] was launched, highlighting notable examples of the photoshop meme. According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,^[1] over 44,000 tweets containing the hashtag “#ВизиткаЯроша” were posted within the first 24 hours.

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Droppin’ Around in a Fancy Car is a video that is derived from the Donkey Kong Country animated series episode Hooray for Holly-Kongo Bongo, which aired in North America on January 7th, 2000.

Origin

The video revolves around a particular part of the aforementioned episode in which Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong and Cranky Kong sing a song entitled I’m Gonna Be a Star. A section of the song involves Donkey Kong singing “We’ll be driving around in a fancy car!” whilst being propelled through the air. This line is the most defining part of the meme.
On June 20th, 2011, YouTube user IAMGOOMBA created a short music video entitled Wiz Khalifa – Droppin’ Around in a Fancy Car, which mixes some of the lyrics of the song with the music of American rapper Wiz Khalifa’s Black and Yellow, which was released on September 14th, 2010.
As of April 21st, 2014, the video has amassed over 48,000 views and over 950 likes.

Since the creation of the video, it has had a small, but notable, spread as a meme.

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On Aug 17th, 2011, YouTube user ThemOldaBoys uploaded a very short video entitled Burn Marks (also known as Howdy Mrs. K, for obvious reasons), which had a section of the original video’s audio contribute to it. As of April 21st, 2014, the video has amassed over 250,000 views and over 4,000 likes. According to comments that have been made on the video, its considerable popularity growth was due to it being regularly reblogged on Tumblr. However, concrete evidence of this has yet to be found.

On June 14th, 2013, YouTube user EmperorLemon uploaded a video entitled The Krusty Krustacean’s Kantankerous Kommercial, which includes a link to a different version of the original video as part of a joke (around the 5:40 mark). This different version, entitled Droppin’ Around in a Fancy Sponge, uses clips from the television series SpongeBob SquarePants in place of clips from the Donkey Kong Country episode. It is currently on EmperorLemon’s alternate account, EmperorLime, and is otherwise inaccessible.
As of April 21st, 2014, The Krusty Krustacean’s Kantankerous Kommercial has amassed over 450,000 views and over 4,000 likes, while Droppin’ Around in a Fancy Sponge has amassed over 23,000 views and over 150 likes.

On September 10th, 2013, YouTube user TehShadzify uploaded a full-length music video entitled Droppin’ Around in Green and Purple, which contains a collaboration of the original video and animation from Team Fortress 2. As of April 21st, 2014, the video has amassed over 7,000 views and over 240 likes.

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HAPPYEARTHDAY

Gippo Dudee is a famous namefig from 4chan’s [s4s] funposting board. He is widely regarded as one of the board’s best original posters and is thus held in high regard by almost all of those who frequent [s4s]. He is commonly associated with the phrase:

“Incase you didn’t know, /s4s/ is property of Gippo Dudee, so kindly fuck off. "

thus, it is seen that [s4s] regards Gippo Dudee as their king and captain. Despite the fact it is believed Gippo no longer posts using this name, those who admire his work continue to honor him by adopting his personage, flooding the board with daily reminders.

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“Basic Bitch” is a pejorative referring to women with cliché, conformist and uninteresting character traits.

Origin

Spread

On July 10th, 2009, Urban Dictionary^[2] user Meeks901 submitted an entry for “Basic Bitch,” defining it as a woman with a dull personality. On June 14th, 2011, rapper Kreayshawn released the track “Gucci Gucci,” in which she refers to women who wear expensive handbags as “basic bitches.”

“Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Them basic bitches wear that shit so I don’t even bother”

On July 22nd, 2011, the “I make bad bitches look like basic bitches” Facebook page was launched.

On June 26th, 2012, YouTuber lohanthony uploaded a video in which he is shown swinging his leg around while repeating the phrase “calling all the basic bitches” (shown below). In the first two years, the video received more than 2.2 million views and 4,400 comments.

On April 2nd, 2014, CollegeHumor released a comedy sketch titled “How to Tell if You’re a Basic Bitch,” in which a woman is diagnosed by a doctor as being “basic” (shown below). Within three weeks, the video gathered upwards of 2.8 million views and 2,800 comments.

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Scooby-Doo is an American cartoon franchise created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears for Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. It centers on the adventures of four teenagers and the eponymous dog as they solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural events. The franchise includes 12 different television series, 22 direct-to-video films, 10 made-for-television films, and 2 theatrically-released films.

History

In 1968, Fred Silverman, executive of CBS daytime programming, was looking for a show that would revitalize the channel’s Saturday morning cartoon line and please parent groups who were upset by more violent cartoons like Johnny Quest. Working with producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, along with writers Ruby and Spears and character designer Iwao Takomoto, they came up with the idea for House Of Mystery. The show about five teenagers: Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, Linda’s brother “W.W.” and their dog, Too Much, who were all members of the band “Mysteries Five”. The band would solve mysteries in between gigs.

As the ideas progressed, the rock band element was dropped, the number of teenagers dropped from five to four, being named Fred, Velma, Daphne, and Shaggy, and the dog was named Scooby-Doo, with the new name inspired by Frank Sinatra’s scat singing.

The original show, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, premiered on CBS on September 13th, 1969. It ran until 1976. In 1977, Silverman became President of ABC, and wanted to bring Scooby-Doo to his new channel. Scooby-Doo series ran on ABC until 1987. In the early 1990s, Turner broadcasting acquired Hanna-Barbera studios, and the franchise was revived on their Cartoon Network cable channel.

Online Presence

Being a long-running franchise, Scooby-Doo has gained a considerable fandom, with fan content appearing on sites like Tumblr,^[1] Fanpop,^[2]DeviantART,^[3] FanFiction.net,^[4] and Reddit,^[5] as well as the reference sites Scoobypedia^[6] and TV Tropes.^[7]

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Scooby-Doo Doors

Scooby-Doo Doors are a gag popularized by Scooby-Doo in which characters, being pursued by another character, will dodge into a room down a hallway. The gag became synonymous with the show, and has been used in popular culture enough to get its own TV Tropes page.^[8]

Scrappy-Doo

Scrappy-Doo is a character introduced to the franchise for its 1979-1980 run, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, who is canonically Scooby’s nephew. Many saw him as an extremely irritating character, giving him a large hatedom. Scrappy became so infamous that in the 2002 Live-Action film, he was given an antagonistic role. TV Tropes uses the term The Scrappy^[9] to describe a character that is hated by fans of a given work of fiction.

I Hate My Job

I Hate My Job is a bait-and-switch copypasta story that opens with the narrator ranting about their disdain for their job, and in the end, revealing themselves to be a fictitious character. In the original version of the story,^[10] the narrator is revealed to be the character of Fred from Scooby-Doo.

That’s My Fetish

That Is My Fetish is a reaction face meant to show one’s arousal at something others might find weird or disgusting. One popular version of the meme shows a GIF from the 2003 version of the show, What’s New, Scooby-Doo?, which shows the cast’s horrified faces before panning over to a grinning Fred, with the caption That’s My Fetish.

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/r/Pyongyang is a satirical subreddit community that purports itself as an official news bulletin for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Known for its strict ban policy against anyone critical of North Korea and its leaders, the subreddit has become a running joke among Redditors who would often reply to those speaking negatively about the DPRK with “you have been banned from /r/pyongyang,” and conversely, those speaking in favor of North Korea with “you have become a moderator of /r/pyongyang.”

Origin

Named after the capital city of North Korea, /r/pyongyang^[1] was launched by Redditor Kim_Il-sung on December 21st, 2011, billing itself as a community run by “the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the DPRK to disperse propaganda about its totalitarian regime.” Within the community, users often upvote posts and comments praising the DPRK and its leader Kim Jong-Un while moderators have become in famous for removing any user comments that may be deemed critical of North Korean leadership.

Spread

On December 24th, 2011, Redditor PaperBlake submitted a screenshot of a comment praising DPRK leader Kim Jong-Un titled “How to comment in /r/pyongyang without getting deleted” to the /r/funny^[4] subreddit (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post gathered upwards of 1,300 up votes and 60 comments.

On March 18th, 2012, /r/pyangyong^[7] was created as a “sister subreddit” to /r/pyongyang. On April 13th, the /r/pyongyangbannedme^[5] subreddit was launched for discussions about being banned from /r/pyongyang. On April 19th, the tech news blog Beta Beat^[2] published an article about the satirical subreddit. On January 2nd, 2013, the tech news blog Mashable^[3] mentioned /r/pyongyang in a list of notable “bizarre subreddits.” On March 7th, Redditor uWouldReadThis submitted a post titled “North Korea to South Korea: ‘You are now banned from /r/pyongyang’” to /r/circlejerk,^[9] where it received more than 3,000 up votes and 75 comments before it was archived. On March 15th, Redditor remjob61 submitted an image macro mocking DPRK leader Kim Jong-Un titled “This got me banned from /r/pyongyang” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[8] subreddit, where it gained over 14,600 up votes and 230 comments prior to being archived (shown below).

On March 18th, Redditor ciberaj submitted a post asking if /r/pyongyang was a “circlejerk subreddit” to the /r/explainlikeimfive^[6] subreddit. In the comments section of the post, Redditor MathisRowan responded to Redditor darsehole that he had “been made moderator of /r/Pyongyang.”

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Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博 Sakurai Masahiro) is a Japanese video game developer and director, who is known for creating the Kirby and Super Smash Bros series. On the internet, he has gained a reputation for being a troll and has spawned several memes within the Smash Bros. community.

Biography

Masahiro Sakurai was born August 3 1970. Early in his career, he joined HAL Laboratory and at age 19, he created the Kirby series and directed his first titel, Kirby’s Dream Land. Later in his career, he was the director for Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64 and returned for the sequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee. Sakurai continued to work at HAL Laboratory until he left the company on August 3 2003. He stated that his reason for leaving was because he wanted more freedom but that the biggest reason for his departured was, that he had grown tired of the sequelization from HAL. After he left HAL, he worked with Q Entertainment on a game called Meteos.

In 2005, Sakurai founded his own video game company; Sora Ltd. He was later contacted by Satoru Iwata, and was asked to the director of Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii. Sakurai accepted and began work in October 2005. During development, Sakurai weekly updated the official Super Smash Bros. Brawl website, known as Smash bros. Dojo!! Super Smash Bros. Brawl was released on January 31 2008 in Japan and recived critical acclaim. After finishing the game, Sakurai next directed Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS, ending the franchise’s 21 years long hiatus. After Kid Icarus: Uprising had been released, Sakurai began working on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U & 3DS which is to be released in 2014.

Online Presence

Online, Masahiro Sakurai has developed a fan following due to the gameplay of his games and his work on the Super Smash Bros. Series. He has a page on TVtropes and he also has his own Twitter account with over 78 thousand followers.

Reputation as a troll

Among the Super Smash Bros. fanbase, Sakurai has gotten a reputation as a troll due to his tendency to often tease the Smash Bros. Community, such as hinting that characters, that is very requested to be playable by the Smash Bros. community, will appear in another form or flat out stating that a character won’t be playable, only to reveal right afterwards that the character is playable. He is listed as a trolling creator on TVtropes.

Sakurai: (Laughs)

“Sakurai: (Laughs)” is a phrase made popular by Smash fans. It originated from Iwata Asks: Super Smash Bros. Brawl. In the interview, Sakurai would often laugh, which would be written down as (Laughs). It is often used when something Sakurai thinks very little of is mentioned or if a person is making a ridiculously newcomer request for the Super Smash Bros. games.

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Shooter’s Sandwich is a smushed, layered sandwich filled with a variety of ingredients, most commonly including cooked steaks, mushrooms and onions. Photographs of home-cooked variations of the sandwich are often shared on the /r/food subreddit.

Origin

According to The Guardian,^[2] the shooter sandwich was originally made during the Edwardian era as a portable beef Wellington that could be prepared a day in advance. On November 13th, 1996, the cooking show Two Fat Ladies demonstrated how to prepare a shooter’s sandwich in Season 1 Episode 6 titled “Food in the Wild.” On April 7th, 2010, The Guardian^[2] published an article on how to prepare a shooter’s sandwich, referring to it as “the best sandwich ever.”

Spread

The same day on April 7th, 2010, Redditor stootam submitted the article to the /r/food^[3] subreddit, where it gained over 450 upvotes and 120 comments prior to being archived. Three days later, Flickr^[5] user ManiacalV uploaded a gallery of images featuring the “unboxing” of a shooter’s sandwich (shown below), which cited the Reddit post as the inspiration for the idea (shown below).

On March 19th, 2011, The Guardian’s slideshow was reposted by Redditor lyth to /r/reddit.com,^[4] where he referred to the creation as “the most revolutionary sandwich that has ever existed.” Before it was archived, the post gathered more than 2,200 up votes and 380 comments before being archived. On January 21st, 2012, Redditor Gammachan submitted a gallery photographs documenting his shooter’s sandwich creation to /r/food,^[6] where it accumulated upwards of 1,600 upvotes and 190 comments prior to being archived.

On April 27th, the food blog All Serious Eats^[7] published an article about a shooter’s sandwich made with 16 burgers from the restaurant In-N-Out. On August 15th, 2013, Business Insider^[9] published an article highlighting several customized versions of the shooter’s sandwich, including a chicken parm shooter and fajita shooter. On December 6th, YouTuber Food Wishes uploaded a video demonstrating how to make a shooter’s sandwich (shown below). As of April 2014, over 150 posts containing the keywords “shooter sandwich” have been submitted to the /r/food^[8] subreddit.

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#MYNYPD is a hashtag campaign launched by the New York Police Department as a community outreach program on Twitter. While intended as a feel-good social media event to boost the image of the NYPD, the hashtag stream quickly became flooed with photographs of its uniformed officers resorting to violence.

Background

At 1:55 p.m. (ET) on April 22nd, 2014, @NYPDNews^[1] tweeted a message calling on its followers to share their photographs with NYPD police officers using the hashtag #MyNYPD.

Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook. pic.twitter.com/mE2c3oSmm6

— NYPDNEWS (@NYPDnews) April 22, 2014

Notable Developments

The NYPD’s community outreach hashtag was initially met with genuine responses from its followers on Twitter, but it soon turned into an all-day exhibition of images depicting police brutality and racial profiling, including many photographs that went viral during the height of Occupy Wall Street protests. According to Topsy^[2], the hashtag #MyNYPD was mentioned more than 180,000 times on April 22nd.

News Media Coverage

That afternoon, the hijacking of #MyNYPD on Twitter was reported on by The Daily Dot^[3], Gawker^[4], VICE^[5], The Verge^[6], Mediate^[7], Mashable^[8] and The Huffington Post^[10], as well as a number of local and national news outlets.^[9][12][13]

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About

The Disney Adult Jokes is when the Animators and writers at Walt Disney Company have often cited that the movies they make are for adults, just as much as they are for kids. As such, a certain amount of adult humor slips into their projects that kids won’t get.

History

In the Don Bluth Film called The Rescuers. The image in question is a blurry image of a topless woman that appears in two out of the film’s more than 110,000 frames. The image appears twice in non-consecutive frames during the scene in which Miss Bianca and Bernard are flying on Orville’s back through New York City. The two images could not be seen in ordinary viewing because the film runs too fast -- at 30 frames per second on video.

In 1999, two days after the recall was announced, the London press site The Independent reported:

• A Disney spokeswoman said that the images in The Rescuers were placed in the film during production, but she declined to say what they were or who placed them… The company said the aim of the recall was to keep its promise to families that they can trust and rely on the Disney brand to provide the best in family entertainment.

The Rescuers video was reissued March 23, 1999 with the offending image edited out.

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About

Evan Roth is an American artist and hacker known for his web based artistic projects.

Online History

After seeing a piece of art created by Banksy, Roth decieded^[2] to persue a graduate degree at

His Twitter account^[1] was launched on September 28th, 2008, as of April 2014, he has gained over 4,000 followers.

Graffiti Research Lab

The Graffiti Research Lab was created by Roth

Google Driverless Car Prank

Google Driverless Car Punks NYC from Becky Stern on Vimeo.

F.A.T. Lab

The F.A.T. Lab consists of 21 hackers and artists^[3]

Websites

Highlights

Internet Art

A Tribute to Heather

Collectively the 10 GIF based websites below are referred to as “A Tribute to Heather.”^[6]

Badass Motherfucker

In 2005, Roth made sure his site^[5] would be the number one search result^[4] on Google.

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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Shift-JIS arts, known as “JoJo Ascii Arts” (Japanese: ジョジョAA) on the Japanese web, is a series of Shift-JIS arts inspired by the Japanese manga Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (JJBA). Those Shif-JIS arts have been well-used fixed phrases or reaction faces in the Japanese text board community 2channel since around 2005.

Origin

Threads for talking about topics by JJBA’s unique wording style had been occasionally posted to 2channel’s each boards since early 2000s. And Shift-JIS arts of characters or panels became to be put together with users’ posts in late 2004 or early 2005 by the technical progress of 2channel Shift-JIS arts. In this background, there is the huge demand for Shift-JIS arts which have been playing the role of exploitables or reaction faces in that pure text board community which isn’t able to upload images.

Many famous scenes/characters in the manga were given its Shift-JIS art version in those days. Among them, what has been leading the popularity of the JJBA Shift-JIS arts since quite early days is the Shift-JIS art for Jean Pierre Polnareff^[1], one of the main characters in the 3rd & 5th arc of JJBA. It’s also known as “Polnareff Shift-JIS Art” (ポルナレフAA) or called by its most famous line “Let me tell you what happened!” (ありのまま起こった事を話すぜ!, Arinomama Okottakoto wo Hanasuze!). This Shift-JIS art is consisting of citing 2 panels in the 249th chapter titled “Dio’s World Pt. 3” where Polnareff is trying to explain Dio’s stand power that he experienced. This episode is included in the 27th volume of JJBA comic book series released in 1992.

This is the most well-used Shift-JIS art among those JJBA Shift-JIS arts because his wording in this scene is quite easy to fit to explain various situations, or to ridicule other silly users in the threads.

Spread

By getting characters’ iconic Shift-JIS arts, threads for talking by JJBA’s wording style became much popular amongst many boards in 2channel. As a reflection of its popularity, a series of threads specializing for collecting the derivatives of JJBA Shift-JIS arts, mainly Polnareff’s Shift-JIS art, started in 2channel’s /gline/ (guideline) board in September 2005.^[2] As of April 2014, this series has still continued for more than 8 years while spending over 240 threads. Many user-made archive pages for those creations were launched in late 2005 or 2006.^[3][4][5][6] These are hosting many hundreds of JJBA Shift-JIS arts in each.

Notable Examples

But I Refuse / Rohan Kishibe

Rohan Kishibe^[7], known as the character representing the creator’s philosophy, has one of the most famous catchphrases in the JJBA series: “But I Refuse” (だが断る, Daga Kotowaru). The spread of this phrase on the Japanese web was largely helped by the Shift-JIS art reproducing this scene in “Highway Star Pt.3”, the 386th chapter included in the 41st volume released in 1995.

Instead, Think That… / George Joestar I

A remark of George Joestar I^[8] who appeared on a flashback of his son Jonathan Joestar, “Instead, Think That…” (逆に考えるんだ, Gyaku ni Kangaerunda) is often used for replying. The original scene appears in “The Hero of the 77 Rings”, the 28th chapter included in the 4th volume of the comic book released in 1988.

I Dare Say That… ! / Noriaki Kakyoin

A panel of Noriaki Kakyoin^[9] which is taken from “Dio’s the World Pt.4”, the 250th chapter included in the 27th volume of the comic book is utilized simply to yell something. But its wording, “I dare say that…”, refers to his remark in other episode.

Exactly / Telence T. D’Arby

An icily-polite English utterance by Telence T. D’Arby^[10], “Exactly”, is often used for responses for agreement. The original scene apears in “D’arby the Gamer Pt.3”, the 229th chapter included in the 25th volume of the comic book series released in 1992.

The subtitle text in the parentheses (そのとおりでございます, Sonotoori de Gozaimasu) is also a subject for parody.

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