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Henri, Le Chat Noir

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About

Henri, Le Chat Noir is a Tuxedo cat that is well-known on the Internet for starring in a series of YouTube videos in which the narrator discusses his philosophical thoughts in French.

Origin

Henri is the online nickname of Henry, an eight-year-old rescued shelter cat in Seattle, Washington. His human “uncle” filmmaker William Braden created the first short (shown below) for a class project at the Seattle Film Institute. It was shot, edited and narrated in eleven days. Braden chose to use a film noir style with French narration to express Henri’s contempt for humans as well as other cats, especially a nameless white cat who appears in the videos. The name Le Chat Noir[1] (The Black Cat) is taken from the 19th century Parisian cabaret with the same name, which is best known for its iconic poster of a black cat against a red and yellow background by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. After the project was complete, Braden uploaded the film to YouTube on May 24th, 2007 and it has gained more than 1.6 million likes as of October 2012.



Spread

The video went relatively unnoticed for several years until Henri was quoted on a personal Tumblr[2] in August 2011. On April 6th, 2012, Braden uploaded a second video titled “Paw de Deux” (shown below, left) which gained more than 6 million views in six months. The following day, Henri’s second video was featured on Jezebel.[3] Throughout April, Henri’s videos were shared on College Humor[4], Tastefully Offensive[5], the Democratic Underground[6], Buzzfeed[11], Forbes[12], The Daily Dot[13], The FW[14] and Metafilter.[7] After seeing his videos take off, Braden set up a homepage[10], a Facebook fan page[8] and a Twitter account[9] for Henri.



On June 20th, 2012, Henri’s third video went live (shown above, right), documenting a trip to the veterinarian. The video was shared on Blame it on the Voices[19] and the Huffington Post[20], among other news and humor sites. Nine days later, a love letter to Henri from another black and white cat named Anais Mittens (shown below) was uploaded by YouTuber Lizzie Reid. Her video was featured on Buzzfeed[15], The Daily Dot[16], Catster[17] and Neatorama.[18]



Golden Kitty Award

In August 2012, Henri’s second video won the Golden Kitty award (shown below, left), the top award at the Internet Cat Video Film Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was chosen by viewers out of 10,136 submissions, beating the Japanese cat Maru “by a landslide.”[21] William Braden (shown below, right with Lil Bub and his owner) accepted the award, where he was quoted as saying “I don’t think I’ve ever purred this loudly.”[22]



Book Deal

Shortly after receiving the Golden Kitty award, Braden announced that he had secured a book deal for Henri that would be published on April 30th, 2013 by a Random House imprint.[23] This announcement was followed by interviews with the Seattle Times[21], ABC News[24] and the LA Times[25] during which he revealed that he makes approximately $1,000 per week through revenues from Henri’s online merchandise store[26], which allows him to give up his wedding videographer gig to work full time with Henri.



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External References

[1] Wikipedia – Le Chat Noir

[2] Tumblr – verafides | Henri quote

[3] Jezebel – Your Morning Ennui: Henri the French Cat Articulates the Pain of Existence

[4] College Humor – Henri the Cat’s Ennui the Cat

[5] Tastefully Offensive – Henri’s Ennui

[6] Democratic Underground – Cat existentialism

[7] Metafilter – listlessness, tedium, lassitude, languor

[8] Facebook – Henri, le Chat Noir

[9] Twitter – @HenriLeChatNoir

[10] Henri le Chat Noir – Home

[11] Buzzfeed – Henri The Existential Cat

[12] Forbes – The Smart Marketing of Henri: Viral Cat Videos for People Who Hate Viral Cat Videos

[13] Daily Dot – The Ennui of Henri the Cat

[14] The FW – Black and White French Film Offers an Existential Portrait of a Cat

[15] Buzzfeed – Henri The Existential Cat Has An Admirer

[16] The Daily Dot – YouTube Right Now! "Henri Le Chat Noir, Love Anais Mittins

[17] Catster – Anais Mittins Pledges Herself to Henri the Existential Cat -- But Will They Ever Meet?

[18] Neatorama – Anais Mittins

[19] Blame it on the Voices – Henri the Existential Cat at the vet

[20] Huffington Post – Henri Le Chat Noir, French Speaking Existential Cat, Goes To The Vet

[21] Seattle Times – Garfield High grad wins Internet Cat Video Film Festival

[22] Mashable – Sad French Kitty Wins ‘Best Cat Video on the Internet’

[23] Henri, Le Chat Noir – The Book

[24]ABC News – Henri the Cat Goes Viral, Turns Profit in the Name of Art

[25] LA Times – Henri, afflicted by fame

[26] Henri, Le Chat Noir – Store


Mike Mozart / Jeepers Media

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Mike Mozart is a YouTube and the proprietor of Jeepers Media, a channel that mainly reviews toys, mostly “fail” ones. An obese but friendly man with copious facial hair who is usually seen wearing glasses and a hat, he joined YouTube on March 6, 2007 and uploaded his first video, “Britney Spear Epic Fail Hairstyle Suggestions”, that same day. His second video was entitled “Funny Videos: Easter Chocolate Bunny Hilarious Fail Toys Video Review by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia”. This was the first video done in his current style, in which he reviews poorly–made or poorly thought out toys, which often have “inappropriate” features, accidental or otherwise, such as phallic shapes. Mike Mozart keeps his videos PG, and does not swear, nor does he explicitly state exactly what the inappropriate imagery in certain toys is, though the implication is obvious to anyone who knows what such things are. He has also sometimes reviewed good toys positively, and in cases where the quality of the product is reasonably arguable, he asks the viewers to judge it for themselves with one of his catchphrases, “Is this a WIN, or a FAIL?” Another recurring feature of Mike’s videos is the “Inappropriate–O–Meter”, which he asks commenters to use to rate the inappropriateness of products he reviews on a scale of 1 to 10. However, Mike Mozart’s most well–known catchphrase by far is “I mean, REALLY. What were they thinking?



Mike Mozart’s most popular video to date is “Batman Dark Knight vs Marvel FAIL Funny Toy Review Video Mike Mozart Hulk,Spiderman JeepersMedia”, in which he contrasts the “WIN” Batman figure from the film The Dark Knight with the “FAIL” Itsy Bitsy Spider Man doll aimed towards young children, which he had previously reviewed and described as an insult to the character. This video has nearly five million views, and altogether all of Mike Mozart’s videos combined have well over 100 million views. His channel also has more than 370,00 subscribers.

Activism



Mike Mozart is also an activist who supports free speech and is against censorship, especially of the internet. He has spoken out strongly against the likes of companies such as Viacom, and against the SOPA and ACTA bills, with videos in which he exposed the corruption of those companies and the people supporting their endeavors to censor the internet, and gave specific advice to viewers on how they could fight back.

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KnowYourMeme

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About

KnowYourMeme is a site used to document “memes” or popular phrases,images and videos on the internet.As of October 2012, the site consists of three content-based staff members (Brad Kim, Don Caldwell and Amanda Brennan) and one developer (James Wu).The Know Your Meme web site and web series were acquired in March 2011 by Cheezburger Network for an undisclosed seven-figure amount.

Origin

KnowYourMeme (From now on will be stated as KYM) started in the December of 2007 as a video series on Youtube made by Kenyatta Cheese, Elspeth Rountree, Jamie Wilkinson, and Andrew Baron.The first video was uploaded December 18th 2007

Spread

No clue will work later

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Son, you're too young / 少年,你太年轻了

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About

Son, you’re too young (Chinese:少年,你太年轻了)is an expression used for commenting on idiotic posts on social media. Its aim is to spam the target post and discourage the target user, making the user believe that actually nobody is interested in the post.

Origin and Usage

It is known that the clause originated in some social media in mainland China. However, the very first usage of this expression could not be tracked down. The whole expression is as follows.

少年,你太年轻了。你以为这个论坛上真的有那么多人回复你的帖子?其实都是我一个人回的,不然我换个ID发同样的话给你看。

Son, you’re too young. Do you really think there are that many people responding to your post on this forum? It was all me. Let me change another user ID again and post the same expression here, then you’ll know.

After this expression is posted once on a page, other users will copy the expression and post it as comments in order to create an illusion that all the user IDs are actually of the same person.

Spread

This expression is spread to the Hong Kong internet community. Other than using the expression on forums, the expression can also be found on other social media, especially on Facebook. Various Facebook pages[1] were also set up for this expression.

Search Interest

Derivations

As this expression is used on different social platforms with different settings and functions, more variations of the expression emerged. For example, the Facebook version for the Likes.

少年,你太年輕了。你以為這裡真的有那麼多人對你的動態讚好?其實都是我一個人讚好的,不然我換個ID讚好給你看。

Son, you’re too young. Do you really think there are that many people liking your status? It was all me. Let me change another user ID and like your status again, then you’ll know.

And this one is for the comments on Facebook.


少年,你太年輕了。你以為facebook上真的有那麼多人回覆你的帖子?其實都是我一個人回的,不然我再換個ID發同樣的話給你看

Son, you’re too young. Do you really think there are that many people commenting on your posts on Facebook? It was all me. Let me change another user ID and post this same expression here, then you’ll know.

The expression is also translated into various languages around the world[2] while most of them are still being used in the Chinese internet community, especially in Hong Kong.

External references

[1] Facebook Search Results (Pages) – 少年,你太年輕了

[2] 百度貼吧 – 少年 你太年轻了 各个版本

Nana Gouvêa Em Desastres

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Nana Gouvêa em Desastres (Nana Gouvêa in Disasters) is a single topic blog featuring photoshopped images of Brazilian model Nana Gouvêa placed into tragic and disturbing scenes, bearing many similarities to the photoshop meme Disaster Girl. The blog was created in response to a series of photos showing Gouvêa posing in front of damaged cars and buildings caused by Hurricane Sandy in New York City.

Origin

On October 30th, Brazilian news site Ego[1] published a series of photos of Brazilian model Nana Gouvêa[2] posing with fallen trees caused by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy in New York City (shown below). The photos were supplemented by an interview with the model who said she enjoyed the storm, since it allowed her to spend several romantic days with her husband, music producer Carlos Keyes. Many people in Brazil found the images to be distasteful, saying Gouvêa appeared to be using the disaster as a backdrop for her own beauty.[6]



The day after the photos were uploaded, the single topic blog “Nana Gouvêa em Desastres”[3] (“Nana Gouvêa in Disasters” in English) launched on Tumblr. Within 24 hours, the blog posted 45 images of the model photoshopped into various tragedies, including the sinking of the Titanic, the Hindenburg disaster and the September 11th attacks.

Spread

The same day, a Facebook page[4] titled “Nana Gouvêa em Desastres” was launched, including reposts of many images taken from the Tumblr blog. Within 24 hours, the page accumulated more than 3700 likes. On October 31st, the Internet news blog YouPix[5] published a post titled “Meme Do Dia: Nana Gouvêa Em Desastres,” which mocked Gouvêa’s apparent narcissism and highlighted several photoshopped images of the model. The same day, the story was reported by the internet culture blog the Inquistr[7] and the Huffington Post.[8] On Twitter[9], Gouvea responded to the attention, retweeting news articles about the photos and the parody blog.

In an interview on November 1st, Gouvea said that she found the photoshopped images humorous and that the photographs should not be seen in a negative light, as she was fully clothed and was not trying to sexualize the disaster. The same day, the entertainment news blog ThunderTreats[11] published a post titled “Brazilian Model Nana Gouvea Turns Wreckage from Hurricane Sandy into Props for Photo Shoot” and the Herald Sun[12] published an article titled “Brazilian Model Nana Gouvea Mocked for Sexy Sandy Photo Shoot.”

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Never Forget

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“Never Forget” is an expression and political slogan used to urge others to recall the events surrounding a national tragedy. It is commonly associated with the September 11th, 2001 attacks and is sometimes used ironically in reference to insignificant events.

Origin

According to an article published by NY Mag[1], the expression was first used in relation to the Holocaust during World War 2:

“Never forget” long ago entered the lexicon, in relation to the Holocaust. It has now been reassigned to 9/11, where it is likely to remain. It has become a mantra and a marketing tool for politicians and merchandise alike.

According to Wikipedia,[2] a similar slogan “Never forget the class struggle” was introduced by 1st Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong in 1962, which subsequently became a popular slogan for the Chinese Cultural Revolution throughout the 1960s.

Precursor

The similar phrase “Lest we forget” originated in the refrain of the poem Recessional,[5] written by Rudyard Kipling in 1897, in reference to the decline of British imperial power. In the Commonwealth countries, the phrase is commonly associated with World War I, specifically the battles that took place in Flanders. This is thanks to the “Ode of Remembrance,” taken from the poem For the Fallen, written by Lawrence Binyon in 1914.[6] “Lest we forget” remains in common usage in those countries today, especially around holidays such as Remembrance Day (Nov. 11) and ANZAC Day (April 25).

September 11th Attacks

Following the suicide plane attacks against the United States on September 11th, 2001, the slogan was used to commemorate those who lost their lives. It also became associated with the United States militarism after being adopted by those who supported the subsequent War on Terror.[7] Online, many September 11th animated GIFs and image macros were created using the slogan as a caption (shown below).



Spread

On January 1st, 2007, Xkcd published a comic titled “America,” which included a timeline with the event “Jimmy Carter attacked by giant swimming rabbit” and the caption “America must never forget” (shown below).



On January 26th, 2009, the webcomic site Dern Werks[8] published an illustration of an ape from the 1968 science fiction film Planet of the Apes in front of a fallen Statue of Liberty with the caption “Never Forget” (shown below). On September 11th, 2010, Redditor BaudiROCZ submitted a post titled “Am I alone in hating the statement ‘Never Forget 9/11’?”,[11] which complained about the way the phrase had become a platitude.



On November 3rd, 2011, Redditor martinap submitted a post titled “11/3/11 – Never Forget,”[10] including an image mocking the public reaction to the Google search Easter egg referencing the “Do a barrel roll” Internet meme. On September 14th, 2012, Redditor robotsongs submitted a post to the /r/pics[9] subreddit titled “Never Forget: 9/14/11 [NSFW],” featuring several nude photographs of actress Scarlett Johansson that had been leaked in September of 2011. Within one month, the post received over 24,500 up votes and 1,450 comments.

2007 Boston Bomb Scare

On January 31st, 2007, battery-powered LED placards resembling the pixel art Mooninite characters from the Adult Swim animated television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force were mistakenly identified by the Boston Police Department as explosive devices. The placards had been placed in various locations throughout Boston, Massachusetts as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign by the company Interference, Inc. After police arrested two men who had been hired to install the signs, many responded by calling the arrests an overreaction and holding signs saying “1-31-07 Never Forget” (shown below).



East Coast Earthquake

On August 23rd, 2011, a small earthquake erupted across the east coast of the United States, that resulted in a barrage of social media activity about the underwhelming seismic activity. On the same day, Redditor uncouthsilence5 submitted a post titled “Never Forget” to the /r/pics[4] subreddit, featuring an image macro of a bald eagle superimposed over a fallen lawn chair with the caption “8/23/2011 / Never Forget” (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post received over 26,500 up votes and 990 comments.



Hurricane Irene

After Hurricane Irene hit United States shores n August 28th, 2011, several image macros were created with the caption “never forget” mocking the underwhelming damage caused by the tropical storm (shown below).



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Halo

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Halo is a multi-billion dollar science fiction shooter franchise owned by Microsoft Studios and released by Bungie, Inc. and 343 Industries. It quickly became a critical and commercial success, and one of the Xbox’s most successful franchises.

History



The original Halo game, titled “Halo: Combat Evolved” was released on November 15, 2001.[1] It stars a super-soldier named The Master Chief[2], and follows his attempts to discover the secrets of the ring-shaped artificial world known as Halo. The game was critically acclaimed, with many heralding it as the Xbox’s Killer App.[3] Due to is popularity, the video game was followed with two sequels, released in November 2004[4] and September 2007[5], respectively. There have also been several spin-off games, such as Halo: Reach[6], set as the prequel to the original trilogy, and Halo 3: ODST[7], set between the events of Halo 2 and 3. At E3 2011, Halo 4 and Halo CE: Anniversary[8], an HD remake of the original title, were announced.

Halo 4 is set to dive deeper into the personal stories of both Master Chief and Cortana, his AI companion.[9] It is slated for release on November 6, 2012, and is to be the first in a new trilogy known as the Reclaimer trilogy. In preparation for Halo 4, Microsoft commissioned “Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn[15], a live-action series designed to draw in new players to the Halo universe, as well as explain details of the Halo 4 story. Halo 5 and Halo 6 have been announced by the production team at 343 Industries, but there has been no specified release date for either of these titles.

Online Relevance

Halo has a large presence on sites like 4chan’s /v/[10] board, Tumblr and Reddit’s gaming subreddit[11]. Halo is also popular in Rooster Teeth productions, as well as Machinimas in general, with many popular series spawning from it. Halo also has a dedicated fansite, named Planet Halo[12], as well as its own wiki[13].

Red vs. Blue



Red vs. Blue is a Machinima series created and owned by Rooster Teeth Productions. It has become one on the pioneering an most influential machinimas as a whole. The story of Red vs. Blue is separate from that of the main Halo franchise, and is said to take place in “that moment when you throw the controller at the wall,” as stated by Rooster Teeth CEO, Burnie Burns. It tells of two factions of soldiers known as Red Team and Blue Team. The two teams know nothing more than the fact that their objective is to kill the other team. However, their incompetence usually prevents this from occurring, and more than often, the two teams wind up joining sides to combat a common enemy.

Arby ‘n’ the Chief



Arby ‘n’ the Chief[14] is a machinima/live-action series produced by Jon CJG. The story chronicles the lives of two living action figures, Master Chief and the Arbiter. The running gag in the series is that the two toys are polar opposites from their in game counterparts. For example, Master Chief in the Halo series is the brave hero of humanity who slaughters thousands of aliens and always puts the safety of others above everything else, whereas the Chief toy in Arby ‘n’ the Chief is an immature, selfish, coward who will only do things for others if it helps him in the long run. The duo spend most of their time either playing Halo or wallowing in their own miseries. While playing Halo, they usually end up finding and stopping any number of hackers who are trying to destroy _Halo_’s mulitplayer mode.

Related Memes

Tea-bagging



Tea-bagging is a term used in video games to describe a player their character over a corpse and crouching up and down repeatedly. It is often used during online multiplayer games in an attempt to troll the user who’s character has just been killed, and make their death more humiliating. It is thought to have originated from the online mode in Halo: Combat Evolved, and grew in popularity before spreading to other games.

Pretty Cool Guy

Pretty Cool Guy is a snowclone, used to show approval to something. The first notable usage, was on 4chan’s /v/ board, when a user made a post in reference to Master Chief, saying:

I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesnt afraid of anything.

Search Interest



References

[1] Wikipedia – Halo : Combat Evolved

[2] Wikipedia – Master Chief

[3] Ataddict – The rise of Xbox’s Killer App

[4] Wikipedia – Halo 2

[5] Wikipedia – Halo 3

[6] Wikipedia – Halo:Reach

[7] Wikipedia – Halo: ODST

[8] Wikipedia – Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

[9] Wikipedia – Halo 4

[10] 4chan – /v/ Video Games

[11] Reddit – Halo

[12]Planet Halo

[13]Halo wiki

[14] Youtube – Arby ‘n’ The Chief’s channel

[15] Youtube – Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn


RomneyGekko

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With a record-shattering storm pounding the northeast, 54 million Americans are now dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  The toll – in disrupted or lost communities  - was staggering.  More than 40 lives lost while 90% of New Yorkers were left in the dark. The tri-state area has never seen before a storm quite like Sandy. 

New York’s subway network suffered the most damage in its 108 year history while the New York Stock Exchange closed for two consecutive days, breaking a 124 year-record since its last closing in 1888.  President Obama approved disaster declarations for New York and New Jersey, making them eligible for federal assistance. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stated these devastations were simply “incalculable”.  

In result of Hurricane Sandy, these past few days have shifted a new course of direction for both Presidential Candidates just before next Tuesday’s elections. President Obama has rescheduled his trips to Wisconsin and Ohio, the two battleground states in order to help with immediate relief efforts to aid victims. Mitt Romney stepped up for the American people, creating a funny yet harmless, entertaining music video with his good friend Gordon Gekko.  As Governor Romney puts it:  "Sandy wiped out many of the ‘sick-ass’ homes that only existed because of the colossal failure for issuing  ’no-doc’ loans”.  

SEE ROMNEY’S STATEMENT HERE -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6KQKL_6LA

As for Election Day, which is just around the corner, many Americans will recognize Mitt Romney’s admirable effort to console the American people during this difficult time. Time will only tell on exactly how many Americans will recognize his wit. 

It Was A Good Day

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“The term “It Was A Good Day” originated from the song It Was a Good Day by Ice Cube in 1993, The song was a single from Ice Cube’s The Predator album that was released on February 23, 1993.
The term It Was A Good Day, is said when ever a something bad or annoying that could ruin a day didn’t occur. Or it can be used to when something like a horrible TV show is cancelled.

THE MEME:
The meme of It Was A Good day is a micro image of a scene from the music video, most common is were Ice Cube is looking into the sun while driving his car. The on the micro image is the event that happened and then followed by the saying, It Was A Good Day.

Examples:
Some example of this are:
Jersey Shore Was Cancelled, It Was A Good Day

Zelda Response To...

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About

Zelda Response To is a six-pane reaction based exploitable using six incarnations of Princess Zelda, from the Nintendo video game series The Legend of Zelda. The reactions are based on the mood given to them in their games, along with their facial expressions on the banner.

Origins

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The original image was uploaded was to the Japanese art sharing site pixiv[1] on January 31st, 2012. The image (shown below) featured six incarnations of Princess Zelda from various Legend of Zelda games given their reactions to being told “I love you”. It was submitted as one out of over 150 responses[2] to a template, created by pixiv user leopard[3] on January 2010.



Precursor

The image can be seen as an example of illustration fad called “Expression Practice,” which it’s to help out amateur artist to keep a consistent character while trying to fill out the given expressions. Since originating on pixiv, the exploitable fad had since spread into deviantART, giving out over 8,000 results under “Expression Meme”[4] as of November 2012.

Spread

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The image was then uploaded to the art sharing Safebooru[5] on February 2012. On March 28th, 2012, Tumblr user Joouheika[6] uploaded the earliest translation of the image to his page. On Reddit, an alternate translated image was submitted to the /r/gaming[13] subreddit on April 2012. The post managed to gain over 1500 upvotes and over 1100 comments. On 4chan, the earliest known thread featuring the image was first posted on /jp/ (Otaku Culture) board[7], a month later two more threads appeared on /v/ (video games) board[8][9], members began exploiting the image.

Notable Examples

Since then, the original and other versions has been shared on Memebase,[10] Haloz,[11] and Meme Center[12].


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Operation Vendetta

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(work in progress)

About

On November 5, 2012, the anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ failed gunpowder plot] Anonymous launched the campaign #OpVendetta to celebrate the anniversary of the treason. The operation included marches to The Houses of Parliament,[1] the original site of the gunpowder plot, as well as several other government establishments across the world including the US,[6] France,[7] the UK,[2] and Quebec.[8]




Twitter Timeline



Sources

[1]Facebook – Operation Vendetta

[2]Facebook – #Op Vendetta

[3]Twitter – @ AnonymousPress

[4]UK Anonymous Events – #OpVendetta

[5]Wikipedia – Guy Fawkes

[6]Facebook – Operation Vendetta: Seattle

[7]Facebook – Operation Vendetta: France

[8]Facebook – Operation Vendetta: Quebec

(work in progress)

Linkara / Lewis Lovhaug / Atop the Fourth Wall

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Linkara (pseudonym of Lewis Lovhaug) is an internet reviewer with That Guy With The Glasses. He currently produces and stars in the show Atop the Fourth Wall, in which he takes a look at mostly bad comic books from a variety of time periods and publishers. It has spawned a few notable memetic catch-phrases and characters.

I Should Buy a Boat Cat

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I Should Buy a Boat Cat, also known as “Sophisticated Cat” and “Fancy Cat,” is an image macro series featuring a photograph of a cat wearing a suit while seated at a table reading a newspaper. The captions typically describe various epiphanies and desires, often using the snowclone template “I should buy a X.”

Origin

The singer-songwriter Bjork released a music video directed by Spike Jonze for her song “Triumph of the Heart”[2] in January of 2005, in which she leaves her anthropomorphic cat husband for a night out in the city. In the video, the cat is is seen seated at a table drinking coffee and reading a newspaper while dressed in a blue shirt (shown at 3:56 below).



On February 2nd, 2012, Redditor DrTango submitted a post titled “I’ll just leave this here" to the /r/funny[1] subreddit, featuring a screen capture of the cat with the caption “I should buy a boat” (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post received over 12,350 up votes and 165 comments.



Spread

On February 3rd, the Internet humor site 9gag[7] reposted the DrTango’s image macro, receiving over 40,400 up votes and 4,200 Facebook shares within the next nine months. On February 9th, the image was reblogged on the Internet humor site College Humor.[3] On August 31st, the image was mentioned in an episode of the video game YouTube show Game Grumps. On September 10th, Redditor RoTTaax submitted a post titled “How I feel when I post a long comment that gets 3 upvotes” to the /r/AdviceAnimals[4] subreddit, featuring an image macro with the caption “I should write a book” (shown below). Within one month, the post received over 9,900 up votes and 45 comments.



On November 6th, Redditor bathroomstalin submitted an image macro titled “We’ve all thought about it” to the /r/AdviceAnimals[5] subreddit, which featured the cat image with the caption "I should buy a “horse mask.” The same day, Redditor TwoSwords submitted a post titled “Well, he went out and did it,”[6] which featured a photoshopped version of the image with a horse head mask superimposed over the cat’s head (shown below). Within 24 hours, each post reached the front page receiving thousands of up votes.



Notable Examples

As of November 6th, 2012, a Quickmeme page for “Fancy Cat”[9] has received over 75 submissions and a page for “Sophisticated Cat”[10] as accumulated over 630 submissions. On Tumblr,[8] other photographs of inquisitive-looking subjects have been captioned with the phrase “I should buy a boat.”



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Julian Smith

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About

Julian Smith is an American actor, director, and Youtube celebrity (“juliansmith87”)[1], where he is best known through a series of humorous videos. A typical video ends with Smith’s famous phrase: “I made this for you!”.

His comedy style varies from dark and sinister to hyper and often overdramatic. His humor is decidedly British, reminiscent of Monty Python in terms of falsetto, cross-dressing, etc.

Smith is also known to possess several other alter-egos, as he often portrays multiple characters throughout his videos. Smith’s friends, as well as other Youtube stars, have also made appearances, some serving as recurring characters.

Roles

  • Jeffery Dallas is the mentally-challenged “cousin” of Julian Smith, who is often seen singing such random songs as “Jellyfish” and “Red Eye Flashes Twice” (both appearing as music videos).
  • Mr. Timn is a milkman seen in several of Smith’s videos. He will usually confront people through their window, before becoming distracted by something in the distance, where he wanders onto the road and is inevitably hit. He has reappeared multiple times, despite his deaths.

Spread

In April 2009, Smith uploaded a Youtube video entitled “25 Things I Hate About Facebook”, which inadvertently went viral and now has over six million views. The success of said video eventually lead him an appearance on The Tyra Banks Show and afterwards a proposal from Facebook itself in order to create a video within their headquarters. Julian Smith’s channel now currently has over 200 million views and over one million subscribers, making him the 19th must subscribed director on Youtube.

Such videos as “Malk”, “Racist Coffee”, and “Hot Kool Aid” have also earned Smith viral success. Many of his videos have been featured on ABC, Funny or Die, the Huffington Post, etc.

External References

[1]YouTube – Julian Smith’s channel


The Election Isn't Over Yet.

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I’m sorry, but did Romney already lose? Oh, that’s right. The election isn’t even over yet. In fact, it’s only 86%. Does not having the lead at 86% count as a loss? Is that what you’re saying? Because if you’re saying that I can assure you that you’re wrong. Why would you make this topic when the election is still on? Romney are still playing right now and they have been the best party in the US for how many terms now? He’s against one of the worst challengers in history who just happen to have a lead because they’re feeding off the projections of the voters. But you know what? They still fucking suck. Romney is one of the best fucking candidates in the Republican party, it was 50/50 last month and would of won the debate if the nigger didn’t cheat. Maybe you should shut the fuck up before you make retarded topics like this. You know why? Because you’re going to be embarrassed when Romney wins and someone bumps this topic. Oh look at that, Romney just got Pennsylvania, just like he did last election. Are you a fucking drunk? Are you retarded? Are you autistic? You are a fucking idiot and you should never make a topic on this board again and I’m fucking serious. I almost have a feeling you’re the only guy making all these anti-Romney topics because you’re a faggot hater who doesn’t like the Republicans because they’re good. Fuck you, be good at something in YOUR life and then maybe try to troll these fucking teams on the board, like I give a fuck. It’s so easy to spot out your threads now, you’re a retard. Always doing stupid shit like this. Why don’t you try to be a good poster? Just for once? For once in your fucking life try not to make a topic like this. That’s just you, you’re always right at getting it wrong. Fuck you. You are nothing…

Camper/Camping

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Camping is to play in Multiplayer games, get to a corner and wait to enemies until they pass and get a easy kill having the opponent no chance of surviving.
It is considered completely legit gaming at any point, but for the players its annoying due the lack of skill or difficulty that takes to camp.
This is a more frequent phenomenon in Call of Duty game series, because of their remarkably small maps and young age players.
It is being related to overpowered weapons and the use of silencers who make it impossible to spot campers because when they shoot there is no sight of position of the player.
The most frequent camping victims are rushers.
Rushers are players who keep on movement permanently through the whole game killing every player on sight, this moving property makes them an easy target for campers because they cant see them. Rushing is also likely to be called Run n Gun .
Camping is also present in Battlefield game series, but called as ``Stationary Engagement´´. The difference between both is that players use sniper for frontal cover and not as self protection, it also happens when both teams are stuck between a target (Defenders and Attackers) and they have no option to take cover and try to eliminate hostiles and proceed when possible.

Camper Properties

Hit Cans:
Hit Cans are the properties of several FPS that makes bullet trajectory be completely perfect, having infinite speed and no single bullet drop, that makes sniping camping even more easy to success
Corners:
They are the preferred spots for campers given the great visibility
Silencers:
Used to avoid giving their location at shooting

Reception

Campers are bad received at gaming communities because they can get easy score without effort.Campers defend themselves calling it a tactic but other players critic the lack of it.

JuliensBlog

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Who is that?

JuliensBlog is a YouTube channel created by german Julien Sewering, who uploads satirical videos.

About Julien Sewering

Julien Sewering is a german rapper and editor assistent, who worked since 2009 for VideoMedia GmbH Kiel, a TV service german and international public broadcasters.[1]

The YouTube Channel

Because of his editing skills, Julien created a YouTube channel on May 29, 2011 under the username “JuliensBlog”[2] including satirical vlogs about things he hates. First three videos were rants about the sealth action video game Metal Gear Solid but all of them three are listed as “private videos”. Even his opinions are really strong satiric rants, he received good reviews. He was first recognized 2 months later on the german knowledge sharing website Raid-Rush.ws.[3]

Popularity

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After making three rants about german news and entertainment reporter BILD’s magazines, the second one was deleted, he uploaded a “rap analysing” video to YouTube on August 21, 2001 about one of germany’s most famous rappers “Haftbefehl”, because of Haftbefehl’s bad, absurd and anti-semitismic lyrics and also because of his stupidity and egoism.[4]

Since then, he received many views and first appeared by another famous german YouTube group “ApplewarPictures”. Applewar uploaded a “Schwachsin Hoch 5” episode on October 24, 2011 and Julien is featured after 4 minutes of the video.

On January 29, 2012, Clixoom uploaded a “Wortspiel” video with Haftbefehl about the word Kanake (a mediterranean looking foreigner) and referenced the word with JuliensBlog.

JuliensBlogBattle

The JuliensBlogBattle is a contest announced by Julien about dissing JuliensBlog with a good diss track and music video and rap-battling other candidates. More information about it >>> click here<<<

External Links

[1]Editor assistent Julien Sewering

[2]Julien’s YouTube Channel

[3]First Discussion about JuliensBlog

[4]Wikipedia page of Haftbefehl

That Guy With The Glasses

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[w.i.p.]

About

That Guy With The Glasses is a reviewer website, founded by Founder of parent company Channel Awesome[1], and star reviewer Doug Walker, among others.

History

That Guy With The Glasses was first created after Doug Walker, of Nostalgia Critic fame, left Youtube because of numerous videos being taken down due to copyright infringement. Afterwards, Doug Walker approached long term friend and current CEO of Channel Awesome, Mike Michaud[2], with the idea of creating their own site to house the videos. As the site grew in popularity, other reviewers were introduced, with the first ones being The Last Angry Geek[3], Suede[4] and Film Brain[5].

Traffic

Popular Reviewers

Doug Walker

Doug Walker is the site’s main reviewer, as well as it’s founder. He is most famous for creations Nostalgia Critic, where he reviews bad nostalgic movies, and 5 Second Videos, where he attempts to explain a subject matter in a short amount of time, among others.

Linkara

Linkara (Real name Lewis Lovhaug), is one of the other main site reviewers, and mainly reviews Comics. Linkara’s main show is Atop the fourth Wall, where he reviews comic books, but unlike other reviewers, his reviews have a narrative behind them.

Todd In The Shadows

Todd in The Shadows (real name Todd Nathanson) is one of the sites music reviewers. His main shows are Pop Song reviews and One Hit Wonderland, where he looks back and explain the success of old One Hit Wonder songs. The main feature of his reviews is that he wears a mask and sit’s in the dark, in order to hide his face.

Search Interest

External References

[1]Wikipedia – Channel Awesome

[2]Channel Awesome wiki – Mike Michaud

[3]Channel Awesome wiki – The Last Angry Geek

[4]Channel Awesome wiki – Suede

[5]Channel Awesome wiki – Film Brain

Kim Dotcom

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[Work in progress]

About

Kim Dotcom is an Internet entrepreneur known for founding the online file storage website Megaupload.

Online History

[Researching]

Megaupload Seizure



Reputation

Personal Life

Kim Dotcom was born Kim Schmitz on January 21st, 1974 in Kiel, West Germany. According to Wired,[1] he legally changed his surname to Dotcom sometime in 2005 in honor of

Search Interest

External References

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