About

Cosplay Costumes in the Changing Room, known as “It looks as if a character is taking a bath by putting his/her outfits in the changing room” (Japanese: コスプレ衣装を風呂場に置くとキャラが入浴してるように見える) in Japan, is a photo fad of putting cosplay costumes in the changing room (or bath room) and dreaming characters bath scenes.

This revolutionary cosplay costumes usage that could be enjoyed without wearing, is spreading among Japanese internet users via Twitter.

Origin

The trigger of this fad was a photo posted by a Japanese female twitter user Kyouya (恭也) on October 30th, 2012^[1] (shown below, left). Because she was inspired by an other user’s delusional tweet of the same effect on her timeline, she put it into an actual practice by cosplay costumes and glasses of her favorite character, or Husbando, Shintaro Midorima from a Japanese manga Kuroko’s Basketball^[2] (shown below, right).

This tweet had scored 3500+ retweets and 1300+ favorites in its first week due to the reversal idea of enjoying cosplay without wearing costumes and its inspiring aspect.

Spread

As of November 8th, 2012, many people inspired by Kyouya’s photo are posting photos to Twitter by the same style.

Those images and people’s activities are listed in Naver Matome archives^[3][4] and Togetter entry^[5]. Besides, this online phenomena is reported by Japanese online news sites J-CAST News^[6] and ITmedia.^[7]

Notable Examples

Hatsune Miku
Yuyuko Saigyouji from Touhou Project
Hisashi Mitsui from Slam Dunk
Madoka Kaname /w Kyubey
from Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Beach Restaurant Lemon’s T-shirt
/w Ikamusume
Star Wars

Search Interest

[Not Available]

External References

naruto

[NOTE: Entry Under construction]

About

Ebaum’s World is a website used to share photos, games and flash animations. Launched in 2001 by Eric “ebaum” Bauman, the site has a large userbase that has at times been influential on the development of memes and participated in raids and events that would later gain notoriety. Ebaum’s was bought by the ZVUE corporation for $16 million in 2008. Since then, Eric Bauman has claimed that he and the original Ebaum’s World staff have been fired from the site and the company continues to use his name without his consent, giving others the impression he is still employed. ^[1]

Reputation Online

h.3 Content Thievery

Similar to 9gag Ebaum’s World has a generally negative reputation among other online communities. Ebaum’s is reputed to frequently post content from other websites without permission or attributing it to its original author. Since Ebaum’s watermarks its content, this gives users the impression that the content originated on Ebaum’s. Sites that experienced this regularly include SomethingAwful,4chan,YTMND,Newgrounds,Weebl’s Stuff and Albino Blacksheep.^[2]

Ebaum’s has also seen threats of lawsuit from companies like Viacom ^[3] for hosting content without permission.

Feud with SomethingAwful

The feud between users of SomethingAwful and Ebaum’s World purportedly dates back to 2005, when Ebaum’s began using images from SomethingAwful’s popular PhotoshopPhriday without permission. ^[4] Another key incident what escalated tensions between the two communities occurred on May 26, 2006, when SomethingAwful was forced to begin using a more invasive watermark by a surge of images hosted in Ebaums that were cropped to remove the SomethingAwful watermark.

Content Commercialization

Ebaum’s has been criticized by multiple persons for attempting to make a profit off user-submitted content, which often isn’t theirs to begin with. Ebaum’s maintains an online store selling Ebaums merchandise. An attempt to make a TV show, hosted on Fox, featuring highlights of Ebaum’s content, was begun in 2006. At this time, it is reported that the webmaster of Albino Blacksheep was contacted by members of the show’s production team, who requested permission to use the site’s content without informing him what it was for. After this appeal was rejected, the project faded into obscurity.

References

^[1]Eric Bauman’s Blog
^[2]Wikipedia Article on Ebaum’s, Section Copyright Infringment
^[3]court TV becomes truTV
^[4]Wikipedia Article on Ebaum’s, Section Copyright Infringment

About

SigSig is a MAKINA styled song composed and arranged by japanese DJ kors k (real name Kosuke Saito). This song became one of the popular BGMs for YouTube Poop Music Videos on YouTube and for MAD videos on Nico Nico Douga.

Origin

The song was included in Konami’s BEMANI rhythm game series “Beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPYSKY”, which was released in July 13, 2005.

Spread

Google has 336’000 results, YouTube has 1.860 results and under the tag “sigsig” on Nico Nico Douga, there are 403 videos.

MADs

[OP isn’t very good at such things. Request Editorship]

First MAD videos using the music video began with 再現MAD (Re-Production MAD), which consists re-animating or re-drawing an Anime Opening or an animation. Later, it began to trigger in 音MAD (Sound MAD) and then in YTPMVs.

Mowtendoo’s Emoticon Fad

The song is also used in a popular fad started by Mowtendoo on YouTube, a MAD creator and the creator of a YTMND fad Ualuealuealeuale, consisting taking a source with a facial expression, slow down it’s speed and appearing an Emoticon in the middle of the video, that corresponds the facial expression worn by the subject.

W.I.P. + requesting backup

copypasta from wikipedia:

“The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for US$1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator. The Wall Street Journal has commented that the site inspired other websites that sell pixels.^[2][3]
Launched on 26 August 2005, the website became an Internet phenomenon. The Alexa ranking of web traffic peaked at around 127; as of 18 December 2009, it is 35,983.^[4] On 1 January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for auction on eBay. The auction closed on 11 January with a winning bid of $38,100 that brought the final tally to $1,037,100 in gross income. His website was also featured in the book “Cool Tech Gadgets, Games, Robots, and the Digital World”.
During the January 2006 auction, the website was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack and ransom demand, which left it inaccessible to visitors for a week while its security system was upgraded. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Wiltshire Constabulary investigated the attack and extortion attempt"

About

Drunk Nate Silver refers to both a Twitter hashtag and and novelty accounts that are associated with tweets describing what the New York Times statistician Nate Silver^[1] would do under the influence of alcohol. The trend took off shortly after he correctly predicted the outcome of the 2012 Presidential Election in all fifty states.

Origin

Drunk Nate Silver is riding the subway, telling strangers the day they will die

— Dan Levitan (@levitandan) November 8, 2012

Spread

On November 7th, the phrase “Drunk Nate Silver” was mentioned on Twitter 9,163 times^[7] and the corresponding hashtag was used 3045 times^[8] in tweets jesting that the statistician was psychic and could predict the future. On November 8th, the trend was covered by several internet culture blogs and news sites including Gawker^[9], the Huffington Post^[10], CNN^[11], Buzzfeed^[12], the Inquisitr^[13], the Washington Post^[14], the Awl^[15], the Atlantic^[16], Wired^[17] and MSN Now.^[18] It was also discussed on message boards including MMO Champion^[19] and the Democratic Underground.^[20] The next day, more coverage of the trend appeared on The Week^[21] and NPR affiliate Capital Public Radio.^[22]

Notable Examples

Twitter Feeds

Search Interest

[Not Currently Available]

External References

About

Carl Sagan was an American science professor at Cornell University that specialized in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. He is well known for his popular science books and for hosting and co-writing the 1980s television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Sagan’s narration has often been featured in space-related videos on YouTube and he is often heralded as a champion of science on websites like Reddit and 4chan.

Online History

On April 2nd, 2007, YouTuber darknlooking uploaded a video titled “Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot,” featuring a slideshow of space photographs accompanied by Carl Sagan’s narration from the audio book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Within the next five years, the video accumulated over 2 million views and 8,500 comments.

In 2009, Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan launched the “Carl Sagan Portal” website, promoting the Sagan family’s ideas and work. On September 17th, YouTuber melodysheep uploaded the first Symphony of Science video (shown below), featuring auto-tuned footage from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series. Within three years, the video accumulated nearly 8 million views and 30,000 comments.

On October 26th, The website CarlSaganDay.com^[5] was launched in preparation for the November 9th celebration of Sagan’s birthday. The holiday was started by Center for Inquiry,^[4] a non-profit organization which encourages evidence-based examination of pseudo-scientific practices. On November 16th, Xkcd^[7] published a webcomic titled “Sagan-Man,” featuring a man who is given the powers and abilities of Carl Sagan (shown below).

On January 9th, 2011, Reid Gower^[6] launched the Sagan Series^[2] educational project which aimed to promote scientific literacy with videos inspired by Carl Sagan (shown below). On February 2nd, a Facebook^[3] page for the series was created, which accumulated over 60,000 likes within two years.

Sagan is frequently mentioned as a joke on the /r/circlejerk^[11] subreddit, referencing the deceased scientist’s popularity on Reddit. As of November 9th, 2012, the top “Carl Sagan” page on Facebook^[12] has accumulated over 172,000 likes.

Notable Images

Sagan has often been the subject of image macros and animated GIFs, many of which reference his advocacy of using the drug marijuana as a means of intellectual inspiration. Additional examples can be found on Cheezburger^[9]and Tumblr^[10] under the tag “#carl sagan.”

Reputation

Sagan became associated with the catchphrase “billions and billions” after being impersonated by Johnny Carson onThe Tonight Show (shown below). Sagan claimed the only time he ever used the phrase was in a passage in the book Cosmos. This inspired the creation of the sagan unit of measurement, which is defined as a number equal to at least four billion.

“A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars--billions upon billions of stars.”

This inspired the creation of the sagan unit of measurement, which is defined as a number equal to at least four billion.

Sagan was known for being politically active and spoke out against Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” nuclear missile defense initiative in 1983. After the Reagan administration dismissed a Soviet moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons as a fabrication, Sagan and other protesters were arrested outside of a United States nuclear testing facility in Nevada.

Advocacy of Marijuana Use

Sagan was an advocate for using the drug marijuana and wrote an essay under the pseudonym “Mr. X,” explaining how the substance provided him with intellectual inspiration. His widow Ann Druyan became a member of the board of directors on NORML, a non-profit organization which aims to achieve legalization of the recreational use of cannabis.

Personal Life

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 9th, 1934. In 1957, he married biologist Lynn Margulis and had two children before they split. In 1968, he married the artist Linda Salzman, with whom he had one child. In 1981, he married the author Ann Druyan and had two more children. On December 20th, 1996, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62 after suffering from myelodysplasia.

Notable Videos

Search Interest

External References

It actually originated on livestreams of MLP S03E01 (Mainly the Otaku Ascended). During the commercial breaks there was always at least one commercial for Gak and in one case it repeated itself right when it first ended. Many of bronies found it amusing/annoying/just plain weird and flooded livestream chat with entries like ‘GAK! It’s Gaaaaaaak!‘, ’Gak is the new Smooze’, ‘Gak is best pony’, ‘The final villain of this season will be the Gak!’ or just with spamming of ‘GAAAK’.

One of the earliest images posted of Gak is http://www.memecreator.org/static/images/memes/731866.jpg

About

James “Kibo” Parry^[1] is a humorist who was an early Internet celebrity for his wacky hijinks on Usenet in the late 1980s and early 1990s.^[2][3][4]

Online History

Kibo Is God

Kibo would quickly respond to any post that mentioned his name, using grep to search the entire Usenet feed for such posts. This led to the joking impression that Kibo was an omniscient being akin to the Usenet Oracle, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, and Bob. This in turn led to the creation of alt.religion.kibology^[5][6] by Kibo and his fans.

Kibo’s Signature

Kibo’s posts would often be followed by an incredibly long signature^[7] as a parody of the increasingly detailed and self-aggrandizing signatures of other Internet users.

Happynet Proclamation

In 1992, Kibo issued the Happynet Proclamation^[8] proposing to reorganize Usenet into three top-level domains for “bozo”, “non-bozo”, and “mega-bozo” discussion groups.

1992 Presidential Campaign

Kibo ran a fake online campaign for President in 1992 to parody the strong third-party showing of Ross Perot. An FTP archive stored copies of Kibo’s online statements alongside the speeches of Clinton, Bush, and Perot, and a copy of this archive was briefly served by the official Internet site of the White House until the Libertarian Party complained about the inclusion of Kibo’s statements while their own candidate’s statements were excluded.^[9]

Reputation

Kibo was profiled in about two dozen newspaper and magazine articles from 1993 to 1997^[9], beginning with a September 1993 profile in Wired Magazine.^[10]

External References

^[1]Kibo – Kibo’s web site

^[2]Wikipedia – James Parry

^[3]c2wiki – JamesKiboParry

^[4]TVTropes – Kibo

^[5]Usenet – alt.religion.kibology

^[6]Wikipedia – Kibology

^[7]Birdhouse Arts Collective – Kibo’s .signature file

^[8]Fun_People archive – Happynet Proclamation

^[9]Kibo – Kibo’s Vanity Page

^[10]Wired Magazine – Electric Word / September 1993

Origin

Joan the silencer has become a meme based on a picture from the 2012 Republican National Convention, in which a delegate, known as Joan, holds a piece of paper in front of a delegate from Texas while he was announcing the vote count. It was largely expected to be very pro Ron Paul, as he is a congressman from Texas. The RNC establishment, who must be sadists, did not allow Ron Paul to speak or be nominated at the convention because he would have beaten Mitt Romney, and likely subsequently Obama.

Spread

The Cacaman was an american artist that parodied songs to the theme of “Poop”.

He started with a page on MySpace on May 13 2006 and released a Album there :
“Shittin on the industry” with 17 Tracks which he got a little celebrity

He created his Youtube account on July 30 2007 and made 4 videos :

- The Cacaman – Ain’t Got Much of a Smile (Reached 577k views before deletion)
- CRAPDAT!!!!!!!! (Soulja boy -Crank dat PARODY) by Cacaman (Reached 977k views before deletion)
- The Cacaman – Nastycrap (Justin Timberlake -Sexyback PARODY) (Reached 210k views before deletion)

The 4th was a Family Trip Road video that weren’t being popular (as is more a family video).

The videos started to being popular around the web when suddenly on April 2008, the artist cleaned all his artists pages (Youtube, MySpace,…) and explain his reasons on his Myspace page ( http://www.myspace.com/cacamanmusic ) that he was ruining his life with his small career, that he wouldn’t continue to make angry Jesus and God…

Since then, No more words has been heard from him. All it rest is his songs on small websites and Archives.

Overview

Operation Kinder is an online contest to vote on the choice of an image of a child to be displayed on the boxes of Kinder chocolate bars in the country of Kazakhstan. The Russian website poll was subsequently raided by a by 4chan users, flooding the poll with votes for an image of a smirking child thought to be named ‘Victor’.

Background

On November 11th, 2012, an anonymous 4chan ^[1] user submitted a post calling for others to vote for ‘Victor’ using a chart with a step-by-step procedure and description on how to vote for ‘Victor’ in the poll, due to it being in Russian, with the hopes of getting him ranked #1 with over 8000 votes and subsequently put on the box.

The image of ‘Victor’ has previously been associated with an image macro series called ‘Death Child’ ^[3], using a similar style to macros like PSTD Clarinet Boy and Vengeance Dad.

On the same day, a link to the the procedural image was submitted to the /r/4chan ^[2] subreddit titled “Operation Kinder. It has already reached 25th place by the time this post was created.”. Hours later, a follow up link was submitted ^[5] titled “Operation Kinder Success” displaying the achievement of over 8000 votes and first place for the image.

Notable Developments

Still developing

External References

About

Imgur (pronounced imager, stylised imgur) is an online image hosting service, launched in 2009 by Alan Schaaf^[1]. It is primarily known for its free hosting and heavy use by the news aggregation website reddit.

History

On February 23, 2009, Alan Schaaf created the image hosting Imgur. On the same day, Alan (Reddit handle MrGrim^[2]) posted a thread on the /r/reddit.com subreddit on Reddit called “My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn’t suck. What do you think?” containing a link to Imgur^[3]. The post received over 2100 upvotes and over 670 comments since first posted. Within the first year of launch, Imgur has “sprouted into a hotbed of online culture”, serving almost 20 million pageviews a month^[4].

Traffic and Bandwidth

According to Imgur’s monthly site statistics^[5], for the monthly period between 11th of October to 10th of November, 61,627,977 images were uploaded and image views were 29,976,799,540. Bandwidth used has reached 3.67 petabytes. The site has an Alexa rank of 98 in November 2012^[6].

Features

The most attractive feature of Imgur is its simple uploading feature, as opposed to competing image hosting services like Photobucket and Imageshack. Imgur also has an Application Programming Interface (API) where third-party developers can manipulate the full functionality of the site, to create their own services like web applications and mobile applications^[7]. The site also has a PRO feature, which raises the image hosting limit to unlimited (as opposed to 255 images for standard accounts)^[8]. Imgur also has some uploading tools for web browsers (Firefox and Chrome) and Content Management Services such as Wordpress^[9].

External References

^[1]Wikipedia – Imgur

^[2]Reddit – User MrGrim

^[3]Reddit /r/reddit.com – My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn’t suck. What do you think?

^[4]MediaITE – Viral Sensation In One Year: A Q&A With Imgur Founder Alan Schaaf

^[5]Imgur – Site Statistics One Month

^[6]Alexa – imgur.com Site Info

^[7]Imgur – API

^[8]Imgur – Upgrade to Imgur Pro

^[9]Imgur – Uploading Tools

About

Origin

W.I.P.

About

Soul Searching Sophomore is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a lonely-looking man in front of a group of college students. The captions typically include statements related to the philosophical notion of identity.

Origin

A stock photo featuring several students talking in the background with a lone student wearing a melancholy expression in the foreground (shown below, left) was uploaded to the stock photography website Big Stock Photo^[2] on September 30th, 2011. Redditor jtkamp19 submitted a post titled “Soul Searching Sophomore” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[1] subreddit on June 11th, 2012, which featured the same stock photo accompanied by the caption “Would introduce myself / If I knew who I was” (shown below, right). Within the next five months, the post received over 12,500 up votes and 360 comments.

Spread

On June 12th, 2012, the “Soul Searching Sophomore” single topic blog was launched on Tumblr,^[5] which reblogged Redditor jtkamp19’s image macro. The same day, the @SoulSearchSoph Twitter account was created, featuring captions from the image macro series.

Would introduce myself, if I knew who I was.

— Soul Searching Soph (@SoulSearchSoph) June 12, 2012

Also on June 12th, 9gag^[4] user animuxurfy submitted an image macro with the caption “‘Sith with someone you don’t know’ / So I sat alone” (shown below, left) to the Internet humor site. Within five months, the post received over 22,800 up votes and 4,400 Facebook shares. On November 10th, Redditor heitsamp submitted a post titled “On my way to a first date” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[3] subrredit, featuring an image macro with the caption “‘Just be yourself’ / I would if I knew who I was” (shown below, right). Within 48 hours, the post received over 12,700 up votes and 400 comments.

Notable Examples

Additional examples can be found on Tumblr^[6] under the tag “#soul searching sophomore.” As of November 12th, 2012, the “Soul Searching Sophomore” Quickmeme^[7] page has accumulated over 200 submissions.

Search Interest

Not available.

External References

David Howell Petraeus is an American former military officer and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 4, 2010 to July 18, 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 13, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as Commanding General, Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I) from February 10, 2007, to September 16, 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.

Extramarital affair and resignation:
According to Petraeus associate Steven A. Boylan, Petraeus began an affair with Paula Broadwell, principal author of his biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, several months after his August 2011 return to civilian life. Petraeus ended the affair in the summer of 2012.

The FBI began to investigate after Jill Kelley, a longstanding friend of Petraeus and an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base, which is home to the headquarters of the United States Central Command, complained of harassing emails she was receiving. After the emails were traced to Broadwell, investigators noted that Broadwell appeared to be exchanging intimate messages with an email account belonging to Petraeus, instigating an investigation into whether that account had been hacked into or was someone posing as Petraeus.

At about 5 p.m. on November 6, 2012, the FBI advised James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, about the investigation. Clapper called Petraeus and, according to the Washington Post, “urged him to resign.” Clapper notified the White House on November 7. After being briefed on November 8, President Obama summoned Petraeus to the White House where Petraeus offered his resignation. Obama accepted the resignation on November 9, and Petraeus cited the affair in announcing that same day that he would be resigning as CIA Director

[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus]

Overview

Papa John’s Boycott refers to an online campaign against the take-out and pizza delivery restaurant chain Papa John’s Pizza. The boycott was launched in November of 2012 in response to statements by Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter regarding the health care reform legislation known as “Obamacare”.

Background

Notable Developments

Scumbag John Schnatter

Search Interest

External References

^[1]Quickmeme – Scumbag John Schnatter

“That’s Cute” is an internet catchphrase commonly seen on image macros. The phrase usually applies to a comparison of two objects or humans, with one being of a superior degree over the other in a particular aspect often followed by said phrase in a sarcastic manner.

The phrase can be applied to relatively anything, as it is not confined to one particular meme or image alone. In fact, it is commonly paired with the notorious Wonka meme, as the latter is also very sarcastic in nature.

Spread

Although the origin of this particular meme is currently unknown, its initial spread began somewhere between 2008-2009. (Also considering how the phrase may have been used even before the internet.) Several sites during this time introduced the quote, “You think I care? That’s cute!”, which may possibly have lead to the use of the phrase throughout the internet.

Google search statistics show that searches of this particular phrase reached a peak in 2005, but the image macros had not appeared until a few years later.

Notable Examples

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About

Interior Monologue Captioning is a type of image captioning that is used by randomly dispersing text on an often unrelated image to reflect what the subject is thinking or feeling, often using the Comic Sans font. The captions are mostly, if not always, used to achieve comedic effect. Most of the time, the words used in the caption are misspelled and poor grammar is used in them, adding to the comedy.

Origin

[Researching]
Not much is known of the origin of this meme, but it is generally accepted that it started on the social mircoblogging site Tumblr.

Spread

Site: Shiba Confessions

Shiba Confessions^[1] is a single topic blog featuring image macros of Shiba Inu with the overlaid text containing interior monologue captioning of what the Shiba is supposedly thinking. Created on July 7th, 2012, the blog originated from an idea by the now deactivated Shibaman tumblr blog.^[2] As of November 11th, 2012, the blog counts 100 pages in size.

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff^[3] is a side project and intentionally terrible webcomic about the two titular characters and the surreal and nonsensical adventures they have. Created by Homestuck creator Andrew Hussie, the comic became popular through it spelling mistakes, copy and paste graphics, and bizarre settings and punchlines, making it qualify as an example of intentional so bad it’s good.

Notable examples

External References

^[1]Tumblr – Shiba Confessions

^[2]Tumblr – I’m doing this

^[3]Mspaintadventures – Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

About

Claire Danes Cry Face Project is a Pinterest pinboard featuring screen captures of the actress Claire Danes^[5] crying in various films.

Origin

In January of 2012, Pinterest user and Brooklyn-based writer Jessica Hulett^[4] created The Claire Danes Cry Face Project^[1] pinboard. The first pin featured a screen capture of actress Claire Danes crying as she appears in the Showtime television drama series Homeland, which was originally posted on the single topic blog The Cry Face^[3] on December 15th, 2011 (shown below).

Precursor

On April 15th, 2010, a single topic blog titled “The Cry Face: Too Funny to Take Seriously” was created on Tumblr,^[11] which featured photographs and screen captures of various actors crying. On October 12th, 2011, two screen captured images of Claire Danes were posted on the blog (shown below),^[12] receiving over 260 notes within the next year.

Spread

The corresponding “Claire Danes Cry Face Project” Tumblr blog^[2] was launched on October 5th, 2012. The first post was a reblogged photo of Danes playing Angela Chase in the 1990s teen drama series My So-Called Life. In the following week, images from the Tumblr blog and Hulett’s pinboard were highlighted on Slacktory^[6], Buzzfeed^[7], The Huffington Post,^[8] The New Yorker^[15] and The Daily Dot.^[10] On October 31st, the entertainment blog Vulture^[18] published a post titled “Dress Up As Claire Danes’ Cry Face for Halloween,” which featured a printable face mask of Claire Danes crying (shown below).

Notable Examples

Supercut

On October 17th, Slacktory^[9] published a post titled “The Claire Danes Cry Face: A Slacktory Supercut,” which featured an original supercut montage of Claire Danes crying in ten different films (shown below). On the following day, the video was highlighted by the women’s interest blog Jezebel,^[14] Vulture^[16] and the pop culture blog Grantland.^[17]

Saturday Night Live

On November 10th, the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live aired a parody of the television drama series Homeland, in which the actress Anne Hathaway mocked the emotional instability of Danes’ character Carrie Matheson (shown below). On November 12th, the tech news blog Web Pro News^[13] published an article about the skit titled “Anne Hathaway Takes on Claire Danes’ Cry Face.”

Search Interest

External References