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Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein Ads refer to a series of black-and-white print advertisements and a video commercial for the American fashion company Calvin Klein featuring pop star Justin Bieber.

Origin

On January 6th, 2015, Calvin Klein released a black-and-white advertisement in which Bieber is shown playing the drums and embracing model Lara Stone (shown below).

The same day, Bieber posted several print ads from the Calvin Klein campaign on Instagram^[1] (shown below).

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On January 7th, 2015, the Yes It’s Funny YouTube channel uploaded a parody of the Calvin Klein ad, which gained over 160,000 views and 45 comments in the first month (shown below).

On the following day, the pop culture blog BreatheHeavy^[4] published a leaked unretouched photo from one of the Calvin Klein ads, which showed Bieber’s crotch and musculature had been enlarged with photo editing software. The images were subsequently removed from the article, which claimed Bieber’s legal team sent a cease and desist letter threatening legal action.

On January 9th, a GIF featuring the before-and-after retouched Calvin Klein ad was submitted to the /r/gifs^[5] subreddit. On January 10th, Redditor Notvfunny submitted a post calling for viewers to photoshop one of the Bieber ads to the /r/photoshopbattles^[3] subreddit, where it gathered more than 3,700 votes (85% upvoted) and 1,100 comments in two weeks.

On January 17th, Saturday Night Live featured a sketch mocking the Calvin Klein ad, in which actress Kate McKinnon impersonates Bieber while wearing a white tank top and Calvin Klein underwear (shown below).

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High Impact Sexual Violence is a series of image macros featuring close-ups of the faces of characters, typically animated, with the phrase “High Impact Sexual Violence” photoshopped onto the bottom of the image as a caption.

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Miss Universe Selfie Photobomb Fiasco refers to a backlash against Miss Lebanon, Sally Greige, for appearing in a selfie photograph with Miss Israel, Doron Matalon, in January 2015.

Background

On January 11th, 2015, Matalon posted a photograph on her Instagram^[2] feed in which she is seated next to Greige along with two other women (shown below). In the first 10 days, the post gained over 2,000 likes and 320 comments.

Notable Developments

Miss Lebanon’s Response

After the photo was posted, the Lebanese television station Al Jadeed joked that Greige should have known that Lebanon and Israel are enemies.^[1] On January 17th, Greige published a Facebook^[3] status update claiming that Matalon jumped into her photo and took a selfie without her permission.

“was having a photo with Miss Japan, Miss Slovenia and myself; suddenly Miss Israel jumped in, took a selfie, and put it on her social media.”

Miss Israel’s Response

On January 18th, Matalon posted a screencaptured image of a news headline about the controversy to Instagram, along with a statement expressing her disappointment with Greige (shown below). Within 72 hours, the post gathered more than 1,700 notes.

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Bee Shrek Test in the House is a parody fandom from an hypothetical crossover of Shrek, Bee Movie, Johnny Test and Cory in the House.

Origin

Bee Shrek Test in the House was created as a counter to the SuperWhoLock fandom, an union from Supernatural, Doctor Who and Sherlock fandoms.

Overview

2015 State of the Union Address was the annual presidential speech delivered by the United States President Barack Obama to a joint session of the 114th U.S. Congress at the House of Representatives chamber on January 20th, 2015.

Background

On January 20th, 2015, President Obama delivered his last annual State of the Union Address as the incumbent leader of the United States, which was broadcast on television and livestreamed online. During the speech, Obama discussed a wide range of governmental agendas and initiatives to tackle issues and concerns at home and overseas, such as the revitalization of the American economy, containment of extremist terrorist groups like the Islamic State (IS) and easier access to higher education programs, as well as a new tax policy on the Wall Street.

Notable Developments

Improvised Quip

Obama momentarily deviated from the speech script after receiving applause from Republicans for saying he had “no more campaigns to run,” adding “I know, because I won both of them” (shown below).

Proud Joe Biden

During the address, a screen capture of Joe Biden wearing a smug facial expression began circulating on Twitter (shown below).

That day, Viner Dorsey Shaw uploaded a clip of Biden making the proud-looking face, which received upwards of 290,000 plays within 24 hours (shown below). That evening BuzzFeed^[2] published a compilation of “Proud Joe Biden” tweets.

Ernest Moniz’ Hair

At one point during the speech, the Funny Or Die Twitter feed posted a screen captured image of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz with the caption “Please show this guy again. #SOTU” (shown below, left). In less than 24 hours, the post garnered more than 3,100 favorites and 2,700 retweets. Other Twitter subsequently tweeted photos of Moniz, with many joking about his unique hairstyle (shown below, right).^[4]

Bread Bag Story

Following the address, Republican Senator Joni Ernst delivered the GOP rebuttal, during which she described wearing bread bags on her feet while walking to school as a child:

“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.”

On Twitter, many users joked about the bizarre story (shown below).^[5][6]

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, several news sites reported on the Internet’s response to the address, including The Daily What,^[3] Time,^[7]USA Today^[8] and Vibe.^[9]

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ISIS Crappy Collage Grand Prix (Japanese: ISISクソコラグランプリ) refers to the hashtag for photoshopping craze on Twitter that mock at Islamic State (IS), better known as their previous name ISIS in Japan. On January 2015, some silly Japanese Twitter users joined onto this controversial fad with no firm beliefs or concerns about victims.

Origin

On January 20th, 2015, Islamic State released a new video on YouTube that a masked member says the two Japanese hostages, Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa, will be killed within 72 hours unless Japan pays $200 million in ransom.^[1]

In response to this video, Japanese Twitter users began posting parodying photoshopping images mocking at IS around that day’s evening. One of the earliest instances made by @AKID_0831 had retweeted 7,700 times and got over 5,000 favorites within first 7 hours.^[2]

Background: Japan’s “self-responsibility” thought

Unlike Euro-American people, Japanese people tend to lack a sense of reality to Middle East issues since this non-christianity country doesn’t have considerable Muslim or Islamic immigrants issues and both Japan and Japan’s Self Defence Force in UN’s peacekeeping operations haven’t come under Islamic terrorism attack.

Additinally, one of the several reasons why Japanese people gave a cold response to those hostages was their “self-responsibility” thought cultivated throughout 2000s by several hostage crisis happened in Iraq or Afghanistan. Some of these incidents victims were not journalists, but radical peace/political activists or young thoughtless travelers, and hence they had no supportable causes to go to Middle East with ignoring the government’s adjurations. On the web, heavy criticisms to blame them as irresponsible idiots under the slogan “self-responsibility”, and even dead victims had few sympathetic responses.

Therefore, the sympathy toward to these two hostages which IS would expect didn’t grow among Japanese people, especially internet users keeping anonymity on the web, so much.

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Just few hours after the photoshopping fad started, the hashtag “#ISISCrappyCollageGrandPrix” (#ISISクソコラグランプリ) was spontaneously born.^[3] As well as previous Crappy Collage fads, many young thoughtless twitter users joined onto this bandwagon just for fun. Some of them provoked IS by sending those photos to Twitter accounts assumed to be IS members one, and drew these responses.

This crazy online storm was quickly covered even in English news media^[4][5] and English Al Jazeera^[6] in the following day.

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Editor’s note: This Twitter Feed may include explicit contents.

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Quake is a FPS game created by the developing company id Software with the help of John Romero, composer Trent Resnor as well as Nine Inch Nails, and Publishers GT Interactive. The Game was released for the MS-DOS, Steam, MAC OS, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and Linux.

In the single player campaign the game is an FPS game that is in which players must fight their way through maze type levels while encountering various monsters using various weapons and using various weapons. In the online multiplayer mode players that played on a myriad of different servers used their own computer to fight each other in an arena mode known as deathmatch and play a multiplayer version of the single player mode.

According to Metacritic Quake has received positive reviews, getting a 94/100 as of now.

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Quake II

Quake II is the sequel to the FPS game Quake unlike the first on the sequel was published by Activision and not GT Interactive. Quake II was composed by Sonic Mayhem, Bill Brown, Jer Sypult, and Brown and Rob Zombie. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, MAC OS, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Steam, and Linux.

The gameplay is similar to the first quake with the exception of the fact that the player is slower and can crouch. In Quake II New guns were added such as the blaster, Machine Gun, Chain Gun, Hyperblaster, Railgun and BFG10K. The game also has the inclusion of new power ups such as Invulnerability, Bandolier, Ammo Pack, Enviro-Suit, Rebreather, and Silencer. The game includes a HUB system and has much larger levels than the original game, the game also features CGI cutscenes. The game also includes the option for players to further customize their character.

The multiplayer in Quake II consists of multiple different gameplay styles which include free-for-all deathmatch game, a cooperative version of the single-player game, a 1 vs 1 match, or a Capture the Flag Mode.

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Public Freakout Videos are recorded footage of private individuals exhibiting extremely emotional or bizarre behavior in public, typically featuring loud arguments, mental breakdowns, vitriolic rants or intoxicated rambling.

Origin

One of the earliest public freakout videos was posted to YouTube on June 2nd, 2008, which featured what appears to be security camera footage of a man destroying several cubicles in an office (shown below). The video was later revealed to be a marketing hoax designed to promote the then-upcoming 2008 action thriller film Wanted.

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On November 6th, 2011, YouTuber Lazy TV uploaded a video clip of a child throwing a tantrum at a Toys R Us retail store after his mother refuses to purchase Pokemon cards (shown below). Within four years, the video garnered upwards of 860,000 views and 3,000 comments.

On October 12th, 2013, the /r/PublicFreakout^[1] subreddit was launched to share footage of “people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool or being weird in public.” In the first year, the subreddit gained over 56,700 subscribers. On May 24th, 2014, YouTuber Ben Videography uploaded a video titled “Public Freakout Compilation,” featuring clips from more than 30 different freakout videos (shown below, left). On July 27th, the /r/skateparkfreakout^[2] subreddit was created for videos featuring people angrily confronting skateboarders in public. On August 6th, the tech news site Motherboard^[3] published an article titled “The Internet is Losing its Shit Over Moms Losing Their Shit at Skate Parks,” which referenced the two subreddits. On September 8th, YouTuber Ben Videography uploaded a second public freakout compilation (shown below, right).

Notable Examples

Jason Russell’s Breakdown

Jason Russell’s Breakdown refers to video footage of co-founder of the nonprofit organization Invisible Children Inc. and the KONY 2012 movement Jason Russell ranting while naked on a sidewalk in San Diego, California (shown below).

Epic Why Guy

Following the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, a man was filmed yelling outside of a shopping center demanding to be told why it was closed. After noticing he was being filmed, he confronted the cameraman and asked not to be filmed.

Crazy Rhubarb Lady

Crazy Rhubarb Lady is the nickname given to a woman who rose to viral fame for her hostile, foul-mouthed rant after being confronted about stealing a neighbor’s rhubarb in a town in Iowa. A recording of the confrontation began circulating on the Internet after it was uploaded to YouTube in July of 2013.

Transit Fight Videos

Transit Fight Videos are amateur footage of altercation or arguments that take place while on public transportation. These videos are usually disseminated through video-sharing sites like LiveLeak and World Star Hip Hop, where the guidelines for content submissions tend to be less strictly enforced than that of YouTube.

Dunkin’ Donuts Customer Rant

Dunkin’ Donuts Customer Rant refers to a YouTube video uploaded in June 2013, featuring an enraged woman complaining about not receiving a receipt and directing various insults and racial epithets toward the coffeehouse chain staff.

Cheektowaga Mom’s Racist Rant

Cheektowaga Mom’s Racist Rant refers to a YouTube video uploaded in June 2014 of an enraged woman yelling racial slurs at a man in the parking lot outside of a dollar store after he allegedly scared her children by starting his car (shown below).

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“Well Meme’d” is an expression originating on 4chan’s sports board. The phrase came into use in January of 2015, and quickly spread, spawning several image macros.

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The phrase originated on /sp/, and quickly spread to other boards such as as /tv, and /v/.

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A script kiddie(also known as skid, skiddie, script bunny etc) is a unskilled person who uses scripts or programs to attack networks, systems and such. this term widely used among hackers to describe a newbie who is new to hacking and uses tools, or to describe kids who DDoS video game players or deface websites with ready made tools and scripts.

according to a Carnegie Mellon report prepared for the U.S. Department of Defense in 2005, script kiddies are defined as:

“The more immature but unfortunately often just as dangerous exploiter of security lapses on the Internet. The typical script kiddy uses existing and frequently well known and easy-to-find techniques and programs or scripts to search for and exploit weaknesses in other computers on the Internet--often randomly and with little regard or perhaps even understanding of the potentially harmful consequences”

Script kiddies use many programs, scripts and tools which are easy to find such as RATs, havij, SQLmap, metasploit framwork etc
to attack systems. A ‘skid’ is sometimes used to describe a person who writes poor/messy code or uses code that other people wrote.

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The Assassin’s Logo as seen above comes from game company Ubisoft’s long-running series Assassin’s Creed. It has become a subject of multiple deviations and reiterations, often given themes and motifs befitting a country or region. Occasionally the logo is themed with another fandom or series.

Origin

The logo comes from Ubisoft’s game Assassin’s Creed (2007)^[1], which is both the logo of the game itself as well as the logo of the Assassin’s, the secret organization that seeks freedom and peace by murdering Templars, individuals that wish to control and oppress the population.

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The logo spread just when the game series itself spread, especially when the series has made it clear that Assassin’s exist all over the world, in various different eras. The tag #assassin’s-creed-logo on tumblr displays multiple variations^[2].

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^[1]Wikipedia – Assassin’s Creed (video game)

^[2]tumblr – #assassin’s-creed-logo

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Glitter Bombing is a prank that involves dumping glitter particles on an unsuspecting victim. In the United States, the prank has been used as a form of protest against politicians who are opposed to same-sex marriage.

Origin

The earliest known glitter bombing occurred on May 17th, 2011, when political activist Nick Espinosa^[1] dumped glitter on former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrinch and his wife Callisata in protest of their opposition to same-sex marriage. That day, the Associated Press YouTube channel uploaded footage of the incident, receiving over 550,000 views and 4,100 comments in the next four years (shown below).

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On January 5th, 2012, YouTuber SheyaSite uploaded footage of political activist Vermin Supreme at the “Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum,” where he glitter bombed Republican pro-life activist Randall Terry, claiming Jesus told him to “make Randall Terry gay” (shown below, left). Over the next three years, the video accumulated more than 2.7 million views and 11,300 comments. On January 21st, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was glitter bombed at his primary headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the next two months, Santorum was glitter bombed an additional three times.

On February 1st, Republican president candidate Mitt Romney was glitter bombed during a rally in Eagan, Minnesota. On February 7th, he was glitter bombed a second time following a speech during the Colorado Primary (shown below, left). The activist was subsequently arrested and pleaded guilty to charges of “disturbing the peace” in April that year. On March 18th, 2013, YouTuber Edward Lawrence uploaded footage of actress Lindsay Lohan being gitter bombed while arriving at a courthouse in Los Angeles, California (shown below, right).

Glitter Shipping Services

In January 2015, the website ShipYourEnemiesGlitter^[2] was launched, which mails glitter bombs to a specified address for a fee of $9.99. On January 15th, YouTuber edamame uploaded footage of her father opening a spring-loaded glitter bomb tube sent from the website RuinDays.^[3] The following day, Redditor chillwithbill submitted the video to the /r/videos^[5] subreddit. Within one week, the video gained over 2.7 million views and the Reddit post gathered upwards of 5,000 votes (89% upvoted). On January 22nd, The Guardian^[4] reported that the ShipYourEnemiesGlitter site had sold for $85,000 on the Flippa online marketplace.

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Steam Funny Reviews are a series of game reviews done on the videogame software DRM^[9] retailer Steam, developed by Valve using their “Helpful customer reviews” function, a feature that has become popular for its tongue-in-cheek use, usually either for mocking the game or for praising/referencing a community fad.
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The Steam Review function was added^[1] in 2013.

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After the release of this feature, multiple tongue-in-cheek reviews started appearing in multiple games, shown more in AAA popular releases as well as controversial games.

With the increase in popularity of the reviews, multiple videogame review sites started making articles centered around explaining videogames based on humoristic steam reviews, one being on Kotaku^[2] which explained Skyrim based on reviews, followed by Complex^[3] and PC Gamer^[4].

On 14 January 2014, a link to a compilation of humoristic Dota 2 reviews was posted to the Dota 2 subreddit r/Dota2^[5], it has gathered 1001 upvotes and 169 comments, in late December 2013 a tumblr blog titled Steam-Reviews^[6] was made, as well as another one titled quality steam reviews^[7] in late June 2014, both compiling a series of funny steam reviews taking from a variety of games.

On 25 January 2014, a discussion on the Steam subreddit r/Steam^[10] was posted discussing whether or not Steam Joke Reviews were funny or were hindering the ability to get actual information on the game from real reviews.

On January 14, 2015, Valve added a “funny” button alongside the upvote and downvote button on Steam reviews to acknowledge the use of the reviews for satire.^[8]

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Dirty Confession Simulators are YouTube videos that feature anonymous confessions primarily from Tumblr fandom confession blogs or comment sections of fandom websites set to the format of thread simulators, where images of the confessions are shown, read with a text-to-speech program and set to he Overworld theme from the 1988 Nintendo game Super Mario Bros 2 soundtrack.

Confession Blogs/Anonymous Confessions

Confession Blogs are a type of single topic blog where people can submit confessions. While some sites require registration, most of these sites operate anonymously. On Tumblr, confession blogs are often populated by anonymous submissions and relegated to a certain topic or fandom.

Origin

Confession Simulators began appearing after YouTube users combined images from anonymous confession blogs with the format of Thread Simulators in 2012 (not long after the first non-4chan thread simulators surfaced).

One of the earliest known instances of the meme was uploaded in a video titled “Pony Confessions Simulator 1.0” by YouTuber Jackald on May 5th, 2012.

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On May 25th, YouTuber Malkouho uploaded another instance titled “Dirty Disney Confessions Thread Simulator v 1.0” featuring text-to-voice narrations of anonymous confessions describing sexual fantasies involving Disney characters found on Tumblr:

On June 2nd, YouTuber zeldadude3568425 uploaded a second compilation of My Little Pony-themed NSFW confessions titled “Pony Confessions Tumblr Simulator v99.9” as a follow-up, garnering more than 178,000 views in just two and a half years.

In 2012, dozens of similar “simulation thread” videos featuring text-to-voice narrations of erotic confessions on Tumblr were uploaded to YouTube, with several instances racking up over 100,000 views.

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Cuck is an internet slang term for cuckhold, and is used condescendingly to describe a male who is sexually inadequate or sexually submissive.

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Louis Cuck is a parody of American comedian Louis CK. It draws on and exaggerates CK’s stand up material by portraying him as a “cuck” and a crusader against white people. Louis Cuck frequently calls for white women to be sent to the “Interracial Breeding Grounds” where they will be impregnated by “BBC” (Big Black Cocks). Early portrayals of Louis Cluck trace back to 4chan’s /tv/ board, where threads usually consisted of greentext Louis Cuck stand up routines.

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“I Understood That Reference” is an expression typically used in online forums and comments as an affirmative acknowledgement of a pop culture reference or technical jargon said by another. The quote was originally said by Captain America in the 2012 Marvel superhero action film The Avengers.

Origin

In the film The Avengers, the quote appears in a scene wherein S.H.I.E.L.D operative Nick Fury (portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson) rhetorically asks his team how the villain Loki was able to mind control two of his agents as if they were the winged monkeys from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. While most other superheroes are unable to process the dated pop culture reference, Captain America (portrayed by Chris Evans), whose canonical setting overlaps with the time period when the film was originally releases, smugly responds by saying that he “understood that reference”.

Nick Fury: “I’d like to know how Loki was able to use [the Tesseract] to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.”

Captain America: “I understood that reference.”

The earliest known fan art tribute to the quote was submitted by Redditor GeneralBacon in a /r/funny post^[11] titled “that awesome moment when” on May 22nd, 2014. The post received more than 1,000 points in aggregate prior to its archival.

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On May 23rd, Redditor GeneralBacon’s post was highlighted on We Know Memes.^[5] In the months following the home media release of The Avngers in September 2012, Captain America’s response continued to gained online traction among the fans as a memorable scene exemplifying the comedic nature of the film. On December 18th, 2012, Imgur user Jpdahn posted the first animated GIF instance^[1] of the quote, garnering over 10 million views in just over two years.

Throughout 2013, the GIF became widely adopted as a reaction image when acknowledging a specific pop culture or internet meme reference by commenters in various online communities, including Reddit^[10], Imgur^[8], Tumblr^[3] and Pinterest.^[4]

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Describe Using Titles (also known as Describe Using Quotes) is an online forum game in which participants are asked to desribe certain topics using quotes or titles from a limited amount of sources. The most notable examples of these come from video game or book titles, Pokémon attacks, Spongebob Squarepants quotes, or the player’s sex life.

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Taste the Rainbow Motherfucker is a catchphrase, normally used on images with rainbows on it.

Origin

The phrase comes from the Nostalgia Critic epsiode about The Care Bears movie, on May 11th, 2010.^[1] On the minute 12:36 of the video, the bears defeat a giant eagle using rainbows, when “TASTETHERAINBOWMOTHERFUCKER” is heard. The next day, user Deutsodo uploaded a the scene. As January 26th, 2015 the video has over 430000 views.^[2]

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Yuri Goggles is a phrase usually referring to seeing or emphasizing lesbian relationships, generally within anime or manga, particularly if that was not the original intent of the work.

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The phrase “Yuri Goggles” is claimed to be originated by Okazu founder Erica Friedman.^[1] The definition of “Yuri Goggless” on the site’s website is: “A phrase coined by Erica for the process through which fans make Yuri where there is little or none in the actual series. Similar to “beer goggles,” Yuri goggles make a series or a couple seem more Yuri the higher you turn them up.” The usage of the phrase on the site dates back to at lest 2004, with the review of Madlax ^[2]

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“You have 72 hours to prepare two hundred million delicious Japanese melons. (yummy, yummy)”

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ISIS-chan (Japanese: ISISちゃん, Aishisu Chan) is a moeanthropomorphized character for the jihadist rebel group Islamic State (IS) created by users of the Japanese text board site 2channel. Similar to the story behind the birth of Hinomoto Oniko in 2010, ISIS-chan was conceived as part of an online effort to counter terrorist propaganda by disrupting the search-engine optimization (SEO) profile of relevant keywords with images of a moe character.

Origin

On January 24th, 2015, a user on 2channel’s /news4vip/ board^[1] submitted a thread titled “Let’s make ISIS into a moe girl and send it to them!” with the intention of Google-bombing the search engine’s image search results for “ISIS” with anime character illustrations." Soon, the physical features and personality of the proposal character were determined through “anchor designation,” a popular forum game in which the specifications of a proposed idea are randomly selected through a lottery of specific post numbers as pre-designated by the original poster. Within first three hours, the post garnered 1,000 replies.

<Profile of ISIS_chan>
Name: ISIS_chan
Clothes: Black (like ISIS’s uniforms)
Hairdo: Short hair
Hair color: black
Age: 19yo
Skin color: Brown
Bust size: Big
Height: small (about 150cm)
Eye color: Green-ish
Favorite foods: Muskmelon (from Japan)

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That same day, dozens of anonymous illustrators reacted to the thread and various ISIS-chan illustrations. Meanwhile, unlike the Crappy Collage Grand Prix on Twitter, 2channel users have also drafted some basic guidelines for ISIS-chan illustrators to follow in consideration of Islam and the Muslim community at large, as well as the hostages and their families.

You make some agreements with ISIS-chan【Our rule】

Our target is only ISIS, not Muslim or Islam.

DO NOT insult Islam.
DO NOT use Quran, Allah, Muhammad and other Islamic religious symbols in illustrations.
DO give enough respect to Mr. Goto.

About Illustrations:

Reproduction allowed.
All rights reserved by the artists.
Artists have the right to prohibit reproductions.

via: 2channel^[11]

Meanwhile, the hashtags #ISISイラスト化祭り (#ISIS Illustration Festival), #ISISちゃん and #ISIS_chan began circulating on Twitter,^[6] with the last one racking up 9,000 mentions within the first 24 hours of the original post on 2channel. In addition, several social media accounts were created to diminish the SEO profile of ISIS-related keywords, including accounts on Twitter^[2] and Tumblr^[5], as well as a blog and a Wiki page^[3][4]. By January 25th, the 2channel’s mission had reached 4chan’s /int/^[7] and /pol/^[8], reddit^[9] and Krautchan.^[10] As of 5 p.m. (EST), the Google search query for “ISIS_chan” yields about 18,200 results.

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