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Willy Bum Bum

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Willy Bum Bum is the name of a viral youtube video by AlienRedWolf, aka Daniel Fowler, currently hosted under the alternate name willybumbumcartoon. The animation and accompanying song make up a delibrately crude depiction of the protagonist exploring a somewhat surreal relationship with his genitalia. As of, November 2012, the video had over 7,000,000 views.

Spread

The video is unusual compared with other newer memes of its era in that its spread seems to have been via facebook, youtube and simple word of mouth, as opposed to more ‘traditional’ meme-spreading communities such as Reddit and 4chan. It has nonetheless spawned numerous remixes and remakes, from dubstep to classical, and is referenced in many other videos besides, the earliest of which seems to have been posted around 2 years ago, giving some idea of the time for which the subject has been popularly known.


No Love Deep Web Alternate Album Art

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About

The creation of alternate art for the album No Love Deep Web is a fad within various music communities on the web, most notably the /mu/ board on 4chan, starting after the guerrilla release of experimental band Death Grips album No Love Deep Web. The art was created in response to the explicit art released with the album, that of an erect penis with the words No Love Deep Web written upon it.

Origin

Spread

With various threads on 4chan’s /mu/ board as well as one on Reddit, this fad created many pictures.

On 4chan – Images spread primarily through NLDW Alt Art threads on /mu/

On Reddit – Images spread primarily through threads on /r/hiphopheads, primarily collected from /mu/

On Tumblr- Images spread primarily through the #nldw and #no love deep web tags

An article on music website Vice[1] covers the phenomenon of the alternate NLDW art.

External References

[1]Vice – The Internet Can’t Handle the Penis on No Love Deep Web

We Have No Choice but to Die!

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We Have No Choice but to Die! (Japanese: 死ぬしか無いじゃない!, Shinus hika nai janai!) is a remark of Mami Tomoe in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

The scene of her remark with despairing look gave a huge impact to viewers as well as her epic death scene. And it became to a subject for fan arts, parody illustrations and MAD videos on both pixiv and Nico Nico Douga (NND).

Origin

This remark is taken from Madoka Magica’s 10th episode “I Won’t Rely On Anyone Anymore” which was first aired in Japan before dawn of March 11th, 2011, the day of Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. It appears in a scene of Homura’s recollection to the second timeline that she had experienced.

In that timeline, Mami who noticed the fate of magical girls by Sayaka mutating to a witch loses her head and kills Kyōko by shooting her soul gem. Then, she pointed her rifle in Homura’s face and utters this remark with a very impressive despairing look.



Transcript

Kyōko: Sayaka… Damn it… How could this happen?
Madoka: It’s too horrible… This isn’t right!

(Mami kills Kyōko)

Homura: Miss Tomoe?!
Mami: If Soul Gems give birth to witches… then we have no choice but to Die, Do we?! Both you… and me!!
Homura: S-Stop…!

(Madoka kills Mami to save Homura)

Madoka: I don’t want this… I can’t take any more… of this…!
Homura: It’s Okay… The two of us will keep going by ourselves. We’ll beat Walpurgisnacht, just two of us!!
Madoka: Okay…

Spread

The catastrophe of Mami in this episode was so much shocking for viewers, especially for her fans who had been looking forward to her next appearance since her miserable death in the episode 3. Then, her very impressive look and remark immediately derived to various kind of online fan creations for that anime. In the fandom, despairing Mami in this episode is usually called as Yami-san (病ミさん), which is generated from a pun for Yamu (病む, get a (mental) illness) and Mami-san (マミさん).[1] A large number of illustrations for Yami-san are posted to pixiv.[2]

In addition to this, an Aka-san style Exploitable fad for Yami-san quickly spread to the web via illustration response feature in pixiv. The series of those parody illustrations is called as “That’s Mami-San” (まさにマミさん, Masani Mami-Sam). The trigger of this fad is a blank template mimicking Aka-san by that despairing look of Mami, which was posted by user えら~[3] on the same day of the episode’s airing.[4]



All you say Mami-san, Mami-san… You are older than me, aren’t you?!

More than 200 illustration responses had been posted to pixiv in its first month despite of the chaotic period by that earthquake and nuclear power plant accidents.[5]

On the other hand, this scene started to be featured in many MAD videos on NND around the end of 2011, though several precursive parody videos for it had been already posted. The trigger on that video sharing site is a remix of her remark and Mozart’s “Turkish March” included in jubeat from KONAMI’s BEMANI series. This video was posted on November 20th, 2011.[6]



The series of those MAD videos utilizing this scene is called as “We Have No Choice but to Die Series” (死ぬしか無いじゃないシリーズ, Shinu sika nai janai series). The amount of videos in this series, which had been posted to NND in its first year, is about 200.[7]

Notable Examples

That’s Mami-san Series


Don’t gimme that look… Don’t give that look at my boobs!!
In Soviet Russia…, neck eats youself!!
Hate big boobs so much? Damn All You Lolicon!
Don’t give up… You DON’T give up!!
BECOMEHOTTER!!
(Shuzo Matsuoka Parody)
(Mami, I thought you were…) Dead? No.
It was a trick
(Commando Parody)
Dr. Volga!! Please forgive me!!!
(Chargeman Ken! Parody)

Blank Template



MAD Videos

For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.

【ニコニコ動画】?で死ぬしかないじゃない“Hatena De Wasshoi” from Hidamari Sketch x365【ニコニコ動画】みんなコロブチカないじゃない!
Korobushka from REFLECBEAT【ニコニコ動画】戦闘!野生の死ぬしかないマミ(カントー)
Back Ground Music from Nintendo’sPokemon Gold and Silver【ニコニコ動画】【マミさん】マミさん曰く死ぬしカナイじゃない!【ニャル子さんOP】
(」・ω・)」Uhh(/・ω・)/ Nya!【ニコニコ動画】マミリーマート
FamilyMart Jingle【ニコニコ動画】シヌシカ・ナイジャ・ナイツ Full ver.
Night of Knights

Search Interest

[Not Available]

External References

Editor’s Note: Registration is needed to browse the original videos listed in this section.

[1]pixiv Encyclopedia – 病ミさん (Japanese)

[2]pixiv – Search results for 病ミさん

[3]pixiv- 「えら~」’s Profile[NSWF!!]

[4]pixiv – 十話マミ素材 / Posted on 03-11-2012

[5]piviv – Illustration responses for 十話マミ素材

[6]niconico Video – 発狂トモエ行進曲 / Posted on 11-20-2011

[7]niconico Video – Search results for 死ぬしかないじゃないシリーズ

Chuck from the Bronx / Chuck Saragossi / thebronx19740

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About

Chuck from the Bronx or thebronx19740 is a man in YouTube named Chuck Saragossi. He attempts YouTube challenges from other YouTubers who dares him to perform a variety of different stunts.

Origin

Chuck from the Bronx started uploading his YouTube videos on March 25th, 2012. His first videos were stories which did not get much attention. It wasn’t until a viewer dared him to eat a ghost pepper on camera where his views began to really increase.

Challenges

Ever since Chuck’s Ghost Pepper Challenge was posted to YouTube on April 21, 2012, he has been performing all kind of dangerous and funny stunts. He has also eaten a raw onion, cayenne pepper, attempted the 240 warhead challenge, ate the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, surstromming, and satan’s taint (hottest beef jerky in the world).

Spread

Chuck’s Ghost Pepper video was posted on Gawker’s site and the Huffington Post and came to an instant success. Other media outlets like MTV, RTL Television, and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno quickly asked Chuck to make appearances.

Doctor Popov/Доктор Попов

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Pyotr Alexandrovich Popov (Dr. Popov, Dr. Anus, Doctor Cucumber) – funny healer and homosexual medical freak who uses unconventional methods of treatment. Methods of treatment are recorded on amateur camera and uploaded to YouTube, tearing brain potential Users. For some time it YouTube channel was deleted , mess it in order to raise the Points of the site and get a PROFIT, but now restored

Dr. Popov fell into the borderline state of consciousness a few years ago. With its strong health recipes he tried to break into zomboyaschik. He even managed to get there (it is possible that a bed) and play in a few gears. But TV producers not imbued his treatments. Furthermore, while the objective was competition Gennady Malakhov, who taught millions of grandmothers smeared on bread evaporated urine. As a result, our cheerful doctor was sent off in disgrace in the cold without a livelihood.
The next step was to conduct recreational tours around the world, where the doctor was treating patients in their methods. That is, as it were, for your money, you can stick in the ass cucumber professionally on the French Riviera

Real fame came to the doctor, when he was able to buy an amateur video camera. Began to appear on YouTube author Dr. Popov courses to increase health by increasing the diameter of various openings of the body. This could not but stir up public opinion that broad river spilled all RuNet shitblogs, bringing new people into the universal knowledge of the cucumber and anal.
April 1 Popov came to smischnoy release of “Let Them Talk” with Voronov, Golopolosov and other cattle, where Petrosyan of Comedy-Club “funny” tried to joke on him.

Lifeblood of cucumber

Author’s technology hemorrhoid treatment method of introduction into the anus of live cucumber. Invented homosexual doctor during the painful absence of an active partner. The point is. From unsuspecting cucumber bites the tip, cucumber moistened with saliva, then parted the sphincter muscle, and not bitten residue is inserted into the hole. It is necessary to try to do so without disrupting the cucumber patch. Attentive Anonymus could see that in the English version of this miracle is an alert that warns the user from using cucumbers from the supermarket. This is motivated by the fact that Russian cucumber small and large U.S. can harm anal health. Of course if the anus was not a “special training.”

Comments: Users:
Dear Doctor, I dont have my farm, and I had to carry out medical procedures on other people’s farms, at night, because the day vacationers obscene language and trying to hit me with a shovel. I learned to run fast and jump over fences perfectly. But the night is cold, frostbitten right egg. Tell me, what and where should stick to fix it?

By the way doctor, and how to treat hemorrhoids in the winter when there are no cucumbers? Icicles fit? and they also need to insert without removing the roof of the house ….? And then we also get the power of the earth even a double hanging on the roof (one), and when the icicle melts of our problem we ebnemsya hot ass on the pavement (two)! it’s also the power of the earth, am I right?

When you go to the market to buy cucumbers, make sure they were not bitten. And then you never know

In very advanced cases, traditional healers recommend using zucchini :)

In the next step of the way to anal perfection when cucumber could not meet the needs of old body, Dr. Popov began to hone new and unexpected facets of his talent.
The procedure is performed as follows. At the appointed hour, you get to just give birth chicken and bleeding from Kvočka a mother her child. This child (usually in the form of eggs) to insert all the long-suffering in the same hole. In this case, the doctor advised not to do this without prior training and consulting a doctor.
Just imagine Dr. Popov, day and night trains on his haunches in the hen house with a bloody anus, which implies the contents of crushed egg.
Just imagine a real doctor, to which you have come to the consultation on the instruction of Popov. What he will have big eyes. And spilled coffee in surprise … And this trembling hand, provided referrals to a mental hospital …

Comments:
Th you all laughs!?? Is the real way! Right now, for example, I’m in the garden, with a cucumber in the ass, trying to crawl out of a rolled carpet sniffing with mushrooms. This should triple the effectiveness of treatment and is likely to give power of the Earth.

Please tell me how to stick an egg in your ass if I have there is a cucumber?

Doctor, if you insert a dick in the ass, this is from what disease cure?

Dear Doctor, tell me things that need to be put in the ass to cure a cough and runny nose

People, I put my ass planet Jupiter. Most, but breaks! How to remove it? There constantly storms occur and is a gas planet, I always fart (from this burn all around, strange), who have already inserted the gas giant anal, advise!

Daddy Dearest

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About
Daddy Dearest is an incestual shockfic in the Homestuck Fandom. It is well known because of the somewhat distubing childish tone it is written in.

Full Fanfiction

Daddy Dearest

John is a good boy.

And he loves his daddy.

John loves making his daddy happy.

He always makes good grades in school so his daddy will smile and pat him on the head.

He learned to bake even though he hates cakes so his daddy would praise him and give him hugs.

He never uses bad words and is always polite so his daddy gives him kisses.

John loves how his daddy still lets him sit in his lap.

And he loves how his daddy’s arms hold him close, all snug and warm.

John loves how his daddy undresses him for bathtime.

And he loves that he’s allowed to undress his daddy.

John loves sitting in the bathtub with his daddy.

And that his daddy is careful to wash him everywhere.

He loves how his daddy wraps him in a big fluffy towel and picks him up.

And he loves how his daddy lays him very gently on his bed.

John loves when his daddy kneels over him and starts gently touching him, carresing him.

And he loves the soft murmurs of encouragement he gets when he moans softly, like a mewling kitten.

He loves when his daddy gently spreads his legs, hands so gentle like he’s afraid he’ll break John.

And he loves when his daddy’s slick fingers press inside of his little hole, finding this little spot that makes him shudder and mewl and vision go white.

John loves how his daddy gently strokes his small cock as he pulls his fingers out.

And he’s careful to take deep breaths like his daddy says, keeping himself relaxed.

John has no problem relaxing and even smiling softly as his daddy presses the head of his cock to his stretched hole; he knows it hurts a little at first, it always does.

But John trusts his daddy, and his daddy never hurts him on purpose.

And it does hurt, and John clenches his daddy’s shoulders, trying not to cry.

And his daddy softly murmurs what a good boy he is and strokes him gently, rubbing his sides and back where he can reach to comfort John.

His daddy waits, patiently still, until John has adjusted and is nodding to move.

And his daddy thrusts into him, soft and slow.

Until John starts mewling and squirming, pressing the softest kisses to his daddy’s cheeks and neck, then his daddy thrusts a little faster, and just a little harder.

And he hits that little spot again, and John arches up into his daddy’s touch.

And his daddy keeps up his steady pace, stroking John in time, until John clenches his hands again, moaning loudly as he ‘cums’ (as his daddy calls it).

His daddy shudders and kisses him lightly, as he cums inside of John, which feels warm and wet but nice.

John falls limp on his bed, giving a small, weak mewl as his daddy pulls out of him.

His daddy cleans him up with the towel from his bath, and kisses his forehead, and tells John that he did good, and he loves him.

And John smiles up at his daddy, as sweetly as he can manage, and tells his daddy that he loves him too, before yawning softly and kittenishly, rubbing at his eyes.

His daddy tucks him snuggly into bed, brushing his hair back and kissing his forehead again, whispering goodnight.

John whispers goodnight back, and his daddy leaves, turning off his light and closing the door.

John snuggles down in his bed, soft little fingers curling gently in his sheets as he drifts off to sleep with only one thought in his head;

He loves his daddy.

Spread
Many reaction videos have been posted on Youtube, as well as numerous dramatic readings an tumblr, and later gaining it’s own tag, #daddy dearest.

Ano un, JOKE?

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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About

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is an emoticon created with unicode character symbols. The face is often used to spam forums and image boards, similar to the Japanese word “desu”.

Origin

The exact origin of the emoticon is currently unclear. On November 18th, 2012, 4chan users raided the /r/Israel[4] subreddit with posts spamming the “( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)” face (shown below), with some users referring to the emoticon as “le Palestine face.”



Spread

The same day, mods banned several 4chan users for spamming the emoticon on the site’s various image boards (shown below).



Redditor Dogcatcher1979 submitted a post titled “So I guess this is a thing now?” to the /r/4chan[2] subreddit, which included a screenshot of the face being used in a 4chan thread (shown below). In the post, Redditor 8-bit_d-boy commented that the face resembled the children’s television show character Bob the Builder.



Also on November 18th, World of Warcraft Forums[5] member Kuallius submitted a post titled “The Sha of Casuals ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)” and YouTuber cubegoat uploaded a video titled “( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)” (shown below, left). On the following day, cubegoat uploaded another video titled “Fresh ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) of /b/el Air,” featuring various animated versions of the emoticon accompanied by the theme song for the 1990’s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (shown below, right). As of November 19th, 2012, there are more than 50 Facebook pages containing “( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)” in the title on Facebook.[1]



Search Interest

Not available.

External References


Can You Please Photoshop The Sun Between My Fingers?

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Can You Please Photoshop The Sun Between My Fingers? (often accompied by “Hey X”, with X representing a site or community) is a phrase that refers to a picture of a male failing at an attempt to take a forced perspective photo of himself in which the sun is placed between his fingers. The results of this request commonly feature intentionally bad or incorrect photoshops.

Origin

[Researching: Believed to first appear around late 2011.]



Spread

From December 10th to December 12th, 2011, over 20 image macros and demotivational posters (shown below) were created for the image on Cheezburger.[8] Although they quickly lowered after that, with new variations only appearing once every few months.



On September 4th, 2012, Tumblr user Scarvenrot made a post[6] containing a drawing of the character Dirk Strider of the webcomic Homestuck in the style of the original image (shown below, left). On September 8th, Tumblr user Cheese3d posted a similar drawing[7] using the characters John Egbert and Dave Strider from Homestuck (shown below, right). As of November 19th of the same year, the posts gathered respectively over 2,600 and 3,700 notes.



On October 28th, 2012, Tumblr user securethevictory made a post containing a collection of 7 intentionally incorrect photoshops (shown below) of the original image.[1] As of November 19th of the same year, the post has accumulated over 71,000 notes. The post was collected into a Imgur folder the next day, which has acumulated over 1,300 points as of November 19th.[2] In the following weeks, the same collection made its way onto numerous humor blogs and sites such as DamnLol,[3] Funri[4] and Uber Humor.[5]



On November 1st, 2012, Tumblr user DirkStrider made a post[8] containing the correct photoshop with the sun placed between the man’s fingers, along with the comment “THISPICTUREHADBEENBOTHERING ME FORFARTOOLONGTHEJOKE IS OVER”. As of November 19th of the same year, the post has gathered over 2,000 notes.



Notable Examples



External References

I've Made a Huge Mistake

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About

“I’ve Made a Huge Mistake” is an expression indicating that the speaker feels remorse for something that he or she has done. It is often associated with a reaction GIF featuring the character Gob from the television sitcom Arrested Development.

Origin

The phrase is believed to have originated from an episode of the American television sitcom Arrested Development, which ran on the Fox television station from November 2nd, 2003 to February 10th, 2006. In the show, the character Gob would often utter the expression “I’ve made a huge mistake” after realizing he had done something wrong (shown below).



Urban Dictionary[2] user dogmatica submitted an entry for the phrase on October 1st, 2005, citing Gob’s use of the expression in Arrested Development (shown below).



Animated GIF

On December 26th, 2011, Redditor childofmarvel submitted a post titled “How I feel when my boyfriend doesn’t get my Arrested Development jokes” the /r/gifs[4] subreddit, which featured an animated GIF of Gob saying the line “I’ve made a huge mistake” from the end of an episode titled “Key Decisions” (shown below).



Spread

On February 3rd, 2012, a Quickmeme[5] page for “I’ve Made a Huge Mistake” was created, which featured a still image of Gob from Arrested Development with captions describing regrettable actions. The same day, Redditor SamuraiLom submitted a Quickmeme image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals[6] subreddit, including the caption “I fucked my chemistry lab partner / it’s the second week of the semester” (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post received over 7,300 up votes and 345 comments.



On April 10th, Redditor berryhill submitted a post titled “Day 2 after shaving my ass” to the /r/gifs[7] subreddit, which linked to the original Gob animated GIF as the punchline. On April 15th, a page was created for “I’ve made a huge mistake” on the Arrested Development Wiki[3], citing several times the expression was spoken in the show. As of November 19th, 2012, four Facebook[1] pages titled “I’ve Made a Huge Mistake” have been created.

Notable Examples

The phrase has been used to caption other image macros in which the subject appears to be distraught.




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#OpIsrael

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Overview

#OpIsrael is an Anonymous-led raid to to protest Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense[1] by taking down Israeli government websites through distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Background

In early November 2012, the Israel Defense Forces took to Twitter to live-update about the status of the fight in Gaza. On November 14th, IDF killed Ahmed Jabari, the chief of Hamas’ military wing, in an airstrike. Being the highest ranking Hamas official to be killed by the IDF since the 2008 Gaza War, the news of Jabari’s assassination quickly escalated tensions between the two sides.




On November 15th, Anonymous-affiliated blog Anon Relations[2] claimed that Israel’s government had publicly threatened to cut off Gaza’s internet access and called for an attack on the country’s most important websites in retaliation. The post included a “care package” file in both English and Arabic containing the press release, first aid instructions, a proxy to hide the user’s IP addresses, a technical guide on how to get around an internet access ban and a image file of the Anonymous seal.

Notable Developments

On November 15th, a Pastebin file[5] containing more than 650 web addresses defaced as part of the operation was created by Anonymous Grupo. Additionally, another Pastebin file[6] was created to collect useful information for those in Gaza, including links to the care packages, cell phone apps, medical information, livestreams, news links and dial-up internet access numbers, among other resources. The same day, a modified version of the previous day’s communique was posted to YouTube by Gigabytedrop and a Twitter account[3] and Facebook fan page[4] were launched with the designated hashtag for the movement: #OpIsrael.



On the 18th, it was reported that Anonymous members had leaked the personal information of more than 5000 Israeli officials.[15] However, as of 8:30 PM EST on November 19th, the link leads to a 404 page on Engelhardt Consult, a Denmark business site. By the 19th, Israel’s Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz claimed the country had blocked more than 44 million cyber attacks on government websites.[16]

News Media Coverage

Beginning on the 15th, internet culture blogs and news sites ncluding BetaBeat[7] and WebProNews[8] began covering Anonymous’ operation. Over the next four days, additional coverage of the cyberattack appeared on Breitbart[9], Cnet[10], Forbes[11], the Daily Dot[12], Vice[13] and Fox News.[14]

Online Reaction

On November 15th, Redditor twolf1 submitted a post titled “Anonymous warns Israel: ’No one cuts internet on our watch” to the /r/worldnews[17] subreddit, which received over 5,300 up votes and 780 comments with the next four days. Many commenters criticized the report linked in the post, arguing that Anonymous was a nebulous entity with no central leadership. The same day, Redditor HouseSpeaker submitted a post titled “Anonymous is on it: Israel threatens to cut Gaza off from the Internet, telecommunications, ‘NO ONE shuts down the Internet on our watch’” to the /r/anonymous[18] subreddit.





Criticisms

On November 19th, 2012, the tech news blog Gizmodo[19] published a post titled “Anonymous is Losing its War Against Israel,” comparing the attacks to “egging someone’s house.” The article dismissed the group’s indiscriminate targetting of any website with an Israeli domain, which ended up taking down mostly small businesses, and the leaking of “Israeli supporter” personal information as largely ineffective. The article also included several screen shots from the hacker group’s IRC channel, arguing that the communications were disjointed and chaotic (shown below).



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George Takei

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About

George Takei an author and actor known for playing the character Hikaru Sulu in the science fiction television series Star Trek and his strong online presence in advocacy of LGBT rights.

Online History

On June 2nd, 1999, Takei registered the domain for his personal website GeorgeTakei.com,[5] which features biographical information, media galleries, a blog and a contact form. On November 1st, 2010, YouTuber significantjay uploaded a video titled “George Takei Calls Out Anti-Gay Arkansas School Board Member,” in which Takei responded to the former Arkansas school board member Clint McCance by calling him a “douche bag” (shown below). Within two years, the video received over 1.54 million views and 8,650 comments.



Takei joined Twitter[1] on January 13th, 2011 and went onto accumulate over 490,000 followers in less than two years. On March 23rd, the official Facebook[3] page for George Takei was created, which received over 2.9 million likes within the next 22 months. On May 19th, YouTuber allegiancebway uploaded a video titled “George Takei vs. Tennessee’s ’Don’t Say Gay’ Bill,” in which Takei offered the use of his last name to substitute for the word “gay.” Within 19 months, the video amassed over 1.2 million views and 9,600 comments.



On November 17th, Takei created a Tumblr[4] blog titled “Are you talking to Meme?”, which features posts containing photographs and image macros (shown below).



“Oh My”

Takei has often been associated with the catchphrase “Oh My,” which originated from Takei’s character in the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House according to the Straight Dope Forums.[2] The phrase was often sampled on the Howard Stern radio show, typically in response to sexual innuendo. On January 18th, 2009, YouTuber Ralph Miller uploaded a video titled “Oh My ‘The George Takei Song’,” featuring the Howard Stern sample mixed with the song “Oh Yeah” by Yello (shown below, left). On April 27th, 2010, YouTuber bigtvshop uploaded a commercial for the television manufacturer Sharp, in which Takei says the phrase “Oh my” (shown below, right).



Reputation

Takei is seen by many as a respected member of the gay rights community and is often lauded for his humorous interactions through social media. The Asteroid 7307 was named after Takei when it was discovered on April 13th, 1994. Takei was presented with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by the Emperor of Japan in 2004 for his contributions to US-Japanese international relations. On June 7th, 2012, Takei received the LGBT Humanist Pride Award for gay rights activism. On November 18th, 2012, BuzzFeed[6] published a post titled “11 Reasons George Takei is the Absolute Best,” which included several screenshots of several notable tweets by Takei (shown below).



Personal Life

Takei was born in Los Angeles, California to Japanese American parents on April 20th, 1937. In October of 2005, Takei revealed that he was in a committed homosexual relationship with partner Brad Altman for the past 18 years in an interview in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender magazine Frontiers. Takei announced that he would be marrying Altman on May 16th, 2008, becoming the first same-sex couple to apply for a marriage license in West Hollywood, California. The two were married on September 14th, 2008.

Search Interest

External References

[1]Twitter – @GeorgeTakei

[2]Straight Dope Forums – George Takei Oh My

[3]Facebook – George Takei

[4]Tumblr – George Takei

[5]GeorgeTakei.com – George Takei

[6]BuzzFeed – 11 Reasons George Takei is the Absolute Best

Spicy Dicey

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a kid called Russell Dar who would get called spicy dicey and photos of him got viral all over the internet. Spicy dicey SHOULD get more popular.
The meme was made but couple of grade 9 students in a high school.

Lunch Bag Art

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About

Lunch Bag Art is a single topic blog on Tumblr showcasing the artwork of Derek Benson, who has been drawing intricate designs and character art on his children’s brown paper lunch bags since 2008.

Origin

Derek Benson, a video game developer, launched the blog Lunch Bag Art[1] on September 7th, 2008, posting eight different lunch bags he had drawn on, featuring charaters from Pokemon (shown below, left), Canadian animated series Total Drama (shown below center) and Spongebob Squarepants (shown below, right).



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On November 7th, 2008, exactly two months after the blog launched, Benson’s drawings were featured on Serious Eats[5], leading to additional coverage on internet culture blogs Urlesque[6], Neatorama[7] and Kotaku[8] in 2008. The next year, more of his lunch bag artworks were featured on My Modern Met[9], Trend Hunter[10] and marker company Sharpie’s official blog[11], which included one of Benson’s first interviews about his Tumblr blog. In this interview, he revealed that he does the drawings on his lunch break or while helping his kids with homework.

Between 2010 and 2012, Lunch Bag Art has been featured on Buzzfeed[12], Uproxx[13], the Chive[14], the Huffington Post[15] and Smosh.[16] In July 2012, Benson posted a tutorial[17] to his blog on how he approaches his lunch bag art. He noted on Twitter[18]that the process was supposed to take no more than 20 minutes. As of November 2012, Lunch Bag Art has more than 2400 followers on Twitter[2] and more than 1200 fans on Facebook.[3] The site also has a store[4] with shirts featuring some of Benson’s artwork.

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Derivative Artists

Following in Benson’s footsteps, other bloggers began posting their lunch bag artwork. In 2009, Matt Roberts launched Lunch Bag Artist[19] (shown below, left) to document the bags he would put together for his three children. Over the course of four weekdays, each child would receive a piece of a larger picture, which Roberts would document on the site. The following year, Scott Semegran took to his personal blog[20] to chronicle the bags he decorated for his two daughters (shown below, right) while they were attending summer camp, a tradition he continued[21] in 2011.



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Operation Weeing

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On the 20th November 2012, 4chan, /b/ board users targeted the multi-player online social network website WeeWorld in a manner identical to that of the 2006 “Pool’s Closed” raids.

The event, dubbed “Operation Weeing”, initially focused on the WeeWorld High-Gym and Paris rooms, but later spread to the New User Town, and Lava Lagoon rooms.


Y2K Bug

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[This is an open entry. If you would like to contribute to researching this entry, please request editorship. If all editorships are currently full, head over to the forum thread to further discuss the entry.]


Overview

The Y2K Bug, sometimes known as the Millennium Bug or Year 2000 Problem, was a result of digital storage using two-digit abbreviations for years in their systems. In the 1990s, many people were concerned that the rollover between December 31st, 1999 and January 1st, 2000 would result in mass computer failure.

Background

When computer languages were initially developed, coders opted to drop the “19” in years as a way to save some of the limited space they were given to work with.[1] This ideology was transferred to COBOL, a language created in 1959, which was used to program many of the world’s personal computers. In the 1960s, an IBM programmer named Robert Bemer was helping a group from the Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-Day Saints with a genealogical research project[3] when he realized the first two year digits were necessary for dates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bemer, who participated in developing ASCII and the process behind the Escape button helped develop a way to use a four digit reference code for years and became an avid proponent of implementing this throughout COBOL. He published warnings about the need for four digit year codes twice in the 1970s.[4]

The term “Y2K” was not coined until June 12th, 1995 when the Massachusetts-based programmer David Eddy suggested the term on the Year 2000 mailing list in lieu of Year 2000, Century Date Change and Faddle, among others.[5] By 1997, the mailing list had more than 16,000 subscribers[6] and was maintained by Peter de Jager, who also ran Year2000.com[7] as a hubsite for information on the possible bug.

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External References

[1]Wikipedia – Year 2000 Problem

[2]American Radio Works – The Surprising Legacy of Y2K

[3]Bob Bemer – Y2K: Computer glitch came as no surprise

[4]Boston Globe – Computer pioneer Bob Bemer; published Y2K warnings in ’70s

[5]Slate – The Etymology of “Y2K”

[6]Year2000.com – Year 2000 Announcement List (archive from 7/1997)

[7]Year2000.com – Home (archive from 7/1997)

Trolling Chris Brown

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“Trolling Chris Brown” is a single topic blog that is centered around making snarky remarks to R&B singer Chris Brown’s Tweets. It was founded by That Guy With The Glasses resident music reviewer Todd in the Shadows.

Orgin

The blog was formed in March of 2012 by music reviewer Todd in the Shadows, who has shown in the past that he’s not a fan of Brown and has previously reviewed two of his songs. Around the same time, he posted an episodes of his “Pop Song Reviews” show where it was made to look like he was going to review Brown’s most recent single “Turn Up the Music”. However, he later mentioned it was just another club dance song, and instaed talked about how it’s ridiculous that his fans think he’s perfect despite his infamous domestic abuse episode with his ex-girlfriend Rhianna. At the end of the video, he mentions that he created the blog originally for laughs, but then it turned into serious business when he kept seeing how stupid the Tweets got.

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Cole Sprouse's Tumblr Experiment

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Background

On September 26th, 2012, American child actor Cole Sprouse[1], best known for his work with his twin brother Dylan in the Disney Channel sitcom series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, launched a Tumblr blog titled “Coleture Concept.” He tweeted about it twice that day[2][3], asking his followers on Twitter to use his blog as a platform to “discuss things that matter.” In its beginning, Sprouse featured some of his own photography works[4] on the site, but soon became pre-occupied with answering fan questions.



Notable Developments

The same day that Sprouse unveiled his Tumblr blog, the child actor’s fan site Sprouseland[5] linked to the blog in a post. Throughout October, Sprouse continued to interact with his fans on the blog by answering user-submitted questions and even posting photos and audio of himself per request. On October 23rd, Livejournal gossip blog Oh No They Didn’t![6] posted screenshots of Sprouse’s blog posts, which was positively received with more than 300 comments from the LiveJournal community. On the following day, celebrity news site Crushable[7] reported on Sprouse’s blog, detailing his witty reactions to being discovered as a celebrity and citing a post in which Sprouse stated he loved Tumblr’s likes and reblogs “in the same way I love a nursery filled with kids who defecate on themselves.”[8]

Account Deletion

On November 18th, Sprouse published his last Tumblr post[9] featuring a photo of himself with his hair over his face, one hand over his heart and the other in a two-fingered salute, along with the text explaining that he had accomplished his goal of running a social experiment through the microblogging platform and that his account would be removed. The post gained nearly 18,000 notes in the first 72 hours. This announcement was followed by a series of tweets (shown below) further explaining his project as a way to see how people would react to the idea of being observed.



Though Sprouse’s tweets were soon deleted, he left one[10] post intact with a link to George Michael’s 1984 hit single “Careless Whisper.” (shown below)




Shortly before the deactivation of his Tumblr account, the blog Coleture Concept Archive[13] was created by his fans to archive every post Sprouse had created. Following its removal, an unknown Tumblr user picked up the same URL and continued to field questions from Sprouse’s fans while impersonating his character. More discussions about his blog and reactions to its deletion can be found under the Tumblr tags Cole Sprouse[11] and ColetureConcept.[12]

On November 19th, Oh No They Didn’t![14] published a follow-up post explaining the context of Sprouse’s Tumblr experiment, which generated more than 400 comments in the first 48 hours. The same day, Sprouse tweeted an image macro of a small gray animal sitting in a box of pastries with the caption “Do what you must, I have already won.” The tweet utilized the hashtag #TumblrOzymandias, referring to Percy Byssshe Shelley’s 1818 poem “Ozymandias”[15] that focuses on how all leaders and empires fall over time. It was retweeted more than 375 times and favorited nearly 550 times in the first 48 hours.




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Operation Pillar of Defense

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Background

Operation Pillar of Defense[1] is an operation launched by the Israel Defense Forces after the murder of Ahmed Jabari, chief of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza. The goals of the operation are to both halt rocket attacks launched from Gaza against civilian targets and to disrupt the actions of militant organizations.

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November 14th: Announcement

Instead of formally declaring the attacks via a press conference or traditional news outlet, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took to their Twitter account @IDFSpokesperson[2] to announce the campaign.




IDF also took to Facebook[3], Flickr[4] and their personal blog[5] to share news and updates about the attacks. Additionally, they created the IDF Ranks Game[6] where users could earn points and badges for sharing official IDF content online.

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External References

[1]WIkipedia – Operation Pillar of Defense

[2]Twitter – @IDFSpokesperson

[3]Facebook – Israel Defense Forces

[4]Flickr – Israel Defense Forces’ Photostream

[5]Israel Defense Forces – Home

[6]Israel Defense Forces – IDF Ranks – Join the Game

Lulu and the Lampshades Cups Covers

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Lulu and the Lampshades Cups Covers are videos in which the subject performs a cover of the song “You’re Gonna Miss Me” by the band Lulu and the Lampshades using a plastic cup to create a beat.

Origin

YouTuber TheShelteredLife uploaded a video titled “Tutorial: Hot do do the Cup Beat/Clap” on January 27th, 2008, which demonstrated how to use a plastic cup to perform a beat (shown below).



On June 8th, 2009, YouTuber Lulapinga uploaded a video in which Lulu and the Lampshades members Luisa and Jemma perform an adaptation of the 1937 song “Miss Me When I’m Gone” by Mainer’s Mountaineers[2] hitting two plastic cups on a table to create a beat (shown below). As of November 21st, 2012, the video has accumulated over 1.67 million views and



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The Lulapinga video remained relatively unknown until October 7th, 2009, when it was submitted by Redditor Gargae_Dragon in a post titled “Two Girls, Two Cups.”[1] Prior to being archived, the post received over 160 up votes and 45 comments. On June 8th, 2011, YouTuber Anna Burden uploaded a video titled “You’re Gonna Miss Me (Cups),” in which she mimicked the original Lulu and the Lampshades video (shown below). In the next 17 months the video received over 2.37 million views and 5,700 comments.



On July 7th, Redditor MoonDaddy submitted the Anna Burden video titled “I think I love her” to the /r/videos[3] subreddit, receiving over 11,950 up votes and 1000 comments prior to being archived. The same day, The Huffington Post[7] published an article titled “Amazing ‘Cups (You’re Going to Miss Me)’ Covers,” which featured several different YouTube covers of the song. On July 8th, Burden created a Facebook[5] fan page for herself, which accumulated over 6,400 likes in the next year. On September 28th, 2012, Redditor evilpeanut reposted the video to the /r/videos[4] subreddit, receiving over 4,800 up votes and 300 comments within the next six weeks. On October 4th, actress Anna Kendrick performed a version of the song with a cup on The Late Show With David Letterman (shown below). On November 20th, Redditor funshei submitted a video of the performance to the /r/videos[6] subreddit, receiving over 13,200 up votes and 1,200 comments within 24 hours.



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