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Purity Test is a basic self-administered survey that is designed to assess one’s supposed degree of innocence or spiritual purity through a series of questions on personal habits, such as sex, drugs, deceit and other habits that are generally perceived as vices. The final score is usually displayed in percentage or in points. Following its online emergence through Usenet newsgroups, the meme has branched out into a wide variety of situations and stereotypes, from computer-related tests to political views.

Origin

One of the earliest documented instances of the test has been attributed to The Unisex Purity Test, written in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Baker House sometime before 1980. The first incarnation had two parallel versions, 100 questions each; one for male, and one for female.

The Hacker Test

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Duck Hunt is a light-gun video game originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1984. In the game, the player is tasked with shooting ducks that fly across the screen with a peripheral known as the NES Zapper.

Since it’s release, Duck Hunt has received generally positive reviews^[1] from critics, and has garnered a cult following, as well as a significant cultural impact on the gaming world.

History

Duck Hunt was developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and released in Japan on April 21, 1984, America on October 18th, 1985, and Europe on August 15th, 1987.

In the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was packaged along with Super Mario Bros as part of Nintendo’s “Action Series”.^[2]

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The Dog

One of the most popular features of Duck Hunt is the dog which assists you while playing. Many players have grown a hate for the dog, due to it’s annoyance.

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Game : Cyberiapc

External References

^[1] Wikipedia – Duck Hunt
fn2. Console Classix – Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt ROM

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IUGH..! or Yuck! in spanish ¡Que asco! It’s a meme that describes any disgusting, uncomfortable, and unbearable situation. It is represented by a gesture of disgust with a expression similar to a person sucking on a extremely sour lemon. This meme is from Latin America.

Origin

It’s origin is uncertain. One of its first publications was on july 3, 2011 in a blog called “MecagodeRiZa” and “Trollface-Problemweb” but they became more popular in 2012 on Facebook and MemeChef.

Use

Usually, this meme is used for disgustingly funny pictures and its phrases are written on the top or bottom part of a box.

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DayZ: This is a quote from the homepage of the mod DayZ for Arma2: "A 225 km2 open world post-soviet state and one of the areas hit by a new and presently unknown infection which has wiped out most of the world’s population. You are one of the few who have survived and now you must search this new wasteland in order to fight for your life against what is left of the indigenous population, now infected with the disease.

Go Solo, team up with friends or take on the world as you choose your path in this brutal and chilling landscape using whatever means you stumble upon to survive."

Injured Guitar Guy:

There are many people who film themselves while playing DayZ. Some of them found another player who was lying without showing any motion. Suddenly he started to scream for help and that he was in pain. It seemed like his legs were broken.
When they refused to help him, he started to sing songs and play guitar. There were songs from Metallica, AC/DC, Guns&Roses and so on.

But what did the players do who found him? The dragged him around and planed to murder him.

The last words of Injured Guitar Guy, before he went to a better place, were easy: “Hey, dude?!”

“Injured guitar guy died for our sins.”

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The video was uploaded to youtube under the name ""Axe" Murder in DayZ Land" and has over 20000 views in just over a month.

Background

On January 4th, 2011, Metro Weekly^[1] published an article titled “Is Chick-fil-A restaurant against gay rights?”, which reported that the anti-gay marriage organization Pennsylvania Family Institute (PFI) listed American fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A as a co-sponsor of two marriage conferences. On January 6th, Chick-fil-A posted a statement on its official Facebook^[2] page, downplaying the company’s relationship with PFI by claiming it only provided sandwiches to the marriage seminars.

On November 1st, the LGBT advocacy group Equality Matters^[3] published a report revealing that Chick-fil-A’s charitable arm WinShape had donated over $1.7 million to anti-gay groups in 2009. On July 2nd, 2012, Equality Matters^[4] published another report, stating that WinShape donated over $1.9 million to anti-gay groups including the Marriage & Family Foundation and the Family Research Council in 2010.

On July 16th, an interview with Chick-fil-A’s chief operating officer Dan Cathy was published in the Christian news service Baptist Press, in which Cathy revealed that the company did support a “traditional family.” On July 18th, Cathy appeared on the syndicated radio show “The Ken Coleman Show” and stated that he believed advocating same-sex marriage would be “inviting God’s judment on our nation.”^[5]

Notable Developments

Boston Mayor’s Reaction

On July 20th, Boston mayor Thomas Menino sent a letter to Chick-fil-A COO Dan Cathy denouncing the company’s stance on gay marriage (shown below). The same day, the Boston Herald^[9] published an interview with Menino, in which he stated he was looking to block Chick-fil-A from opening any restaurants in the city.

Jim Henson Company Toys

On July 20th, 2012, The Jim Henson Company posted an update on their official Facebook^[8] page announcing they had notified Chick-fil-A that they no longer wished to partner with them in the future and that they would donate the payments they received from the company to the LGBT advocacy organization GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

Online Reaction

On July 25th, 2012, Redditor absurd_olfaction submitted a post to the /r/atheism subreddit titled “Chick-fil-A damage control FAIL”, which included a screenshot of a Facebook post in which a user profile is exposed for being fake (shown below). A Facebook^[6] event was created for “National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A”, which urged people to document themselves kissing a member of the same sex at a Chick-fil-A on August 3rd, 2012.

On YouTube

Several prominent YouTubers uploaded videos chiming in on the controversy, including mention over a proposed boycott (shown below, bottom, right) and a cooking guide for making a “Chick-Fil-Gay” sandwich (shown below, bottom, left).

Antoine Dodson’s Reaction

On July 25th, 2012, Antoine Dodson uploaded a video to YouTube titled “Chick-fil-A?”, showing Dodson drinking from a Chick-fil-A cup while defending his choice to eat at the restaurant. The same day, Dodson uploaded another video titled “Ya’ll made me pull my hair back lol!”, in which he argued that boycotting the restaurant would only hurt the Chick-fil-A’s employees.

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OkCupid is a free dating website that pairs registered members based on their compatibility score determined through a series of survey questions. The site includes a public forum, instant messaging system and an official blog analyzing statistics from various user interactions.

History

Harvard University students Chris Coyne, Christian Rudder, Sam Yagan and Max Krohn launched the literary website TheSpark^[10] on January 7th, 1999. The site included a beta app called “SparkMatch”, which allowed registered users to take a “Match Test” and search for and other users to contact. Their main project eventually became known as the educational study guide website SparkNotes^[1] and was sold to the company iTurf Inc. in 2000 and subsequently purchased by Barnes & Noble in 2001. The founders continued to work on SparkMatch, eventually changing its name to OkCupid before launching the site on March 4th, 2004.

InterActiveCorp Acquisition

On February 2nd, 2011, the company InterActiveCorp (IAC), owners of the competing dating site Match.com, announced in a press release^[15] that they had acquired OkCupid for $50 million in cash. The same day, an OkCupid blog post criticizing the dating sites Match.com and eHarmony was removed from the site. In an interview with The Observer^[16], OkCupid CEO Sam Yagan claimed they were not asked by Match.com to remove the post but that it seemed like the “common sense thing to do.”

Features

Anyone over the age of 18 may join the site and begin searching for other members based on various criteria including location, age, relationship status and “match %.” Members can obtain the “A-list” status by paying a monthly fee, which allows them to bypass all advertising and provides several more filtering options. When browsing other user profiles, free-of-charge members’ names remain visible to the profile owners, while A-list members can elect to browse anonymously.

CrazyBlindDate

On November 6th, 2007, OkCupid launched the website CrazyBlindDate^[13] for users in Boston, New York City and San Francisco. The dating site used used an algorithm to match users based on simple personal questions and set up dates for them. In April of 2010, Time Out^[14] reported that the site was taken down for construction.

OkTrends Blog

On July 7th, 2009, OkCupid launched the OkTrends blog, which analyzed and graphed data received from its registered users. Based on their answers to survey questions, the blog described how people from different races, ethnicities, geographic locations and socio-economic status viewed political, ethical, romantic and other issues.

Traffic

As of July 27th, 2012, OkCupid.com has a Quantcast^[3] rank of 394, an Alexa^[4] rank of 211 and a Compete^[5] rank of 1,828. Compete reported that the site received over 1 million unique visitors in the United States in June of 2012.

Online Presence

On November 17th, 2009, the /r/OkCupid^[11] subreddit was created, in which Redditors share profile critiques, dating experiences and relevant media. Several Tumblr blogs with themes related to the site have been launched, including “This is Not Ok Cupid”^[7], “Ok Cupid Kill Me”^[8] and “Fuck no ok cupid.”^[9] On May 31st, 2012, the Tumblr^[6] blog “OkCupid Enemies” was launched, which featured photos of OkCupid members accompanied by screenshots from disturbing or humorous sections of their profiles. The first post included a photo of a man giving the camera his middle finger, captioned with a section of his profile which read, “…when I was 17 I had a seizure and died it wasn’t very fun” (shown below). As of July 30th, 2012, the OkCupid Facebook^[18] has received over 11,000 likes and the OkCupid Twitter^[19] account has received over 17,000 followers.

Highlights

Alyssa Bereznak’s Gizmodo Article

Alyssa Bereznak’s Gizmodo Article was an article published in August of 2011 to the tech news blog Gizmodo, which featured intern Alyssa Bereznak’s OkCupid date with the world champion Magic: The Gathering player Jon Finkel. In the article, Bereznak insulted Finkel for playing the card game and revealed that she would not have dated him if she were aware of the hobby beforehand. After the story was submitted to Reddit, Bereznak was inundated with attacks from various Redditors and Finkel participated in an “ask me anything” thread on the social news website.

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One is not Amused is an emerging image macro series based on a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II looking disgruntled during her appearance at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony in London, United Kingdom. The phrase “One is Not Amused” is derived from another LOLcat image macro series known as X is Not Amused.

Origin

On July 27th, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II attended the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics at the Olympic Stadium. Her entrance to the event was nothing short of a spectacle and a departure from her public image, featuring a pre-recorded film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond and the Queen herself, followed by a live parachuting performance high above the stadium by a stuntman double. In contrast to her energetic arrival, however, she appeared to be bored or even disgruntled at times, particularly during the procession of nations (shown above, left).

Within the hour, some candid photographs of the dour-faced Queen began circulating across internet news sites and blogs. At around 10 p.m. local time, while the ceremony was still ongoing, Redditor tf2fan submitted an image post titled “The Queen isn’t enjoying the Olympic Ceremony” to /r/AdviceAnimals, featuring a photograph of the scornful looking Queen in the V.I.P section with the caption “Kill them all, Phillip. Kill them all” (shown above, right). Meanwhile, the title “One is Not Amused” had been previously used to describe photos of unhappy looking Queen Elizabeth II in an article published by DailyMail in October 2008.

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The original image gained nearly 250,000 views in the first 24 hours, spawned dozens of variations on Quickmeme and quickly spread across the Tumblr blogosphere after it was picked up by Sherlock fan blog Deduce Me Doctor Watson and reblogged by the British stereotype blog You Know You’re British When. The original Tumblr post gained more than 10,000 notes in the first 24 hours. Other derivatives began to surface on Reddit and Tumblr as well, most notably the one captioned “look at all these countries I used to own,” in allusion to the days of the British colonial empire many centuries ago. The image was posted by Redditor Google_vs_Bing and spread across Tumblr, where it gained more than 100,000 notes in the first 24 hours.

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Kabikiller (Japanese: カビキラー, which means “Mold Killer”) is a chlorine mold-remover for bathrooms and kitchens produced in Japan by SC Johnson since 1982.^[1]

Nowadays, its TV commercial movie (TVCM) is one of popular subjects for MAD videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) because of its manly sound logo.

Origin

TVCMs for Kabikiller have been aired in Japan since 1980s, changed several times and continued telling people its strong bactericidal power annihilating all molds by the roots. In late 2000s, new TVCMs started to be aired, which were narrated by a middle-aged male’s voice and set his shouting of “Kabikiller” to the sound logo for the product. For example, this video below is a bath room version.

Transcript:

Gomu pakkin no kabi wa nega Hukai. (Molds are deeply digging into rubber seals.)

Dakara ochinainda… (Indeed. so hard to remove…)

Konnna tokini wa Kabikiller no shintouryoku (On such occasions, take Kabikiller’s strong penetrating power)

Kabi no ne no oku no oku made kyouryoku shintou (Deeply penetrates to the roots of molds)

Gomu pakkin mo sukkiri (Cleans up even molds in rubber seals.)

Sintouryoku nara Kabikiller (Kabikiller, the best penetrating power)

On NND, 2 early instances of MAD videos reusing this TVCM series were already uploaded in late 2008. One was a derivative of the Paffendorf Dance^[2], the other was a musical remix with a soundtrack from Kirby’s Dream Land 3.^[3] Each of them rendered surrealistic lulz by a little manly shouting of the sound logo.

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Meanwhile, the trigger of this fad on NND was a ranking-style compilation video for surrealistic MAD videos posted on January 17th, 2010.^[4] Since it introduced Kabikiller’s Te-Te-Te- remix, these TVCMs began to spread among many other NND users.^[5]

Many MAD editors continues producing video remixes of Kabikiller even though the warning notation, a cliche for chlorine detergents, says “Danger! Do not Mix”. As of July 2012, the amount of videos in this series is more than 300.^[6]

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

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Game Grumps (also spelled “GameGrumps”) is a collaboration channel on YouTube between JonTron^[1] and Egoraptor^[2], where videos are uploaded of the two playing video games while chatting with each other, either about the game itself or tangential content. The channel features many difference games being played, and has quickly developed a fanbase from a combination of the two YouTuber’s audiences.

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On July 18, 2012, two videos were uploaded, one to each YouTuber’s channel, explaining the creation of the new channel.

The same day, the first video was uploaded to the main channel^[4], featuring gameplay of “Kirby Super Star” for the SNES. The video has since gained 290,000 plus views. The duo has also uploaded videos of “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past”, “Mega Man VII”, “Goof Troop”, and “Pokemon Emerald”. The channel itself currently has over 4 million video views and over 130 thousand subscribers.

Remixes

Because the two hosts have done multiple segments where they sing spontaneously, dance and EDM tracks have begun to appear using these sound bytes for vocals. Started by WaterFlame^[3], they usually feature a short segment or single joke from one of the videos uploaded by the duo.

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Gangman Style (강남 스타일) is a 2012 dance pop single written and performed by Korean pop singer PSY. Since the release of the song and its highly entertaining music video in mid-July 2012, the video has gained more than 8 million views in the span of two weeks and spawned numerous parodies and copycat dance videos on YouTube.

Origin

The song “Gangnam Style” was written and recorded as the title single of the sixth studio album Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 by Korean singer PSY, who is best known for his quick-witted sense of humor and comical dance moves. The song was released on July 15th, 2012, along with the music video which made its online debut via PSY’s official YouTube channel on the same day.

Upon its release, the song took off on virtually all Korean billboard charts, portal search sites and online music stores, but it began garnering international attention after the video went viral on YouTube during the third week of July 2012. its signature dance move known as “the horse-riding dance” which combines the stylistic elements of shuffle dancing and hand movements resembling the posture of a horseback rider. The dance was previously introduced through the debut single of another Korean K-pop girl group Girl’s Day in 2010.

PSY Doing the “Horse Riding Dance” in “Gangnam Style” M/V

Terminology

“Gangnam Style” is a Korean neologism mainly associated with upscale fashion and lavish lifestyle associated with trendsetters in Seoul’s Gangnam district, which is considered the most affluent part of the metropolitan area. In colloquial usage, it is comparable to the English slang terms “swag” or “yolo”.

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The video earned the coveted title of “viral video” within days after its release and received intensive coverage from various English-language K-POP blogs and news sites like AllKPop^[8], KPopStars^[3] and KoreaBoo^[16] among others, as well as other regional Asian news sites including Yahoo! Philippines News^[17] and New Zealand music sites Mai FM^[9] and Geroge FM.^[10]

In the following week, the music video began picking up notable mentions from a number of internet humor and pop music sites, such as BuzzFeed^[11], FunnyJunk^[12], Metafilter^[13] and PopDust^[14] among others. On July 27th, the song even picked up a celebrity endorsement from the British pop singer Count Robbie Williams^[15], who posted a link to PSY’s music video with the description “P.S Try watching this and not smiling I dare you… (Not even a lip curl)." In addition, the song’s chorus line “Oppa Gangnam Style” became notable among the English-speaking audiences for its misheard lyrics erroneously referred to as “Open Condom Style” or “Open Gundam Style,” which also went onto inspire several image macros and top-voted comments on the YouTube video page.

Reaction Videos

Meanwhile on YouTube^[6], some viewers began uploading their reaction videos to the bizarre music video, praising it as a prime example of “Asian WTF humor” that has proven to fare well in the Western blogosphere. The YouTube community’s reaction to the music video in turn led to extensive coverage and analysis of its international popularity in the Korean news media, bringing hundreds of thousands of views to some of the most notable response videos. All three videos shown below received over 40,000 views within the first week of upload.

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GIF Images

The video also caught on with Tumblr’s K-pop fanbase, spawning numerous reaction GIFs and image macros depicting PSY’s horse dance or other memorable scenes from the music video under the tag “Gangnam Style.”^[7]

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“American Purpose Quotes” are snippits of lyrics, inspirational phrases, and often times cheesey love quotes, superimposed over pensive photographs of people, landscape, sunsets, couples, etc. They are very popular on Tumblr and have spawned a slew of imitators. The most common style involves the quotes pasted in Photoshop in a block letter sans seriff font with a drop shadow added for effect. The most popular font used is called American Purpose, thus the expression American Purpose Quotes.

Some of the more popular Tumblr blogs employing this type of content are HpLyrikz and ReminiscingOurMoments, as well as KushAndWizdom and KushAndLyrikz. The photos often have a vignette or translucent dark layer added to give a hazy look that makes the bold white letters pop out above the photo. The user’s name is often added in a different font with a smaller size underneath the quote in hopes of generating more followers when said photo is reblogged.

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Nobody Cares, Apostolate are a series of Gifs and image macros used to indicate disregard and mocking reddit user Apostolate.

Origin

On July 25, 2012, reddit user brundle_fly submitted the question "I hate the movie “Avatar.” What do you hate that everyone else seems to enjoy?" on the r/AskReddit subreddit^[1], one of the replies was “HIMYM. Awful, awful show.”^[2], to which Apostolate replied with a Barney Stinson Gif calling him a jerk.

User Drunken_Economist posted a Gif of himself with a deck of cards with one with the words “Nobody Cares, Apostolate” written on.^[3]

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The post was resubmitted to the r/BestOf subreddit under the name “Nobody Cares, Apostolate”, the post received 2,775 upvotes as of July 28, 2012.^[4] People started making their own Gif reactions with the catchphrase “Nobody Cares, Apostolate”. The subreddit r/NobodyCaresApostolate was created afterwards^[5]

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There’s no f**king seat for you! (Japanese: おめーの席ねぇから!, Omee no Seki Neekara!) is the most impressive remark in 2007 live-action TV drama series for Life (ライフ), a Japanese manga of bullying in a high school which was written by Keiko Suenobu.^[1] It has been lionized among MAD video editors in Nico Nico Douga (NND) due to its cheap rendition and the actress’s too-powerful yell.

Origin

This TV drama was aired from July 2007 to September 2007, and its thoughtless depictions of insidious bullying got much negative reputations. A Japanese wikipedia article for this manga describes that the TV station caught more than 2000 complaints from viewers during the program.^[2] Because of this, in contrast to usual Japanese dramas which are frequently re-aired in weekday afternoons, this TV drama has never been re-aired in terrestrial channels.

Meanwhile, the remark “There’s no f**king seat for you!” was appeared 2 times in the drama. One was given from Manami Anzai, the antagonist and the leader of a bullying group, to Ayumu Shiiba, the protagonist of this drama, after she threw Ayumu’s seat and textbooks from a terrace to the ground. This was an opening bell for bullying in the end of the 1st episode.

The other, the source scene of this fad, was in the end of the final episode that was aired on September 15th, 2007. Manami got it from Midori Iwamoto, a quite minor character, by much more dirty manlike yell.

This was the original ending of TV drama series, which was totally opposed to that of original manga series that Manami made peace with Ayumu and chose the path of atonement.

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Its stereotyped plot, the bully went to be bullied on herself, gave awfully poor impression to viewers. Besides, the too powerful yell by Midori Iwamoto in that scene was completely unexpected to them because she had never took any important part throughout the story. Because of these, this ending scene looked very epic and ridiculous for many Japanese people.

It immediately started to be parodied on the Japanese hub sites as usual. 2channel users gave a Shift-JIS art to her, and NND users set it to a subject for MADs.^[3]

Among those hundreds of MAD videos, this Kirby Sky High style video below is the most succeeded video that led subsequent increase in popularity to this series. It was uploaded on October 9th, 2008, and have been watched over 2 million times in total.^[4]

Notable Examples

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

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Spain’s Olympic Uniform Controversy refers to various gossips surrounding the official uniform kits worn by the Spanish athletes participating in the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Designed by the Russian fashion firm Bosco Sport, the uniforms quickly became a target of public ridicule and criticisms mainly due to its perceived tackiness and garish pattern designs.

Background

Spain’s official uniform kits were designed by Bosco^[1], the same company behind the Olympic uniforms of Ukrainian and Russian athletes, and provided to the team free-of-charge in a special deal. The donation was arranged by the Spanish Olympic Committee in an effort to save the taxpayer money as the country’s economy continues to struggle with massive debt and an unemployment rate of 25%.

The Bosco-made uniform kits were first unveiled to the Spanish public in an article published by the newspaper El País^[2] on May 4th, 2012, which was largely met by negative feedback from the readers, one of whom noted that the warm-up suit resembled the costume of “a lion tamer.” The public criticism surrounding the unpopular uniform kits began to heat up during the days leading up to the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, when various well-known Spanish athletes publicly vented their frustration through social networking sites and Twitter.

Notable Developments

One of the first Spanish Olympians to publicly express their displeasure with the uniform kits was the 2008 sprint canoe gold medallist Saúl Craviotto^[3], who tweeted a photo of himself looking rather unamused in the polo shirt uniform and España cap while clutching a red-and-yellow patterned backpack in his hands. The accompanying message read:

En casa probándome la ropa de los JJOO!yo mejor no opino, os lo dejo a vosotros… twitter.com/Saul_Craviotto…

— Saúl Craviotto (@Saul_Craviotto) July 17, 2012

A number of other athletes soon followed suit in raising issues with the team’s official apparel, such as Spanish hockey player and the 2008 silver medalist Alex Fàbregas^[10], who tersely wrote via Twitter “Olympic equipment, there are no adjectives…,” as well as the tennis player Carlos Moya^[4] who complainted via Twitter with the message “Looking forward to seeing [tennis player] Feliciano Lopez wearing the official Olympic uniform. He’ll never have worn anything so ugly in his life.”

Ganas de ver a @feliciano_lopez con el uniforme oficial de los jj.oo….no se ha puesto nada tan feo en su vida..pero le quedara bien al jodio

— Carlos Moya (@Charlymoya) July 15, 2012

Lopez responded to Moya’s quip as well, though he apparently took more of a subtle jab by saying “It’s loud, very loud. But it’s what we have, man. Spain is different and it always will be."

Spanish Olympic Committee’s Response

The athletes’ public grievances over the uniform kits soon drew the attention of the foreign press covering the Olympic events, not to mention the Spanish news media outlets’ scrutiny of the process and the decision makers involved, with many commentators criticizing the fact that they were ordered from a foreign company whilst hundreds of thousands of unemployed Spanish idle through their days, unable to find jobs. To this, the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) president Alejandro Blanco responded^[5]:

“The outfits are what we have, we cannot change them now, and were decided upon more than a year and a half ago. … “When you measure the difference between paying one and a half million euros of public money and free clothes, there is no discussion.”

Parodies

Meanwhile, some people even took the joke to the next level by creating parody image macros^[6] and photoshopped images featuring the notorious uniform kits alongside fictional costumes with similar design patterns.

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Steve Roggenbuck is a traveling poet and video blogger known for using various forms of social media to distribute work and interact with his fan base.

Online History

On October 12th, 2010, Roggenbuck released his first click-through poetry ebook “i am like october when i am dead.”^[5] In March of 2011, he released a second poetry ebook titled “Download Helvetica For Free”, which included text taken from instant message conversations.

On April 1st, 2011, a video titled “Breaking free from the shackles of word documents with other formats of poetry” was uploaded to YouTube, in which Roggenbuck lauded using various forms of Internet media to disseminate poetry (shown below, left). On May 17th, Roggenbuck uploaded a video titled “Am I even a poet anymore?”, in which he described literature as a “memeplex” and should be distributed in forms other than word documents and books.

On November 13th, 2011, Roggenbuck uploaded a video of his talk at Duke University to his YouTube channel, which outlined why he published his poetry online in the form of image macros.

Flarf Poetry

Flarf poetry is.

On October 2nd, 2011, Roggenbuck uploaded a video titled “introduction to flarf poetry by steve roggenbuck”, which briefly explained the history of flarf poetry and provided examples of his own flarf poetry work.

Poetry Book

Poetry Tour

Notable Videos

Notable Image Macros

Roggenbuck’s flarf poetry image macros can be found on his Tumblr blog LiveMyLief.^[2]

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Prince Charles Photoshop Challenge is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of the British royal Prince Charles doing a jig during a round of Parachute game at the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Elizabeth II held on July 19th, 2012.

Origin

On July 17th, 2012, B3ta forum member chthonic started a thread titled “Photoshop Prince Charles” with an exploitable cutout of Prince Charles doing the jig, challenging other members to create and share their own photoshopped images of Prince Charles.

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WIP, help appreciated.

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“Olympics or Gay Porn?” is a photoshop trend using unnecessary, accidental censorship in order to make Olympic events such as diving and swimming look like erotica.

Origin

On July 30, 2012, tumblr user windshieldviper uploaded a photoset with the caption “the score bars are leaving much to the imagination” depicting a case of accidental censorship. ^[1]

On the same day, tumblr user jackmok65 posted a similar image in which a pause bar provided similar censorship. ^[2]

Both posts quickly spread, gaining over 50 thousand notes each.

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((WIP))

External Links

^[1] tumblr – windshieldviper – the score bars are leaving much to the imagination

^[2] tumblr – jackmok65

Editor’s Note: This entry contains suggestive images and content that may not be suitable for all readers. Discretion is advised.

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Dragon Dildos is a collective term given to a series of above average sized dildos shaped in what’s supposedly a dragon’s penis. On the internet, dragon dildos are often used as an off-topic reaction in threads and greentext stories, or as shock images.

Origin

Dragon dildos first appeared to the large public on the adult sex toy website bad-dragon.^[1] The idea for a business surrounding dragon dildos was first announced on December 7th, 2007, by the co-founder of bad-dragon, Varka, on his website Herpy.net^[2] as an idea for side-project. The site itself was founded on June 26th, 2008, in Phoenix, Arizona, “to make fantasies real”, according to site description.^[3] The products offered on the site are commonly named after a dragon.

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The rather abnormal shape and size of the dragon dildos resulted in numerous reactions online. The Bad Dragon company has it’s own pages on Wikifur^[4] and Encyclopedia Dramatica^[5]. Although not containing any content, a Facebook page^[6] for dragon dildos did gain over 70 like as of August 2012. Tumblr also generates quite some results when looking for dragon dildos.^[7][8] Dragon Dildos were also mentioned on Geekologie^[9] and Destructoid^[11]. The “Drippy Dragon” version also reached 12th place on a Cracked.com listing of the 18 most disturbing sex toys.^[10]

On the image board 4chan, dragon dildos are most notably popular on the video game board /v/, although they do get used as off-topic reactions on other boards on occasion. Chanarchive also features several archived threads where people react to dragon dildos.^[12][13] Dragon dildos are also a popular topic on unboxing threads, as either reactions posts or in a form of bait and switch trolling.^[14][15] These unboxing threads commonly feature a rise in popularity around the release of popular video games involving dragons such as Dragon Age and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.^[16]

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Team Fortress 2 Advice Animals are image variations of the Advice Animal meme format, with the theme of the images being related to the class based first person shooter Team Fortress 2. They either relate to mechanics and instances in the game, or elements and topics that are prominent in the fandom.

Origin
The earliest known example of a Team Fortress 2 advice animal is this image post on Funnyjunk of various advice animal style images regarding the Sniper, Spy and Pyro classes. It was posted to the site on April 8th 2010. Here is the image post

The same user made a second image one day later, this time about the Heavy, Medic and Scout classes. Here is the original post .

(This is a place holder origin image since the actual origin image is broken right now)

Spread
Team Fortress Two Advice Animals are also prominent on other image and meme sharing sites, like Memebase and Meme Generator . There is also instances of usage on sites like Reddit and Tumblr .

Possible Meme Mutation discussion on the Team Fortress 2 Subreddit.

Tumblr and Meme Generator have more examples and activty regarding Team Fortress Advice animals based on searches and images, while Reddit and Memebase only have a few instances of the meme.

There are also instances of the advice animals being used on sites regarding the game itself, like Steam’s User Forums (Notably the Team Fortress 2 section of the forums) and sites like Gamebanana, which specialises in custom/user made downloadable content to use in PC games.

Steam Forum Users discuss and create deteritives about Sad Pyro.

The Team Fortress Advice Animals are prominent on the site, serving as sprays that can be downloaded and used in game to added to a map for others to see. A pack of various downloadable Advice Animal sprays can be seen here
An example of a TF2 Advice Animal spray used in game

It is also common for Team Fortess Advice Animals and other memes to be featured in Idling and Achievement servers for Team Fortress 2, among others.

Tumblr

The Team Fortress 2 Memes front page on Tumblr.

On Blog hosting platform Tumblr, there is “Team Fortress 2 Memes”, or “tf2memes” for short. It can be found Here . It was created on July 1st 2011, a week after the Uber update and when Team Fortress 2 became a Free to Play game. Since then, it has been a large source for creating and increasing Advice Animals related to Team Fortress. The blog is still running currently and there are a total of 11 templates and collections for Team Fortress Advice Animals. The blog also has other memes not related to Advice Animals or Advice Animals which are not considered good enough for their own section, which are sorted into a Unsorted/Miscellaneous section .

Notable Examples

• Free to Play/Noob Heavy
  
  The first Advice Animal added to the Tumblr blog, this is commonly in conjunction with things stereotypically done by new players to the game, like thinking the game is just like Call of Duty or being unable to perform basic class mechanics. It’s also sometimes used with stereotypes that older players use to determine if someone is a “Noob” ("He has no avatar, must be F2P).

• Troll Spy
  
  Used for tactics used by the Spy class that are often considered to be “Cheap” or “Nooby” . Some of the examples include legitimate tactics, doing things in a harder way for effect, or griefing.

• Sad Pyro
  
  Originating on Meme Generator, this spawned from the neglectful treatment the Pyro got as a Class and the negative opinion he has in the Team Fortress community. These images are usually about either the bad luck Pyro has gotten in certain updates or unlucky experiences in game while playing as the class. This also got some recognition on the Steam Fourms.

Sad Pyro is also a deteritive of the Pyro Sitting Down meme.

Mutation
There are also various instances of Team Fortress 2 related images being made of already established Advice Animals.

A mutation of the The Most Interesting Man in the World meme.

A mutation of the Scumbag Steve / Scumbag Hat meme.

A mutation of the Bear Grylls/Better Drink My Own Piss meme.

Other Examples
There are also other examples of Team Fortress Advice Animals, either originating from Meme Generator or Tumblr.

From Tumblr:

• Prophunt Cow
• Angry Medic
• Hard Working Engineer
• Team Credit Solider
• Sniper Grylls
• Paranoid Pyro
• Cosplay Conundrums

From Meme Generator:

• Heavy Weapons Guy
• Pyroland Heavy
• Upset Engineer

About

Annoyed Picard is an image macro series featuring a screen capture of the Star Trek: The Next Generation character Jean-Luc Picard wearing an exasperated expression and captions revealing one’s frustration or incredulous reaction accompanied by the rhetorical “how the fuck?”, “why the fuck?” or “what the fuck?”

Origin

TThe original screen capture was taken from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Ménage à Troi” originally aired on May 28th, 1990, in which Captain Picard recites lines from the sonnets by the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.

Prior to the arrival of Annoyed Picard, the Star Trek character has long been associated with reaction face images conveying irritability or disappointment, most notably through the Facepalm instance from 2005 and the original instance of “WTF is this shit” based on the same screen capture. The Quickmeme^[1] page for “Annoyed Picard” was created on January 23rd, 2012, which featured the screen capture of Picard with an outstretched arm accompanied by the caption “Oh come on! / You don’t even know what a meme is!”

Spread

On February 10th, 2012, Redditor rbecks submitted an Annoyed Picard image macro with the caption “Admit it, when you look at me doing this / even you go ‘Ayyyy’” (shown below, left) to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[4] subreddit, but it did not manage to reach the front page having received less than 10 votes. On April 17th, Redditor Ayycanadian submitted an image macro with the caption “Who the fuck / let the dogs out?”^[5] (shown below, right), which received over 3,200 up votes within three months.

On June 23rd, a new Quickmeme^[2] page was created titled “Annoyed Picard HD”, which featured a higher resolution version of the original Annoyed Picard screen capture. On July 9th, Annoyed Picard was listed as the #1 Jean-Luc Picard meme on the rating website Ranker.^[7] On July 30th, the Internet humor blog PandaWhale^[8] published a post titled “Annoyed Picard Meme”, which featured a compilation of notable examples from the series including an animated GIF version.

The meme has continued to spread on the microblogging site Tumblr under the tag “#annoyed picard.”^[3] As of August 1st, 2012, the “Annoyed Picard” Quickmeme page has accumulated over 6,400 submissions and the “Annoyed Picard HD” page has received over 4,700 submissions.

Notable Examples

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