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Things Are Getting Pretty Serious is a catchphrase originally found in the 2004 cult comedy film Napoleon Dynamite. Online, it has been used in image macros featuring a movie still with the title character’s brother, Kip.

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Donte/Fuck You is a meme based off of the upcoming action game DmC: Devil may Cry. It originated on 4Chan’s /v/ board between 2010 and 2012.

Origin

Various sources began to refer to this new reboot’s version of Dante, the protagonist of the series, as Donte, due to the fact he doesn’t look, or act like the original Dante. The title of Donte is mostly used by longtime fans of the series who don’t want to call this a Devil May Cry game, and would have rather it not existed, or at least changed to be more like the source material.


The meme developed more as a new trailer with Donte saying “Fuck You!” hit the internet. This pretty much summed up how the fanbase felt about DmC.

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The phrase “Jiggling Chins” is often associated with Americans and the cultural impact of their morbid obesity. It should never be confused with “Jiggling China”, since the latter does not even exist. In cane of lacking citation, go ahead and prove me wrong.

Origin

This gem of maymaytic culture originated on the vast lands of forumotion.com in one of it’s many individual forums, specifically speaking thehastudents.

Spread

On the 21st of December 2012 Gzu, a well known poster on the thehastudents subforum, came up with the phrase “Jiggling Chins”, after one of his buddies remarked how her American chins were moving practically on their own as she examined a comic about Sonic the Hedgehog. The name of that girl is Synthra and we have to consider, what if she was the grillest? From that point in time on the meme spread like wildfire in Somalia.

Politically correct?

Many argue, whether this phrase is supposed to simply mock Americans or if it’s just laying down the facts. Shiniestmouse is investigating on that case. To this date his response was the following: “Well, who the hell cares about those blobs anyway?!”

Note: Discussion about this article can be found here.

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Real Vampires Don’t Sparkle (or just “Vampires Don’t Sparkle”) is a common term used to oppose the mythology behind the Twilight Novel Series, oftentimes captioned with pictures of more traditional vampires or characters who would be experts on the subject.

Origin

Despite the Twilight Novel series launching in 2005, the term wasn’t used until the release of Twilight’s Film Adaptation, where the sparkling visual effect could be seen first hand.

(Exact Origin is still unknown.)

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u mad ur an ugly ass bogan with no aesthetics and no1 knows who you are, and ur missus is prob getting fucked in the ass buy aesthetic cunts and u dont even know it. u mad ur face looks like a wrinkled up ballsack, u ugly as fuck cuz

Sent from Chestbrah’s personal account to Brett White’s personal account. Hosted as a screenshot on Brett White’s fan page.

Majestic Thorin was started in December of 2012 by Tumblr users mistlethalia and jackietastic. It celebrates the majesticness of Thorin Oakenshield.

Picture of my dog, Preston, sitting like a human.

We survived the end of the world… bring on the Physical Cliff.

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Change.org is an online petition platform which allows anyone to launch and participate in crowdsourced petitions. In 2012, the site surpassed more than 20 million users in 196 countries.

History

After two years of development, Change.org^[1] was launched in February 2007 by the San Francisco-based for-profit organization Change.org, Inc.. In its first year, the site allowed users to search for nonprofits and politicians to support based on political movements. The day of the site’s launch, it was featured on TechCrunch^[2], who likened the site’s original design to that of a social network. At launch, users could add friends, share photos and join groups, known as “Changes,” based on social issues and nonprofit organizations.

The site was also featured on VentureBeat^[3] and the Nonprofit Technology Network^[4] in spring 2007 and by July, the site launched a Facebook application^[5] where users could easily access the site through their Facebook account. After President Obama’s election in 2008, Change.org partnered with social networking site MySpace to create a platform where users could submit policy ideas for Barack Obama (shown below).

Petitions

In November 2009, Change.org introduced their petition tool^[12], integrating non-profit organization Democracy in Action’s government data with social media share buttons and embed codes. After transitioning away from its original social network setup, the site saw its first major spike in traffic after a petition was made in July 2011 to create a law to make it a felony for a parent or guardian to not notify authorities after a child has been missing for 24 hours. As of December 6th, 2012, the site hosts more than 350 thousand petitions, with 40,000 being created every month, which are browsable by popular topics, amount of signatures and most recent submissions.

The site has staff in twenty countries that provide translations in eleven different languages. Change.org also features^[14] successful petitions on a blog page that have resulted in real-life changes including a petition ensuring health care for victims affected by contaminated water at a military base^[15] and another urging schools to remove LFTB, a mixture of beef scraps and connective tissue, from school food.^[16] Change.org maintains a presence on other forms of social networking including Facebook^[9] and Twitter^[10], where it has more than 102K likes and 415K followers respectively as of December 2012.

Highlights

Caylee’s Law

Following Casey Anthony being found not guilty for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Caylee in July 2011, a handful of petition launched calling for governors to make not reporting a child missing after 24 hours a felony for parents or guardians. One in particular, written by Oklahoma resident Michelle Crowder^[17] gained more than 1.2 million electronic signatures within 14 days. In response, lawmakers in eleven states have proposed bills of this nature and as of December 2012, seven of those have been approved.^[18]

Trayvon Martin

On March 8th, 2012, Tracey Martin and Sybrina Fulton launched a petition^[19] seeking justice for their son, Trayvon Martin, after he was murdered in Sanford, Florida. In less than two weeks, the petition became the fastest growing on the site, at one point gaining 1000 new signatures per minute.^[20] More than 2.2 million people virtually signed the petition before it was announced that a Florida State Attorney would charge neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman with second degree murder. The trial is scheduled to begin in June 2013.

Media Coverage

Following the attention Change.org recieved from the Trayvon Martin case, the site began appearing in the media more frequently with mentions on NPR^[21], the Huffington Post^[22], Mashable^[23], Forbes^[24] and the Wall Street Journal^[25], among others. Many of these articles touch on the for-profit aspect of the site, by generating revenue from the email addresses of users who sign petitions.

Traffic

As of December 2012, Change.org has a Quantcast^[7] score of 1024 in the United States, seeing 1.6 million monthly users, and a global Alexa^[8] score of 1395. In September 2012, the site had surpassed 20 million total users^[11], breaking 25 million in December.^[13]

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Aleksey Dolmatov (rus. Алексей Долматов) is a Russian rap singer, drug-addict and Russian “Centr” rap group’s ex-vocalist. Known in Russian Internet by his fake death information.

Origin

Presumably, information of his death in terrorist attack to Domodedovo first appeared in “Metro” newspaper on 25th of January. His fans asked about it on question-answer sites, like answers.mail.ru for many times. Despite its soon rebuttal, this information has spread around the Internet.

Spread

The phrase “Guf’s dead” (Rus. Гуф умер) was used to troll his fans and himself. In April, 2011 this phrase has become the most popular in Russian social networks and forums, and a lot of macro and comics have been created.

The phrase from his “Is it easy to be young” song: “I’m in the seventh floor, it’s like sixth, but one higher” (Rus. Я на седьмом этаже, это как шестой, но на один повыше) has been used in macro and comics series as snowclone “X, it’s like Y, but X”.

The phrase from his “A town of roads” song: “Thanks “Centr” for that” (Rus. Спасибо “Центру” за это) is also usable in expressions like “Guf’s dead, thanks Centr for that”.

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Personality

Obviously, Aleksey doesn’t approve and promote information about his “death”, and ignores every questions about it. His songs are being criticised because of their bad performance and his voice’s burr. He sometimes makes jokes about it, but at 31st of December, 2011 he wished a death to anyone, who called him dead.

(W.I.P.)
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LifeInATent / LIAT^[1], real name Brian Martin, is a very well known internet tough guy, troll, and steroid user that seeks attention, partnership, and money on YouTube. Similar to Reply Girls^[2], LifeInATent spends most of his time being a internet tough guy with very serious death threats to anyone and anybody who finds him breaking the YouTube rules, or protecting his girlfriend and reply girl MeganLeeHeart^[3] from people pointing out the truth and facts about her. He’s been behaving like this for over 2 years now.

History

He first started YouTube around 2010 as MartekTheSuperHero. Originally, his idea was to be called MolestoTheSuperHero, but later changed it to Martek so people don’t suspect him as a sex offender. The channel contain trailers of a poorly made video game or movie called “Flying Campers” stars the main character Martek the Super Hero shaped after Willy Wonka. Next he started using his main YouTube account LifeInATent to leech YouTube partnership and their money by stealing video tags of popular videos from popular channels and start posting spam useless videos of himself with thumbnails of his face in goggles. Very similar to Reply Girls leeching YouTube’s partnership and money with thumbnails of an arrow pointing at their breasts.

Banned From YouTube

While LifeInATent violently keeps sending endless types of threats (death, hack, family, violence, etc.) to people on YouTube, the Youtube admins permanently banned all of his channels, his sock accounts, and his partnership taken down due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s Community Guidelines.

Coming Back For More

With his main account and other accounts banned, LifeInATent creates endless amount of accounts and sock accounts to somehow return to YouTube to continue his threats and white knighting to other YouTube users and create spam videos of himself with the name and tags of any disasters like the Japan earthquake disaster and the Connecticut shooting disaster just to get views, attention, and to help MeganLeeHeart’s reply videos on it get more views just to steal more YouTube money.

In current status, LifeInATent as LIATPARODY and ParodyViral3 is spamming death threats to everyone on YouTube for exposing the facts on him and MeganLeeHeart (as TimeWithMegan) (she is also spamming threats to people).

Disorders

Because of his violent attitude, it is clear that LifeInATent has disorders that can make him very dangerous and a threat in public. Those disorders are MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder)^[4], APD (Antisocial Personality Disorder)^[5], and HPD (Hypocrisy Personality Disorder)^[6]. Reply girl MeganLeeHeart also has APD and HPD except for MPD.

WeatherManKevin / KMartinTV

WeatherManKevin / KMartinTV is one of LifeInATent’s multiple personality characters who goes by the name of Kevin Martin, LifeInATent’s brother and a employed meteorologist who “owns” multiple weather websites like Southern California Weather Authority. Mostly he post videos of his ranting and telling people to back off LifeInATent and MeganLeeHeart or he will sue for harassment, which will never happen.

MeganLeeHeart / MeganSpeaks

MeganLeeHeart / MeganSpeaks, real name Chrissie Barmore, is LifeInATent’s girlfriend and reply girl. Not only she likes to leech partnership and money, but she’s also hypocritical and antisocial. She and LifeInATent bullies other YouTube users and send them threat messages. MeganLeeHeart also tries to get rid of the other reply girls by sending death threats and hack threats with LifeInATent so she can be the only reply girl leeching YouTube money.

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Branflakes, bold new taste. You’ll love it! For a measly 2 dollars you can experience Bran Flakes!

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ConcernedMom420 is the name of a Twitter user known for unusual posts. She is a 45yr old christian mom from utah who aims to ‘get weed banned’, and uses a large variety of false facts to back her up. Her posts revolve around religion, child abuse, extreme racism (mainly towards Barrack Obama) , false drug facts, hate towards the government, and extreme homophobia. Although she’s thought to be a troll, she repetitively claims to be real and legitimate.

Origin

Her first Post on Twitter was on December the 10th, showing this image and saying: ‘this deserves endless retweets!!!! I am a mom of 3!!! This hits close to home!!! #stopweed pic.twitter.com/98Y4Ew27’

Since then, many people have noticed her unusual posts.

Notoriety

Since her first post, she has been seen and noticed by large sections of the internet, mainly making fun of her posts.

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Star Fox, is a Nintendo Sci-Fi rail shooter video game first created for the Super NES. Since it’s original launch in 1993, it has gained a large online following, especially within the Furry fandom.

History

The original game, simply titled Star Fox^[1] (or Star Wing in Europe) was released on the SNES in 1993. This was then followed by Star Fox 64^[2] (or Lylat Wars in Europe) in 1997, which is widely considered the best in the series. This was soon followed by Star Fox Adventures^[3] and Star Fox: Assault^[4] on the Gamecube in 2002 and 2005 respectively, as well as Star Fox Command^[5] in 2006 for the DS, and a remake of Star Fox 64^[6] for the 3DS in 2011. As well as this, the characters have gone on to be playable characters in the Nintendo fighting series Super Smash Bros.

Online Presence

The Star Fox series has a large online fanbase, especially within the Furry fandom. Star Fox has a large presence on Tumblr^[7], Reddit^[8] and 4chan’s /v/ (video games) board^[9] as well as multiple fansites^[10][11] and it’s own wiki^[12].

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Do a Barrel Roll

“Do A Barrel Roll”:http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-a-barrel-roll is a catchphrase used to call on someone to perform a 360 degree horizontal spin. The phrase is sometimes used to caption image macros where the subject appears to be in mid-rotation, or in animated GIFs where the subject is performing a full rotation.

Krystal Can’t Enjoy Her Sandwich

Krystal Can’t Enjoy Her Sandwich is an avatar meme that became popular on the furry fandom website FurAffinity.

I Can’t Let You Do That Star Fox

I Can’t Let You Do That Star Fox is a line in StarFox 64 mentioned in the level “Fortuna” by antagonist Wolf O’Donnell, leader of the Star Wolf team.

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Most Offensive Video is a website that does video parodies of Charlie Brown and some other holiday parody videos. The voiceover for all the characters remain anonymous.

Origin

In 2002, the very first video he posted on the internet is A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa, a video parody of A Charlie Brown Christmas. It was originally created as a video experiment he posted on the web until in 2005 he’s discovered by millions of fans. A redux version of A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa is made in 2003, one year later after the first video.

Spread

The popularity of A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa went viral all over the internet. He has spawned several sequels, and remains today one of the all time most watched comedy videos on the internet.

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Lettuce / It Says “Never Give Up” is a fad on the website tumblr where the word replaces the phrase or the phrase replaces the word.

Origin

This fad originated on Tumblr in late 2012. It began in early December when Tumblr user ChuckQuizmo posted a picture of a guy^[1] holding a sign with the word “Lettuce” in katakana, with the attached phrase “Never Give Up”. This went on to receive over 32,870 notes as of December 23rd.

This phrase attatched to the image sparked a controversy when users translated the phrase on the sign and figured out it’s true meaning, while some others agreed with the meaning attached in the original post.

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^[1]Tumblr – Chuck Quizmo

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Office Space Bill Lumbergh is an image macro series featuring the character Bill Lumbergh from the 1999 comedy film Office Space. The captions typically mimic the character’s non-confrontational speech with various requests ending with the expression “That’d be great.”

Origin

The film Office Space was released on February 19th, 1999, in which the protagonist Peter Gibbons (played by Ron Livingston) is repeatedly exploited by his boss Bill Lumbergh (played by Gary Cole), a stereotype of a corporate manager who focuses on pointless paperwork and asks employees to work over the weekend.

On September 7th, 2011, Redditor Mekrob submitted a “read this in my voice” image macro to the /r/pics^[1] subreddit, which featured a screen capture of Lumbergh with the caption “Yeeeaah, if you could just, go ahead and read this in my voice, that’d be great” (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post received over 480 up votes and 25 comments.

Spread

On October 10th, 2011, Redditor AnkenTEM submitted a post titled “That’d be great” to the /r/pics^[6] subreddit, featuring a photograph of a hybrid cosplayer dressed as Lumbergh and Darth Vader from Star Wars with the caption “Yeah, if you could just, come to the dark side, that’d be great” (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post received over 3,400 upvotes and 40 comments. On May 13th, 2012, Redditor isntthatironic submitted a post titled “Lumbergh Cat” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[5] subreddit, featuring a photoshopped screen capture of Lumbergh with a superimposed cat’s head and the caption “Yeeaaaaahhhhh / I’m gonna need you to let me out even though you just let me back in” (shown below, right).

On December 24th, Redditor lifeisonebigjoe submitted a post titled “All I Want for Christmas” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[7] subreddit, which included a Bill Lumbergh image macro with the caption “Yeah, if we could all just stop shooting each other / That’d be great” (shown below). Within six hours, the post received over 17,000 up votes and 560 comments. As of December 24th, 2012, the Quickmeme page for “Bill Lumbergh”^[2] has received over 660 submissions, the page for “Office Space Lumbergh”^[3] has received over 500 submissions and the page for “Lumbergh”^[4] has received over 380 submissions.

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Punch-Out!! is a video game series by Nintendo inspired by boxing. The playable character is Little Mac, though the game is also known for its stereotypical characters (Don Flamenco, Piston Hondo, etc.) and Mike Tyson’s appearance in the series.

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Hina Face is a meme based on the official image of Hina found in Touhou 10 – Mountain of Faith. Placing Hina in an image creates awkward situations and a sense of discomfort. She is also often a subject of facebombs, as her stare will turn anyone into a replica of herself, in a similar fashion to Weegee.

Hina’s :D grin in that particular image is incredibly derpy and goofy looking, even for ZUN’s hilariously bad art in that game, and attained some notoriety with fans on both sides of the pond.

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Golden Eagle Snatches Kid is a video purportedly showing a large golden eagle attempting to carry away a toddler. Shortly after its release in December 2012, the video was revealed to be a hoax created with CGI techniques.

Origin

YouTuber MrNuclearCat uploaded a video titled “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” on December 18th, 2012, which showed a large eagle swooping down on a small child and attempting to carry him away before dropping him several feet to the ground (shown below). Within 48 hours, the video accumulated over 18 million views and 21,000 comments.

Spread

On December 19th, the video was submitted by Redditor FrostByte122 to the /r/WTF^[1] subreddit and by Redditor ThatGThang to the /r/videos^[2] subreddit. Within 24 hours, FrostByte’s post received over 18,500 upvotes and ThatGThang’s post received over 41,800 up votes. The same day, YouTuber Cyatek and YouTuber AnimalWire uploaded videos which argued that the video was faked, citing a frame where the eagle’s shadow suddenly appeared and the movement of the child after being let go by the eagle (shown below).

Also on December 19th, Redditor reddirter submitted an image macro titled “Misunderstood Eagle” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[12] subreddit, featuring a painting of a crying bald eagle with the caption “Tries to show kid the world / accused of trying to kill kid” (shown below). Within the next 24 hours, the post received over 10,600 up votes and 100 comments.

Hoax Revealed

On December 19th, a post was published on Montreal’s Centre NAD^[4] animation and design school blog, which revealed that the video had been faked by students Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin in a 3D animation and digital design production simulation workshop class. That day, the hoax was subsequently reported on by various news sites, including the BBC,^[5]ABC News,^[6] The Telegraph,^[7] The Daily Mail,^[8] The Guardian^[9] and NPR.^[10] Also on December 19th, Redditor Cactrot911 submitted a post titled “How I felt when I found out the video of the eagle stealing the baby was fake” to the /r/funny^[11] subreddit, which featured an image macro of an eagle carrying a baby captioned with the catchphrase “I want to believe” (shown below). Within the next 24 hours, the post received over 8,800 up votes and 290 comments.

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Parody Twitter Accounts

On December 19th, the @hideyobabies Twitter account was created, which tweeted jokes referencing the baby-snatching eagle and the Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder video. A similar Twitter feed @snatchyobabies was created the same day, which tweeted from the perspective of the baby-snatching eagle.

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo babies, ‘cause we snatchin’ everybody out here!

— Baby-Snatching Eagle (@hideyobabies) December 19, 2012

I can show you the world. Shining, shimmering, splendid SWOOPGRASP

— Baby-snatching eagle (@snatchyobabies) December 19, 2012

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