Planchi is a user from “Electronic Things Foro” (known as bocajuniorsarg there) that suffers from extreme loyalty to the soccer/football team Boca, compulsive purchases, innability to know what he really wants (to the point where he ends up selling anything he gets later down the road) and often making disturbing comments that makes the conversations with him the more awkward. This meme was generated as a sort of parody towards his quirky personality and often questionable decisions.

Editors Note: Hey guys, I believe that this could go under trolling and as this is my first post, I would like to know if I have to do that or if the admins do it. If I am supposed to do it, how do I do it? Thx :)

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Fanboyism is the practice of being a fanboy/girl. A fanboy is someone who is, according to Urban dictionary,“Known for a complete lack of objectivity in relation to their preferred focus. Usually argue with circular logic that they refuse to acknowledge. Arguments or debates with such are usually futile. Every flaw is spun into semi-virtues and everything else, blown to comedic, complimentary proportions.” When encountering a fanboy, the person might think that they are being trolled. However, the fanboy sincerely believes in their usually jaded opinion. They can be many different ages, but it has been noted that younger people on the internet (under 13) tend to exhibit fanboy behavior more then other age groups. A fanboy will usually do anything to try to make others agree that their opinion is fact. This includes lying, supressing others’ opinions on a subject, and not listening to reason. Most of the time, the things that fanboys obsess over doesn’t accually want the super fans in the first place

Origin:

Fanboyism has been around for a very long time, so long that it is impossible to find where it actually originated. Even something like arguing about why one color is better then another could be considered fanboyism if one takes it to a certain extent. So, it is less of something with an exact origin, more of something some people just do and have done.

Examples:

there are many different examples of fanboyism, here are some of the more well-known ones:

Sonic Franchise:

One thing that Sonic is infamous for is having many fanboys. They tend to give major hate toward people or groups who say anything bad about their favorite video game. This includes review sites, youtubers, and other games’ fanbases. Not all of Sonic’s fans are fanboys however. In fact, a large majority of them are just normal fans. This moderate view, sadly, is ruined by the radical fans of the franchise.

Minecraft:

The Minecraft community has a lot of younger users and as a result of that, has many, many fanboys. These fanboys look at Minecraft as if it is the greatist game ever made and absoluaty hate anything that seems to copy Minecraft. Their hating of copies seems a bit strange. one would think they would want more copies, because something could come around that is better then Minecraft. Once again, not all fans (even younger ones) are fanboys; most fans are not at all.

Fanboyism on YouTube:

One site that has many fanboys in it is YouTube. They defend certain YouTubers from everything without reason. Like Minecraft, most of these fans are pretty young. Users like PewDiePie who have many younger fans have many fanboys. Also, people like Justin Beiber and other singers have major fanboys/girls on their music videos on YouTube. Once again, people with this zealous fandom tend not to want it, they just show up. The site is also the host of quite a few fanboy-based flame wars. This incldes the Yognought vs. Anti-Yognaught war, A number of battles in the 360 vs PS3 war, and TGS vs. Machinima war.

Fanboy Flame Wars:

Not all flame wars are caused by trolls. Some flame wars happen when two fanboy groups clash with one another. Things like X console is better than Y console and X anime is better than Y anime. The unnecessary arguments tend to tear apart things like forum threads and comment sections all across the internet. For more information on flame wars, see this (wikipedia)

Examples of Fanboy Flame Wars:

Xbox360 vs. PS3

A major flame war that has been and is still going on right now is Xbox360 vs. PS3. Both sides’ fanboys claim that their console is better then the other one in every way. The argument itself is completely pointless, as it is not really fact and is more of a personal preference thing when it comes to consoles. nevertheless, the war rages on and will remain to do so until one of the companies goes out of business, makes a really bad next gen console (so bad that fanboys would admit it is bad), or all of the fans just leave to support something new and better then both of them.

How to Deal With Fanboys:

When you encounter a fanboy, remember that they are just trolls that believe what they are saying. what you should do is try to ignore them and do not attempt to argue with them. They will not listen to reason and will gather more fanboys to try to destroy you if the argument goes too far. If you are a content creator, such as a youtube celebraty, please make it clear to your fanbase that you do not want fanboyism to be prevalent in it. While they think that they are helping the content creator, they accually make others think negitively of the content creator because they tend to lie about the content. Once again, do not argue with a fanboy, you could end up starting a flame war, which helps no one at all.

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OCD Otter is an advice animal image macro series featuring the face of a sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in front of a green color wheel background. The captions typically include humorous descriptions of obsessive-compulsive behaviors and reactions.

Origin

According to Google^[2] cached search results, a Meme Generator page for “OCD Otter” was created as early as May 13th, 2010. The earliest instance shown on the sitefeatures the caption “Teacher erases whiteboard / asks to get up and erase the pieces she missed” (shown below, left). The original photo of the southern sea otter (shown below, right) was taken by photographer Ron Wolf of Tom Stack & Associates Inc.^[12]

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder^[13] (OCD) is a type of psychiatric disorder commonly associated with anxiety that causes a variety of repetitive behaviors and obsessions. Symptoms of the disorder include hoarding, excessive hand-washing, compulsive checking and nervous rituals that can become time-consuming and seem strange to both the sufferer and others.

Spread

On June 5th, 2010, FunnyJunk^[3] user GreenTyphlosian submitted a compilation of OCD Otter image macros. On August 26th, the “OCD Otter” Tumblr^[4] blog was launched, which posted over 35 images in the next six months. On December 12th, Redditor Cheesyfinger submitted an image macro titled “OCD Otter on Pockets” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[9] subreddit, featuring the caption “Touch each pocket before I go anywhere / Should probably touch them again just in case” (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post received over 300 up votes and 15 comments.

On June 20th, 2011, the Internet culture blog The Bigster^[7] published a post titled “The best of OCD Ottter,” which featured a compilation of 26 notable examples from the series. On January 4th, 2012, a Facebook^[8] page titled “OCDOtter” was created. In the following months, two single topic blogs dedicated to OCD Otter were launched, the “Obsessive Compulsive Otter” Tumblr^[5] on May 16th, followed by the “Fuck Yeah OCD Otter” Tumblr^[6] on September 10th. On December 24th, Redditor DeLiri0us submitted an image macro titled “OCD Otter Knows What’s Up” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[11] subreddit, which featured the caption “Tie one shoe / Must re-tie other one so they feel even” (shown below). Within three days, the post received over 5,600 up votes and 110 comments.

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Kate Upton is a model and actress who has starred in several viral videos and animated GIFs in which she wears sexually provacative clothing.

Online History

On August 4th, 2011, YouTuber donaldwhiteman1 uploaded a video titled “Kate Upton Slow Motion,” which featured slowed-down footage of Upton walking down a runway at a fashion show wearing various swim suits (shown below). Within 16 months, the video received over 1.42 million views and 1,300 comments.

cat daddy

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Captain Kitteh is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a cat sitting in a box dressed in a flight captain’s uniform. The captions are typically written from the perspective of a commercial airline pilot who happens to be a cat, in similar vein to other anthropomorphic feline characters like Business Cat and Aristocat.

Origin

On February 22nd, 2012, Redditor toastercookie submitted a post titled “Captain Kitteh” to the /r/aww^[1] subreddit, featuring a picture of a cat dressed in a captain’s uniform (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post received over 8,100 up votes and 210 comments. The same day, Redditor khdutton submitted an image macro using toastercookie’s photo to /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] with the caption parodying an airline captain’s flight safety announcement before takeoff (shown below, right). The post received over 10,900 up votes and 95 comments prior to being archived.

Spread

On February 23rd, 2012, FunnyJunk^[6] user stroef reposted Redditor khdutton’s image macro, receiving over 82,000 views and 5,300 up votes within the next 10 months. The same day, the image was shared again by 9gag^[7] user zenox, which gained more than 56,100 up votes and 4,900 Facebook shares in 10 months. On the following day, the Internet news blog UpRoxx^[3] published a slideshow of notable Captain Kitteh image macros. On February 26th, the Cheezburger site Animal Memes^[4] highlighted a Captain Kitteh image macro bearing the caption “Fasten your seatbelts / that cloud looks like a ball of yarn” (shown below).

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Editor’s Note: Work in Progress

About

Expression Meme refers to an illustration fad on online artist communities which depicts characters facial expressions in various situations in accordance with the instructions of a fill-in-the-blanks template image.

Origin

In cartoons and animations, creators usually make model sheets of characters designs and facial expressions to keep them consistent. And, depicting characters in various situations is an essential training for them to improve their drawing skills. Based on these cultural backgrounds and by the help of online art sharing services, “Expression Meme” has spread amatuer illustrators since late 2000s.

The earliest instance of this kind of fad found on the web was “25 Essential Expressions Challenge” submitted to deviantART by napalmnacey^[1] on May 17th, 2007 (shown below, left).^[2] As shown by its title, that is an image template which has 25 panels for essential facial expressions.

On the other hand, Expression Meme is called as “Expression Practice” (Japanese: 表情練習, HyōJō Renshū)^[3] in the Japanese online artist community pixiv. And it is known as the first fad utilizing pixiv’s “Illustration Response” feature which is equal feature to YouTube’s “Video Response”. This fad was originated by Hide (秀)^[4] on December 5th, 2008.^[5] That is a fill-in-blank template to practice their favorite characters face by drawing his/her facial expression in 12 situations into it. Its English-translated version was submitted to deviantART by NotSoFluent on July 1st, 2009 (shown below, right).^[6]

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[Editor’s Note: Researching]

As the manner in deviantART users that calls something popular a meme, this kind of image templates for exercises of facial expressions is known as “Expression Meme” on the English web.

“Expression Practice” had received more than 250 illustration responses in its first month, and succeeded to show the possibility of this feature. The amount of them had increased to 1200 in its first year. Then in December 2012, it had surpassed 3400.^[7] And, its English-translated version has become to one of the standard templates of “Expression Meme” in there.

In addition, several variations of “Expression Meme” templates which have different number of panels of situations have been created. Some of them have more specific theme than that of the original.

Other Blank Templates for Expression Meme

As of December 2012, the amount of illustrations related to this fad on deviantART is more than 8000.^[8]

Aftermath

Under the influence of this fad’s success, many illustration fads with the same format, answering the theme set on a blank template, have been created and practiced in both online communities. Famous instances in those are “Bottle Meme”, “If You Know 80% Of These You’re My Friend”, “Reactions when he/she is told “I love you”” etc… In particular, one response featuring Princess Zelda from the Nintendo video game series The Legend of Zelda in "Reactions when he/she is told “I love you”" was imported to Westerner’s web and reincarnated to an exploitable fad "Zelda's Response To…" on 4chan in 2012.

Notable Examples

Derivatives

Style Meme (画風イメレス, Gahu Imeresu; lit. Drawing Style Image Response)^[9]

Painting Meme (塗り方を練習してみよう！, Nurikata wo Renshuu shite Miyou!; lit. Let’s Practice Painting!)^[10]

Hairstyles Meme (素晴らしき嫁の髪型, Subarashiki Yome no Kamigata; lit. Hairstyles of my Wonderful Wife)^[11]

10 Ways of Flirting Meme (イチャイチャ10, Icha Icha Ten; lit. Flirting 10)^[12]

Blushing Faces meme (照れ顔いろいろイメレス9!, Teregao Iroiro Imeresu 9!)^[13]

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The Orvillecopter is a quadcopter creation of Bart Jansen, a Dutch artist. The Orvillecopter is created from taxidermied dead cat skin (Orville), two Stock LotusRC orange propellers and two Stock LotusRC blue propellers, and is based mostly on the LotusRC T580 quadcopter as it’s frame mostly consists of it.

Origin

Bart Jansen decided to create a ‘half cat half machine’ after his pet cat Orville (whom is named after Orville Wright) got struck by a car. After the mourning of the dead cat, he began to stuff the cadaver, and he enlisted the help of a radio control helicopter flier which is Arjen Beltman. Currently, the Orvillecopter itself resides at the KunstRAI art festival in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital. The Orvillecopter does not fly right and is facing weak engines and propellers, thus he is going to reconstruct the Orvillecopter with better, more powerful engines and rotors for a more steady flight. The Orvillecopter is presented but it got negative feedback as most people see this as animal cruelty and shameful. Graffiti was written as “kill the animal killers” and “shame” was written on the convention center as a complaint to see a beloved family member be created into a helicopter. Other major animal groups disliked this such artistry that other countries of animal groups disliked his creativity to turn this cat into a ’copter as well.

The Orvillecopter recieved a song aswell.

Google Insights

The Orvillecopter was widespread near early June 2012 but lost popularity somewhat. Still googled but not as often.

External Links

^[1]Orvillecopter Site – Bart’s Official Site

^[2]Telegraph News – Half cat, half machine: Dutch artist turns dead cat Orville into the Orvillecopter

^[3]Encyclopedia Dramatica – Orvillecopter™

^[4]Huffingtonpost – Orvillecopter: Artist Bart Jansen Turns His Dead Cat Into A Helicopter

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“First Date” is an exploitable comic that is used in various situations of a first date, ending with the boy and/or the girl alone, regretful, laughing and/or having sex.

Origin

The original comic was posted on September 22, 2011, by animator Bertrand Todesco^[1] on his blog:

Nearly a year later, three of the panels were posted on Tumblr by Miss Bonnie Bunny^[2]:

Notable Sites

• Facebook – Primeiro Encontro

• Facebook – O Primeiro Encontro

• Facebook – Primeiro Encontro

External References

^[1]Ma vie tient sur un bloc de Post-It – Mickey Enigme – chez l’opticien

^[2]Tumblr – I, the Last Unicorn

It started when Caine Monroy, a nine year old boy with an imaginative mind, spent his summer vacation at his dad’s auto parts store. Caine used leftover cardboard to build an arcade. Caine sells normal tickets, which are $1.00, and Fun Passes, which are $2.00, but allows the customer to play 500 times. The games there were quite like you would see in an actual arcade including a claw machine Caine made. Normally Caine never got any customers. But his first customer was so astonished by it, and he shared about the place on Facebook and other sites, leading to a surprise flash mob at Caine’s Arcade.

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Magic the Gathering is a very popular trading card game the envolves summoning monsters and casting a wide verairty of spells to deplete the opponent’s 20 life points to 0

on the internet it has a cult following, an large online community, and an endless amount of image macros and photoshops of the cards to combine them with other memes.

Origin
Richard Garfield was a doctoral candidate at University of Pennsylvania when he first started to design the game. During his free time he worked with local volunteer playtesters to help refine the game. He had been brought on as an adjunct professor at Whitman College in 1993 when Peter Adkison (then CEO of Wizards of the Coast games company) first met with Garfield to discuss Garfield’s new game RoboRally. Adkison saw the game as very promising, but decided that Wizards of the Coast lacked the resources to produce it at that point. He did like Garfield’s ideas and mentioned that he was looking for a portable game that could be played in the downtime that frequently occurs at gaming conventions. Garfield returned and presented the general outline of the concept of a Trading Card Game. Adkison immediately saw the potential of this idea and agreed to produce it. Magic: The Gathering underwent a general release on August 5, 1993.

While the game was simply called Magic through most of playtesting, when the game had to be officially named, a lawyer informed them that Magic was too generic to be trademarked. Mana Clash was instead chosen to be the name used in the first solicitation of the game. Still, everybody involved with the game continued to refer to it as Magic. After further consultation with the lawyer it was decided to rename the game to Magic: The Gathering, thus enabling the name to be trademarked.

Usage
On the internet, Magic: the Gathering has a very strong presence on the internet. ranging from the actual online variations of the game and it’s communities to an endless amount of parodies and image macros.

The fans themselves are often a subject of redicule and parodies as they are stereotyped as the ‘no life basement dwellers’

joke cards
the strogest parody of the cards thus far is the acto of photoshopping cards as internet memes as though the memes are playble cards. these photoshops range from just about anything: popular memes, random real life objects and even cartoon characters.

examples:

this kind of parodies also exist in other trading card games like Yu-gi-oh and Pokemon put in much smaller amount and notibility
examples

(any suggestions to add anything will be greatly appriciated

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Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows is a series of YouTube videos that feature the song by the same name. The videos are often animated, and can feature covers or remixes of the song.

Origin

On November 11, 2010, YouTuber Andrew Huang^[1] uploaded the video “PINKFLUFFYUNICORNSDANCING ON RAINBOWS” to his channel as a response to a comment on his previous video:

The video has since gained over 3 million views.

Notable Instances

External References

^[1]YouTube – songstowearpantsto

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About

Chocolate Milk Threads is a type of recurring thread on message boards, most notably 4chan’s /b/. It is usually about telling 4chan to keep an eye on a glass of chocolate milk while OP is away.

Origin

On January 31st, 2008, a thread is posted on /b/ about an Anonymous user who admitted that he loves chocolate milk. More Anonymous users follow as they post that they love chocolate milk too. Unfortunately, one Anonymous user posted “I prefer regular.” and suddenly got banned for the post.
On December 19, 2010, in response to an Anonymous user asking “Hey /b/, I’ve got some chocolate milk here, what should I do with it?”, a user uploaded a photo of himself dumping chocolate milk down his sink drain. He was promptly banned for the reply.

Spread

Screenshots of chocolate milk threads on 4chan are taken and post them on other related sites such as funnyjunk.com and ohinternet.com to share with other people just for laughs.

External References

Europe is in a crisis.. Greece has no money, Spain and Portugal are low on budget and France and Italy are shaking. Only Germany seems to stand the economic whirlwind… and Germany is paying a lot of bucks to safe the european union and the € too.

And because the crisis isn’t over, germany has to pay. “And… how much will it cost?” is now a common question in Germany when another great plan to safe the EU and the Euro is announced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Financial_Stability_Facility

This was found on 4chan, it is based on Mother 3’s Negative Man.

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“Fiscal Cliff” is a term referring to the potential consequences of tax increases and spending cuts on the United States budget deficit in 2013. It became a major talking point of the congressional debate as well as online discussions and parodies during the bipartisan negotiation process in December 2012.

Origin

According to an article on the BBC,^[1] the phrase “fiscal cliff” was first used in a New York Times article from 1957, in which writer Walter Stern used the term in reference to the financial consequences of people buying their first home. On February 29th, 2012, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke popularized the term when speaking to the House Committee on Financial Services when warning about the effects of spending cuts and tax increases in 2013.

“Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. I hope that Congress will look at that and figure out ways to achieve the same long run fiscal improvement without having it all happen at -- at one date.”

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On December 4th, 2012, the AnimationonFox YouTube channel uploaded a video showing the character Mr. Burns from the animated TV show The Simpsons explaining the fiscal cliff (shown below). Within one month, the video received over 3.4 million views and 6,000 up votes.

On December 31st, the “Les Fiscal Miserables” Tumblr^[5] blog was launched, which highlighted image macros referencing the Broadway musical Les Miserables with politicians working to solve the fiscal cliff economic crisis. The same day, The Huffington Post^[3] published an article featuring a slideshow of notable examples from the blog (shown below).

Bipartisan Agreement

On January 1st, The Daily Mail^[4] published an article titled “Fiscal ‘Cliff’ Bars, Dr. Fiscal ‘Cliff’ Huxtable and Les Miserables all get the hilarious Internet meme treatment,” which featured several image macros using the fiscal cliff crisis as a punchline. On the following day, the United States House of Representatives approved a bill to avert the fiscal cliff, which maintained tax cuts for people earning less than $400,000 per year and raised taxes for anyone making more. Several “Scumbag Congress” image macros were created on Quickmeme^[7] referencing the way Congress handled the fiscal cliff threat (shown below).

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Also on January 2nd, a video of President Barack Obama explaining the fiscal cliff agreement was uploaded to YouTube (shown below).

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Stoned Fox (Упоротая лиса) is a Russian photoshop meme in which a cutout image of a stuffed fox is superimposed into different base images of various humorous contexts. The nickname has been approximately translated as “Stoned Fox” and “Autistic Fox.”

Origin

On October 4th, 2012, British artist and taxidermist Adele Morse placed a stuffed fox for sale on the online auction site eBay. On October 14th, the fox was sold to a resident of Manchester, England for 330 pounds. According to an interview with Morse in Wales Online,^[10] she began receiving messages from Russians within a couple of days telling her they loved the fox and wished to have one.

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OOn November 27th, 2012, Morse published a post on her personal blog^[1], announcing that she had been contacted by several Russians informing her that the fox had become an Internet celebrity on the Russian web. The same day, Livejournal^[8] user al_stager published a post titled “A stuffed fox: Investigation,” revealing that he had informed Morse about the fox meme. On November 28th, slideshows of notable examples were featured in the Russian edition of Metro^[7] and the Russian news site Lenta, ^[4] as well as several pages on the Russian social networking site VK,^[3] one of which accumulated over 1,850 followers within the next three months (shown below).

On November 28th, the Russian news site Lenta^[4] published a slideshow of notable examples of the photoshop meme. On November 30th, Livejournal^[9] user rhunwolf published a post revealing that a woman photographed wearing a Stoned Fox t-shirt was Anna Veduta, the press secretary for Russian politician Alexsey Navalny.

The same day, the Russian television news station Russia 2 ran a report on the meme (shown below, left). On December 8th, YouTuber Ilya Korotin uploaded a slideshow of notable examples from the series (shown below, right).

On December 17th, Lenta^[5] published an article reporting that Moscow State University student Alexei Nevzorov was raising funds to purchase the Stoned Fox to display in an exhibition at the Centre for Contempary Art in Moscow. Within the next month, 24,900 rubles of the 74,000 goal had been raised.^[6] By early January 2013, the popularity of the meme had been picked up by the English-language tech news blog Read Write Web.^[2]

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Work in progress. Heavy research still needed

About

Date Specific Memes are memes that are more prominent during certain days of the year. A lot of them are fandom-related, but are spread quickly to other internet users due to the heavy volume of the image, phrase, or macro appearing.

Origins

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Notable Dates

October 3 – Commonly associated with the Mean Girls fandom. In the movie, the date October Third is given special significance as it is the first instance of two characters talking to each other.

November 5 – Associated with V for Vendetta and anonymous. The phrase “Remember, remember, the fifth of November” is prominent.

November 1 – Associated with The Nightmare Before Christmas. In the movie, a character says “We only have 365 days till next Halloween!” and another character corrects him with “364!”

April 30 – The phrase “It’s gonna be May” is thrown around. It is usually seen in the form of an image macro containing Justin Timberlake

May 4 – Commonly celebrated by Star Wars fanboys, accompanied with the phrase “May the Fourth be with you”, in reference to the Force.

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About

The Deep Web (also called the Deepnet, the Invisible Web, the Undernet or the hidden Web) is World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.

Searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed. Most of the Web’s information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot “see” or retrieve content in the deep Web--those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. The deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.

TOR

Tor (short for The Onion Router) is a system intended to enable online anonymity. Tor client software directs internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers to conceal a user’s location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including “visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms”, back to the user and is intended to protect users’ personal freedom, privacy, and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored.

The Silk Road

The Silk Road is a hidden TOR black market service. This service includes illegal drug, pornography, armory and secret book dealing with bitcoin.

The Hidden Wiki

The Hidden Wiki is a website that uses hidden services available through the Tor network. The site has a collection of links to other .onion sites, and encyclopedia articles in a wiki format.As a hidden service, The Hidden Wiki operates through the .onion pseudo top-level domain and can be accessed only via the Tor network. The site provides a range of links in a wiki format to other hidden services and sites on the clearnet (sites that can be accessed in a standard browser). These include links to child pornography sites, sites selling drugs and other contraband such as the Silk Road.

2011 Anti-Child Porn Operation

As known as Operation Darknet (also known as #OpDarknet) is the codename for a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks carried out by Anonymous on Lolita City, a child pornography sharing website that is accessible in anonymity via The Tor Project’s encrypted service. This campaign is not to be confused with two earlier Anonymous operations that have shared the same name, one from January 2010 to provide a solution to the censorship threatened by the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement) and another initiative from April 2011 to inform Anonymous members to start using I2P to protect their anonymity.

^[1]- Chanarchive Deep web threads

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Suneo’s Bragging Theme, usually called “The song played when Suneo is bragging” (Japanese: スネ夫が自慢話をするときに流れている曲, Suneo ga jiman banashi wo surutoki ni nagareteiru kyoku) in Japan, is the nickname given to a background audio track with no name in Doraemon^[1] which is one of the most popular Japanese TV anime series running over decades.

It is also a tag associated with the musical remixes of this song in the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND).

Origin

The audiotrack with no name was written by Japanese compopser Shunsuke Kikuchi. It had been often played in scenes of ordinary situations in Doraemon TV anime series from 1970s to mid 2000s. And, those situations included braggings by Suneo Honekawa (骨川スネ夫), one of the main characters in this series who is always proud of richness of his family.^[2] This song was also included as a part of a medley track in a compilation CD album for his audio works in the anime series which was released in 2001.^[3] However, this song itself had never stood out in people’s memory because it wasn’t particularly impressive for all watchers.

Suneo Honekawa

According to niconico Pedia^[4], this song was first uploaded to NND on August 28th, 2008. Then, during it reprinting again and again between NND and YouTube, its video title became to change into “The song played when Suneo is bragging”. And, this song came to light when this video was reprinted again with this title from YouTube to NND on August 29th, 2009.^[5]

Spread

The reason why this video triggered the fad on NND was its supreme naming sense which powerfully evoked everyone’s memories about Doraemon. Anybody who had watched the TV anime series couldn’t help reminding of Suneo’s annoying bragging which was appeared on many episodes by hearing this almost forgotten song with this title. This video soon rocked up NND’s hourly/daily chart.

Then as usual, some of NND users good at composing began setting this song to a subject for musical remixes and competing its quality. Its popularity was shown by the fact that the amount of those remixes had reached over 300 within its first week. The naming style of all music remixes in this series was unified like “The song played when Suneo is X-ing”, which was a homage to the original video title. In addition, Dowango, the parent company of NND, also released the ringtone version of this song with the title “The background music when Suneo is bragging” on September 10th of that year.^[6]

However, the fad of “Suneo’s bragging Theme” was soon overwritten by another big musical remix movement "Family Mart Jingle Remixes" began in September 4th, 2009. Although over 450 remixes had been posted to NND in its first year^[7], it may be no exaggeration to say that the fad itself was ended in only 7 days.

Notable Examples

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

The song played when Suneo is spreading bullet curtain
(Touhou Project style mix)^[8]
The song played when Suneo is dancing hard
(Happy Hardcore mix)^[9]
The song played when Suneo is headbanging heavily
(Heavy Metal mix)^[10]
The song played when Suneo is careering
(Dutch Trance mix)^[11]Niconico スネ夫がファミコンをするときに流れている曲（フル）The song played when Suneo is playing NES
(Chiptune mix)Niconico スネ夫がスタジアムで踊っているときに流れている曲(フル)The song played when Suneo is dancing on the Stadium
(Trance mix by Hiroyuki ODA)

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About

Retsupurae is a web show dedicated to lampooning mediocre-to-lackluster Let’s Play videos. Though Retsupurae was initially started by slowbeef (one of the first creators of Something Awful LPs), a number of other channels have begun their own Retsupurae videos, notable among them ChipCheezumSA, LesBeardly, LargeMentalBlock, and The StrawhatNO! The logo for the original channel includes the Japanese characters for “Failure”, and the name of the series itself is written in Engrish.

History

As it was mentioned previously, slowbeef had created Let’s Plays on the Something Awful forum, including theveryfirst Video LPs. Initially, the concept of recording video for a Let’s Play was met with some ridicule by Something Awful users, but it was gradually accepted over time. When YouTube was created, a number of Goons began uploading some of their own Let’s Plays on that site, introducing dozens of people to the concept of recording videos of themselves playing video games for the internet.

One day, slowbeef came across a YouTube LP of Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros. 3 that he felt was so bad that making fun of it was an opportunity that simply couldn’t be passed up. He teamed up with fellow Goon Sinix to perform an MST of the video while they watched it, and posted the video in the “Sandcastle” sub-board of the Something Awful Forums. The video was met with some acclaim, leading to slowbeef’s creation of an actual thread entitled “Let’s Play With Youtube”, creating the “Retsupray” channel in the process. The channel would later be suspended due to controversy (see “Spread”), but eventually slowbeef and company would make a “Retsupurae” channel.

Since Sinix wasn’t available, slowbeef began working with other Goons who were prominent in Let’s Play, including proteus4994, Dave_O, and Psychedelic Eyeball. The most important Goon that would guest-star on the channel would be Diabetus, who has since co-starred in nearly every video, and has even taken over for slowbeef on some occasions.

Aside from their entertainment value, Retsupuraes tend to point out some of the problems that are plaguing Let’s Plays. Some of the problems that irk the Retsupuraers include bad video and audio quality, singing along with the video game’s music, deliberately exaggerated commentary, playing games immediately after release with little-to-no-experience at the game, spouting memes for no reason, and not editing out repetitive gameplay or long pauses for things like phone calls.

Spread

Though Retsupurae was something of a hit on Something Awful, a number of YouTube users initially expressed disdain for the group. Many of these users were fans of the people who were riffed on, with some incorrectly stating that the Goons never made LPs of their own, and others going as far as making (admittedly ineffectual) death threats. Sometimes, the creators themselves attack the videos. Early on, enough people flagged the parodied videos to get the “Retsupray” account suspended. To counter this, slowbeef made an account called “Retsupurae”, that had mirrors of the original videos.

Over time, a number of YouTube users have come to embrace the parodies. As of January 2013, Retsupurae has over 57,000 subscribers and over 29,000,000 views. A number of Retsupurae’s targets have outright said that they were glad to have been spoofed, such as SSoHPKC.

Furthermore, some of Retsupurae’s fanbase have swarmed the videos that have been riffed on, posting comments such as “This just got Retsupuraed!” to comments that condemn the creator of the original video. Interestingly, slowbeef does not encourage the latter.

Retsupurae has repeatedly run into trouble when Let’s Play users put their faces into the videos. In fact, a spoof of Christopher “The Irate Gamer” Bores’s ghost-hunting show is what earned them a temporary suspension. The suspension was stopped only by an appeal by a Goon to the Youtube staff that lead to the restoration of the account. Diabetus and slowbeef have found ways to get around this by uploading the offending videos elsewhere and even partially censoring videos.

Spin-Offs

NAViGtR/George Wood/Gaming In The Clinton Years/Flights Of Fantasy

Some time in 2008, proteus4994, slowbeef, and Diabetus came across a video that purportedly aired in the 1990’s on a video game show , reviewing Mega Man 8. The group frequently made fun of the narrator’s false enthusiasm and outlandish statements, eventually deciding to riff on thirteen more of his videos.

Two comments of his have become somewhat memetic among the Retsupurae fanbase. The first is the following:

“Donkey Kong Country is truly perfect. If you do not get this amazing new generation of Donkey Kong Country madness, you are stupid. Yes, I know it’s insulting, but that’s also the truth. If you’re a true video game fan, you will not hesitate in the slightest bit to buy this piece of gaming history.”

The second is described in more detail below, under “Related Memes”.

Retsufrash

Eventually, slowbeef decided to expand on the channel’s horizons and start spoofing various Flash Games and Movies found on Newgrounds, dubbing this practice as Retsufrash. The Arise tetralogy is among one of the more popular series in Retsufrash, along with the Trapped series.

Wrongpuraes

Wrongpuraes are riffs on longplays, which are extended playthroughs of various games. In short, they are more-or-less Let’s Plays where someone else is playing the game. The first one, Last Alert, was made when Diabetus ran into slowbeef while on a business trip without anything to riff on. The most popular among these is the Wrongpurae of Darkseed 2, which has spawned a considerable amount of in-jokes and fanart.

Occasionally, some of these Wrongpuraes mock games that the duo actually like, such as the original Darkseed and I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream. They claim that the former suffers from overly-complicated puzzles, and the latter for its glitches.

Retsutalk

Diabetus had the idea to record conversations with him and slowbeef concerning matters regarding their work, video games, . Thus, Retsutalk was created, featuring a wide variety of guests and a number of theme songs. Some of the podcasts can be found on the channel, but all of them can be found on this mirror channel.

Related Memes

BillyMC

Before the original channel was shut down by YouTube, the RP crew came across an enthusiastic LPer known as BillyMC. Though they frequently mentioned that he had some serious self-esteem issues, they eventually decided that they actually liked him for his determined and largely optimistic personality. Since then, the Goons have made several jokes describing BillyMC as a total badass. Fans have even made statements about BillyMC that resemble Chuck Norris Facts. Billy has been the subject of over a dozen videos, and has been discussed in others.

George Wood’s Challenge

In his review of Tomb Raider 2, George Wood had the nerve to post a challenge for the developers of the series:

“We have a challenge to EIDOS. In Tomb Raider 3, create a storyline in which Lara gets breast cancer. Imagine the drama of a vulnerable Lara Croft still persisting on her wordly adventures despite her illness. It needs fleshing out, no pun intended, but we guarantee the gaming world would be shocked, stunned, and moved by the effort to make Lara’s character more meaningful.”

Diabetus and slowbeef reacted with shocked laughter at Wood’s proposal, repeatedly pointing out that he really thought that this was a good idea. Fans would later alter the suggestion into a snowclone, featuring outlandish scenarios where video game characters are afflicted with terrible diseases, such as Minecraft’s Steve developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.