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“Do you love the colour of the sky?” : “Do you love the colour of the sky?” refers to a series of long-form images depicting the color gradient of the sky throughout a 24-hour cycle. On Tumblr , these images have inspired quite a few parodies featuring an irrelevant character or imagery at the bottom.

Origin

On January 31st, 2012, tech news blog 2dayBlog.com^[11] uploaded a long-form image titled “Do you love the color of the sky?” on the Jokes section of the site. The original image consists of a long gradient showing the sky during different times of the day and night. At the very bottom, the text read “i Love it the Colour of Sky Very Much!!!” [sic] and a hand-drawn smiley face and two clouds.

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On February 2nd, 2012, the image was shared on MemeCenter^[12] and eight days later it was reposted to 9gag^[10], accruing more than 84,000 views in just over a year. Throughout 2012, the image was posted to Pinterest^[13] multiple times with the American spelling of “color.”

On March 6th, 2013, Imgur user IAmNoTreeIAmAnEnt reuploaded the image with the title “For artists, writers, etc.”^[1], using a different typeface for the introduction and replacing the text at the bottom with the question “Which one?” This version earned nearly 65,000 views within four days. On March 7th, 2013, boywonder99 reposted the picture to Tumblr^[2], splitting it into several different parts in order to fit a photoset. Within the first 72 hours, the post accrued more than 512,000 notes. Due to the vertical orientation of the image, Tumblr users soon began complaining about how long it takes to scroll past the image on the dashboard page,^[5][6] and within hours, the first parody image featuring a photo of Grumpy Cat was submitted by Tumblr blogger catsymaxxie.^[7]

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Additional parodies and text posts complaining about the image can be found with the Tumblr tags “Do you love the colour of the sky?,”^[3]“Do you love the color of the sky?,”^[4]“colour of the sky”^[8] and “color of the sky.”^[9]

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“Rocket Lawnchair” (AKA Rawket Lawnchair) is a catchphrase spawned from the Run-N-Gun game franchise “Metal Slug”. In the game, the in-game announcer will announce the name of the weapon picked up by the players. But in the second game of the franchise, the term “Rocket Launcher” was mispronounced by the announcer as “Rocket Lawnchair”.

Origin

This mispronunciation originates from the Run-N-Gun game “Metal Slug 2” which is released by SNK (Now known as SNK Playmore) in the year 1998. In the game, the player controls a character of his/ her choice and has to shoot and destroy any enemy forces that gets in his/ her way, and a boss is faced at the end of every level. The player starts every level with a pistol with infinite ammo, but can pick up other weapons for increased firepower (with limited ammo). Among these weapons is the Rocket Launcher, it isn’t the most powerful, but it was the announcer’s mispronunciation of the term that made it popular on the web.

Spread

Even though this meme is only used by the Metal Slug community, it is still difficult to tell how far the meme has spread. But it spread mostly as images and references in comments.

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I Too Like to Live Dangerously is an image macro series featuring a screen capture of the protagonist from the film series Austin Powers. The captions typically contain descriptions of mildly risky behaviors followed by the “I also like to live dangerously,” in a similar vein to the We’ve Got a Badass Over Here image macros.

Origin

The screen capture and expression come from a quote in a scene from the film Austin Powers, in which the protagonist (played by Mike Myers) plays blackjack against the villain Number Two (played by Robert Wagner) (shown below).

On January 5th, 2013, Reddit TheNinjirate submitted an image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit^[1] with the caption “you like to submit OC to Advice Animals? / I also like to live dangerously” (shown below). In two months, the post received only 6 up votes.

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Hyadain’s Amazing Friendship (ヒャダインのじょーじょーゆーじょー) is an opening theme song of TV animation series of Nichijou (Japanese : 日常, lit. Regular Life), a Japanese comedy manga by Keiichi Arawi.

Since the beginning of its second season, its second opening movie and song inspired many people, and became the subject of many fanfics, parodies, remixes and MADs on Nico Nico Douga (NND), a video sharing service in Japan.

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Storytelling Dog is an advice animal image macro series utilizing a photo of an adult Samoyed^[1]dog sitting on a chair surrounded by seven puppies. The overlaid text depicts the dog as a storyteller, conveying historical knowledge to the young pups.

Origin

Though the photographer of the Samoyed dog family (shown below, left) is unknown, it has been online since as early as February 12th, 2012, when it was included in a series of cute photos on the dog enthusiast blog The Hydrant.^[2] It was captioned as early as July 2012 by a Pinterest user^[3], depicting the adult telling a story about why dogs dislike cats to the standing puppies.

Spread

In February 2012, the uncaptioned photo was shared on, the NeoGAF forums^[4], FunnyJunk^[5] and The Chive.^[6] In July 2012, the uncaptioned version was posted on 9gag^[7] with the title “Ok…sit down and I’ll tell you a story.” On March 10th, 2013, Redditor TheNamesAustin posted the first image macro with the name Storytelling Dog to the Advice Animals subreddit^[8], with a caption relating to one often found on cat image macros about catching the red dot from a laser pointer (shown below). The post earned more than 1100 upvotes and nearly 800 points overall.

On March 11th, two separate Storytelling Dog images hit the front page of Reddit with more than 2000 points each.^[9][10] The same day, additional image macros were shared on Memeblender^[11], Pleated Jeans^[12] and Tumblr.^[13] As of March 11th, 30 instances of Storytelling Dog have been shared on the Advice Animals subreddit.^[14]

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Fatlus is an internet slang term and pejorative label used to describe Western fans of the Japanese video game developer company Atlus^[1] and its video game franchises, most notably Megami Tensei,^[6] as well as its spin-off titles Shin Megami Tensei: Persona^[7] and Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga.^[8] In the MS Paint4chan users as early as April 2008, when the name was referenced in a comics thread on /v/^[9] (Video Games). The earliest archived instance of one of the comics depicting a heavyset blonde male with glasses wearing an Atlus shirt and playing Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3^[11] was posted to /a/^[10] (Anime and Manga) board (shown below) on July 15th, 2008.

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In April 2008, members of the 4chan-affiliated Pool’s Closed forum^[12] criticized the posters on /v/ board as being overrun with people who would identify with Fatlus. Throughout the year, the term was used on the GameFAQs message boards for both Persona 3 and Persona 4 to criticize the game developers^[13] and to discuss the 4chan comics and stereotypes,^[14] such as a thread^[15] about a limited-release expansion pack for Persona 4 that included an XL shirt, with no other sizes to choose from.^[16] In December 2008, Fatlus was used in conjunction with the term weeaboo to describe the typical audience of Persona 3 on the Escapist forum.^[17] In January 2009, Fatlus was first defined on Urban Dictionary^[20], again comparing the term to Weeaboos.

In April 2009, a series of the Fatlus comics were posted to the Atlus Online message board^[4], resulting in similar compilations being shared on the forums for System Wars^[2], NeoGAF^[21] and Pinoy-N.^[22] As of March 2013, there are more than 200 pages of search results for Fatlus on the Foolz Archive.^[18] Additional comics can be found on Tumblr^[3], deviantART^[5] and Photobucket.^[19]

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It is a meme depicting two people, depicting two people from a photo, probably a young couple dancing like mad, in various situations and alterations ranging from inserted texts to movie-posters with their faces inserted.

Technohonks means “Techno-fanatics/idiots” in german, since a “Honk” is someone who likes something very much, but emberasses himself with it.

Origin

Originally, the original photo was uploaded in various german forums around May 2004 (around the time of the “Fat Asian Kid”) and people responded to this usually with simple alterations made in it. Later, around June in 2004 a website (http://www.despecial.de/honks/ ,now defunct) was launched, which collected pictures from various forums.

The original picture:

A Montage of the cached remains on web.archive…

Spread and Demise

Later that year, this website was spread even further, introducing more people to the photo, which led to even more image manipulations. In October/November 2004, a lawsuit followed by the depicted people who found out being suddenly popular, but didn’t find the whole thing funny at all and the website had to close.

The Text means in English:

Update:

Thanks to the two donators from Switzerland.

Kleinvieh (15,- €) mach auch Mist, hehe(This is a saying, meaning that even small amounts (15 €) make a big sum someday.)

As you have seen lately, I was served a notice (from the depicted couple’s lawyer) and i’m not allowed to show any more pictures.

Sadly, though the notice, lawyer’s fees summed up, that I can hardly pay myself.

If anyone wants to support me with one or another Euro, here’s a PayPal donation button.

(Donate)
Too bad that the Honk-Story has to end like this. See you!

Also, please don’t ask me by mail(E-Mail) about the pictures anymore.

Later, however, other people, who had collected these Images as well, made up new websites. One of which is
http://allyourhonks.piranho.de/honkset.html

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3D Printing is the practice of creating objects from three-dimensional digital models. Online communities have arisen for 3D printing enthusiasts, including open-source databases where digital models can be downloaded, including Makerbot’s Thingiverse and Defense Distributed’s DEFCAD.

History

In 1983, Chuck Hull^[2] invented the process known as stereolithography, which would create solid objects by “printing” thin layers of material on top of one another through lasers and ultraviolet light. Two years later, he founded the company 3D Systems^[3] to manufacture 3D printers and other related technologies, specifically for industrial use. By 2000, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began developing their own 3D printing process, using powders and a binding material.^[4]

In 2005, RepRap^[1] launched, dedicated to building a printer that would replicate itself. By 2006, the prototype Darwin (shown below, left) successfully printed its first piece. Two years later, personal 3D printers began to be developed by Desktop Factory (shown below, right), which began selling their models at $4995 each in 2007.^[5]

In 2009, founding member of the RepRap foundation Zach “Hoeken” Smith, along with Bre Pettis and Adam Mayer, launched MakerBot Industries^[6], featuring build-it-yourself printers. The company launched on March 15th, 2009^[7], offering a kit containing the pieces to build their first printer model, the CupCake CNC, for $750. Approximately a month later, the laser-cut design files were made freely available on the Thingiverse^[9], allowing anyone with access to a laser cutter to build their own MakerBot for free.

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Time Lapse Photography is a video technique which captures a reduced amount of film frames to be played back at normal speed, making time appear to move faster than normal. The practice is considered to be the opposite of slow motion.

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Probably a lot of engrish. Need grammatical corrections.

Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk (the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk) is a French audio story telling the story of a group of adventurers in a fantasy world. This one-man amateur franchise became a successful hit in France and is today 5 seasons long, creating a new kind of medium: the MP3 saga.

Origin

In 2000, John Lang (known online as Pen of Chaos, or PoC) created for fun an audio sketch with highly modified voices, parodying role playing games such as Dungeon and Dragons, and uploaded it on his website^[1]. The sketch started to gain some reputation, and PoC decided in January 2001 to redo the whole thing better, with a new first episode explaining how the group arrived to the dungeon.

Precursors

The idea of comedic sketches with high pitch voices mostly came from Les Deux Minutes du Peuple, a French Canadian series of audio sketches realized by François Pérusse, who became quite successful in Quebec and France.

The story itself came from numerous fantasy works such as The Lord of the Rings or Dungeon and Dragons, but the author said he was mostly inspired by a more obscure work: Les Merveilleuses Aventures de Kalon by Asp Explorer.

Plot

A patchwork of noob adventurers is enrolled by a mysterious man to explore the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk, a tower leaded by the dark wizard Zangdar, and loot the twelve and last statuette of Gladeulfeurha, which reunited with the others will summon an ancient and unknown prophecy. The main characters meet each other for the first time at the entrance of the dungeon, are all level 1 and never did any quest before. Their inexperience and the strong personality of each one will lead them to extreme and funny situations, highlighted by the absence of affinity among the members of the company.

After the first season, the victorious group leaves the actual dungeon, but the members are always stuck together by unfortunate series of events.

Characters

The characters are all unnamed, and only known by their race or their class.

• The Ranger: self-claimed leader of the company, the Ranger is a former chair builder wishing success to finally be respected as he should be. He try to manage cohesion is such a clumsy group, but his own cowardice and incompetence and the impulsive attitude of his companions mostly lead to the failure of his plans.
• The Dwarf: dirty, greedy, selfish, annoying, racist… in the end a typical dwarf. He is only here to loot the more money and treasures he can, not caring about any of his companions, especially the Elf. He always has inventive ways to solve problems, most of the time impossible to realize.
• The Elf: a female (very bad) archer with a nice pair of… boots. She is extremely nice and naive, and started the whole adventure thing only by boredom, not knowing what awaited her. She is always arguing with the Dwarf about anything.
• The Enchentress: this ginger wizard is the smartest member of the group, but is also very confuse and mistake her curses. Her continuous flow of knowledge quickly bore her companions, but often solve the issues the group meets.
• The Ogre: a massive, quite stupid creature who does not speak human and is always hungry. He does not really understand the purpose of the quest, but doesn’t really care either. The Enchentress is his best pal, mostly because she is the only one who speaks the ogre language.
• The Barbarian: ferocious and unmerciful, the Barbarian only wants to kill any foes that will cross his path. He is far from brilliant and not very talkative either. He usually screams “Brawl!” any time he can.
• The Thief: an extremely coward man, who always suggests the safest way possible. Despite his occasional help, he is mostly scorned by the others, and also suffers from a huge lack of luck.

Success

The series became through the years a huge hit in France, almost only by word of mouth. It eventually became successful enough to allow John Lang to live only by the money receive by the selling of numerous goodies such as CDs of comedic songs (even doing live concert with his band called Naheulband), roleplay figurines and above all the hardcover comic adaptation by Marion Poinsot, ongoing since 2005 with more than 11 issues.

In 2001, PoC’s friend Knarf (who did some roles in Naheulbeuk) started his own saga, Les Aventuriers du Survivaure^[4], a parody of science-fiction franchises such as Star Trek and Star Wars. John Lang assures several characters in this saga. It has later also been adapted in comic book, again by Marion Poinsot. The story in even more far in the comic than in the audio saga, the first season not finished yet in MP3.

After the first two seasons (2×15 episodes), John Lang started to write the story as a novel, because he started to be frustrated by the narrative limitation of the audio support, and seasons 3 to 5 (respectively named La Couette de l’Oubli, L’Orbe de Xaraz and Le Conseil de Suak) were released in 2008, 2009 and 2011 (L’Orbe de Xaraz even winning the Prix Merlin). But PoC doesn’t forget his old fans, and the story is also adapted in comic book and some exclusive scenes are done in MP3. He now plans to rewrite the first two seasons as a novel, planning after that to finally translate his entire saga in English.

Legacy

The success of Naheulbeuk growing, a lot of other persons started their own audio adventures, popularizing the “MP3 saga” term and Naheulbeuk by the same. The Netophonix^[2] website counts more than 750 MP3 sagas^[3] (though more than 75% of them are unfinished, sometime even barely started). The most famous complete MP3 sagas are Reflets d’Acide (a fantasy adventure entirely in rhymes), Adoprixtoxis (a sci-fi spoof with a lot of pop culture references), Banal Fantasy (a Final Fantasy VII abridged series), Chez le Psy (the consultations of a bad psychiatrist) and Trimoria (the imaginary adventures of a mad man).

External References

^[1]Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk– Official website

^[2]Netophonix – Main page

^[3]Netophonix – Sagas list

^[4]Les Aventuriers du Survivaure– Official website

George Lucas said it wasn’t Aliens in Indiana Jones & the crystal skull but Inter-dimensional beings

“Fica, vai ter bolo!” is a brazilian meme that means “Stay, it´s going to have cake”, a typical grandma phrase. It was created by two Twitter users @nairbello and @hebecamargo, fake profiles for the brazilian TV celebrities Nair Bello and Hebe Camargo. These two celebrities are very famous in Brazil and they are old womans, that´s why they created this grandmother phrase.

A famous brazilian magazine Veja São Paulo made an article, in portuguese, about the meme: http://vejasp.abril.com.br/materia/tumblr-dicas

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#Replace[X]TitlesWithPope are hashtag trends that developed on Twitter in March of 2013 due to the election of a new Pope in the Vatican. Tweets that use the hashtag take an anime title or a movie title and replace a single word in the title with the word “Pope”.

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“O sistema é foda” is a brazilian meme, it means something like “The system sucks”. It´s a phrase used by the brazilian movie character Capitão Nascimento (Roberto Nascimento), played by the actor Wagner Moura in “Tropa de Elite” and “Tropa de Elite 2”.

Capitão Nascimento became very popular in Brazil, this character is a incorrupt police officer that struggle against the Rio de Janeiro´s druglords and the corrupt policeman. He´s a Captain in the elite troop of the Rio de Janeiro´s Military Police known as B.O.P.E. – Batalhão de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Battalion), whose training is known as very rough, in fact one of the most hard in the world.

In “Tropa de Elite 2”, Roberto Nascimento, now promoted to Colonel, begins to discover that the crime problems of Rio de Janeiro and of the entire nation is in fact a politic problem. Many deputys, senators, television presentators and commanders of the police are involved with the drug and illegal weapons traffic.

Then, at the end of the movie, while he´s flying over Brasilia (brazilian capital city), passing through the Palácio do Planalto, head office of the brazilian pcongress, he says: “O sistema é foda”. Meaning that the entire system is corrupt and dependant of its corruption.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49dA2_Lb1Lw

Now, the meme became to be used by the pun that the word “sistema” (system) has with others situations, like computer’s operational systems, the solar system or biological systems such as the respiratory system for example.

Use “O sistema é foda” when a problem occurs in one of this “systems”.

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Sistine Seagull is the nickname given to a seagull that was spotted resting on top of the Sistine Chapel for several hours during the papal conclave in Vatican City on March 12th, 2013. The bird came to the center of online attention as people eagerly awaited for white smoke to rise from the chimney, a signal indicating that a new pope has been chosen.

Origin

On March 13th, 2013, as thousands of umbrella-clad onlookers waited for white smoke to billow out of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City to notify the world of the selection of a new pope following Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation in February. Additionally, tens of thousands of people were watching online via live stream. While cameras were on the Chapel’s chimney, a seagull was spotted resting on it for several hours.

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Online, viewers began discussing the bird on Twitter, with more than 1900 tweets^[2] about its choice of perch between March 13th and 14th. By 11:48 AM on the 13th, the novelty Twitter account @SistineSeagull^[1] was created, to humorously livetweet the papal conclave from the seagull’s perspective. In slightly more than 24 hours, the account has accrued more than 8800 followers. The account’s first post (shown below) was retweeted nearly 300 times.

Hanging out on the Sistine Chapel Chimney, livetweeting #conclave#newpope

— SistineSeagull (@SistineSeagull) March 13, 2013

Approximately two hours after the Twitter account’s debut, CTV News^[3] compiled dozens of tweets about the bird, as well as some from the novelty account. Also on the 13th, stories about the public’s appreciation of the seagull, as well as the Twitter account, appeared on CBC News^[4], the Huffington Post^[5], the Washington Post^[10], GlobalPost^[8] and CBS News.^[6] The following day, additional news sites provided coverage of the internet’s response to the seagull including ABC News^[7] and Voxxi.^[9]

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A common sight on 4chan’s /tg/ and occasionally /b/, Choice Games usually consist of pictures describing scenarios with certain restrictions, wherein the reader is to make a choice based on the given information. Choices can range from superpowers to magical abilities to symbiotic aliens attaching themselves to the user.

The pictures are known to spawn discussions about the merits of each choice, usually leading to mocking those who choose differently.

One notable trend about these is the unusually high amount of original content. New ones pop up frequently, perpetuating discussion and the interest in the concept further.

It´s a brazilian video where a crack addicted is caught smoking his drug in a pressure cooker on his kitchen. Then, to mask it he says “Vou fazer uma sopa pra nois” (I´ll cook a soup for us).

His similarity with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air character Uncle Phil, or Phillip Banks, played by James Avery, made the video even more famous on brazilian comedy blogs.

Here´s the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozOx8R7dz3w

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Veronica Mars^[1] is an American mystery television series that aired from September 2004 through May 2007. The series details the life of the title character, played by Kristen Bell, who is a high school student that also moonlights as a private investigator with her father Keith, played by Enrico Colantoni. During the third season hiatus in 2007, fans of the show known as “Cloud Watchers” organized several online campaigns to call for the renewal of the production. In March 2013, the show broke several Kickstarter records after creator Rob Thomas launched a campaign to fund a full-length feature film based on the series.

History

Rob Thomas originally wrote Veronica Mars as a young adult novel, which was sold as “Untitled Rob Thomas Teen Detective Novel” with a male protagonist. However, after realizing television scripts were much easier for him to write, he rewrote the project for television over the span of a year and changed the main character to a female for a more unique perspective.^[43] The first two seasons chronicle Mars’ high school life, typically following a “case of the week” format with a larger case that would last for several episodes or the entire season. The third season, in which Mars begins her first year of college, focused on two separate story arcs, followed by five standalone episodes. Mars’ character is also notable for her snarky mannerisms (shown below):

Reception

Similar to other cult-status shows like Community, Veronica Mars proved to be a critical success despite its low ratings, receiving praise from entertainment news sites and blogs including The Boston Phoenix^[37], LA Weekly^[38], The Chicago Sun-Times^[39], Village Voice^[40], TIME^[41] and Salon.^[42] The show only averaged 2.4 million viewers per season. In April 2007, a fansourced collection of essays about the series edited by Rob Thomas titled Neptune Noir^[35] was published, followed by a 2011 compilation of academic papers on the show titled Investigating Veronica Mars.^[36]

Fandom

In March 2005, MarsInvestigations.net^[30] launched, containing an episode guide, information about the soundtrack, character profiles and an FAQ about important mysteries throughout the series. In 2006, a blog^[31] dedicated to Mars’ fashion on the show launched, but was only active for two months. In March of that year, UPN held a Veronica Mars Blogger Press Day^[32], inviting television bloggers who enjoyed the show to the set to watch an episode be filmed and meet the cast and crew. Though many of these blogs have since been deleted, reviews of this press day can still be found on Give Me My Remote^[33] (shown below) and The Vast Wasteland.^[34] As of March 2013, fans of the show convene on Tumblr^[44], Reddit^[45], deviantART^[46] and Pinterest^[47] to share images and fan art from Veronica Mars. A Facebook^[48] fan page for the show, launched in February 2011, has nearly 310,000 fans as of March 2013.

Cloud Watchers

Following rumors of the show’s cancellation in early May 2006, Veronica Mars fans on the Television Without Pity forums^[20] banded together to form the group Cloud Watchers, using a LiveJournal community^[21] as its home base. In a week, more than 100 Cloud Watchers raised more than $7000 dollars^[24], using a large chunk of the money to rent a plane that would fly over the CW offices asking to save the show (shown below) on May 9th, 2006, the night of Veronica Mars’ second season finale. The group also sent graduation bouquets^[23] and care packages to be delivered the same day and raised money throughout the year to donate 500 DVD sets to libraries in all 50 states^[22], with another 100 donated by May 2007.^[29]

In an email to a member of Cloud Watchers^[25], Rob Thomas expressed his appreciation for the flyover. On May 16th, 2006, Thomas emailed members of Cloud Watchers again^[26] to let them know that the show had been renewed. Entertainment Weekly^[27] also confirmed the renewal that week, noting it was picked up for 22 episodes, which would be cut down to 13 if the show underperformed. The group took action again in June 2007 with a campaign to send Mars Bars candy to the CW to try to convince them to keep the show.^[28], but the show was still cancelled.

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As early as September 2008^[3], creator Rob Thomas had discussed making a full-length feature film based on the series but by July 2009, actress Kristin Bell told Entertainment Weekly^[4] that Warner Brothers producer Joel Silver informed her and Thomas that there was “no enthusiasm” on making the film. In January 2010, Thomas again confirmed^[5] that he would write the film if he could find someone to finance it. On February 14th, 2013, Kristen Bell tweeted^[6] a photo of herself with Rob Thomas (shown below) at the Warner Brothers Studios, leading many fans on Tumblr^[7] to suspect something related to Veronica Mars was going on. This was reinforced later in the month when she tweeted a second photo^[8] of herself with former co-stars Enrico Colantoni and Max Greenfield attending a hockey game.

SO great hanging with the wonderful <a href="https://twitter.com/robthomas">robthomas</a> yesterday ! He is simply the best. Happy Vday and ill see u soon rob.… <a href="http://t.co/J4haScsK" title="http://say.ly/ano5b5V">say.ly/ano5b5V</a></p>&mdash; Kristen Bell(IMKristenBell) February 14, 2013

On March 12th, 2013, Bell tweeted^[9] about an interview she and Thomas did, telling readers to “tune in tomorrow” for news. The following morning, Entertainment Weekly^[10] published the exclusive interview announcing a Kickstarter campaign^[2] looking to raise $2 million dollars to fund a Veronica Mars film.

Within 20 minutes, the Kickstarter raised more than $12,000.^[11] The campaign broke several records the first day, reaching $1 million in 4 hours and 24 minutes and $2 million in 10 hours.^[12] Despite this, many online commentators were split^[13] over the Kickstarter campaign. The Atlantic^[18] criticized the major studio production for using a method that is typically reserved for independent filmmakers, while other critics expressed skepticism that this may be a one-off opportunity for cancelled properties.^[17] Meanwhile, other writers and actors involved with short-lived TV show projects saw this as an opportunity^[14], including Pushing Daisies^[15] creator Bryan Fuller and Chuck^[16] star Zachary Levi. As of 3 p.m. (EST) on March 15th, the Kickstarter has raised more than $3.3 million dollars and is trending towards raising more than $30 million if pledges continue to roll in at their current rate.^[19]

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Ignition (Remix) is a 2003 hit single by R&B singer and songwriter R. Kelly, which has inspired many covers, parodies and remixes on the video-sharing site YouTube.

Origin

The song was released on January 22nd, 2003 as a single for R. Kelly’s fifth studio album Chocolate Factory. The track became a commercial success, peaking at the #2 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[3]

Spread

On March 26th, 2003, a parody of the song was featured in an episode of the Comedy Central sketch comedy television series Chappelle’s Show (shown below), which mocked a video that had surfaced in 2002 of a man fitting R. Kelly’s description engaging in sexual intercourse and urinating on an underage girl.

On August 14th, 2008, YouTuber pbdyjr uploaded an “Ignition (Remix)” parody video mocking R. Kelly’s statutory rape charges (shown below, left). Within five years, the video received over 75,000 views and 80 comments. On April 6th, 2009, YouTuber andye1221 uploaded a video featuring two men performing a choreographed dance to the song (shown below, right). The video gained upwards of 90,000 views and 120 comments within the next four years.

On October 24th, the RKellyVEVO YouTube channel uploaded the official video for the song, garnering over 23 million views and 13,000 comments in the following four years. On January 25th, 2010, YouTuber ScrewTube989 uploaded a chopped and screwed remix of the track (shown below, left), accumulating more than 77,000 views and 20 comments in the next three years. On November 8th, 2011, YouTuber SmileForJoyce uploaded a video of actor Joseph Gordon Levitt performing a live acoustic cover of the song (shown below, right). Within two years, the video received over 373,000 views and 300 comments.

On September 11th, 2012, YouTuber Bruce Ackharath uploaded a remix of the song played in conjunction with an anti-masturbation video for deaf people put out by the Jehovah’s Witness Christian denomination (shown below, left). Within the next six months, the video accumulated more than 86,000 views and 100 comments. On January 29th, 2013, YouTuber jamesdalbyacoustic uploaded an acoustic cover of the song (shown below, right). The same day, Redditor test0 submitted the video to the /r/videos^[2] subreddit, where it received over 6,500 up votes and 370 comments in the next month. As of March 2013, the YouTube video has received over 860,000 views and 2,000 comments.

White House Petition

On March 3rd, 2013, a petition was creating on the White House^[1]“We the People” website urging the Obama administration to make “Ignition (Remix)” the new national anthem of the United States of America. Within two weeks, the petition received over 10,000 signatures of the 100,000 goal.

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About

Allô ! Non mais allô quoi ! is a catchphrase uttered by Nabilla Benattia, a contestant in the fifth season of reality show Les Anges de la téléréalité^[1]. Her funny way of saying it as well as mimicking a phone call made her a staple of YouTube parodies involving people answering her on their phones.

The Catchphrase in French Pop Culture

Nabilla didn’t invent the catchphrase as it is. Non mais allô quoi ! has always been a common slang response by airheads, mainly girls, to signify, in an ironic and corny tone, that someone can’t be serious about what he/she has just done or said. A rough translation may be something along the line of “Hel~lo? Like, are you serious?! Wake up!” (bold added for emphasis).

Origin

The scene comes from an interview bit involving Nabilla Benattia, a contestant willing to become a model, in the first episodes from the 5th season of Les Anges de la téléréalité reality show, titled “Welcome to Florida”, in which 12 contestants have to live together in a mansion in Miami. While grocery shopping, Nabilla was startled by the revelation that some of the other contestants didn’t carry their own shampoo and had to buy their own there. Several videos of her reaction were uploaded to Youtube as early as March 7th, 2013. The most-watched one, with more than 1,100,000 views as of March 15th, is the following version:

Transcript:

Scene in the supermarket:

“Listen, I’m gonna pick up [the shampoo] for them, no need for such a big deal…”
“Well, no.”
“…I’ll get the shampoo for them and next time, they will take care of it themselves.”
“It’s nonsense.”
“Yeah, I know.”
“So I can buy something for myself, too, then!”

Interview segment:

“Apparently it was Aurélie and Capucine who didn’t have any shampoo. Hello girl! Like, girl, are you serious?! You’re a girl and you don’t have shampoo? Hello? Can you hear me or what? You’re a girl and you don’t have any shampoo. I mean, it’s like saying “you’re a girl and you don’t have any hair!”

(Bold added for emphasis)

Nabilla and the Stereotypical Pretty Dumb Girl

It is worth mentionning that, in this very interview segment, Nabilla made unusually strange remarks that made her infamous as a pretty girl with no brain and an apparent lack of culture. Beside Non mais allô quoi and the meme that was born from it, she was also quoted saying things like C’est la Guerre Mondiale de 78 (“[it was like] the World War of 1978”). In a more recent episode, Nabilla quoted her own “allô” gimmick again, along with her own awkward take on a French idiom to claim that she is totally different from another contestant who came to “attack” her.

Youtube parodies

As early as the 8th of March, video parodies started popping up. One of the first and most famous parodies is an Hitler Reacts one, uploaded by FrenchGelein, which attracted more than 1 800 000 views as of March 16th.

It set the pattern for more parodies ranging from personal responses to various movie segments featuring people on their phones and trying to answer Nabilla.

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External References

^[1]Wikipedia – Les Anges de la télé-réalité