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“Kabooyow! Kapooyow!” is an onomatopoeic expression uttered by Texas resident Michelle Clark to describe the noise of hail hitting her house during an interview with a local television news station in March 2013.

Origin

On March 21st, 2013, YouTuber TrippingOverFunny uploaded a video titled “Kabooyow! Kapooyow!”, featuring a clip from an NBC 2 Houston local news report about a hail storm. In the clip, Clark described the sound made by the hail by saying “it was like ’kapooyow! kapooyow!” (shown below).

Narrator: “Many said it sounded like nothing they’ve ever heard before.”

Clark: “It said ‘kahpooyah! kahpooyah!’ and then boy that hail just came in. I looked out my… opened my door and looked out my door it started hitting me in my head i took out running and ran to my restroom and then I called my momma to see if she alright.”

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On March 21st, 2013, the Internet news blog Hyper Vocal^[1] published an article about the clip, comparing it to other local news viral videos starring Antoine Dodson and Sweet Brown. Hours later, YouTuber Locke Vincent uploaded the first music remix video using the footage (shown below).

The same day, the video was posted in a thread on the Body Building Forums^[2] by member KangarooMD, where it received 15 replies in the next six hours. Also on March 21st, the video was reblogged by several other Internet news sites, including Gawker,^[3] The Huffington Post,^[4] What’s Trending,^[5] UpRoxx,^[7] E Online^[8] and BuzzFeed,^[6] which featured an animated GIF from the video (shown below).

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While attending the 2013 Python programming language convention PyCon on March 17th, 2013, developer evangelist Adria Richards tweeted a photo of a group of developers seated behind her during a plenary session, stating that they had been making crude jokes about “forking” and “‘big’ dongles.” She also sent a follow up tweet^[1], citing PyCon’s Code of Conduct^[2] which states that “all communication should be appropriate for a professional audience” and “harassment and sexist, racist or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.”

Not cool.Jokes about forking repo’s in a sexual way and “big” dongles.Right behind me #pycontwitter.com/adriarichards/…

— Adria Richards (@adriarichards) March 17, 2013

Following her tweet, PyCon staff members contacted her via Twitter^[3] asserting that they had dealt with the situation. The following day, Richards presented her account of the entire situation on her blog^[4], explaining that she initially chose not to say anything to the men out of fear of “being heckled or [having my] experience denied,” but later tweeted her complaints out of concern for future women developers.

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March 20th: PyCon Responds

On March 20th, PyCon issued an official statement about the situation on their blog^[5], stating that both parties were addressed in private where they agreed and apologized. Contrary to initial reports, neither party was removed from the conference. The organizers also noted that they valued their attendee’s privacy and later updated their Attendee Procedure for Incident Handling^[6] to add that they do not condone public shaming in these incidents.

March 21st: Terminations

In the early morning on March 21st, CEO of Playhaven Andy Yang posted a statement about the incident to the company blog^[9], announcing that the offending person had been fired from the company. By noon on the same day, SendGrid announced Richards’ termination on Twitter^[10] and Facebook^[11], despite an early tweet from Richards (shown below) claiming that SendGrid supported her.

Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/mundanematt">mundanematt</a>, it's clear from the last 24 hours you're a bully.sendgrid supports me.Stop trolling.

— Adria Richards (@adriarichards) March 20, 2013

Online Reactions

As news about the incident spread across Twitter, #Donglegate^[7] emerged as the hashtag for related discussions, which was used more than 1000 times on March 20th. On Reddit, nearly 100 unique threads^[12] about the incident were submitted to different subreddits including /r/MensRights^[13], /r/TumblrInAction^[14], /r/geek^[15] and /r/news.^[16] There were also two popular posts in /r/Technology^[17] that were removed by the moderators. On March 21st, a Redditor on /r/Geek^[18] pointed out a tweet Richards made on March 14th^[19] (shown below) making a joke about a friend stuffing socks into his crotch region in response to him getting a pat-down by TSA agents, intending to point out her hypocrisy. The post accrued more than 2100 upvotes, 1300 points overall and nearly 750 comments within 13 hours.

<a href="https://twitter.com/skwashd">skwashd</a> you should put something in your pants next time...like a bunch of socks inside one...large...sock.TSA agent faint</p>&mdash; Adria Richards (adriarichards) March 14, 2013

News Media Coverage

The Daily Dot^[21] was the first site to cover the incident on March 20th, followed by coverage on Techcrunch^[22]. BetaBeat^[23], New York Magazine^[24], Businessweek^[25], Mashable^[26], Buzzfeed^[27], VentureBeat^[28], The Atlantic^[30] and Ars Technica^[31] the next day. It was also reported^[29] that SendGrid suffered from DDoS attacks following the online backlash.

SendGrid’s Statement

At 6:30 PM on March 21st, SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin issued a longer statement about Richards’ termination via a blog post^[20] wherein he explained that while the company supported her right to report the incident, they did not support the means by which she did it or the extreme responses that came from it. He also claimed her actions “strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite” making her unable to effectively do her job, resulting in her termination.

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Gilgames-er GILGAMESH first made his debut in final fantasy V as a persistent, yet comical boss fight and/or villain who would combat the party, yet was generally heroic in his tendencies, going so far as to sacrifice himself in battle.
His most famous quote “Enough expository banter! now we fight like men! and ladies! and ladies who dress like men!” sealed his fame as the first villain to be a comical persistent yet seemingly incompetent presence in videogame culture, to the point that kefka succeeded him as an unexpected malicious villain.
His most famous moment in Final Fantasy V was when he sacrificed himself to save the party, shortly thereafter he made a reappearance in final fantasy viii, and then went on to make subsequent reappearances until he became the most famous character in final fantasy, so much so that he became the game’s mascot, having attacks that were a synonym for final fantasy such as “ultimate illusion” and being one of the most powerful characters in the series. as evidenced in the japanese title final fantasy type-0 when he was nuked at point blank and survived unscathed.
Soon after his first appearance, he began to receive a massive internet fanbase led by internet user MagiusNecros, called “the GILGAMESHARMY” and due to this popularity, his power as a recurring boss increased as a nod to the legendary internet status he had begun to amass.

Gilgamesh has gained much fan art and multiple demotivational and motivational posters in celebration of his awesomeness. the all caps GILGAMESH meme was inspired by the character himself, and he ranks on par with Barbatos from tales of grace, and sephiroth from final fantasy in popularity. His popularity on the internet may even manage to net him his own spinoff game. or so the internet rumors go.

The gilgamesh army is most commonly found in the gamefaq’s message board, where magius necros is seen spamming the boards whenever his topic arises.

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He originated in final fantasy V and began growing in popularity due to his recurring appearances, his popularity is made even greater due in part to the fact that his ridiculous behavior and appearance paints him as weak, when in reality he may be the strongest final fantasy character in the entire series. This, on top of his boss theme “clash on the big bridge” gave him a loyal internet following on par with sephiroth’s.

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Kickass Mall Cop is the nickname of Darien Long, a former mall manager who rose to internet fame in early 2013 after GoPro video footage of several altercations at his job were uploaded online.

Online History

On January 24th, 2013, a Facebook^[3] page titled “Atlanta’s Downtown Criminal Culture” was launched, which claims to be the “official Facebook page endorsed by Darien Long.” In the following two months, the page gained more than 2,600 likes. On January 28th, Redditor gentimmy submitted a LiveLeak video of Long tasing a mother in front of her children in self-defense (shown below) to the /r/videos^[1] subreddit. Within two months, the post received over 8,800 up votes and 5,600 comments.

On January 31st, Long created the KickAssMallCop YouTube channel,^[2] receiving upwards of 1.3 million video views and 15,000 subscribers within the next two months. On February 2nd, the single topic blogs KickAssMallCop.net^[18] and KickAssMallCop.org^[19] were launched, highlighting notable videos recorded by Long.

Reddit Fundraiser

On January 31st, 2013, Redditor RyuKenya submitted a photograph of Long holding a “Hi Reddit” sign (shown below) to the /r/JusticePorn subreddit.^[4] Within two months, the post received over 15,500 up votes and 2,900 comments.

In the comment section^[6] of the post, RyuKenya posted a link to a CrowdTilt^[5] page where his fans could donate money to Long. The same day, the comment was featured in a post on the /r/bestof subreddit,^[7] gaining more than 5,100 up votes and 590 comments within the next six weeks. The CrowdTilt page was closed a week later after raising over $23,000 in contributions.

On February 7th, YouTuber hiko1586 uploaded a video of Long thanking Redditors and the company Taser International for sending him donations and new self defense equipment (shown below). On March 5th, The Daily Dot^[10] published an article about Long, reporting that he had used the donations to purchase a new X3 Taser,^[11] binoculars, a GoPro camera for his back, hard drives and a pepper gas gun.

Termination and Arrest

On March 20th, 2013, the viral video news site Right This Minute^[15] reported that Long had been fired from his position as property manager of the Atlanta Metro Mall and featured an interview with Long who speculated that he may have been let go as a result of declining revenues (shown below). The same day, Redditor hookknife submitted the interview to the /r/videos^[16] subreddit, receiving over 2,600 up votes and 760 comments in the next 48 hours. On the following day, My Fox Atlanta^[14] reported that Long had been arrested after allegedly tackling a customer at the Metro Mall and was being charged with battery.

Reputation

Many have hailed Long as a local hero for attempting to clean up downtown Atlanta, while others have criticized him for escalating situations by being overly aggressive and using unnecessary force. Long has many fans on the /r/JusticePorn^[17] subreddit, including Redditor pablostanley who illustrated a superhero version of the mall security guard (shown below).^[8]

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Just Little Things^[1] is the name of a single topic blog that launched in December 2010 posting sharable image macros containing text describing small things or actions that make people in general happy. The fad has led to many spinoff blogs which either stick with the original plain text on a colored background format or use superimposed text on artistic-looking “hipster” photographs. Some of these blogs have also inspired parody blogs themselves.

Origin

Just Little Things launched on December 31st, 2010, posting 34 image macros utilizing plain black text on different colored backgrounds to describe a number of simple pleasures in life. The blog was the brainchild of Californian student Nancy Vu, who launched the blog during her sophomore year of high school. As of October 2012, Just Little Things had more than 500,000 followers and saw 25,000 page views per day.^[2] As of March 2013, there are more than 880 image macros on the site.

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By April 2012, dozens of blogs dedicated to specific people, fandoms, objects or subcultures with the snowclone title “Little X Things” began popping up on Tumblr. As early as April 20th, 2011^[3] some of these blogs began transitioning away from the colored background format, superimposing their text on to photos illustrating the subject at hand.

Notable Blogs

Just Girly Things

Just Girly Things^[4] was created by three female Tumblr users in November 2011, highlighting some of their personal favorite things, ranging from different types of makeup and clothing brands to celebrities and television shows using the inspirational photo quote text and image style popularized by blogs like Kushandwizdom^[5] earlier that year.

On June 7th, 2012, a parody blog titled Juzt Gurly Thingz^[6] launched taking similar imagery and adding buzzkilling text describing strange or disturbing behavior disguised as a “girly” thing. As of March 2013, both Just Girly Things and its parody blog are still active.

Things Boys Do We Love

Things Boys Do We Love launched in December 2011 with posts very similar to Just Girly Things, only focusing on meaningful or cute moments in relationships.

As early as January 16th, 2013, these images were parodied in a post on the Metal Memes subreddit^[7] comparing an image macro from the blog captioned “When boys have curly hair” with a photo of musicians Kirk Hammett Dave Mustaine (shown below, left). Between February and March, similar buzzkilling parodies were shared on MemeCenter^[8], the Lolbrary^[9], FunnyJunk^[10], WeKnowMemes^[11] and 9gag.^[12] On March 10th, the blog owner posted a response^[13] saying that she did not care if her posts were being parodied and was tired of receiving hate mail about her images.

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On February the 13th, 2013, Dean Boshoff uploaded a video to YouTube titled ‘Worlds Cutest Frog – Desert Rain Frog’, which shows the frog mainly showing its unusual squeaky noise. As of now, it’s hit nearly 6 million views. The video can be seen here:

He said about this: ‘I recorded a short clip of the defensive cry of the Desert rain frog – Breviceps macrops while walking along the sand dunes in Port Nolloth, a coastal town in the Northern Cape province, it alerted me to its presence with its fearsome war cry. I knelt down and proceeded to photograph and film this unusual creature’s behaviour’

12 days later (or February the 25th), Dean Boshoff uploaded a new video of the desert rain frog, titled ‘Worlds cutest frog – all new footage!’ Shown here:

However, this has only had 161,000 views as of today.

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Later on, people started uploading videos of their pets reacting to the sounds the frog made as it’s squeak resembles a squeaky toy for pets.

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“Kyoani Finds A Way” is a phrase that has been shopped onto a picture of actor Jeff Goldblum playing his role of Dr. Ian Malcolm from the movie Jurassic Park during his now famous catch phrase scene of “Nature finds a way.”

ORIGIN

The phrase “KyoAni Finds A Way” originated on 4chan’s /a/ board as a parody macroimage of Dr. Ian Malcolm’s now famous Jurassic Park phrase “Nature finds a Way.” It is meant to be a way of expressing either amazement or sarcasm at the ability of anime studio Kyoto Animation (a.k.a. KyoAni for short) to always find new and inventive ways of showing off the “moe” genre and sometimes to rehash old versions in new ways whether successful or not.

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In 2011 Kyoto Animation’s anime version of 4coma series Nichijou received high praise for it’s epic animation quality and hilarious comedy presentation. However despite the high praise it failed to sell well (as compared with other successful KyoAni animations such as “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya”, “Lucky Star”, and “K-ON!”). In June of 2011 a thread was crated on 4chan’s /a/ board showing the dismal sales figures for the show. During this thread an anonymous user posted the now famous shopped picture of Dr. Ian Malcolm with the phrase “KyoAni finds a way to fail!” typed beside it. The picture itself however only had “KyoAni Finds A Way” on it. The archive of this thread doesn’t exist. The picture and phrase were seldom used after this until August of 2012 when the sales figures for Kyoto Animation’s next series “Hyōka” were released for the first BluRay disk release. The sales figures showed Hyōka selling extremely well. The picture of Dr. Ian Malcolm and the phrase “KyoAni Finds A Way” made a return this time as praise for Kyoto Animation having bounced back from the bad sales of Nichijou. This time the picture and phrase stuck. The picture and phrase received an even further boost in usage in October of that same year after Kyoto Animation’s next show “Chūnibyō Demo Koi ga Shitai!” (She has Eighth-Grade Disease, but I still want to Love Her) began to air. This time the phrase and picture usage morphed into a new usage into it’s current usage of describing how Kyoto Animation continues to reinvent the moe genre with new and cuter character designs and personalities. {{URL|https://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/72484337/}} The meme continues to grow in popularity to this day and revives itself after every new series Kyoto Animation releases.

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Vocaloid character items are items, often food, that are associated with most Vocaloids. This process is done by the fans, however, some item associations have been officially recognized by Crypton Future Media and many other studios, and appear in merchandise such as Nendoroid figurines. The discussions that assign the items to newly released Vocaloids are called “Item Wars” or “Mochimono Sensou (持ち物戦争)”

Background

The tradition of assigning Vocaloids items began with the song “levan Polkka”, AKA Leekspin. In the video, a chibi version of Hatsune Miku, “Hachune Miku”, was depicted waving a spring onion. The tradition was set in stone once the male Vocaloid KAITO was rediscovered and associated with ice cream. This resulted in attempts to give other Vocaloids character items, resulting in the Item Wars.

UTAUs such as Kasane Teto and Fanloids are also given character items despite the fact that most traditions of the Vocaloid fandom have been abandoned by UTAUs.

Fanart depicting the Vocaloids with their respective items can be found sites such as deviantART and Pixiv.

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The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13 mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Breezewood, PA that was bypassed in 1968. The road has become a bit of a tourist attraction due to the explosion of the internet and is referred to as the Pike 2 Bike trail. The abandoned road features two tunnels, Rays Hill and Sideling Hill. The two tunnels were two of seven tunnels that were originally part of the turnpike. Today there are four tunnels remaining, the two aforementioned tunnels were bypassed in 1968, and another one, Laurel Hill was bypassed in 1964. When the turnpike was originally built in the 1940s, each tunnel was only a single bore which would create traffic bottlenecks at the entrances of the tunnels. In order to alleviate the congestion the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission decided to make twin bores at all the tunnels, however for 3 of the tunnels (Rays Hill, Sideliing Hill, Laurel Hill) the commission decided it would be more cost effective to make a cut through the corresponding mountains with the tunnels. Laurel Hill was bypassed in 1964, and then the stretch of highway with Rays Hill and Sideling Hill was bypassed in 1968. The Laurel Hill tunnel is privately owned by Chip Ganassi Racing for aerodynamic speed car racing, and is inaccessible to the public. However it can be seen from the eastbound lanes at milepost 99.2

The stretch of highway for Rays Hill and Sideling Hill totals 13 miles, where 3 miles of it is still own by the PTC. The PTC own 1 mile at the western end, and 2 miles at the eastern end. The remaining portion is owned by the Southern Alleghenies Conservancy,a non profit group that has the goal of turning the road into a bike trail. The trail is officially closed to the public, however people are allowed to use the trail for hiking and biking (no motor vehicles) purposes at their own risk. The end parts of the trail that are still owned by the PTC are off limits.

Some other features of the trail include the remnants of a service plaza (Cove Valley) at the eastern end. Two demolished overpasses which each mark western and eastern end of the publicly accessible part of the trail. The Rays Hill Tunnel is located towards the western end of the trail, and Sideling Hill towards the eastern end.The Sideling Hill tunnel has an exploralbe ventillation room. Cylclers and hikers are advised to bring lights as the tunnels are not illuminated. This is especially true for the Sideling Hill tunnel which is over a mile long.

It should also be noted that the road and the eastern portal of the sideling hill tunnel was used in the fim “The Road”.

The best way to access the trail is to get off at the Breezewood exit 161 (The beginning of the abandoned road is visible right before the exit highway approaches US 30), take the ramp to US 30 east, follow route 30 for a 1/4 mile and you will come across the first demolished overpass that marks the western end of publicly accessible trail. Right before the overpass is Tannery Road, turn left on Tannery Road and park in front of the orange fence, there is a dirt trail to the right that allows you to access the road.

“Said No One Ever” is a phrase often used throughout the Internet to describe something disliked or contrary to general opinion. The meme has seen most of its popularity through its use in image macros and e-cards.

Origin

A “Shit No One Has Ever Said” Tumblr account was created in May 2010, compiling various uses of the phrase.^[1] The first image macro (shown below) to use the phrase in its most popular form was uploaded to Someecards.com on January 12, 2012 by user Silly13, displaying the caption “‘Wow, that’s a nice lookin’ pair of Crocs.’ / Said no one ever.”^[2] The same image was later reposted to FunnyJunk^[3] and I Waste So Much Time^[4] within the month.

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On January 24, the “Said No One Ever” Tumblr account was created.^[5] On March 22, the original Someecards.com image was uploaded to WeKnowMemes.^[6] Variations of the meme started to spread on sites such as Meme Generator and Quickmeme in the following weeks. A Facebook page for the phrase was created on June 13 and has since accumulated 2,017 likes.^[7] Blogger Pithypants published a blog post on August 5 documenting the meme’s spread on Facebook, whilst also posting his own e-card variations of the meme.^[8]

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Searches for the phrase “said no one ever” began to rise in January 2012.

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Sad toy cats is a video made for a random matter maybe to scare someone or just be there, even though this was made out of the random it became one of the most recognized random videos on youtube soon many other versions came along like remixes, Sad toy dogs, and the 10 hours version. Because of this video wendyvainity has gained over 9,000 subscribers(Insert over used meme here).

No more information can really be given about the strange video, but for now I leave you with… this.

W.I.P. If you know more about this pony meme, feel free to apply.

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Nature is so Fascinating is a exploitable comic strip from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Comic #3 that features Fluttershy watching graphical nature violence with her friends who are feeling disgusted and then Fluttershy said “Nature is so fascinating…”.

Origin

W.I.P.

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Fans of the show have been editing Fluttershy watching all kinds of nature violence and horrifying creatures and it became a popular pony meme on websites like 4chan’s /mlp/ and Derpibooru.

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“ඇයි මීට කලින් මාව දැකල නැද්ද? වැඩක් බලං යනව මනුස්සයො යන්න.!” This is how Mr. Lasith Malinga (Slinga) responded to an annoying journalist.

That directly translates as “Why, Haven’t you seen me before? Mind your own business, man.! Go, man.!” Slinga, like many other Sri Lankan cricket players was annoyed for cricket board have cut players perks to save money. Cricket players in Sri Lanka used to receive an all expenses covered world tour with their spouse once a while. This and many other perks are not to be given to them from this year onward.

Here is a video of the original Incident on television news: http://youtu.be/UHr3GSEL7Gw?t=51s

This meme soon became so popular in Sri Lanka, that even a Parliament Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara used the same phrase at the Parliament [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl5dJmPtR8c] to an annoying fellow minister. Mr. Speaker had to remind that this is a Parliament (not a place for memes).

Normally used to answer dumb or rhetorical questions in a sarcastic manner. Such as, “Have you unplugged it and plugged it back in? – I Wonder…” Sort of like conspiracy Keanu in a way.

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Caught Me Sleeping, often intentionally misspelled as “Bae Caught Me Slippin”, are descriptions accompanying photos uploaded to social media websites where the uploader implies that he or she was caught sleeping by their significant other and had their picture taken. After several failed attempts received attention online, they started a photo fad of people taking similar pictures while intentionally making it obvious the pictures are not legit submissions.

Origin

On October 8th, 2012, the Twitter account @NostarndAv tweeted a picture of a header showing a woman taking a picture herself fake sleeping, accompied by the header “Females Be Like “Bae Caught Me Slippin””.^[2] As of March 25th, 2013, the tweet has been retweeted 22 times.

FEMALES BE LIKE… twitter.com/Daweeq/status/…

— Daweeq (@NostrandAv) 9 oktober 2012

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On October 9th, the picture was uploaded to image sharing website NoWayGirl,^[1] receiving over 130 Facebook likes. On November 26th, Instagram user Jermz_vi posted a picture of himself fake sleeping while the mirror on the background shows he took the picture of himself.^[11] Jermz_vi later admitted that he made the picture himself intentionally as a joke. The picture was shared on various sites, most notable Tumblr^[9] and Topsy^[10] where it received respectively more than 3,100 notes and 5,200 posts as of March 25th, 2013. The picture was also posted on Tumblr by user Amandalynferri^[6] on November 29th, 2012, which has received more than 10,500 notes as of the same date.

On November 27th, a Reddit post^[7] by redditor iSpellBadly on the r/funny sub-reddit, showing a woman making a picture of herself fake sleeping while unknowingly being busted by the mirror behind her, received more than 16,000 upvotes as of March 25th, 2012. In the days following the Reddit post, the picture was mentioned in various articles and blogs such as CollegeHumor,^[8] NoWayGirl,^[3] HappyPlace^[4] and The Huffington Post.^[5].

On March 15th, 2013, Tumblr user Newkidsonmycock11 shared a picture of an asian male taking a fake sleeping picture while the mirror shows he’s holding the phone between his feet (shown below, left).^[12] On March 24th Tumblr user Csleb made a post of himself lying on the floor fake sleeping while the mirror shows a Pikachu doll taking the picture (shown below, right).^[13] As of March 25th, both posts respectively received more than 10,500 and 11,500 notes.

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(Work in progress!!!)

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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries^[1] is a YouTube series that serves as a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice^[2] through personal vlogs and tweets from the characters.

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Remote Administration Tools (RATs) are programs that allow remote control of computers they have been installed on. The applications are often used by hackers as the payload of a Trojan horse, giving the user access to the victim’s machine without their knowledge or consent.

History

Back Orifice

The RAT program “Back Orifice” was created by the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) and allows users to control Internet-connected machines running Microsoft Windows from a remote location. The application name was intended to be a parody of Microsoft BackOffice server products. The tool was released by the CDC on August 1st, 1998, at the DEFCON hacker convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the group, the program was created to illustrate the lack of security in Microsoft’s Windows 98 operating system. Back Orifice was often delivered to machines as a Trojan horse program, a type of malware unintentionally installed by users. On July 10th, 1999, an updated version of the tool named “Back Orifice 2000” (BO2k) was released by the CDC at DEFCON 7. The new version had several additional features, including a plugin architecture and the ability to be installed on several different versions of Windows.

Bandook

Bandook is a Trojan horse RAT that can be used to control a remote machine running Windows NT family systems in a variety of ways, allowing the hacker to access the computer’s file system, take screen captures and log keystrokes. The application was developed by the Nuclear Winter Crew^[7] hacker group in 2005, who specialize in creating spy, surveillance and computer security programs.

CyberGate

CyberGate^[8] is a RAT that works on most Windows operating systems which allows the user to control multiple machines simultaneously.

DarkComet

The DarkComet RAT^[10] comes equipped with a “Fun Manager,” which allows the attacker to prank a victim by performing a variety of actions, including hiding parts of the screen, disabling the start button, disabling the task manager and opening the CD tray.

Online Presence

Several hacker forums have sections dedicated to discussing the use of RATs, including Hack Forums,^[1] Hack Community^[2] and VIP Hack Forums.^[3] Beginner’s guides to using RATs have been posted on the websites Hacker 101^[4] and Anarchy Forums.^[5] On March 10th, 2013, the technology news blog Ars Technica^[9] published an article about the malicious use of RATs, which specifically investigated men who used the applications to spy on women. The article noted that women victims were often referred to as “slaves” and showed screen captures of women that had been shared on Internet forums.

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Several YouTubers have uploaded recordings of RATs being used on unknowing victims, many of which send messages to the user or direct their browser to shock sites.

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Subway Porn referes to edited images and original fanart in which questionable and explicit content has been censored by using the restaurant franchise Subway, making it appear as if the characters are engaging into sexual activities with a Subway sandwich. These type of censors were initially used by the Brony fandom to fight explicit art in a jesting way, but were quickly adapted to be used as a non-serious censor in general.

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Lauren Faust is an American animator and the creator of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Due to this she has become an iconic figure within the brony fandom and even received a ponified version of herself, nicknamed Fausticorn (shown below, left). Late 2011, certain fans began including Fausticorn into explicit fanworks, which were mostly met by negative replies due to Faust’s iconic status within the fandom. In reply to this other bronies began editing Subway sandwiches into the fanart in an attempt to stop the creation of it (shown below, right). Due to the deactivation of the largest brony image board, Ponibooru, in August 2012, the original instances of both the fanworks and the edits have most likely been lost. The earliest unedited piece that is still accessible can be found on the brony image board Twentypercentcooler on October 31st, 2011.^[7]

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As the amount of censors on explicit art of Fausticorn grew, the use of Subway sandwiches slowly turned into a toungue-in-cheek joke within the brony fandom. The result of this was that Fausticorn was more often combined with the Subway brand in general in fanworks (shown below, left). Subways also began to gain a more notable presence in fanworks, often intentionally added from the start or even drawn in.

On December 26th, 2011, a forum thread was started by Facepunch user Jackald, asking users to photoshop Subways onto pages of hentai manga and doujin pages.^[1] As of March 2013, the thread contains over 200 pages and had its most recent activity late January of the same year. A Facebook page called Hatsune Miku Troll was also launced early 2012, and has created various edits of hentai manga with Subways up until its deactivation later that year.

Subway’s Facebook Flooding

On August 15th, 2012, members of the Hatsune Miku Troll Facebook^[2] page began tagging their creations with the Facebook profile of the restaurant franchise by the suggestion of an admin of the profile. This resulted in the Facebook profile of Subway being flooded by censored hentai containing subways, most of the images originating from Facebook page and the Facepunch thread.^[1] This event was also covered by The Daily Dot,^[3] Gawker^[4] and Hypervocal.^[5] A post on the r/funny sub-Reddit^[6] managed to gain more than 11,000 upvotes as of March 25th, 2013. Subway replied later that day that they were aware of the content and began removing it.

External References

Puhoy is a meme, originated on tumblr because of a title Adventure Time episode that hadn’t aired yet.

“Puhoy” was largely started by tumblr user “sushiprincess”. Eventually a Puhoy confession blog was started by that user. A lot of the popularity was because of the silly sounded nature of the word. Often people would post statements replacing words with Puhoy, such as song lyrics or sayings, such as “You know the old saying, children should be puhoyed and not heard”

About

Beginning in the earliest days of Usenet, the Darwin awards seek to, in the words of creator Wendy Northcutt, ‘commemorate those individuals who ensure the long term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion’. In other words, they represent an online record people who have lost the ability to reproduce in a particularly stupid fashion, so preventing their idiocy from spreading. Example below.

The site divides notable events into four seperate categories, the eponymous Darwin Awards; Honourable Mentions, in which the featured individual does not win an award, but draws close to doing so; Urban Legends, popular stories whih are in fact fabrIcated or unverifiable and unverifiable Personal Accounts of Darwins or near-Darwins by eyewitnesses.

Origin

On December 27 1831, zoologist Charles Robert Darwin set out aboard the HMS Beagle on a five year voyage that would see him reach the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of South America. Here he encountered numerous distinct species of tortoise and finch and, so the story goes, noted the adaptations of each species to its own island, before returning to England after a total of some five years of travel. His exploration piqued his curiosity and, following sixteen years of research into the nature of marine invertebrates, his theory of Evolution was published.

Considerably later, in 1985, five years after the establishment of Usenet, a group discussion on one early internet forum about a person being crushed to death beneath a vending machine he was trying to break into led to a certain Wendy Northcutt noting the continuing evolution of the human species, and deciding to set up a website to commemorate those who honourably remove the dangers caused by their own idiocy from the human gene pool, so accelerating the process. thus, darwinawards.com was born.

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Due to the technology of the time, the awards spread almost exclusively via email, with fabrications abounding and Northcutt trying her utmost to sort fact from fiction. The notorious tale of the JATO rocket powered Chevrolet Impala, for example, was confirmed a mere Urban Legend.

In 1993, Northcutt published her first book compiling the most notable awards (there have been nine Darwin Award books to date). Later, in 2006, a comic film based upon the awards starring Jospeh Fiennes and Winona Ryder, and directed by Finn Taylor, was released.

Today, the awards have a small but seemingly deicated following, with entries regularly receiving over 1000 upvotes on Reddit and the awards’ most popular facebook group retaining around 50,000 likes.