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Oprah You Get a Car refers to a series of video remixes and advice animal image macros parodying the American talk show host Oprah Winfrey giving away cars to members of his television show audience.

Origin

On September 13th, 2004, Oprah gave away cars to the entire audience attending her show (shown below).

On May 15th, 2005, the giveaway was parodied in Season 1 Episode 12 of the stop motion animated television show Robot Chicken.

Spread

On March 22nd, 2008, YouTuber merese uploaded an animated parody of the car giveaway (shown below, left), gaining more than 29,000 views and 90 comments in the next five years. On April 24th, YouTuber Ryazilian uploaded a music remix of the giveaway footage (shown below, right), which received over 575,000 views and 900 comments in the following five years.

On December 25th, 2012, Redditor Lite_It_Up submitted a post titled “Merry Christmas everybody!” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[1] subreddit, which featured an image macro using a screen capture of Oprah accompanied by the caption “You get an upvote! / and you get an upvote! / and you get an upvote! / Everybody gets an upvote!” (shown below, left). Within three months, the post received over 700 up votes and 10 comments. On January 15th, 2013, Redditor BlankRuneWork submitted an image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] subreddit, joking about each of his children getting the flu (shown below, right). In the following two months, the post gained more than 8,500 up votes and 270 comments.

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Related Video: Oprah’s Bee Giveaway

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Catbug is a recurring character on the YouTube web series, Bravest Warriors, created by Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time. He is a half-cat/half-ladybug. He is voiced by Sam Lavagnino. He made his debut in the episode “Gas-Powered Stick”. He has gotten really popular on the internet.

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the wiki states: “Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4. An Irish-British co-production, written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes.
The show also aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland, and in Australia on Nine Network (season 1) and ABC Television (seasons 2 and 3).
Set on the fictional Craggy Island, a remote location off Ireland’s west coast, the show starred Dermot Morgan as the eponymous Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O’Hanlon) and Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly). Exiled on the island for various past incidents, the priests live together in the parochial house with their housekeeper Mrs. Doyle (Pauline McLynn).”

it has spawned a host of noteworthy memes, including “down with this sort of thing, careful now!”, “my lovely horse” and “I love my brick”

Spider-man 2 (2004) was a sequel of the 2002 Spider-man based off of the Spiderman Marvel comics.

In a scene near the end of the film, Peter Parker (Played by Tobey Maguire) enters Doc Ock’s laboratory. When he finds Mary Jane there, Peter Parker decides to reveal himself as Spiderman and save her, but shortly after, the ceiling starts to collapse above Mary Jane. Parker reacts in fear, and the rest is self explanatory.

The blatant and near-insane scream Tobey had made overdid the gravity of the moment, considering he saved her instantly afterwards. This sparked attention to those who recognized this humor, arguing it was funnier than any of the comic relief Spidey-Puns used throughout as well as it being their “favorite scene.”

On the August of 2010, Youtube Poop legend Deepercut(t) had posted a YTP Parody of the entire Spider-man 2 movie titled “Revenge of the Mad Madman,” which in several instances used the Peter Parker Scream as reactions to events or orders.
This boosted attention towards the Peter Parker scream.

The Peter Parker Scream can be used as a reaction to disappointing or unsettling events, as well as replacing other screams or long “NOOOOO’s”

It even has its own macro to replace the scream scenes of other series and memes.

The meme hadn’t received that much attention since it became apparent, but it is still remembered for its reference humor.

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The Black Plague (also known as the Black Death) was a pandemic that swept Europe in the earlier half of the 14th century. It was caused by
the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, which was carried by oriental rat fleas, which infected the black rats that were carried throughout Europe and the Mediterranean.

“Free Bird” or “Freebird” is the name of a 1973 song by southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The song is often requested by audience members at concerts, hence the meme “Freebird!”, “Play Freebird!”, ect. This joke is way overused.

The song itself:

Overview

No Posts On Sunday was a one-day initiative launched by fans of Harry Potter to refrain from submitting any post on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 in remembrance of the British actor Richard Griffiths who passed away from heart surgery complications earlier that week. In the film adaptations, Griffiths became well-known for his portrayal of Potter’s muggled uncle Vernon Dursley and the quote “No Post on Sundays” in referring to the fact that postal service is closed on Sundays. The event was observed on a number of online user-generated communities, most notably FunnyJunk, Reddit and Tumblr.

Background

On March 28th, 2013, it was reported that the British actor Richard Griffiths, best known for his starring role in Withnail & I, The History Boys and the Harry Potter films, has passed away at age of 65 from heart surgery complications at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. In the Harry Potter film saga, Griffiths played the protagonist’s uncle Vernon Dursley, a character that is often remembered by the memorable quote “No posts on Sunday!” as heard in the first installment Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Development

In the following days, the news of Griffiths’ death was picked up by users on Reddit^[5] and FunnyJunk.^[3] On March 30th, FunnyJunk user lolzponies^[4] suggested a “day of silence” event to be held on Sunday as a tribute to Uncle Vernon’s famous quote “No post on Sundays.” Lolzponies’ proposal was met by positive reception within the community, leading to a series of duplicate messages and image macros in anticipation of the event. Ironically, FunnyJunk soon became inundated with image macro posts bearing the news that there will be no posts on Sunday.

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Dogs Wearing Pantyhose (Chinese translation: 狗狗穿丝袜 or Gou Gou Chuan Siwa) is a photo fad originating in China in which dogs are put into wearing pantyhose.

Origin

The photos first started appearing on the Chinese social network Weibo by user Ulatang^[1] (shown below) on April 2nd, 2013. By April 5th, Ulatang’s photo had been commented on over 16,000 times.

Spread

Following the popularity of Ulatang’s photo, other users started uploading their own pictures with their dogs wearing pantyhose. On April 5th, the Hong Kong news tabloid Sharp Daily^[1] posted an article about the photos uploaded to Weibo. Later that day, the trend was subsequently covered on Kotaku,^[2]DIS Magazine,^[3] the Huffington Post^[4] and Laughing Squid.^[5] The next day it was also covered on Msn.^[6] In each of the comments on the articles, opinions towards the photos contain a large mix between finding it hilarious and calling it animal abuse.

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I See Dead People it’s a meme that jokes with the famous quote from “The Sixth Sense” movie.

Origin

The meme was created based on the quotation of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment’s character in the movie “The Sixth Sense”): “I see dead people.” The scene is well known.
No one knows for sure who started the meme spread, much less when it started.

Spread

The meme is widely used in social networks, usually to indicate something that is often found in the social network where you posted or any other site, although there are other uses.

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Gina Indelicada it’s a brazilian meme that means something like “indelicate Gina” in English. It all started from a Facebook page called “Gina Indelicada”^[1]
The page consists of screenshots of messages sent to Gina by its fans asking questions about anything, which are always answered in a sarcastic way. “Brazilians are known for their friendliness, for their love of hugging and all that, what can sometimes be seen as fake. So whenever a person comes around who breaks that stereotype, people will relate to them as someone who speaks their mind and is sincere. Gina is all of that,” says Lopes.

Origin

On August 2012, the brazilian student Ricck Lopes created a Facebook page called “Gina Indelicada”. The name “Gina” was taken from a famous company that makes toothpicks in Brazil, “Rela Gina”.
The creator, who at the time was only 19, said he got the idea to create a page while cooking and saw a box of toothpicks on the table, and immediately linked the image of women of toothpicks with “Gina Indelicada”, what he judged a good idea for a Facebook page.

Spread

The page was created at 14th August (2012) and on 17th of the same month, had already reached more than 200,000 likes. It was a phenomenon that has spread throughout the brazilian Facebook very quickly, perhaps because the creator had other pages well known. With the popularity, the “Rela Gina”^[2] discovered the existence of the page, and ponder the possibility of processing Ricck Lopes by using the brand name and defame Gina, as she is a person who really exists, but the company realized that it would be more beneficial not to insist on a judicial problem and has partnered with the creator.^[3]

Forbes mentioned the meme. ^[4]

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NeoGAF is a gaming forum, originally hosted on the news site Gaming Age as “Gaming-Age Forums”. Due to the significant impact it and its communities have on the industry and the talented members, it has been the origin of many memes and gif images. The site is particular active during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) held every June.

The forum is notable for its strict moderation, with new users having to wait months or more than a year to be approved to reach the “junior member” status and at least another 6 months to become regular members. A slight case of misbehavior may result in ban or permanent ban by the administrators.

Origin

The original “Gaming-Age Forums” was established in 1999, and was later relaunched as “NeoGAF” in 2006 with two major forum sections: “Gaming”^[1] and “Off-topic”^[2]. It has been said that a lot of the members joined the forums for the gaming side, and stayed for the off-topic discussions. Two more sections: “Gaming Community” and “Off-topic Community” were later added.

Memes

Some of the memes that came out of the forum include, but not limited to: Dudebro, Translator San, All my friends are dead, the #TeamCG vs. #TeamReal debate and Adam Orth’s “Always On” Twitter Gaffe.

Logo and Mascot

The official logo of NeoGAF is a green and orange colored circle. This logo featured in the video game “Scribblenauts” as an easter egg.

Although the forum does not have an official mascot, in a recent thread where users were asked to create one, two popular candidates emerged. One of them being GAF-Man, a socially awkward superhero figure. The second one being Belle Eve, the mascot of PonyGaf from one of the site’s communities^[3].

Traffic and Search Interest

As of April 8, 2013, Neogaf.com is currently ranked #3,922 in the world according to Alexa traffic rankings^[4]. On October 11, 2010, a local journalist visited the site from North Korea, which at that time marked the moment when the site had received visits from all the countries in the world plus Antarctica^[5].

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Let’s Go! Onmyouji (Japanese: レッツゴー！陰陽師) is a song taken from the fighting game Shin Goketsuji Ichizoku: Bonnou Kaihou, which was used for a CG-animated music video made specially for the game. The song and the video has since went on to gain widespread popularity on the Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Douga (NND), shortly after its relaunch on 2007, inspiring video remixes, musical covers, and dance parodies.

Origin

The song was originally used as the background theme for character Thin Nen from the Japanese fighting game Shin Goketsuji Ichzoku: Bonnou Kaihou^[1], released in Japan for the PlayStation 2 on May 25th, 2006. The song would be then featured for a CG-animated music video, which features the song being sung and danced by characters Hikomaro Yabeno and Kotohime, while being accompanied by the Bozu dancers as backup. The video would later be uploaded to Youtube (shown below) by Youtuber bussan00 on May 28th, 2006, three days after the games release.

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The oddness of the video managed to gain mild attention with users after it was uploaded, but has since gained over 5.1 million views as of April 2013. One of the earliest known remixes of the song was uploaded to Youtube by Youtuber c0ldcup on February 10th, 2007, which was a mash-up with the Touhou remix “”http:" />Marisa Stole the Precious Thing." (shown below)

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Vadering is a photo fad that involves two people recreating the Star Wars scene in which Darth Vader uses the Force to grab an opposing character in a choke hold.

Origin

While preparing for Easter weekend festivities, a group of staff members from Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX got together to attempt a Hadokening photo, which Rob Martinez shared on his Instagram account^[9] on March 29th, 2013. Following this, Martinez posted two different images to his Instagram account^[10][11] staging faux choke holds. He used the hashtag #Vadering, encouraging his followers to create their own. The same day, he shared a third image on Twitter (shown below), mentioning fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A, hoping for a retweet.

<a href="https://twitter.com/chickfila">chickfila</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23vadering">#vadering</a> <a href="http://t.co/kwOGNRjpXC" title="http://twitter.com/Broccoli_Robb/status/317825215503679488/photo/1">twitter.com/Broccoli_Robb/…</a></p>&mdash; Rob Martinez (Broccoli_Robb) March 30, 2013

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That same day, Martinez’ Twitter photo was reposted on the /r/pics subreddit^[1], where it garnered more than 16,900 upvotes and 480 comments within a few days. On March 30th, the same photo appeared on 9GAG^[2], where it received similarly positive reviews. In the following days, the hashtag #Vadering continued to spread on Twitter^[3] and Instagram^[12], spawning a number of derivative attempts. On April 2nd, Vadering photos were shared on the 501st Legion Facebook page.^[6] The same day, the photo fad saw its first blog coverage on Nerd Approved^[4] and Neatorama.^[5] On April 3rd, Kotaku^[7] featured a handful of the Vadering images, resulting in coverage on College Humor^[13], Laughing Squid^[14], Mashable^[15], the Hollywood Gossip^[16] and Yahoo! News^[17] the same day. Over the course of the next several days, Vadering was featured on My Modern Met^[18], the Daily Dot^[19], the Chive^[20], Geekologie^[21], The FW^[22] and MSN Now.^[23]

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Creator’s Response

Following the unintentional success of the photo fad, Rob Martinez spoke with the Houston Chronicle^[8] about the photos, where he said he did not intend to launch an internet meme. Fellowship Church’s pastor Ed Young Jr. noted that he planned on working in the meme to a sermon, as a small example of a fun thing a church can do to bring people back to serious discussions.

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#nowthatchersdead is a Twitter hashtag that can be read either as “Now Thatcher’s dead” or “Now that Cher’s dead” depending on its capitalization. While it may have been iniitally associated with the death of Margaret Thatcher in April 2013, the hashtag quickly took on a different meaning to imply that the American singer and pop culture icon Cher died.

Background

On April 8th, 2013, prominent British conservative politician and former prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher died of a stroke. Befitting her reputation as the “Iron Lady” who redefined British and modern European politics, the news of her death was met by mixed feelings from liberals and conservatives on Twitter. Meanwhile, it soon became apparent that many younger Twitter users had little knowledge who Margaret Thatcher was, especially after the British boy band One Direction’s Harry Style tweeted a condolence message.

RIP Baroness Thatcher .x

— Harry Styles (@Harry_Styles) April 8, 2013

The confusion quickly prompted the launch of the Tumblr satire blog Who is Margaret Thatcher^[11], numerous articles concerning the public unawareness of the Thatcher’s legacy^[12], as well as the duplicit Twitter hashtag #nowthatchersdead.

Notable Developments

In between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. (ET), #nowthatchersdead was used in nearly 7,000 tweets, according to the Twitter analytics service.^[6] In the following hour, the hashtag prank was tweeted by British comedian Ricky Gervais and several journalists, further propagating the hoax that Cher was dead.

Some people are in a frenzy over the hashtag #nowthatchersdead.It’s “Now Thatcher’s dead”. Not, “Now that Cher’s dead” JustSayin’

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) April 8, 2013

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Shodan is a search engine that indexes servers, webcams, printers, routers and other devices that are connected to the Internet, which is often used as a tool to discover vulnerable systems that could be compromised by hackers. The engine was named after the artificial intelligence villain in the 1990s cyberpunk role-playing games System Shock and System Shock 2.^[9][10]

History

In November of 2009, computer programmer John Matherly hosted an early version of the Shodan computer search engine on the website Sutri.^[3] On November 25th, Intern0t Forums^[4] member s3my0n created a thread about Shodan, which sparked a discussion about whether it would be abused by malicious hackers known as “script kiddies.” On February 18th, 2010, the engine relocated to the domain ShodanHQ.^[1] On February 23rd, Matherly submitted a link to ShodanHQ in a post titled “search engine for hackers” on /r/netsec subreddit,^[2] where it received over 150 up votes and 35 comments. On April 24th, cyber security researcher Ruban Santamarta tweeted that he had located a control system for a particle-accelerating cyclotron by using Shodan.

SHODAN 1 – Berkely National Labs 0. Seems its B88 Cyclotron: http://tweetphoto.com/19795092 I’ve already contacted US-CERT

— Ruben Santamarta (@reversemode) April 24, 2010

On February 24th, 2011, YouTuber softgens uploaded a video presentation about Shodan, which demonstrated its ability to discover vulnerable computer systems (shown below).

Trendnet Webcam Exploit

On January 10th, 2012, a hacker using the handle “someLuser” published a blog post^[5] about a security vulnerability he discovered in the firmware of Trendnet home surveillance webcams, which would allow Internet users to anonymously access video feeds using a URL. The exploit was turned into a script utilizing Shodan search to discover other vulnerable cameras connected to the Internet. On February 3rd, the tech news blog The Verge^[8]published a post about the security flaw, noting that links to compromised video feeds were being shared on sites like Reddit and 4chan. On February 7th, The BBC^[6] published an article about the controversy reporting that Trendnet had immediately addressed the issue by releasing an updated version of the firmware.

On January 22nd, 2013, The Verge^[15] published a followup post about the security flaw, noting that many cameras remained vulnerable and included a screenshot of Google Maps app^[14] giving access to various Trendnet cam streams (shown below). As of April 2013, the map has since been disabled.

Reception

On August 21st, 2012, YouTuber vissago uploaded footage of a presentation by Dan Tentler at the hacker conference Defcon, in which he showed how to use Shodan to access web cameras and power control systems (shown below). Within eight months, the video gained more than 20,000 views and 40 comments.

On April 8th, 2013, CNN^[11] published an article about the search engine, noting the troubling discoveries made by Tentler and other cyber security researchers. The same day, the article was submitted to the /r/technology^[12] subreddit, where it received upwards of 730 up votes and 120 comments within the next 24 hours.

Search Interest

Search query volume for the keywords “shodan search” increased dramatically in February of 2012 after the Trendnet webcam exploit was publicized.

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Ohhh face is an exploitable picture of man frowning while having an “O” expression. Its usage as a reaction face was combined with animated gifs and images reusing the frowning stare and the O-shaped mouth which convey a meaning close to the Watch out, we have a badass over here! meme.

Origin

According to the Bodybuilding forums, the panel was extracted from the third issue of Defenders comic book published in 2005^[1].
It is revealed that the man, drawn by artist Kevin Maguire, is actually Bruce Banner from The Incredible Hulk making faces while seemingly trying to transform into Hulk in order to trick Umar, a villain from the comic.

“In the latest Defenders series, an amusing situation occurs when Umar seduces the Incredible Hulk in order to turn him against his Defenders allies. Unfortunately their tryst proves so completely satisfying to the Hulk, that post-coitally he reverts back into Bruce Banner, much to Umar’s disappointment. The experience was apparently so satisfying that even torture was unable to upset him, forever earning Umar the title of “Best Lay in all of Marveldom.” "

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Michael Jordan Laughing

One of the most famous animated gifs reusing the face parodied Michael Jordan’s awkward laughing face he made on stage of the 27th episode of the 20th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show that aired in October 2005. Oprah surprised Jordan with a visit from Charles Barkley.

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External References

^[1]Body Building Forums – Itt: Origin of the oh face / 6/19/2011

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the video was when scout is a 8 bit version and at the end of the video scout bumped into heavys legs

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Juan is a name that is often used in image macros as a pun associated with a Spanish or Mexican ethnic stereotype. Images with these captions sometimes use a photo of a smiling man wearing an oversized sombrero, which also appears in the advice animal series Merry Mexican.^[1]

Origin

Text-based jokes using “Juan” as a pun for “one” have been shared online since as early as July 2000, when “The Infamous Juan Joke”^[2] was shared on encyclopedic website Everything2. The joke consists of a lengthy absurd story about the political career of a man named Juan. However, after he attempted to murder his pet aardvark, he was sentenced to death by firing squad.

The firing squad levied their guns at him. ‘Ready…….’ ‘Aim………’ Suddenly, and without warning, the aardvark leapt from the shadows, aimed at Juan and fired a golf gun. The shot boomed throughout the town, and the shot itself went clear through Juan’s heart and out his back.

You may be asking yourself in between sobs what a golf gun is? This in itself is the morale of the story….

The answer…well, I don’t know. But it sure made a hole-in-Juan.

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In the 2000s, text-based Juan jokes appeared on Jokes4Us^[3], AnandTech Forums^[4] and The Escapist.^[5] In March 2005, MexicanJokes.net^[6] launched, containing many jokes based on cultural stereotypes, including a number of Juan puns. In July 2010, a Facebook fan page titled Juan More Joke^[7] was created, posting dozens of Juan puns as status updates. On October 20th, 2011, the page posted their first image, with a Mexican stereotype caricature of the Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi. As of April 2013, the image has been shared 30 times.

On December 1st, 2011, an image titled “Occupy Tijuana”^[8] was shared on the /r/Funny subreddit, depicting two half-naked men wearing large sombreros with the caption “We are the Juan percent.” On June 27th, 2012, the Facebook fan page Juan on Juan Memes^[9] launched, posting a number of different image macros and advice animals. Throughout 2012 and 2013, Juan puns appeared on We Know Memes^[10], Reddit^[11], Meme Center^[12] and Memebase.^[13]

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Related Meme: Merry Mexican

Merry Mexican is an advice animal image macro series depicting a jolly-looking Mexican man wearing an oversized sombrero, smiling. One of the earliest image macros was posted to FunnyJunk^[14] on January 11th, 2012, making a joke about green cards (shown below, left). A week later, a Merry Mexican image commenting on SOPA/PIPA (shown below, right) was posted to Reddit’s /r/AdviceAnimals^[15], where it earned nearly 8,000 upvotes and more than 1,200 points overall before being archived. The image macro series has also appeared on The Meta Picture^[16], LOLsnaps^[17] and Geekfill.^[18] As of April 2013, the Merry Mexican Quickmeme^[19] page has more than 1,200 submissions.

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