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Science Bros is a phrase often paired with a picture of fictional characters Bruce Banner (The Hulk’s alter ego) and Tony Stark (a.k.a. The Iron Man) in various degrees of intimacy, ranging from platonic friendliness to homo-erotic.

Origin

The phrase “Science Bros” appears to have been started shortly after the release of the 2012 movie “The Avengers”. One of the last scenes in The Avengers movie depicts Tony Stark offering and invitation to Bruce Banner to reside in the Stark building to pursue research into Bruce Banner’s condition (that is, turning into the Hulk when he’s angry).

One of the first occurrences of the phrase came in a blog post from “Murder Your Darlings” ^[1] describing the relationship between the characters of Bruce Banner and Tony Stark in the move Avengers.

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#Princeso is a Spanish-language hashtag, used on twitter and Instagram, that jokingly refers to men who behave in a feminine manner, similar to the English term “queen”. The term is also frequently used in Spanish-language Facebook groups.

The term itself is a play on words; it is a masculinized form of ‘princesa’, but is not the equivalent of ‘prince’ (príncipe). Princesos are often depicted as being feminine, or otherwise contrary to the stereotype of a ‘macho’ man. They often are depicted as being vain, egotistical, tempermental, and obnoxious.^[1][2]

Origin

Currently researching

The origin of the term ‘princeso’ is difficult to pinpoint, but it may have started as a corruption of the archetypical princess figure, as often promulgated by Disney^[1] The omnipresence of the princess as the ultimate female role model for girls, as well as the predominance of the ‘macho man’ as the boys’ equivalent, have defined gender roles for decades, and those who do not conform to one may be labelled as the other. ‘Princeso’ is a Spanish example of this; an equivalent term for women is ‘príncipa’, but this is less frequently used.

Spread

The #princeso hashtag began to gain popularity on twitter in 2013.^[3] Similar trends have been observed on other social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram^[4], and tumblr^[5].

Search Interest

Search interest in “princeso” has been climbing rapidly, starting in April 2013.

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Horse Armor is a downloadable content (DLC) package containing armor that could be placed on a player’s horse for the Xbox 360 release of the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. After being heavily mocked by the gaming community, the term “horse armor” became associated with useless and overpriced DLC packages.

Origin

On April 3rd, 2006, Bethesda Game Studios released the first DLC for the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, charging $2.50 for access to an item called “Horse Armor.”^[4] Once installed, the player could visit an Orc non-player character (NPC) and receive a set of armor to be placed on a horse (shown below). While the first set was free, each subsequent horse armor purchase would cost the player 500 gold.

Spread

The same day the DLC was released, the gaming news blog Joystiq^[5] published an article about the armor, which criticized Bethesda for charging for a simple in-game item. On April 4th, 2006, Evil Avatar Forums^[10] member bapenguin posted an interview with Bethesda vice president of marketing Pete Hines, who responded to questions about the Horse Armor DLC backlash:

bapenguin: It seems there’s been quite a bit of backlash from the $2.50 horse armor skins. What’s your take on it?

Pete Hines: Honestly there’s not a lot of info out there for us to go on. We tried to find a spot for it that fit with what other things were out there. A Theme costs 150 points. The Kameo thing was 200. We’re trying to find the right spot that fits. How much is something you can use in the game worth versus a gamer picture pack, or a theme, and so on.

On July 14th, Urban Dictionary^[8] user Ironhammer submitted an entry for “horse armor,” describing it as a term used to “describe video game features that are useless and overpriced.” On December 11th, 2008, a thread was created in the Gamespot Forums^[9] titled “Whats this running joke with horse armor?”, to which several others replied that it was a mocked DLC. On January 30th, 2009, Bethesda published a blog post listing the top purchased DLC packages for Oblivion, with horse armor ranking in at #9.^[1] That day, the gaming blog Destructoid^[12] published an article in response to Bethesda’s post, which expressed surprise that people were still purchasing the item. On November 14th, 2011, the Internet humor blog Cracked^[3] published a list of the “10 most insulting things video games charge money for,” listing Horse Armor at #10. On September 18th, 2012, Game Industry^[2] posted an interview with Pete Hines, who addressed the customer reaction to the Horse Armor DLC:

Pete Hines: “You can look at something like Horse Armor pack as an example. The reaction to Horse Armor wasn’t just about price. It was more of a lesson: when you’re going to ask somebody to pay X, do they feel like they’re getting Y in exchange? If they don’t feel like they’re getting their money’s worth, they’re going to bitch.”

On March 18th, 2013, the 2D platformer game DLC Quest^[11] was released, in which the player purchases upgrades from an in-game DLC store with virtual coins. In the game, the player can purchase armor for their horse for 250 coins (shown below).

Minecraft Update

On April 10th, 2013, Redditor Left_Side_Driver submitted a post to the /r/Minecraft^[6] subreddit, which featured a screenshot of a horse wearing armor in an upcoming update for the indie sandbox game Minecraft (shown below). In the comments section of the post, Redditor thevdude joked that he couldn’t “wait to buy the horse armor DLC.” Within nine days, the post gained more than 7,400 up votes and 770 comments. On April 18th, Minecraft received an update which included the addition of horses to the game as well as armor that could be crafted for the steeds.^[7]

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Hipster Lime decipts the obscure fruit that is a Lime. The captions are often stereotypical “Hipster” and traditional, often describing indie music or dub step.

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Back to the Future Day refers to the date October 21st, 2015, which the characters Marty McFly and Doctor Emmett Brown travel to in the second installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. The date is commonly changed in photoshopped images used to trick others into thinking the date from the movie has arrived.

Origin

Back to the Future Part II^[1] is a science fiction comedy film released on November 22nd, 1989, as the second installment in the Back to the Future trilogy. In the film, Doctor Emmett Brown and Marty McFly travel from 1985 to 2015 in a time machine made out of a silver DeLorean sports car. In 2015, the characters find themselves in a time period with highly advanced technology, including hovering skateboards and flying cars.

On July 5th, 2010, the film magazine Total Film posted a tweet claiming that day was the same date from the movie,^[8] and later followed with a photoshopped picture of the timeclock as confirmation.^[9] Although fans of the films quickly mentioned how this was incorrect, others were fooled by the photoshopped image.

Great Scott! It’s Future Day! In Back To The Future, Doc Brown sets the time circuits for 25yrs in the future..that day is today! #futureday

— Total Film (@totalfilm) july 5 2010

Spread

In the coming days, the hoax was mentioned on various news sites, including Buzzfeed,^[10] The Week,^[11] The Guardian,^[12] The Telegraph,^[13] The Age,^[14] Perthnow^[15] and News.com.^[16] On July 6th, 2010, Total Film published a blog post on their website explaining how they executed the hoax and noting a new hoax image for July 6th had begun circulating online (shown below).^[17]

On July 11th, 2012, a photoshopped image began appearing on Facebook with the caption “Today is the day Marty McFly arrives when he travels to the future” (shown below). The image was subsequently posted on the hoax investigation site Snopes,^[27] which revealed that the image was a fake.

On June 27th, the mobile checkout company Simple Tap made a post on their Facebook^[18] page with a picture of the time clock edited to read “June 27, 2012” (shown below). The picture was reposted on various other Facebook accounts, including the page of the craft company Colour Me Fun^[19] where it was shared over 10,000 times. The hoax was subsequently covered by numerous news sites and blogs, including The Telegraph,^[20] Slate,^[21] Buzzfeed^[23] and NME.^[24] Also on June 27th, Simple Tap’s social media manager Steve Berry was interviewed by the tech news blog Mashable,^[25] revealing that he made the post on purpose to promote a Back to the Future trilogy Blu-ray box set for one of his clients. According to Berry, the hoax was a inspired by the Total Film hoax two years prior and was done under the assumption that nobody would fall for the same joke twice.

The hoax by Simple Tap triggered the creation of various single-serving websites. On June 27th, the website October212015^[26] was launched, which displays the Back to the Future timeclock with correct date from the film next to the current day’s date. On the following day, the website istodaythedaymartymcflyarriveswhenhetravelstothefuture^[6] was launched, featuring the message “NO!” in large capital letters. Also on June 28th, the website itsbacktothefutureday.com^[7] was created, which contains a generator that creates custom time clock images.

Derivative: Dear Scientists

Image macros have been created in anticipation of the actual date of October 21st, 2015, by demanding scientists create hoverboards or flying cars within the time frame. Many of these images have been shared on Internet humor sites, including Cheezburger,^[2] Memerial^[4] and Funny Wall Photos.^[5]

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About

Patton Oswalt is an American comedian, writer and actor known for his role as Spence Olchin in the TV sitcom series The King of Queens as well as his stand-up commentaries on a range of topics including pop culture, religion and American excess.

Online History

Note: Work in progress, researching, request editorship

About

Supernatural is an American fantasy drama television series created by Eric Kripke and premiered on The WB on September 2005. The show follows two brothers as they hunt demons, ghosts, and other supernatural figures. Since it’s debut, the series has aired eight seasons, and it has been renewed for its ninth, as well as gaining an dedicated following online.

History

Supernatural was conceived by writer and director Eric Kripke and premiered on The WB, now known as The CW, on September 13th, 2005. The show follows the brothers Dean Winchester (played by Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (played by Jared Padalecki) as they hunt for supernatural creatures with paranormal powers taught to them by their father when they were kids. Originally slated to be three seasons, popular demand prompted the series to be extended for five. Its fifth season aired on September 10th, 2009, to which concluded the show’s main storyline. But due to the show’s increasing ratings, it was renewed by The CW to air its sixth season on September 24th, 2010. It’s seventh season aired on September 23rd, 2011, and its eighth, and current, season aired on October 3rd, 2012. On February 11th, 2013, the show was officially renewed by The CW for its ninth season.^[1]

Reception

Though with its following from fans, Supernatural received overall fair reviews from critics. The series has scored an 8.6/10 on the IMDb^[2], while only a metascore of 56/100 on Metacritic.^[3] The series’ pilot episode was viewed by an estimate of 5.69 million viewers, and ratings for each season has since been averaging at best.^[4]

Online Presence

The show has shown official presence online, with a official Facebook^[5] page being created, and has accumulated over 11 million likes as of April 2013. The show also launched the official @CW_Supernatural^[6] Twitter account on April 25th, 2010, gaining over 250 thousand followers in just three years.

Fandom

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The /r/Supernatural^[7] subreddit was then created on reddit on August 17th, 2008, gaining over 15,900 subscribers.

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Mishapocalypse

Mishapocalypse refers to a flashmob event that took place on Tumblr on April 1st, 2013, which originally involved dozens of Tumblr users changing their profile pictures to a photo of actor Misha Collins, who which portrays the character Castiel on the show. The trend soon evolved into Photoshopping Misha’s head into a variety of unlikely situations, and eventually spreading outside of Tumblr.

Misha Crying

Misha Crying is a series of animated reaction gifs based off a scene from Season 6 Episode 16 The French Mistakes, which show Misha Collins’ character Castiel sobbing. In the original scene, Castiel is shown being knife-point from the neck by hitman Virgil, to which Castiel began to sob uncontrollably. These reaction gifs are often used to show fondness of a certain object or group, and often accompanied with additional text.

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White Entrepreneurial Guy, also known as “White Entrepreneurial Detroit Guy,” is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of startup entrepreneur Jason Lorimer standing in front of an abandoned train station in Detroit. The captions typically mock corporate buzzwords and the out-of-touch perspectives associated with wealthy business owners operating in impoverished areas.

Origin

On April 9th, 2013, Detroit’s web-based magazine Model D Media^[2] published an op-ed article on the city’s potential for economic growth, which featured a photograph of Jason Lorimer (shown below, left), founder of the philanthropic and civic consultancy firm Dandelion.^[1] On April 11th, a Quickmeme^[3] page titled “White Entrepreneurial Guy” was launched, with the first submission featuring the same picture of Lorimer accompanied by the caption “His new restaurant will create jobs for ‘the community’ / like bussing tables” (shown below, right).

Spread

On the same day, a Facebook^[4] page titled “White Entrepreneurial Detroit Guy” was created, gaining upwards of 740 likes within 11 days. On April 12th, 2013, the Gawker Media blog Jalopnik^[6] published an article about the meme, which mocked Lorimer and the Dandelion firm by noting that “satire is indeed rooted in truth.” …The same day, The Huffington Post^[7] published an article citing a quote from the creator of the White Entrepreneurial Guy Facebook page, who stated that the meme is meant to expose opportunists who exploit Detroit while using “progressive sounding language that allows them to feel good about themselves while they do it.” The article also included a statement from Lorimer, who responded to his photo being used in the image macro series:

“I do, in fact, happen to be a white and an entrepreneurial guy and those who know me and the team at Dandelion know we are serious about our work and well intentioned. The impact we are having is indicative of the opportunity that exists for anyone who wants to play a productive role.”

On April 15th, The Huffington Post^[9] published an article by Wayne State University English professor John Patrick Leary, who mocked the Model D article for containing so much jargon that it appeared to be “written by someone who has learned English entirely by watching TEDTalks.” On April 17th, the original Quickmeme image macro was posted on the Cheezburger site Memebase,^[5] where it received over 400 up votes and 60 comments in the first five days.

Notable Examples

Within the first two weeks, the White Entrepreneurial Guy Quickmeme page received upwards of 780 submissions.

Underachieving Detroit Hipster Guy

On April 16th, 2013, a Facebook^[8] page titled “Underachieving Detroit Hipster Guy” was created, which dedicated its first post to the White Entrepreneurial Detroit Guy Facebook page.The feed highlights a spin-off image macro series based on a photograph of a mustached young man and captions describing hypocritical beliefs and behaviors associated with the hipster subculture. Over the course of the next week, the page garnered more than 990 likes.

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Baby Mugging is a photo fad that utliizes the optical illusion of forced perspective to make a baby appear as if he or she is peeking out of a ceramic mug, when in reality, the model is sitting or standing behind it. Since the original photos began circulating Instagram with the hashtag #babeinamug in April 2013, the range of subjects portrayed in the series has been expanded to include animals, adolescents and even adults.

Origin

The first mugging photo was posted to Instagram on April 12th, 2013 by blogger Ilana Wiles^[1] as a submission to photographer Josh Johnson’s daily photography challenge with the theme “fun.”^[2] Though it did not get featured as part of the challenge, the photo accrued more than 420 likes and 34 comments within ten days. She also encouraged her Instagram followers to post their own mugging photos with the hashtag #babeinamug.^[3]

Spread

Three days later, Wiles reposted the image to her blog Mommy Shorts^[4], designating the name Baby Mugging for the first time and highlighting a number of Instagram photos inspired by her original post. The image was also shared on the Mommy Shorts Facebook fan page^[5], where it was liked more than 200 times. That day, the image compilation was featured on Baby Gooroo’s Facebook fan page^[6] and Things Momma Loves.^[7] The following day, Rookie Moms^[8] picked up on the photo fad, adding their own images. On April 18th, Wiles posted an update about the hashtag to Mommy Shorts^[9] noting the photos on the Instagram hashtag had expanded to include upside-down babies (shown below, left), animals (shown below, center) and adults (shown below, right) in mugs. On April 19th, Wiles wrote about her experience with Baby Mugging on Disney’s parenting blog, Babble.^[6]

Notable Examples

As of April 22nd, 2013, there are more than 350 photos tagged #babeinamug^[3] and more than 60 tagged #babymugging^[7] on Instagram. Several subforums on parenting message board BabyCenter^[8][9][10] have also started their own threads for baby mugging photos.

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A crossover is a story where two or more discrete franchises, characters or universes are put into the same work. One of the rules of the Internet, Rule 50, states that “A crossover, even improbable ones, will eventually happen in fan art, fan fiction, or official content. NO EXCEPTIONS.”

The concept of the crossover has been present in media for a long while, one of the earliest known examples being a story entitled “Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late”, which pitted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective against Maurice Leblanc’s character Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief. This was an unofficial crossover, originating in the french magazine ‘Je Sai Tout’ in Juine 1906. When Doyle found out about the use of his character, he requested that the name in the story be changed to Herlock Sholmes in order to avoid a legal situation.

Ever since then, crossovers have been prominent in every section of media, from literature to movies to television to even video games, in both official and unofficial works.

The concept of crossovers often draws heavy criticism, with some viewing the practice as a cop-out or a way to cash in on the success of two different series. However, others view it as a creative opportunity to see how different franchises work off of one another, in terms of both character and story.

Whatever the case, people just seem to love the idea of mixing together different things too see what happens. And with all of the different possibilities out there, it’s pretty safe to say that the practice will never die out.

Related practices include Mega-Crossovers, in which several different franchises are used, Crossover Shipping, which puts together two characters from different universes, and Crisis Crossovers, which are pretty much exactly what they sound like.

The Angelica Santibañez/Señora meme is a series of exploitable image macros and Photoshops depicting the main antagonist in the Mexican telenovela Marimar as a snobbish and stereotypically arrogant plantation owner.

The macros are usually in the form of a picture of Angelica with sarcastic and/or patronizing captions poking fun at the wealthy elite or at Philippine pop cultural subjects. A running gag involves that of Santibañez’s butler Facundo being ordered to run errands for her^[1], ranging from the trivial, such as reserving a whole theme park or theatre just for her, to the outlandish, such as having the whole Philippines installed with an air conditioning system. Another recurring joke is Angelica’s penchant for having cans of corned beef served at peasants or destitute people. This stems from the ready availability of canned goods in the Philippines, hence its use by the lower income sector.

The telenovela

Marimar is a Mexican telenovela produced by and released in 1994 by Televisa and starred Thalía as the title character. The series was a remake of the 1977 telenovela La Venganza, and depicted Marimar’s hardships and eventual rise into high society.

It was also syndicated worldwide through several networks. The Philippine debut of Marimar via Radio Philippines Network in 1996 was met with positive reception, and spurred an interest in Latin American telenovelas, with similarly-themed series being aired on RPN and other major stations. Thalia’s popularity also surged in the Philippines, leading her to release a Tagalog-language album entitled Nandito Ako (lit. I Am Here), the title track being a cover of the song of the same name originally performed by Filipino singer Ogie Alcasid in the late 1980s.

Examples

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Media Coverage

Soon enough, local media began^[2] to take notice^[3] of the meme on Philippine social media circles, spawning articles^[4] about its eventual popularity among netizens, often including it in their lists of top local memes.

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Moon Moon started on a Tumblr blog by Kitchiki’s Hang Out^[1]. As a post about a “What is your wolf name?” generator.

Moon Moon on Twitter

Why do people make fun of me?

— Moon Moon (@moonmoonthewolf) April 21, 2013

1. Tumbr – Kitchiki’s Hang Out
2. Tumblr – Ask Moon Moon
3. Tumblr – Andrew Hussie Beautiful and Majestic
4. Twitter – Moon Moon The Wolf
5. Reddit – For fucks sake, moon moon

About

Random Acts of Pizza (RAOP) is a community on the social news website Reddit where users can ask to receive free pizza or volunteer to donate pizza to others in need. The community’s slogan is “Restoring Faith in Humanity, One Slice at a Time.”

Online History

On December 8th, 2010, Redditor Gadianton created the /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza^[1] subreddit, which gained over 24,600 subscribers in the following three years. On June 18th, 2011, the site RandomActsOfPizza.com^[6] was launched with a description of how the subreddit works, instructions on sending or receiving pizza and a verification system. On July 2nd, a Facebook^[4] page titled “Random Acts of Pizza” was launched. On October 4th, the @random_pizza Twitter^[3] account was created, which reposted many of the submissions to the subreddit. On October 12th, 2012, RAOP creator Gadianton posted a photograph of a document (shown below) revealing that Random Acts of Pizza, Inc. had been formed as part of a step towards becoming a tax free charity.^[10] Prior to being archived, the post accumulated more than 250 up votes and 30 comments.

Related: Usage on 4chan

Users of the imageboard 4chan have been known to send pizzas to people’s homes as an ongoing prank. On October 16th, 2009, BuzzFeed^[17] published a post featuring a screenshot of a pizza order being sent to the house of the Balloon Boy family, along with a photograph of a television news segment in which the delivery vehicle can be seen near the home (shown below, left). During the police standoff with Chris Dorner at Big Bear National Park in February of 2013, an image began circulating of an Domino’s pizza order sent to a Big Bear Lake address (shown below, right).

Nonprofit Incorporation

On October 12th, 2012, /r/RAOP creator Gadianton revealed his intention to incorporate the community into a nonprofit charity organization^[10], along with a scanned image of a certificate document (shown below) confirming that the application has been filed. Prior to being archived, the post accumulated more than 250 up votes and 30 comments.

Reception

The subreddit has been lauded as example of Reddit’s potential to encourage and foster altruism and generosity. On June 27th, 2011, CNN^[7] reported that the subreddit had become increasingly popular with a recent influx of 226,000 visitors in one week. On the following day, ABC News^[8] published an article with several accounts of people who received donations from strangers on the subreddit. On August 5th, 2011, The Daily Dot^[9] reported that a con-artist had threatened to send several users genital crabs after obtaining their personal information.

Derivatives

Similar subreddits are listed on the sidebar on /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza for other types of donations, including /r/RandomActs,^[11] /r/RandomActsOfCoffee,^[12] /r/RandomActsOfCookies,^[13] /r/RandomKindess,^[14] /r/RandomActsOfChristMas^[15] and /r/RandomActsOfCards.^[16]

Highlights

Austin’s Pizza Donation

On August 21st, 2011, Redditor luckykobold submitted a post to the RAOP subreddit^[20] thanking the the pizza restaurant Austin’s Pizza^[18] for donating nine pies for his sons birthday party. Prior to being archived, the post received over 830 up votes and 120 comments.

2011 Holiday Pizza Giveaway

On August 21st, 2012, Redditor IdTugYourBoat submitted a post to the RAOP subreddit,^[19] which announced that he was holding a giveaway where he would be donating pizzas to those who requested them in the comments with the only requirement that they wear a “ridiculous holiday sweater” for the delivery man upon arrival. After closing the offer, IdTugYourBoat replied to over 20 commenters that they could send him a private message to received a free pizza. Prior to being archived, the post accumulated upwards of 740 up votes and 340 comments.

Boston Bombings

Following the bombings in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15th, 2013, hundreds of users donated over 1,500 pizzas to the emergency centers and hospitals in the area. Many of the pizza orders were organized in Google Doc spreadsheets^[5] and made through Anytime Pizza, who called in their entire staff to make and deliver pizzas.

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How Animals Eat Their Food is a series of short comedy skits in which the actors humorously depict how different species of animals would feed at a dining table.

Origin

On April 8th, 2013, YouTuber MisterEpicMann^[1] uploaded a video showing two men seated at a table sharing a meal, with one of them performing an interpretive dance to show how different species of animals eat while the other sits quietly, unaffected. In just four days, the video reached 7 million views.^[12] Within the first two weeks, the video accrued nearly 47.5 million views on YouTube and 3.5 million shares on Facebook.^[2]

Spread

The day after it was uploaded, MisterEpicMann’s video was shared on the /r/videos subreddit^[3], where it earned 1,941 upvotes and 1,083 points overall. Also on April 9th, the video was featured on College Humor^[4], Tastefully Offensive^[5], Pleated Jeans^[6], Laughing Squid^[7], eBaum’s World^[8] and the Huffington Post.^[9] On April 11th, YouTuber Art The Bird^[10] uploaded the first parody video (shown below, left) featuring re-enactments of how cats, sharks and elephants would eat food at a table, which accrued more than 1.4 million views in 12 days. On April 12th, German comedy troupe Onkel Bernis Welt^[11] uploaded another parody video, using Grumpy Cat, an eagle and a sloth as examples. Within 11 days, this video has been watched more than 2.7 million times.

As more parodies began to pop up on YouTube throughout April, a number of them were featured on Laughing Squid^[13], CollegeHumor^[14], Dorkly^[15] and the Huffington Post.^[16] On April 22nd, Crave Online^[17] compiled a list of 8 of the best parody videos.

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Childhood Enhanced describes a discovery or easter egg in a nostalgic subject that fans find positive and/or badass. This is the opposite of Ruined Childhood. May also refer to nostalgia-based Gritty Reboots.

Origin

The earliest use of ‘Childhood Enhanced’ was used to describe a picture of a Katy Perry wearing a white dress with a picture of Smurfette on it. It was uploaded to Funnyjunk by user cunthearyou on June 28, 2011.

Awesome Childhood Was Awesome

Your Childhood Was Awesome refers to events people found relatable when they were children. The Youtube video 50 Awesome Childhood Checklist by user GermaniProductions has over 250,000 views.

Notable Videos

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External References

^[1]Tumblr – Fuck Yeah Childhood TV

^[2]Reddit – Childhood FUCKYEAH

Overview

Sorority Girl’s E-Mail Rant was an e-mail sent by University of Maryland student Rebecca Martinson to her fellow Delta Gamma sorority sisters, in which she berates them for being “boring” and “awkward." The e-mail was subsequently leaked online and reblogged via internet news sites, even inspiring the creation of celebrity dramatic readings.

Background

On April 18th, 2013, Gawker^[1] published the transcript of an email that was forwarded from an anonymous tipster and originally addressed to the University of Maryland chapter of the Delta Gamma sorority (shown below). Written by a senior member of the club, the e-mail scolded sorority sisters’ behavior at recent events, threatening them with violence if they did not improve their social skills with members of the brother fraternity Sigma Nu. Within five days, the article received over 420,000 views and 2,600 comments.

If you just opened this like I told you to, tie yourself down to whatever chair you’re sitting in, because this email is going to be a rough fucking ride.

For those of you that have your heads stuck under rocks, which apparently is the majority of this chapter, we have been FUCKING UP in terms of night time events and general social interactions with Sigma Nu. I’ve been getting texts on texts about people LITERALLY being so fucking AWKWARD and so fucking BORING. If you’re reading this right now and saying to yourself “But oh em gee Julia, I’ve been having so much fun with my sisters this week!”, then punch yourself in the face right now so that I don’t have to fucking find you on campus to do it myself.

Notable Developments

Delta Gamma’s Response

The same day, Gawker updated the post with a follow-up e-mail sent from the Delta Gamma chapter president, who asked for the website to remove the offending e-mail or the names “Delta Gamma” and “Sigma Nu.”

“My name is [redacted] and I am the current president of Delta Gamma at the University of Maryland. It has been brought to my attention that you recently published an unsavory email that was sent out over my chapter’s list-serve. Is it possible for you to either remove the article or just remove the names “Delta Gamma” and “Sigma Nu” from your article? This email absolutely does not reflect our chapter’s values nor Sigma Nu’s and any assistance you can give us is greatly appreciated."

Identity Revealed

The same day the e-mail was leaked on Gawker, the author of the e-mail was identified as University of Maryland student Rebecca Martinson. Photographs of Martinson were subsequently posted on the Total Frat Move Forums^[2] (shown below), where members discussed her attractiveness and speculated about her sexual interests.

In the coming days, screenshots from her now-deleted Twitter^[6] feed (shown below) began circulating on various news sites, including Scallywag And Vagabond,^[3] The Frisky,^[4] Bro Bible^[5] and Jezebel.^[7]

Dramatic Readings

On April 18th, 2013, the Pophangover YouTube channel uploaded a video in which actress Alison Haislip performs a dramatic reading of the email (shown below, left), which received over 268,000 views and 600 comments in the next five days. On April 22nd, Funny or Die released a dramatic reading by actor Michael Shannon (shown below, right), gaining more than 27,000 up votes and 71,000 Facebook likes within the first 24 hours.

Punishment

On April 22nd, the Delta Gamma sorority president Laurie Petrucce Roselle issued a statement via Facebook^[8] announcing that Martinson will be reprimanded for her “inappropriate” and “profanity-laced” e-mail.

We want to make it clear that this letter in no way reflects the values of Delta Gamma as an International Fraternity or our chapter at the University of Maryland. The processes by which Delta Gamma handles member discipline are confidential, but we have a team of women working with the chapter to take all appropriate action including protecting, educating and supporting the chapter members in the aftermath of this event.

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Clip Art Covers are a series of photoshopped images in which iconic cover art illustrations and photographs are recreated in clip art and the Comic Sans font. While the series initially started with album cover parodies, the concept has spread to video games boxes and DVD sets as well.

Origin

On December 13th, 2011, the “Clip Art Covers” Tumblr^[3] blog was launched, which features music albums that have been recreated using clip art images. The first post highlighted a clip art version of the 1991 grunge album Nevermind by Nirvana (shown below). Within the next two years, the blog posted over 365 examples from the series.

Spread

On February 16th, 2012, Facepunch Forums^[1] member Robbl started a thread calling for other users to submit cover art from films, games or albums that were recreated using clip art images, stock photos and the Comic Sans font. As an example, Robbl provided a clip art version of the cover for the first-person shooter video game Bioshock (shown below, left). On April 21st, 2013, the Aurorashaman Tumblr^[5] blog posted a recreation of the Pokemon Blue Gameboy game cover (shown below), accumulating over 19,200 notes in the following three days.

On April 22th, the Gawker Media video game blog Kotaku^[4] published an article highlighting several notable examples from the series. On the following day, NeoGAF member sixteen-bit submitted a thread for clip art video game covers^[6], which received more than 380 responses in the first 24 hours. Also on April 23rd, Redditor Celeste1492 submitted a Tumblr post to the /r/MassEffect^[8] subreddit, featuring a clip art version of the Mass Effect 2 cover (shown below). In the same timeframe, the post gained upwards of 580 up votes and 35 comments.

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Additional examples can be found on Tumblr under the tag “#clipart.”^[7]

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Ameristralia is an Internet slang term that was coined on Reddit to celebrate the symbiotic relationship between American and Australian Redditors on the site’s front page, mainly due to their opposite time zones. The term is a portmanteau of America and Australia.

Origin

On April 22nd, Redditor realms_board submitted a post titled “How I picture the Australians coming on to reddit” to /r/Funny,^[16] suggesting that Australian Redditors tend to take over the posts submitted by American Redditors due to differences in time zones. By the next day, the image had accrued more than 23,000 upvotes, 1,300 points and nearly 900 comments.

On April 23rd, 2013, Redditor lefoss submitted an image post titled “Team Ameristralia, with our powers combined….” to /r/AdviceAnimals,^[1] which depicted a koala riding an eagle with the caption “We will rule Reddit by day and by night.” Within 19 hours, the post accrued more than 21,000 upvotes, 1,100 comments and nearly 1,700 points overall. Prior to this post, the portmanteau had been used in a discussion thread about American expats living in Australia on the Family Based Immigration forums^[2] in December 2010.

Spread

Within an hour after the first appearance of the advice animal, Redditor Badfickle created the subreddit /r/Ameristralia,^[3] gaining more than 3,400 subscribers within 18 hours. Shortly after the subreddit was created, another Redditor by the name of Ameristralia^[4] began posting in related threads across the site. Around the same time, Redditor stunami submitted the first image macro commentary on the intercontinental alliance from the perspective of a third-party state, which illustrated Kim Jong Un’s dismay^[5] over not being included. However, the post went relatively unnoticed, receiving 6 upvotes.

In less than 24 hours, more than 300 Ameristralia-related threads^[6] were posted on numerous subreddits, including commentaries from Redditors residing in other countries such as Sweden^[10] and Canada^[11] (shown below). At least five of these posts, including ones in /r/Funny^[7], /r/MURICA^[8] and /r/AdviceAnimals^[9], reached the front page with more than 1,000 points overall. Additionally, the subreddit /r/NewZanada^[12] launched to celebrate a similar coalition of New Zealand and Canada.

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Daft Punk is an electronic duo consisting of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Daft Punk has gained a cult following on the internet, and some of their most popular songs, such as Da Funk, One More Time, Robot Rock, and Digital Love, are common in YouTube Poops.

Origin

Daft Punk began experimenting in house music around 1993. In 1995 they released a single for Da Funk/Musique. the song peaked at #1 in the US^[1], and quickly earned them a small following.

Spread

On June 6th, 2007, Fr. Eckle Studios uploaded a YouTube video titled “Daft Hands– Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”. The video showed a pair of hands with writing on them that spelled out the lyrics to Daft Punk’s song, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Within five years, the video had received around 53 million views and 175,000 comments.

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