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Ha Ha Ha, No! is a catchphrase, normally related with reaction faces, used as sarcastic response to unfunny comments.

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Old Economy Steven is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of young man wearing a blue collared shirt with a 1970s haircut. The captions typically depict the man as being out-of-touch with the frustrations young people experience in the 21st century economic climate, including dealing with student loans, unemployment and rising housing costs.

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Prior to being used as an advice animal, the photograph of the young man was initially featured in acne-related articles online as early as May of 2010 (shown below, left).^[1] On May 10th, 2012, Redditor NewNormal submitted an image macro titled “Introducing Old Economy Steven… you know, your dad” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] subreddit, which featured the same photograph paired with the caption “Fails out of high school / Gets job, buys house, retires happy” (shown below, right). Prior to being archived, the post received over 10,600 up votes and 950 comments.

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On the following day, the Internet news blog The Daily Dot^[3] published an article about the meme, noting that the advice animal resonated well with frustrated young workers. On May 17th, the Internet news blog UpRoxx^[4] published a slideshow of notable examples from the series. On May 23rd, 2013, the “Ron Paul Problems” Tumblr^[6] blog published a compilation of image macros from the series titled “Old Economy Steve,” which gained more than 5,300 notes in the next 24 hours. On May 24th, Redditor NarwhalBaconCat resubmitted the same compilation the /r/funny^[5] subreddit, where it received over 1,800 up votes and 230 comments in the first hour.

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As of May 2013, the “Old Economy Steve” Quickmeme page has accumulated upwards of 365 submissions.

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On May 16th, 2013, Canadian newspaper The Star^[1] published an article about a cellphone video allegedly showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking out of a glass crack cocaine pipe. The video, which was being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade, was said to have been filmed in late 2012 in a well-lit room in a house in the Kingsville Village area of Toronto. Ford was also seen recorded calling himself “fucking right-wing” and calling Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau a “fag.” The same day, Gawker published an article^[2] by staff writer John Cook, noting he had also seen the tape along with a photo (shown below) of Ford posing with three men, one of whom was shot and killed outside of a Toronto nightclub in March.^[3]

Cook revealed that the owner of the video was asking six figures for the footage. After contacting an acquaintance at CNN to see if they could help with payment, a CNN reporter in Canada called a source who had previously worked for Ford.

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On Twitter

Many Canadians took to Twitter to comment on the story using the hashtag #TOpoli.^[13], a number of which were archived on Storify^[14] by The Star staff. According to Topsy Analytics^[15], #TOpoli was mentioned more than 10,800 times that day, while “Rob Ford” was tweeted over 116,000 times (shown below).

Media Coverage

In the coming days, a multitude of news outlets and internet culture blogs picked up on the story including The Chicago Sun-Times^[5], The Huffington Post Canada^[6], MetaFIlter^[7], BoingBoing^[8], the National Post^[9], the New York Daily News^[10] and Democratic Underground.^[11] The incident also became fodder for a segment on The Daily Show.

Ford Avoids Questions

On May 17th, Mayor Ford was encountered by the press at least three times asking for a statement on the story. He called the allegations “ridiculous” and claimed that the Toronto Star was going after him in an official statement at city hall^[4] (shown below). His brother, Toronto city councillor Doug Ford,^[24] released a statement claiming the allegations were driven by “questionable reporting.”

Gawker’s “Crackstarter”

Also on May 17th, Gawker launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign^[19] intending to raise $200,000 USD to buy the Ford video. Within two days, they raised $63,500 towards their goal^[20], breaking $145,000 by May 23rd. The same day, Gawker revealed^[21] they had not been in contact with the owners of the video since May 19th, that no money would be taken from pledgers unless they reached the full $200,000 goal and that they would donate the full amount to a Canadian nonprofit working against substance abuse if they were unable to obtain the video.

Chief of Staff Fired

On May 23rd, 2013, Ford’s Chief of Staff, Mark Towhey, was escorted out of city hall, telling reporters “I am no longer the chief of staff. I did not resign.”^[22] Though Towey claimed his departure was not related to the scandal, a source later told the CBC^[23] that he was let go for organizing an impromptu intervention for Ford with his top advisors and telling the mayor to get help. Towey claimed the mayor laughed at thoughts of going to rehab. The day he was fired, Towhey gained more than 500 new followers on Twitter (shown below), but he has not addressed the matter there as of May 24th.

Well then, to the 500+ new followers I seem to have attracted today… Hello there.What’s up? Oh, and… eat your heart out <a href="https://twitter.com/britt_a">britt_a</a> :)</p>&mdash; towhey (towhey) May 24, 2013

Ford’s Press Conference

In the first few days following the scandal, Ford did not initially address whether or not the video was real. On May 24th, 2013, he held a press conference^[17] where said he cannot comment on a video that he had “not seen or does not exist.”^[18] He also reinforced that he does not use crack cocaine and is not addicted to it. He asserted that he had been judged by the media without any evidence. He also addressed the fact that he was let go as head coach of a Catholic high school’s football team, but a spokesperson for the Toronto Catholic District School Board claims this decision had nothing to do with the scandal.^[25]

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2013 Woolwich Attack refers to a violent attack against British Army soldier Drummer Lee Rigby by two men in the Woolwich district of South East London, England in May of 2013.

Background

On May 22nd, 2013, two men believed to be British Muslims of Nigerian descent ran down British Army soldier Drummer Lee Rigby in a car and proceeded to stab and hack him to death. After dragging Rigby’s body into the street, the attackers told witnesses that the killing was an act of vengeance against the British military for killing Muslims. Police arrived and shot the two men who were subsequently taken to separate hospitals in critical condition.

The Victim

Drummer Lee Rigby was a 25-year-old soldier in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers of the British Army from Middleton, Greater Manchester. After joining the Army in 2006, Rigby served in Cyprus, Germany and Afghanistan prior to becoming a recruiter in London. He was survived by his wife and two-year-old son.

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Bystander Video

That same day, a video of one of the assailants justifying his actions to eyewitnesses was uploaded to YouTube by user Alexander Wickham, which was subsequently submitted to the /r/videos^[1] subreddit where it received more than 20,900 up votes and 11,700 comments in the first 48 hours. Shortly after, the video was removed due to a copyright claim by ITV News after receiving over 2.04 million views.

""The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers, and this British soldier is one, is a eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. By Allah, we swear by the Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. So what if we want to live by the Sharia in Muslim lands. Why does that mean you must follow us and chase us and call us extremists and kill us? Rather you lot are extreme. You are the ones. When you drop a bomb, do you think it hits one person or rather your bomb wipes out a whole family. This is the reality. By Allah, if I saw your mother today with a buggy I would help her up the stairs. This is my nature. But we are forced by the Qur’an in Sura at-Tawba [Chapter 9 of the Qur’an], through many, many ayah [verses] throughout the Qur’an that [say] we must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I apologise that women had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your governments. They don’t care about you. Do you think David Cameron is gonna get caught in the street when we start busting our guns? Do you think the politicians are going to die? No it’s going to be the average guy, like you, and your children. So get rid of them. Tell them to bring our troops back so we can…, so you can all live in peace. Leave our lands and you will live in peace. That’s all I have to say. Allah’s peace and blessings be upon Muhammad."

On Twitter

On May 22nd, “Woolwich” became the sixth highest trending topic on Twitter in the United Kingdom.

The same day, London Mayor Boris Johnson published a tweet referring to the attack as an “unforgivable act of violence.”

This afternoon’s attack in Woolwich is a sickening deluded and unforgivable act of violence. My thoughts are with the victim and his family

— Boris Johnson (@MayorofLondon) May 22, 2013

According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,^[5] tweets containing the word “woolwich” peaked at over 407,000 mentions on May 22nd.

Religion Debate

On May 23rd, Redditor iFlick submitted an And It’s Gone image macro to the /r/atheism^[4] subreddit, which joked about the attacker’s Muslim beliefs (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post accumulated over 17,900 up votes and 2,600 comments.

On the same day, the UpshotTV YouTube channel uploaded a response video by comedian Nabil Abdulrashid, who complained about those who blamed the tragedy on the Islam religion (shown below). On May 24th, the video was submitted to the /r/videos^[2] subreddit, where it gained upwards of 12,000 up votes and 2,700 comments in the first nine hours.

“If I’m a vegetarian and I eat 2000 hamburgers in the name of being a vegetarian, I’m still not a vegetarian extremist – because I just did something that is against the whole concept of being a vegetarian”

Attack Video

On the same day, The Daily Mirror^[8] released footage of the attackers charging police officers before being gunned down in the street (shown below). The men were identified as 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo and 22-year-old Michael Adebowale.

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Commonly used slang term in forums. Similar to LOL and rofl

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Zach Galifianakis is an American stand up comedian and actor known for his appearance in a number of films and television shows including The Hangover trilogy, and Bored to Death. Online, he is best known for his Funny or Die web series Between Two Ferns.

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Head Smash Icons are a popular trend on websites like deviantArt. The icon consists of a animated gif of a character smashing their head into the ground. The character is usually portrayed in a minimalistic or chibi style.

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Gaaah +10000 work
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There is a group on deviantArt solely devoted to the creation of Head Smash Icons, called the #HeadSmash-Club.

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^This is a single-word demonstratives and indication used to show agreement with previous posts used on internet forums and image boards. Besides it’s usage as a single-word text post, it has also gained usage with image macros and GIF animations of characters and people pointing upwards.

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In linguistics, demonstratives indicate objects the speaker the refers to. Demonstratives are used to either point towards objects in the physical surroundings of the speaker or the listener, or to include abstract concepts where the meaning is something other than the objects in the physical location of the speaker, such as whether something is currently being said or was said earlier. The most common demonstratives used in the English language are this, that, these and those, in which the usage differs on the location of the objects in the vicinity and to differentiate single and plural.

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Drake Wearing Dada refers to a photoshop meme based on a photograph of the Canadian rapper and entertainer Drake^[1] taken during the shoot of his upcoming music video “No New Friends” in May 2013. The photograph quickly drew attention from his fans and hip hop music communities alike, mainly for the rapper’s wardrobe choice of Damani Dada, an athletic apparel and shoes company that was once popular among hip hop musicians in the 1990s, as well as his leaning posture

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On May 15th, 2013, several behind-the-scene photographs from Drake’s music video shoot for “No New Friends"^[3] were leaked to a number of music blogs,^[2] including one that showed the entertainer in a leaning pose while dressed in a Dada short suit (shown below, left). Many fans immediately took to Twitter^[4] and rap message boards to point out his throwback fashion style. That same day, a forum thread encouraging people to remix Drake’s photo surfaced on the hip hop message board The Coli^[5], leading to several pages of discussion about the rapper’s outfit as well as photoshopped images (shown below, right).

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On May 18th, another photoshop thread was launched on Boxden’s hip hop forum^[6], resulting in 23 pages of replies within 48 hours. On May 19th, additional threads were posted on Hip Hop Stan^[7] and Kanye To The^[8], each yielding dozens of contributions in photoshopped images. The same day, the momentum behind the photoshop meme continued to snowball on Twitter^[9], where the phrase “Drake photoshop” was mentioned more than 20,000 times according to Topsy Analytics.^[10]

On May 20th, notable examples from the threads were featured on internet culture and hip hop news blogs, such as Rolling Out^[11], The Source^[12], Uproxx^[13], MTV RapFix^[14] and All Hip Hop^[15] among others. Also on the 20th, Drake responded to the frenzy by sharing a photoshopped instance from The Coli thread via Instagram,^[16] (shown below), where it gained more than 135,000 likes and 5,600 comments within seven hours.

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Additional instances can be found on Tumblr^[17] and Instagram^[18] under the #Drake tag.

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GeoCities is a webhosting service founded in 1994 and acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. It was discontinued in 2009, with the service remaining available only in Japan. Geocities websites are archived at the single-topic blog, One Terabyte of a Kilobyte Age.

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Call of Duty Dog is a meme that refers to a Dog shown in the gameplay videos of the game Call of Duty: Ghosts at the Xbox One conference. The video was subject to parody among gamers, due to the over the top presentation.

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The dog was originally showcased towards the end of the Xbox One reveal conference^[1] which took place on May 21st, 2013. During the conference, they showcased the dog as being “a member of the team” and “someone you care about”.

The announcement was quickly parodied on Twitter, with video-game blog Kotaku^[2] editor Kirk Hamilton^[3] stating that the announcement of in-game dogs arrived shortly after the developers stated that they wanted to do “The right thing”.

“We didn’t want to do the safe thing, we wanted to do the RIGHT thing,” says guy making the new Call of Duty, before revealing in-game dogs

— Kirk Hamilton (@kirkhamilton) May 21, 2013

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Within the same day, the Call of Duty Dog twitter account was created^[4], and has since gained over 21,000 followers.

So glad that the cat is finally out of the bag. My big break is finally revealed #woof

— Call of Duty Dog (@CollarDuty) May 21, 2013

On May 23, Redditor Auto_aim1^[5] posted a thread to the r/gaming subreddit titled “This should be Call of Duty: Ghosts cover”^[6], featuring a photo-shopped image of the Call of Duty: Ghosts boxart, featuring an image of a dog. The post has since received over 1600 upvotes.

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“Do She Got a Booty?” is an expression associated with a pair of photographs of a chihuahua dog standing next to a fence.

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On October 26th, 2012, FunnyJunk^[1] user pocoloco submitted two photographs of a chihuahua titled “creepy chihuahua is pleased” (shown below, left), gaining over 28,600 views and 990 up votes in the following seven months. On February 25th, 2013, an edited version of the photo with the caption “Do she got a booty / she doooo” (shown below, right) was posted via Twitter^[3] by user @robbybeackman.

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On March 6th, 2013, Redditor turtlefrown reposted the chihuahua image macro to the /r/funny^[7] subreddit, where it received more than 6,600 up votes and 65 comments in the first two months. On March 10th, YouTuber itsKarlwithaC uploaded a video titled “Do She Got a Booty?”, featuring the chihuahua from the image macro paired with two men singing “do you got a booty?” repeatedly in the background (shown below).

On April 23rd, Tumblr^[2] user fukkkres posted the chihuahua image macro, which accumulated upwards of 155,300 notes within five weeks. On May 21st, Tumblr^[8] user Crispyweave highlighted screen captures of the character Squidward from the children’s animated television show SpongeBob Squarepants with the caption “do she got a booty? she dooooooooooooooo” (shown below), garnering more than 15,900 notes in the following week.

On May 23rd, Tumblr user obeseblackguy posted a photograph of a green snake with the caption “do she got a booty”^[4] (shown below, left) followed by another post featuring a close up of the snake’s head with the caption “she dooooo” (shown below, right).^[5] In the next five days, the posts gained over 57,000 and 36,000 notes respectively.

On May 25th, Yahoo Answers^[6] user Laine submitted a question asking “What the heck is this ‘Do she got a booty? She dooo’ thing?”, to which user anna cited the obeseblackguy snake picture as the source its recent popularity.

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“Instructions Unclear” is an expression used as a preface when joking about accidentally performing a dangerous or inappropriate action due to an absurd misunderstanding of directions. The phrase is typically used in comment sections on the social news site Reddit and in titles on the image hosting site Imgur.

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On May 1st, 2012, YouTuber kawnra replied to a faux-instructional video demonstrating how to touch an apple to a wall with the following comment: “The instructions weren’t clear enough. I got my dick caught in the ceiling fan.” Within the next year, the comment received over 14,200 up votes.

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On July 25th, 2012, Redditor JustAnotherIndie submitted a screenshot of YouTuber kawnra’s comment to the /r/funny^[8]subreddit, where it gained more than 26,000 up votes and 520 comments before it was archived. On November 14th, Redditor I_Demand_A_Water replied with an “instructions unclear” joke to a diagram explaining how to use a body pillow to comfortably spoon with a partner in bed (shown below).^[4] Prior to being archived, the comment received over 60 up votes.

On February 6th, 2013, Imgur^[7] user dcotruta uploaded an image macro titled “Instructions unclear, married cat,” which featured a woman and cat with a caption indicating that the feline had delivered an engagement ring (shown below). In the next four months, the post accumulated upwards of 2,400 points and 60 comments.

On April 5th, Cyanide and Happiness artist Rob DenBleyker submitted a post to his Facebook^[2] page asking fans to suggest topics for a comic, to which Daniele Latella suggested “And that’s how I got my junk trapped in a ceiling fan.” The same day, DenBleyker posted^[3] a comic based on Latella’s suggestion about a man who goes to see a doctor after injuring his genitalia in a ceiling fan (shown below).

On April 8th, Redditor GDmofo replied^[5] to a comment about preventing a bird from excreting on a car saying “Instructions unclear, got dick stuck in bird.” In the first two months, the comment gained more than 950 up votes. On April 10th, Redditor Grammar_Sith responded^[6] to a list of instructions for eating a banana by joking that he mistakenly ate his penis (shown below), garnering upwards of 900 up votes in the following month.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (usually abbreviated MST3K) is a cult television show that went from 1988 to 1999. The show is about an average guy (Joel or Mike) who is launched into space by his evil scientist boss (Dr. Clayton Forester) and is forced to watch bad movies. To stay sane he and his robot friends (Tom Servo & Crow T. Robot) make fun at the films or “riff” the films.

Fans of the show have been known to call themselves “Msties” (pronounced “Misty”). Before the internet fans would record the episodes and send the tapes to friends and family, this lead to the phrase “Keep Circulating the Tapes” which could be seen in the end credits of the show. Thanks to the internet and websites like the MST3K Digital Archive Project the episodes have been made easy to share and preserve.

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Msting is a way of mocking a form of media (film, tv, ect) in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and a form of fan fiction where writers mock other works by adding their own humorous comments into the story.

Rifftrax & Cinematic Titanic

Since the show’s cancellation in 1999 the cast and crew have continued to riff movies, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Colbert created the website Rifftrax; where you download riffs in MP3 format. Not only do they riff older movies, they also riff more recent movies, like Avengers or the Twilight films. Rifftrax has had many guest riffers as well such as Weird Al Yankovic, Neil Patrick Harris, and Doug Walker.

Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000 did a series of DVDs called Cinematic Titanic with his formers cast-mates Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff, and Mary Jo Pehl.

Both Cinematic Titanic & Rifftrax have also done live riffings, through Cinematic Titanic announced that they would be going on hiatus from touring this year.

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“Throwback Thursday” is an Internet theme day fobserved on every Thursday during which people share an old photograph of themselves via social networking sites and image-sharing communities, most notably through photo-sharing mobile app Instagram.

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has been associated with things that are deemed classic or vintage since as early as 2003, when it was first defined on Urban Dictionary.^[1] The earliest known mention of “Throwback Thursday” can be found in the title of a series of revamped retro cartoon characters that were illustrated by animator Saxton Moore and uploaded onto his blog^[2] in January 2006 (shown below).

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In July 2006, the sneaker fan blog Nice Kicks launched their own Throwback Thursday series^[3], highlighting a selection of once-popular vintage sneakers. The first post was dedicated to the Nike Air Trainer SCII^[4] (originally released in 1991) and the series continued through June 2012. Also in July 2006, a Throwback Thursday-themed football game was held at Georgia Tech in which players wore 1970s-style uniforms.^[5] In 2011, the phrase began to gain more popularity in the blogosphere^[6][7][8] as it became synonymous with events and objects that are no longer culturally relevant.

By November 2011^[11], ten months after Instagram had introduced hashtags, posting old photos of oneself on Thursdays on the photo sharing site had became an established trend via the hashtags #throwbackthursday^[9] and #tbt.^[10] As of May 2013, these tags boast 24.2 million and 42.2 million photos respectively. Many people also shared these Instagram photos to other social networks, resulting in more than 90,000 uses of #throwbackthursday on Twitter in the first week of January 2012.^[12] Later that month, Throwback Thursday was first defined on Urban Dictionary.^[13]

A number of celebrities began to partake in the practice, including Kim Kardashian^[14] who began sharing Throwback Thursday photos on her social media sites^[21] in February 2012. The same month, a Yahoo! Answers^[22] user asked about the meaning behind the phrase Throwback Thursday, and in June, a similar question was posed on Ask.com.^[15] By July 2012, #tbt hosted more than 9.1 million photos and was the 15th most popular tag on Instagram.^[23] #tbt has also been included on lists of the most important Instagram hashtags to know compiled by communications consultant Arik Hanson^[24] and the Daily Dot.^[25] In May 2013, the hashtag was discussed in an in-depth article by Digital Trends.^[26]

Outside of Instagram, dozens of groups dedicated to sharing personal vintage photos have been created on Facebook^[16], ranging from 20 to 200 members as of May 2013. Both #throwbackthursday and #tbt are popular tags on Tumblr^[17][18] and Twitter.^[19][20]

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Baguetting is a photo fad in which people photograph themselves while holding a baguette bread in substitute of everyday objects, such as household goods or food products, for comedic effect.

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The fad began with the launch of the single topic blog Baguette Me Nots^[4] on October 8th, 2012, which was started by Tim Bierbaum^[1] and John Milhiser^[2] of the Brooklyn-based sketch comedy group Serious Lunch.^[3] That day, the bloggers posted 12 photos of people carrying out everyday tasks, such as weightlifting (shown below, left), watering the lawn (shown below, center) and shaving (shown below, right), with baguettes instead of ordinary objects and tools that are more appropriate in context.

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Over the next several months, the blog continued to run photographs of actors and comedians partaking in the fad, including Jim O’Heir from NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (shown below, left), Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden (shown below, center) and Star Trek actor George Takei (shown below, right). On December 31st, 2012, Baugette Me Nots was featured on The Daily Mail^[5], who called it “planking with bread sticks.” The following day, Baguetting was featured on local Boston news channel WHDH.^[6]

During the first week of January 2013, two separate Facebook fan pages^[7][8] were created for the photo fad, gaining approximately 460 likes between them as of May 2013. On January 17th, compilations of Baguetting images were featured on humor sites Acid Cow^[9], Damn Cool Pictures^[10] and Daily Dawdle.^[11] On January 18th, 20 images from Baguette Me Nots were compiled into an Imgur gallery^[12] and subsequently picked up by Sad and Useless^[13] the same day.

In March, Baguetting was explained on Australian photo fad site Little Big Trend.^[14] On May 31st, Baguetting saw a major resurgence after a gallery of images from Baguette Me Nots was submitted to the /r/Funny subreddit^[15], where it gained more than 16,00 upvotes, 3,600 points overall and 1,300 comments within four hours.

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Additional images can be found on Tumblr^[16], Twitter^[17] and Instagram^[18] with the hashtag #Baguetting.

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Pass Me The Controller, Bro is a common subject from 4chan’s /v/ board that’s about a hand covered in Cheetos dust that ask someone to pass over the controller.

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Even though Pass Me The Controller, Bro doesn’t have much of a spread, it can be found on meme sites like funnyjunk.

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I Watch It For The Plot is a statement used online to falsely state one likes a specific show or series due to the story and plot development, while in reality they actually like the show due to the looks of the characters or actors and the fanservice. Through this, the word “plot” has also gained a synonymous meaning with the posterior and chest area.

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In the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the word “plot” became synonymous with the pony posterior due to a viral image (shown below, left) initially posted on the Smack Jeeves Forums on Januarty 20th, 2011. Following this combinations with “dat ass” became a common occurance, resulting in variations such as “dat plot” and “dat flank”.

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Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin, lit. “Advancing Giants”) is a manga series first created by author Hajime Isayama, and later adapted into an anime series by anime studio Production I.G. The story is set in an alternate version of the past, where giant human-like creatures named Titans suddenly appeared and started to kill off humans by eating them. The series follows the story of Eren, who is motivated to enlist in the military with his friends Mikasa and Armin, after witnessing a Titan eat his mother during an attack from the Titans on Wall Maria, one of the three walls created to help protect humans from the Titans.

History

The original Manga series first started serialization in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in September 2009, and first published in tankōbon on March 17 2010. The popularity of the series soon paved way for an anime series to be created, published by Production I.G and directed by Tetsurō Araki, most well known for his work on series such as Highschool of the Dead and Death Note, and began serialization on April 6 2013. As well as this, a live-action movie is stated to be in production,with no release date disclosed as of yet, as well as four visual novels in production for the PS3, with one to be released on September 18 2013, and the rest on December 18 2013.

Online Relevance

Since the creation of the anime series, Attack on Titan has garnered a significant online following. The show has a significant presence on sites such as Tumblr^[1], Reddit^[2], 4chan’s /a/ Anime and Manga board^[3], Fanpop^[4], My Anime List^[5] and FanFictiion.net^[6]. There are numerous sites holding information of the series, such as the Shigeki no Kyojin wiki^[7], TV Tropes^[8] and Anime News Network^[9]. DeviantArt also has over 6000 deviations based of the series^[10].

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Guren no Yumiya parodies

Guren no Yumiya parodies refers to a number of anime opening MADs based on the opening titles of the show. The song has gained popularity on Youtube^[11] and Nico Nico Douga^[12], being paired with clips of other TV shows for dramatic effect.

Attack on Titan photo fad

The Attack on Titan photo fad is a forced perspective series of images, which originated in April 2013, when Japanese Twitter users began sharing photos of themselves acting out scenes from the Attack on Titan introduction.

Moe Titans

Moe Titans refers to a number of background Titans from within the show who have gained popularity within the fandom, due to looking significantly less intimidating than other titans from within the show, instead seeming more moe in appearance. These moe Titans have gained popularity on Tumblr^[13], spawning a number of fan art.

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