Overview

Clint Eastwood’s Empty Chair Speech refers to a speech given by American actor and director Clint Eastwood^[1], who appeared as a guest speaker at the 2012 Republican National Convention on August 30th.^[2] During his time on stage, Clint Eastwood turned to an empty chair as if Barack Obama was sitting there and mockingly interviewed him on behalf of the Republican Party. This straw man respresentation of Obama was later given the nickname Invisible Obama.

Background

On August 30th, 2012, American actor Clint Eastwood appeared on stage at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, to give an endorsement speech for the Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. While Eastwood’s speech was met by mixed reception in the news media and the blogosphere, the most memorable moment of the speech came when he began asking a series of questions to an empty chair alongside his podium that were rhetorically directed at President Obama.

Notable Developments

As the speech aired on television, Twitter and Google+ users reacted by posting jokes about Eastwood’s mock interview, many of whom used the hashtag #invisibleobama. From 12 pm (ET) on August 30th to 12 pm (ET) on August 31st, approximately 93,204 tweets were posted about Clint Eastwood^[3], with 78,272 of them occurring during the hour of 11pm on August 30th. The speech also made it to Iran the following day, where people were even more baffled. The speech has become a notable American topic among Iranians on Facebook and other sites.^[4]

The following day, the speech made its way onto The Daily Show (shown left) and The Colbert Report (shown right), with Colbert doing a parody debate with a chair.

@BarackObama’s Response

At 10:19 pm (ET), the Twitter parody account @InvisibleObama^[5] tweeted for the first time, using a picture of an empty chair as its user profile icon. At 12:29 am, President Obama’s official Twitter account responded to Eastwood’s speech by saying “This seat’s taken,” followed by a photo of Obama seated in a chair labeled “The President, January 20th, 2009.” As of 12 pm, August 31st, @BarackObama’s photo tweet has been retweeted 36,140 times and favorited 14,025 times.

This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st…

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012

Photo Fad: Eastwooding

Salt Lake Tribune reporter Robert Gehrke^[11] posted the first Eastwooding image on Twitter of his coworker political reporter Thomas Burr (@ThomasWBurr) pointing to an empty chair while attending the Convention. The hashtag #Eastwooding^[7] quickly took off after @RobertGehrke’s tweet and generated more than 7,100 related tweets^[8] within the first hour.

Look. It’s <b>thomaswburr</b></a> "Eastwooding" <a href="http://t.co/KI1cmZPG" title="http://yfrog.com/esfwaykj">yfrog.com/esfwaykj</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23utpol">#<b>utpol</b></a></p>&mdash; RobertGehrke (RobertGehrke) August 31, 2012

By noon the next day, there had been 25,325 tweets associated with the hashtag, including ones from celebrities like actor Zach Braff, actress Mia Farrow and comedian Hal Sparks Additionally, more than 850 Instagram photos were tagged #Eastwooding^[9] and a tag with the same name^[10] was created on Tumblr. At 12:34 am (ET), Buzzfeed^[6] published a series of Eastwooding photos collected from Twitter and Instagram. By the next day, Eastwooding photos were featured on the Atlantic^[12], the Huffingon Post^[13], Gothamist^[14], New York Daily News^[15], Mashable^[16] and Fox News.^[17]

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Doing the Needful:

International Technical support teams often receive written or emailed requests from foreign companies to “Do the needful”. More often than not, this phrase is the final statement in a failure description which includes none of the information required to actually understand the problem, and which does not explain precisely what their expectations are relating to their request. It has become a humorous catch phrase which suggests the requester has provided completely useless information, and has not requested a specific action, but has probably submitted the issue as a high priority problem. In most circumstances, they will also include a bad phone number (or a number to a phone where they cannot hear you talking), and will not respond to your emails for several days.

“Please do the needful”, Kindly do the needful", and “Do the needful” have become the support person’s equivalent of “Oh, good, it’s time to pull at my hair and scream”…

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Origin:

“Do the needful” is an archaic expression which means “do that which is necessary”, with the respectful implication that the other party is trusted to understand what needs doing without being given detailed instruction.

The expression is currently used mainly in South Asian English (Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan). The expression was current in both British and American English well into the early 20th century. In later years it was sometimes used as a parody example of contemporary South Asian English.

Reference Links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_needful
• http://www.jeremygilby.com/?p=1043
• http://barnson.org/node/571
• http://shop.cafepress.com/do-the-needful
• http://dotheneedful.jerseyslogans.com/
• http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=do%20the%20needful
• http://dotheneedful.ws/
• http://www.zazzle.com/kindly_do_the_needful_tee_shirts-235781210265926253
• http://thedramakingscourt.blogspot.com/2007/10/kindly-do-needful.html
• http://www.englishforums.com/English/RequiredModernSentence/lppn/post.htm
• http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/life/10-indianisms-652344
• http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english/linguistics/1201660-kindly_versus_please.html
• http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1305271
• http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Do_the_needful_(Letters,1947_-1972)
• http://lordbaddkitty.com/2012/08/31/do-the-needful/

Editors Note: This fanfic contains a large amount of gore, read at your own discretion.

About

Dipper Goes To Taco Bell is a fanfic which takes place in the universe of the 2012 animated cartoon series Gravity Falls. The story and its contents became notorious within the fanbase for its highly gore-filled narrative. It is often compared to other notorious shockfics from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom such as Cupcakes and Sweet Apple Massacre.

Origin

According to Google Cache, “Dipper Goes to Taco Bell” was posted to the online fanfiction database Fanfiction.net^[1] on August 23rd, 2012. It was removed seven days later, on August 30th, replaced with a “Code 1” message,^[11] which means that the story contains adult-themed content that violates the site’s terms of service.

The story centers around the Gravity Falls character Dipper Pines^[9], who goes to Taco Bell to get food. Upon arriving at the Taco Bell, he orders a taco and takes a bite before suddenly suffering from diarrhea. While in the bathroom, Dipper ends up getting turned on by his feces and various other bodily fluids. After a while, Dipper accidentally cuts himself and dies from loss of blood. Later his twin sister Mabel^[10] discovers his corpse and ends up getting killed by a Taco Bell employee, who afterwards cleans up the bathroom stall and disposes of the corpses by turning them into tacos.

Spread

On August 24th, reaction pictures, posts and videos about “Dipper Goes to Taco Bell” began appearing on deviantArt^[12], SoundCloud^[13], Tumblr^[14] and YouTube.^[15] The following day, the fanfic was reuploaded to Pastebin.^[5] Fan art illustrations began appearing on Tumblr^[2] and deviantArt^[3] featuring photoshopped images or drawings of Dipper outside of a Taco Bell restaurant or Dipper discovering the story. Meanwhile, various phrases directly taken from the fanfic also gained popularity, most notably ““AHA HAHA HA HAHA HA HA” said Grunkle Stan. He was laughing” and “HALP! I BIT MY DICK OFF!”

The fanfic was largely met by shocked and gruesome reactions, with many feedback posts found under the tag “dipper goes to taco bell” on Tumblr^[2], DeviantArt^[3] and YouTube^[4]. A Tumblr post showing an image of Uncle Stan drawn in the style of Shit, I’m Late For School photo fad was posted by user Morearmsthanyourbodyhasroomfor^[6] on August 26th (shown below), which reached over 2400 notes in the first five days. A reply post to the statement “IM GONNA READ DIPPER GOES TO TACO BELL” was submitted by Somethinghorrible^[7] on August 29th, in which he reminds himself to not read Dipper Goes To Taco Bell. The post reached over 1600 notes within the first 48 hours.

A remix song based on the main theme of Gravity Falls and the 2009 electronic song “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” by alternative hip hop group Das Racist was created by Tumblr user Drawingguitarist^[8] on August 30th. The post received over 2,700 notes and 10,000 plays within the first 36 hours.

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Venus (The Two Faced Cat) is a feline chimera, a rare type of cats whose cells contain two types of DNA, that became internet famous in August 2012, mainly due to its striking appearance of one side being black-coloured with a green eye and the other side being orange-coloured with a blue eye.

Origin

Pictures and videos of Venus were uploaded on August 14th, 2012 Facebook page titled “Venus’s Page – Amazing Chimera cat”^[1] and YouTube channel VenusMommy (shown below, left). The cat quickly spread across Facebook the animal photo blogosphere, even leading to discussions (shown below, right) regarding the authenticity of the photographs and extensive coverage from news media outlets and scientific explanations of chimera cats in the blogosphere.

While the owner of Venus remains anonymous, but the name of the cat is said to have been inspired by an astrological essay titled “Venus: The Two Faced Goddess,” which includes the story of Venus whose side facing the Sun alternates in between day and night.

Spread

During the last days of August, the cat continued to gain viral momentum on YouTube with more than a million views as well as thousands of likes on Facebook every day. Pictures of the cat were also picked up by internet culture sites like Laughing Squid^[3], I Can Has Cheezbuger^[4] and BuzzFeed^[11], as well as online news publications including NBC Today^[4] (shown below), International Business Times^[7], People^[8] and Toronto Sun.^[9] On August 23rd, the cat also appeared on the frontpage of Reddit^[14] with more than 15,100 upvotes after a picture was submitted to /r/pics by Redditor AdribbleofInk.

Medical Condition of the Cat

The online popularity of the cat was even mentioned by nature-related and scientific publications National Geographic^[5] and The Smithsonian^[6], which explained the DNA composition of the two-faced cat through the words of Leslie Lyons, a professor who studies the genetics of cats at the University of California, Davis.

“She is extremely, extremely rare, but you can explain it and you can understand it.” Many reports about Venus refer to the cat as a “chimera.” In mythology, a chimera is a mishmash monster made up of parts of different animals. A feline chimera is a cat whose cells contain two types of DNA, caused when two embryos fuse together.

“Absolute luck,” One theory: perhaps the black coloration was randomly activated in all the cells on one side of her face, while the orange coloration was activated on the other, and the two patches met at the midline of her body as she developed."

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Work in progress. Feel free to request editorship

About

Fan art is artwork that is based on a character or story that was created by someone other than the creator, or a fan of a specific thing. It comes in a large variety of designs and styles, such as alternate universes, ponification, rule 34 and 63, and lots more.

History

Pre-Internet History

Fan art grew popular between the 60’s and the 70’s, at the time where Star Trek and Star Wars Fandoms started to grow,

Online

The fan art online grew with the creation of deviantART

Reception

Impact

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Sub memes

Rule 63

Rule 63 revolves around flipping the gender of someone or something specific, often giving them an anime-like appearance. The characters are often designed to show some form of sexual activity, similar to rule 34.

Rule 34

Rule 34 revolves around pornographic fan art depicting virtually anything. This has seen modest spread since its inception in October 2004.
Remenber this,if exist there is porn, doesn’t matter if the source is “friendly” there will be art of it

Alternate universe

Alternate Universe are stories in which the author deliberately alters the original canons of the story, thus creating an entirely new world with the original characters. for example, you can take a simple character such as Finn from Adventure time and put him inside the Death star, or take Hommer Simpson and put him in the doctor who universe.

untoons

Untoons are where cartoon characters are designed to be lifelike, as if they were a real person.

Grimdark

Grimdark is where characters are modified and edited to show a dark and negative appearance, usually these kind of fan art are created after some fan fictions or creepypastas, such as pokemon lost silver or mythical creature, like Slenderman.

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Shipping / Crack Pairing/Crossover

Shipping represents a love between two characters in any series that doesn’t exist in the actual series itself.
Crack Pairing are considered o be a normal shipping but depending on what is being used,the results are sometimes bizarre.

Crossovers are the encounter of two characters in any series that don’t represent a love between them.

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Prince Harry’s Naked Army refers to a Facebook photo fad that began with members of the British armed forces stripping naked or to their underwear and offering a military-style salute in support of British Prince Harry of Wales.

Origin

On August 21st, 2012, celebrity gossip site TMZ released nude photos of Prince Harry of Wales^[15], the third-in-line for the British throne, playing strip billiards while on vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[1] The story was subsequently picked up by many mainstream news sources, including CNN^[2], The New York Times^[3] and The Huffington Post^[4] among others. The photographs were met by mixed reactions, with TMZ’s poll revealing that 65 percent of 208,002 readers found the photo to be “awesome” rather than “disgraceful,” while The Guardian^[21] speculated that the royal aids may urge the British media not to republish the photographs in respecting the prince’s privacy.

Shortly after the TMZ post began to spread online, former Royal Marine Lee Kirton and former member of the King’s Royal Hussars^[5] Jordan Wylie created a Facebook group page entitled “Support Prince Harry with a naked salute!”^[6] The page asked supporters of Prince Harry to salute the Prince in the nude but to “cover your crown jewels” when sending in photos. As of September 4th, 2012, more than 35,600 people have joined the group and at least a hundred photos have been submitted to the group.

Spread

Soon, supporters of the often controversial Prince Harry began posting semi-nude pictures of themselves via Twitter^[19] and Tumblr^[20] with the hashtag #Salute4Harry. On August 22nd, a fan page^[8] for the photo fad was created on Facebook, gaining more than 2,647 likes in the span of two weeks. On August 26th, five days after the inception of the Facebook fan page, Kirton and Wylie started a separate website for the fad titled Salute4Harry.^[7] They noted that in those five days, the Facebook group gained more than 26,000 supporters as well as 25,000 additional requests pending approvals. Furthermore, the two former British military servicemen launched a fundraising site^[16] in the name of Salute4Harry with a promise to to donate any proceeds to Walking With the Wounded, a charity designed to assist wounded veterans and their families that has been supported by Prince Harry himself.^[9] On August 28th and 29th, selected photos were featured on the The Huffington Post^[10], Yahoo News^[11], MSN^[12],TIME Newsfeed^[13], the New York Daily News^[17], the Los Angeles Times^[18] and HLN:

Military Controversy

On September 2nd, 2012, British news site The Telegraph published an article entitled “Army anger as troops strip naked in support of Prince Harry.”^[14] An anonymous source told the site, “Everyone sees the funny side but there are people at senior levels in the Army who do not consider this to be appropriate. They will be thinking ‘Does this really shows us in the professional light we want to be seen in?’” The Telegraph article also predicted that the “Prince is expected to be reprimanded when he returns to the Army Air Corps in a few weeks time.”

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Wall of Text refers to needlessly long text posts that are often found without line or paragraph breaks. Walls of text can be found in a wide range of online conversations from spam emails and webcomic dialogue to blog posts and comment sections.

Origin

One of the earliest mentions of the phrase “wall of text” appeared in the title of a spam message posted on three unrelated newsgroups on November 21st, 1996 by a company named Valucard International. The post, “Wall of text with subtle picture,” was shared on alt.books.phil-k-dick^[1], alt.sci.time-travel^[2] and alt.ascii-art^[3] with the summary “ascii art disguised as screenful of mumblejumble” and a keyword, “oh my god.”

Etaoin Shridlu opened the book to where his thumbnail had randomly parted
the pages and began reading from the center of the page but noticed something
strange about the pattern of the rivulets of space around the words and soon
had lost all comprehension of the literal meaning of the passage when a picture…

In Literature

Though the phrase may not have entered online usage until 1996, a similar concept has been used in the literary device known as stream-of-consciousness since the 18th and 19th centuries, when authors would write paragraphs that continue on for pages at a time.^[4] This technique was used several times in James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses^[5], as highlighted in the final chapter “Penelope.” Also known as Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy^[6], the chapter consists of eight sentences, one of which is 4,391 words long. This was the longest sentence in English literature until 2001, when a 13,955-words long sentence was published in Jonathan Coe’s novel The Rotters’ Club.^[7]

Spread

In 2002, walls of text was mentioned on UseIt.com’s list of that year’s Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes^[8], which described this type of text as intimidating, boring and hard to read. On August 31st, 2005, the first definition for the phrase was added to Urban Dictionary^[9] and two years later, it was added to Uncylopedia^[10], which presents the entry in one lengthy paragraph instead of the normal article format. In 2010, it was added to the Online Slang Dictionary.^[14]

Bloggers also use the phrase to denote especially verbose posts on Tumblr^[11] and LiveJournal^[12], which yields more than 137,000 search results for “wall of text.” In April 2008, walloftext.net^[13] was registered as a secondary domain name to someone’s personal blog, which was updated with wordy posts until February 2012. The phrase can also be used to refer to a negative trait that appears in webcomics, when artists would write in unnecessarily long dialogues that encroach on the comic’s art.^[16] Subnormality^[15] (shown below), a webcomic blog launched in 2007, is known for its lengthy dialogue scenes.

Search Interest

Search volume for “wall of text” peaked in September 2008, coinciding with the creation of the TV Tropes^[4] page for the phrase.

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Empty Chair for Liu Xiaobo refers to a vacant seat placed on the podium for imprisoned Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo during the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony held in Oslo, Norway. The image of the empty chair quickly became a symbol of protest against the Chinese government’s political oppression and spawned a photo fad on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.

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Brazilian Fart Porn is another shock site on the internet. This shock video contains Brazilian models farting on each other’s faces and smelling their farts for pleasure. This type of shock is also heard on Comedy Central’s animated series South Park titled “Over Logging” (or “The Day the Internet Stood Still”)^[1], the sixth episode of the twelfth season, where Randy Marsh decides to sneak inside to use the computer with internet secrecy, looking up bizarre sexual fetishes including Brazilian Fart Porn along with “Japanese girls puking in mouth”, and bestiality.

Spread

The spread on Brazilian Fart Porn went on YouTube where people react to the video. Unlike the other reactions to other shock videos and shock sites, this one gets a mixed reaction of finding it gross and hilarious.

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Background

On August 23rd, the Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart uploaded a video to YouTube urging Australian government to lower minimum wage restrictions, citing African laborers who are willing to work for $2 a day.

“Africans want to work and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 a day. Such statistics make me worry for this country’s future.”

On August 30th, 2012, Reinhart wrote about Australian socialist policies in her regular column for the Australian Resources and Investment magazine.^[4] While defending government deregulation of corporations and lowering taxes for the wealthy, Reinhart made the following statements regarding those who fell below the poverty line:

“If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself – spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.”

Reinhart’s Career

Georgina Hope Rinehart is the heiress of the Hancock Prospecting Australian mineral exploration and extraction company that owns land leases in large regions of holding iron ore deposits in Western Australia. Rinehart became the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting following the death of her father in March of 1992. On March 17th, 2011, the International Business Times^[2] reported that Rinehart was the wealthiest person in Australia. On May 23rd, 2012, The Australian^[1] reported that Reinhart’s net worth totalled A$29.17 billion. On July 6th, 2012, The International Business Times reported that Reinhart has become the richest woman in the entire world.

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Media Coverage

On August 30th, the statements made in Rinehart’s controversial column were quoted by various news websites including Courier Mail^[11], The Telegraph^[12]ABC News^[13], The Huffington Post^[15] and the women’s interest blog Jezebel.^[14] Much of the coverage reported on the negative public reaction to the column and the Australian Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan calling the editorial “an insult.” On September 5th, the growing outrage about Rinehart’s statements regarding minimum wage reduction were reported by The Daily Mail^[16], New York Daily News^[17], National Public Radio^[18] and the LA Times.^[19]

Online Reaction

On August 31st, 2012, Redditor mrana submitted a post to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[5] titled “Presenting Spiteful Billionaire”, which included an image macro featuring a photograph of Rinehart with the caption “Poor people don’t work hard enough / Inherited billions.” Within seven days, the post received over 8,200 up votes and 490 comments.

On September 6th, Redditor SneakyPete27 submitted a post titled “Befuddled Billionaire”^[10], which featured another photograph of Rinehart with the caption “Why don’t poor people / just inherit more coal” (shown below, left). Within 24 hours, the post received over 19,100 up votes and 1000 comments. The caption may have been inspired by the Mitt Romney image macro “Why don’t poor people / just buy more money?” (shown below, right).

The same day, the Internet culture news blog The Daily Dot^[6] published an article titled “Befuddled Billionaire: Gina Rinehart’s unflattering meme”, which cited a “Scumbag Gina Rinehart” Quickmeme^[8] page and a “Dumb Whore Gina Rinehart” Meme Generator^[9] page.

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Background

On August 26th, 2012, major news media outlets in the United States began reporting on the impending arrival of Tropical Storm Issac on the Gulf Coast. During the live coverage of the storm’s predicted trajectory path, the Weather Channel erroneously referred to the state of Mississippi as “the land mass” between New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama.

Coinciding with the anniversary of the deadly Hurricane Katrina which inflicted heavy damages to the state of Mississipi, the on-air gaffe by the weather forecast network instantly led to an outpour of criticisms and mockeries from Facebook users who perceived the label “the land mass” as negligent practice of journalism.

Notable Developments

Within hours of the The Weather Channel’s report, Facebook users began posting angry reactions to the news station’s official Facebook and Twitter, criticizing its use of the term “land mass” as an utter deficiency of basic understanding in the U.S. geography.

Later that same day, an independent Facebook page titled “The Land Mass Between NOLA and Mobile” was launched as a place for Mississippian Facebook users to cope with their state being neglected by the news media. By Monday afternoon, the Facebook page had reportedly gained more than 34,000 likes and accumulated nearly 200 user-generated images poking fun at the awkward phrase.

On August 31st, 2012, the urban dictionary chose “Landmass” as their word of the day:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Landmass&defid=6734307

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“Shit, I’m Late for School” is a photo fad stemming from a trope in anime in which students are shown rushing to school with toast in their mouths. Participants typically make an exaggerated running motion while carrying something representative of a specific fandom or an ethnic stereotype in their mouth, accompanied by the snowclone caption “Shit, I’m late for X school!”

Origin

On August 6th, 2012, Tumblr user badcgijosh posted^[1] a picture of himself posing as if he was running with a piece of toast in his mouth followed by the caption, “Shit, I’m late for anime school.” As of August 28th, the post has 44,961 likes and reblogs.

Roots In Anime

As early as August 1st, 2010, members of Anime forum Mabinogi World^[2] were discussing the origin of characters depicted as rushing for school while eating toast, noting its popular use in Shoujo^[3] manga written for a female audience. In October 2011, a single topic Tumblr named “Fuck Yeah Animu Toast”^[5] was created to celebrate images of anime characters running with toast. As of August 2012, TV Tropes^[4] lists nearly 50 instances of “running late for school” characters in Anime/Manga and points out that it is so overused, many manga-drawing guides advise against using it.

Spread

The day after the first image was posted by Tumblr user Badcgijosh, Fuck Yeah Anime Toast reblogged the photo^[9] but parodies of this image did not begin appearing until August 27th with one of the first derivatives showing Tumblr user minsterofsass^[10] being late for Canadian school while holding a bottle of maple syrup with his teeth (shown below). That evening, dozens of derivatives began appearing on Tumblr with the tags “late for school”^[11], “shit I’m late for school”^[12], “shit I’m late”^[13] and “late.”^[14] The following day, the Daily Dot^[15] published a collection of eight instances of the photo fad.

On August 27th, Tumblr user Badcgijosh expressed negative feelings^[7] about the photo fad, stating that he does not “like encouraging people to be lazy about their humour … there are things that are exponentially funnier to be said by anyone without using a template I literally spent ten seconds planning.”^[8] That same day, Tumblr artist payface^[6] posted a comic (shown below) to express badcgijosh’s displeasure over people overusing the joke.

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My Boyfriend Does My Makeup is a series of YouTube videos in which female uploaders record males, commonly those they are in a relationship with, applying their makeup. These videos are commonly shared for the sake of humor at the male’s inexperience and the often bad end result.

Origin

While tutorial videos for applying makeup on oneself have been around since the beginning of Youtube, the first videos where males apply makeup on others only began to appear in 2010. The first video that featured this was uploaded on January 23, 2010 by juicytuesday^[1], titled" “BOYTOY DOES MY MAKEUP!!”^[4] The video featured juicytuesday’s friend Aaron, a professional makeup artist applying the makeup.

The first video to feature a male unfamiliar with applying makeup was uploaded on December 23rd, 2010, by user andreeaaababy.^[2] In the video, andreeaaababy also encourages others to try this with any person who does not know how to apply makeup, in an attempt to start a tag for these type of videos.

Spread

Andreeaaababy’s video didn’t took off until March and April 2011, when it was referenced in the related video section of multiple other makeup videos involving males.

On April 20th, 2011, MTV Style posted an article titled “The Best Of ‘My Boyfriend Does My Makeup’ On The Internet”, in which they gave a list of personal favorites.

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The tag “my boyfriend does my makeup” gained a small peak in April 2011, which was around the same time as these videos started to appear more often on Youtube. It then became quiet again a few monts later in July, before receiving interest again in December 2011. After that the interest in the tag has shown a steady raise.

External References

The Tito Sotto Plagiarism Controversy refers to an issue involving Filipino actor-turned-senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto regarding some of his recent speeches being plagiarised from a blog entry by Sarah Pope, an American home economist blogger, and more recently, Robert Kennedy’s South Africa speech, to which it was delivered verbatim by the senator.

Tito Sotto

Vicente “Tito” Castelo Sotto III (born August 24, 1948) is an actor, musician, television personality, and politician in the Philippines. He was especially known for his film and television appearances alongside his brother Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon. He along with de Leon and Vic, appeared as co-hosts in the noontime show Eat Bulaga.

Controversy

Sotto was accused of plagiarism in 2012 when it was found out that his recent speeches criticising the Reproductive Health Bill were lifted from Pope’s blog entry “How The Pill Can Harm Your Future Child’s Health” He asserted that he was “actually” quoting Natasha Campbell-McBride who was referenced in the blog post. It was, however, pointed out by some users that McBride was a fringe “scientist” who believed that autism, among other things, was caused by gut bacteria.

Sarah Pope later decried Sotto on the controversy upon learning about the allegedly unattributed quote. She later remarked in an interview on the Philippine newscast The World Tonight that the senator was “acting as though he’s above the law, that he is above copyright law” and that Filipinos should “think about this” during the next elections.

The issue further escalated in September when it was found out by Twitter user Michel Eldiy that Sotto’s closing speech was taken verbatim (albeit merely translated in Tagalog) from a speech made by Robert F. Kennedy in 1966:

Reaction

Lulz ensured on Philippine social media soon after the speech’s origin was discovered, with users on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere humorously criticising the senator, plastering images of him on image macros, or juxtaposing him on various photoshopped images for effect:

About

Priority Peter is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a teenage boy holding a calculator surrounded by several young women wearing bathing suits. The captions typically consist of puns involving mathematical jargons and suggestive double entendres, some of which are set up so the last word in the top caption rhymes with the last word in the bottom caption.

Origin

The photograph (shown below, left) was originally submitted to the /r/pics^[1] subreddit by Redditor ti84power on November 7th, 2011. Titled “TI84 + like a boss,” the post received over 27,500 up votes and 1,300 comments prior to being archived. Since then, the image has been re-submitted to the /r/funny^[3] subreddit on two separate occasions in March and September 2012, the latter of which accumulated over 12,000 up votes and 600 comments within two days. On September 11th, 2012, the first captioned instance based on the photograph was submitted to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] subreddit, featuring the caption “Sorry, ladies… when the calculator’s clickin’ / there can be no dickin’” (shown below, right).

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That same day, various compilations of notable examples from the series were highlighted on the Internet humor sites Pop Hangover^[7], The FW^[8], BuzzFeed^[4] and UpRoxx^[11] among others. On the following day of September 12th, additional compilations were posted on the Internet humor sites Barnorama^[9] and FunnyJunk^[10] while a Facebook^[6] page was launched for the “Priority Peter” advice animal series. As of September 12th, 2012, the “Priority Peter” Quickmeme^[5] page has accumulated over 1,200 submissions.

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Fake Photosets are still images or animated GIFs that are sectioned into multiple frames with white margin space in order to give the appearance of a photo set post on the microblogging platform Tumblr.

Origin

On July 14th, 2011, Tumblr introduced a new type of posts known as “photosets” to allow its users to publish a collection of images as a single blog post. The earliest known instances of a fake photoset were created more than a year later by Tumblr user oh-totoro on August 3rd, 2012, comprised of several animated GIFs taken from the 1986 animated feature film Laputa: Castle in the Sky.^[1]

The GIF photoset was met by positive reception within Tumblr community, gaining more than 32,300 notes within the first month. Throughout the month of August, oh-totoro continued to curate similarly framed GIFs featuring various scenes from Japanese animation films.

Spread

Oh-totoro’s fake photoset collection quickly caught on with the rest of Tumblr community, particularly among fandom-specific blogs, and spawned hundreds of “frame jumping” or “frame breaking” GIF artworks taken from a wide range of source videos, from animations and cartoons to music videos and scenes from movies. Following the initial influx of fake photoset GIF posts on Tumblr, some bloggers began posting still images framed in white border as satirical commentaries the overwhelming popularity of the trend.

On September 6th, Tumblr’s influential blogger Frogman introduced fake photosets to a broader audience with a two-pane GIF featuring his ambivalent feelings towards the trend (shown below). The post performed quite well and gained more than 64,000 notes within the first week.

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Overconfident Alcoholic (Depression Guy), sometimes seen as “Nuthin’s Funnier”, is an exploitable four pane comic used to convey one’s feeling of dismay after having a moment of epiphany.

Origin

The original comic is an excerpt taken from the opening panel of a short story comic strip illustrated by Jesse Nylund^[2] of Completely Serious Comics^[1] and uploaded on January 9th, 2011. In the scene (shown below, left), the character claims that nothing is funnier than “a monkey in a suit” when another passing person suggests that a baby in a suit in a cigar would be more humorous. Shocked, the character resorts to drinking alone in the depressing final panel. One of the earliest parodies of the comic (shown below, right) was used to critique someone for posting the original pane on FunnyJunk^[3] on June 6th, 2012. The parody urges that original content (OC) is funnier than reposts.

Spread

The comic appeared again with different captions on August 3rd, 2012 on 4chan’s /sp/ (sports) board^[4] and again on FunnyJunk^[5] three days later. That month, additional instances were found on mushrooms enthusiast forum Shroomery^[6], the Dungeons and Dragons forums^[7] and mixed martial arts forum Sherdog.^[8] On September 7th, 2012, an instance comparing the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5 was posted to We Know Memes^[9], where the series was dubbed “Overconfident Alcoholic Depression Guy.” In September, additional instances were submitted to FunnyJunk^[10] and Memebase.^[11] A Facebook fan page^[12] for the series has been created, but it only has gathered 23 likes as of September 17th, 2012.

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Audio-Spliced Mash Up Songs are audio and video clips spliced together to match the lyrics of a song. They are often painstakingly edited from large amounts of video footage and reconstructed in a particular order to mirror the song’s lyrics and autotuned to fit the melody of the track.

Origin

On June 13th, 2006, YouTuber dan marks uploaded a video titled “Bush Sings U2”, which included edited clips of United States President George W. Bush singing the 1983 single “Sunday Bloody Sunday” by the Irish rock band U2. As of September 13th, 2012, the video has received over 1.6 million views and 4,900 comments.

Spread

On Jul 7th, 2006, the “Bush Sings U2” video was posted on the Democratic Underground Forums^[1] by member RPM. On August 22nd, 2006, YouTuber turbanhead uploaded a video titled “Bush Sings Imagine”, which featured auto-tuned clips of George W. Bush singing the song “Imagine” by The Beatles (shown below, left). On August 9th, 2008, YouTuber Hugh Atkin uploaded a video titled “BarackRoll”, which featured edited clips of United States President Barack Obama singing the song Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley (shown below, right). Within four years, the video accumulated over seven million views and 45,000 comments.

On January 4th, 2012, YouTuber baracksdubs uploaded a video featuring spliced clips of Obama singing the song “Drink to That” by Rihanna (shown below, left). On June 4th, baracksdubs uploaded a new spliced video of Obama singing the song “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen (shown below, right). The same day, the video was highlighted in an article on The Huffington Post.^[2] As of September 13th, 2012, it is the most popular baracksdubs video with over 26 million views and 39,000 comments.

On August 7th, YouTube Zyphorg uploaded a mashup video based on footage from the science fiction TV series Star Trek set to the tune of “Call Me Maybe” (shown below, left). On August 13th, YouTuber dondrapersayswhat uploaded a video featuring clips from 295 films spliced to match the lyrics of the song “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-A-Lot (shown below, right). On the following day, the video was highlighted on The Huffington Post^[4] and the gaming blog IGN.^[3] Within one month, the video received over three million views and 4,000 comments.

Notable Examples

Perhaps influenced by Barackdubs’s success with mash up songs featuring soundbites taken from political speeches, the audio-splicing technique went on to spawn a number of other mashups featuring the voices of prominent U.S. politicians, including Mitt Romney and Joe Biden among others.

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12 Year Olds is a collective term used online to categorize prepubescent children in the age group of 10 to 14 (at times 15 and 16 as well), most commonly those of the male gender. Due to their difference in behavior because of their young age in comparison to the more older and experienced regulars, along with their inexperience in online participation, they often make themselves stand out from the crowd unwillingly. This has gained 12 year olds a negative reputation online, commonly defined by their inexperience, childish behavior, lack of humor, bad grammar and punctuation, and often unsuccessful attempts to fit in. Due to anonymity online, older users showing behavior commonly combined with 12 year olds often risk being categorized as one or claimed one as well.

Origin / Background

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Reputation

In Internet Culture

As the quantity of people being active of the internet rose over the years, so did the presence of 12 year olds. Over time, they have gained a reputation of invading the internet and ruining it for everyone else. As of September 13th, 2012, Urban Dictionary gives over 400 definitions when looking for “12 year olds”.^[1] Most of these definitions satirically describe online communities that have a reputation of being popular with 12 year olds. Uncyclopedia^[2] and Encyclopedia Dramatica^[3] also feature articles for bashing 12 year olds and their presence online, giving quotes commonly associated with them and examples of where they can be found.

In Online Gaming

In online gaming, 12 year olds, or just young children in general, are commonly associated with a high pitched voice, lack of skill, and being a sore loser. Although another popular opinion is that gameplay commonly associated with young players is often responsible for ruining the fun for other players or even the game’s online multiplayer function completely. On Youtube, various videos can be found of people trolling or agressing young players to catch their reactions on tape for the entertainment of the viewer.

Related Memes

I’m Twelve Years Old And What Is This?

“I’m Twelve Years Old And What Is This?” is a catchphrase typically used to react to something that is considered vulgar or outlandish, such as x-rated media, or to express general confusion. The phrase parodies the inexperience of young users found on the internet and the content they might find that is still unknown to them, but well known to older, more experienced, users. The phrase also made its way as a popular reaction image, featuring images of people, commonly children, looking at a screen on a different object with a confusing look on their face.

First Day On The Internet Kid

First Day On The Internet Kid is an advice animal image macro series featuring a young kid being depicted as a new and inexperienced Internet user who is unfamiliar with certain aspects of the web; he is often described as a younger version of Lonely Computer Guy / Net Noob.

Search Interest

Search interest was reduced to just the categoy “Online Communities” to avoid results unrelated to the reputation of 12 year olds online.

External References

^[1] Urban Dictionary – Search: ‘12 year olds’

^[2] Uncyclopedia – 12 year olds invading the Internet

^[3] Encyclopedia Dramatica – 13 year old boy

“Doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it well. Doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it well. Doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it well. I represent Taco Bell Dorito Shell Taco. (Scream)”

About

Taco Bell Dorito Taco Review is a 21 second long YouTube video featuring Aaron Fink sitting in a car with sunglasses and a green hoody on reviewing american fast-food-restaurant Taco Bell’s “Dorito Taco” in a weird motivation and singing a short funny text before eating it. After he ate it, he screamed non-sensually. This video inspired YTPoopers to make it a source for YTPMV remixes.

Origin

The original video was uploaded to YouTube by Aaron Fink, as “AAFinkle”, himself on March 10, 2012 and it received over 65.000 views as of September 14, 2012.

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YTPMV

One of the first YTPMV using this source was submitted by YouTuber user “notsandvichhobo” entitled “PLATINUM TACO”, which features the third Opening theme called “Platinum Disco” of the anime Nisemonogatari. It received, as of September 14, 2012, more than 42.000 views and this inspired other YouTube Poopers to make their YTPMV by also fitting the short funny text to the beat of the Background Music and pitching his scream. It isn’t submitted as a video response.

Notable Examples

Left: Neon Genesis Evangelion Opening Theme | Right: Professor Pumplestickle by Two Steps From Hell

Left: PONPONPON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu | Right: Fourth Opening Theme Renai Circulation of Bakemonogatari