Perry Bible Fellowship

About

The Perry Bible Fellowship is a webcomic, which originated as a print comic, created by cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch. The comic often features puns, religious and geek-related humor.

History

Gurewitch originally published the comic in the Syracuse University school newspaper The Daily Orange. The comic earned Gurewitch multiple Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards, an Eisner award, and a Harvey.^[4]

Social Media Presence

As of May 2014, the official The Perry Bible Fellowship Facebook page^[1] has over 45,000 likes and its Twitter account^[2] has over 5,000 followers.

Related Memes

Weeaboo

Weeaboo is an English slang used to describe a person (typically of non-Asian descent) who prefers Japan and all things in Japanese over one’s indigenous culture. The term is a successive mutation of “Wapanese,” a derogatory slur referring to western Japanophiles with a strong bias towards Japanese cultural and tech imports. From late 2003 and onwards, usage of Wapanese became alarmingly visible on 4chan, often leading to unpleasant exchanges between anime/manga fans and those who were far less interested in their subcultures.

At the peak of its abuse in mid-2005, 4chan moderators devised a creative intervention using the word-filter, replacing every instance of Wapanese with “Weeaboo,” which was a fictitious term originally coined by Nicholas Gurewitch in his Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip (date unknown, comic #62):

Box of Hate

Box of Hate is a photoshop meme based on a Perry Bible Fellowship comic titled “Box of Hate,” which features a boy putting a note reading “spankings” into a box mark “things I hate,” which is followed by a frame of him being spanked. The comic was first uploaded to the Perry Bible Fellowship site^[3] on July 4th, 2007.

Spanking can be replaced with any word or image for examples of the meme, but the rest of the comic remains the same.

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