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Jon Stewart is an American comedian, political humorist, and host of the satirical Comedy Central news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has also written several books on a range of topics, and has experience as an actor, director, and producer.

Online History

Episodes of The Daily Show are hosted by the program’s official website, thedailyshow.com,^[1] which also includes exclusive content reserved for online viewers, such as extended interviews and one minute episode summaries.

Reputation

Stewart began his career as a professional humorist by performing stand-up comedy, which he did exclusively for three years, from 1986 to 1989.^[2] From 1989 onward, he helped to write and host several comedy programs, marking his entry into television work.^[3]

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Press F to Pay Respects is an action prompt from a quick time event featured in a first-person shooter Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, released on November 4th, 2014.

Origin

In the opening scene of the second mission, the player – Private Jack Mitchell attends the funeral of his best friend who died on a mission in South Korea. The player is then asked to “Press F to Pay Respects” (or holding X, depending on what gaming platform the game is running).

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The scene has met criticism from the fact that instead of setting the tone and letting the scene play out, letting emotions to develop, the game trivializes all this to a button prompt^[1].

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Big Rigs Over The Road Racing is a 3D racing game developed in 2003 by video game company Stellar Stone. In which the player is described to haul illegal cargo while avoiding police, in which is NOT at all in actual game-play.

The game is notorious for it’s broken unfinished game play, and it’s engrish “you’re winner!”. Many reviewers have panned it for it’s poor quality.

Californian video game development company Stellar Stone founded in 2000, they made many poorly made video games, which the company outsourced games to Russia with low-budget.

They published Big Rigs, along with many games such as:

The company was defunct in 2006, with Big Rigs being their most-known title.

In 2004. Gamespot reviewer Alex Navarro published a review of the game, stating it’s it’s broken game-play and poor design. Which led to many finding out about the game. A Youtube video review of the game was uploaded in 2012 by ClassicGamespotRevs.

In 2010, Youtube user Penguinz0 uploaded a game-play and commentary video of Big Rigs. Which as of today, as over 1 million views

In 2011, the sarcastic website “You’re Winner” was created for many ironically like Big Rigs, and over games known for bad reception.

in 2014, internet reviewer The Angry Video Game Nerd uploaded a long-awaited review of Big Rigs to youtube. Stating it’s poor design, and lack of game-play.

The AVGN also uploaded a fake commercial on the same year.

Big Rigs is known for it’s ironic fandom, which tends to post positive reviews on the game.

“YOU’RE WINNER!” is an engrish typo used on the game’s winning screen which shows a three-handled trophy. The term tends to be used as an alternative version of “A winner is you”.

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Roll Over Cat is an exploitable four panel comic illustrating an individual attempting to have their cat roll over. The comic soon became a parody typically used to convey individuals with an attitude of aggravation toward another for a result to happen.

Origin

The original comic was created by user lol_comics posted on their live journal blog ^[1], on April 22nd, 2009, before eventually being re-posted anonymously on the daily comics site LOL-COMICS^[2] run by illustrator Chris Torres, also known as prguitarman, creator of Nyan cat. The comic depicts a person attempting to get their cat to roll over with no result (shown below).

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Tumblr artist ^[3]user k009 uploaded a parody of the comic featuring an illustration of Commissioner Gordon attempting to have Batman save gotham (shown below,left). On August 15, 2011 deviant user ^[4] khatera submitted their version of the comic in response to k009’s rendition of the comic featuring characters from assassins creed(shown below,right)

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^[1]LiveJournal – lol-comics

^[2]LOL-COMICS– ???

^[3]Tumblr – Batman Parody

^[4]Deviant Art- Uguu Altair

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“Manspreading” is a slang term referring to the practice of spreading one’s legs far apart while sitting, which is often criticized online for being inconsiderate of other passengers.

Origin

On May 8th, 2013, the Tumblr^[1] blog “Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train” was launched, which highlights photographs of men sitting with their legs spread wide while sitting in New York City subway trains (shown below).

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On November 25th, 2013, the “One Bro, Two Seats” Tumblr^[2] blog was created for photoshopped images of a young man sitting with his legs spread on a train (shown below, left). On May 19th, the “Saving Room For Cats” Tumblr^[3] was launched, which features images of men sitting on trains with cats superimposed between their legs (shown below, right).

On August 7th, 2014, the women’s interest blog Bustle^[5] published an article titled “Why Do Guys Spread Their Legs When Sitting on the Subway?” On October 6th, 2014, the New York news blog AM New York^[6] published an article titled “‘Man spread’” a widening blight on public transportation," marking the earliest known use of the term. On November 17th, AM New York^[7] reported that New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) was launching an awareness campaign to discourage manspreading. On December 18th, the New York City news blog Gothamist^[4] published a video featuring a woman confronting manspreading men on the subway by asking them to measure the distance between their legs with measuring tape (shown below).

On December 20th, the New York Times published an article about the new MTA awareness campaign. The same day, Gawker highlighted several comments from the New York Times article. On December 22nd, the conservative news site Breitbart^[9] published an article about manspreading by staff writer Milo Yiannopoulos, who criticized the manspreading backlash for being “pathetic feminist pipsqueakery.”

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Escape from Tomorrow^[1] is a 2013 fantasy horror movie which it takes place in Walt Disney World that when Walt Disney Company is one of the evil organization that it was been directed by: Randy Moore^[2].

History

Moore, a native of Lake Bluff, Illinois, frequently visited his father in Orlando following his parents’ divorce. The two often spent time together at Walt Disney World nearby. “It was a special, physical place, and it became an emotional space,” he told Filmmaker. “Obviously, I have a lot of father issues that I can’t separate from that place.” Later, their relationship deteriorated.

He decided to pursue a career in film. After attending two other film schools, he graduated from Full Sail University in another Central Florida town, Winter Park, as the class valedictorian. He moved to Southern California and began working as a story editor, primarily doing uncredited rewrites.

In Hollywood, he married and started a family. Much like his own father, he frequently took his own children to Disneyland. “It wasn’t until our first family trip together that this very visceral emotional landscape of my past, that I had by now nearly all but forgotten, hit me again like bullet.”

On the family’s first trip to Walt Disney World, the emotions grew stronger. “It was like he was there as a ghost. We were going on the same rides I used to go on with him, but now we’re no longer talking anymore.”

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Trust Nobody Not Even Yourself refers to a viral tweet consisting of an image of a kid pointing a gun at himself with the caption "Trust nobody, not even yourself.

Origin

The original tweet was first posted by an unknown on june 8, 2014, it was then since deleted.

although multiple reuploads can be found on other accounts, the most popular being the one uploaded by account @CHILDHOODRUINED gathering 1574 retweets and 1477 favorites

Trust nobody, not even yourself pic.twitter.com/qnZftenPBD

— CHILDHOODRUINER (@CHlLDHOODRUINER) June 9, 2014

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on December 4, 2014 a 4chan thread was posted with an image of the tweet asking for more, the thread spawned multiple photoshops of the original picture, although the thread was deleted a compilation of all images there were later posted on the 4chan subreddit r/4chan ^[1]

after the thread the image became popular on 4chan, specifically on the board /b/, and its normally posted on You Laugh You Lose threads

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f1. http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/2oageq/trust_nobody_not_even_yourself/

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2 Guys 1 Fish is a viral video featuring two Romanian men standing in a lake who lure a large carp to perform oral sex which began circulating on the Internet in May 2014.

Background

On May 3rd, 2014, Redditor Supashibe submitted a YouTube video featuring a man receiving oral sex from a fish to the /r/WTF^[8] subreddit. The video was subsequently deleted.

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Identity

On December 19th, the Daily Star^[3] reported that the Facebook user who originally uploaded the video claimed that the man receiving oral sex was the 27-year-old gypsy singer Florin Rada. Rada denied the claims and revealed that he threatened Romanian television that he would sue if they identified him as the man in the video.

News Media Coverage

On December 20th, The Metro^[1] published an article titled “Bizarre video of man having sex with fish goes viral,” which reported that the video clip had circulated “hundreds of thousands of times.” In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the video, including UpRoxx,^[4] The Daily Dot,^[5] Gawker^[6] and Pulse.^[7]

Online Reaction

Also on December 20th, the new site Metro posted an article about the video to their Facebook^[2] page, where it gained over 500 likes and 390 shares in the first 72 hours. On December 22nd, Redditor mikerylander submitted the video to the /r/nsfw_wtf^[9] subreddit.

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“You look like a mufucking uhhhhh” is a quote from a Vine by user Rozay. In the video clip, a group of friends are roasting another friend when the quote is said. The video has gone Viral, and has spawned many remixes do to the comedic tone in which the line is uttered.

ORIGIN
On October 28, 2014, Viner Rozay posted the vine where one of his friends said “You look like a mufucking uhhhhhhh”. As of December 2014, the vine has gained over 2.2 million views and 1,000 comments.

On Novemeber 4, 2014, Youtuber devonte brooks posted the full video, which has only gained a little over 9,000 views since it has been posted.

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On December 13, 2014, Viner [DB]DAMN_B uploaded a remix of the vine, where a motorcycle drives by accompanied by the “uhhhh” sound.

In just 10 days, the vine was received over 3.6 million views and 2,000 comments. It also prompted several other remixes which have gained popularity as well.

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This was a meme created by Phanact, the best user on funnyjunk, in the early 2014. There was a lot of memeology going on on FJ at the time, and the term “Get memed on” replaced trolling people.

It is now the most popular meme on the internet Fact.

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Trap Music is a music genre known for its use of 808 kick drums, multi-layered synthesizers and generally dark hip-hop sound. Online, the genre gained notoriety with the song Turn Down For What soundtrack and is often featured in montage parody videos.

History

The word “trap” was originally coined in the 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia to describe locations where drug deals were made. During this time, rappers who often discussed drug dealing were called “trap rappers,” including UGK, 8Ball, Three 6 Mafia and Master P.

Second wave

Trap music gained mainstream popularity when hip hop producer Lex Luger^[5] started producing the instrumentals for multiple rappers including Rick Ross, Jay-z and Kanye West, and heavily influenced the production of Waka Flocka Flame´s debut album “Flockaveli” who’s second single Hard in Da Paint (shown below) skyrocketed his popularity.

Lex Luger signature production, which includes heavy use of hard-hitting 808’s, crisp snares, frantic synth keys, and bombastic orchestration of ominous brass, strings, woodwinds and keyboards^[6] was then heavily used in other songs until it became the standard sound for trap music today.

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Damn Son! Where’d You Find This?

Damn son! Where’d you find this? Is a popular sound sample or trap music drop used very often on trap musics.^[2] The origin sample has been voiced by the 42 year old music producer Shadoehaze^[3].

On Feb 6, 2013; the producer Shadoehaze uploaded an introduction video to brief more information behind the popular sound sample made by himself. On Dec 27, 2013 the website Vice has published an article detailing other infos about the Shadoehaze. On Sep 10, 2014 youtuber Nyanners published a rap cover “I am ur leader” featuring the sample at the beginning.

Turn Down For What?

Turn Down For What? refers to a popular trap EDM single produced by DJ Snake featuring rapper Lil Jhon, which celebrates the state of being turnt, the single has received a lot of popularity, specially on the internet with the official video receiving 151,849,360 views and 905,299 likes, as well as spawning multiple parodies. For more info

Airhorn / Airhorn Remixes

Airhorn refers to a sample commonly used in EDM music, although it tends to heavily appear on trap EDM tracks, it has gained infamy among the music community, normally criticized for its annoying sound and heavy use among multiple tracks, it has thus been used as a joke among multiple music remixes on soundcloud or youtube and montage parody videos which frequently uses trap music.

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Snipars is a YouTuber known for creating popular montage parody videos which are frequently submitted to the /r/montageparodies subreddit. Snipars is mostly being recognised with Lenny face avatar on the montage parody subculture.

History

The “Snipars” YouTube^[1] channel was created on January 1st, 2011. The first video was uploaded to the channel on September 16th, 2012, which features singer Isaac Ordeniran’s cover of the song “Great is Your Faithfulness” captioned with phonetic translations of the lyrics (shown below, left). On February 17th, 2013, Snipars uploaded his first montage parody video titled “#Pandascope420 xXMonkeySh0tZZXx #SW4G” (shown below, right).

On April 27th, Snipars released a montage parody featuring footage from a juggling competition (shown below, left). Within two years, the video gained over 145,000 views and 200 comments. On June 20th, Snipars uploaded a video titled “Jesus Take the Wheel,” featuring an animated car that travels across the planet to the 2005 country song “Jesus Take the Wheel” by Carrie Underwood (shown below, right).

On July 1st, Snipars uploaded a montage featuring clips from various public service announcements about cyberbullying and file sharing (shown below, left). On February 13th, 2014, Snipars uploaded a testimonial video by Gordon Hurd in which he reads a script containing references to montage parody cliches (shown below, right). Over the next year, the video gathered upwards of 1.2 million views and 1,400 comments.

Social Media Accounts

As of December 2014, Snipars has more than 41,000 Facebook^[2] likes, 19,000 Twitter^[3] followers and 3,800 Instagram^[7] followers.

Reception

Many of Snipars videos have reached the front page of the /r/montageparodies subreddit.^[4] On August 17th, 2013, the /r/snipars^[5] subreddit was launched for discussions about his YouTube videos. On July 23rd, 2014, Urban Dictionary^[6] user TheRealFranklinV2 submitted a entry for “snipars,” defining him as “the being that makes life beautiful.”

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& Knuckles is a phrase originating from the title of the1994 Sega Genesis game Sonic & Knuckles. In recent years it has been used as a joke among the gaming community, often mocking special crossovers or editions of games, similar to Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series.

History

Sonic & Knuckles is a 1994 installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog series featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and the then-newly-playable Knuckles the Echidna. ^[1] Notably, the physical game cartridge could be connected with Sonic the Hedgehog 3, creating a combined release entitled Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles.

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On May 18, 2014, an anonymous user of 4chan’s video game board /v/ made a thread asking other users to add “& Knuckles” to other video game names through image manipulation. ^[2]

On September 26, YouTuber Triple-Q uploaded an video with an edited version of “Unknown from M.E.”, Knuckles’ theme from Sonic Adventure, with several of the words replaced with “Knuckles”. ^[3]

On October 26, Redditor douknogreg posted an edited version of the cover for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U under the subject “And knuckles.” ^[4] The post received nearly 3000 upvotes.

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uploading pics brb

References

^[1]Wikipedia – Sonic & Knuckles

^[2]archive.moe – /v/ – Video Games

^[3]YouTube – Knuckles from K.N.U.C.K.L.E.S. & Knuckles: Knuckles in Knuckles the Echidna feat. Knuckles…

^[4]Reddit – And knuckles.

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Myers Briggs Personality Types are a group of 16 distinct classifications of personalities individuals could exhibit. The Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator has gained popularity in fandoms and has been used to identify characters to each of the personality types in the chart. Moreover, the personality types themselves have received their own iterations, symbols, and justifications from fans, often used by fans themselves in their blog’s description.

Origin

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. These preferences were extrapolated by Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers from the theories proposed by world renowned psychologist Carl Jung. The indicator was invented during World War II in the 1940s with the belief a knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering the industrial workforce^[1].

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The earliest known instance of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator surfacing online is in a blog post published by Malcolm Gladwell on September, 2004 titled ‘Personality Plus’ at Gladwell.com which criticized the M.B.T.I. that it “has a large problem with consistency” and its founders “did not actually understand Jung at all”^[2].

The earliest known instance of characters being associated with the 16 personality types was found in a blog post published by user Peter on June 14, 2006 titled ‘Myers-Briggs typology: I’m an ENFP’ on blog.forret.com ^[3]. The blog post was supportive of the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator and comments that it is more or less a more credible form of astrology, and presented an image of the MBTI chart that showed female actresses that befit their given personality type.

On April 6, 2013, the blog A Little Bit of Personality was made. The blog is currently active and is dedicated to the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator, often posting summaries and explanations to how fictional characters are apt to belong to one personality type or another^[4].

The tag ‘mbti chart’ is popular on Tumblr with multiple charts for various fandoms resulting^[6].

Criticism

Albeit popular, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has been proven by professional statisticians and psychologists to be highly unreliable. The negative criticism against the MBTI has been sustained by evidence for over three decades^[5]. Some researchers have interpreted the reliability of the test to be low. Studies have found that between 39% and 76% of those tested fall into different types upon retesting some weeks or years later^[1]. A second criticism is that the MBTI mistakenly assumes that personality falls into mutually exclusive categories. You are either an extrovert or an introvert, but never a mix of the two. Yet most people fall somewhere in the middle. According to psychologist David Pittenger, caution is advised when using the MBTI for professional purposes. Furthermore, Pittenger believe that its success is due to “the beguiling nature of the horoscope-like summaries of personality and steady marketing.”^[5]

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“On My Way to Steal Yo Girl” is an expression which is often used to caption images of characters using odd means of transportation or dressed in flamboyant clothing. The phrase is used in a similar fashion to the expression Swiggity Swooty, I’m Coming For That Booty.

Origin

On July 27th, 2010, the song “Bottoms Up” by Trey Songz was released, which contains the lyric “it’s Mister Steal Yo Girl” (shown below).

On October 16th, 2011, YouTuber Cyanide Sandwich uploaded a video titled “On my way to steal yo girl,” in which he is shown driving in a convertible while wearing a skull-and-crossbones banana (shown below).

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On March 22nd, 2013, BuzzFeed^[5] highlighted 20 examples of “On My Way to Steal Your Girl” animated GIFs taken from Tumblr, citing the Trey Songz track as the inspiration for the meme. On July 25th, 2013, CollegeHumor^[1] published a compilation article featuring other examples sourced from Tumblr blogs. On September 15th, the novelty Twitter account @YaBoyLilB tweeted an image of Kermit the Frog on a scooter with the caption “On my way to steal yo girl,” receiving over 4,100 retweets and 2,400 favorites as of December 2014.^[2]

on my way to steal yo girl pic.twitter.com/OndfZOXqom

— YA BOYLITTLEBILL (@YABOYLILB) September 15, 2013

In 2014, the hashtag #omy2syg was popularized by Instagram user @Splurt.^[4] On April 14th, the Splurt TV YouTube channel uploaded a video featuring two women balancing jugs on their heads with the “#omw2syg” and “splurt” written on the front of each (shown below, left). On October 28th, 2014, the Mad Decent YouTube channel uploaded the hip hop track “#OMW2SYG (Swiggity Swooty)” by Splurt (shown below, right).

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Robbaz is the alias of the Swedish YouTube videogame commentator and lets-player Robert Öberg.
His alias came from a nickname Öberg was called at school, as a common nickname for the name Robert in Sweden is Robban and by turning the N on its side you get the name Robbaz. He is most well known for his Skyrim, Sims 3 and Kerbal Space Program videos. His style of lets play differs between either roleplaying as the player character of the game (Skyrim, Mount and Blade) or as a standard commentator (Kerbal Space Program, Sims 3).

Online History

Robert Öberg started his YouTube account on May 31st 2006, he began by uploading short videos of him testing video-games at different levels of quality and short lets-plays of Fallout, Mass Effect and Dead Rising 2. Öberg’s Youtube channel began to gain large amounts of viewers with the release of his Dead Rising 2 ending video which has gained over one million views and his “Welcome to moonbase alpha” video which has achieved over 400000 views since being released in 2010.

Shortly after this, his modding videos of minecraft managed to also receive huge viewer numbers. In 2011 Robbaz took his channel in a new direction with the release of his “Duke Nukem Forever Whiteboard – Operation: Homo Moose” video in which Robbaz fully voiceovers the video instead of using captions. This video was very well received and has since gained 1.1 million views.

Since then Robbaz started doing multiple lets-plays which include his Viking Commentary series of lets-plays using the title of “Robbaz King of Sweden” playing games like Fallout, Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Call of Cthulhu and Kerbal Space Program.

Popular Series

Skyrim Viking series

One of Robbaz’s first series, here he roleplays as the Nord “Badass” in which Robbaz plays through Skyrim’s story using his fists as primary weapons along with his trusty Walrus named “Walrus” and Polar Bear “Oslo”

Viking Space Program

Robbaz’s play-throughs of Kerbal Space Program. This series is one of Robbaz’s longest running series where Robbaz creates and sends different types and complex crafts into space, these range from a Ship Tanker, a Massive Cube and other unusual creations.

Sims 3 RedNeck Brothers

In this series Robbaz plays the Sims 3 and roleplay’s a stereotypical American redneck family living in the lap of luxury. This lets-play has given rise to fan favourite creations such as King, Clyde and Bertram and currently this series is on the 25th episode making it the longest Robbaz series.

Popular Creations

Robbaz King of Sweden

When Robbaz first started his Viking commentary series, his starting phase for all videos was Robbaz King of Sweden. He continued this until late 2012 however stopped saying this phase along with his King of Nipples phase as he started to feel it was becoming childish and boring, and that there were other you-tubers who used these type of phases and Robbaz wanted to do something new.

Glorious!

Robbaz’s catchphrase, a frequent line which Robbaz uses to compliment his video game situations, it has also been taken and used by fans Robbaz due to its uniqueness to his videos.

Goat Island

A collection of Videos in which Robbaz has modded Far Cry 3, 4 and Arma 3. In the videos Robbaz role-plays as a soldier who is tasked with taking down the goat army of goat island and their pig allies.

Cooking With the Kock

This is a series of cooking videos where Robbaz cooks unusual meals and tastes them. He did these videos due to his Chef experience and from popular demand from his fans, it was originally done for a 400 video special but turned into a occasional series.

Personal Life and Trivia

Robbaz has created over 500 videos and has amassed over 950,000 subscribers as of 2014.

He currently lives in Northern Sweden and has a gymnasium (High School) degree as a chef. Before becoming a YouTuber he has had to deal with depression and anxiety due to his father passing away. However he has since recovered and stated that doing YouTube has helped greatly and that by talking to other people got him through, hence he tells others who where in his situation to to the same.

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And then there’s THIS asshole is a catchphrase often used to mock someone introducing remarks or opinions one does not agree with or may find preposterous, in a condescending manner. Its popularity as a catchphrase was coupled with image macros to express the same condescending reaction, featuring characters pointing at thing and people.

Origin

The catchphrase itself is a recurring segment from Penn & Teller’s tv show Bullshit in which Penn usually uses it to introduce someone whose position he won’t support in his interviews. A video example can be found below:

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As early as October 7th 2012, the catchphrase was reused as an image macro featuring the Penn & Teller duo in a The Patriot Perspective blog post allegedly reporting on a scam regarding the microstamping debate and gun laws^[1].

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^[1]The Patriot Perspective – What’s Missing in the Microstamping Debate – It’s a Scam by Patent Owner Todd Lizotte

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“Copy that” is a phrase used in a EB Games advertisement for Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It is said by an employee with a long neck and strange voice. It quickly grew popular on 4chan and Tumblr

Origin

16th December 2014 EB Games Canada released their commercial for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

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Airhorn remixes are music parody soundtracks remixing musics with the popular EDM/trap music sample airhorn. It most likely became a parody fad to mock its extensive usage on the trap musics and mostly being featured on the Montage Parody videos.

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[Work in progress, feel free to request editorship.]

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Meme Run is a controversial video game by Ninja Pig Studios for the Nintendo Wii U; downloadable from the Nintendo eShop. It has caused immense derision in the gaming community for its use of memes and its low quality gameplay. It has been used as an example of the commercialization of memes and “cancer”, as the game uses many memes that are considered outdated and unfunny, such as Rage Comics.

On their website it is claimed that the game includes the following features:

-Simple, addicting gameplay
-Two sections featuring tons of puzzles
-Funny cute characters and sound effects
-Beautiful HD graphics
-You will LOVE watching your friends FAIL!

Origin

The game was announced in September of 2014. It is based wholesale off of quite an arrange of memes, (dominantly those commonly associated with MLG montage parodies), including:

Rage Comics
360 No Scopes
WOMBOCOMBO
Illuminati confirmed
GETOUT Frog
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) / Lenny Face
U WOT M8
Airhorn Remixes
Swag

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The game was released on the Wii U’s Nintendo eShop for $5.00 on December 18th 2014. Since it’s release, it has received massive amounts of negative responses from the gamer community, specifically video game related forums. It’s also garnered many bad reviews from sites such as Nintendo Life^[1], Nintendo Enthusiast^[2].

Here are a few videos showing reactions to the game itself:

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^[1]Nintendo Life – Meme Run

^[2]Nintendo Enthusiast – Meme Run Review Wii U