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Gaben Remixes are humorous music remixes which are comprised of audio clips of uttered words by Gabe Newell, founder of Valve Corporation, used to remix various music or themes.

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GAME OF THEYEAR 420 BLAZE IT is a video game developed by Andy Sum. the game features content from Montage Parodies videos.
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Iggy Azalea Freestyling refers to a video of hip hop singer and rapper Iggy Azalea attempting to rap freestyle in 2013. It resurfaced in late 2014, resulting in widespread online criticism and mockery of her perceived lack of skill.

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In 2013, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea was interviewed by radio deejay Sway, in which she was asked to give a spur-of-the-moment performance. A video of the rap that she gave was posted to Youtube by Sway’s official account on June 18th, 2013.

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In December 2014, a clip from the freestyle was posted on Vine. Following the video, social media users took to websites such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Vine to poke fun at Azalea’s performance.

On December 28th, 2014, celebrity news site That Grape Juice published an article^[2] about the reaction of social media to the video, featuring a compilation of Twitter users satirizing Azalea’s choice of lyrics (example below).

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AncientReality is a YouTuber known for making Montage Parodies. He started making Montage Parodies in 2014 and is still making them. He is known for his really overedited style and ARIALBOLD W/ GLOWEFFECTANDFLASHINGTINTSHAKINGTEXTMEMES.

His first montage parody was uploaded on the 3rd of January 2014 under the name “THIS IS MLG”.

The Montage gained over 500,000 views and was really popular.

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“Selfie Stick” is a term for a monopod device that is used to support a mobile device or camera to take a “selfie” photograph from an extended distance.

Origin

Monopods^[2] were initially used to provide support for cameras, binoculars, firearms and variety of other objects. The earliest known use of a monopod to take a selfie photograph was sent to the BBC News^[3] by Whitehaven, England resident Alan Cleaver, showing his grandfather taking a photo with his grandmother with a extended pole (shown below). On April 18th, 2011, the “HDE Extendable Selfie Telescopic Monopod” was placed for sale on Amazon.^[4]

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On November 25th, 2013, the Australian electronics retailer Kogan^[1] began selling a “Zuckerberg Selfie Stick” device, which contains a camera mount and mirror at the end of a long stick to take selfie photographs. On December 24th, the ClipCritics YouTube channel uploaded a video featuring women in bikinis taking video of themselves running on a beach with a selfie stick, which received upwards of 2.07 million views and 300 comments in the next year (shown below).

On May 6th, 2014, YouTuber Alex Chacon uploaded a montage of video clips from his travels around the world taken with a camera mounted on a selfie stick (shown below). Within seven months, the video accumulated more than 11 million views and 7,200 comments.

On December 3rd, CNN aired a news segment on “South Korea’s ‘Selfie Stick’ Crackdown,” which reported that officials in South Korea were discouraging citizens from using the monopod devices (shown below). On December 11th, BuzzFeed^[5] highlighted several examples of selfie stick photographs uploaded to Instagram.

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According to Google Trends, searches for “selfie stick” started picking up in Jakarta, Indonesia toward the end of 2013.

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“Salty” is a term meaning “Upset” or “Bitter” and is commonly used in PvP and Fighting Game communities to mock players for their frustration.

Origin

The term thought to originate from Chicago, and has thought to have spread to use in Fighting Game communities like Skullgirls.

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The term has spread to be used in Fighting Game and PvP communities to mock players for their bitter attitudes after losses. The term has also been paired with U Mad? to mock players.

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Le Wrong Generation, and related phrases such as Only 90s Kids Will Get This, is an online term used to describe the behavior of certain people who nostalgically believe that things in the past used to be significantly better than they are today. The phrase is most frequently utilized to satirize people who hold reactionary attitudes towards popular music or culture.

Origin

The term “Born in the wrong generation” was used by internet people, normally teens, as a way to express their disdain for today’s popular culture, and love for things of the past, especially music. The term received criticism for its perceived narrow-mindedness and oversimplification of the past, and was quickly parodied on sites such 4chan’s /mu/ board and satirical subreddits.

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The term was heavily used on /mu/, especially on cringe threads, to poke fun at posts by people who believed that the music of the past was objectively superior.

The /mu/ supported subreddit r/lewronggeneration^[1] was created to compile images characterized by this behavior. It is described as “satirically mocking those people who, blinded by their own nostalgia, believe certain things in the past to be unequivocally better than today”. Such behavior is referred to with the slang term “defening” by users of the subreddit.

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“Grey Little Cat’s Theme” is a meme spawned on Tumblr, the microblogging site, it consists of a song, usually from the score of a Zelda game and a picture of a thematically linked cat.

Origin

The first known instance of a “Grey Little Cat’s Theme” is from Tumblr user Cashewmonster in late October who made a post entitled
“abundance of little grey cats theme” with a now defunct song.

Notable Examples

The posts using the same formula quickly spread across the site, several accumulating thousands of notes. Such as:

“Purposeful little grey cat”

“Troublesome grey cat”

lifeanddecay:

Shared from picklemold using Embeddlr
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Including some spinoffs such as “Seductive Brown Cat”

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Leelah Alcorn’s Suicide refers to the suicide of transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn, born Josh Alcorn, who committed suicide by stepping into traffic on December 21, 2014 and left a suicide note on her tumblr queue which was published one day after her death. She was hit by a tractor trailer on Interstate 71, 4 miles from her Ohio home.^[1]

The Suicide Note

The suicide note^[2] attributed the reasons behind her depression and eventual suicide to the rejection from her family who, according to Leelah “reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn’t make mistakes, that I am wrong,” took her to Christian therapists who told her “that I was selfish and wrong and that I should look to God for help.” After being isolated by her parents from her peers for 5 months, she began to have suicidal thoughts. The note ends with a plea for her property to be sold and her money to be put to “trans civil rights and support groups,” and for her death to mean something. The post gained several hundred thousand notes on tumblr.

Online Reaction

News of Leelah’s death spread quickly on tumblr and twitter garnering solemn sympathy and outrage, with transgender activists such as Laverne Cox, Andre Pejic, Janet Mock and indy video game developer Brianna Wu^[3] commenting, and posts about the circumstances of her suicide gaining upwards of 200 thousand notes.

Transgender activist and writer Janet Mock, had her tweet widely shared on twitter, including being retweeted by Laverne Cox, actress from “Orange is the New Black” and transgender activist.

The story was picked up by several news outlets including Time^[4], ABC news^[5], The Daily Mail^[6], Buzzfeed^[7], USA Today^[8], the Mirror^[9], International Buisness Times^[10], and Cincinnati.com^[11].

“Rest in Power”

Rest in power is a phrase that’s been associated with support for Leelah and her request that her death matter. Attributed to a tweet made by twitter user “Lionesse” it was mentioned in an article by the Washington Post^[12] and has been adopted by many of the supporters and grievers since.

#RealLiveTransAdult

#RealLiveTransAdult is a hashtag started in the wake of Leelah Alcorn’s suicide for transgender adults to share their stories and encourage younger transgender people. The phenomena was mentioned in an article by NBC news^[13].

Change.org Petition

On December 30th a Change.org petition was started by the “Transgender Human Rights Institute” calling on President Obama and the US Congress to pass a law “to immediately seek a pathway for banning the practice known as ‘transgender conversion therapy’” in order to protect transgender youth, and that they name it “the Leelah Alcorn Law.”^[14]

The petition gained over 100,000 signatures after one day.

remembering-lazerprincess

“remembering-lazerprincess”^[15] is a tumblr blog dedicated to the remembrance of Leelah Alcorn and the support of transgender causes. It’s url and name are in reference to the Leelah’s username on tumblr and also has the same theme as her original blog. It is run by two Australian based self-described bi-gendered individual and trans man and has gained upwards of one thousand followers in the days after the suicide note came forward.

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^[1]Wikipedia – Leelah Alcorn

^[2]Tumblr – Leelah Alcorn

^[3]Twitter – Brianna Wu

^[4]Time – Transgender Teen’s Death Sparks Outcry From Advocates

^[5]ABC News – Leelah Alcorn: Transgender Teen’s Reported Suicide Note Makes Dramatic Appeal

^[6]The Daily Mail – Transgender teenager, 17, leaves heartbreaking suicide note blaming her Christian parents before walking in front of tractor trailer on highway

^[7]Buzzfeed – A Transgender 17-Year-Old Left A Suicide Note On Tumblr Pleading “Fix Society”

^[8]USA Today – Transgender teen: ‘My death needs to mean something’

^[9]Mirror – Transgender teen who committed suicide left heartbreaking note saying she would “never be happy”

^[10]International Business Times – Leelah Alcorn’s Transgender Suicide Prompts Response From Laverne Cox, Andreja Pejic, Janet Mock

^[11]Cincinnati.com – Transgender teen: ‘My death needs to mean something’

^[12]Washington Post – Transgender teen who died of an apparent suicide: ‘Fix society. Please.’

^[13]NBC News – ‘Fix Society’: Transgender Teen Leelah Alcorn Posted Plea Before Suicide

^[14]Change.org – Enact Leelah’s Law to Ban Transgender Conversion Therapy

^[15]Tumblr – remembering-lazerprincess

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“Trollpastas" are humorious stories which mostly are satire to one or more certain creepypastas, creepypasta-clichés or creepypastas in general. They are known for often using bad grammar, badly edited pictures, excessive using of memes and clichés and other (self-)ironic components.

History

The first Trollpasta is considered to be “”" />And then a skeleton popped out“. Later, ”http:" />John Wojcik started writing intentionally bad pastas on Creepypasta Wiki to troll the community. Other people followed. Finally, these pastas were moved/recurrected to a spin-off wikia called “Trollpasta Wiki” where not only Trollpastas can be published but also creepypastas like Sonic.exe get moved, which are that bad that they don´t even match the standards of Spinpasta Wiki or even are unintentionally funny.
On Trollpasta Wiki, there are two monthly awards: The trollpasta of the month and the fail of the month. Sadly, there is a flood of trollpastas which try to be funny just throught purposely being bad.

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The NMRiH (No More Room in Hell) Child Controversy event occurred on the Steam Discussion forums.^[1] NMRiH’s project lead, Maxx, posted a response to reaction to the child zombies in the game. Maxx, states that child zombies are one of NMRiH’s core component of its game design, and philosophy. The forum post was later posted on Reddit.^[2] The poster approved the way the dev team handled to situation.
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The post originated on the Steam Discussion forums, on, November 1st, 2013. A Reddit post followed, gaining over 4,000+ overall upvotes.
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Community Moderator, Bubka3, updated the post, on, December 19th, 2014, stating that zombified animals will not be put into the game.
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^[1]Maxx – OFFICIAL: Children Zombies
^[2]xarabas – Found this in No More Room in Hell community hub. This is the correct way to deal with people being offended

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“The Supernatural Anon Hate Panic” is an event in late December 2014 where various tumblr users claimed there was a raid targeting users in the Supernatural fandom who had depression or social anxiety by perpetrators sending anonymous hate messages. Several popular posts spread through the micro-blogging site describing how the messages had driven users to self-harm and suicide, describing how to retrieve an IP address from anonymous messages, expressing sentiments of support for the alleged victims, and warning others of incoming anonymous hate.

These allegations were later found to have little basis, and the tag #affectedbyhate, set up to support those affected by the anonymous hate, was flooded with doubt about the existence of a raid.



The group behind the alleged attack was reported to be from 8chan or 4chan, invoking memories of the 2014 Tumblr-4chan Raids. While a raid was planned by the 8chan board /firstday/ against tumblr, it’s methods didn’t match reports of anonymous hate messages. Users from 4chan’s /b/ board, however, went to omegle under the tag of 4chan and simulated the planning of a raid. There, they passed along the usernames of supernatural themed blogs, and their “triggers.” Tumblr users acting as “spies” screen-capped the exchanges and shared them on tumblr. Other 4chan users spread a rumor that hackers from 4chan had planted a virus called s32 and advised others to delete it from their computers in a ploy to convince them to delete system 32.

Supernatural Cast Tweets

Several stars of the tv show “Supernatural” sent messages of support to the fans, including Felicia Day, Misha Collins and Mark Sheppard.

Change.org Petitions

Soon after the allegations of a raid, two Change.org petitions were made, one^[1] which gained over 11 thousand signatures that asked for yahoo and tumblr to find and press charges against those responsible, and the other^[2] only petitioning for tumblr to “Prosecute and investigate anonymous cyberterrorists” and gained nearly 2,500 signatures.

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^[1]Change.org – Find and Press Charges Against the IP Addresses Responsible for the Hate Campaign against Supernatural Fandom Members

^[2]Change.org – Prosecute & investigate anonymous cyberterrorists on Tumblr

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Glitched SSB4 Characters is a one-off glitch only on one copy of the game Super Smash Bros for Wii U. All the characters’ textures or/and models are distorted or corrupted.

Origin

T-man, a user on Miiverse, bought a copy of Super Smash Bros for Wii U. but he had no idea he had a bad copy of the game. When T-man booted up the game and started a match, all of the player models showed up all distorted and flattened as shown on one of his Miiverse posts:

To prove this is real, T-man posted a short clip of the glitch in action:

All of his photos are originally posted here.

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T-man’s disturbing photos had also been posted to 4chan as well as Miiverse. He also made a Miiverse post saying if a youtuber named Etika could help spread this event a bit more, so Etika made a video here:

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Bath Bomb Parodies are a series of multi-panel photographs in which various non-dissolvable objects are placed into bathtubs as if they are “bath bombs,” a type of aromatherapeutic soap product that fizzles once placed under water. The series can be seen as a mockery of an emerging photo fad on Tumblr where people share photographs of the bath water as it changes colors after the placement of a LUSH brand bath bomb.

Origin

The “bath bombing” trend first began on Tumblr during the holiday season in December 2014, when many users on the microblogging site began sharing photographs of the color-changing bath fizzies that they had presumably received as gifts. As the photo fad continued to spread throughout the month, it became only a matter of time before people began parodying the phenomenon.

On December 30th, 2014, Idkitstommy^[1] submitted an image of him placing a photoshopped clip art of a cannon ball into a bathtub, followed by an image of a destroyed bathroom featuring the caption “i love my new bath bomb from lush.” Within the first 48 hours, the post accumulated more than 104,700 notes.

On December 31st, the official account of Tumblr on Twitter linked to Idkitstommy’s parody image with the hashtag #bathbomb and a caption suggesting it may be “the last meme of 2014.”

Is this the last meme of 2014? #bathbombhttp://t.co/aCYqWPIT6B

— Tumblr (@tumblr) December 31, 2014

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That same day, a number of additional parody images staged in the same vein emerged on both Twitter and Tumblr under the hashtag #BathBombs. Also on December 31st, the parody photo fad was picked up by BuzzFeed^[2] and The Daily Edge.^[3]

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The fad also caused a negative reaction from bathing enthusiasts and other groups on sites like Tumblr, who have been claiming it to be misoginist^[10][11] or attacking the hobby.^[12]

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Monsquaz is an 3D model of a naked man and monsquaz.swf is a flash animation later made based on this image^[8]. There is a censored and an uncensored version of the animation. In the censored version, a green arrow is covering the penis.

Origin

The original Monsquaz picture was made in the software Poser 6. On December 23rd, 2005, a 4chan user going by the name dusthillguy made monsquaz.swf. In a way it’s a successor to robind.swf (an earlier flash movie made by dusthillguy), with influences from Cyan Helkaraxe, Deven Gallo, Mr Bungle and a french amateur musician. The name Monsquaz comes from the song Mr. Bungle – Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz.

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It’s website, www.monsquaz.com, originally featured the monsquaz.swf animation in fullscreen^[3]. It has since been expanded to be more interactive. The monsquaz.swf video on youtube was uploaded on November 20, 2007, and currently has over 30,000 views^[1]. Since the monsquaz.swf file has spread on various other websites such as swfchan^[4] and other image boards, the exact view count is unknown. When youtube introduced higher quality video formats, it was reuploaded titled Monsquaz (HD)^[2].

During a LAN party in Gothenburg 2007, a Monsquaz Watching Contest was held where the contestants had to watch monsquaz.swf for as long as possible^[7]. A video of the contest was hosted on Google Videos which is now unfortunately gone. Around 20 people joined the contest and the rules were strict, you had to keep your eyes on the screen. After four hours, one of the three remaining contestants suddenly had a nosebleed and had to leave. Then the two remaining contestants sat until 5 hours and 5 minutes when the guy who came second closed his eyes for too long as he was falling asleep, meaning the contest finally ended and the winner was declared.

In 2009, an anonymous user made a post on the bunbunmaru image board about the sunset used as background in monsquaz.swf^[6]. The following posts described further history, such as Deven Gallos involvement and how the idea spawned.

On 11th February 2012, an album was released in honor of Monsquaz named Fackin’ Hardcore^[5].

The Monsquaz community hangs out at #monsquaz @ irc.esper.net. Each year on 23 December, the day monsquaz.swf was created, they celebrate the International Monsquaz Watching Day (IMWD). In 2015, Monsquaz will celebrate 10 years and a large party is being planned.

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^[1]Youtube – Monsquaz

^[2]Youtube – Monsquaz HD

^[3]Wayback machine – monsquaz.com, July 2009

^[4]swfchan – monsquaz.swf

^[5]Bandcamp – #Monsquaz Collective – Fackin’ Hardcore

^[6]Bunbunmaru image board – Post about Monsquaz

^[7]Encyclopedia Dramatica – Monsquaz

^[8]CLOCKapedia – Monsquaz

On January 1st, 2015, Sarah Palin decided to give PETA some new years heartburn by posting on her Facebook page, multiple images of her son Trig, who is 6 and has downs syndrome, using the family dog as a step stool.

http://news.yahoo.com/sarah-palin-photos-son-stepping-dog-trigger-online-174330799.html

You Want Me To Put The X Down is an internet meme depicting the Marvel Superhero Thor from the movie “The Avengers.” In one of the movie’s scenes, Captain America confronts Thor and tells him to put the hammer down. Thor famously replies, “You want me to put the hammer down???”

The form of the meme is, as its name suggests, “You Want Me To Put The ___ Down??” (You don’t say?) Since its creation on Meme Generator in the summer of 2013, Meme Generator has generated 50 different Thor related pictures under the meme.

Oprah Winfrey is an American actress, producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her syndicated daytime talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show (usually shortened to Oprah Winfrey or just Oprah).

Online History

The domain name for Oprah Winfrey’s official website, Oprah.com^[1], was first registered on April 30, 1998.^[2] The website contains recipes, video clips from from her show and household tips. Her Facebook page, set up in 2008, currently has over 10.6 million likes.^[3] Oprah sent out her first tweet on April 17, 2009^[4] and since then has accrued over 26.3 million followers^[5]

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Over 9000 Penises

Over 9000 Penises referes to an event that happened In 2008 when a troll, presumably from 4chan, posted a message on the Oprah message boards saying “we do not forgive, we do not forget, our group has over 9000 penises and they’re all raping little children”. After the comment was posted, it was discovered by Oprah herself who took it seriously and mentioned it on her talk show.

Tom Cruise Jumps on Oprah’s Couch

Tom Cruise Jumps on Oprah’s Couch referes to an appearance made by actor Tom Cruise on the May 23, 2005 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show who was there to promote his then upcoming movie The War of the Worlds but instead hopped up onto the couch and started to wildly profess his love for american actress and model, Katie Holmes.

Oprah You Get a Car

Oprah You Get a Car refers to the September 13, 2004 episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show where Oprah gave everyone in the studio audience a car. The scene spawned video remixes and an advice animal image macro series.

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^[1]Official Website – Oprah.com

^[2]WHOIS– Oprah.com

^[3]Facebook – Oprah Winfrey

^[4]First tweet – Oprah Winfrey

^[5]Twitter – Oprah Winfrey

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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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