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Love Live! – School Idol Project is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise, and encompasses a number of different media, including an anime, manga and Light Novel series. After the series was first created, it spawned a notable fandom online, spawning a number of fan works and meme

Premise

Love Live! follows the story of Honoka Kōsaka, a schoolgirl at Otonokizaka Academy. After the academy is threatened with the possibility of closing down, due to a lack of applicants, Honoka and her friends form a school idol group in order to prevent this, called μ’s. After they successfully stop the school from closing down, the girls decide to take their idol group a step further, taking part in the ‘Love Live!’ competition, competing with fellow idol groups from across the country.

History

Love Live! began as a multimedia franchise, co-developed by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The first in the project, a manga series written by Sakurako Kimino, first circulated in Dengeki G’s Magazine starting in January 2012, and is still ongoing. This was later followed by an anime series, produced by studio Sunrise, also known for their work on shows such as Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass and Gintama, which first aired from January 6 to March 31, 2013, followed by a second season from April 6 to June 29, 2014, each lasting 13 episodes. As well as this, there have been a number of other Love Live! related media, including a movie, light novels and music CDs.

Online Relevance

In North America, the Love Live! anime is licensed by NIS America, with the series available for streaming on Crunchyroll^[1]. The series has gained a large online following on many sites, including on Tumblr^[2], Reddit^[3], 4chan’s /a/ (Anime and Manga) board^[4], Fanpop^[5], My Anime List^[6], and DeviantART^[7]. There are numerous sites that provide episodic information about the series, such as the Love Live! wiki^[8], TV Tropes^[9] and Anime News Network^[10]. In addition, the Love Live! Facebook page also has over 72,000 likes^[11].

Fandom

The Love Live! series has spawned a significant online fanbase since it’s creation, which has created much fanart and fanfiction. On the Japanese fanart site Pixiv, there are over 77,000 images tagged under “ラブライブ!”^[12], as well as over 14,000 videos on the video sharing website Nico Nico Douga^[13]. On DeviantART, there are also over 82,000 images tagged related to the series^[14].

Notable Sub-Memes

Kotori Photobomb

Kotori Photobomb refers to a series of exploitable images featuring Love Live! character Kotori Minami photobombing a photograph. The scene grew in popularity, spawning a number of parodies featuring a number of other characters from other anime series performing the pose.

Umi Card Select

Umi Card Select refers to a number of video parodies featuring character Umi Sonoda making different facial expressions while playing a game of cards. The scene grew in popularity with fans, spawning a number of parodies on Nico Nico.

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Vertical Posting is a spam and shitposting practice consisted on writting a message horitzontally and vertically at the same time, making them extremelly wide. It’s specially popular on 4chan’s /s4s/ (shit 4chan says) board.

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Meido Outfits or French Maid Outfits are a type of uniform based on that of a typical housemaid from the 19th century. Traditionally serving as a type of fetish uniform, pieces of fanart depicting female anime and video game characters in the outfits are common.

Origin

Meido outfits are loosely based on that of a typical French housemaid.^[1] They often consist of a black dress with white trim, an apron, a lace headdress, stockings, and high-healed shoes. The outfit is extremely popular in Japan, due in part to the maid cafes often found in cities such as Tokyo which appeared around the turn of the millennium,^[2] as well as popular characters who sport similar uniforms such as Sakuya Izayoi from Touhou Project.

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A TV Tropes page on Meido was created in 2006.^[3] An Urban Dictionary definition of the term was created in 2008.^[4] The visual novel Nekopara was released in 2014, which popularly featured two catgirl meido as the romantic interests.^[7]

One popular practice of fanart artists is to create images of characters wearing the outfits, even if they were never seen doing such in their original portrayals. Over 30,000 images tagged “maid” can be found on both Pixiv and Danbooru.^[5][6]

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Doritos Hair is a Photoshop meme where characters, usually from anime or vocaloid ones, have the color of their hair replaced with the packaging of Doritos tortilla chips (amongst other packages).

Origin

The earliest known version of this meme was posted by Tumblr user Glitchicorn on February 4th, 2015,^[1] featuring an image with Love Live! character Nozomi Toujou with her hair was replaced with a pattern of Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos.

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Though out the month of February, Glitchticon uploaded more versions using other Love Live characters, as well as making ones of other anime characters. In Addtion, this user also reblogged other ones other people had made. On February 20th, a single topic Tumblr blog “Doritosanimehair” was created and began to post some versions.^[2]

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“Needs More JPEG” is a sarcastic expression used to mock low resolution or coarsely compressed^[5] images and videos, in a similar vein to the use of phrases like “recorded with a potato” or “my left ear enjoyed this very much”.

Origin

On August 30th, 2006, Newgrounds Forums^[7] member Ginogino13 replied to a post containing a poorly compressed sprite image with the phrase “Hmm… needs more JPEG” (shown below).

Etymology

The ironic use of the phrasal template [X] Needs More Y stems from the well-known catchphrase “Needs More Cowbell”, a memorable quote said by Christopher Walken in a 2000 Saturday Night Live sketch parody of VH1’s “Behind the Music” documentary on the studio recording of the 1976 song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult. Some of other notable variants include “Needs Moar Sauce” and “Needs More Lense Flare”.

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On July 24th, 2008, user Misery Gloom on the imageboard Plus4chan^[8] commented “Needs more jpeg artifacts” in response to a lossy rule 34 illustration. On February 13th, 2009, Fark^[9] user scavenger replied to a post with the phrase “Needs more jpeg artifacts.” On December 25th, 2010, DeviantArtist^[10] Quivin commented “Needs more JPEG artifacts” on a Minecraft illustration submitted by user xSaria. On December 15th, 2011, Java-Gaming Forums member theagentd replied to a post about Java video playback with the phrase “Needs more JPEG compression artifacts” (shown below).

On April 4th, 2012, a poorly compressed image with the caption “Needs More Jpeg” was uploaded to Imgur,^[11] which gathered upwards of 57,000 views over the next three years (shown below, left). On June 28th, Redditor TooBrokeToGiveAShit linked to the image in a comment on the /r/funny^[1] subreddit (shown below, right).

On February 14th, 2013, the domain for the site NeedsMoreJPEG.com^[3] registered, which allows users to upload images to be compressed with a large number of artifacts. On May 27th, YouTuber RobJohn37 uploaded a video titled “For when someone posts a compressed image/uses Windows XP to save a jpeg,” featuring poorly compressed video footage of the King of the Hill character Hank Hill saying “Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?” (shown below). In the next two years, the video gained over 1.8 million views and 1,000 comments. On May 14th, 2014, YouTuber Типичный сисадмин reuploaded RobJohn37’s King of the Hill video with the title “Needs More JPEG.”^[6]

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Monsoon is one of the primary antagonists in Platinum Games’ hack and slash action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Monsoon’s in-game opinion regarding memes as a unit for carrying cultural ideas or practices lead to fans associating him with internet memes.

Origin

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was first released on February 19th, 2013. During the campaign, in which the player takes control of the cyborg Raiden, the player eventually has to fight Monsoon.^[1] Prior to this battle, during a conversation between Monsoon and Raiden, Monsoon shares his view on memes, explaining to him that he finds them the only thing that mattered besides war and even going as far as calling them “the DNA of the soul.” Although Monsoon talks about memes as the essence of a culture or a person,^[2][5] fans quickly associated the speech with internet memes.

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Although other characters in the game also mention memes, it was Monsoon’s speech that made him stand out the most. On February 3rd, 2014, Tumblr user Suddenlywolf posted a collection of quotes made by Monsoon as an image (shown below, left), which managed to gain more than 29,000 notes over the following year.^[3] On March 3rd, 2014, Youtuber Turkish Phantom posted an edited video showing Raiden’s reply after Monsoon’s defeat and describing Raiden as “the hero we need” (shown below, right), which managed to gain over 15,000 views in the following year and more than 440 likes (against 10 dislikes). The character also became a common recurrence in ironic meme threads on 4chan.^[6][7]

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Elsword is a Free to Play South Korean based 2.5D Action MMORPG developed by KOG Studios. The game is a predecessor to it’s earlier work, “Grand Chase.” The game features skill-based combat, and has gained a cult following in South Korean, Japanese, and North American audiences respectively.

History

In 2007, KOG Studios released the Free to Play game Elsword in South Korea, as a reboot to it’s earlier work, Grand Chase. Since then, it has been released in Japan (2010) and North America (2011). It was introduced in Steam Greenlight on 2012.

Features

The game currently features 10 characters, each with 3 available job classes with two jobs each, with a total of 60 total character combinations. The game also features PvE and PvP with PvE being with a party of up to 4 players, and PvP being with up to 8 players.

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The game has gained a fandoms in North America and Japan, spawning fanart on Deviantart, Pixiv, and Tumblr, and several forum communities,

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Umi Sonoda Poker Face (Japanese: 海未ちゃん顔芸シリーズ, Umi-chan Kaogei Series) refers to a series of parodies featuring funny facial expressions struck by Umi Sonoda^[1] from an anime adaptation for Japanese multi-media project Love Live!. Shortly after the episode aired in May 2014, many parodies were spawned on the web.

Origin

In the anime adaptations, Umi-chan has been well-known for her expressive face among fans since the 1st season (shown below, left), and screen shots of her funny faces have been sometimes utilized in photoshopping parodies on Futaba Channel (2chan) since before. Meanwhile, the source footage of this fad is weird facial expressions strucked by Umi during a trump game scene in the 5th episode in the 2nd season “A New Me” originally aired on May 4th, 2014 (shown below, right).

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According to comments in Nico Nico Pedia’s article^[2], this kind of poor poker face during playing old maid is one of the cliches in school anime/manga depictions. Similar scenes are found on Ranma1/2 in 1980s as well as Yuru Yuri, Nisekoi and Invaders of the Rokujyōma!?.

Left: Ranma1/2 Ep. 85 (1989) | Center: Yuru Yuri Season 2 Ep. 2 (2012) | Right: Nisekoi Season 1 Ep. 9 (2014)

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Her impressive poker face soon became to a subject for MAD videos on niconico Douga^[3] and parody illustrations on Nico Nico Seiga^[4] and pixiv.^[5] In addition, a photoshopping fad featuring it also caused on Futaba as well as in Crappy Collage Grand Prix trend on Twitter.^[6]

Finally, the illustrations for Umi’s poor poker faces were officially released on LINE stamps in August of that year (shown below).^[7]

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Left: Rhythm Heaven Remix | Right: Bob-Omb Battlefield
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Left: Slow Loris' Victory Pose with UC | Right: Kyu! Kyu! Kyu! Nya~! dance

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In Japanese language, striking funny facial expressions is called “Kaogei” (顔芸; lit. “Face Performance”).

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3PAC is an American rapper and YouTuber known for his amateurish music videos and ‘disses’ directed at figures such as Eminem (whom he refers to as ‘feminem’) and Pewdiepie. He is often featured on websites such as WorldStarHipHop and has even been mentioned in the Washington Post. His name is a play on the infamous rapper ‘2Pac’.

Online History

3PAC has two channels, 3PACTV and 3PACTVHD, with the latter channel still active. 3PAC’s most viewed videos as of March 2015 are ‘RAPGOD’ with over 500,000 views, ‘RICHWHITEMANMARKCUBAN’ at over 300,000 views and finally ‘I DON’T GIVE A HOOT’ with almost 300,000 views. Several of 3PAC’s videos have been taken down in the past for violating YouTube’s terms and conditions, including his music video entitled ‘PEWDIEPIE IS A CHILDRAPIST’ which was subsequently uploaded onto WorldStarHipHop^[1] and currently has over 350,000 views.

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3PAC often uses the term ‘hoot giver’^[2] as a derogatory insult in his ‘disses’ and in public discourse with people who criticise his work. 3PAC prides himself on ‘not giving a hoot’, and his fanbase describe themselves as ‘the Zero Hoots Gang’.

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^[2]ZeroHoots.com ZeroHoots.com

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XD (sometimes satirically pronounced as “ecks dee”) is an emoticon to express laugher pretty similar to the LOL slang term. These letters simply symbolising a face with crossed eyes and wide opened mouth.
The emoticon can also be used to mock the often usage on the internet or typically to shitpost forum or imageboards.

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Mariah Anderson Cyberbullying Controversy refers to the online backlash surrounding a series of insensitive tweets poking fun at a photograph of a two-year-old baby born with Chromosome Two Duplication Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. The tweets became a subject of national controversy after the baby’s mother, Kyra Pringle, spoke out against the harassment of her daughter in late February 2015.

Background

On October 22nd, 2013, a GoFundMe^[1] page was created by South Carolina resident Kyra Pringle to raise money for her daughter suffering from complications due to the genetic disorder Chromosome Two Duplication Syndrome.

In February 2015, Pringle posted a photograph of her daughter Mariah Anderson on Facebook (shown below).^[9]

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Online Reaction

That month, Instagram^[3] user young.yayo highlighted the photograph of Mariah. The post was subsequently deleted. On February 22nd, Twitter user @ArroqantTae^[2] tweeted a screenshot of the Instagram post with the joke “This baby soooo ancient. Mf came out the womb 50 & paying a mortgage,” receiving more than 220 retweets and 90 favorites within two weeks (shown below). In the coming days, several other Twitter users poked fun at the photo, including @___daisha,^[4] @Shawndizzle1122,^[5] @aira_alday^[6] and @ShutYoDumbAssUp.^[7]

News Media Coverage

On February 28th, Pringle was interviewed in a segment on the South Carolina news station WCBD News 2, in which she expressed her dismay with those who insulted her child on the Internet (shown below). In the coming days, several other news sites published articles about the online trolling controversy, including BuzzFeed,^[9] The Root,^[10] NY Daily News,^[11] The Daily Mail^[12] and Metro UK.^[13]

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WeaselPecker, a portmanteau of “weasel” and “woodpecker,” is a photoshop meme based on a well-timed photograph of a weasel riding on the back of a flying woodpecker bird. Since entering online circulation through Twitter in early March 2015, the photograph has given way to a series of photoshopped parodies in which other subjects and fictional characters are shown riding alongside or in lieu of the weasel.

Origin

On March 2nd, 2015, East London photographer Martin Le-May took a photo of a juvenile weasel riding on the back of a woodpecker in Essex, England (shown below). On the same day, wildlife photographer Jason Ward posted the photograph on Twitter,^[1] where it gained over 9,900 reweets and 7,400 favorites in the first 24 hours.

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Later that evening, BuzzFeed^[2] published an interview with Le-May, in which he described the events surrounding the photograph. Also on March 2nd, Twitter user @darth^[3] tweeted a photoshopped version of the image with a red panda dressed as the antagonist Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise riding the weasel and bird (shown below).

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On March 3rd, Twitter user Rebecca Lewis^[4] tweeted a photoshopped image of Vladimir Putin riding on the back of the weasel, gathering more than 140 retweets and 90 favorites that day (shown below). Meanwhile, many other photoshopped versions of the image were posted on Twitter under the hashtag “#WeaselPecker”^[5] (shown below, right).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the photograph, including The Daily What,^[6] Mashable,^[7] The Huffington Post^[8] and The Telegraph.^[9]

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Stop Das Gay, alternatively Do I Smell Watermelon, refers to an image macro series typically involving two characters, with one pressing their face up against the other and making unpleasant remarks, and the other responding with “stop das gay”.

Origin

The earliest known popular example of the meme was posted by Tumblr user tomatoneedles on June 5th, 2011,^[1] gaining over 14,000 notes as of March 2015. It features a captioned image cropped from a painting depicting the kiss of Judas,^[2] the scene in the Bible in which Judas Iscariot betrays the identity of Jesus to the Romans by kissing him.

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On October 30th, 2011, Youtube user punkiit uploaded a dramatic reading of the original image’s captions, titled “stop Judas that’s gay”,^[3] garnering over 26,000 views as of March 2015.

On May 23rd, 2013, FunnyJunk user jesusucksmydick posted a photoshopped Kanye West image with the meme’s conventional captions to the site,^[4] receiving over 1,200 net karma.

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Semen Demon is a term used to refer to attractive anime characters. The term is also related to the catchphrases “Who is that semen demon” and “What anime is this semen demon from?”, often used as a shitposting practise on anime discussions, and normally being associated with Sherlock “Sharo” Shellinford,^[3] a character from the manga and anime series Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

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The term comes from the medieval legend of the sucubbus (plural sucubbi), demons who take the form of attractive women to seduce men and draw energy from them, often until the point of exhaustion or death of the victim.^[4] According to the Malleus Maleficarum, a book about witchcraft which was banned on 1490 by the Catholic Church, succubi would collect semen from the men they slept with, which incubi (demons who take the form of attractive man) would then use to impregnate women.^[6]

On June 17, 2013 a 4chan user made a thread on /a/, the anime and manga board, asking “what anime is that semen demon from?”, featuring an image of Sherlock Shellinford from the manga and anime series Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.^[1]

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On July 11, 2013, another thread on the same board was created, featuring the same question and another image of the same character.^[2] On July 17, 2013, another thread asking for Sherock featured the first change of the words, saying “lactic harlot” instead of semen demon.^[9] This was later used as spamming practice.

On December 24, 2013, a thread on /s4s/, the shtiposting and spamming board, featured a poorly vectorized version of Sherlock Shellinford with the caption “Le Semen Demon”.^[7] This image, also know as “semon demon”, is often used as a spamming and shitposting practice on the same board.^[8]

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I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter is a copypasta about a male who dreams to be a helicopter. It parodies absurd gender and sexual identification often found on pages like Tumblr, featuring references to social justice terms like check your privilege.

Origin

This copypasta was originally written by Team Fortress 2 user Guuse^[1] in 2014 on March 17th, which was added to his pastebin^[2]

I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I’m fucking retarded but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

Guuse originally wrote it to spam it using binds in chats whilst playing after an argument about gender identity politics.

Note the video comment “props to Guuse for his amazing writing skills”. Dated March 21st as the earliest time on the internet. Uploader is a friend of the original writer.

Guuse posted this in December:
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After the original stream, the copypasta was submitted to /r/sidehugs ^[3] and /r/copypasta ^[4] on reddit. on various live streams, as well as 4chan. It can now be seen attributed to youtube comments and various chans, variations continue to be created.

On May 18, 2014, a definition titled “helisexual” was submitted on Urban Dictionary^[5], featuring multiple references to the original copypasta

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Epic Boobs Girl is the caption of a demotivational image containing a photograph of Alix Bromley, .

Origin

The earliest known posting of the Epic Boobs girl demotivational image was in a YTMND page titled “Epic Boobs” submitted on June 18th, 2007 (shown below).

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On July 3rd, 2007, Body Building Forums^[1] member ilikebeer submitted a thread asking for more photographs of the girl in the demotivational image. On September 11th, BodyBuilding Forums^[2] member axour posted a thread titled “Epic Boob Girl Revealed,” containing several additional photos of Bromley. On November 15th, 2008, Volkszone Forums^[3] member Calamity Al posted another thread containing photographs of Bromley.

On May 11th, 2010, The Guardian^[4] reported that Loaded magazine received a privacy complaint from Bromley after posting an article with her pictures offering readers a reward for getting her to pose for the magazine.

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Mountain Dew is a citrus-flavored soft drink distributed by PepsiCo Inc. and Doritos is a brand of chip distributed by Frito-Lay, which is owned by PepsiCo as well. The two products have had an intertwined history due to various promotions, and both have become heavily associated with video gaming culture through events such as Doritosgate.

Origin

Mountain Dew was first created in 1940, and was later acquired by PepsiCo in 1964.^[1] Doritos were first produced in 1964, and the brand was acquired by PepsiCo the next year along with other Frito-Lay brands.^[2] The two brands had become associated with each other after several promotions, such as a Mountain Dew-flavored variety of Doritos released in 2008, and, conversely, a Doritos-flavored variety of Mountain Dew in 2014.

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In 2012, video game website LevelSave.com released an interview with journalist Geoff Keighley, which heavily featured product palcement from both Mountain Dew and Doritos. Later in the year, the interview was criticized by Eurogamer.net writer Rab Florence, which sparked off the Doritosgate controversy. The image of Keighley surrounded by Mountain Dew and Doritos later spun off into the Doritos Pope meme. (see below)

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Montage Parodies

Both Mountain Dew and Doritos are heavily referenced in Montage Parodiesvideos as a nod to Doritosgate.

Doritos Pope

Doritos Popeis an edited version of a still from Geoff Keighley’s LevelSave.com interview.

Dashing Black Man Holding Dangerously Large Dorito Chip

Dashing Black Man Holding Dangerously Large Dorito Chipis a meme focused around an out-of-context image of a man holding an over-sized Dorito chip, taken from a 2010 advertisement parodying the typical formula of an Apple Computers advertisement.

Doritos Hair

Doritos Hairis a meme where the hair of a fictional character, such as those originating from anime, is overlayed with pictures of similarly-colored snack food product packaging.

Dub the Dew

Dub the Dewwas a 2012 contest where users could submit possible names for a green apple-flavored variety of Mountain Dew. The contest was discovered by 4chan, who submitted purposefully offensive names as a form of trolling.

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D I C K S Q U A D (also known as “yea bitch dis go hard as hell”) is a copypasta extracted from an akward YouTube comment featured on a video. The word itself is also used as a spam and shitpost practice.

Origin

The comment comes from the episode 7 of the video series “The People Vs” from the YouTube channel Noisey,^[2] uploaded on December 13, 2012 and featuring the rapper Waka Flocka Flame answering comments from fans.^[1] One of the comments, made by YouTube’s user “Susan McSwiney”, contained the following message, that left Waka Flocka wordless:

hell yea bitch dis go hard as hell flocka i will suck big dick team slut all day and week month year and century i love big naps D I C K S Q U A D

On December 18, 2012, YouTube user FNAkun uploaded the part where Waka Flocka reads the comment and answers to it. As March 5, 2015 the video has over 230,000 views.

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“Rap God” is a 2013 hip hop song by the American rapper Eminem. The track has been praised for its dense lyrical content and high-speed delivery, having set a Guinness World Record for containing the most words within a hit song. Since the YouTube premiere of the music video in October 2013, the song has been covered and parodied by the rapper’s fans and remix artists alike on YouTube.

Origin

Eminem released the song “Rap God” on YouTube^[1] on October 13th, 2013. In two years, the song gained over 53 million views and 141,000 comments. At 4:26 in the song, Eminem begins a verse in which he raps 97 words in just 15 seconds. On November 27th, the official music video was released (shown below), garnering upwards of 190 million views and 196,000 comments over 16 months.

“Uh, sama lamaa duma lamaa you assuming I’m a human
What I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman
Innovative and I’m made of rubber
So that anything you say is ricocheting off of me and it’ll glue to you
I’m devastating, more than ever demonstrating
How to give a motherfuckin’ audience a feeling like it’s levitating
Never fading, and I know the haters are forever waiting
For the day that they can say I fell off, they’d be celebrating
’Cause I know the way to get ’em motivated
I make elevating music, you make elevator music…”

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On October 28th, 2013, YouTuber Rachdogg7 uploaded a video of a young girl covering a lyrically dense verse in the rap song (shown below, left). In two years, the video gained more than 2.03 million views and 5,200 comments. On December 5th, YouTuber Bet0niarka uploaded a video comparing the rapping speed of Eminem in “Rap God” to other rappers, including Busta Rhymes, Tech N9ne, Twista and Young Blaze (shown below, right).

On February 6th, 2014, TheFineBros YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “Elders React to Eminem,” featuring commentary by mature-age guests watching the “Rap God” video (shown below, left). On February 11th, YouTuber Mikey Bolts uploaded a cover of the rap song while impersonating the voice of the character Stewie Griffin from Family Guy (shown below, right). Within 13 months, the videos received over 13 million and 10 million views respectively.

On August 15th, YouTuber ArcadeCloud uploaded mock rap battle between Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty video game players, which contains a verse parodying “Rap God” (shown below, left). On November 13th, Facebook^[2] user Joey O’Reilly uploaded a video of his daughter Tamsin Rae covering the song, garnering more than 13 million views and 248,000 shares in four months (shown below, right). On December 4th, Rae uploaded the video to her YouTube channel.

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On YouTube, many users have created and shared dubbed parodies of animals and inanimate objects mouthing the lyrics of the fast verse from “Rap God” (shown below).

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“Uptown Funk” is a 2015 pop funk song written, produced and recorded by English musician and producer Mark Ronson with guest vocals by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. Since the YouTube premiere of the music video in November 2014, the song has inspired numerous parodies and covers on the video-sharing site.

Origin

On November 10th, 2014, “Uptown Funk” was released by Sony Music Entertainment as the lead single for for Ronson’s fourth studio album Uptown Special. On November 19th, 2014, the MarkRonsonVEVO YouTube channel released the official music video for the song, gaining over 310 million views and 112,900 comments in the first four months (shown below).

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On January 17th, 2015, Redditor thewhitedeath submitted the “Uptown Funk” music video to the /r/Music^[1] subreddit, where it gathered more than 3,600 votes (84% upvoted) in two months. On January 19th, the Miranda Sings YouTube channel uploaded a cover of the song performed by comedian Colleen Ballinger (shown below, left). On January 27th, the baracksdubs YouTube channel uploaded an audio-spliced mashup video featuring clips of United States President Barack Obama edited to sound as if he were singing “Uptown Funk” (shown below, right). In six weeks, the videos garnered upwards of 2.5 million and 4.3 million views respectively.

On January 31st, YouTuber Bart Baker uploaded a parody of the music video, gaining over nine million views and 17,000 comments in five weeks. On February 17th, YouTuber House of Halo uploaded an edited version of the music video without music, gathering upwards of 1.6 million views and 390 comments in less than a month (shown below, right).

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