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Le American Bear, also known as Spurdo Burger, is a character based of Spurdo Spärde wearing a pair of sunglasses and a t-shirt with the colors of the United States flag. Its depiction in images is often associated with the negative stereotypes of American citizens, most notably obesity and gun violence.

Origin

According to a Finish wiki site Meemi.info^[1], Le American Bear first originated on a Finish imageboard’s Ylilauta /int/ board. Eventually, on January 5th, 2012, the earliest known archived image surfaced on 4chan’s /jp/ (otaku culture) board^[2], depicting the American Bear as a tourist.

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You Locked The Door?!, sometimes known as You Locked The Door Joseph?! is a Youtube video, edited using Miku Miku Dance program, of a character crying, frightened by another character politely knocking then violently banging at the door of their room. The fad took hold on the video-sharing site as more videos were created with characters from various universes.

Origin

On June 4th, 2014, Youtuber Hikari Neko uploaded a video titled MMD You locked the door?! [+DL] featuring a short clip of Hatsune Miku from the Vocaloid series knocking then banging at a door in anger, with another character on the other side crying (shown below, left). It accumulated over 120 000 views in the next 9 months. The audio and situation itself were taken from a Vine video titled White moms vs Black moms…. When kids lock doors and made one year earlier by DRose who uploaded it to Youtube on June 25th, 2013 in which she played on stereotypes and perceived parenting differences between white and black people (shown below, right).

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Hikari Neko posted the stages and motion used in the description of her video, inviting anyone to edit as they please.
One of the first Youtube videos to reuse it was made by Xion-Chan MMD on the same day, featuring characters from the Hetalia series (shown below).

From then on, an impressive amount of videos has been made on the site^[1]. One of the most popular of them all, with over 8 million views as of March 2015, is the second video of a series made by Kiana Ruiz and uploaded on June 19th, 2014, featuring Elsa from Disney’s animated movie Frozen (shown below).

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^[1]Youtube – Search Results for You Locked The Door MMD

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Shia LaBeouf’s Paper Bag is a photoshop-based meme derived from a series of exploitable images of American actor and director Shia LaBeouf wearing a paper bag over his head while promoting a movie at a film festival in Berlin.

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McDonald’s is an American hamburger fast food restaurant chain, and the largest fast food restaurant chain in the world. The company’s current headquarters resides in Oak Brook, Illinois^[1].

History

Originally conceived as a barbecue restaurant by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald^[2], the restaurant would later be reformatted into a fast-food restaurant^[3]. The brothers would later partner with Czech American Ray Kroc^[4] whom would turn the relatively small company into the largest fast-food chain in the world. Kroc would later buy the company from the brother’s in 1961. McDonald’s global influence has been one of the defining factors in globalization^[5] and the spread of the “American way of life”^[6].

Online Relevance

Lol, Internet

Lol, Internet is a phrase that is commonly used to emphasize the idea that the internet, and arguments occur within it, should not be taken too seriously. The phrase is often paired with a gif of Ronald McDonald driving a car while saying said phrase.

What the Fuck am I Reading?

What the fuck am I reading? refers to a reaction image of Ronald McDonald reading a Death Note. The image is commonly used on 4chan as a way of expressing disliking one someone else’s post.

McNuggies

McNuggies refers to an illustration of McDonald’s character Grimace posing in a seductive manner and asking the question, “What’s wrong, Ronald-kun? Could it be you’re craving my McNuggies?” presumably in reference to his prominently featured posterior. The illustration has spawned a number of edits featuring characters from a various number of subcultures.

Balancing Sasuke

Balancing Sasuke refers to a photo fad in which owners of a McDonald’s Happy Meal toy based off of Naruto character Sasuke Uchiha try to balance various objects atop the head and underside of said toy.

#McDStories

#McDStories was a promotional Twitter hashtag created by McDonalds in January 2012. The purpose of the hashtag was for users to share fond memories but was instead filled with tweets consisting of criticism and negativity towards the fast-food chain.

Insane Set

Insane Set is a series of MAD videos which reuses content of a Japanese McDonald’s commercial. The original commercial was later featured on the web series Equals Three by RayWilliamJohnson, which caused the videos to be spread to a western audience.

McDonald’s “Happy” Mascot

McDonald’s “Happy” Mascot is an anthropomorphic Happy Meal box originally introduced to French McDonald’s franchises in 2009, and later in the United States in May 2014. Upon its American debut, the character became a target of online mockeries for its creepy facial expression.

Donald McRonald/Ran Ran Ru

Ran Ran Ru ( らんらんるー or ランランルー) is a series of MAD video remixes based on Japanese commercials involving Ronald McDonald, also known in Japan as “Donald McDonald” (ドナルド・マクドナルド).The phrase, “Ran Ran Ru” is a gimmicky expression used by Ronald, usually in combination with hand gestures to signify happiness.

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Ronda Rousey is an American mixed martial artist who is the current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion. She is known for quickly winning many of her matches within the first round, often defeating opponents using variations of the armbar submission technique.

Fighting Career

At the age of 11, Rousey’s mother began training her in the Judo martial art. When she was 17, Rousey competed in Judo at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. In August 2008, Rousey won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Bejing, China, becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the martial art. On August 6th, 2010, Rousey participated in her first mixed martial arts match against Hayden Munoz, whom she defeated with an armbar submission in 23 seconds (shown below, left). On November 12th, Rousey defeated her opponent Autumn Richardson with an armbar in 57 seconds (shown below, right).

Over the next several years, Rousey won matches against 11 opponents, nine of which were submitted with armbars.^[6] As of March 2015, Rousey remains the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion and is undefeated in her mixed martial arts career.

Online Presence

On March 19th, 2012, YouTuber MrGetthefuckup uploaded a highlight reel featuring various clips of Rousey’s fights (shown below, left). On August 8th, 2012, the Team Coco YouTube channel uploaded an interview with Rousey on the Conan O’Brien talk show (shown below, right). Within three years, the videos garnered more than 2.2 million and 1.9 million views respectively.

On September 2nd, 2014, Redditor therudeboy submitted a screenshot of Rousey’s Pokemon Forums profile from when she was 16-years-old to the /r/MMA^[3] subreddit (shown below, left). On December 23rd, 2014, Redditor HunterAHomistek submitted a photograph of a Rousey fight card titled “So this Ronda Rousey card has an interesting design…” to /r/MMA^[2] (shown below, right). Within two months, the post accumulated upwards of 1,700 votes (93% upvoted).

On February 24th, 2015, YouTuber Aaron Tru uploaded a video in which Rousey hip tosses a male interviewer on the ground, who claims to have suffered “4 busted ribs” in the video description (shown below, left). Within two weeks, the video gained over 2.2 million views and 640 comments. On February 28th, YouTuber ZAA ONEBro uploaded footage of Rousey’s 14-second match in which she defeated opponent Cat Zingano with an armbar submission in 14-seconds (shown below, right).

Social Media Presence

As of March 2015, Rousey has accumulated upwards of 2.7 million Facebook^[1] likes, 1.3 million Instagram^[4] followers and 836,000 Twitter^[5] followers.

Personal Life

Rousey was born on February 1st, 1987 in Riverside County, California. She is a fan of the Pokemon franchise and plays the online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

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Giga Nigga is the moniker given to a peculiar photograph of famous bobybuilder Paul Dillett showing up his muscles with a grin on his face. Beyond the obvious racist connotation, parodies emerged on 4chan transforming him into a fierce online forum game boss that users have to defeat by successfully triggering what is commonly known as a quads get, which means having the last four digits of a post number being the same.

Origin

The photograph itself was widely shared online among bodybuilding enthiusiasts (shown below). An early example from October 31st 2007 can be found in a forum thread on the Bodybuilding Dungeon website^[1].

While it has not been archived, the Giga Nigga nickname is rumored to have originated on imageboard 4chan. Its earliest online mention originated from the website blol.me^[2] in which user Stefanus commented “GIGANIGGA IS LOOSE!” on a repost of the photograph, dated July 14th 2011. It shows that the meme had existed prior. In addition, its earliest depiction as a game can be found on Funnyjunk, in a screenshot^[3] from August 8th 2011 by user Gardevoir showing an edited version of the photograph being supposedly “defeated” by another user rolling 3,333 (shown below).

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On Funnyjunk alone, several references to the game, either on the site itself or on 4chan, were posted between 2011 and 2012^[4][5]. Around December 2011, a macro titled “Gigga (sic) Nigga” was submitted to the troll.me website^[6], accumulating to 12 pages of parodies as of March 2015. On January 6th, 2012, the macro, titled “Giga Nigga” this time^[7], was submitted to Meme Generator. There, it ranked #3,973 on the site and accumulated over 900 parodies as of March 2015.
On May 13th, 2013, Youtuber ShabaSurvivor made an animation referencing the meme (shown below).

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The Piero Scaruffi Beatles Copypasta is a copypasta taken from an analysis about The Beatles by music critic Piero Scaruffi. The quotation has gained infamy for its critical attitude toward the band, as well as its perceived air of pretentiousness.

Origin

Beatles, a retrospective article on rock group The Beatles, was published on Piero Scaruffi’s website in 1999.^[1] In the article, Scaruffi makes the claim that The Beatles are overrated by many other critics due to their fame. The copypasta, which was translated to English from its original Italian, is taken from its first paragraph, reproduced below.

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as “the greatest or most significant or most influential” rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

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The copypasta was first posted onto 4chan’s music board (/mu/) on June 23rd, 2012, in a thread about The Beatles.^[2] A video of Tyrone reading the copypasta was uploaded to YouTube in January 2014.

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G.O.A.T, is an acronym for the term "Greatest of All Time). It is often used on sites such as reddit and 4chan to attribute someone who is the best at a certain skill.

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The first post on /mu/ was posted on May 30th, 2012. Likewise, the earliest posts on /v/ were both on May 30th,2012.

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The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage is a The Legend of Zelda-inspiredfanfiction created by IGN board user Robert C. McGee, aka “joe_cracker”, who was convinced that his Zelda fanfiction was destined to become an animated movie based on Nintendo’s “Legend of Zelda” series. The videos, created by Sexualburgerking, Cellius, Orquiox, parody the story and its creator through use of literal interpretations of the script, purposefully done animation errors, and other visual gags. The main draw of the series has been its “so-bad-it’s-funny” sense of humor.

The entire script can be read here^[1]

History

In 2003, McGee began posting threads on IGN’s message boards detailing his script and story for “The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage”.^[2]

McGee attempted to get the rights to The Legend of Zelda through petitiononline.com and even handed out flyers in his home town in an attempt to garner attention for his project. IGN Board user TheSpotlight eventually agreed to help McGee with his script, but eventually, in summer 2004, he left the boards out of frustration, as Joe reportedly had been ordering TheSpotlight around like an employee and was trying to get him to do all the major writing for him.

In late 2004, IGN Board user *Cellius_*18 joked that McGee’s script had been stolen by a big name producer and was being made into a feature film. McGee believed the message to be genuine and attempted to give the producer, which he named “The Cheese” or “Cheese Head” (To contrast his name, cracker, as in “Cheese” and “Cracker”), a cease and desist, which failed, seeing as how said producer did not exist.

Board users Sexualburgerking (Who at the time was pretending to be John Grusd, the director of the 80’s Zelda cartoons), Cellius, and Orquiox convinced McGee that the only way to stop the movie from being produced was to make the movie themselves. The three then created a “test animation”, claiming it to be a WIP video by film and TV production company DiC entertainment, which had previously worked on adaptations of “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Madeline”. The short was made to be intentionally bad so as to convince Robert McGee once and for all that his grand plans for a Zelda movie were in vain. The video was posted on YouTube in 2006. (shown below)

However, McGee was still convinced that the test animation was legitimate. SBK, Cellius, and Orquiox then produced a second short in 2006 to further shake sense into him.

By the production of the third video in late 2006, “joe_cracker” finally realized that the entire thing had been a joke. An updated version of the third short was released in 2008 with annotations explaining the inside jokes and backstory that had led up to this point.

Later in 2008 a teaser for “The Light of Couage 4” was released.

By then, however, the project had been abandoned with all involved feeling the joke had gone on long enough.

several short joke animations called “Bitcrushers” featuring the LOC characters were also created during that time.

Reception

The Light of Courage series developed its own cult fanbase with several fansites such as http://www.lightofcracker.com/ and dancingtriforce.com, both of which are now defunct. A collection of content from the Dancing Triforce website can be downloaded here: http://herbalcell.com/static/tloc/misc-tloc-and-cracker-media.zip^[9]

joe_cracker’s film group 963 Productions has their own message board which is not very active anymore^[3]

963 Productions has a Youtube page that is still up and running^[4]

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The Light of Courage has been used in several YouTube Poops and other parody videos.

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Carnival Phatasm ED Parodies refers to a series of MAD remixes which show various characters from various subcultures in place of those who appear in the anime Carnival Phantasm^[1]. The videos have been uploaded and featured on the Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Douga, as well as the multi-national video sharing site YouTube.

Origin

On August 12, 2011 the OVA series Carnival Phantasm was released which used the song “Fellows” by Masaaki Endoh^[2] as its ending theme.

Notable Examples

Soon after the series debut fans began creating MAD remix videos of the ending theme often replacing Carnival Phantasm’s characters with character’s from other anime series (shown top left and top right), western series (shown bottom left), and even original characters (shown bottom right).

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The Hunger Games Simulator refers to the simulator that allows users to create their own hunger games arena death match with basically anybody -- or anything -- that they wish participate. When the user has begun the games, the simulator handles the rest until there is only one survivor left. Screen caps of humorously out-of-character actions done by the participants in the games (such as they killed or how they died,) are often the highlights of the simulator.

Origin

The concept and rules of the Hunger Games Simulator is inspired by the book-turned-film The Hunger Games. The rules of the hunger games is that there are 12 Districts. Each district has two participants, meaning there is a total of 24 participants. Alliances can be formed in the hunger games, but ultimately the death match is not over until there’s one last person standing.

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The game is quickly gaining momentum in tumblr with multiple users creating their own death matches^[1].

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^[1]Tumblr – Hunger Games Simulator

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Burger King is a global hamburger fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is currently owned by “3G Capital” of Brazil, whom bought ownership to the franchise in 2010.^[1] The franchise slogan currently reads, “Have it your way!”

History

In 1953, Keith J. Kramer and Matthew Burns opened a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain named “Insta-Burger King.” In 1954, financial problems forced Kramer and Burns to hand the franchise over to David Edgerton and James McLamore. The two later renamed the restaurant chain to simply “Burger King” after the company once again faltered in 1959, and the franchise became an independent entity for 8 years until ownership was sold to the Pillsbury Company in 1967. Over the next 22 years, poor operation and ineffective leadership caused the restaurant chain to decline, which eventually forced Pillsbury to sell ownership to the company “Grand Metropolitan” in 1989. The company became an independent entity again in the early 2000’s when “TPG Capital” bought ownership for $1.5 billion US dollars. At the end of the fiscal year in 2013, Burger King was the second largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in terms of global locations, behind industry bellwether McDonald’s (32,400 locations). It is also the fourth largest restaurant chain overall to “Yum! Brands”, parent of KFC, “Taco Bell”, and “Pizza Hut”, McDonald’s, and Subway.^[8]

Impact

In 1971, Burger King had spread beyond the United States by this time and attempted to open a brand in Australia. However, the name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide. Burger King then presented Australian franchisee Jack Cowin with alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks that had already belonged to Burger King and Pillsbury at the time. Cowin ultimately decided on the derivative of Pillsbury’s “Hungry Jack”, naming the new Burger King brand “Hungry Jack’s”, which is currently the only Burger King brand in Australia.

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“Ding, Fries Are Done!”

Ding, Fries Are Done is a parody music video based on the Christmas carol song Carol of the Bells, sung by a mysterious singer only known as “Billy.” The parodied lyrics details an average work shift at a local fast food branch, like making french fries and rocking the paper hats at Burger King.^[3]

The Burger King

The Burger King is the advertising mascot for the international fast-food chain Burger King. After appearing in several television commercials, he was used in a variety of YTMNDs, video remixes and image macros often paired with the caption “where is your God now?”^[4]

Ronald McDonald VS. The Burger King

Ronald McDonald VS The Burger King is a hypothetical conflict between Ronald McDonald and The Burger King, the mascots of American fast food chains McDonald’s and Burger King. The conflict first appeared in a comic book in the late ’70s, and gained a following online through YTMND.^[5]

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X Works at Burger King

X Works at Burger King is a series of YouTube parody videos referencing a stand-up comedy skit performed by Dane Cook who shares his experience while he had worked at Burger King, claiming he had his first job there and having notable struggles, such as someone yelling their order into Cook’s headset.^[6]

Sitting In Line for Burger King

Sitting In Line for Burger King is an image photoshopping with the original image depicting a woman sitting in a chair while in line for Burger King. Originally launched and popularized on failblog.org, 4chan started to grab hold of the fad and made a template for it as well.^[7]

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Johnny Test is an American and Canadian animated series created by Scott Fellows, following the adventures of Johnny Test, who is often used as test subject by his genious twin sisters. Due the believe the show has low-quality animation, stale jokes, and repetitive plots, it has garned a huge hatebase, and also some ironic following as other series like Cory in the House

History

The Show premiered on Kids WB In September 17, 2005 , the show now airs on Cartoon Network

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Whip Crack

Whip Crack refers to the whip sound effect that is used on the series, which has been often used to poke fun at the show for it’s overuse. YouTube channel “cartoonlover98” uploaded on April 29, 2014 a video where it’s counted how many times the whip sound effect is used on one episode, resulting on 190 whip cracks for 11 minutes. As March 8, 2014, the video has over 200,000 views.

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It started when the youtube user yogscasttroll made a video on the exact day her channel was created called pewdiepie sucks. Which really turned out
to be a video of creating a giant troll face in Minecraft.

Over time she really started to hate pewdiepie even changing her youtube name to Pewdiepie sucks the famous video of her admiting she does hate pewdiepie started on august 2 2014 where she says that her friend will hack pewdiepie

Acceptance into faze

On march 6 2015 The hating of pewdiepie stopped and her channel now was about faze clan and finally changed her name from Pewdiepie sucks to FaZe OpTic

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The meme may have spread when
Youtuber JustTurnOnTheCamera talked about the girl that hates pewdiepie calling the video Ridiculous cause shes somehow teamed up with Dillon the hacker

Yogscasttroll A.K.A Pewdiepie sucks started to rip on PewDiePie more
even hating on the fanbase by calling them stupid not even knowing the alphabet. It got to the point where she started to hate the channel vanossgaming too and started hating on gays

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The Mysterious Mr Enter (real name Johnathan Rozanski) is an internet critic who specializes in reviewing cartoon episodes. Despite having a relatively small amount of subscribers, he has gained a reputation for being one of the most divisive caustic critics out there.

Online History

His online history started with him reviewing episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. When the show went on a hiatus, he started reviewing bad episodes of cartoons to pass time, which eventually became his most popular series. On January 12, 2015, Viacom took down his channel for copyright. He managed to get it back up later.

Animated Atrocities

“Animated Atrocities” is a series of videos on animations that are generally considered low in quality, vulgar, or offensive. His most popular Animated Atrocity video is currently “Top 10 Worst ’Patrick’s a Prick’ Episodes,” in which he criticizes the newer episodes of Spongebob Squarepants for their portrayal of Patrick Star as an unsympathetic or intolerably stupid character.

Personal Life

His personal life is quite mysterious, but he has claimed he was abused as a child and he got pepper sprayed by bullies.

Fan Following

Mr Enter has a large fan following. His fans are notorious for defending everything he does and agreeing with him all the time, which has led to them getting immense criticism.

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Atrocity Notepage

The Atrocity Notepage is a template Mr Enter made, for reviewing bad cartoon episodes. It has seen heavy usage on Deviantart and around the internet.

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MegasXLR is a cartoon created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic, which is about a futuristic robot called Megas (Mechanized Earth Guard Attack System), that was supposed to be used against the evil alien race known as the “Glorft”, but it got caught in a time warp along with futuristic pilot Kira and was sent hurdling back in time to New Jearsy, where a car mechanic by the name of Coop finds and modifies the vehicle to his own liking. Now Coop alonge side his best friend Jamie, and Kira must stop the alien race from destroying planet Earth, and find a way to send the robot back to the future and win the war against the Glorft onve and for all.

History

The show’s pilot episode “LowBrow” was shown in 2002 during Cartoon Network’s Cartoon Cartoon Weekend Summerfest. Due to it’s high ratings by the viewers the show was aired in Toonami on May 1st, 2005. The show lasted two seasons before being cancelled on January 15, 2005.

Reception

The show had done wonderfully during it’s time on the air. It was so popular that it had the number 4th spot on Toonzone’s “Toons of the 2000s: Top 5 Original Cartoons”, but sadly the show’s ratings had started to decline and was cancelled. It lasted for about a total of 26 episodes, but the show had left a remarkable effect on it’s fans and petitions are being signed to get the show back on the television screens.

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[W.I.P. If you can’t tell already GETOUT MY ENTRYTRIPLE Z minty, YOUWISH I DO 21 minty]

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Smug Anime Face is a term used for anime characters with a smug smile on their faces. They are often used as reaction images on manga and anime discussions.

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Show Drinking Games refers to a series of images that, following some event or show, incite drinking everytime that some specific thing happens, often making fun of some cliches or running jokes from them.

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Fortune is a 4chan feature that generates random messages in the manner of fortune cookies’ predictions. Since its introduction on the /b/ (random) board, it became a subject of curiosity and intense spam on the site to the point that it has been made an exclusive addition to the /s4s/ (shit 4chan says) board.

Origin

According to “The Complete history of 4chan”, a collective effort in listing numerous events related to the imageboard, Christopher “Moot” Pool enabled the Fortune feature on April 27th 2007 by adding a name field on the otherwise anonymous /b/ board. Typing #fortune into it would trigger a random colored message resembling a fortune cookie’s prediction above the user’s own message. The list also states that one of the first threads involving people trying to guess their own fortune was stickied and became one of the most replied-to thread in the history of the board. There is sadly no available archive from that time. However, one of the earliest mentions of that new feature was found on a video by Youtuber iliekmudkip explaining how to use it on the site, posted July 10th 2007 (shown below).

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On September 21th 2007, an anonymous poster on the /prog/ (programming) board ranted about the perceived overuse of the meme on the /b/ board^[2], revealing that the fortune feature may have been a reference to the four-leaf clover symbol of the site. Encyclopedia Dramatica gives details about a short-lasting sub-meme using the feature that began on October 3rd 2007 and consisted in users tricking the system into having a constant streak of the same “Godly Luck” message^[3]. The feature was eventually disabled following an event known as the “Great Caturday Nap” that occured on October 19th 2007, in which the 4chan website suffered DDoS attacks and was taken down by a group of people calling themselves Lulznet. The Encyclopedia Dramatica page for Fortune states that, following the incident, the feature was disabled and enabled several times, showing a screenshot of it being enabled again in 2008^[4].
On September 10th 2013, Fortune became the exclusive feature of the /s4s/ board, available nowhere else but there. A screenshot of the first post with it launched by Moot himself was taken at that time (shown below).

External References

^[1]Tanasinn wiki – The Complete History of 4chan

^[2]4chan – The truth behind #fortune

^[3]Encyclopedia Dramatica – Godly Luck

^[4]Encyclopedia Dramatica – Fortune