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Freedom Planet ^[1] is a two-dimensional platform video game created by independent developer GalaxyTrail ^[2], a studio set up for the project by designer Stephen DiDuro. The player controls one of three anthropomorphic animal protagonists: the dragon Lilac, the wildcat Carol, or the basset hound Milla. Aided by the duck-like Torque, the player attempts to defeat the evil Lord Brevon, who plans to conquer the galaxy. While the game focuses on fast-paced platforming, its levels are interspersed with slower action scenes.

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History


Freedom Planet was made by American game designer and programmer Stephen DiDuro, who founded GalaxyTrail to create the project. The soundtrack was composed by DiDuro in collaboration with user Blue Warrior of VGMusic.com and user Woofle from Fur Affinity. Although it is an original intellectual property, Freedom Planet was first developed as a Sonic fangame. DiDuro then decided that the Sonic affiliation would hold back the game. He received permission from the Chinese artist Ziyo Ling--whom he had found on the art website DeviantArt--to use her characters Lilac, Carol, and Milla in his game.

The gameplay shares similarities to Sonic, Ristar ^[3], Gunstar Heroes ^[4] and Rocket Knight ^[5]. Viewers of early footage from the developing product encouraged DiDuro to separate it further from Sonic, so he replaced rings with red leaves and altered the characters’ abilities. Ziyo had drawn Lilac as a hedgehog, but DiDuro redesigned the character to be a dragon.



Reception


Overall reception was positive ^[6]. Most critics compared it favorably to the original Sonic games of the Genesis era in terms of speed and gameplay, although they also pointed out the differences between them, with its metroidvania style levels and combat. The story gathered more of a mixed reception, some praising it for its cheesiness and outright dark moments in the story (for E10 game), while other condemned it for its pacing issues.

Fandom^[7]


Contrary to Shovel Knight ^[8], which is a spiritual successor of several NES games, Freedom Planet is a spiritual successor of Sega Genesis games; as such, it has gathered a following of oldschool gamers who grew up with the system. The most noticeable influence, besides Sonic, is anime.



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The best modern Sonic game

Due to its visuals, gameplay and original idea of the game, it is commonly known (either as a form of respect for the old games, or an insult to a few of the new ones ^[9][10] and Sega as a whole) as the best modern Sonic game, if not an actual sequel to the originals.



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^[1]. Wikipedia Freedom Planet
^[2] Developer Page Galaxy trail
^[3] Wikipedia Ristar
^[4] Wikipedia Gunstar Heroes
^[5] Wikipedia Rocket Knight
^[6] Metacritic Reviews
^[7]Freedom Planet forum
^[8] Wikipedia Shovel Knight
^[9] Metacritic Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric
^[10] Metacritic Sonic Boom Shattered Crystal
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If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late Album Cover Parodies is a meme parodying the cover of Drake’s latest mixtape. The parodies are mainly spread around Tumblr .^[1]

Origin

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is the fourth mixtape by Candian Rapper, Drake. Upon release, it received positive reviews from contemporary critics including Pitchfork^[2], Rolling Stone^[3], and The Telegraph^[4]. It also did well commercially, debuting #1 on the Billboard 200.

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Politically Incorrect, abbreviated as /pol/, is a board dedicated to current events and political discussion on the imageboard 4chan. It is one of the most popular boards on the internet dedicated to politics, and has gained a reputation as a hotbed for fringe beliefs.

History

The board was originally created in 2011 as a replacement for /new/, which was 4chan’s primary board for the distribution and discussion of news. The reasoning behind this decision was primarily based around moot’s belief that /new/ had strayed from its intended purpose and become a gathering place for racists.^[1]

Board Culture

The reputation of the board across the internet in general is typically linked to endorsement of extremist politics, and the board is thus often cited as one of the defining aspects of 4chan’s reputation, alongside /b/.^[2] Due to 4chan’s nature as an imageboard, /pol/ has spawned several image-based memes.

Happy Merchant

Happy Merchant refers to a cartoon caricature of a Jewish man that is popular as an exploitable and reaction image, particularly on /pol/, where it is frequently used to insulting imply the relevancy of Jews to a particular discussion, or to criticize or dismiss others as being scheming, untrustworthy, or greedy.

Doom Paul

Doom Paul refers to images of the American politician and physician Ron Paul photoshopped into alarming or even apocalyptic settings, usually with the accompanying phrase “It’s Happening”.

Into The Trash It Goes

Into The Trash It Goes, also known as Opinion Discarded, is a popular remark on /pol/ used to dismiss people who are perceived to have said or done something grievously damaging to their credibility. It is typically paired with images of Penn Jillette with a disdainful look on his face.

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Pi Day, also known as The Day of Pi, is an international holiday that takes place every year on March 14th during which people celebrate the irrational number pi, one of the bases of geometry. On Pi Day, people are encouraged to bake pies or find another creative way to talk about the number.

Origin

Pi Day was invented by Larry Shaw, a San Francisco physicist, in 1988. Shaw and others celebrated the day by marching around the San Francisco Exploratorium, a science museum, and eating pies.

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March 14th is also the birthday of Albert Einstein, and the day has grown into a general celebration of math and science.

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^[1]Pi Day – PiDay.org

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Robot9000 also known as /r9k/, is a Board from the site 4chan that originally worked as a test board for a special script called Robot9000 created by the creator of the webcomic xkcd: Randall Munroe, that would prevent unoriginal content being repeated. Its users are normally referred to as “Robots”.

The board centers heavily around greentext stories, mostly of social awkwardness and general failures and is infamously known for its radical hate of social standards and “fitting in”, desperation for women, as well as “autistic” behavior.

History

r9k was first created on 2008, it was introduced as a test board where to test the Robot9000 Script which would stop the creation of any new post or thread that would be similar to other posts made in the board, the purpose of the board was to see if a board could stay if memes and copypasta were heavily discouraged.

In 17 January 2011, /r9k/ was then deleted as it no longed served its purpose^[2], but it was later resurrected November 10th, 2011^[3], along with the announce of the removal of the Robot9000 Script on July 30th, 2014.

Board Culture

The board is famous for its stories of social awkwardness and nostalgia over simpler times, as well as discussion of anormal social behaviour, it is heavily used by NEETs^[4] (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) who regret their life decisions and hold anger and disdain over males with active social and sexual lifes. it also containts Constant discussions about relationships with females and family.

Dispite all of this, the Board holds heavy pride in its own nature, with heavy hate over normies or “Normalfags” who do not understand their culture as well as constant calls for a “Beta Uprising”. this has spawned different memes.

Spaghetti Stories

Spaghetti Stories refers to a series of greentext copypastas that recall socially awkward moments, mostly with females, that always end up with the protagonists having spaghetti falling out of his pockets, r9k consists of a lot of these stories

Normies

Normies or Normalfags is a term used by Robots to refer to individuals who in their eyes are deemed as traditionalist or boring, normally the stereotype of a socially active and fitting person that easily blend with society, being the archetype of hipsters.

Tendies Stories

Tendies Stories are green text stories featuring a twenty-something man who lives at his mother’s home and constantly demands “tendies” (chicken tenders) in exchange for “good boy points” he has earned by doing chores and taking care of himself. The stories are often accompanied by images of Smug Pepe.

Angry Pepe

Angry Pepe is a reaction image commonly used on r9k that features a hostile-looking version of pepe the frog which is commonly accompanied by expressions of rage and frustation.

its commonly used in r9k to express hate against Normies, and its accompanied by the expression “REEEEEEEE” to signify hostility.

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Best Gore^[1] is a Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-based shock site that provides uncensored graphic photographs and videos related to news stories as well as opinion pieces.

History

On April 8, 2008 the domain BestGore.com was registered by Mark Marek. The first post came on April 30, 2008 and contained a video clip of American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong being beheaded by a group of Al-Qaida operatives led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. ^[3]

1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick

On May 25, 2012, Luka Magnotta uploaded an 11-minute video to Best Gore entitled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick that depicted Luka killing and dismembering Lin Jun, an international student form China.^[4] Police initially reported that Marek refused to take down the video, but Marek later stated that he took it down himself of his own accord.^[5] This incident led Best Gore to enter the public spotlight as well as Marek to stand trial.^[6]

Features

Best Gore sections include “All the Gore” which contains an archive of it’s stories^[7], an “About” section that includes a FAQ^[8], and forums.^[9]

Traffic

BestGore.com has an Alexa ranking of 10,260^[10].

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/b/ is an image board on 4chan. Being amongst the original boards created for the site, dedicated to be a random board for nearly any type of content, over time the board grew to become inarguably the most infamous 4chan board on both the site itself and outside of it. The board’s users are commonly referred to as /b/tards.

History

/b/^[1] (Random) was the first board created for 4chan.^[2] Being a board in which the focus lies with random content, the board quickly became a common source of spam, trolling, and shitposting. In combination with 4chan’s minimal board rules, pornography and gore threads could also be frequently found on the board.

Board Culture & Reputation

/b/ quickly managed to become the site’s most famous and infamous board. Due to its minimal rules, initally only placing bans on illegal content such as child pornography and requiring its users to be above 18, the board grew to become by far 4chan’s most popular board with over 30% of the site’s traffic in early 2009^[3] out of the 44 image boards at the time. The content found on the board due to its minimal rules resulted often included gore and shock media, gaining the board a reputation of being a place to avoid for outsiders to whom the board is incomprehensible.

Do Not Talk About /b/

The Rules of the Internet is a list of protocols and conventions to serve as a summation of popular catchphrases and axioms commonly associated with 4chan. Since there are numerous drafts and editions in circulation, the rules fluctuate in number and the validity of each rule remains debatable. Despite this, several of the rules are agreed upon across internet communities. These include rule 1 & 2, which both read “Do not talk about /b/.”

Rule 1. Do not talk about /b/.
Rule 2. Do NOT talk about /b/.

GET& Dubs

GETrefers to a randomly generated event on 4chan that is noted when a post’s unique ID number consists of rare integer sequences, most notably similar ending numbers. Attempting to get a GET became especially popular on /b/, to the point where users would make a post ending in two similar digits (dubs) or more decide forum game outcomes and even meme status. In early February 2010, the site’s admin, moot, made dubs temporary unavailable due to the spam they caused (shown below).^[4] Over time the option has been reenabled and disabled multiple times.

Milhouse Is Not A Meme

“Milhouse Is Not A Meme”is a paradoxical statement and a well-known debate on the imageboard site 4chan about what makes an internet meme and what doesn’t, using The Simpsons character Milhouse Van Houten as an example. The origin of this phrase dates back to /b/, where user attempts to make Milhouse a meme ricocheted and turned the phrase denying Milhouse’s meme status into a meme.

Queen of /b/

Queen of /b/ is a nickname given by /b/ users to Catie Wayne, who is better known by her online pseudonym Boxxy. First appearing on video in 2009, Boxxy received mixed feedback on /b/, becoming a popular form of trolling and the center of multiple shitstorms on the board.

Pool’s Closed

Pool’s Closedis a catchphrase associated with a series of raids carried out by /b/ on the online social networking site Habbo Hotel in 2006, where members of the group formed human blockades to obstruct the entry points of popular hangouts with their dark-skinned avatars dressed in afros and business suits.

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Bonnie, also known as Bonnie the Bunny is an animatronic mascot^[1] character that is one of the four main antagonists in the point-and-click horror game Five Nights At Freddy’s

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Chica is an animatronic character from the point-and-click horror game Five Nights at Freddy’s that resembles an anthromorphic chicken.

History

The game Five Nights at Freddy’s was released on August 8th, 2014 on Steam. In the game, Chica is usually the second animatronic to try to go after the player.

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^[1]Wikia – Chica

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Sheeple is a term commonly associated with conspiracy theorists referring to those “unenlightened” toward whatever conspiracy the theorist is discussing. The phrase has been widely mocked on the Internet.

Origin

The term “sheeple” was first reported to be used in the 1950s; popular use of the word, however, did not appear until the 1980s.^[2][3]

Spread

The phrase was used in a strip of the webcomic xkcd in 2012, which sparked some popularity of the phrase.^[1]

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Last.fm is a music website that is known for it’s features, including Groups, and The Audioscrobbler.

Origin

The original Last.fm was created by Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel, Michael Breidenbruecker and Thomas Willomitzer as an internet radio station and a music community. It received fair acclaim and was nominated for the Europrix Student Awards in 2002.^[1] The group started to work with Richard Jones, creator of the Audioscrobbler, and had it fully implemented in the site by 2003. On August 9th 2005, the two officially merged.

During April of 2007, it was rumored that negotiations with CBS were made to purchase the site for $449 million dollars.^[2] On May 30th, 2007, it was announced that the site was purchased for $140 million, and that the management team would stay intact.^[3]

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Groups

A Group is a feature where users can join a group along with other fellow users. Currently, the largest group is “I Still Buy CDs” with over 76,000 members.^[4]

The Audioscrobbler

The Audioscrobbler is a feature that records the music a user listens to and with that information, gives recommendations on artists, songs, and users with similar tastes. It was originally created by Richard Jones while attended the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science in the UK.^[5]

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/a/ is a 4chan board dedicated to anime and manga discussion, being one of the original boards on the site. Since it’s creation, it has grown to become one of the biggest anime and manga discussion boards on the internet, gaining also the reputation of basically being a moe discussion board. Users of the board are commonly referred to as /a/nons.

History

/a/^[1] (Anime & Manga) was one of the first created boards on 4chan, along with /b/. Since its creation, the board grew to become one of the most frequently used and notable boards on the sites. Over time the board’s popularity grew significantly enough that it was split up into 3 more boards: /c/^[2] (Anime/Cute), /e/^[3] (Ecchi) and /u/^[4] (Yuri) .

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Waifu

Waifuis an Engrish term primarily used by Asian men to refer to one’s own wife. While the colloquial use of the word in East Asan cultures predates its online popularity, the term has been since adopted by Otaku circles and anime fans to refer to one’s favorite female manga or anime character. Due /a/’s nature, waifu discussions are pretty common, often being used to poke fun at other users.

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Smug Anime Face

Smug Anime Faceis a term used to refer variety of reaction images featuring anime characters with a smug smile on their faces. They have became a common reaction image on /a/.

WataMote / It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular

It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular (Japanese: 私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い！, Watashi ga Mote Nai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!) is a manga series by Niko Tanigawa and published online at Square Enix’s website. The series became popular on /a/ because of the “similarities” between the main character of the series and it’s users.

Sakurafish / Every Day Until You Like It

Sakurafishis the name given to an ilustration of Sakura, one of the main female heroines from the Fate/Stay Night visual novel, forcefully biting into a fish. The image became soon became a source of spam on /a/ and /jp/, normally accompanied with the catchphrase “I’m going to post this every day until you like it”.

Semen Demon

Semen Demon is term used to refer to attractive anime characters, related to the catchphrases “Who is that semen demon” and “What anime is this semen demon from?", and often being associated with the Tantei Opera Milky Holmes’ character Sherlock “Sharo” Shellinford. On /a/ is normally used as a spam and shitpost practise.

/a/ Sings

/a/ Sings is a series of singing threads where /a/ users sing opening and ending songs from animes. These are often seen as cringeworthy by other /a/ users or users from others boards.

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Photo of Smug Dog Wearing Balaclava Wielding Toy Water Pistol Every Day is an exploitable image of a dog with a smug smile wearing a balaclava while holding an orange water pistol

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The University of Oklahoma Fraternity Racism Incident refers to the controversy surrounding a leaked video in which members of the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity are shown singing a racist chant, which surfaced online in early March 2015.

Background

On March 8th, 2015, The Oklahoma Daily^[1] reported that the SAE fraternity at OU was being investigated after members of the fraternity were allegedly filmed singing a racist chant to the tune of the children’s song “If You’re Happy and You Know It” on a charter bus, which indicated that black students could not join the fraternity. The article included an embed of a YouTube video showing footage of the incident (shown below).Within eight days, the video received more than 770,000 views and 1,300 comments. The controversy erupted less than three weeks after a video surfaced in which Chelsea soccer fans were shown singing a racist chant to block a black man from boarding a metro train in Paris.

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Online Reaction

The same day, Instagram user soonerdave25 posted a video showing an alternate angle of the bus incident (shown below). Also on March 8th, 2015, Redditor rbutler89 submitted the original YouTube upload to the /r/videos^[2] subreddit, where it gained over 4,700 votes (88% upvoted) in the first week.

A video posted by David Smith (@soonerdave25) on Mar 8, 2015 at 9:02pm PDT

Fraternity Suspension

That evening, the SAE parent organization suspended the members implicated in the video and the fraternity was ordered by OU to vacate campus by Tuesday the following week. On March 9th, Redditor g_mo821 submitted a photograph of SAE members packing their belongings into Uhaul trucks, garnering upwards of 5,100 votes (92% upvoted) in six days on the /r/pics^[5] subreddit (shown below).

Chant Leader Identified

On March 10th, The Daily Mail^[4] identified OU freshman Parker Rice as the SAE member leading the racist chant in the video, noting that Rice and another student had been expelled from OU due to their participation in the chant.

Beauton Gilbow Video

The same day, a Vine video showing the fraternity’s 79-year-old house mother Beauton Gilbow singing the lyric “nigga nigga nigga” from the 2012 Trinidad James rap song “All Gold Everything” began circulating online. The original Vine was subsequently removed but was mirrored on YouTube prior to its deletion (shown below).

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/fit/ is a 4chan board dedicated to discussions about exercise, nutrition and general health.

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Pls Be in London

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Death Parade Opening Parodies refers to a number of Anime opening parodies based around the first opening to the 2015 anime series Death Parade, Flyers, by Japanese band BRADIO. After the series first premiered, the song gained popularity online due to it’s upbeat nature, in contrast to that of the show, spawning many parodies.

Origin

The parodies originate from the opening to the 2015 anime drama, Death Parade, which was animated by Studio Madhouse and started airing on January 9th, 2015. The show stars Decim, a bartender at the bar “Quindecim”, which acts as a purgatory to help decide whether people should go to heaven or hell, forcing customers to play a game in order to determine who goes where. The opening to the show, Flyers, sung by Japanese indie rock band BRADIO (Shown Below), was first posted to YouTube by YouTuber DeathParadeOfficial^[1], and has gained over 1,600,000 views as of March 2015.

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Captain Falcon is the main protagonist of the racing video game franchise F-Zero. Known as the mascot of the F-Zero franchise, he is more commonly known for his presence in the video game fighting franchise Super Smash Bros.

Origin

The first addition to the F-Zero franchise was released in Japan for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on November 21st, 1990. This game marks the debut of Captain Falcon, who is mostly accommodated by his racing vehicle, the Blue Falcon. Inspired by the Formula One races, Nintendo envisioned Captain Falcon as the flagship character of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, however the plan never was carried out, due to Captain Falcon rarely making appearances across Nintendo media. In F-Zero, Captain Falcon is one of the best racers in the circuit and is a relentless bounty hunter.

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On July 14th, 1998, F-Zero X was released onto the then new Nintendo 64 in Japan. Only a year later, the fighting video game Super Smash Brothers was released on the Nintendo 64 and included Captain Falcon as a playable character, although locked upon startup. In 2001, Super Smash Bros. Melee introduced Captain Falcon as a playable character upon startup for the first time, along with Ness, the posterchild of the Earthbound franchise. On July 25th, 2003, F-Zero GX was released onto the Nintendo GameCube in Japan, ironically developed by rival company _SEGA_’s Amusement Vision department. In 2008, Captain Falcon became a playable character again in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Unlike Melee, however, he is locked on startup once again. Since F-Zero Climax was exclusively released in Japan on October 21st, 2004, the F-Zero franchise has been on hiatus.

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Falcon Punch

The term Falcon Punch is used on the Internet usually as an image macro as a verb for someone punching someone else intensely, it is also often portrayed as a way to abort pregnancy. Originating from the Super Smash Bros. series, it has gained a wide notoriety around the Internet.

Show Me Your Moves

Show Me Your Moves is a term uttered by Captain Falcon, originating from one of his taunts in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The phrase is likely used around the Internet in order to persuade other users to fight or acknowledge a claim that has been made.

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Stop It, Boner is a picture of a character having an unwanted erection. It has become a staple of reaction image when being confronted to any material that could provoke the weirdest boner.

Origin

The initial image comes from a 2-panes comic made by an anonymous user and featuring a man looking in dismay at his computer screen before turning away, revealing he has an unwanted erection (shown below, left). While there is no precise archived mention of its first appearance, its earliest recorded use was found in a 4chan’s /tg/ (Traditional Games) thread about tabletop games, in a post made on February 15th 2011^[1] reacting to another poster talking about kobold porn. Then, as early as June 8th 2011, a cut version of the second panel with the character saying “Stop it, boner” to which the bulge in his pants retorts “no”(shown below, right) was posted in another /tg/ thread^[2].

Precursor: “why, boner?”

As a similar note, two other pictures on the same theme have been circulating as reaction images on imageboards in order to describe this feeling of unwanted arousal towards questionable material. The first one is a drawing of a man’s lower half sitting on a chair with an apparent bulge^[3] (shown below, left) posted as early as February 7th 2011 and the other, a 2-panes image of a stick figures looking at a computer screen in disbelief^[4], posted as early as March 24th 2011 (shown below, right). Both displayed the phrase “Why, Boner?”, that has been defined on Urban Dictionary on April 22nd 2011 as “getting a boner for some reason you can’t explain; getting a boner when you consciously know you shouldn’t be having one. (see: should not want)”^[5].

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Although the initial blank 2-pane comic continued to be reused as a reaction image of its own, as it was the case in the comment section of the “Oh No They Didn’t” Livejournal for example^[6], the cut version became reposted on various websites such as Funny Junk as early as August 18th 2011^[7] where several parodies were made, the Cheezburger“Dating Fails” section^[8] or even TVTropes, as an online example referencing the “Strangely Arousing” trope^[9].

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Best Girl is slang used by anime or manga fans to describe an individual’s favorite female character. The term usually goes hand-in-hand with the term waifu.

Origin

The first recorded instance of the term on /a/ was on January 1st, 2009^[1].

Spread

Along with being used on /a/ frequently, it is also used on reddit’s /r/anime often^[3], including a subreddit about Chie, who is declared as the best girl. ^[2] A common contest on /r/anime is Best Girl Contests, where there is a large bracket of characters, and users vote for the best.^[4]

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Best Pone

Best Pone is another phrase, used by fans of the show My Little Pony in similar fashion.

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/mlp/ is the main board on 4chan for discussions related to the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic television show and franchise. Along with Equestria Daily, it is one of the largest pony-related social hubs for “bronies”, adult fans of the show, on the internet.

History

The board was created in 2012^[2] in order to provide a contained location for 4chan’s growing brony populace to converse over their shared interest in the franchise. The decision to create /mlp/ was heavily influenced by a strong upwards trend of pony-related threads and posts on multiple boards, especially /co/ and /b/ (illustrated on graph below).

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