About

Follow The Damn Train, CJ! (or “All we had to do, was follow the damn Train, CJ!”) is a memorable quote from the open world action Video Game Series Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The quote is spoken by Big Smoke in the mission “Wrong Side of The Tracks” if the player fails the mission. Due to the difficulty of the mission and the negative nature of the quote, the quote has since become infamous among fans of the series.

Origin

In the mission “Wrong Side of The Track”, CJ is tasked by Big Smoke to escort him to Unity Station where they are immediately ambushed by the Vagos Gang. CJ is then tasked to chase the escaping Vagos who are on top of a train while Big Smoke attempts to shoot them down. The mission is completed once all 4 gang members are killed before the Train reaches the Fredderick Bridge that connects Los Santos with Las Venturas. Failing to do so will cause the mission to fail and prompt Big Smoke to yell “All we had to do was follow the damn Train, CJ!”.

Spread

On October 13th, 2010, Youtuber qwert50 uploaded a video titled “FOLLOWTHEDAMNTRAIN CJ” which shows his failure in completing the mission due to getting hit by an incoming train. The vieo gathered more than 234.000 views as of 2015^[2]. On June 2nd, 2011, Youtuber Pocky Pocky uploaded a video titled “Follow the damn train yourself Smoke.” which he plays the mission using a modified Sanchez that looks like Big Smoke. The video gathered more than 332.000 views as of 2015. On September 18th, 2011, a forum thread titled “ALLYOUHAD TO DO WASFOLLOWTHEDAMNTRAIN CJ.” was posted on IGN that discusses the infamous mission^[4].

On September 30th, 2014, 9Gag user DOGE23 uploaded a picture titled “All we had to do was follow the damn train cj!” which has accumulated 21.171 points with 507 comments as of 2015^[5].

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(Note: This Entry Contains Major Spoilers!)

About

Interstellar fan docking is a type of you tube parody where the maker of the video uses house hold items to reenact the docking scene from interstellar.

Origin

The first interstellar fan docking named “Interstellar fan docking” was made and published on November 26 2014 by the youtuber “kazuyaPP” and has since gained 526 thousand views ^[1]

spread

after the first “fan docking” there has been more videos remaking this scene with house hold items such as cups, USP ports, and even remakes in video games such as Kerbal Space program and garry’s mod.

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Working!! Season 1 Opening Parodies (Japanese: WORKING!!OPパロ) refers to a series of parody video remixes for the opening credit movie for 1st TV anime season of Japanese 4-panel comic strip manga series Working!! written by Karino Takatsu.

Origin

The 1st TV anime season for the manga, Working!!, aired 13 episodes between April and June in 2010. Its opening theme song “SOMEONEELSE” was composed by Satoru Kousaki^[1] who has also composed many songs for the famous animes such as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star and Monogatari Series, and sung by voice actresses for the main characters Kana Asumi^[2], Saki Fujita^[3] and Eri Kitamura.^[4] Additionally, this opening credit movie is known for the resemblance to "Soramimi Cake", the openig credit movie for Azumanga Daioh. That’s because the director for both of the movies is the same person, Kiyotaka Ohata.

Spread

Parody videos reproducing this opening movie by MAD or hand-drawn animation became to be uploaded to the Japanese video sharing service niconico Douga (niconico) around the end of its first month.^[5] And the song itself also owns instrumental covers on niconico.^[6]

On the other hand, videos in this parody video series have been often deleted due to copyright infringement by this anime’s copyright holder Aniplex because this child company for Sony Music Entertainment is very negative to reusing of their contents. Hence, the whole amount of videos in this series isn’t so large. And some of parody video creators use Hatsune Miku cover version^[7] as the musical source to avoid deletions.

Working’!! OP Parodies

As well as “SOMEONEELSE”, The opening credit movie for 2nd TV anime season, “COOLISHWALK”, had its own parody video fad in the following year.

For more information about that particular phenomenon, please check the KYM entry for Working!! Season 2 Opening Parodies.

Various Examples

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About

Working!! Season 2 OP Parodies (Japanese: WORKING’!!OPパロ) refers to a series of parody video remixes for the opening credit movie for 2nd TV anime season of Japanese 4-panel comic strip manga series Working!! written by Karino Takatsu. As well as the opening credit movie for the 1st season, this 2nd season opening credit movie also became to a subject for parody on the Japanese video sharing service niconico Douga (niconico) in 2011.

Origin

The 2nd TV anime season for the manga, Working’!! aired 13 episodes between October and December in 2011. Its theme song “COOLISHWALK” was composed by Kakeru Ishihama^[1] and sung by voice actresses for the main characters Kana Asumi^[2], Saki Fujita^[3] and Eri Kitamura.^[4] This opening credit movie was created by Kiyotaka Ohata as same as the 1st season.

Spread

Parody videos for this 2nd season’s opening movie have been uploaded to niconico since after the start of airing. And most of them are created in the MAD video style.^[5] Additionally, instrumental covers, mashups or remixes for this song are also posted to niconico.^[6] Meanwhile, massive deletion that happend in the 1st season by the copyright holder Aniplex hasn’t happened for the 2nd season.

Various Examples

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External References

Editor’s Note: Registration is needed to browse the original videos/illustrations listed in this section.

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Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons, also known as The Big Four, is the name given to the crossover of the four animated CGI movies Rise of the Guardians (2012), Brave (2012), Tangled (2012) and How to Train your Dragon (2010), and their main characters Jack Frost, Merida DunBroch, Rapunzel Corona, and Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. The crossover include alternate universes and shipping between the main characters.

Origin

The percursors of the crossover can be found on various pairings on the characters. On July 4th, 2012 a group named “Merida x Rapunzel” was created on the online artist community DeviantART,^[3] and on September 8, 2012 user Redhead-K submitted the first of a series of comics pairing Merida and Hicupp.^[5] On September 28th, 2012 youtuber AnimeFanGirl92 uploaded a video called “Merida in Wonderland”, which feature supercuts from Rise of the Guardians, Brave, How to Train your Dragon and The Lorax. On October 16th, 2012 youtuber Moloko Cartoons uploaded another supercut video, this time featuring Tangled (shown bellow, right).

Spread

On January 22nd, 2013 a DeviantART group called “The Big Four” was created,^[1] name that would later be given to the characters. On February 27th, 2013 youtuber Crystal .Erin uploaded a video titled “The Big Four – The Movie”, featuring again supercuts from the movies in a trailer-styled video. As March 31st, the video gained over 390,000 views.

On September 29th, 2013, a wikia was created.^[4] As March 31st, DeviantART has over 2,700 submissions submitted under the keywords “rise of the brave tangled dragons”^[6] and over 67,000 submissions submitted under the keywords “the big four”.^[7] Microblogging website Tumblr also has submissions under the keywords “rise of the brave tangled dragons”^[2] and “the big four”.^[8]

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Bee Shrek Test in the House

Bee Shrek Test in the Houseis a parody fandom from an hypothetical crossover of Shrek, Barry Bee Benson from the CGI film Bee Movie,Johnny Test and Cory Baxter from the show Cory in the House, created as a parody of the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom.

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Overview

Trevor Noah’s Tweet Controversy refers to the online backlash toward a series of tweets discovered in South African comedian Trevor Noah’s Twitter history in late March 2015, following the announcement that he would become the new host of the satirical news program The Daily Show following Jon Stewart’s retirement. Many accused the jokes found in Noah’s feed as being offensive to jews, women and atheists, calling for Comedy Central to reconsider hiring Noah as the new host of The Daily Show.

Background

In December 2014, Noah began appearing as a recurring guest contributor on the Comedy Central satirical news program The Daily Show. On March 30th, 2015, the cable television network announced that Noah would replace host Jon Stewart following the comedian’s retirement from the show later that year. That evening, a series of tweets were discovered in Noah’s Twitter feed history that many argued were fat shaming, misogynistic and anti-Semitic (shown below).^{[1][2][3][4][8][9]}

Notable Developments

Online Reaction

Following the discovery of the tweets on March 30th, many Twitter users criticized the tweets for being ignorant and dim-witted.

On March 31st, 2015, Redditor MoralZorel submitted several of Noah’s tweets mocking atheism and deceased author Christopher Hitchens to the /r/atheism^[5] subreddit (shown below). The same day, Redditor El_Charly submitted a tweet by Noah mocking fat women to the /r/fatpeoplehate^[6] subreddit.

Noah’s Response

On March 31st, 2015, Noah posted the tweet “Twitter does not have enough characters to respond to all the characters on Twitter.” The tweet was subsequently deleted.

Comedy Central’s Response

Also on March 31st, Comedy Central issued a statement defending Noah:

“Like many comedians, Trevor Noah pushes boundaries; he is provocative and spares no one, himself included. To judge him or his comedy based on a handful of jokes is unfair. Trevor is a talented comedian with a bright future at Comedy Central.”

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, several news site published articles about the tweet controversy, including BuzzFeed,^[7] Entertainment Weekly,^[10] The New York Times,^[11] The Daily Dot,^[12] E! Online,^[13] The Guardian,^[14] The Independent^[15] and UpRoxx.^[16]

Search Interest

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External References

Now, everybody are Don.

I frame to the Illuminati, masonic, misoginist, reptillian part of KYM.

RamdonMan is the King of Swag, The understudy of Don and ally of Particle Mare, this Brony shall…edit this page because I am too immersed in Riff-Raff to make a good article now

From Humble Beginnings

RamdomMan was born in the Netherlands, a normal rabbit with big dreams from there he took a trip to England and became the Rabbit of Caerbannog, who obstructed some knights on their quest for the Holy Grail, then the knights blood gave him a human form and immortality. He soon stowed away on Christopher Columbus’s Ship to explore the new world.

He eventually found out about a man with the legendary powers of dank memes, and that he was the one who made him immortal. He sought this man, known only through whispers as, “The Dank One”, “The Memefather” and “Don”, and served under his tutelage. Over the next few decades, he discovered the powers of database moderation, the joys of My Little Ponyology, and enough swag to give even the most grizzled World of Warcraft veterans pause as its ebinezz.

Allies

In addition to his master; Don. RamdomMan has gained allies in his quest for moderation and helping Don find the ultimate Meme

Particle Mare

His fellow moderator and master of particles. Triangle Mare hates her

Loli

Are you sure she’s old enough for the quest?

Platus

A Member of a secret order of generic avatar photoshoppers, he was chosen to aid in the endeavors of Database Moderation and Ponylogy.

Don

All you need to know about him is here

Enemies

GamerGate

Actually its about ethics in database moderation

Elmur Fudd

He once got mistook for Bugs Bunny and pissed off this hunter with Dank Memes and banhammers, now Elmur Fudd seeks to get this wascally wabbit

(Editors Note: Entry is on hold until April Fools Ends.)

About

Man at Arms is a webseries about recreating famous fictional weapons from popular culture using actual smithing techniques. The show is hosted on the AWE me Youtube channel. Since it’s airing on 2013, the series has gain a massive following online.

History

The series first aired on February 11th, 2013, on the AWE me Youtube Channel. The show was originally hosted by Tony Swatton, a professional Blacksmith and Hollywood Prop Maker who has worked on over 200 featured films. The first episode was about recreating Jaime Lannister’s Sword from the Game of Thrones series. As of 2015, the video has gathered more than 2 million views. The original show had a weekly schedule with the last episode airing on June 30th, 2014.

Man at Arms Reforged

On July 8th, 2014, awe ME announced their new series titled “Man at Arms: Reforged” which takes the same formula of the original show with the twist that the weapons will be mashed up to create all new hybrid weapons. Tony Swatton was replaced by the team at The Baltimore Knife & Sword, a shop for stage combat properties. The first episode was uploaded on July 14th, 2014, about creating a hybrid Batman – Wolverine Claw. As of 2015, the video has gained more than 3 million views.

Online Popularity

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He is French, therefore he is one of the hottest memes on KYM. Who?

Tomberry is a big fan of ponies. Post lots of ponies in this entry to make him happy.

“I sexually identify as a shota.”

-Twenty-One, 2015

“RandomMan”

-Brad, 2015, While Talking to 21

About

Random21 was a Nintendo defener and a Phoenix Wright fanboy. But one day, he was memed on by Don, giving him meme powers. After that, he renamed himself Twenty-One and became a weeaboo, using his powers to create animu entries nobody cares for (well, some people actually care, but they can’t frontpage them). His favourite anime series is Sword Art Online and, according to him, Kirito the best anime character ever created. His most hated series is School Days, although he likes Makoto Itō.

As I can’t come with anything funny, I’m leaving here the opening of the best anime ever created.

Also, Makoto time:

About

Hootershy (or sometimes Flutterboobs) is a common headcanon name of a anthro or humanized Fluttershy with the biggest breasts of all Equestria from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

History

The earliest year that started the Hootershy headcanon is in early 2012. Possibly started as a discussion about headcanons and file uploading in 4chan’s /co/ and /mlp/. As for the popularity of Hootershy, the fanart highly grow on Tumblr, Derpibooru, and deviantART. Currently there’s over 3500 image tags of Hootershy in Derpibooru, and is where a certain specific editor got most of her images from.

Examples

Google Search

External Reference

^[1]Derpibooru – Hootershy

^[2]Google Image – Hootershy

^[3]deviantART – hootershy

About

North West is the child of Kim and Kanye, named after wind directions, and receiver of many puns.

Origin

After 72 days of marriage, Kim Kardashian filed for a divorce, which was finalized in June 2013 with an undisclosed settlement. The same month, Kardashian gave birth to a daughter, North West,^[4] from her relationship with rapper Kanye West, which began in April 2012. Kardashian and West were married in May 2014.

Spread

Following the birth, various threads were created on the internet. In August a image was posted by redditor dankblaze to the r/AdviceAnimals sub-Reddit, which managed to gather over 5 upvotes in the following month.^[1] A week later a similar image was posted on 9gag by user weed0nat0r, which managed to receive 8 upvotes and 3 replies (shown below).^[2] In the year following North West’s birth, there were at least a dozen wind direction puns uploaded to the Cheezburger Network.^[3]

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About

A Kym Mod is a strange creature that is given the power to control various parts of the site.
They are known to hardly do work, then complain that nothing is changing. They love to abuse their powers.
90% of them are SJW’s due to their fierce opposition to GamerGate
99% of them are Bronies
They are known to do this for, but evidence shows that they regularly take bribes from users who want custom titles. Making them corrupt hypocrites.

About

Inuyasha’s Birthday is a birthday event that was first celebrated on April 1st, 1480, and since has been celebrated worldwide.

Origin

Inuyasha was born on April 1st, 1479.

Spread

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Leaked promotional art of Captain Blubber: The Movie,
starring the greato as Captain Blubber

About

Captain Blubber is a KnowYourMeme moderator who is especially known for being one of the most hardworker users on the site, and using his powers wisely, making him one of the most loved users known for suspending people for existing.

History

Blubber grew up on a unknown place from Canada. One day, someone give him the furry videogameBanjo Kazooie for N64, and played it until a character from the game caught his attention: Captain Blubber, a hippo who can’t swim. Blubber instantaneously liked the character and made it his role model, going everwhere shirtless, with a pirate hat and a cardboard cutlass, but his family and friends (LOL) made an intervention to him, finally convincing him to drop the pirate costume. At some point in his life, Blubber discovered beer, and nowadays it’s the only thing he drinks, uses to cook and shower with.

One day, Don gave him supermemetic powers, and asked him if he would want to join him on a journey to meme on the whole world. Blubber accepted because he was drunk and bored, but he never imagined he would have as companions an antrophomormic rabbit,a neo-nazi brone, and a weeb, so he drinks to forget he hates all his partners. Nowadays, he works as a cover at Toys R’Us, where he discusses with little girls about MLP and throws them beer cans if he sees he’s losing.

Le Ebin Brone Rifle

Le Ebin Brone Rifle is Blubber’s signature weapon, created at Spiral Mountain. As the name says, it’s a rifle that is epic and kills bronies. Blubber created this weapon after a bronie accidentaly his Banjo Kazooie cartridge, so he promise himslef he would vanish bronies from Earth. Tomberry, another pony detractor, joined him on his journey, although they haven’t kill any bronie because Blubber is always drunk and he can’t aim, and Tomberry has no “ebin brone” weapons to kill bronies.

Will they accomplish they objective? See it on Captain Blubber: The Movie! Soon on all theaters.

Special thanks to Samekichi for the avatar draw and the greato for his great cosplay

Background

On April 1st, 2015, various websites and online services released gag videos, products and features in honor of April Fool’s Day.

Notable Examples

Google Pranks

Keeping up with their annual tradition, Google unveiled several gag products across many of its platforms. A Pac-Man mode was released for Google Maps,^[1] allowing users to play a modified version of the arcade game using streets as custom playable levels (shown below, left). The Google.com search was horizontally flipped as if it were being read in a mirror (shown below, right).

A promotional video for the gag product “Smartbox,” a physical mailbox that is connected to a Google account, was uploaded to YouTube (shown below, left). The Google Fiber team released a parody promotional video for a fake dial-up Internet service (shown below, right).

In the mobile version of the Chrome web browser, Google unveiled the “#Chromeselfie” button, allowing users to take reaction selfie photographs while browsing the Internet with their mobile devices (shown below, left). On YouTube, a music button was added to video pages which plays a sample of the song “Sandstorm” by Darude (shown below, right).

Reddit’s “The Button”

Reddit unveiled the /r/thebutton^[2] subreddit, featuring an interactive button that counts down from 60 seconds. If the button is clicked, the counter would reset and could only be clicked once by accounts created prior to April 1st, 2015.

Amazon Dash and Retro Homepage

On March 31st, Amazon released a promotional video for the Amazon Dash electronic device, which allows users to order replacement household items by pressing a button on a Wi-Fi connected device (shown below). While many speculated it was an April Fools Day joke, the company insisted it was a real product.

On April Fools Day, Amazon updated their homepage with a retro theme based on the site’s design from 1999, which would revert to the current website when clicked (shown below).

LinkedIn Magic Mirror

LinkedIn published a blog post^[3] announcing the “Magic Mirror” gag service, which reveals the secret career goals in a user’s profile photo (shown below).

Samsung Galaxy BLADE Edge

The consumer electronics company Samsung announced the gag product Galaxy BLADE Edge,^[5] a smart phone so thin it can serve as a cooking knife (shown below).

#DomiNoDriver

The Domino’s pizza delivery company announced it would be rolling out a fleet of driverless drone delivery vehicles (shown below).^[4]

Uber Car Shop and Uber Boat

Uber released a fake promotional video for a product catalog filled with gag items available to purchase while riding in an Uber taxi (shown below).

Additionally, Uber^[6] announced the launch of the UberBOAT service in Thailand, which would provide boat taxis on the streets on Bangkok.

Hulu Pets

Hulu introduced a new collection titled "Hulu Pets, providing video content aimed at entertaining household pets, including the parody shows Clawed City, The Real Pugs of Portland, The Bark and Bone Appetit.

CERN Confirms Existence of the Force

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)^[7] reported that researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had discovered evidence for the “Force” energy field from the Star Wars franchise.

External References

Riff Raff is a board on the KYM forums which plays host to a load of bullshit, akin to 4chan’s /b/ board. It’s user base consists of sassy mods, 12 year olds, neckbeards, and the occasional munchkin.

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About

The KYMtheon refers to the primordial group of deities that have existed since the beginning of time, and have since been locked away within the inter-dimensional prison/meme documenting site Know Your Meme.

Origin

The KYMtheon has been known by many different names by many different cultures. The last prior known name was the The Triumvirate. The Triumvirate was eventually defeated by the Meme God himself, Don, whom then created the website Know Your Meme to entrap them and their chaotic energy, known as memes. After this the Triumvirate was believed defeated. However not long after this two heads of the Triumvirate would return in the forms of Super Robo Jesus and The Cheeto. Don was quick to defeat them and send them to the shapeless abyss known as the Deadpool. Don waited in longing for the third head of the Triumvirate to rear it’s lewd head, and so it did. After being revived by the power of the Hentai Quotes gallery Goat-tan was born. Goat-tan quickly took control of most of Know Your Meme by tricking Don to engage in a co-op playthrough of Battletoads. Goat-tan proceeded to release both Super Robo Jesus and This Cheeto, forming the KYMtheon.

Conquest of Know Your Meme/Defeat By Don

The KYMtheon quickly conquered most of Know Your Meme and enslaved most of it’s userbase. The Mods were the only ones who were able to avoid capture. They prayed to Don to return whom was still stuck in his Battletoads trance. However, the anguish of his people awakened Don to the reality of what was happening. Don immediately returned to Know Your Meme and gathered the Mods to lead an assault on The KYMtheon’s base, The Church of Battletoads. Using the battle below as a distraction, Don flew and crashed through the roof and landed in front of The KYMtheon. Don quickly re-Deadpooled both SRJ and Cheeto, leaving only Goat-tan left. Don then grabbed Goat-tan and whispered in her ear the famous quote, “Get Memed on.” Don then proceeded to violently rape Goat-tan until she surrendered control of Know Your Meme back to the users.

Don: Head of the KYMtheon

Immediately following the battle, Goat-tan was so infatuated by Don’s secret lewdness that she pleaded with him to become the head of the KYMtheon and use the power of the memes for his own goals. Don pondered this for sometime before accepting. Now with Don’s power leading the KYMtheon there is nobody who is safe from getting memed on.

Members

Don

Don is the leader of the KYMtheon and the one who has the power to meme on anyone and everyone. He will reign for a thousand years. May all who oppose him burn in the Deadpool. Amen.

Goat-tan

Goat-tan is the deity worshiped by the Church of Battletoads, and the progenitor of all things lewd. Her favorite pastimes involve rape and playing the NES game Battletoads.

Super Robo Jesus

Super Robo Jesus was the first deity to form after the destruction of the Triumvirate and the first to fall to Don’s wrath. He deadpooled for your sins.

This Cheeto

This Cheeto is now a meme.