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Dust 2 (A.K.A de_dust 2 or Dust2) is a map from the video game franchise Counter-Strike. It is highly popular in the community, with many discussions and videos relating to the map.

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Precursor: Dust

Dust is a Counter-Strike map that has appeared in every game of the Counter-Strike franchise. The map was inspired by early screenshots of a desert map from Team Fortress 2’s development stages and was developed by Dave Johnston^[1].

The map was introduced to the game Counter-Strike in the game’s 1.1 update as an official map^[2].

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On June 21st 2008, a gameplay video was uploaded to Youtube by Petr Vektorin, showing various scenes of gameplay inside the map, it has since then garnered over 1.4 million views. was uploaded On October 7th 2009, an animation was uploaded to Youtube by the user flashdeckanimations, depicting stick-figures as Counter-Strike characters in the map. The video has garnered over 60 million views as of January 2016.

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On Youtube, the map has over 1.9 search results on Youtube^[3]. It is also referenced heavily on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Steam Disccusions^[4]. There are several results on Tumblr for the term “Dust 2” and “de_dust2”^[5][6] as well as on Reddit^[7][8].

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Sadness Gorilla is a funny symbol represents sadness and fun at the same time.

Sadness Gorilla is originally is a statue for a gorilla, not meant to be funny, but the statue looked like that at the end, It looks sad, but after all it’s just a statue, it’s not sad or anything.

It looks like it’s 1-eyed, but no, it’s normal

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Doing Hurtful Things To Your Waifu Chart is typically a six pane comic showing the artist’s waifu’s responses to various hurtful actions. A variant, often named either Not Doing Hurtful Things To Your Waifu Chart or Doing Loving Things To Your Waifu Chart show the artist’s waifu’s response to various kind actions.

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Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike dungeon crawler video game, developed by Red Hook Studios^[1], in which the player must manage various groups of heroes, who delve into dungeons filled with monsters and eldritch horrors.

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“And then the whole bus clapped” (“the entire train applauded”, “everyone stood up and cheered”, etc.) is a phrase associated with stories posted online, typically on Tumblr or Facebook, in which the teller or another person allegedly gains admiration of the surrounding public, usually after defending someone from social injustice. The line is often considered a giveaway sign of a fabricated story, or used sarcastically to express doubt or disbelief, similarly to and often together with “X’s name? Albert Einstein!”

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Exact origins of this phrase are unclear. According to Urban Dictionary, a similar phrase, “and the bus driver stood up and started clapping”, originated from Poland.^[1]

The earliest known example of a story featuring applauding bus passengers was posted on July 28th, 2012 by reddit user Robert_Hoduin^[2] The post, entitled “The Bus Knight”, gained over 21,306 points (97% upvoted) and 1439 comments. In the comments it was claimed to have been posted the day before on Facebook.^[9]

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On May 18th, 2013, Facebook user Ricky Ghansah posted a story of his alleged encounter with a racist on a bus in Helsinki, in which he claimed to have received a round of applause after making the racist appologise aloud.^[4] This was later reported in several Finnish publications, such as the pro-minorities blog Migrant Tales^[5] and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.^[6] Some people doubted the validity of Ghansah’s story, alluding to similarities between it and the earlier Bus Knight story.

In June 2015, Tumblr blog andthewholebusclapped^[7] was launched, which collected various Tumblr posts containing stories that appeared fake, usually adding sarcastic “and everyone clapped”-type comments to the reblogs.

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“You’re In The Club And This Guy Slaps Your Girlfriend’s Ass” is a catchphrase associated to a picture of a muscular black man, which has been often parodied by being used with images of people or objects with ridicule or bizarre looks.

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The first recorded instance of this meme was on the white pride forum Stormfront in May, 2010. Due to link rot, it’s unknown what the accompanying photograph or video was, but from the responses it’s possible to understand that the OP had linked to a photograph of a black person.^[3] There are over 170 responses, demonstrating many different responses, both violent and non-violent.

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The most popular use of the catchphrase can be found on threads submitted on the fitness forum BodyBuilding by the user Jumb0 on January 12th, 2012.^[1] In the thread, Jumb0 posted a picture of a black man thumbing up to the viewer and asked the posters what would they do in the situation described in the catchphrase.

After the thread was posted, the question was posed 195 additional times on the forums. It was also adopted for use on a variety of different threads on 4chan. A cross-forum search finds 265 results where the catchphrase has been deployed. On March 28th, 2012, FunnyJunk user froxon posted a screencap from a 4chan thread featuring the phrase, and gaining over 3,200 points in the following 4 years.^[2]

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The Revenant Bear Rape Rumor refers to false claims that the protagonist Hugh Glass (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is brutally raped by a bear during a scene in the 2015 Western adventure film The Revenant. The rumor was widely circulated online after being mistakenly reported by the news aggregation website The Drudge Report.

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On December 1st, 2015, The Drudge Report^[1] published an article reporting that a wild bear is shown raping Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming film The Revenant.

“The bear flips Leo over and thrusts and thrusts during the explicit mauling. ‘He is raped -- twice!’ Not to be outdone, DiCaprio rips open a horse and sleeps naked in its carcass!”

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The same day, Entertainment Weekly^[4] quoted a Fox Studios spokesperson who claimed the bear in the scene was a female protecting her cubs and that “there is clearly no rape scene with the a bear.” Meanwhile, the TomoNews US YouTube channel uploaded a video about the rumors titled “Bear rape movie?” (shown below, left). Also on December 1st, 2015, YouTube Kenneth Webster posted an narrated video in which DiCaprio is viciously raped by a bear in a parody of the 1997 romantic disaster film Titanic (shown below, right).

On December 17th, E! Online^[3] published an interview with DiCaprio, in which he called the rumors about the bear rape scene “absurd” (shown below).

“I have no idea where these ridiculous things come from, and what you do when you hear stuff like that? It’s absurd. It’s absurd.”

On December 21st, The Daily Mail^[2] published an article titled “Leonardo DiCaprio describes filming THAT‘bear rape’ scene in graphic new movie The Revenant”, which satirically quoted an ABC interview with DiCaprio about the scene:

“You can feel the intimacy of both man and beast, you feel the sweat and the heat coming off the animal.”

The following day, Gawker^[5] posted a clip of the scene that Matt Drudge purportedly mistook for a bear rape sequence. On January 14th, 2016, the film blog The Shiznit^[6] posted several parody movie posters for 2016 Oscar nominees, which included a poster for The Revenant with the caption “Fucked by a bear: the Leonardo DiCaprio Story” (shown below).

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#GIFtheFeeling is a commercial hashtag launched by Coca-Cola as part of the company’s “Taste The Feeling” marketing campaign. Following the launch of the promotional GIF maker in late January 2016, many Internet users began brandjacking the hashtag with custom animated GIFs featuring subversive or irreverent messages.

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On January 19th, 2016, Coca-Cola launched its new global advertising campaign “Taste The Feeling” for promotion of all major Coca-Cola-branded beverages, Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero.

The campaign, which is the company’s first ever marketing effort to advertise multiple Coke products under one unified slogan, replaces its long-running “Open Happiness” campaign launched in 2009 and features a new theme song “Taste the Feeling” by Australian pop singer Conrad Sewell.

#GIFtheFeeling

As part of its multimedia marketing campaign, the company launched a GIF generator microsite where people can create and share their own animated GIFs with custom messages “inspired by feelings of drinking a Coca-Cola.” Launched on January 28th, the site takes the visitor through a two-minute interactive music video of “Taste The Feeling,” during which the viewer can clip any scene as a three-second GIF using a toolbar of 32 emotions, add a personalized caption to express their own feelings and share it online with the designated hashtag #GIFtheFeeling.

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On January 20th, 2016, Tumblr user Tehawesome^[5] posted an original compilation of his take on #GIFtheFeeling with humorously subversive captions, which garnered more than 28,000 notes in first ten days.

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“Literally Unplayable” is an expression indicating that a video game is so badly broken that it prevents a player from progressing or enjoying the experience. While it is sometimes used earnestly to complain about game-breaking issues, it is often used sarcastically when pointing out minor bugs, glitches and mistakes.

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The exact origin of the phrase is unknown, but early instances of the phrase appear in complaints about buggy, glitchy or unfinished games.^[5]

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On September 3rd, 2014, YouTuber 3kliksphilip uploaded gameplay footage of the game Counterstrike titled “le_cbble – Literally unplayable” (shown below).

On October 11th, 2015, Redditor 2ez4edbtz submitted a post titled “Dota in the UK is literally unplayable” to /r/Dota2, which complained about several bugs in the game Defense of the Ancients. On November 12th, Redditor guitargod327 submitted a screenshot titled “Literally unplayable,” featuring a typographical error from a load screen in the game “Fallout 4”: (shown below, left). On November 27th, Redditor beren0250 submitted another Fallout 4 screenshot titled “Literally unplayable,” featuring a picture of an in-game pool table (shown below, right). Within two months, the posts gained more 5,200 votes each on /r/gaming^[2][3]

On December 1st, 2015, Redditor IamSilke submitted a post asking about the popularity of the phrase “literally unplayable” on gaming subreddits to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[4] On December 31st, the /r/unplayatale^[1] was created for “game breaking mistakes” that make Undertale“literally unplayable”.

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Editor’s Note: this entry is marked as #event in order to help document initial reactions to the game. This may change dependent on the game’s future popularity. Also obviously a W.I.P., so shut up til I’m done. Also I’m tired, so I’ll finish it tomorrow :| ]

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Great Detective Pikachu is a 2016 Pokémon mystery game developed by The Pokémon Company and published by Nintendo. After being officially revealed on January 26, 2016, the game garnered attention online, due to the strange nature of the game.

History

After being first teased in October 2013, the game was formerly revealed on January 26, 2016, a week before it’s official Japanese release date on February 3. As of yet, a western release has not been announced.

Online Relevance

After the reveal trailer was posted to YouYube via Pokemon’s official YouTube channel^[1], the video garnered over 2 million views within the first week. The trailer was later posted to Reddit’s r/pokemon subreddit^[2], garnering over 1,300 upvotes.

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#KanyeAnalPlaylist is a hashtag that became popular after a short feud between Kanye West and rapper Wiz Khalifa caused West’s ex-girlfriend, the model Amber Rose, to tweet that she and West had engaged in anal play during sex. The tweet led to the development of the hashtag, which Twitter users assigned to tweets that imagined songs that West and Rose would have listened to during intercourse.

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On January 27th, 2016, West revealed in a tweet that his upcoming album would be titled Waves. In response to West’s announcement, Wiz Khalifa, a Pittsburgh-based rapper who has had a child with West’s ex-girlfriend Amber Rose, tweeted several things that West understood to be offensive. In response, West responded with 31 tweets that took Khalifa’s personal style, music, and relationship with Amber Rose to task.

Amber Rose, observing that she was involved in the fight between her two ex-boyfriends, took Khalifa’s side, tweeting “Awww @kanyewest are u mad I’m not around to play in ur asshole anymore? #FingersInTheBootyAssBitch.” In two days, the tweet received 286,269 retweets and 336,450 likes.^[1] The next day, West denied that the couple had engaged in anal play, as Rose had alleged.^[2]

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The first instances of #KanyeAnalPlaylist were recorded on January 28th, and the hashtag had received hundreds of thousands of uses as of midday January 29th;^[3] it was also trending on Facebook with more than 1,000 searches,^[4] and had been used 455 times on Instagram.^[5] The hashtag was often applied to a tweet that contained a song title or a modified song title that would have more humor when referenced in the context of anal sex or anal play. However, it was also applied to many image macros and other types of commentary about the situation. The hashtag was written about in several entertainment and pop culture publications, including VH1,^[6]XXL,^[7] and Music.Mic.^[8]

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DCYOUNGFLY is an Atlanta based comedian, who rose to fame in 2014 on social media. He is most notable for his roasts on his Instagram account.

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A Bathing Ape (known also as Bape or just Bathing Ape) is a Japanese streetwear clothing company, which has a high notability in the hip hop community for it’s famous camo clothing, and collaborations. The brand has gained notable online spread, and like other streetwear brand Supreme, it sells for high prices on sites like eBay due to low quantities.

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Pacha Edits refers to several exploitable pictures featuring the fictional character Pacha from the Disney movie The Emperor’s New Groove, being the most popular one Pacha doing an OK gesture with his left hand. The pictures have also been associated to the phrasal template“When the X Just Right”.

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The meme pertains to the character Pacha, a peasant father, in a still frame where he can be seen holding his hands in a open palm and an A-OK gesture. The original image was first seen in threads of 4chan by users to show that they agreed with what the other had posted. Eventually the picture became quite popular as a reaction image and found it’s way into other websites.

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On January 29th 4chan’s /v/ had a thread dedicated to the image, featuring a transparency/template of the Pacha image and encouraged others to receate their own versions of the image.^[1] This thread quickly garnered hundreds of posts along with many edits and even sketches of the original picture before leaving the board. While also spawning copycat threads in the days to follow.

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“Are There Any Other Squidwards I Should Know About” is a quote by the character Patty Rechid, a Bikini Bottom real estate agent from the series Spongebob Squarepants.

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The phrase was used in the season one Spongebob Episode “Opposite Day”. ^[1] Squidward attempts to sell his house, but fears that his neighbor Spongebob will make his house unsellable, saying quote “Whatever a good neighbor would do, he does the opposite!”. Squidward then gets the idea to Tell Spongebob that it is opposite day, in hopes to make him behave better. Spongebob tells his friend Patrick and eventually they both that they must act like Squidwad to be the opposite o themselves. While Squidward is busy, the real estate agent arrives and Spongebob (and later Patrick) give her a tour of the house, telling the opposite of all the good qualities of the house. The real squidward comes in and tries to explain, but Patty loses it when she hears that his name is squidward, saying “HE’S SQUIDWARD, HE’S SQUIDWARD, YOU’RE SQUIDWARD?! I’M SQUIDWARD! Are there any other Squidwards I should know about?”

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“Whales” (also referred to as Money, Motherfucker or Get Money after prominent lyrics) is a satirical rap by Hail Mary Mallon about hyperbolic uses of the money. The rap is frequently included in song mashups due to its simplistic beat and its subject material.

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“Whales” was originally included as a part of Hail Mary Mallon’s 2014 album Bestiary.^[1] The rap alternates between two rappers (Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic) describing what they do to make astronomical amounts of money and how they spend it.^[2] The song explicitly satirizes the idea of rappers having access to all the money they claim to possess, as both Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic are both portrayed as vagrants in the music video.

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On May 1, 2015, SoundCloud user Llama Lamp set the rap against the Goron Village theme from The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time (shown below, left).^[3] On May 9 of the same year, YouTube user BotanicSage created a mashup of the theme against music from the Wario Land series (shown below, right).^[4]

The rap gained a greater degree of exposure when SoundCloud user archdiggle set it against the Temmie’s Shop theme from Undertale on September 21, 2015.^[5]

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Bee Movie Script refers to a spam and shitposting practise consisted on posting the enterity of the 2007 CGI movie Bee Movie script. The practise has also been associated to the introductory line of the movie, “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly”, which has been used as reference to the script posting.

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Bee Movie is a computer animated movie co-written and co-produced by comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and released in November 2007, featuring the exploits of the bee Barry B. Benson in the human world. Years after the release, the movie gained a sizeable ironic folowing on the microblogging website Tumblr.

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.

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After the movie release, the website Script-O-Rama uploaded the final version of the movie script, which consequently weould be used in the spam.^[3]

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Bernie or Hillary? refers to a series of fake campaign posters supporting Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary against Hillary Clinton in which Sanders is depicted as being more knowledgable than Clinton on a series of popular but apolitical topics.

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The initial series of 12 posters were originally posted online by user ObviousPlant on both Tumblr^[1] and reddit/Imgur^[2] on January 28th, 2016, with the added caption, “Left in the streets of Los Angeles.” The original reddit post, in the subreddit /r/pics, received 550 points (97% upvoted) and the Tumblr post had received over 38,000 notes as of February 2nd, 2016.

The format of the poster, which was relatively easy to Photoshop, quickly became popular in Bernie Sanders meme groups like the Facebook group Bernie Sanders’ Dank Meme Stash, which has over 79,000 members.^[3] While some members posted the original posters from ObviousPlant, others created their own versions by filling in new topics and generating new answers for the candidates. In the Facebook group alone, some of the most popular of these edits gained over 300 likes each, and were shared out of the group into general newsfeeds.^[4] In addition, many tweeted versions of the meme; an article on New York Magazine collected versions distributed on Twitter.^[5]

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Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor who has received critical acclaim for his performances in a number of films, most notably including What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries, Titanic, Django Unchained, Inception and Gangs of New York.

Career

In 1991, DiCaprio was cast in his first role as the character Josh in the science fiction horror film Critters 3 (shown below, left). That year, he began appearing as the recurring character Luke Brower in the television sitcom Growing Pains. In 1993, DiCaprio played the mentally handicapped character Arnie in the film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (shown below, right).

In 1996, DiCaprio played as Romeo Montague in director Baz Luhrman’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (shown below, left). The following year, DiCaprio starred as the character Jack Dawson in the romantic disaster film Titanic, the second highest grossing film of all time (shown below, right).

In 2002, DiCaprio starred as the protagonist Amsterdam Vallon in the historical drama film Gangs of New York (shown below, left). In 2010, DiCaprio portrayed the character Dom Cobb in director Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Inception (shown below, right).

Fandom

On August 13th, 2012, a page for DiCaprio was created on TV Tropes.^[3] Additionally, a comprehensive page for DiCaprio is maintained on IMDB.^[8]

DiCaprio Lookalike

On January 14th. 2016, the @EnglishRussia1^[4] Twitter feed posted a photograph of a Russian man bearing a striking similarity to DiCaprio (shown below). The following day, Redditor OBiektyw1855 submitted the photo to the /r/funny^[5] subreddit, where it received upwards of 5,700 votes (92% upvoted) and 1,200 comments in the first 24 hours.

Vaping at the SAG Awards

On January 30th, DiCaprio was spotted smoking a vaping pen on camera while sitting at a table during the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award ceremony (shown below). While the actor’s use of the vape pen was legally sanctioned under an exceptional clause that allows vaping on “theatrical production sites” in the city of Los Angeles, it prompted some viewers at home to call out his habit via Twitter, while the American Lung Association issued a tweet^[9] rebuking the actor’s vaping habit as “deeply troubling,” according to the TMZ.^[10] In the following days, several entertainment and celebrity news sites picked up on the news, along with additional paparazzi photos of DiCaprio vaping in public.

Online Presence

In April 2010, DiCaprio launched the @leodicaprio^[1] Twitter feed, garnering upwards of 14 million followers in the next six years. As of February^[6] 2016, DiCaprio’s “Actor/Director” page on Facebook has accumulated over 13 million likes and his Instagram^[7] feed has received more than 2.6 million followers.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Snubbed By Oscar

Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Snubbed By Oscar refers to a series of jokes regarding DiCaprio’s noticeable lack of recognition by the Academy Awards, despite having been nominated three times throughout his acting career.

Strutting Leo

Strutting Leo is a photoshop meme featuring a photograph of DiCaprio walking merrily toward the camera while on the set of the 2010 science fiction film Inception. Examples of the meme typically superimpose DiCaprio’s cutout image into various humorous contexts.

The Revenant Bear Rape Rumor

The Revenant Bear Rape Rumor refers to false claims that the protagonist Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) is brutally raped by a bear during a scene in the 2015 Western adventure film The Revenant. The rumor was widely circulated online after being mistakenly reported by the news aggregation website The Drudge Report.

We Need To Go Deeper

We Need To Go Deeper is an expression from the film Inception which is often featured in image macros and vertical multi-panes using screen captures from the movie. The phrase can indicate that further investigation is needed but can also be used to point out examples of recursion, in a similar vein to the Xzibit Yo Dawg image macro series.

Personal Life

DiCaprio was born in Hollywood, California on November 11th, 1974. After dropping out of John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, he earned a general equivalency diploma (GED). In 2000, DiCaprio dated Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen. After the pair broke up in 2005, DiCaprio dated Israeli model Bar Refaeli. In 2011 and 2012, he had a brief relationships with actress Blake Lively and model Erin Heatherton. From 2013 to 2016, he was romantically tied to models Toni Garrn and Kelly Rohrbach.

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Sticker Boy, also known as Sticker Kid, is the nickname given to Drake University student Peter Clinksales Peter Clinksales, a Drake University student who was seen videobombing with stickers all over his face during Hillary Clinton’s victory speech after winning the Iowa caucus in the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary. on February 1st, 2016. After his playful antics appeared on-screen several times during the nationally televised event, Clinksales quickly became a trending topic on social media under the hashtag #stickerboy.

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After the Iowa caucuses, the Hillary was winning with the Democratic delegation over Bernie Sanders by 0.2%. She gave a victory speech at a rally Drake University, in Des Moines. During the televised portion of the speech, Peter Clinksales, a Drake University student, was positioned in the camera’s view directly behind Hillary and Bill Clinton. Clinksales proceeded to dance, make faces at the camera, and put Hillary campaign stickers all over his face.

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Many viewers who watched Clinton’s victory speech captured Sticker Boy’s appearance on mobile phone and shared them on Vine, as well as social news outlets like Mashable, whose Vine received over 1,238,000 loops in 16 hours.^[1] Shortly after the broadcast, #Stickerkid began trending on Twitter, especially to those in the Iowa area, with right-wing commentator Michelle Malkin tweeting about the stunt using the hashtag #Stickerboy.^[3] Mashable then did a follow-up interview with Clinksales, during which he identified himself as an undecided voter and revealed that he had originally planned to bring a saxophone to the rally, but was not able to due to the security risk.^[2] Within the first 24 hours, the hashtag #stickerboy was used over 2,000 times on Instagram^[4] and over 1,000 times on Facebook.^[5] Two hours after he became a topic of interest, Clinksales tweeted:^[6]

In addition to the media coverage from Mashable, Sticker Boy’s dancing was featured in USA Today^[7] and on the Today Show.^[8]

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