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“GilvaSunner” (or just simply known as GilvaSunner on the site) is a parody account of the videogame music uploading account, GilvaSunner. If this sounds confusing, that’s the intent. Some believe it is trolling due to their format being identical to that of the official GilvaSunner channel, which gave information on the artists, video artwork, and song titles (usually ones that were found on the game’s respective OST.)

In late 2014 the original GilvaSunner page made a post on Twitter saying that he would not be uploading anymore songs due to fear of having the channel being taken down because of copyright claims. Though, he is still active on Twitter and is allowing/helping with the project.

Format

A large amount on the videos are remixes of the classic television show “The Flintstones” theme, though they aren’t limited to that. Some other popular songs used are Quad City DJs – Space Jam Theme Song, Take On Me, GANGNAMSTYLE, among hundreds of others.

On Nov 6, 2014, Vinesauce Joel posted a video showcasing highlights from a previous stream where he played bootleg NES games. One of these was “MARIO 7,” which was actually titled “GRANDDAD,” and was actually a ROM hack of the game The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak. This, of course, is where The Flintstones theme is used to parody.

In some videos, you can even hear recycled clips from Joel from the video.

Minor Changes/Actions

As a hidden easter egg, there is a “GRANDDAD” (aka the bootleg Mario) in the channel’s banner, which is from the game “Tengami.”

Original banner:

Close-up of the “GRANDDAD” banner:

Since the account name had been already taken by the original Gilva, the team simply replaced the lowercase “L” with an uppercase “I,” which to the common person appears like a lowercase “L.”

The channel is ultimately identically the same aesthetically as the official GilvaSunner, mostly. The description is the same but with an added line saying:

(Every video is submitted by a small group of content creators with their approval)

This line was added to clarify that none of the content is being stolen from the original creators. The entire staff of the contributors is located on the right side of the screen in the “Uitgelichte kanalen” side bar, which is Dutch for “Featured Channels.”

Suprisingly, roughly every hour the channel uploads one to two videos around the clock. Depending on the comment, the team will also reply pretending as-if nothing is wrong. Example:

+Backbiter835 I only upload official video game rips.

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Currently, the channel has over 1,000,000 views and roughly 11,000 subscribers.

The account was created on Jan 9, 2016 and within the same day published the video “Wild Pokémon Battle – Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire.” This video started the trend for a majority of the videos on the channel.

The most viewed video posted on the channel is “Slider – Super Mario 64,” which has garnered over 72,000 views in a week.

This was the first video Joel has acknowledged, which may be the reason why it is so well known. He went on to comment:

Then, days later Joel went on to make a tweet regarding the channel.

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“Smug Knife Cat” refers to an image of a cat with a smug expression being threatened with a knife. The image has been frequently used in photoshops and drawings.

Origin

The image is a photoshop of two images, consisting of the cat’s face and the cat’s body. The cat’s body originates from a post on pikabu of a scared cat being threatened by a knife with the title “threats will not work”.^[1] The image was first posted on July 9th, 2014 and has since gained over 1 thousand likes.

The cat’s face supposedly originates from a post on the bodybuilding forums, asking for the cat to be photoshopped.^[2] All of the images have been removed except for one.

The first instance of the two pictures being combined is in a gallery on imgur entitled “Scaredy cat”, posted on March 12th, 2015.^[3] In the gallery the first photo is a merge of the two images, and the second photo is the original body image with a second knife. As of March 6th, 2016 the image has gained over 12 thousand points.

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On November 29th, 2015 a post containing the Smug Knife Cat image paired with the song Megalovania retitled as “knife cat theme” was posted to tumblr. As of March 6th, 2016 the post has gained over 50 thousand notes.^[4]

On January 6th, 2016 a photoshop of the knife pointed at the “Osomatsu-san”: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/osomatsu-san character Tomodatsu was posted to tumblr. As of March 6th, 2016 the post has gained over 2 thousand notes.

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Loud Nigra is the name given to an audio clip featuring the fake porn actor OG Mudbone screaming while having an orgasm. The clip has been featured on several audio remixes and YTPMV, being also used as screamer and ear rape method on multiplayer games.

Origin

The original video comes from the defunct pornographic website CreampieCathie, on a movie featuring the actor OG Mudbone, know for his obnoxiously loud orgasm sounds.^[3] In the movie, Mudbone releases an intense cry when having an orgasm (shown below). At some point, the video was discovered by 4chan users,^[1] who used it as a trolling tactic on several multiplayer games like Second Life.

The earliest upload of the original clip was made by YouTuber shanenolan3k on November 25th, 2011, gaining over 400,000 views in the following four years. On July 8th, 2014, YouTuber Fecal Fantasy uploaded a louder, higher quality version of the scream, which would be used on mic spams. This version gained over 118,000 views in the following two years.

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On October 20th, 2010, YouTuber I should do something with this channel sometime uploaded a remix of Super Mario 64‘s Slide theme with several audio clips, one of them being Mudbone’s scream. In the following 5 years, the video gained over 340,000 views. On December 12th, 2010, YouTuber HolyAarom uploaded another remix of the Slide theme, this time just featuring the scream, and gaining over 40,000 views in the following 5 years. On April 11th, 2011 an article for the song clip was made on Encyclopedia Dramatica.^[2]

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“Literally Me” refers to an image of the Looney Tunes character Daffy Duck in a purple and yellow suit posing dramatically. The meme is frequently associated with JoJo’s Bizzarre Adventure stands. The image is also frequently accompanied by a copypasta of the poster describing the image as “literally me”.

Origin

The image comes from a scene in Looney Tunes cartoon short Book Revue, originally released in 1946^[7].

The first use of the original image of Daffy Duck was in the 4chan /co/ thread “ITT: characters that are essentially you”. In the thread, the image of Daffy Duck was paired with the words, “For me it’s Daffy Duck – intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.” was posted January 13th, 2015, in reference to Intelligent, Nihilistic and with a Wicked Sense of Humor.^[2]

Spread

As of March 6th, 2016 a search for literally me on DesuStorage for /co/ contains over 500 results.^[4] A post of the image accompanied by the text “Daffy’s Bizarre Adventure.jpg” was posted to tumblr on May 30th 2015. As of March 2016 the post has gained over 9 thousand notes.^[14] On March 1st, 2016 a post was made to the reddit subreddit /r/OutOfTheLoop asking what the joke is behind the Literally Me picture.^[1]

Copypasta

The image has been frequently associated with a copypasta of the poster repeatedly stating the character is “literally me.” The first use of the copypasta is in a /co/ thread, “ITT: Characters that are literally, undeniably, without question, you”. In the thread the copypasta was posted along with a picture of Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty. The post was made on November 17th, 2015.^[5]

The first use of the copypasta accompanied by the image is a thread on /co/ entitled “ITT: Characters that are literally you”.^[8] The thread was posted January 21st, 2016.

This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It’s me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me.

This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you’d see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say “Yup, that’s me”. I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I’m assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I’ve found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It’s really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it’s almost like we’re identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?

Zoot Suit Tom Crossover

“Zoot Suit Tom”, also known as “One More Time” in reference to That Fucking Cat, is a picture of the character Tom from Tom and Jerry dressed in a Zoot Suit.^[12] The character is often depicted as a rival to Literally Me. The image originates from the 1944 Tom and Jerry episode, The Zoot Cat.^[13]

The first mention of the characters being paired together is in the /co/ general drawthread, where a user requested a drawing of the characters having a pose off from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.^[6]

The first post where Zoot Suit Tom is referred to as One More Time is in the /co/ drawthread, where a poster drew a picture of Zoot Suit Tom and Literally Me as a JoJo stands. The image was posted on February 25th, 2016. On February 29th, 2016 a video of Literally Me and One More Time as stands from JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure was uploaded to YouTube. As of March 2016 the video has gained over 25 thousand views.

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“I’m You, But Stronger” refers to a series of images in which a character asks another character “Who are you?”, to which the other character replies “I’m you, but stronger.” The meme is frequently used in shitposting.

Origin

The first known use of the phrase is in a tweet on December 5th, 2015 by Twitter user " ". In the tweet, the user compared the old version of “One Direction”: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/one-direction with Zayn to the newer version without Zayn. The tweet has gained over 10 retweets and 20 likes in four months.

Spread

A post to tumblr combining the phrase with Long Boy was posted to tumblr on February 26th, 2016 by the tumblr blog Special Meme Fresh.^[1] The post has gained over 10 thousand notes in almost 2 weeks.

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A post to tumblr with Snake from Metal Gear Solid and a snake smoking a cigarette was posted to tumblr on February 28th, 2016.^[2] The post has gained over 7 thousand notes in less than 2 weeks.

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Black-Eyed Children, also known as Black-Eyed Kids and its acronym BEK, is an internet urban legend in the form of creepypastas and alleged first-hand reports of encounters with strange pale-skinned children having deep black irisless eyes extending to the entirety of the sclera. Starting in a Usenet newsgroup mailing list in the end of the 1990s, the stories became quite a curiosity online following the release of an indie film as well as several news articles covering strange phenomena taking place in Cannock Chase, UK in the early 2010s. They eventually led to alleged spin-off sightings of other entities known as White-Eyed Kids (WEKs), some kind of opposite demonic faction to the black-eyed ones.

Origin

On January 16th, 1998, writer and Abilene Reporter News journalist Brian Bethel wrote a lenghty post^[1] in the alt.folklore.ghost-stories Usenet newsgroup (archived 6/11/2001) recounting a strange event that happened to him two years prior, in which he claimed to have met two black-eyed boys asking him to let them into his car in a parking lot in front of a theater in Abilene, Texas.

My Internet Service Provider used to have offices in a shopping center
before they moved to their (comparatively) lush accommodations elsewhere.
There was a drop box at that original location. The monthly bill was due,
and thus, there but for the Grace of the Net I went.

On November 14th, 1998, Bethel came back to the mailing list to add IRC chat logs with a friend of his reporting a similar encounter with two boys and a girl in Portland, Oregon that year Three years later, on June 14th, 2001, an user by the handle Harvestwind replied to the post by sharing another similar story happening in Portland in 2000.

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The mailing list, while archived, remained quite scarcely shared online for some time. On April 22nd, 2004, a thread was launched in the discussion board of Democratic Underground^[2] linking to a now defunct story webpage titled “Evil kids” on the Ghosts.org website, in which Bethel reposted his initial story. On October 23rd, 2004, the link was posted to a thread in the Paranormal Soup forums^[3], leading to about 29 pages of comments and it was again posted to the Snopes forum on November 12th, 2005, discussing the validity of Bethel’s testimony.
Also in November 2004, another story, from an alleged 47-year-old woman by the handle Tee was posted to the Paranormal section of About.com^[4].
In 2008, alternative news site Rensee.com writer Ted Twietmeyer wrote a piece compiling several sightings of black-eyed beings of different ages and genders^[5].
Eventually, more stories were brought from various parts of the US, which were shared by paranormal enthiusiasts and ghost bloggers^[6].
In early 2013, MSN show "Weekly Strange run a short documentary on the phenomenon (shown below).

In May 2013, an entire sub-reddit was created to collect first-hand accounts from people alledgely surviving encounters with black-eyed kids^[11]
In 2014, a entire website dedicated to the phenomenon and reports of sightings was created^[7].

As a Creepypasta

On August 6th, 2008; Bethel’s story was reposted to the Creepypasta compiler Creepypasta.com website, where it received a 7,9/10 rating based on more than 1 000 reviews^[8].
On April 21st 2011, an original story about Black-Eyed people was posted to the Creepypasta wikia site^[9]. An alleged sighting in Kansas was also posted the day after^[10].

Indie Films

In 2011, amateur filmaker Matt Matzen directed a 15-minute-long film entitled The Black-Eyed Children (trailer shown below).

In 2012, a full feature film, titled Sunshine Girl and the Hunt for Black Eyed Kids was directed by Nicholas J. Hagen (trailer shown below). The film premiered at Kiggins Theatre in Vancouver, Canada, on December 20th, 2012.

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Zoot Suit Daffy Duck, also known as “Literally Me”, is an image of Looney Tunes character Daffy Duck with a blond hairstyle, a purple zoot suit, and a green bow tie. The image is frequently associated with JoJo’s Bizzarre Adventure stands. The image is also generally used in conjunction with copypastas like Literally Me.

Origin

The image comes from a scene in Looney Tunes cartoon short Book Revue, originally released in 1946.^[5]

The first use of the original image of Daffy Duck was in the 4chan /co/ thread “ITT: characters that are essentially you”. In the thread, the image of Daffy Duck was paired with the words, “For me it’s Daffy Duck – intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.” was posted January 13th, 2015, in reference to Intelligent, Nihilistic and with a Wicked Sense of Humor.^[2]

Spread

The image can be frequently found by searching for the term “Literally Me”, especially on various 4chan boards. As of March 6th, 2016 a search for literally me on DesuStorage for /co/ contains over 500 results.^[3] A post of the image accompanied by the text “Daffy’s Bizarre Adventure.jpg” was posted to tumblr on May 30th, 2015. As of March 2016, that post has gained over 9 thousand notes.^[4] On March 1st, 2016 a post was made to the reddit subreddit /r/OutOfTheLoop asking what the joke is behind the Literally Me picture.^[1]

Zoot Suit Tom Crossover

“Zoot Suit Tom”, also known as “One More Time” in reference to That Fucking Cat, is a picture of the character Tom from Tom and Jerry dressed in a Zoot Suit.^[12] The character is often depicted as a rival to Literally Me. The image originates from the 1944 Tom and Jerry episode, The Zoot Cat.^[13]

The first mention of the characters being paired together is in the /co/ general drawthread, where a user requested a drawing of the characters having a pose off from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.^[6]

The first post where Zoot Suit Tom is referred to as One More Time is in the /co/ drawthread, where a poster drew a picture of Zoot Suit Tom and Literally Me as a JoJo stands. The image was posted on February 25th, 2016. On February 29th, 2016 a video of Literally Me and One More Time as stands from JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure was uploaded to YouTube. As of March 2016 the video has gained over 25 thousand views.

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“Life, Uh, Finds a Way” is a memorable quote uttered by the character Dr. Ian Malcolm in the 1993 science fiction adventure drama film Jurassic Park. Online, the quote has been both genuinely celebrated for its profound nature and parodied in the form of the phrasal template“(X) Finds a Way” by the fans of the film franchise.

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Donald Trump’s “Bing Bong” Speech is a nonsensical phrase uttered by the American businessman and Republican presidential candidate to mockingly describe how political lobbying works during a keynote speech he delivered at the Republican Party’s “Lincoln Day” event in Birch Run, Michigan. Upon entering online circulation in August 2015, the soundbite of Trump saying the words “bing bong” became a popular audio material for parodies and remixes on Vine and YouTube.

Origin

On August 11th, 2015, Donald Trump delivered the keynote speech at the Republican Party’s Lincoln Day event held in Birch Run, Michigan. During his hour-long speech, Trump openly criticized his then-rival GOP candidate Jeb Bush and opponent Hillary Clinton for their reliance on lobbyists and special interest groups to fund their campaigns, even resorting to hand gestures to mimic the movements of a robotic puppeteer (shown below).

“Jeb Bush or Hillary, or one of these politicians, all controlled by lobbyists and special interests--and donors, people like me from previous months--total control. Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing. You know what that is, right?”

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Donald Trump’s nonsensical rhetoric was subsequently highlighted by virtually all major U.S. news outlets and political journalists who were covering the event, with CNN Politics^[10] uploading an isolated video clip of the soundbite to its official Vine channel that same day. Within the next 72 hours, the Vine clip became an instant hit as it began making the rounds on news sites and in the blogosphere, including Gawker, Death & Taxes and SomeECards.

On August 13th, 2015, YouTube remix artist Jonathan Mann uploaded an audio-spliced and autotuned mashup music video sampling Donald Trump’s “bing bing, bong bong” soundbite in combination with the Crazy Frog Brothers video (shown below).

While many of the musical remixes of Trump’s “bing bong” speech began to surface online as early as in October 2015, the media coverage of the remix phenomenon on Vine and YouTube didn’t occur until early March 2016, when BuzzFeed ran a compilation of some of the most notable instances in an article titled “19 Donald Trump Vines That Prove He Might Secretly Be A Musical Genius.”^[7]

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Girther Movement is a satirical political movement calling into question the size of 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s penis. The name is a parody of the “Birther Movement”, which claims that United States President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible for presidency.

Origin

On February 26th, 2016, rival presidential candidate Marco Rubio attacked Donald Trump at a political rally in Houston, Texas, where he mocked the size of Trump’s hands and insinuated that they were a sign of having a small penis (shown below, left). On March 3rd, 2016, Trump addressed the insults during a Republican presidential debate held in Detroit, Michigan, where he claimed that his hands were not small and assured viewers there was “no problem” with the size of his penis (shown below, right).

“He referred to my hands, ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”

That evening, Twitter user Josh Greenman^[1] tweeted “produce the schlong form girth certificate,” in reference to Birther Movement demands for Obama’s long form birth certificate (shown below). Within four days, the tweet gained over 2,400 likes and 1,400 retweets.

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Also on March 3rd, 2016, other Twitter users began demanding Trump expose his penis along with the hashtag “#Girthers” (shown below).^[2][3][8]

On March 4th, 2016, Hustler CEO Larry Flynt released an open letter to Donald Trump, which called for Trump to expose his penis to “a team of doctors” to determine his penis size (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published article about the “#Girther” tweets, including The Daily Dot,^[4] The Interrobang,^[5] Esquire^[6] and UpRoxx.^[7]

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" Knife Cat" refers to an edit of Smug Cat’s face photoshopped onto a picture of a cat being threatened with a knife. The image has been frequently used in photoshops and drawings.

Origin

The image is a combination of Smug Cat and an image of a cat being threatened by a knife. The image of the cat being threatened by a knife originates from a post on pikabu of a scared cat being threatened by a knife with the title “threats will not work”.^[1] The image was first posted on July 9th, 2014 by user kimax06 and has since gained over 1 thousand likes.

The first instance of the two pictures being combined is in a gallery on imgur entitled “Scaredy cat”, posted on March 12th, 2015 by imgur user SnapTucker.^[3] In the gallery the first photo is a merge of the two images, and the second photo is the original body image with a second knife. As of March, 2016 the image has gained over 12 thousand points.

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On November 29th, a post titled “knife cat theme” containing the Smug Knife Cat image paired with the song Megalovania was published by the Animal Music Themes^[4] Tumblr blog. Within four months, the post has gained over 50 thousand notes.^[4] The same day, Tumblr^[6] user gayvoid submitted the original Smug Cat image with the tags “#knife cat” and “the truth revealed.” On January 6th, 2016, a photoshop of the knife pointed at the Osomatsu-san character Tomodatsu was posted by Tumblr user Novactis.^[5] As of March, 2016 the post has gained over 2,000 notes.

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“Layers Of Irony” refers to an exploitable four panel web comic of a floating head having a conversation with a man about how many “layers of irony” they are on.

Origin

The image originates from a Facebook post by the page “Special meme fresh” on October 24th, 2015.^[1] The original post to Facebook has gained over two thousand likes in five months. The image was reposted the day after to tumblr by the tumblr brach of “Special meme fresh.”^[2] The post has gained over 20 thousand notes.

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^[1]Facebook – Original Post

^[2]tumblr – Repost to tumblr

About: Too Sad For Dtech (Stylized as 2sad4dtech) depicts a video of a teenager, (adorn with a plastic horse mask) slamming into a door, and dropping a clock(presumably breaking it).
Origin: It first appeared on Youtube, from a Channel under the alias, “Rip Kid.” in Jan 27, 2016.

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Stormfront^[1] is an American neo-nazi and white supremacist internet forum created in 1995 by former Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black that has been the subject of considerable amounts of controversy since it’s inception.

History

In 1990, Stormfront went online as a campaign website for former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke’s run for the position of state senator of Louisiana. On January 11, 1995, former Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black registered the domain name Stormfront.org.^[2] The website maintained a relatively low profile until October 23, 2000 when Hate.com: Extremists of the Internet, a documentary focusing on the website, was released.^[3] In 2002, the site was the focus of controversy when Google, complying with legislation from France and Germany prohibiting links to hate sites, removed Stormfront from it’s indexes in those languages.^[4] In May 2003 Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly asked his viewers if they would send their children to a racially segregated prom after one had taken place in the US state of Georgia, members of the website attacked the poll prompting O’Reilly to discuss the website and it’s community on the following weeks program. In August 2005, Doug Hanks who at the time was running for city council in Charlotte, North Carolina dropped out of the race after it had been discovered that he had made over 4,000 posts to the forum over three years including a comment he made calling black people “rabid beasts”.^[5] In 2012 Italy’s police force blocked the and put 4 people under arrest for inciting racial hatred after it was discovered that a blacklist targeting “Prominent Jews and people who support Jewish Immigrants” was posted on the Italian language section of the website.The blacklist included potential attack targets, such as Gypsy camps.^[6] In November 2013 the homes of 35 posters were raided including one from Mantua, Italy who, had at the time of his arrest, had in his possession two loaded weapons, a swastika flag, and a grenade casing.^[7]

Features

The v-bulletin powered forum includes a board introducing potential new members to the site and it’s rules.^[8] A news board where members can discuss “all news relating to white nationalists”.^[9] A general board that deals with a wide array of topics, such as self defense, health and fitness and finance.^[10] An “Open Forums” board that allows guests to post.^[11] An activism board.^[12] A “White Singles” board that allows members to talk to other members looking for romance and friendship as well as a forum for dating advice.^[13] Finally, the website contains an “International” board with forums for members from countries such as Croatia and Great Britain.^[14]

Traffic

According to Quantcast, Stormfront.org receives approximately 166,700 unique visitors monthly,^[15] and currently has an Alexa Global Rank of 33,912.^[16] In 2001, It was reported that Stormfront was the most visited white supremacist site on the internet.^[17] From January 2002 to June 2005, the number of registered users on the site rose from 5,000 to 52,556. That same year, it was reported that the site was the 338th largest internet forum receiving 1,500 hits each weekday. By June 2008 the site was getting more than 40,000 unique viewers every day.^[18] in 2016, Don Black revealed that the site was experiencing massive traffic spikes corresponding to statements made by Donald Trump who’s run for office is popular with white supremacists.^[19]

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Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects a computer and blocks access to the machine’s system files, demanding a payment from the owner before the restriction is removed.

Origin

In 1989, London, England resident Dr. Joseph Popp authored a trojan horse virus known as the Aids Info Disk, which prevented users from accessing certain directories and encrypted the C: drive, demanding a payment to a post office in Panama to unlock the files. Popp was subsequently arrested by British authorities and charged with eleven counts of blackmail.

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In September 2005, the tech news blog NetworkWorld^[4] published an article describing ransomware as the “latest security worry.” Several ransomware programs surface online over the next year, including the GPCode trojan horse virus which was circumvented by international software security group Kaspersky Lab.^[5] Up until June 2008, several iterations of the malware resurfaced online. In 2010, 10 people were arrested in Russia that were implicated in creating the WinLock ransomware trojan. The following year, a malware program mimicking a Windows Product Activation notification began circulating online, which tricked victims into calling a number to collect international long distance charges. In 2012, the ransomware trojan Reveton, based on the Citadel trojan virus, began infecting a wide distribution of computers, displaying a false messaging informing the user they had been flagged for pirating software or downloading child pornography (shown below).

On October 11th, the tech news site TorrentFreak^[3] reported that a ransomware virus was circulating that falsely informed infected machines that they had been included in a Stop Online Piracy ACT black list (shown below).

In February 2013, a ransomware program surfaced online using a Stamp.EK exploit kit which tricked Internet users by promising nude photographs of celebrities. In September, the CryptoWall and CryptoLocker trojans began spreading in emails fraudulently claiming to be Australia Post delivery notices. On September 4th, 2015, Redditor puckpou submitted a post about ransomware to the /r/YouShouldKnow^[2] subreddit, where it garnered upwards of 1,200 votes (90% upvoted) and 170 comments prior to being archived. On September 21st, the radio show and podcast Radiolab published an episode titled “Darkode,” which featured a story about a Russian woman who paid off ransomware attackers using bitcoin. On January 26th, 2016, the anti-malware software company Malwarebytes introduced an anti-ransomware beta. In March, the KeRanger ransomware began infecting Mac computers through the Transmission BitTorrent client.^[7]

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Red Pill is a term used as synonym of embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality, in reference to the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix. The term, which has gained notoriety online due its use by conspiracy theorists, has been adopted by communites such as /pol/ and Stormfront, as a way to initiate new or unaware members of their beliefs.

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Glass Breaks is a recurring shitpostingcopypasta involving the sound effect of breaking glass in the beginning of the notable Death Grips song “You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat”. The sound effect, often included with the mimicked screaming of vocalist MC Ride, is often spammed on the 4chan Music board, /mu/.

Origin

On November 13th, 2013, the music video for the song “You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat”. The video features vocalist MC Ride in an extreme closeup. In the song itself, there’s a sound effect of broken glass to begin the track.

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Due to the frequent shitposting of Death Grips in /mu/, the breaking of glass had been green texted about, however it was at a low frequency, often posted in large threads about the album the song was featured in, Government Plates.

In the months eluding the massively hyped second part of the Death Grips double LP, Jenny Death, shitposting about the band rose to a high, with multiple threads reaching bump limit a day, [Glass Breaks] was a very frequent post, along with other popular phrases about the band, including “Zach Here, Thanks Man” (referencing drummer, Zach Hill), and frequent jokes about the appearance of Zach Hill, MC Ride, and Andy Morin, as well as the mysteriousness used by the band. The use peaked shortly after Death Grips released their side project, also known as the i.l.y’s, however as Death Grips are still a staple of /mu/, the phrase is still often frequently used in threads discussing Death Grips.

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CGP Grey is a vlogger known for creating educational videos on YouTube and for co-hosting the podcast Hello Internet.

History

YouTube Channel

On August 12th, 2010, the CGP Grey YouTube^[5] channel was launched. The first video was uploaded on October 6th, featuring instructions on tying up computer cables with a daisy chain (shown below, left). On January 17th, 2011, a video outlining time management techniques for school teachers was uploaded to the channel (shown below, right).

On January 30th, a video explaining the differences between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England was uploaded to the channel, which received upwards of 8.4 million views and 35,500 comments over the next six years (shown below, left). On March 9th, 2011, Grey posted a video explaining first-past-the-post voting systems and how they promote two-party systems (shown below, right). Within five years, the video garnered upwards of 2.3 million views and 3,100 comments.

On January 24th, 2012, a video was published listing several common misconceptions, which received more than 5.2 million views and 12,200 comments in four years (shown below, left). The following day, the video was featured in an article on CBS News.^[2] On December 23rd, 2013, Grey released a video titled “This Video Will Hurt,” which described problems associated with the nocebo effect (shown below, right).

On August 13th, 2014, a video titled “Humans Need Not Apply” was published on the channel, which explained potential problems arising from technological advances in artificial intelligence and robotics (shown below, left). Over the next two years, the video accumulated upwards of six million views and 26,500 comments. On March 10th, 2015, Grey published a video titled “This Video Will Make You Angry,” which describes how memes and outrage spreads on the Internet (shown below, right). Within one year, the video gained over 3.3 million views and 8,200 comments.

Hello Internet

In January 2014, Grey joined Australian independent film-maker Brady Haran to create the Hello Internet podcast,^[3] which features discussion topics releated to YouTube content creation.

Cortex

In June 2015, Grey and podcaster Myke Hurley launched the podcast Cortex,^[4] which features explanations of Grey’s time management and workflow systems.

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“Little Marco” is a derogatory nickname given to Marco Rubio by Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary. The nickname gained notoriety after Trump used it in the 11th GOP debate, followed by an incident where Rubio sat in a giant chair.

Origin

Trump had repeatedly referred Rubio’s size at rallies throughout his campaign.^[1] However, at the 11th GOP Debate in Detroit, Michigan on March 3th, 2016, Rubio and Trump began arguing over their views on employment, and Trump referred to Rubio as “This Little Guy” (1:40 in the below video). Rubio responded to the insult (minute 4:00 below), and they continue to argue; at the end of his response, the moderator proposes to ask another policy question. Rubio responds “let’s see if he answers it!” to which Trump says, “Don’t worry little Marco, I will,” (4:48 below).

After the debate, #LittleMarco immediately took off as a hashtag^[2]. Reporters like Sabrina Siddiqui tweeted about the nickname, and the online publication Slate claimed that American had just been “introduced” to “Little Marco.” The hashtag received a substantial boost from Trump himself, who used it when he tweeted on March 5th that he believed that Fox News was favoring Rubio.

On March 4th, 2016, redditor rareunlimited submitted a photo of Marco Rubio sitting in a giant chair to the /r/PsBattle subreddit, where it gained 3,482 points (91% upvoted) and 216 responses.

The photo was originally taken by Elizabeth Frantz and published by the Concord Monitor when Rubio visited a furniture store in New Hampshire in August, 2015. The photoshops began to circulate through Twitter, Imgur, and elsewhere, eventually gaining attention from blogs like Gizmodo.

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