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Majestic Thorin started as a picture of Thorin Oakenshield from the movie The Hobbit along with phrases drawing attention to this trait. It soon grew to include various other characters discussing this, leading to the creation of Wannabe Majestic Kili, Be Cool Bro Fili, and others.

Origin:

Majestic Thorin was started in December of 2012 by Tumblr users mistlethalia and jackietastic. It came about after the two of them saw The Hobbit and began talking about how majestic Thorin seemed to be in relation to the other characters.

Picture of my dog, Preston, sitting like a human.

We survived the end of the world… bring on the Physical Cliff.

Aleksey Dolmatov (rus. Алексей Долматов) is a Russian rap singer, drug-addict and Russian “Centr” rap group’s ex-vocalist. Known in Russian Internet by his fake death information.

Origin

Presumably, information of his death in terrorist attack to Domodedovo first appeared in “Metro” newspaper on 25th of January. His fans asked about it on question-answer sites, like answers.mail.ru for many times. Despite its soon rebuttal, this information has spread around the Internet.

Spread

The phrase “Guf’s dead” (Rus. Гуф умер) was used to troll his fans and himself. In April, 2011 this phrase has become the most popular in Russian social networks and forums, and a lot of macro and comics have been created.

The phrase from his “Is it easy to be young” song: “I’m in the seventh floor, it’s like sixth, but one higher” (Rus. Я на седьмом этаже, это как шестой, но на один повыше) has been used in macro and comics series as snowclone “X, it’s like Y, but X”.

The phrase from his “A town of roads” song: “Thanks “Centr” for that” (Rus. Спасибо “Центру” за это) is also usable in expressions like “Guf’s dead, thanks Centr for that”.

“” “”

Personality

Obviously, Aleksey doesn’t approve and promote information about his “death”, and ignores every questions about it. His songs are being criticised because of their bad performance and his voice’s burr. He sometimes makes jokes about it, but at 31st of December, 2011 he wished a death to anyone, who called him dead.

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NationStates^[1] is a browser-based multiplayer nation simulation game. It presents players with political decisions to make, termed ‘issues’, and allows players to shape their country as they want to. There is also a large forum community, where can players interact and role-play. The site hosts over 3.3 million nations, with around 100,000 active at any time.^[2]

History

NationStates was founded in 2002 by author Max Barry. It is an offshoot of his 2003 novel Jennifer Government, but contains none of the novel’s plot or characters.^[2] Since its launch, it has had a large forum community. The game itself is fairly simple and is text-based, so most of the community interaction and role-playing occurs on the NationStates forum.^[3] In addition, many “satellite” sites have been created by players, to further consolidate their communities – called regions in-game.

Features

Players are faced with issues once or twice a day; these are political questions (regarding things like the death penalty or economic regulation) with multiple choice answers. Depending on the answers chosen, the player can shape their country into anything from a dictatorship to an anarchist state. Broadly speaking, the choices made will rank the player’s nation on political, personal, and economic freedom.

Players are also asked to join a region when starting the game, to facilitate their incorporation of their nation into the game, and to introduce them to the community. There is also a supranational organization called the World Assembly, similar in function to the United Nations, through which international issues can be addressed. Players can choose to abide by World Assembly decisions, or can invade other countries as they see fit. Such community-based interaction is done in the forums.^[4]

Fan-made Graphics

As the game is almost entirely text-based, it has inspired a large amount of fan art and graphics, especially flags and maps. Each regional community will typically have one or two members who are designated regional cartographers, and players often produce maps of their specific countries. Some “satellite” sites also have wikis, where players can create pages for their nations, and really work on developing their nations’ histories and identities.

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Aristocat is an advice animal image macro series featuring a black-and-white photograph of a cat dressed in a suit and top hat. The captions typically portray the cat as a member of the wealthy elite class who orders his servants to do chores and run errands for him.

Origin

On August 4th, 2011, Redditor Scratchie submitted a post titled “Aristocat’s worked for it” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] subreddit, which included a black-and-white photograph of a well-attired cat with the caption “Poverty / Is a lazy man’s problem” (shown below, left). According to the vintage media website Vanished Americana,^[1] the original photograph came from a 1906 postcard with the caption “One of the ‘Smart Set’” (shown below, right).

Spread

On December 4th, 2011, Redditor theel25 submitted an Aristocat image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[6] subreddit, which included the caption “What did one poor person say to the other poor person? / Who cares?” (shown below, left). On February 21st, 2012, Redditor YellowBatman submitted a post titled “Quite the Aristocat” to the /r/funny^[5] subreddit, featuring an image macro with the caption “Jeeves / Fetch me that red dot moving on the wall” (shown below, right). Prior to being archived, the post received over 7,300 up votes and 45 comments.

For several months the meme remained dormant until Redditor Chubb47 submitted an image macro titled “Aristocat” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[4] subreddit on December 15th, which featured the caption “Geoffrey, bring the car around / I want to sleep under it” (shown below, left). Within 48 hours, the post received over 13,400 up votes and 115 comments. On the following day, Redditor peternemr submitted an image macro with the caption “Jeeves / Turn on the laptop I require a warm bed” (shown below, right),^[9] which accumulated over 11,700 up votes and 60 comments within the next 24 hours. As of December 17th, 2012, the “Aristocat” Quickmeme^[3] page has accumulated over 950 submissions.

Notable Examples

Additional examples can be found on the microblogging site Tumblr^[10] under the tag “#aristocat.” Within the family tree of Advice Animals, Aristocrat bears some resemblance to Business Cat and Lawyer Dog, particularly in juxtaposing the privileged status of each character with their natural instincts and habits.

Old Money Dog

Aristocat inspired the creation of the “Old Money Dog” advice animal series, which featured a similar black-and-white photograph of a dog wearing a suit and hat with captions portraying the canine as a wealthy businessman. The first example was posted by Redditor lets_be_truant to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[8] subreddit on December 16th, 2012, which featured the caption “Benson please pull the car around / I would like to chase it” (shown below, left). Within 16 hours, the post received over 17,400 up votes and 225 comments. As of December 17th, 2012, the “Old Money Dog” Quickmeme^[7] page has accumulated over 395 submissions.

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Change.org is an online petition platform which allows anyone to launch and participate in crowdsourced petitions. In 2012, the site surpassed more than 20 million users in 196 countries.

History

After two years of development, Change.org^[1] was launched in February 2007 by the San Francisco-based for-profit organization Change.org, Inc.. In its first year, the site allowed users to search for nonprofits and politicians to support based on political movements. The day of the site’s launch, it was featured on TechCrunch^[2], who likened the site’s original design to that of a social network. At launch, users could add friends, share photos and join groups, known as “Changes,” based on social issues and nonprofit organizations.

The site was also featured on VentureBeat^[3] and the Nonprofit Technology Network^[4] in spring 2007 and by July, the site launched a Facebook application^[5] where users could easily access the site through their Facebook account. After President Obama’s election in 2008, Change.org partnered with social networking site MySpace to create a platform where users could submit policy ideas for Barack Obama (shown below).

Petitions

In November 2009, Change.org introduced their petition tool^[12], integrating non-profit organization Democracy in Action’s government data with social media share buttons and embed codes. After transitioning away from its original social network setup, the site saw its first major spike in traffic after a petition was made in July 2011 to create a law to make it a felony for a parent or guardian to not notify authorities after a child has been missing for 24 hours. As of December 6th, 2012, the site hosts more than 350 thousand petitions, with 40,000 being created every month, which are browsable by popular topics, amount of signatures and most recent submissions.

The site has staff in twenty countries that provide translations in eleven different languages. Change.org also features^[14] successful petitions on a blog page that have resulted in real-life changes including a petition ensuring health care for victims affected by contaminated water at a military base^[15] and another urging schools to remove LFTB, a mixture of beef scraps and connective tissue, from school food.^[16] Change.org maintains a presence on other forms of social networking including Facebook^[9] and Twitter^[10], where it has more than 102K likes and 415K followers respectively as of December 2012.

Highlights

Caylee’s Law

Following Casey Anthony being found not guilty for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Caylee in July 2011, a handful of petition launched calling for governors to make not reporting a child missing after 24 hours a felony for parents or guardians. One in particular, written by Oklahoma resident Michelle Crowder^[17] gained more than 1.2 million electronic signatures within 14 days. In response, lawmakers in eleven states have proposed bills of this nature and as of December 2012, seven of those have been approved.^[18]

Trayvon Martin

On March 8th, 2012, Tracey Martin and Sybrina Fulton launched a petition^[19] seeking justice for their son, Trayvon Martin, after he was murdered in Sanford, Florida. In less than two weeks, the petition became the fastest growing on the site, at one point gaining 1000 new signatures per minute.^[20] More than 2.2 million people virtually signed the petition before it was announced that a Florida State Attorney would charge neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman with second degree murder. The trial is scheduled to begin in June 2013.

Media Coverage

Following the attention Change.org recieved from the Trayvon Martin case, the site began appearing in the media more frequently with mentions on NPR^[21], the Huffington Post^[22], Mashable^[23], Forbes^[24] and the Wall Street Journal^[25], among others. Many of these articles touch on the for-profit aspect of the site, by generating revenue from the email addresses of users who sign petitions.

Traffic

As of December 2012, Change.org has a Quantcast^[7] score of 1024 in the United States, seeing 1.6 million monthly users, and a global Alexa^[8] score of 1395. In September 2012, the site had surpassed 20 million total users^[11], breaking 25 million in December.^[13]

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About

LifeInATent / LIAT^[1], real name Brian Martin, is a very well known internet tough guy, troll, and steroid user that seeks attention, partnership, and money on YouTube. Similar to Reply Girls^[2], LifeInATent spends most of his time being a internet tough guy with very serious death threats to anyone and anybody who finds him breaking the YouTube rules, or protecting his girlfriend and reply girl MeganLeeHeart^[3] from people pointing out the truth and facts about her. He’s been behaving like this for over 2 years now.

History

He first started YouTube around 2010 as MartekTheSuperHero. Originally, his idea was to be called MolestoTheSuperHero, but later changed it to Martek so people don’t suspect him as a sex offender. The channel contain trailers of a poorly made video game or movie called “Flying Campers” stars the main character Martek the Super Hero shaped after Willy Wonka. Next he started using his main YouTube account LifeInATent to leech YouTube partnership and their money by stealing video tags of popular videos from popular channels and start posting spam useless videos of himself with thumbnails of his face in goggles. Very similar to Reply Girls leeching YouTube’s partnership and money with thumbnails of an arrow pointing at their breasts.

Banned From YouTube

While LifeInATent violently keeps sending endless types of threats (death, hack, family, violence, etc.) to people on YouTube, the Youtube admins permanently banned all of his channels, his sock accounts, and his partnership taken down due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s Community Guidelines.

Coming Back For More

With his main account and other accounts banned, LifeInATent creates endless amount of accounts and sock accounts to somehow return to YouTube to continue his threats and white knighting to other YouTube users and create spam videos of himself with the name and tags of any disasters like the Japan earthquake disaster and the Connecticut shooting disaster just to get views, attention, and to help MeganLeeHeart’s reply videos on it get more views just to steal more YouTube money.

In current status, LifeInATent as LIATPARODY and ParodyViral3 is spamming death threats to everyone on YouTube for exposing the facts on him and MeganLeeHeart (as TimeWithMegan) (she is also spamming threats to people).

Disorders

Because of his violent attitude, it is clear that LifeInATent has disorders that can make him very dangerous and a threat in public. Those disorders are MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder)^[4], APD (Antisocial Personality Disorder)^[5], and HPD (Hypocrisy Personality Disorder)^[6]. Reply girl MeganLeeHeart also has APD and HPD except for MPD.

WeatherManKevin / KMartinTV

WeatherManKevin / KMartinTV is one of LifeInATent’s multiple personality characters who goes by the name of Kevin Martin, LifeInATent’s brother and a employed meteorologist who “owns” multiple weather websites like Southern California Weather Authority. Mostly he post videos of his ranting and telling people to back off LifeInATent and MeganLeeHeart or he will sue for harassment, which will never happen.

MeganLeeHeart / MeganSpeaks

MeganLeeHeart / MeganSpeaks, real name Chrissie Barmore, is LifeInATent’s girlfriend and reply girl. Not only she likes to leech partnership and money, but she’s also hypocritical and antisocial. She and LifeInATent bullies other YouTube users and send them threat messages. MeganLeeHeart also tries to get rid of the other reply girls by sending death threats and hack threats with LifeInATent so she can be the only reply girl leeching YouTube money.

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Branflakes, bold new taste. You’ll love it! For a measly 2 dollars you can experience Bran Flakes!

About

ConcernedMom420 is the name of a Twitter user known for unusual posts. She is a 45yr old christian mom from utah who aims to ‘get weed banned’, and uses a large variety of false facts to back her up. Her posts revolve around religion, child abuse, extreme racism (mainly towards Barrack Obama) , false drug facts, hate towards the government, and extreme homophobia. Although she’s thought to be a troll, she repetitively claims to be real and legitimate.

Origin

Her first Post on Twitter was on December the 10th, showing this image and saying: ‘this deserves endless retweets!!!! I am a mom of 3!!! This hits close to home!!! #stopweed pic.twitter.com/98Y4Ew27’

Since then, many people have noticed her unusual posts.

Notoriety

Since her first post, she has been seen and noticed by large sections of the internet, mainly making fun of her posts.

[w.i.p.]

About

Star Fox, is a Nintendo Sci-Fi rail shooter video game first created for the Super NES. Since it’s original launch in 1993, it has gained a large online following, especially within the Furry fandom.

History

The original game, simply titled Star Fox^[1] (or Star Wing in Europe) was released on the SNES in 1993. This was then followed by Star Fox 64^[2] (or Lylat Wars in Europe) in 1997, which is widely considered the best in the series. This was soon followed by Star Fox Adventures^[3] and Star Fox: Assault^[4] on the Gamecube in 2002 and 2005 respectively, as well as Star Fox Command^[5] in 2006 for the DS, and a remake of Star Fox 64^[6] for the 3DS in 2011. As well as this, the characters have gone on to be playable characters in the Nintendo fighting series Super Smash Bros.

Online Presence

The Star Fox series has a large online fanbase, especially within the Furry fandom. Star Fox has a large presence on Tumblr^[7], Reddit^[8] and 4chan’s /v/ (video games) board^[9] as well as multiple fansites^[10][11] and it’s own wiki^[12].

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Do a Barrel Roll

“Do A Barrel Roll”:http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-a-barrel-roll is a catchphrase used to call on someone to perform a 360 degree horizontal spin. The phrase is sometimes used to caption image macros where the subject appears to be in mid-rotation, or in animated GIFs where the subject is performing a full rotation.

Krystal Can’t Enjoy Her Sandwich

Krystal Can’t Enjoy Her Sandwich is an avatar meme that became popular on the furry fandom website FurAffinity.

I Can’t Let You Do That Star Fox

I Can’t Let You Do That Star Fox is a line in StarFox 64 mentioned in the level “Fortuna” by antagonist Wolf O’Donnell, leader of the Star Wolf team.

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Most Offensive Video is a website that does video parodies of Charlie Brown and some other holiday parody videos. The voiceover for all the characters remain anonymous.

Origin

In 2002, the very first video he posted on the internet is A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa, a video parody of A Charlie Brown Christmas. It was originally created as a video experiment he posted on the web until in 2005 he’s discovered by millions of fans. A redux version of A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa is made in 2003, one year later after the first video.

Spread

The popularity of A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa went viral all over the internet. He has spawned several sequels, and remains today one of the all time most watched comedy videos on the internet.

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About

Lettuce / It Says “Never Give Up” is a fad on the website tumblr where the word replaces the phrase or the phrase replaces the word.

Origin

This fad originated on Tumblr in late 2012. It began in early December when Tumblr user ChuckQuizmo posted a picture of a guy^[1] holding a sign with the word “Lettuce” in katakana, with the attached phrase “Never Give Up”. This went on to receive over 32,870 notes as of December 23rd.

This phrase attatched to the image sparked a controversy when users translated the phrase on the sign and figured out it’s true meaning, while some others agreed with the meaning attached in the original post.

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^[1]Tumblr – Chuck Quizmo

The politician of 10,000 DERPS, this guy’s facial expressions and shots in public photographs are just too priceless not to meme! Working in a career where his colleagues, for the most part, comprise the most foul collection of lying, cheating, corrupt human specimens, Eddie Paes is practically a saint in the history of politicians across the world. He is most notable for his relentless efforts to bring the Games of the XXXI Olympiad to Rio de Janeiro and has nearly entirely pacified a city previously reputed for its history of violence, gang warfare and corruption. Whatever his political leanings may be, Prefeito Paes is always on the front lines of everything happening in Rio de Janeiro – for better or for worse – as simply a Carioca with his sleeves crudely rolled to his elbows standing among his fellow people.

In other words: WE LOVEEDDIE!

Origin

Belfast Bigot, or “No Surrender”, is the name given to the woman who shouted “NO SURRENDER!” (A phrase made famous by the enigmatic Unionist Ian Paisley) through a broken window into Belfast town hall during a Unionist protest in Northern Ireland.
The said protest was part of many held after Belfast City Council voted to only fly the Union flag (of the United Kingdom) over town hall on 20 designated days of the year. Nationalists on the council had originally wanted to take down the flag altogether, but ,in order to get the votes they needed, they reached a compromise with the mostly-neutral Alliance party to fly the flag only occasionally. There were peaceful protests outside the town hall in anticipation of this vote, however when the motion was passed (on Monday 3rd December) they became violent. Unionist protests, both violent and peaceful, broke out over the following weeks all across the province, including Ballymena and Coleraine, but mostly in Belfast. The Alliance party was especially targeted, as they had the deciding vote, and some of their offices were destroyed and members sent death threats. The majority of the Northern Irish population condemned the disorder and ridiculed the people who protested, as it was all about a single flag (or ‘piece of cloth’ as some called it). The most famous protester is the Belfast Bigot, who was recorded screaming “NO SURRENDER!” multiple times. The video appeared on local news and proved very popular among the people of Northern Ireland, who turned it into numerous remixes and parodies on YouTube.

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“Ola K Ase” or “Ole Ke Ase” is a catchphrase that is a play on the Spanish expression “Hola Que Hace,” which literally means “Hi, What are you doing?” While it can be colloquially used as “Hey, what’s up?” the phrase has been adopted as a Twitter hashtag and an image macro series, similarly to Whatcha Thinkin’ Bout?

Origin

One of the earliest instances of the phrase “Ola K Ase” in image macros appeared on the automobile enthusiast forum ForoCoches^[2] on November 1st, 2012. The first post contained a set of three photos featuring a llama and two different dogs with variations of the phrase overlaid on them.

Spread

The Twitter account @OlaKAseTu^[2] was created on November 11th, 2012, gaining more than 155,000 followers by December 19th. On November 15th, 2012, a Facebook page^[1] for the phrase was launched, gaining more than 45,000 likes in just over a month. A week later, A blog post appeared on the CocaCola Happing social network^[8] attempting to explain the images, linking the spread of them back to the @OlaKAseTu Twitter account. A few days later, a blogger named Antonio Ortiz looked into the trend on his personal blog, Error 500^[9], yielding discussion about the evolution of language memes, specifically in Spanish-speaking countries.

On November 29th, a question about the origin of the phrase was asked on Mexico Yahoo! Answers.^[7] By December 2nd, the news site SDP Noticias^[10] covered the trend, noting that the hashtags were Twitter trending topics in Mexico for two days. As of December 19th, the hashtag #OlaKAse^[3] has been used on Twitter more than 9000 times^[4] and #OlaKeAse^[5] has been used more than 5700 times.^[6]

Notable Examples

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Office Space Bill Lumbergh is an image macro series featuring the character Bill Lumbergh from the 1999 comedy film Office Space. The captions typically mimic the character’s non-confrontational speech with various requests ending with the expression “That’d be great.”

Origin

The film Office Space was released on February 19th, 1999, in which the protagonist Peter Gibbons (played by Ron Livingston) is repeatedly exploited by his boss Bill Lumbergh (played by Gary Cole), a stereotype of a corporate manager who focuses on pointless paperwork and asks employees to work over the weekend.

On September 7th, 2011, Redditor Mekrob submitted a “read this in my voice” image macro to the /r/pics^[1] subreddit, which featured a screen capture of Lumbergh with the caption “Yeeeaah, if you could just, go ahead and read this in my voice, that’d be great” (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post received over 480 up votes and 25 comments.

Spread

On October 10th, 2011, Redditor AnkenTEM submitted a post titled “That’d be great” to the /r/pics^[6] subreddit, featuring a photograph of a hybrid cosplayer dressed as Lumbergh and Darth Vader from Star Wars with the caption “Yeah, if you could just, come to the dark side, that’d be great” (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post received over 3,400 upvotes and 40 comments. On May 13th, 2012, Redditor isntthatironic submitted a post titled “Lumbergh Cat” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[5] subreddit, featuring a photoshopped screen capture of Lumbergh with a superimposed cat’s head and the caption “Yeeaaaaahhhhh / I’m gonna need you to let me out even though you just let me back in” (shown below, right).

On December 24th, Redditor lifeisonebigjoe submitted a post titled “All I Want for Christmas” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[7] subreddit, which included a Bill Lumbergh image macro with the caption “Yeah, if we could all just stop shooting each other / That’d be great” (shown below). Within six hours, the post received over 17,000 up votes and 560 comments. As of December 24th, 2012, the Quickmeme page for “Bill Lumbergh”^[2] has received over 660 submissions, the page for “Office Space Lumbergh”^[3] has received over 500 submissions and the page for “Lumbergh”^[4] has received over 380 submissions.

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Punch-Out!! is a video game series by Nintendo inspired by boxing. The playable character is Little Mac, though the game is also known for its stereotypical characters (Don Flamenco, Piston Hondo, etc.) and Mike Tyson’s appearance in the series.

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Editors Note: Hey guys, I believe that this could go under trolling and as this is my first post, I would like to know if I have to do that or if the admins do it. If I am supposed to do it, how do I do it? Thx :)

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Fanboyism is the practice of being a fanboy/girl. A fanboy is someone who is, according to Urban dictionary,“Known for a complete lack of objectivity in relation to their preferred focus. Usually argue with circular logic that they refuse to acknowledge. Arguments or debates with such are usually futile. Every flaw is spun into semi-virtues and everything else, blown to comedic, complimentary proportions.” When encountering a fanboy, the person might think that they are being trolled. However, the fanboy sincerely believes in their usually jaded opinion. They can be many different ages, but it has been noted that younger people on the internet (under 13) tend to exhibit fanboy behavior more then other age groups. A fanboy will usually do anything to try to make others agree that their opinion is fact. This includes lying, supressing others’ opinions on a subject, and not listening to reason. Most of the time, the things that fanboys obsess over doesn’t accually want the super fans in the first place

Origin:

Fanboyism has been around for a very long time, so long that it is impossible to find where it actually originated. Even something like arguing about why one color is better then another could be considered fanboyism if one takes it to a certain extent. So, it is less of something with an exact origin, more of something some people just do and have done.

Examples:

there are many different examples of fanboyism, here are some of the more well-known ones:

Sonic Franchise:

One thing that Sonic is infamous for is having many fanboys. They tend to give major hate toward people or groups who say anything bad about their favorite video game. This includes review sites, youtubers, and other games’ fanbases. Not all of Sonic’s fans are fanboys however. In fact, a large majority of them are just normal fans. This moderate view, sadly, is ruined by the radical fans of the franchise.

Minecraft:

The Minecraft community has a lot of younger users and as a result of that, has many, many fanboys. These fanboys look at Minecraft as if it is the greatist game ever made and absoluaty hate anything that seems to copy Minecraft. Their hating of copies seems a bit strange. one would think they would want more copies, because something could come around that is better then Minecraft. Once again, not all fans (even younger ones) are fanboys; most fans are not at all.

Fanboyism on YouTube:

One site that has many fanboys in it is YouTube. They defend certain YouTubers from everything without reason. Like Minecraft, most of these fans are pretty young. Users like PewDiePie who have many younger fans have many fanboys. Also, people like Justin Beiber and other singers have major fanboys/girls on their music videos on YouTube. Once again, people with this zealous fandom tend not to want it, they just show up. The site is also the host of quite a few fanboy-based flame wars. This incldes the Yognought vs. Anti-Yognaught war, A number of battles in the 360 vs PS3 war, and TGS vs. Machinima war.

Fanboy Flame Wars:

Not all flame wars are caused by trolls. Some flame wars happen when two fanboy groups clash with one another. Things like X console is better than Y console and X anime is better than Y anime. The unnecessary arguments tend to tear apart things like forum threads and comment sections all across the internet. For more information on flame wars, see this (wikipedia)

Examples of Fanboy Flame Wars:

Xbox360 vs. PS3

A major flame war that has been and is still going on right now is Xbox360 vs. PS3. Both sides’ fanboys claim that their console is better then the other one in every way. The argument itself is completely pointless, as it is not really fact and is more of a personal preference thing when it comes to consoles. nevertheless, the war rages on and will remain to do so until one of the companies goes out of business, makes a really bad next gen console (so bad that fanboys would admit it is bad), or all of the fans just leave to support something new and better then both of them.

How to Deal With Fanboys:

When you encounter a fanboy, remember that they are just trolls that believe what they are saying. what you should do is try to ignore them and do not attempt to argue with them. They will not listen to reason and will gather more fanboys to try to destroy you if the argument goes too far. If you are a content creator, such as a youtube celebraty, please make it clear to your fanbase that you do not want fanboyism to be prevalent in it. While they think that they are helping the content creator, they accually make others think negitively of the content creator because they tend to lie about the content. Once again, do not argue with a fanboy, you could end up starting a flame war, which helps no one at all.

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OCD Otter is an advice animal image macro series featuring the face of a sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in front of a green color wheel background. The captions typically include humorous descriptions of obsessive-compulsive behaviors and reactions.

Origin

According to Google^[2] cached search results, a Meme Generator page for “OCD Otter” was created as early as May 13th, 2010. The earliest instance shown on the sitefeatures the caption “Teacher erases whiteboard / asks to get up and erase the pieces she missed” (shown below, left). The original photo of the southern sea otter (shown below, right) was taken by photographer Ron Wolf of Tom Stack & Associates Inc.^[12]

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder^[13] (OCD) is a type of psychiatric disorder commonly associated with anxiety that causes a variety of repetitive behaviors and obsessions. Symptoms of the disorder include hoarding, excessive hand-washing, compulsive checking and nervous rituals that can become time-consuming and seem strange to both the sufferer and others.

Spread

On June 5th, 2010, FunnyJunk^[3] user GreenTyphlosian submitted a compilation of OCD Otter image macros. On August 26th, the “OCD Otter” Tumblr^[4] blog was launched, which posted over 35 images in the next six months. On December 12th, Redditor Cheesyfinger submitted an image macro titled “OCD Otter on Pockets” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[9] subreddit, featuring the caption “Touch each pocket before I go anywhere / Should probably touch them again just in case” (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post received over 300 up votes and 15 comments.

On June 20th, 2011, the Internet culture blog The Bigster^[7] published a post titled “The best of OCD Ottter,” which featured a compilation of 26 notable examples from the series. On January 4th, 2012, a Facebook^[8] page titled “OCDOtter” was created. In the following months, two single topic blogs dedicated to OCD Otter were launched, the “Obsessive Compulsive Otter” Tumblr^[5] on May 16th, followed by the “Fuck Yeah OCD Otter” Tumblr^[6] on September 10th. On December 24th, Redditor DeLiri0us submitted an image macro titled “OCD Otter Knows What’s Up” to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[11] subreddit, which featured the caption “Tie one shoe / Must re-tie other one so they feel even” (shown below). Within three days, the post received over 5,600 up votes and 110 comments.

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